problem with email link. and URL Address

[Wayne & Carr]

Hello All:

There seems to be a problem with the following HTML Email link.

<a href="mailto:?Subject=Search For: <%
=keywords%>&body=http://www.example-site.com/default_1.asp?Catalog=LCID%3D10
33%26CDID%3DEN-US-KB%26PRODLISTSRC%3DON&Product=&KeywordType=ANY&Tit les=fals
e&numDays=&maxResults=25&withinResults=&keywords=< %
=keywords%>&do_search=1&srchExtraQry=">Send&nbsp;</a>

When clicking on the Email link on the page. This is what it returns in
Outlook.

Subject - ((( This is completed with no problems ))

Body = (( This is totally messed up, all the "%" symbols are turned into "="
As you see below, the link has changed badly, and has also lost the rest of
the link as well

[url]http://www.example-site.com/default_1.asp?Catalog=LCID=1033&CDID=EN-US-KB&PR[/url]
ODLISTSRC=ON
Original link... (This is a demo Domain name)
[url]http://www.example-site.com/default_1.asp?Catalog=LCID%3D1033%26CDID%3DEN-US[/url]
-KB%26PRODLISTSRC%3DON&Product=&KeywordType=ANY&Tit les=false&numDays=&maxRes
ults=25&withinResults=&keywords=<% =keywords%>&do_search=1&srchExtraQry=">

How do I do this? How does it work??? I am totally lost on this one...

Thank you All
Wayne

[William Tasso]

Wayne & Carr wrote:

> Hello All:
>
> There seems to be a problem with the following HTML Email link.
>
> <a href="mailto:?Subject=Search For: <%
> ...

mailto is not a valid href

>
> How do I do this? How does it work??? I am totally lost on this one...
>

use CDO or some other server side process.

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William Tasso - [url]http://WilliamTasso.com[/url]

[Wayne & Carr]

"William Tasso" <ngx@tbdata.com> wrote in message
news:u15Zts3XDHA.3248@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

> Wayne & Carr wrote:

> > Hello All:
> >
> > There seems to be a problem with the following HTML Email link.
> >
> > <a href="mailto:?Subject=Search For: <%
> > ...

> mailto is not a valid href
>

Hello William..
All pages that I go to show to make a Mailto link, is done like what is
above.
Example: [url]http://www.web-source.net/html_email_subject2.htm[/url]

> >
> > How do I do this? How does it work??? I am totally lost on this one...
> >

>
> use CDO or some other server side process.

Any advice, links with information would be gratefully appreciated

Wayne

[William Tasso]

Wayne & Carr wrote:

> "William Tasso"

>>>
>>>
>>> <a href="mailto:?Subject=Search For: <%
>>> ...

>> mailto is not a valid href

>
> I figured it out. And did not need to use no Server side scripting
> to get it.
> Just had to replace the = & % with special
> characters. That the E-mail client can read.
>
> Anyway, It is working now,
>
> By the way.
>
> <a href="mailto:...........
>
> This is a Valid " Mailto " href
>

I'm glad you found the error, but there any many environments where mailto
just will not work.

consider what should happen when there is no mail client or when the browser
is not configured to use one

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William Tasso - [url]http://WilliamTasso.com[/url]