[18796] in Athena Bugs
linux 8.4.20: htmlview
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Tue Feb 20 13:47:08 2001
Message-Id: <200102201847.NAA01649@well.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:47:03 -0500
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
System name: well.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 8.4.20
Display type: XFree86 3.3.6 Mach64
Shell: /bin/sh
Window manager: fvwm2
What were you trying to do?
Use pine and htmlview to view a text/html email attachment.
What's wrong:
Pine consults the mailcap for the rule to use. It saves
the attachment data to a file, "/tmp/img-HTM001438", and
then runs htmlview on that file. If I have no DISPLAY
set, htmlview uses lynx. But because the file does not
have a ".html" suffix, lynx renders it as text/plain data
rather than text/html data.
Since we're running "htmlview", we can probably assume
that we know that the file is text/html. It would make
sense to force lynx to assume html as well.
What should have happened:
If /usr/athena/bin/htmlview invoked lynx with the
"-force_html" command-line option, lynx would render html
properly, even if the filename did not end in .html.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
Here's a possible patch:
--- htmlview.orig Tue Feb 20 13:41:24 2001
+++ htmlview Tue Feb 20 13:40:38 2001
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
# If $DISPLAY is not set, just start lynx
case "$DISPLAY" in
"")
- exec /bin/athena/attachandrun infoagents lynx lynx "$url"
+ exec /bin/athena/attachandrun infoagents lynx lynx -force_html "$url"
;;
esac
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
echo "$0: Could not run Netscape. Will try Lynx." >&2
# Start Lynx
-/bin/athena/attachandrun infoagents lynx lynx "$url"
+/bin/athena/attachandrun infoagents lynx lynx -force_html "$url"
echo "$0: Could not find or start any WWW browser." >&2
exit 1
