Re: Mailto From XUL App

[Darin Fisher]

I'm not sure I understand your question.  It might help if I understood 
how you are launching your application.  Is it the case that you are 
installing your application in the Mozilla chrome directory, and then 
launching it with the -chrome argument?  Or, are you using a stripped 
down version of Mozilla with your own .exe file?  If the latter, then 
your apps preference settings would be separate from the preferences for 
some other installation of Mozilla on the system.

-Darin

Jeremy Gillick wrote:

Would doing this affect the user in the future?  Would it change settings
that may be useful to that user?
Thanks,
Jeremy
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Jeremy Gillick wrote:

   

In my current XUL app, I have a 'Contact Author' button, that I would
     

like
 

to open an email client, via mailto.  For some reason it throws me an
     

error.
 

Below is my code:

try{
  var oBrowser = window.getBrowser();
  oBrowser.loadURI("mailto:"+ gAuthorEmail, "", "UTF-8");
}catch(err){alert(err)}
The error I'm getting is:
"Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)
[nsIWebNavigation.loadURI] nsresult: 0x8000400g (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)
     

location:
 

JS frame
:: chrome://global/content/bindings/browser.xml :: loadURIWithFlags ::
     

line
 

159 data: no"

Any ideas or better ways to do this?

Thanks,
Jeremy
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it sounds like your application might have the code for the mailto:
protocol handler.  however, it seems to be lacking the chrome for
mailnews, and probably you don't want to run mailnews from within your
application ;-)  it seems like you need to do something to ensure that
mailto: URLs are handled by the unknown protocol handler.  to force that
to happen, try setting this pref:
pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", true);

also, if you are running under linux, you'd probably want to make sure
this pref is set:
pref("network.protocol-handler.expose-all", false);

that way, your application will fail to handle x-remote openURL
requests.  if you want some of your protocol handlers to be invoked via
x-remote, then you can combine this pref with multiple prefs of the
following form:
pref("network.protocol-handler.expose.x-my-protocol", true);

let me know if this doesn't do the trick.

-darin
   



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