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 and the target
attribute of the HTML form) - depending on specifications in the HTML,
either a GET or POST request is used (the recommendation is to use GET
when performing searches etc. that are repeatable and the resulting link
can be bookmarked or handed to others, while using POST in other cases).
I cannot see how you arrive at that analysis, Robert.
Dustbin clearly schrieb "e.g., the mailto: protocol",
which cannot (as far as I can see) ever result in the
use of either HTTP or HTTPS. SMTP, yes; HTTP(S), no.
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.
Robert Kaiser
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