Re: FLASH: F4 - Q? (John C.?)

[John Croteau]

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).


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