5247 - mailto:-targets in xml:link XML links does not open a messenger window

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: XML, defect, P3)

Description

[Roland Mainz]

mailto:-targets in xml:link XML links does not open a messenger window (the URL
above is a servlet generated page which include such a link at the top).
Tested with nightly build 99.4.12.

Comment 1

[Roland Mainz]

Small note: The given URL detects if the browser supports XML or not...
Mozilla 4.5 gets HTML, Mozilla 5 gets XML/CSS...

Comment 2

[Nisheeth Ranjan]

Setting milestone to M6 and accepting bug.

Comment 3

[Nisheeth Ranjan]

Moving non-crasher XML bugs to M7...

Comment 4

[Nisheeth Ranjan]

Ccing Scott Putterman.  Scott, I just tried clicking on a mailto link in an HTML
document inside apprunner and mail did not get invoked.  I am guessing that
mailto link handling hasn't gone in yet.  Do you know who I should assign this
bug to in the mail/news team?  Thanks.

Comment 5

[Nisheeth Ranjan]

Ccing Phil Peterson.  Phil, I just tried clicking on a mailto link in an HTML
document inside apprunner and mail did not get invoked.  I am guessing that
mailto link handling hasn't gone in yet.  Do you know who I should assign this
bug to in the mail/news team?  Thanks.

Comment 6

[Roland Mainz]

Please do not forget that mailto:-links may also have options, e.g.
mailto:[e-mail]?subject=bugzilla_bug_5247 sets
the "Subject:"-header of the mail.
This would save another bug report :-)
And please document which "options" are available, e.g. "subject".
What about a "body" option to pre-set the body ?

Comment 7

[Phil Peterson]

URL dispatching is a Necko integration issue, and we don't expect to solve it
before Necko lands. Mscott is the mail/news Necko integ guy, so I'm reassigning
to him for M9.

Roland, the 4.x product is capable of all the things you mentioned, including
body, and we'll be bringing that over.

cc'ing warren so he's aware of this dependency.

Comment 8

[Scott MacGregor]

The problems behind this bug are the same ones behing 2652. In order to make our
selves a pluggable protocol where netlib can feed us the url we need to support
the channel interface which is stream oriented right now and doesn't make sense
for something like a mailto url.

we'll visit this with the necko team post landing.

Comment 9

[Scott MacGregor]

Actually, today if you click on a mailto link, Radha has some special code in
the webshell which launches the messenger compose window. (note this only works
in the browser window)

That's the most critical part of this bug. Roland is also suggesting some
feature enchancements about what he'd like to see in mailto urls. Something like
that is going to get pushed out after beta 1.

So I'm setting the work for the new mailto parsing stuff to M15 which is post
beta.

Comment 10

[Chris McAfee]

win32, mailto: isn't working for me at all now

Comment 11

[Scott MacGregor]

*** Bug 19145 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Scott MacGregor]

*** Bug 19499 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Scott MacGregor]

I actually decided to force url dispatching to be on for mailto urls tonight
so everyone can see them work instead of those of us who are using the new uri
dispatching stuff.

So in tomorrow's builds, you should see mailto urls working in messenger
and the browser.

I also have code in their to parse out subject, body, and other fields from the
mailto url in order to pre-populate the compose window with this information.

Marking as fixed.

Comment 14

[Christine Hoffman]

Using 12/2 build, verified fixed.

Comment 15

[Sitsofe Wheeler]

I'm still seening the mailto problem I descibed in bug 19499 on
http://192.215.23.42/bt2kfull-2/ampersands.htm (try and click on the next test
button). Does this mean this bug shoud be reopened?
Build id: 2000021409 Linux.

Comment 16

[Phil Peterson]

I'll reopen bug 19499 then