On Fri, 1 Mar 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
These are "web proxies," and searching on this should produce some information to answer your questions.
There's a problem with that. I've noticed several pages recently with hidden mailto: links that aren't marked as such. So you can be happily browsing away through a web proxy only to click on a link and have your real id mailed to the site's owners. As people have mentioned, this is even worse with Javascript. Note to Netscape people: Is it possible to have an option that will *always* pop up a mail window and request confirmation before mail is sent out? Or disable mailto altogether? It would be a lot easier than binary editing the executable to remove all the mailto strings... Or does it exist? I can't find it. Mark