FLASH: Embedding Spaces in Mailto: (John C.?)

[Marc Hoffman (Dart Frog Media)]

Hi John,


I dug up an old email of yours because I wanted the correct syntax for 

inserting spaces in the ?body of a Get URL mailto: action. However, when I 

follow your advice, %20% displays " %" in the mail message body, whereas 

using %20 gets the desired single space (NC 4.7 PC).


Can you enlighten me? Also I'm lost as to what you mean by

>>My method of placing variables in the URL instead of using Get does not

>>require converting spaces to URL encoding and seems to display spaces

>>correctly in the email all the time.


Is that a Flash4 scripting function? What is the syntax please (if you have 

time).


thanks,

Marc




>

From: John Croteau <croteauerols [dot] com>

>Organization: Flash Central

>

>Hi Marc,

>

> > At 07:42 AM 7/28/99 -0400, you wrote:

> > >Note, body will not work with many email clients and subject won't work

> > >with a few.

> > I've been in the habit of using ?body and ?subject in my Flash email Get

> > URLs. Also I use %20 for a space character. Do you know what the

> > consequence will be for those email clients that do not handle this? That

> > is, will just the text I've added be messed up, or will the entire 

> email fail?

>The only major problem is some people don't have any email client setup.

>

>Otherwise the only problem is the unsupported features like the body or

>even the subject in AOL browsers will not be used. As far as I know

>there are no side effects except when no mail program is setup and then

>a message box may come up stating that.

>

>I assume you are using %20% and not %20, if not change to the correct

>syntax.

>However with Get either a space or %20% displays a + or %20% instead of

>a space at times from Flash.

>

>My method of placing variables in the URL instead of using Get does not

>require converting spaces to URL encoding and seems to display spaces

>correctly in the email all the time.

>

>URL encoding is needed to send 'search' parameters in the URL when

>sending data to a server (this can be done by setting MIME or by

>applying URL encoding (such as %20% for spaces).




Marc Hoffman

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

.

My Flash Portfolio: <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/sampler>

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