Re: RE[2]: mailto URLs

Mike Braca <mb@ebt.com> Mon, 08 January 1996 22:24 UTC

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From: Mike Braca <mb@ebt.com>
To: "Dr. Mark K. Joseph" <izzy@aac.twg.com>
Cc: masinter@parc.xerox.com, timbl@www0.cern.ch, mpm@boombox.micro.umn.edu, ietf-822@list.cren.net, bhk@aac.twg.com
Subject: Re: RE[2]: mailto URLs
References: <19960108192345.izzy@aac.twg.com> <19960108212103.izzy@aac.twg.com>
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Hmmm, I just found out that Netscape is sending the headers through as a
query, with '?'.  I dislike that also, but not as much as '#'. At least
'?' has a history of being mangled.

mailto:mb@ebt.com?SUBJECT=foo;CC=bar


Dr. Mark K. Joseph wrote:
> I used '#' because it has the nice feature that many currently
> in-the-field browsers ignore what is after the '#' sign (e.g.,
> netscape and internet explorer).  But I can live with using
> ';.

Well, everything starting with # is specifically not part of the URL,
which is why that bothers me so much.

Mike Braca
Wasabe Software
(currently at mb@ebt.com)