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Jonathan N. Little
 
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Default Re: Limitations on mailto: Arguments - 09-08-2005 , 07:58 PM






jim evans wrote:

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I am trying to send a block of text in the body of an email using the
mailto: &body method. Apparently there are various characters that
cannot be included in a string you send this way. After fooling with
it for an hour I figured out that one of them is the ampersand
delimiter (&). But after I stripped those out another character seems
to have taken its place. I know simple character data works fine
because I tested it with about 10K of aBc's etc.

Is there a list of the characters that cannot be included in mailto:
arguments?

jim
Form to email this way is very unreliable. Think about it, there are a
large number of folks who only have webmail and this will fail
miserably. Build a server-side script, PHP or Perl etc to receive your
form data and generate the email to relay it to you.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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