Closed Bug 219386 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

mailto: links with spaces in the subject do not work

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Mail Window Front End
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 214158
Milestone:
Thunderbird0.3

People

(Reporter: wgianopoulos, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030911 Firebird/0.6.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.3a (20030914)

links of the form mailto:user@host.domain?subject=this is a subject Do not bring
up a compose window in Tunderbird.  This is becuase when the -compose flag was
added to the mailto open command in the registry enties the double quotes
surrounding the %1 were also removed.  These double quotes are necessary so that
links with spaces in the subject work correctly.  I used regedit to manually
change all the .../THUNDE~1.EXE -compose %1 to ...\THUNDE~1/EXE -compose "%1"
and verified that making this change appears to correct the issue. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Register Thunderbird as your default mail client
2.  Form you browser enter the URL mailto:user@host.domain?subject=this is a subject
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Opened a compose window
Summary: mailto: links with spaces int he subject do not work → mailto: links with spaces in the subject do not work
taking
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: --- → Thunderbird0.3
for simplicity sake, I put a new patch in Bug #214158 which puts quotes around
the %1. That should fix this problem.

Going to mark this bug a dupe and just use the other bug for checking the entire
patch in under. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214158 ***
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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