looks like 1.4 code. have you checked on how Tools 2 encodes links?
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Christopher Schultz
<ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm trying (for the first time!) to create a mailto: link in my webapp
> and I decided to see what would happen if I used the LinkTool (really
> StrutsLinkTool) to generate it. Something like this (newlines added for
> readability):
>
> <a href="$link.setURI("mailto:f...@bar.com";)
> .addQueryData('subject', 'Some Subject')
> .addQueryData('body', 'Say something smart, here')">mail</a>
>
> This resulted in the following URL:
>
> mailto:f...@bar.com?subject=some+subject&body=Say+something+smart%2C+here
>
> Normally, this would be a perfectly correct URL. Unfortunately, someone
> at some point declared that spaces in mailto: link parameters should be
> encoded as "%20" and not "+" [1]. :(
>
> Ignoring the fact that mailto: links are apparently unreliable when
> subjects and bodies are added, does anyone have any brilliant ideas of
> how to do it?
>
> A simple string.replaceAll(' ', '%20') won't do it, as I'd like to
> convert all other characters appropriately and protect against '?' and
> '&' characters being included, etc.
>
> I suppose I could do $link.setURI(...).toString().replaceAll('+', '%20')
> but that seems completely stupid.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> -chris
>
> [1] http://www.faqs.org/faqs/www/authoring-faq/index.html S(6.10)
>
>
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