Sending email with attachments

Date	2012-10-01 22:49 -0700
From	Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Sending email with attachments
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I am writing a data collection application. It needs to run on as many
tablets and laptops as possible, so I'm writing it in HTML and
JavaScript. Although I cannot ask end users to buy a particular device,
I can ask them to install an up to date browser.

The ultimate destination of the data is a spreadsheet on a workstation
controlled by the person doing the data entry, or one of their associates.

The ideal, from my end users' point of view, would be a button they
could click that would send an e-mail to an address they enter with the
data attached in .csv format. I do understand that e-mail would not be
the best way of getting the data to a web server, but that is not the
objective. Forwarding the data from my web site to a user-specified
e-mail address would require anti-spam precautions, and be generally
undesirable.

I've done web searches, and the closest I've been able to get is to fold
the data into a mailto URL as the message body, not an attachment. I
would be length limited by the Internet Explorer 2083 char URL limit,
and I think I would also have to quote URL special characters.

Another option is to just display the data and invite the user to
select and copy. The data could then be pasted into the body of an
e-mail, or into a text file in an editor window. I believe that would
work, but involves more end user busy work than is ideal.

I am very new to JavaScript, so I'm really hoping there is a better way
of doing this that I have just not found.

Thanks for any ideas or pointers to web sites I should read.

Patricia

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Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-01 22:49 -0700
  Re: Sending email with attachments Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-10-02 04:20 -0700
    Re: Sending email with attachments Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-10-02 05:16 -0700
      Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-02 07:10 -0700
        Re: Sending email with attachments Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-10-02 10:57 -0700
    Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-02 07:03 -0700
      Re: Sending email with attachments Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-10-02 10:50 -0700
        Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-02 11:16 -0700
          Re: Sending email with attachments dann90038@gmail.com - 2012-10-02 12:15 -0700
      Re: Sending email with attachments "Tom de Neef" <tdeneef@qolor.nl> - 2012-10-02 21:28 +0200
        Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-02 12:59 -0700
  Re: Sending email with attachments Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-02 22:26 +0200
    Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-03 20:04 +0100
    Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-06 02:07 +0100
      Re: Sending email with attachments Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-06 08:48 +0200
        Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-06 20:29 +0100
          Re: Sending email with attachments Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-06 21:49 +0200
            Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-07 08:13 +0100
              Re: Sending email with attachments Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-07 14:28 +0200
                Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-08 00:43 +0100
                Re: Sending email with attachments Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-08 03:26 +0200
                Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-08 07:18 +0100
                Re: Sending email with attachments Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-08 11:13 +0200
                Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-08 18:57 +0100
                Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-08 09:46 +0100
                Re: Sending email with attachments Erwin Moller <erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl> - 2012-10-08 12:01 +0200
                Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-08 19:16 +0100
                Re: Sending email with attachments Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-10-08 09:28 -0700
                Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-08 18:34 +0100
          Re: Sending email with attachments Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2012-10-07 12:46 +0200
            Re: Sending email with attachments Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-07 18:55 +0200
              Re: Sending email with attachments Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2012-10-07 20:06 +0200
                Re: Sending email with attachments Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-07 22:12 +0200
            Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-07 19:54 +0100
            Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-08 01:09 +0100
              Re: Sending email with attachments Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-10-08 13:10 +0200
                Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-08 19:20 +0100
              OT: Mac vs PC for development  (Was: Sending email with attachments) Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-10-08 08:38 -0700
  Re: Sending email with attachments Dr J R Stockton <reply1240@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2012-10-03 19:49 +0100
    Re: Sending email with attachments Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2012-10-03 23:08 +0000
      Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-04 02:46 +0100
        Re: Sending email with attachments Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-10-03 19:42 -0700
    Re: Sending email with attachments Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-10-04 02:43 +0100
      Re: Sending email with attachments Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2012-10-03 19:54 -0700

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