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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
> 

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