Felix Karpfen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08.12.06 05:58]:
> > AMB> By not decoding the URL you get a set of hex characters that matches
> > AMB> exactly what would appear in the URL bar of your browser.
> >
> > But what about lynx and w3m? The user can only see the % stuff there, no?
> >
> > AMB> The pages that need charsets already have one assigned by their
> > AMB> author. I cannot override that with a user option or it would break
> > AMB> those pages.
> > I am only talking about WWWOFFLE's own http://localhost:8080/index/*
> The following concrete example may relate to the same issue.
>
> I use "mutt" for reading my emails and "urlview" to help me select (and
> cache in WWWOFFLE's Outgoing List) any URLs - mentioned in the emails
> text - that I want to download when I am next online.
>
> Regrettably, "urlview" has a (known) bug; it adds a VT (ASCII 09) to the
> end of every URL so that all the mentioned URLs are displayed in a table
> (in w3m). By clicking on a line in the table, the "URL + VT" are cached
> in WWWOFFLE.
>
> Some web-sites ignore the unwanted VT; some do not and notify that the
> URL does not exist.
>
> I realise that it is unreasonable to ask WWWOFFLE to develop a routine
> for overcoming a "urlview" bug, but there could be an indication in the
> WWWOFFLE lists that the unwanted VT is present.
With this bug in an external program it is true that WWWOFFLE will
decode the URL so that the VT character gets displayed as an invisible
character rather than "%09". This means that you will not see this
character in any of the WWWOFFLE indexes.
This problem is only one of seeing or not seeing the extra character
in the WWWOFFLE indexes. If you request the link then the browser
will show the VT on the end of the URL as "%09" because that is what
the URL really is. What shows up in the WWWOFFLE indexes and what is
fetched by the browser are different things. The only problem that I
can see that WWWOFFLE is causing you is that you won't know which of
two links has the %09 on the end and which doesn't if they both appear
in the index.
I don't know why urlview has this bug that everybody knows about, but
isn't there an alternative that doesn't have the bug.
--
Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
WWWOFFLE users page:
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.9/user.html
