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- Support For AX25MAIL Protocol Type
- ----------------------------------
- If you use Netscape as your viewer for HTML files, WinPack now supports
- a special protocol type which is designed to make it easy to reply to
- the sender of the document.
-
- If the sender puts in a link of the form:-
-
- <A HREF="ax25mail:g8mzx@gb7skg.#15.gbr.eu">Mail To Roger</A>
-
- you can click on the link and WinPack will behave as if you have clicked
- the "Reply To Sender" button. A message header form will be filled in
- with the address as specified in the link and with a message title based
- on the title of the sender's message.
-
- It is also possible to use the AX25MAIL protocol type to automatically
- submit a reply to a form included in an HTML document. If the sender
- makes the FORM tag something like:-
-
- <FORM Name="A Test" Action="ax25mail:g8mzx@gb7skg.!15.gbr.eu">
-
- then clicking the Submit button on the form causes a message to be
- generated containing the information you have put in the form. It will
- be addressed as per the Action field of the FORM tag. Don't worry, you
- can look at the message, so there's no way it is going to disclose your
- darkest secrets!
-
- Please Note
- -----------
- 1. The AX25MAIL protocol only works with Netscape used as an automatic
- viewer for messages read in WinPack. It doesn't work with pages
- downloaded using WinpScape.
-
- 2. The text submitted from a form is in raw Netscape format, it is not
- encoded and is perfectly readable, but hardly "user friendly". There is
- little point sending out a form unless you are able to process the
- replies. The use of forms should definitely be regarded as experimental.
-
- 3. Netscape does not seem to like '#' characters in a form Action field.
- You will see that in the above example I have used a '!', WinPack will
- translate this. The alternative would be to omit the full hierarchical
- address and simply put "g8mzx@gb7skg".
-
-
-
- Roger Barker, G4IDE
- roger@peaksys.demon.co.uk
-
- July 1997
-