Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 10:08:23 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Detecting mail client capabilities Message-ID: <15074.62439.248138.908897@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <46334405@toto.iv>
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Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> types: > There is a way to extract the e-mail address from a Microsoft > browser, if you search around on the net you will find a website put > up by some guy that demonstrates the technique. Extraction takes > place without the user's knowledge, of course. From the rest of your comments, this sounds like the standard HTTP header "From", which supposedly contains the users email address, and was used by knowledgeable web applications programmers to set the default for email addresses on forms that needed it. Unfortunately, less scrupulous uses were found for it, so NetScape simply turned it off. Other browsers let you enable it if you want, but few people bother using it for anything that actually helps the user, so there's little point in enabling it. It wouldn't surprise me if MS left it on by default. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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