Why is the entire address for a mailto link &-encoded? #2142
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Gotcha, thank you! Do you have any context on why this would be enabled by default? Is there some potential issue that setting it to false would expose? |
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I think it is to prevent bots from crawling a website and spamming the email address. It probably isn't as useful today as when marked was first created since bots are probably smart enough to get the email address anyway. More or less a product of backwards compatibility. |
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An e-mail address such as
test@gmail.comis converted into a mailto link such asmailto:test@gmail.comIs there any documentation about why every character is encoded like this?
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