Different content types with nnweb?

Different content types with nnweb?

[David Z Maze]

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

Re: Different content types with nnweb?

[Kai Großjohann]

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?

[David Z Maze]

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

Re: Different content types with nnweb?

[Kai Großjohann]

On 27 May 2001, David Z. Maze wrote:

> Okay, I'll look into both of those.  Thanks!

I forgot to point you at nndoc-type-alist.  That should give you some
hints on what a digest should look like.

kai
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