>>I wondered if anyone was doing anything like this?? Does anyone know of >>any limitations to posting the info via GET? If I craft my own client I >>doubt there will be a length limit (like browsers have). Will SIMS >>actually support POST? What about RBLs like this? > >I think trying to do this via http: is the wrong way to go. If you >don't want to use a roll-your-own RBL then export the data directly >to SIMS's directory, over writing its blacklist file. (the >blacklist is just text, right?)
If I'm following Joe's original query correctly, this is exactly the problem. There is no text file that contains the blacklist. It is held internal to the program. I don't even know if it's a resource than could be edited with ResEdit, for example. IMHO, the way to solve this is to change SIMS to read the blacklist from a text file. Same with the router. After reading it, SIMS could display it in the browser admin page, although this would not be 100% necessary (instead of displaying it there could be a simple "updated" message as appears now). The problem with it is of course how do you update the text file. Since it runs on a Mac though, you should be able to mount the SIMS volume from anywhere, and transfer the file that way. Am I missing anything? With a little bit of work on the part of the user, this would also be a solution to the age-old problem of how to document/comment the blacklist/router. SIMS would not have to be reworked for any new format. It could keep the same old format, and anyone wanting to heavily comment or otherwise modify the "master" blacklist could always run it through a preprocessor of their own design (Perl or BBEdit script for example) that would put it in the SIMS format. I don't know the SIMS source code and have no idea how hard this would be to do. In general though, I have a hard time believing it would be difficult. To put my money where my mouth is, if I was given access to that part of the SIMS code that did this, I'd give a shot at writing C code to instead read the blacklist from a text file. Gulp. Stefan Jeglinski ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
