Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the use of mozilla-launcher?
I was thinking about this at the weekend. Is it a *MUST* that a server understands that %2c is a ,? AFAIK those codes are part of the url spec. Any server/client/program that handles http must know about % codes. And given that ascii was the basis for character-hex mappings back then, one can reasonably assume the server must understand that %2c == ,. http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/4_Recommentations.html#z1 The last section deals with prohibited characters. All prohibited characters 'shall' be encoded in the % form. Other characters may be if one so chooses. http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/5_BNF.html#z73 Defines what is/isn't allowed in a URL. -Drew -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: What's the use of mozilla-launcher?
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/12/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cf. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150404 As you have probably already seen, I added a small patch to the bug, just in case the Gentoo devs want to keep it around. BTW: That won't work. Suppose a user knows, that mozilla-launcher does a openURL remote command and because of that knowledge, he makes use of it. Ie. he calls firefox http://site/,new-tab; to have http://site/ opened in a new tab. With your patch, this will no longer work. Because of this, I hesitated to add such a patch myself. And IMO it's extremely bad style to tamper with user specified parameters. Alexander Skwar -- Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the use of mozilla-launcher?
On 11/13/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW: That won't work. Suppose a user knows, that mozilla-launcher does a openURL remote command and because of that knowledge, he makes use of it. Ie. he calls firefox http://site/,new-tab; to have http://site/ opened in a new tab. With your patch, this will no longer work. True, but you can't have it both ways. Either ',' characters are a part of the URL, or they are not. And your idea of dumping mozilla-launcher altogether will also break this case as well. Besides which, I would say that any user doing that is relying on both undefined and unexpected behavior. The defined way of doing this would be MOZILLA_NEWTYPE=new-tab firefox http://site/;. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: What's the use of mozilla-launcher?
ยท Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/12/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Knode/KDE, I configured, that firefox is to be used as the browser, so that when I click on a URL, it's loaded in firefox. I did this by modifying .kde/share/config/kdeglobals and adding/changing: [General] BrowserApplication=!/usr/bin/firefox You could also set this to /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox to bypass mozilla-launcher. I now changed the /usr/bin/firefox script so, that it doesn't use mozilla-launcher anymore. Up to now, I can't find any problems. What problems did I overlook? And what's actually the use of mozilla-launcher with current firefoxes? What would break, if mozilla-launcher is no longer used? Nothing that I can tell That's my impression as well. It looks to me like the main purpose of Gentoo's mozilla-launcher was to transparently support both firefox and firefox-bin (or mozilla and mozilla-bin, or thunderbid and thunderbird-bin, etc), Hm, I don't understand. As it is right now, firefox-bin will install /usr/bin/firefox-bin, won't it? Or will it also install /usr/bin/firefox? and to make sure that new urls re-used an existing instance. Yes, old versions of Mozilla Firefox required this. But, just like you say, current versions don't require this anymore. Current firefox versions seem to support this internally, and you end up with firefox or firefox-bin installed in /usr/bin depending upon which one you install. Yep. I don't see any reason why /usr/bin/firefox can't exec /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox and /usr/bin/firefox-bin can't exec /opt/firefox/firefox. Cf. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150404 As you have probably already seen, I added a small patch to the bug, just in case the Gentoo devs want to keep it around. Thanks! I was thinking about this at the weekend. Is it a *MUST* that a server understands that %2c is a ,? Or should I take this thread and purpose (ie. dump mozilla-launcher for at least firefox) to the dev list? Yeah, -dev would be the appropriate place to bring up dumping mozilla-launcher. Thanks. Alexander Skwar -- Tussman's Law: Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
