Limitations on mailto: Arguments

[jim evans]

I am trying to send a block of text in the body of an email using the
mailto: &body method. Apparently there are various characters that
cannot be included in a string you send this way. After fooling with
it for an hour I figured out that one of them is the ampersand
delimiter (&). But after I stripped those out another character seems
to have taken its place. I know simple character data works fine
because I tested it with about 10K of aBc's etc.

Is there a list of the characters that cannot be included in mailto:
arguments?

jim

 

[clintonG]

Did you find a page that lists character entities and try using the hex code
for the ampersand in the string that is passed to the body attribute? Its
been a long time but I developed a mail merge program and thought I used
character entities embeded in the string passed to the query string values.


<%= Clinton Gallagher
METROmilwaukee (sm) "A Regional Information Service"
NET csgallagher AT metromilwaukee.com
URL http://metromilwaukee.com/
URL http://clintongallagher.metromilwaukee.com/

 

[clintonG]

That should be ASCII code rather than hex code.
See: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp

<%= Clinton Gallagher