form action mailto: (Netscape form.submit() not working)

[moogwai]

How's it going? I have an issue I have been struggling with. I have an application built. The form action is mailto. There is a javascript check for the fields and at the end of the check is form.submit(). I found out that Netscape does not accept the form.submit() if the action is mailto. Any work arounds known out there? Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Thanks for the time, Moogwai.

 

[GIGN]

Unfortunately mailto submission is not considered a very good method, and you will never see it used on a commercial website - so you might want to use a cgi script, or a server-scripted page - ASP,ColdFusion etc.

You will be wanting to move into server processing anyway.

This way the browser does not come into it. Useful in many applications.

;-)
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[moogwai]

I would use a CGI script, the problem is that the HTML file is on a CD (being called from an .exe) and thus server processes are null and void. I guess I should have mentioned that the file is running local.

 

[GIGN]

Oh O.K. well you could try using a mailto link, and adding the information manually to the body of the message.

Does Netscape 6 support the mailto action?

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[moogwai]

Not sure about NE6, I've been testing on 4.7 for safety's sake. I suggested to my client the copy and paste formatted text option, but the client is hell bent on it being automated for some reason.

 

[GIGN]

Bahhh - NS4.7 - tell your client to get a life - if it won't work, then it won't work - simple as that.

You shouldn't be forced to waste your time with old crap like that anyway - right?

Hey, are you Australian? I am here in NZ.
cool.

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