Le Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:56:22AM +0100, Eric Lavarde a écrit :
>
> more and more utilities use URL notation to pass around file names,
> hence it would be very useful to have run-mailcap understand URL and do one of
> two things:
> - handle file:/... URL as normal files.
> - pass along other kinds of URL (http://, ftp://, etc...) to
> sensible-browser.
> This could be possibly controlled by a switch (e.g. --allow-url) for security
> reasons.
Dear Eric,
for the first part of your proposition, I think that there is a serious
obstacle: with the mailcap system, it is not possible to determine if a program
would be able to use an URL to retreive a file.
For the second part, here is what we could do:
- send a patch to the sensible-utils package, to add two lines in its
mailcap file, where the media types x-scheme-handler/http and
x-scheme-handler/ftp would be associated to the sensible-browser
program.
- Detect URLs passed to run-mailcap, and execute what /etc/mailcap proposes
for the corresponding media type.
The problem I have with this approach is that x-scheme-handler media types
are not registered to the IANA. As far as I know, they originate from the
Shared MIME-info Database specification.
http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/
Perhaps it would be better to ask for comments on debian-devel before using
these unregistered media types outside the scope where thay have been developed
originally.
What do you think about this ?
Have a nice week-end,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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