From: William Perry <wmperry@aventail.com>
Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: mailto:address?subject=subject URL support
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 07:59:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199610021459.HAA00395@newman.in.aventail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rjzq1gcw53.fsf@kolmogorov.dina.kvl.dk>
Per Abrahamsen writes:
>
>Here is a patch that allows Gnus to handle mailto URLs of the form:
>
> <URL:mailto:list-request@your.smartlisthost?Subject=subscribe>
>
>It seems to be an undocumented Netscape extension, but I might be
>wrong about that. Maybe wmperry knows.
It is definitely a netscape 'extension'. Jamie Z. recently posted the
closest thing to a spec they apparently have in house. This was on the
www-html mailing list. Basically, you can have _any_ arbitrary header in
the part of the query, so you could have:
<mailto:wmperry@aventail.com?CC=support@aventail.com?subject=dork>
-Bill P.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-10-02 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-21 12:57 Per Abrahamsen
1996-10-02 14:59 ` William Perry [this message]
1996-10-21 19:23 ` Steinar Bang
1996-10-21 21:02 ` William Perry
1996-10-22 0:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-10-22 8:40 ` Steinar Bang
1996-10-22 7:28 ` John Griffith
1996-10-22 7:44 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1996-10-23 18:52 ` Steven L Baur
1996-10-24 7:49 ` John Griffith
1996-10-24 15:12 ` Steven L Baur
1996-10-24 15:45 ` Per Abrahamsen
1996-10-22 13:40 William Perry
1996-10-23 8:56 ` John Griffith
1996-10-23 14:25 ` Colin Rafferty
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