Re: lynx-dev mailto support

[Klaus Weide]

On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Heather Stern wrote:

> > On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Chieh Cheng wrote:
> > 
> > > Lynx does not seem to support the following:
> 
> [line broke for clarity]
> 
> > > <a href="mailto:address@hidden
> > >           subject=test?
> > >           address@hidden">test</a>
> 
> > > Lynx thinks that the following string is the subject:
> > > 
> > > address@hidden
> > > 
> > > and doesn't recognize it as the bcc field.
> > 
> > That's intentional: from LYMail.c:
> > [snip]
> 
> It may be intentional, but it's still *broken* - it should delete the
> bcc, not blab it into the previous field.  What if someone had some
> other field than the inocuous "subject", that lynx considered legal, 
> preceding the offending "bcc"?  It shouldn't create opportunities for
> illegal settings.

I missed the fact that the URL had the wrong separator (? instead of &)
until David Woolley pointed it out.  So if any illegal field contents
were generated by a variation of this, it would be the responsibility
of the provider of the mailto - Lynx is just doing what it's told.
When using the right separator, fields not accepted seem to be just
ignored.

   Klaus