[1249] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: E-mail Address in WEB Browser
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (smb@research.att.com)
Fri Dec 15 15:45:12 1995
From: smb@research.att.com
To: Joshua Heling <heling@virtu.sar.usf.edu>
cc: "Robert S. Muhlestein" <robertm@teleport.com>,
www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 95 12:43:31 EST
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
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On Thu, 14 Dec 1995 smb@research.att.com wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Dec 1995, Joshua Heling wrote:
>
> Actually, the "From:" header is an optional part of the HTTP
>[snip]
> I think Netscrape should have considered this before encouragi
ng
> everyone to use "mailto" as a form action element (in the usua
l
> lets-screw-the-standards Netscape way).
>
Your mail reader is incorrectly attributing quoted material. The text
attributed to me above was actually written by someone else in reply
to me.
My apologies. Probably my error, when hand-editing to remove excessive
quoted material.