title: Why do mailto links in Chrome conflict with POST requests?
body: <p>I'm not entirely sure the question is correct but here's the situation.
  I have a webpage with two POST requests, which are open for some time (the response isn't suppose to come right away) while I can be doing other things on the page. I also have a mailto link on the page. For some reason in Chrome, when I click that link, the two requests immediately return an error. I also noticed that the console in Chrome shows the mailto link as a GET request event (when it's clicked). What is going on here? Even if Chrome treats mailto links as requests, why should it conflict with any other requests on the page?</p>
  
  <p>In Firefox the mailto link has zero affect on the requests, they just keep working and waiting on server response. Also, the link itself doesn't seem to be a request of any sort. BTW, the mailto opens up an Outlook message window (and that part works fine in Chrome, just the requests fail).</p>
  
  <p>Also just in case, I'm using jQuery $.ajax to initiate the requests.</p>
  
  <p>It was pointed out that perhaps Chrome treats a mailto link like a regular, at least in part, and so has some of the side effects. So then the question becomes how do I combine a mailto link with request on the page? I can't replace the link with a form.</p>