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Re: lynx-dev have big patch


From: Henry Nelson
Subject: Re: lynx-dev have big patch
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 09:00:33 +0900 (JST)

> You should be "safe" against unwanted access to those pages as long as
> you explicitly use the "-anonymous" flag, but *possibly* not if you use
> individual "-restrictions=..." or "-validate".

Thanks.  This saves me a lot of time not having to rummage through the
code myself.

> Allowing "news://remote.server/..."; with -localhost seems to be another
> hole that needs fixing (please test in your version).

Actually, since my students are not allowed by school authorities to use
our news server, I don't even link in the news.c module on site-wide
installations of the binary.  It won't matter much on my personal copy.

__Henry

BTW, I still keep a digest of the archives if downloading it in month-long
gulps is a convenient way for you to catch up (mostly we chat, though, anyway).
http://www.irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp/lynxdev/archives/9905.arc.bz2
http://www.irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp/lynxdev/archives/9904.arc.bz2

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