[18798] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.20: htmlview
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Tue Feb 20 15:11:16 2001
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:11:11 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@mit.edu>
cc: <bugs@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200102201847.NAA01649@well.mit.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.30L.0102201509240.5746-100000@home-on-the-dome.mit.edu>
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That's easy enough, and I agree with your logic. Will implement today or
tomorrow.
-Todd
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Jacob Morzinski wrote:
> 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
>
