[18734] in Athena Bugs
Re: Emilio C Silva: Improvement on /usr/athena/bin/htmlview.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Jan 31 16:29:43 2001
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:29:37 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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This one somehow slipped through the cracks; I found it whilst sorting out
infoagents mail and have changed the script. It'll propagate tomorrow.
The fix worries me a little bit ... there may conceivably be some URLS
which go to asp's or databased-backed pages that literally do require
commas and not escaped %2C's to work. But I believe that in this case
risking the 404 is better than having an abject failure.
-Todd
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Greg Hudson wrote:
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> From: Emilio C Silva <emilio@MIT.EDU>
> To: ghudson@mit.edu
> Subject: Improvement on /usr/athena/bin/htmlview.
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> Hi,
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> (You are listed under "mit.edu/teamhtml/Athena/people.html" as
> doing "Athena bug fixing and reviewing", and your username is mentioned in
> the htmlview script. If you are not responsible, could you please
> forward this message ?)
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> I used htmlview (indirectly through Pine) to view:
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> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2614854,00.html
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> And I had an open Navigator window, which generated an error and
> refused to open the URL.
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> After some thinking, I came to the following patch to htmlview,
> which allows for commas in URLs:
>
> 83c83,84
> < /usr/athena/bin/netscape -remote "OpenUrl($url)" && exit 0
> - ---
> > # Netscape complains on commas, e.g. zdnet URLs.
> > /usr/athena/bin/netscape -remote `echo "OpenUrl($url)" | sed
> 's/,/%2C/g'` && exit 0
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> (the last line is a single line, sorry).
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> It worked for me, please let me know if you found it useful.
>
> Emilio.
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