22153 - Form action mailto: not implemented

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 61893

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[Roland Mainz]

The URL http://www.baum.org/anmeld.htm contains a form which submits it's data
via email, e.g. <form action="mailto:[e-mail]" method=post
enctype="text/plain">
Netscape 4.x works but my Mozilla 19991215 build only presents me an empty email
window...

Comment 1

[karnaze (gone)]

Reassigning to Eric.

Comment 2

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

I'm marking this as an HTML4 feature (meta bug 7954 dependent on this one).

Comment 3

[Eric Pollmann]

I'm guessing this will require some work in netlib (the mailto protocol) to look
at the post data stream and if it is present, send the message without opening
up a window.  Warren, I'm not sure who to assign this to, but can you take a
look?  Thanks!

I'm attaching a test case and the resulting email I received when I submitted
the form in Nav. (no email compose window popped up)

Comment 4

[Eric Pollmann]

Attachment: test case

Comment 5

[Eric Pollmann]

Attachment: resulting email sent/received

Comment 6

[Eric Pollmann]

Please let me know if I can help out with this effort.  Thanks!

Comment 7

[Warren Harris]

-> mscott

Comment 8

[ckritzer (gone)]

Putting on PDT radar for beta1

Comment 9

[Scott MacGregor]

ckritzer: the PDT team actually decides when a bug is PDt+ plus or not. You can
only nominate it for consideration by putting the beta1 tag in the keywords field.

Removing PDT+ marking. PDT will set this if they feel it is PDT+.

Comment 10

[ckritzer (gone)]

Oh, okay.  Thanks for the clue-in! :-)

Comment 11

[ckritzer (gone)]

BTW, this strikes me more as a Form Submission bug than a Networking
bug...mscott?

Comment 12

[Antti Näyhä]

Ian: I don't think this is HTML 4 feature.  See the spec at 
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#adef-action :
"User agent behavior for a value other than an HTTP URI is undefined."

<form action="mailto:"> is bad authoring practice, anyway, but I guess we want 
to be backwards compatible with Nav4 here - so the bug is still valid.

To reflect these thoughts, I'm making these changes:
 - removing [HTML 4] identifier from Summary
 - removing the bug 7954 depencency
 - adding '4xp' keyword
 - removing 'beta1' keyword (beta1 being long gone)
 - lowering priority to Minor (this is by no means Critical)

Comment 13

[Antti Näyhä]

I noticed that we have a 'nsbeta2' keyword as well - putting that in.

Comment 14

[leger]

Putting on [nsbeta2-] radar. Not critical to beta2.  Putting on nsbeta3 for fix 
in PR3.

Comment 15

[Scott MacGregor]

per Antti's comments. This doesn't meet our beta3 criteria and it sounds like we
don't think it's that important. 

Comment 16

[Antti Näyhä]

*** Bug 55469 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[Loco]

I think this was fixed a while ago.  Marking WFM.

Comment 18

[Loco]

*** Bug 55469 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 19

[Loco]

Nifty little testcase.  From the DUPLICATE.  Also, reopening and changing QA 
contact and component to FORM SUBMISSION.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=16715

Comment 20

[selmer (gone)]

Dan, when you nominate, please include a comment explaining why this fix is so
hugely important for the rtm that we should take a risk on it.  How prevalent is
this usage in the real world?

Comment 21

[Antti Näyhä]

> How prevalent is this usage in the real world?

Any form using 'mailto:' doesn't work properly in IE - pages that are doing 
that already have a serious problem.

I have no statistics about the usage, though.

Comment 22

[selmer (gone)]

rtm-, real world usage of such a feature must be low.

Comment 23

[tato]

May I write it here?
It came to work by mailto: on 2000101704. 
But
?subject= is not work on 2000101704 yet. 
http://game.gr.jp/chkmoz/08/index.htm
It is working on IE4,5 NN4.

Comment 24

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

It's true that this doesn't work on IE, but it worked in Nav4 and is more widely
used than you might expect. It's convenient as hell, so customers who
standardized on Nav4.x likely use it on their intranets, and it's used in forms
on DevEdge Online (e.g. the streaming audio presentation feedback forms) and so
on. Would like this fixed for backward compatibility with existing legacy
content; nominating nsbeta1. However, I agree that since this doesn't work on
IE, it's a lower priority than bugs that are backward compatibility with the
behavior of both IE and Nav4, so it should be dropped before those bugs if we
run out of time.

Comment 25

[tomcap]

22159 the same as 61893
How about hosting a simple cgi on your server as a workaround?

Comment 26

[Roland Mainz]

"mailto:" ius client-side, using user's default email account. CGI is
server-side and requires that user types-in his/her email...

Comment 27

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Reassigning QA Contact for all open and unverified bugs previously under Lorca's
care to Gerardo as per phone conversation this morning.

Comment 28

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

duplicate of a newer bug that's assigned...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61893 ***

Comment 29

[Vladimir Ermakov]

Verifying Duplicate