Mailto links

I was working with a webpage that makes me fill out a form and then basically does a "mailto" with that form information upon a submit action. I get the following error message when I do that submit though:
Safari can’t open the specified address.
Safari can’t open “mailto:[email protected]” because Mac OS X doesn’t recognize Internet addresses starting with “mailto:”.
The funny thing is that the Contact Me field has an embedded href=mailto hyperlink on that same page and it DOES open up Mail just like it should.
This leads me to believe that Safari knows how to handle the mailto action but maybe the form is written in a non-compatible way? It Does work on Firefox.

Hi Doug,
Can you provide us the webpage you working on that gave the Safari message.
Than we can try it to, if it's you Safari browser or is it ALL Safari browsers that get the same message?
Dimaxum

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