Re: Long urls - update

2013-03-31 Thread Luis Mochan
Dear John, On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 05:15:28PM +0100, John Niendorf wrote: This looks really great, but where do I put the script? I made it exicutable and put it in my path and I got the error that it wasn't there. I coped it to ~/ and got the same error. John

Re: Long urls - update

2013-03-31 Thread Luis Mochan
I found a mistake in the extract_url.pl program: it doesn't escape ampersands when present in the url, so when the command to actually view the url is invoked, the shell gets confused. I made a quick fix by substituting $command=~s//\\/g before running command.

Re: Long urls - update

2013-03-31 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Luis Mochan: I found a mistake in the extract_url.pl program: it doesn't escape ampersands when present in the url, so when the command to actually view the url is invoked, the shell gets confused. I made a quick fix by substituting $command=~s//\\/g before running command. Line

Re: Long urls - update

2013-03-31 Thread Luis Mochan
Line 633? 634? So: # $command =~ s/%s/'$url'/g; $command=~s//\\/g; Sorry for not having given the line numbers, etc. I actually made changes around 522 and 647, and defined a new subroutine (I named it wlmsanitize) which modifies the command to run. A patch follows. I'm a perl