At 2/1/2010 08:29 PM, Marvin Hunkin wrote:
what is the correct code for the subject line to appear in e-mail.
Marvin, here is a link to a summary of mailto syntax:
http://www.ianr.unl.edu/internet/mailto.html
For much more detail, here is a link to RFC 2368 "The mailto URL
scheme" written in 1998:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2368
As you may know, there are problems using mailto links on a website,
one of which is that spam spiders look for them in order to harvest
email addresses. There are ways to obfuscate or conceal an email
address in a mailto link but many methods are inaccessible or require
JavaScript to be running or both. One very low-tech but possibly
effective method is to verbalize the email address, such as "chris at
example dot com" with "at" and "dot" spelled out. In order to fool
the spam bots, you need to conceal both the email address displayed
for the visitor and the address within the HTML href attribute.
Another problem with using mailto is that it assumes that the website
visitor's browser can find an email client on their computer. Best
practices urge us not to make assumptions about software installed on
users' computers. Many people do not use an email client resident on
their computer but instead use an online service such as gmail.
Mailto will also fail or cause problems if the visitor is using a
public computer at a library or internet cafe.
One of the most common solutions is instead use a contact form that
posts information to a server-side script which can validate the
input, check for obvious spam, and if satisfied generate an email
message containing the form input. There are many free contact form
scripts kicking around the net in a variety of scripting languages to
suit your server.
Regards,
Paul
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Paul Novitski
Juniper Webcraft Ltd.
http://juniperwebcraft.com
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