Andrew M. Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=203882 > Two things that I sometimes get asked for as new features in WWWOFFLE > are the ability to change URLs or to modify the contents of web pages > (both using a user supplied program). > > In both cases these are not features that I have a very strong feeling > for adding to WWWOFFLE. It would take a lot of CPU effort to pass > every URL or every page through an external script. You have the > overhead of starting the scripting engine and people are going to want > to use perl or other fully featured script languages not simple shell > scripts for this.
I think this would be a very useful feature, saving a lot of bandwidth and disk space for some sites, but not implemented as an external script, but implemented internally in WWWOFFLE in C, in such a way that one could write in the config file: [<URL-SPEC>] wash-cgi = <string> which would remove any CGI parameter which has the <string> in it, for example: http://www.simplus.pl/* wash-cgi = 'PHPSESSID' http://allegro.pl/* wash-cgi = 'st=gtext' http://cgi.ebay.com/* wash-cgi = 'ssPageName' I don't think such implementation would use too much CPU effort. Especially the ssPageName is very annoying on eBay, it has an argument with a number which changes with each e-mail notification about an item, washing it would save a lot of bandwith here. -- Miernik _________________________ xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________/_______________________/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Protect Europe from a legal disaster. Petition against software patents http://www.noepatents.org/index_html?LANG=en
