2368: The mailto URL scheme.

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This document defines the format of Uniform Resource Locators (URL) for designating electronic mail addresses. It is one of a suite of documents which replace RFC 1738, 'Uniform Resource Locators', and RFC 1808, 'Relative Uniform Resource Locators'. The syntax of 'mailto' URLs from RFC 1738 is extended to allow creation of more RFC 822 messages by allowing the URL to express additional header and body fields.

Status PROPOSED STANDARD
Format TXT=16502 bytes
Authors J. Zawinski L. Masinter
Date July 1998
Keyphrases mailto mailto URL RFC scheme

Updates

RFC1738: Uniform Resource Locators (URL).
RFC1808: Relative Uniform Resource Locators.
Updates
- RFC1738: Uniform Resource Locators (URL).

References

RFC822: STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT
RFC1738: Uniform Resource Locators (URL).
RFC1808: Relative Uniform Resource Locators.
RFC2047: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text.

Referenced by

RFC2369: The Use of URLs as Meta-Syntax for Core Mail List Commands and their Transport through Message Header Fields.
RFC2543: SIP: Session Initiation Protocol.
RFC2788: Network Services Monitoring
RFC3261: SIP: Session Initiation Protocol.
RFC3696: Application Techniques for Checking and Transformation of Names.
RFC3795: Survey of IPv4 Addresses in Currently Deployed IETF Application Area Standards Track and Experimental Documents.
RFC3859: Common Profile for Presence (CPP).
RFC3860: Common Profile for Instant Messaging (CPIM).
RFC3966: The tel URI for Telephone Numbers.
RFC3987: Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs).
RFC4355: IANA Registration for Enumservices email, fax, mms, ems, and sms.
RFC4622: Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) for the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP).