Re: Submitting HTML forms by email

I have to say that I'm surprised that this ever worked. My recollection is that, in HTML messages, Outlook can handle only GET not POST, but maybe that referred only to http: URLs, not mailto: URLs.

Have you checked your update history to see if you installed any Outlook or IE updates right before you started seeing different behavior?

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
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"Andrey Patyuchenko" <no_reply@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:000101c680ac$229729a0$2904a8c0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dear Sue,

Thanks for responding.

The form we use are simple submit forms, e.g. <FORM
ACTION="mailto:someine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"; METHOD=POST > and the submit
button is very simple too: <INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT id="SUBMIT"
value="Submit">. On most computers, when you hit submit, and go through
all warning, new blank message will be created with POSTDATA.ATT file
attached, that will contain all results gathered from form. This message
will be placed to Outbox folder. But recently, only thing I get when
clicking Submit button, is a new mail message appearing on the screen.
No file is attached to it, and it doesn't putted to Outbox. I reset all
Internet Explorer Security settings to default, and it doesn't helped.
Search through internet returned no results too. I'm puzzled.

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Sincerely yours,
Andrey Patyuchenko


-----Original Message-----
From: Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] [mailto:suemvp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Posted At: Thursday, May 25, 2006 4:00 PM
Posted To: microsoft.public.office.developer.outlook.forms
Conversation: Submitting HTML forms by email
Subject: Re: Submitting HTML forms by email


You didn't say what this Submit button does, whether it runs
code or performs a GET or POST against a web site, as the
Submit button on a web page would normally do. The
distinction is important, because Outlook normally doesn't
run code in HTML messages.

"Andrey Patyuchenko" <no_reply@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:000101c67fd9$5c0881d0$2904a8c0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello to everyone,

Recently I faced an unusual problem. We develop software
that rely on
such feature as submitting of HTML forms by email. For example, you
receive some form, fill in fields, hitting Submit button,
then you see a
warning about submitting form results by email, then you
should wait for
5 secs and hit Yes when asking 'are you really-really
shure?', and then
new email with form resuls attached should be put to a
user Outbox. All
was fine, but recently something went wrong in my personal Outlook.
After I hit Submit button, I see warning about form
results submitted by
email, you click 'yes' and then you just see new email
message window.
There is no more second warning complaining about possible virus
activity, with 5 seconds delay. It look like the featire
of submitting
HTML forms by email became somehow disabled, and I just
don't know how
to enable it back. I googled for a possible solution
several days - all
in vain. Microsoft support isn't accessible for me,
because of the type
of my Office license, so I'm kindly asking for you help.
Thank you in
advance.

Windows XP SP2 - Office 2003 SP2.

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Sincerely yours,
Andrey Patyuchenko



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