766431 - Clicking on a mailto: link in a frame when mailto is associated with gmail doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1196151

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[(no longer active)]

When I click on the Reply to link on that page, the frame goes blank, and nothing seems to happen.  The back button is not activated either.

Comment 1

[O. Atsushi (Torisugari)]

Unfortunately, the URL is dead.

Comment 2

[zgardner]

We are seeing this behavior too. The only way we got it to work was:

<a href='window.open("mailto:[e-mail]")' target='_top'>email</a>


You can reproduce it by creating iframe.html with

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<iframe src="inner.html" style="width: 600px; height: 600px;"></iframe>
</body>
</html>

Then create inner.html with

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<a href="mailto:[e-mail]" target="_top">Email Bill Gates</a>
</body>
</html>

Comment 3

[zgardner]

We're guessing it's due to headers gmail is sending that prevent it from being loaded in an iframe. When the target is '_top', it should open a new window to send the email.

Comment 4

[:Gijs (he/him)]

I fixed this in bug 1196151 by forcing mailto loads handled by web apps to happen in new windows instead.