On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 11:43:22AM -0400, Pete Toscano wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 01:52:57PM -0400, Pete Toscano wrote:
> > > problems i still see:
> > >
> > > . do we want to make the directory vs file detection smarter? searching
> > > for a '/' at the end seems kind of brain-dead, but can we make it better
> > > without being a real pita? maybe have it search for the main gtlds, such
> > > as ".com", ".org", ".edu", ".net", ".gov", and ".mil"? of course, this
> > > ignores all the two-letter country codes and leads towards a possible
> > > maintenance nightmare...
> >
> > I think we should essentially leave it as is, and certainly not go down
> > the road of looking for ".com", etc. Most of my mail ends in ".au"!
>
> agreed.
>
> > > please let me know if this works for you. do you know who we should submit
> > > patches for urlview to?
> > >
> > I have checked it out fairly well and it seems OK. The version you got off
> > my page says that it does not handle mail URLs without the mailto, e.g.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] It does handle this with the changes I have made earlier to
> > my .urlview. I will update everything on my web page.
>
> i think i noticed a small problem with the script and patch. line 77
> of the script looks extraneous. i took your fixes (less the extra
> ncftpget) and made a unified (just my preference -- easier for me to read
> and doesn't look like reply quoting to mutt =;) patch against the clean
> url_handler.sh script. patch is attached.
>
> if i just misunderstood the purpose of that 2nd ncftpget in that block,
> please let me know.
You are quite right. I left that line in by mistake. I think your attached
patch is fine. I'll check it later in the day. Lots of teaching coming
up soon.
> > urlview was written by Michael Elkins. Are you suggesting I ask him to
> > add the change I made to the URL display to warn about adding or removing
> > a "/" in ftp URLSs?
>
> sounds reasonable.
>
I'll do that.
Cheers, Brian.
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Associate Professor Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke)
Chemistry, Faculty of Science, IT and Education, Northern Territory University,
Darwin, NT 0909, Australia. Phone 08-89466702. Fax 08-89466847
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