Hi Pete,
Yes, you have it right - the authority is RFC 2368 'mailto:' URL
(see excerpt below).
Cheers,
- Ira McDonald, consulting architect at Xerox and Sharp
High North Inc
----Original Message-----
From: Zehler, Peter [mailto:Peter.Zehler at usa.xerox.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 11:48 AM
To: IPP Discussion List (E-mail)
Subject: IPP> IPP Bake-Off 3 Issue 5
All,
BO3-5: In the subscription object is the does the mailto URL contain '//'.
Is it <mailto://mumble> or <mailto:mumble> ?
Proposed resolution: The mailto URL does not include '//'.
Peter Zehler
XEROX
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[from RFC 2368]
2. Syntax of a mailto URL
Following the syntax conventions of RFC 1738 [RFC1738], a "mailto"
URL has the form:
mailtoURL = "mailto:" [ to ] [ headers ]
to = #mailbox
headers = "?" header *( "&" header )
header = hname "=" hvalue
hname = *urlc
hvalue = *urlc
"#mailbox" is as specified in RFC 822 [RFC822]. This means that it
consists of zero or more comma-separated mail addresses, possibly
including "phrase" and "comment" components. Note that all URL
reserved characters in "to" must be encoded: in particular,
parentheses, commas, and the percent sign ("%"), which commonly occur
in the "mailbox" syntax.
"hname" and "hvalue" are encodings of an RFC 822 header name and
value, respectively. As with "to", all URL reserved characters must
be encoded.
The special hname "body" indicates that the associated hvalue is the
body of the message. The "body" hname should contain the content for
the first text/plain body part of the message. The mailto URL is
primarily intended for generation of short text messages that are
actually the content of automatic processing (such as "subscribe"
messages for mailing lists), not general MIME bodies.
Within mailto URLs, the characters "?", "=", "&" are reserved.
Because the "&" (ampersand) character is reserved in HTML, any mailto
URL which contains an ampersand must be spelled differently in HTML
than in other contexts. A mailto URL which appears in an HTML
document must use "&" instead of "&".
Also note that it is legal to specify both "to" and an "hname" whose
value is "to". That is,
mailto:addr1%2C%20addr2
is equivalent to
mailto:?to=addr1%2C%20addr2
is equivalent to
mailto:addr1?to=addr2
8-bit characters in mailto URLs are forbidden. MIME encoded words (as
defined in [RFC2047]) are permitted in header values, but not for any
part of a "body" hname.