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Re: summaries on main page
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Fri, 24 Mar 2000 20:52:46 GMT
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On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 20:48:38 GMT sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk (Jacob Sparre Andersen) wrote
concerning 'Re: summaries on main page':
Todd:

Hmm.  I wonder if a confirm/preview page on the web
interface would help this as well as problems of
forgetting or forgetting to test links.  The preview would
show the article in a monospace font (not in the "All"
view-mode of the web interface) but with
hyperlink-detection activated for testing prior to final
posting.

If you want to be really nice, you can make the script
generating the preview page check the URL's, and mark those
that return an error status in a distinct colour.

that'd be scary - while it's possible to make it safe to do so, I
wouldn't want users to be able to tell my server to get arbitrary bits
of html.  There's just a lot of things that can go wrong. :/

Dan



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Dan: (...) [...] (...) Since the script wouldn't have to grab any HTML at all, I can't see what the problem is. You just do a HEAD request and check if the result is below 400. Checking the URL (URL) can for example be done as follows: Me....: (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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Todd: (...) If you want to be really nice, you can make the script generating the preview page check the URL's, and mark those that return an error status in a distinct colour. Play well, Jacob (one of the really lazy guys) ---...--- -- E-mail: (...) (24 years ago, 24-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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