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Re: lynx-dev mailto support
From: |
Klaus Weide |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev mailto support |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Jan 1999 20:32:34 -0600 (CST) |
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Chieh Cheng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Lynx on Linux and I have encountered the following
> problem:
>
> Lynx does not seem to support the following:
>
> <a href="mailto:address@hidden@eecs.ukans.edu">test</a>
>
> Lynx thinks that the following string is the subject:
>
> address@hidden
>
> and doesn't recognize it as the bcc field.
That's intentional: from LYMail.c:
/*
* Seek and handle cc=address(es) fields. Excludes
* Bcc=address(es) as unsafe. We may append our own
* cc (below) as a list for the actual mailing. - FM
*/
Presumably this is meant to protect the user from being tricked into
doing something he/she may not even be aware of, that oh-so-popular
sport with other browsers.
Klaus