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Inserting Link inside Mailto body

I need to add some URLS to pdfs inside my email body

Outlook can create clickable (ctrl+right click) links inside the body. The problem is that if I have spaces in the pdf name the URL breaks.

Here is the html generated in my app. The problem is only with the Spaces inside url. I was trying to replace URLs spaces server side with '%20' but this also didn't help.

<a href="mailto:;somemail@gmail.com;?Subject=SomeSubject&amp;body=http://someUrl/File%20name%202015-05-21%2011-21-08.pdf%0D%0A%0D%0A" title="title" class="btn">Send email</a>

Clickable URL will break on the first space:

http://someUrl/File...

Is there anyway to encode urls so outlook will create proper links inside the body ?

Cheers!

Solution

  • You can't have spaces in URLs so you must encode the space in the filename in order to create a URL to the file.

    mailto: URLs are URLs so an encoded space will be converted back to a regular space when it is parsed. When inserting one URL into an other, you must encode all the special characters in the nested URL (i.e. you need to convert the % characters to %25).