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Currently when you click on a "mailto:" link you will see an error:
"Failed to load URL mailto:[email protected]? ... with error (-302)."
It can be fixed in CefRequestHandler::OnBeforeBrowse(). In a similar way that
external links are handled. A system default browser is launched when there is
"external_navigation" settings.json option set to false. The call to
ShellExecute(open) should work for the mailto links as well.
We should introduce "external_protocols" option in settings.json. This would be
a list of protocols that will be handled by OS. For example ["mailto"] by
default.
The fix for now would be to attach a global event listener for the "onclick"
event using document.addEventListener(). The target element that was clicked
should be checked whether its "href" attribute starts with a "mailto:" link. If
so, you should handle the event and call a php script through AJAX. The php
script should execute Windows system command to open the default email client.
In C++ the code would look like:
ShellExecute(NULL, L"open", "mailto:[email protected]", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
Unfortunately I don't know a way to make such system call from within php. This
doesn't work for me:
system("mailto:[email protected]")
system("start [email protected]")
Though, launching url in default browser works fine with the start command:
system("start http://www.google.com/")
Maybe it is feasible with the use of the system() command, but that would
require further investigation.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 7 Feb 2014 at 3:36