* Different content types with nnweb?
@ 2001-05-27 20:30 David Z Maze
2001-05-27 20:38 ` Kai Großjohann
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From: David Z Maze @ 2001-05-27 20:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
I'm mildly abusing nnweb into acting as a front-end to the Debian
bug-tracking system. This is actually going pretty well so far, since
I can toss together a list of "articles" out of a package's bug-list
page, and nnweb will present that in the summary buffer. So far, so
good.
What I'd like to do for a first pass is to read in the page containing
all of the traffic for a particular bug, slap some headers on to it,
and just have Gnus display it as an HTML page. If I put
"Content-Type: text/html" at the front of the article, though, Gnus
seems to just ignore it; the body is just displayed as (unformatted)
HTML. Is there some trick to making this work?
(And what I'd *really* like to do is translate the page into something
along the lines of a normal digest. Are there any pointers as to the
format I should use for this? [Didn't gnus.org used to have links to
useful RFCs somewhere?] Can I co-opt mml, create an mml document from
the HTML page, and then translate that into something viewable as an
article?)
--
David Maze dmaze@mit.edu http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/
"Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal."
-- Abra Mitchell
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* Re: Different content types with nnweb?
2001-05-27 20:30 Different content types with nnweb? David Z Maze
@ 2001-05-27 20:38 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-05-27 20:47 ` David Z Maze
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Kai Großjohann @ 2001-05-27 20:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
On 27 May 2001, David Z. Maze wrote:
> I'm mildly abusing nnweb into acting as a front-end to the Debian
> bug-tracking system. This is actually going pretty well so far,
> since I can toss together a list of "articles" out of a package's
> bug-list page, and nnweb will present that in the summary buffer.
> So far, so good.
Way cool.
> What I'd like to do for a first pass is to read in the page
> containing all of the traffic for a particular bug, slap some
> headers on to it, and just have Gnus display it as an HTML page. If
> I put "Content-Type: text/html" at the front of the article, though,
> Gnus seems to just ignore it; the body is just displayed as
> (unformatted) HTML. Is there some trick to making this work?
Make sure it's in the header, not the body. Also you will need
`Mime-Version: 1.0', I think. Hm. And if it isn't ascii, you need a
charset declaration, too. But maybe you can extract that from the
HTML generated by the Debian thingy.
To summarize:
Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit
> (And what I'd *really* like to do is translate the page into
> something along the lines of a normal digest. Are there any
> pointers as to the format I should use for this? [Didn't gnus.org
> used to have links to useful RFCs somewhere?] Can I co-opt mml,
> create an mml document from the HTML page, and then translate that
> into something viewable as an article?)
Hm. There are different formats. But surely, maybe MIME would be
best. I guess you can use mml-generate-mime for MML->MIME conversion.
kai
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* Re: Different content types with nnweb?
2001-05-27 20:38 ` Kai Großjohann
@ 2001-05-27 20:47 ` David Z Maze
2001-05-27 20:52 ` Kai Großjohann
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: David Z Maze @ 2001-05-27 20:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
Kai Großjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> writes:
Kai> On 27 May 2001, David Z. Maze wrote:
DZM> What I'd like to do for a first pass is to read in the page
DZM> containing all of the traffic for a particular bug, slap some
DZM> headers on to it, and just have Gnus display it as an HTML page. If
DZM> I put "Content-Type: text/html" at the front of the article, though,
DZM> Gnus seems to just ignore it; the body is just displayed as
DZM> (unformatted) HTML. Is there some trick to making this work?
Kai>
Kai> Make sure it's in the header, not the body. Also you will need
Kai> `Mime-Version: 1.0', I think. Hm. And if it isn't ascii, you need a
Kai> charset declaration, too. But maybe you can extract that from the
Kai> HTML generated by the Debian thingy.
Kai>
Kai> To summarize:
Kai>
Kai> Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Kai> Mime-Version: 1.0
Kai> Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit
Aah, excellent. (I didn't have Mime-Version or c-t-e before.) Now I
get, well, somewhat ugly w3-ified HTML, but this is probably a step up
over plain text.
DZM> (And what I'd *really* like to do is translate the page into
DZM> something along the lines of a normal digest. Are there any
DZM> pointers as to the format I should use for this? [Didn't gnus.org
DZM> used to have links to useful RFCs somewhere?] Can I co-opt mml,
DZM> create an mml document from the HTML page, and then translate that
DZM> into something viewable as an article?)
Kai>
Kai> Hm. There are different formats. But surely, maybe MIME would be
Kai> best. I guess you can use mml-generate-mime for MML->MIME conversion.
Okay, I'll look into both of those. Thanks!
--
David Maze dmaze@mit.edu http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/
"Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal."
-- Abra Mitchell
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