On 2010-07-15, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:29:34AM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> > On 2010-07-14, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > > It's in an A tag: (I've munged some of the href's characters in this post)
> > >
> > > <td height=3D"60" colspan=3D"3" align=3D"center" valign=3D"middle=
> > > "><font face=3D"Arial" color=3D"#666666" style=3D"font-size:10px"><a titl=
> > > e=3D"View Email Online link" href=3D"http://example.media.xyz.com.au:80/t=
> > > rack?t=3Dv&mid=3D45671&msgid=3D87652&did=3D87641&edid=3D26341&sn=3D374852=
> > > 7545&eid=3df...@example.stuff.net&eeid=3df...@example.stuff.net&uid=3D9=
> > > 56897&rid=3D234564&erid=3D234564&fl=3D&mvid=3D&extra=3D&&&2000&eu=3D425&&=
> > > &viewonline" style=3D"color: #666666">Click here if you cannot view this =
> > > email properly</a></span><br />=20
> >
> > If the URL is embedded within an <A ...> tag, as this one is, then
> > w3m will not display it. That is, in an HTML link written like
> > this,
> >
> > <A href="http://foo.com";>bar</A>
> >
> > w3m will display "bar" but not "http://foo.com";.
>
> Ah, thank you. (And for improving my understanding of html.)
>
> > In your original post you said that the URL was rendered as "*".
> > Did the "*" appear instead of "Click here if you cannot view this
> > email properly" or was the "*" in front of "Click here ..."?
>
> The latter. It displays like this:
>
> *
> Click here if you cannot view this email properly
The "*" is probably a list bullet, or it may be an explicit "*" in
the text, possibly in the first column of the table of which the
"Click here ..." message is a part.
> > > > What happens if you open the attachment in the attachment menu?
> > > > That will use w3m to display the message instead of just using w3m
> > > > as a filter. Do you see the "*" as a link?
>
> Wow. It opens the link in firefox.
> (Do you know, I've never before considered opening the message body in
> the attachment menu.)
>
> > > It's not an attachment. The message is only text/html.
> > > (Yes, I do dump 99% of them, just not this one. :)
> >
> > I guess I should have been more clear and written, "What happens if
> > you open the attachment or the message in the attachment menu?" I
> > expect w3m to highlight the link but not display the URL.
>
> It automatically followed the link, opening it in firefox.
I think that Firefox is displaying the message, as a result of the
first text/html rule in /etc/mailcap:
text/html; /usr/bin/sensible-browser '%s'; description=HTML Text;
nametemplate=%s.html
(I didn't look at those rules closely enough when I first read your
message.) /usr/bin/sensible-browser is either a link to Firefox or
a program that somehow decides what a "sensible browser" is in this
case and opens it.
> > If your w3m is configured to allow the use of an external browser,
> > typing
> >
> > <Esc>M
> >
> > on the link will open the link in the external browser.
>
> Seems like it shot right past any opportunity to do that.
>
> Many thanks for helping me understand better what's happening between
> mutt and w3m, to get to the browser.
You're very welcome.
> I might just interpose a wrapper around w3m, taking your information to
> modify the
>
> > <A href="http://foo.com";>bar</A>
>
> to
> <A href="http://foo.com";> "http://foo.com"; bar</A>
>
> Then I can copy-paste the displayed URL into an extant firefox instance,
> instead of locking up mutt until a firefox instance, opened via the
> attachment menu, is closed.
You can get around the problem of Firefox locking up mutt by using a
script that launches Firefox in the background. There's a example
here:
http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/#background
To extract the URLs from a message, you might try urlview, bound to
the Ctrl-B key in mutt by default. You could also try using lynx
instead of w3m as your HTML-to-text converter. It doesn't render
HTML as well as w3m, or didn't the last time I used it, but it does
gather all the URLs in a message and displays them as footnotes.
Regards,
Gary
