Hi, I discovered newsreply:// and newspost:// today and couldn’t resist testing it: news://news.gmane.org/[email protected]
The nōn-7bit-ASCII characters break, and I can trace the real cause of the breakage back to lynx. It really should encode the messages as quoted-printable if and only if they contain non-7bit chars (as MIME is otherwise still frowned upon in the Usenet). Apparently, post_article() in W/L/I/HTNews.c is the culprit, but it doesn’t handle the input at all. I believe I can change it to do what I want, if you’d accept such a patch. One thing I’d need to know is how to get the “current charset” (i.e. the one Lynx believes the texteditor wrote). Also, it doesn’t properly decode either: news://news.gmane.org/[email protected] This might be read_article() in the same file. It doesn’t do MIME even for the bare Content-Transfer-Encoding minimum. I believe I could change it to parse at least nōn-multipart messages in either quoted-printable or base64 correctly, but then I’ve got a charset to indicate to Lynx; how would I pass that on? Another thing I’m missing, compared with reading nntp via pine, is that lynx doesn’t offer to view the raw article, like this: --- snip --- # call this with one of: # getarticle gmane.foo.bar 1234 # getarticle $message_id # ensure ~/mail/x can be a unix/mbox format mail folder we append to ns=news.gmane.org if [[ $1 = -n ]]; then ns=ncnntp shift fi if (( $# == 2 )); then printf 'mode reader\r\ngroup %s\r\narticle %d\r\nquit\r\n' "$1" "$2" elif [[ $1 = */+([0-9]) ]]; then printf 'mode reader\r\ngroup %s\r\narticle %d\r\nquit\r\n' "${1%/*}" "${1##*/}" else printf 'mode reader\r\narticle <%s>\r\nquit\r\n' "$1" fi | \ nc $ns 119 | sed -e $'s/\r$//' -e '1,/^[^0-9]/d' -e '/^\.$/,$d' | \ (date -u +'From MAILER-DAEMON %a %b %e %H:%M:%S %Y'; cat) >>~/mail/x --- snip --- This can be useful in debugging, or manually decoding messages Lynx cannot parse. No idea how to add that best; the URL scheme news://server/msgid isn’t really extensible, but newsraw:// might be possible. I don’t currently offer an attempt at a patch. bye, //mirabilos -- Sorry, I’m annoyed today and you came by as an Arch user. These are the perfect victims for any crime against humanity, like systemd, feminism or social democracy. -- Christoph Lohmann on [email protected] _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
