Re: FLASH: GET URL MailTo gets more bizarre

[John Croteau]

Hi Kevin,


> Still no solution to what is getting to be a more curious problem. To

> refresh I have an SWF that I copied from one project to another. I had a get

> URL and mailto link in the movie. Works fine in old project Nothing changed

> except one word in the mailto and it won't work. JC suggested copying all

> frames to a new clip. Nothing changed. I sent to Eric Smollin who graciously

> tested the file and it worked perfectly on his machine. He sent back. Didn't

> work on my machine. I took the file to another location. Didn't work there

> either.

Try a simple mailto: link from HTML, I expect it won't work either.

<A HREF="

croteauerols [dot] com (mailto:croteauerols [dot] com)

">Flash is Boss</A>


If you read my tech note on this, you would know an email client has to

be setup as default for mailto: links to work. Thus the highly popular

use of CGI forms to send email. Don't rely on mailto: as your only

contact option.

http://www.FlashBible.com/Members/HTML/Email.htm


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