Re: lynx-dev Lynx and metamail (was: Passing internal data to external handlers)

[dickey]

> Rather than having full metamail behavior, I would be more interested in 
> having lynx parse the mailcap files as described in the metamail man page 
> (and probably the relevant RFC), with correct substitutions for %s, %t, 
> and %{...}.  They should also be substituted in the test string.  That 
> would mean that Lynx may have to run the tests many times, instead of 
> just once at startup.  (The newer libwww treats Presenters that way.) 

a better solution would be to cache some of the information - one of
the longstanding Debian bug reports is that Lynx runs a lot of tests
unnecessarily at initialization time solely to determine if the tests
might succeed at some later time.

also, the substitutions are incomplete (the "%{" ones for example, are
not implemented).

sounds like a good project for someone...
  
>  
>    Klaus 


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