Re: This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-12 Thread Dustbin
Ray_Net wrote: Dustbin wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Dustbin wrote: Dustbin wrote: I have been wondering what protocol is used to return the info in a web form. E.g. the mailto: protocol. I take it this is not SMTP. But is it HTTP; is it FTP; is it...? An interesting collection of

Re: This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-12 Thread Ray_Net
Dustbin wrote: Ray_Net wrote: Dustbin wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Dustbin wrote: Dustbin wrote: I have been wondering what protocol is used to return the info in a web form. E.g. the mailto: protocol. I take it this is not SMTP. But is it HTTP; is it FTP; is it...? An

Re: This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-11 Thread GeraldJan
Dustbin wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Dustbin wrote: Dustbin wrote: I have been wondering what protocol is used to return the info in a web form. E.g. the mailto: protocol. I take it this is not SMTP. But is it HTTP; is it FTP; is it...? An interesting collection of answers though

Re: This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-11 Thread Philip TAYLOR
GeraldJan wrote: [recycled material snipped] ¿ever heard of Smail? ask Johan Vromans ps. genius in Perl The problem is, how a mailto URL is handled is under the control of the client system, not of the person creating the mailto link. Thus it is /never/ safe to assume that information

Re: This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-11 Thread Ray_Net
Dustbin wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Dustbin wrote: Dustbin wrote: I have been wondering what protocol is used to return the info in a web form. E.g. the mailto: protocol. I take it this is not SMTP. But is it HTTP; is it FTP; is it...? An interesting collection of answers though

Re: This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-10 Thread Dustbin
Dustbin wrote: I have been wondering what protocol is used to return the info in a web form. E.g. the mailto: protocol. I take it this is not SMTP. But is it HTTP; is it FTP; is it...? TIA D. An interesting collection of answers though clearly many thought I wanted to write the web page or I

Re: This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-10 Thread Beauregard T. Shagnasty
Dustbin wrote: Dustbin wrote: I have been wondering what protocol is used to return the info in a web form. E.g. the mailto: protocol. I take it this is not SMTP. But is it HTTP; is it FTP; is it...? An interesting collection of answers though clearly many thought I wanted to write the web

Re: This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-10 Thread Robert Kaiser
Dustbin schrieb: I have been wondering what protocol is used to return the info in a web form. E.g. the mailto: protocol. I take it this is not SMTP. But is it HTTP; is it FTP; is it...? Usually HTTP (or HTTPS depending on the URL of the page and the target attribute of the HTML form) -

Re: This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-10 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Robert Kaiser wrote: Dustbin schrieb: I have been wondering what protocol is used to return the info in a web form. E.g. the mailto: protocol. I take it this is not SMTP. But is it HTTP; is it FTP; is it...? Usually HTTP (or HTTPS depending on the URL of the page and the target attribute

Re: This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-10 Thread Robert Kaiser
Philip TAYLOR schrieb: Robert Kaiser wrote: Dustbin schrieb: I have been wondering what protocol is used to return the info in a web form. E.g. the mailto: protocol. I take it this is not SMTP. But is it HTTP; is it FTP; is it...? Usually HTTP (or HTTPS depending on the URL of the page

Re: This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-10 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Robert Kaiser wrote: I was talking about those without a mailto: there. For mailto: it doesn't send at all but just open an email window, and that determines how it is sent in the end - usually ends up with SMTP or IMAP, whatever the respective email client and account has set. OK, my point

Re: This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-10 Thread Beauregard T. Shagnasty
Philip TAYLOR wrote: Robert Kaiser wrote: I was talking about those without a mailto: there. For mailto: it doesn't send at all but just open an email window, and that determines how it is sent in the end - usually ends up with SMTP or IMAP, whatever the respective email client and account

Re: This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-10 Thread Robert Kaiser
Philip TAYLOR schrieb: Now my thinking is that his analysis is wrong, and a mailto: link will almost certainly lead to an SMTP exchange, and almost certainly never lead to one involving HTTP or FTP. Would you agree ? As I said, mailto: doesn't send anything over the net by itself at all, it

Re: This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-10 Thread Dustbin
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Dustbin wrote: Dustbin wrote: I have been wondering what protocol is used to return the info in a web form. E.g. the mailto: protocol. I take it this is not SMTP. But is it HTTP; is it FTP; is it...? An interesting collection of answers though clearly many

This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-09 Thread Dustbin
I have been wondering what protocol is used to return the info in a web form. E.g. the mailto: protocol. I take it this is not SMTP. But is it HTTP; is it FTP; is it...? TIA D. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org

Re: This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-09 Thread Beauregard T. Shagnasty
Dustbin wrote: I have been wondering what protocol is used to return the info in a web form. E.g. the mailto: protocol. I take it this is not SMTP. But is it HTTP; is it FTP; is it...? You're going to have to provide more details. The mailto: protocol will do nothing more than activate a

Re: This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-09 Thread Michael Gordon
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Dustbin wrote: I have been wondering what protocol is used to return the info in a web form. E.g. the mailto: protocol. I take it this is not SMTP. But is it HTTP; is it FTP; is it...? You're going to have to provide more details. The mailto: protocol will do

Re: This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-09 Thread Beauregard T. Shagnasty
Michael Gordon wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Dustbin wrote: I have been wondering what protocol is used to return the info in a web form. E.g. the mailto: protocol. I take it this is not SMTP. But is it HTTP; is it FTP; is it...? You're going to have to provide more details. The

Re: This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-09 Thread Michael Gordon
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Michael Gordon wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Dustbin wrote: I have been wondering what protocol is used to return the info in a web form. E.g. the mailto: protocol. I take it this is not SMTP. But is it HTTP; is it FTP; is it...? You're going to have

Re: This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-09 Thread Beauregard T. Shagnasty
Michael Gordon wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Michael Gordon wrote: [snip as this is OT] You can hide your e-mail address from them using a little JavaScript; the web browser reads the script and displays the name and address visually, but the BOTS cannot render the mail address.

Re: This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-09 Thread Michael Gordon
Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Michael Gordon wrote: Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote: Michael Gordon wrote: [snip as this is OT] You can hide your e-mail address from them using a little JavaScript; the web browser reads the script and displays the name and address visually, but the BOTS

Re: This is not exactly on topic - web forms transmission.

2011-11-09 Thread Beauregard T. Shagnasty
Michael Gordon wrote: Very good examples. We now have several different ways to accomplish the same task. On the web, there are many ways to skin the cat. :-) BTW, I found your touchbase.html page. I see it leads to the NMS version of Matt's old script. It's good you're using the updated and