Bug#291015: mime-support: run‐mailcap to understand URL notation and start sensible-browser if required.
Hi,
sorry, holiday came in between:
On 30/08/14 10:56, Charles Plessy wrote:
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.
The idea was actually that there is a one-to-one relationship from a
file:-URL to a standard path by removing the prefix, something like the
following under bash:
# the file:-URL format is not well defined or known
URL[0]=file:///tmp/test.txt # absolute path, with empty server
field
URL[1]=file:/tmp/test.txt # absolute path, without server field
URL[2]=file://tmp/test.txt # relative path, with empty server
field
URL[3]=file:tmp/test.txt# relative path, without server field
for i in ${URL[@]}
do # or in Perl s#^file:\(//\)?## (if I remember well)
i=${i#file://}
i=${i#file:}
echo $i
done
And the resulting $i could just be handled like any file path given.
For the second part, here is what we could do:
- send a patch to the sensible-utils package, to add two lines in its
mailcap file, where the media types x-scheme-handler/http and
x-scheme-handler/ftp would be associated to the sensible-browser
program.
- Detect URLs passed to run-mailcap, and execute what /etc/mailcap proposes
for the corresponding media type.
The problem I have with this approach is that x-scheme-handler media types
are not registered to the IANA. As far as I know, they originate from the
Shared MIME-info Database specification.
http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/
Perhaps it would be better to ask for comments on debian-devel before using
these unregistered media types outside the scope where thay have been developed
originally.
What do you think about this ?
Eeh, to be honest, I think I had a much simpler (one could say hackish)
kind of approach in mind:
is the switch --allow-url set?
if yes, does the thing have a URL-kind of format (something like a match
on ^\w+://.*/.*$ - or more complex but still without knowledge of
specific URL-schemes)?
if yes, hand over to sensible-browser and forget about it.
if no, do as usual...
Thanks for taking care anyway,
Eric
Have a nice week-end,
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Bug#291015: mime-support: run‐mailcap to understand URL notation and start sensible-browser if required.
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 debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#291015: mime-support: run‐mailcap to understand URL notation and start sensible-browser if required.
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
