Re: mailto: url

Erik Ostrom ([email protected])
Mon, 12 Jul 93 17:36:25 +0100


m a i l t o : internetformatofanymailaddressalarfc822

Anyone see any problems with that?

How should characters legal in RFC822 mail addresses but not in URLs be
handled? That is, how do we deal with "Erik Ostrom"@foo.bar.baz.com? Or do
we just proclaim that addresses containing unpopular characters deserve to
lose?

I think %-quoting (and unquoting in the browser, this is important) is an
obvious answer, but I'd like to have some kind of official agreement on how to
deal with this.

--Erik

P.S. And what about Gopher URLs? Anyone else care about making implementation
and spec match up? It's just a / away...