Dear Eric, do you still have interst for this bug report ?
Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Le Sat, May 03, 2014 at 09:02:28PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > 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 -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
