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Should plus be URL encoded?
@PabloAriel According to a W3C document addressing URLs: “Within the query string, the plus sign is reserved as shorthand notation for a space. Therefore, real plus signs must be encoded. This method was used to make query URIs easier to pass in systems which did not allow spaces.”
Should I use a mailto link?
Essentially, an HTML mailto link is a link that triggers the user’s default mail client to open so they can reply to a message. If you’re a fan of email HTML forms and know your way around the coding aspect of things, a mailto link can be preferable, in some cases.
Can a URL have a plus?
URLs cannot contain spaces. URL encoding normally replaces a space with a plus (+) sign or with %20.
Do you have to encode plus in mailto?
With a “browser based mailto: client (such as add-ons to firefox and gmail offer) the URI is most likely not being decoded (as it should be). You MAY encode +, but you don’t have to. First, we need to agree that mailto is an example of a generic URI, specified by RFC 2396. (This is what XHTML and HTML 4 use).
What should the encoded spaces be in mailto?
When producing ‘mailto’ URIs, all spaces SHOULD be encoded as %20, and ‘+’ characters MAY be encoded as %2B. Please note that ‘+’ characters are frequently used as part of an email address to indicate a subaddress, as for example in .
Can a URL be encoded in mailto.com?
However, since mailto:[email protected] is a URI (it has a protocol, the protocol separator and the protocol address) then it should be treated as a URI and it should be percent encoded. Therefore, it is up to the client to resolve accurately the encoded representation and to decode it as far as is appropriate.
Which is the correct syntax for a mailto link?
Here’s the full mailto link syntax: 1. mail link . Here are the variables you can use in mailto links: mailto: to set the recipient, or recipients, separate with comma. &cc=.