The 'mailto' URI Scheme
RFC 6068
| Document | Type |
RFC - Proposed Standard
(October 2010; Errata)
Obsoletes RFC 2368
Was draft-duerst-mailto-bis (individual in app area)
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| Authors | Jamie Zawinski , Larry Masinter , Martin Dürst | ||
| Last updated | 2020-01-21 | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) M. Duerst
Request for Comments: 6068 Aoyama Gakuin University
Obsoletes: 2368 L. Masinter
Category: Standards Track Adobe Systems Incorporated
ISSN: 2070-1721 J. Zawinski
DNA Lounge
October 2010
The 'mailto' URI Scheme
Abstract
This document defines the format of Uniform Resource Identifiers
(URIs) to identify resources that are reached using Internet mail.
It adds better internationalization and compatibility with
Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs; RFC 3987) to the
previous syntax of 'mailto' URIs (RFC 2368).
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6068.
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RFC 6068 The 'mailto' URI Scheme October 2010
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Syntax of a 'mailto' URI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Semantics and Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4. Unsafe Header Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5. Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
6. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6.1. Basic Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6.2. Examples of Complicated Email Addresses . . . . . . . . . 10
6.3. Examples Using UTF-8-Based Percent-Encoding . . . . . . . 11
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
8.1. Update of the Registration of the 'mailto' URI Scheme . . 14
8.2. Registration of the Body Header Field . . . . . . . . . . 15
9. Main Changes from RFC 2368 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
10. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
11. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
11.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
11.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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RFC 6068 The 'mailto' URI Scheme October 2010
1. Introduction
The 'mailto' URI scheme is used to identify resources that are
reached using Internet mail. In its simplest form, a 'mailto' URI
contains an Internet mail address. For interactions that require
message headers or message bodies to be specified, the 'mailto' URI
scheme also allows providing mail header fields and the message body.
This specification extends the previous scheme definition to also
allow character data to be percent-encoded based on UTF-8 [STD63],
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