Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 09/09/05 02:58

jim evans wrote:

> 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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