generate mailto: behaviour in a script

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Hi, I have a mailto: link in html, which opens the email client. What I would like to to is create the link to a script say, <a href="email.pl">Click here</a> and this would generate some statistics for me and then open the email client.

use LWP::Simple qw/get/;

my $content = get('mailto:me\@me.com');
 warn "Couldn't get it!" unless defined $content;
 
 print $content;
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doesn't work - is there anything that might?

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Re: generate mailto: behaviour in a script by moritz (Cardinal) on Oct 07, 2007 at 11:27 UTC
It doesn't work that way, because the `get` is run on the server, but you want to open the mail client at the client. I have no idea if non-http redirects work, but you could try to send a redirect header (with CGI::redirect) with `mailto:foo@bar.baz` Perl 6 in German	[reply] [d/l] [select]
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Re: generate mailto: behaviour in a script by snopal (Pilgrim) on Oct 07, 2007 at 15:00 UTC
To get the response you are outlining, it seems that you need a javascript onclick solution with DHTML communication (a.k.a. AJAX) with the server. You can then acquire the click data through a hidden process, and allow the client to continue with the browser based email client.	[reply]