I am interested in using qualifiers in mailto: URLs as provided for
in
ftp://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hoffman-mailto-url-01.txt
I have been playing with the following MAILTOURL resource:
<MAILTOURL>
mailto:dev-access(_at_)world(_dot_)std(_dot_)com?Subject=Re:%20$SUBJECT$&Cc=$FROM$&In-Reply-To=%3C$MSGID$%3E
</MAILTOURL>
Sample results may be seen at
http://www.access.digex.net/%7Easgilman/dev-access/2/
and the .rc file at
http://www.access.digex.net/%7Easgilman/dev-access/2/with-mailto.rc
These experiments leave me with the following questions/comments.
I am under the impression that the MAILTOURL is only applied
withing the formatting of message headers which must appear prior
to the formatting of the message body. So far as I understand
the documentation, I do not have access to an URLencoded copy of
$SUBJECT$, outside of the application of MAILTOURL in the course
of header processing.
If I am mis-reading the documents, or if one can do more than the
documents say, I would like to know, because I would prefer to
suppress the header formatting entirely and write my own links
below the message body, including mailto's with the above classes
of parameters. So far I haven't devised a method to get the full
mailto: I want without leaving the headers in.
Even in the context of header processing, having only one
definition of MAILTOURL may be less flexible than what one
wishes.
--
Al Gilman
