Re: FLASH: Mailto and Get URL

[John Dowdell]

At 2:28 PM 8/27/99, KJ wrote:

"A while back I had a weird problem with a getURL and Mailto call in a

file. Worked great in original file (Even after the other one didn't work)

New file didn't Bottom line was that it didn't work on my machines (2

running Win98) and one other. It seems to work fine on every other machine

I sent it to. (5 to be exact) Can't figure out why it won't work and no one

seems to know. Failing that, Is there another way to make those calls that

should work all of the time?"


Note that not all browsers have emailers connected to them. While "mailto:"

URLs will sometimes work, they won't work for all visitors. It's more

universal to send data to a server-based remailer... one popular one is

FormMail:

http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/


jd






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