[5573] in SIPB bug reports
Re: User Feedback -- NCSA Mosaic 2.6 on Solaris.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert Dvornik)
Thu Oct 12 14:03:32 1995
From: "Albert Dvornik" <bert@MIT.EDU>
To: nosaj@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: nosaj@mit.edu's message of 12 Oct 1995 (13:18:24 EDT).
<9510121718.AA27630@m16-034-19.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 13:59:16 EDT
> <FORM ACTION="mailto:nosaj@mit.edu" METHOD=post>
>
> It works perfectly via Netscape but NCSA Mosaic ignores what the user
> fills out in the form and just sends whatever message they write in
> in the Mailto popup window.
>
> Is this a bug?
Nope. While Netscape's behavior is certainly more useful, Mosaic is
conformant to the HTML spec. The spec never defines what POST'ing to
a "mailto:" URI is supposed to do, so popping up a Mailto window and
sending mail from there isn't all that unreasonable.
--bert
