Subject: X-WWW-FORM-URLENCODED

From: Randall <[email-masked]>
Date: 22 Apr 1997 18:13:45 GMT

Hi folks...

I am using a mailto form on my web pages.  My provider won't allow CGI...
So, I get all my mail via pine on my shell account and when I get the mail
from my form, it arrives as an attachment of type: X-WWW-FORM-URLENCODED

It is still just text, and it would make life SO much easier if I could
view the text in pine instead of having to go into the viewer and save the
attachment.  So, is there any voice of wisdom out there that  can point me
in the right direction?  

Many thanks
Randall

P.S.  Please respond with email to [email-masked]  THANKS!

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From: Christopher Hicks <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 18:15:43 -0400 (EDT)

> from my form, it arrives as an attachment of type: X-WWW-FORM-URLENCODED

Make a custom .mailcap.

</chris>

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and wire?  Or as a coworker has said . . . I've seen better throughput
from a pair of gorillas and flash cards.   -Jon Lewis <[email-masked]>

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From: [email-masked] (Villy Kruse)
Date: 25 Apr 1997 17:13:43 +0200

>from my form, it arrives as an attachment of type: X-WWW-FORM-URLENCODED

I know the problem.  The way we do it is to have a special mail address
and use the laias file to redirect the URL_encoded text thrugh a program
that converts the text to readable format.  The mail is then mailed to the
real receiver.

Apart from that; would it be so difficult for the web host managers to 
make a standard mailer CGI script that would work for most people.  It is
certainly a much better solution that the mailto form.  Also, you have
the problem that not all browsers can handle the mailto method in a form.
They just bring up the mail program where the user can make a normal mail 
message, and the forms contents is ignored.

Villy

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From: Rick Byers <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 20:25:35 -0500 (EST)

You would need some sort of urldecoder which could be triggered by
modifying the mailcap.  I think NCSA httpd comes with "urldecode" whcih
might do the trick.

However, I found that you could make most (all?) browsers sent the message
properly like this:

<FORM ACTION=mailto:[email-masked] ENC-TYPE:text/plain>

I can't remember if ENC-TYPE has a hyphen or not, try it both ways but I
know it works, because I had this problem (only because my boss wanted the
actuall From: address that netscape generates so a CGI wouldn't work).

Rick

> P.S.  Please respond with email to [email-masked]  THANKS!

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