[whatwg] [WF2] action="mailto:" - encoding spaces

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Shadow2531 wrote:
>
> <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#for-mailto>
> <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#x-www-form-urlencoded>
> (#4)
> 
> In mailto URIs, %20 represents a space.
> 
> <form action="mailto:">
>    <input name="subject" value="1 2">
>    <input type="submit">
> </form>
> 
> If you submit that form, "mailto:?subject=1+2" will be passed to the
> mail client instead of "mailto:?subject=1%202". This results in "1+2"
> in the subject field instead of "1 2".
> 
> Are UAs allowed to use %20 instead so things come out right, or must
> mail clients decode + to a space? Thunderbird, M2, and Outlook express
> don't decode +s.
> 
> RFC2368 is referenced, but it and application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> that the mailto: form methods are referenced under conflict with each
> other on whether a space should be encoded to %20 or +.

Fixed in the HTML5 spec. Thanks.

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