According to Budd, Sinclair: > Hello > After much scrambling, I found the script "handler.pl" by Geoffrey > Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> which is used with > "external_protocols" to fetch https pages. > > IT WORKS A WONDER. > > There is a small documentation issue . In attrs.html under > "external_protocols" the statement "The first field is a single character > that specifies the record type." appears. In the handler.pl the first > field is shown as "character:" i.e. there are two characters. > Also from the documentation it is not clear whether the u record is > mandatory or it is only needed for a redirect. In the handler.pl script > the u record is only reported if the Location header is returned from the > web server.
The 'u' record is indeed only used for redirects, and is by no means mandatory, as far as I can tell by looking at the code. I don't think it would hurt anything if an external transport did issue 'u' records without also issuing an 's' (status) record that triggered a redirect, but there's no point in doing so, let alone a need to do so. As for the colon, it seems to be totally optional as far as the transport record processing is concerned. Indeed, the tab character is absolutely essential, but the parsing code seems to ignore any characters between the first letter of the record and the tab. I don't know what the problem is with the built-in HTTPS handling code in 3.2.0b4, but with all the problem reports we've had on it it's safe to say this code is broken, and you should use an external transport for HTTPS until the problem is resolved. Anyone out there know HTTPS enough to take a crack at this? -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en _______________________________________________ htdig-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
