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Is it possible to use Javascript to attach a document to a "mailto" email?
Can I send the current page as an email/attach it to an email?
Feb 26th, 2001 08:44
Martin Honnen, Dil Sheikh,
Browsers have menu functions like
File->Send page
to send a html page attached to an email.
To my knowledge this functionality is not exposed to JavaScript.
If you have a
mailto:
link you are able to put (plain) text into the mail's body with
mailto: whomever@whereever.tld?body=line1\nline2\n\tline3
With NN4 using the fetchURL function described in
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge-base/view.phtml/aid/1268/fid/126/lang/en
that allows you to pass the document's html source as plain text to the
mail body, and with NN6 you can reconstruct the HTML source from
'<HTML>' + document.documentElement.innerHTML + '<\/HTML>'
:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT>
function fetchURL(url) {
if ((location.host == '' && url.indexOf(location.protocol) == -1)
||
url.indexOf(location.host) == -1)
{
netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege
("UniversalConnect");
}
var dest = new java.net.URL(url);
var dis = new java.io.DataInputStream(dest.openStream());
var res = "";
while ((line = dis.readLine()) != null) {
res += line;
res += java.lang.System.getProperty("line.separator");
}
dis.close();
return res;
}
function mailPage (addressee) {
var body;
if (document.documentElement && document.all)
body = document.documentElement.outerHTML;
else if (document.all)
body = document.body.innerHTML;
else if (document.getElementById)
body = '<HTML>' + document.documentElement.innerHTML + '<\/HTML>';
else if (document.layers)
body = fetchURL(location.href);
var url = 'mailto:';
url += addressee ? addressee : '';
url += body ? '?body=' + escape(body) : '';
location.href = url;
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<A HREF="javascript: mailPage('whomever@whereever.tld'); void 0"
>
send page
</A>
</BODY>
</HTML>
The mailPage function also contains code intended for IE4/5 to grab the
document's html and pass it on to the mailto: link. It doesn't work on
my system however complaining about the email agent not being set up
properly. I have no idea how to remedy that as simple mailto: urls
without a ?body part work.
