On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 22:23:07 -0600 Jonathan Angliss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday, November 29, 2002, Mark Wieder wrote... > > > Bats- > > > Bringing this back on topic again: > > > Friday, November 29, 2002, 5:45:50 PM, you wrote: > > NJY>> You can see http://www.gummibears.nu/test.html for an example of > NJY>one> correct mailto, and one incorrect if you'd like to test for > NJY>yourself. > > > The correctly formed url still is not handled correctly by TB, so I > > *do* think this qualifies as a bug. > > Erm... it's formatted just fine for me over here, tested in Phoenix, > IE 4 fails though. > > > And while I've quoted the RFC as a defense of TB's handling of > > malformed urls, if the correctly formed one can be handled by TB > > then it's a short hop to handling the other one, using the quotes as > > delimiters. > > But the quotes aren't passed onto TB. In fact, the whole href string > is not passed on... it's up to the browser. The problem is that the > mail client would have to try distinguish different parts of the > address as an extra parameter. > Right. This is what the browser sends to Explorer which then launches the appropriate software to handle the url: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=send me some cheese Explorer would launch TB! with (for example): C:\TheBat\thebat.exe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=send me some cheese Parameter 1 is mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=send Parameter 2 is me Parameter 3 is some Parameter 4 is cheese Since TB! doesn't support any command line options which are named "me", "some", or "cheese" it is ignoring them. While it would be possible to tack these "unsupported options" onto the end of the last supported option, this might not result in the desired behaviour 100% of the time. Since this wouldn't be RFC compliant anyway, it is better to err (if you choose to call this such) on the side of caution, the RFC defined behaviour. -- Best regards, Jonathan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
