204914 - mailto: links should support Content-Type= in url

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Sean Su]

Right now, mailto: urls only support html-body to force mail compose to open up
in HTML mode.  There not a way to force to open up in PlainText mode via the url.

Supporting the following:
 Content-Type=text/plain
 Content-Type=text/html

would allow the url to control the mode of mail compose opens up in.
'html-body' is not a standard, but Content-Type isn't as well.  However,
Content-Type more closely aligns with HTML standards than 'html-body'.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Sean Su:  Could you post a URL with the "html-body" argument?  I don't know what 
the format is for that, and a Google search didn't help.

Is there an RFC that supports this Content-Type idea?

Comment 2

[J Luh]

RFC 2368 recommends against allowing mailto links to set Content-Type. See "7.
Security Considerations" in ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2368.txt 

Comment 3

[buovjaga]

(In reply to J Luh from comment #2)
> RFC 2368 recommends against allowing mailto links to set Content-Type. See
> "7.
> Security Considerations" in ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2368.txt

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2368.txt

Let's close as WONTFIX, then.