From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29847 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jaap-Henk Hoepman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnhtml type backends -- idea Date: 19 Apr 2000 15:37:01 +0200 Organization: University of Twente, Department of Computer Science Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <2ng0sj9wj1.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035166451 5071 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:14:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:14:11 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B81FD051E for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 03:48:43 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAB13772; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 02:48:39 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 20 Apr 2000 02:47:54 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA03756 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 02:47:43 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from utip202.cs.utwente.nl (utip202.cs.utwente.nl [130.89.15.88]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD543D051E for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 03:48:00 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from hoepman@localhost) by utip202.cs.utwente.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA01738; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 09:50:56 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: utip202.cs.utwente.nl: hoepman set sender to hoepman@cs.utwente.nl using -f Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Shenghuo ZHU's message of "18 Apr 2000 12:57:54 -0400" X-Face: #U;T;~,y.iVz7!wB(gVzSj:j}x-tZr\v-PQU}''7h^>jaAM'vw1KA83N5/gN~kcktG%,>Q>""S?Fg`&U80!Vg=)El,s/W)W^ User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Biscayne) Original-Lines: 29 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29847 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29847 On 18 Apr 2000 12:57:54 -0400 Shenghuo ZHU writes: > >>>>> "KG" == Kai Großjohann writes: > > KG> It seems that many of the web-based backends have problems because > KG> the HTML format changes and thus the parsing rules break. > > KG> WIBNI there was a central server (www.gnus.org would be an obvious > KG> choice) which offered a couple of files containing the parsing > KG> rules? And that the nnhtml backends would fetch the current > KG> parsing rules before sending a query to the web server in > KG> question? > > The idea sounds good. The parsing rules could be some urls and elisp > codes. I'm not a big fan of dynamically loading remote code for the obvious security problems this may cause. If anything, it should be off by default and should always ask the user in case a new version of the rules are about to be downloaded. Code signing stuff might be a second line of defence. Jaap-Henk -- Jaap-Henk Hoepman | Come sail your ships around me Dept. of Computer Science | And burn these bridges down University of Twente | Nick Cave - "Ship Song" Email: hoepman@cs.utwente.nl === WWW: www.cs.utwente.nl/~hoepman Phone: +31 53 4893795 === Secr: +31 53 4893770 === Fax: +31 53 4894590 PGP ID: 0xF52E26DD Fingerprint: 1AED DDEB C7F1 DBB3 0556 4732 4217 ABEF