Prefilling large volumes of body text in GMAIL compose getting a Request URI too long error

Question

Hi guys this is a followup from the question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2583928/prefilling-gmail-compose-screen-with-html-text

Where I was building a google apps application - I can call a gmail compose message page from my application using the url:

https://mail.google.com/a/domain/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&source=mailto&to=WHOEVER%40COMPANY.COM&su=SUBJECTHERE&cc=WHOEVER%40COMPANY.COM&bcc=WHOEVER%40COMPANY.COM&body=PREPOPULATEDBODY

However when I try to pass in the body parameter a very long line of text eg as a reply message body I get this error from GMAIL stating the REQUEST URI is too long. Is there a better way to do this as in a way to fillin the text body box of gmail compose section. Or some way to open the page and have it prefilled with javascript some how...

Answer 1

Can you POST to that URL?

GET URLs have a (255?) character limit.

Answer 2

I don't have enough karma to comment on Victor's answer itself, but no, you cannot POST to Gmail's compose window. I tried it myself and just got my regular old Gmail home screen, not the compose screen and certainly not the compose screen with the values filled in as the OP wanted.

It's too bad too, because it was a good idea to get loads of info into a Gmail compose window. Would anyone on the Gmail team care to address this issue?