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Re: lynx-dev Request: lynx should accept HTML page from stding
From: |
Wayne Buttles |
Subject: |
Re: lynx-dev Request: lynx should accept HTML page from stding |
Date: |
Thu, 8 Oct 1998 13:27:56 -0400 (EDT) |
Holy buffer overflow, batman!
This has to be a fairly big security risk, no?
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Jari Aalto wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm not a member of this list, but from the procmail discussion
> list. Recently the shortcoming of lynx not accept HTML from stdin
> was discussed. Many users would like to use the -dump feature to convert
> incoming html into readable plain text with procmail command
>
> :0 B fbw
> * ()<HTML>
> | lynx -dump
>
> The command says that when (B)ody of mail matches <HTML> tag, then
> (f)ilter (b)ody and (w)ait for command
>
> lynx -dump
>
> to accept (b)ody of email from stdin. This would effectively feed HTML
> body
> to lynx and read the response and replace the body with the lynx output.
>
> Please let us know when new version of lynx is capable of accepting
> HTML from stdin and I record it into my Procmail Tips page at:
>
> ftp://cs.uta.fi/pub/ssjaaa/pm-tips.html
>
> jari
>