Bug 32327 - Basic-link w/ 'mailto:' URL behave improperly
Summary: Basic-link w/ 'mailto:' URL behave improperly
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Fop - Now in Jira
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pdf (show other bugs)
Version: trunk
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: fop-dev
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Reported: 2004-11-19 20:43 UTC by Andreas L. Delmelle
Modified: 2012-04-01 06:39 UTC (History)
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Description Andreas L. Delmelle 2004-11-19 20:43:43 UTC 
(moved here from fop-user)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thealy@decaresystems.ie [mailto:thealy@decaresystems.ie]

> I'm putting an email link into my pdf using teh following 
> fop syntax in my xsl... 
> E-mail: <fo:basic-link external-destination="mailto:info@xxxx.com">
>  info@xxxx.com</fo:basic-link> 
>
> Clicking on the link in the created PDF brings up an email 
> client ok but it also brings up a browser which tries to 
> access the url 'mailto:info@securiandental.com'.

I have verified this. Indeed 0.20.5 opens up a browser, and so does HEAD. I 
can't seem to find *any* reference to this in the PDF Specification, but 
apparently iText succeeds in adding 'mailto:' links that perform the correct 
action.

We'll definitely have to have a look at how iText handles these (when we have 
some spare-time)
Comment 1 Andreas L. Delmelle 2004-11-23 18:58:30 UTC 
Follow-up on fop-user leads to the conclusion that PDF form fields should be 
used for this.

Consider possibility of incorporating the required code from Florian Hecht's 
PDF Forms FO extension:
http://wwwstud.ira.uka.de/~s_hecht/
Comment 2 Andreas L. Delmelle 2007-07-14 01:57:32 UTC 
Tested and fixed in FOP Trunk
Comment 3 Glenn Adams 2012-04-01 06:39:07 UTC 
batch transition pre-FOP1.0 resolved+fixed bugs to closed+fixed