[Javascript] error when sending form

[Peter-Paul Koch]

>a friend asked me to test a page he's doing containing a very long form and 
>submitted via email:
>
><FORM method="POST" action="mailto:xxx at yyy.com" enctype="text/plain">
>
>in IE 5 / Mac it seems to work fine but in NN 4.78 / Mac i received this 
>error:
>
>"An error ocurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: Data line 
>too long (Max 1024)"
>
>it seems the source of the problem is the lenght of the form but i'd 
>expected that with GET method, not with POST. any idea?

POST makes no sense when emailing forms because there is no HTTP header to 
send the information. I'm not surprised some browsers interpret it as a GET 
(though I suppose strictly speaking it is neither).

Anyway, can't be helped, I guess.

ppk

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