[Bug-wget] [bug #45776] ClamAV integration?

[NoëlKöthe]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45776>

                 Summary: ClamAV integration?
                 Project: GNU Wget
            Submitted by: nok
            Submitted on: Mo 17 Aug 2015 10:28:07 CEST
                Category: Feature Request
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: None
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         Reproducibility: None
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         Planned Release: None
              Regression: None
           Work Required: None
          Patch Included: No

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Details:

Hello,

this is an older feature request with a comment from a former maintainer which
might result in wonfix, but maybe I'm wrong:

--8<--
From: Micah Cowan <address@hidden>
...
Nigel Horne wrote:
> Please add an option to pass the file through ClamAV. If the file is
infected it isn't saved.

That's not very general, and isn't a particularly useful feature anyway, since
one can very easily run the files through ClamAV _after_ they've been saved.
Scanning-and-then-saving implies it would have to be saved to a temporary file
_anyway_, or else handled entirely in memory (which is generally
unreasonable).

Wget upstream development _is_ planning to eventually support more generic
process-filtered/plugin mechanisms for handling such things as link-parsing,
content-filtering, and probably filestore management (such as saving to a
tarball or multipart/related archive). That last feature would make a suitable
general hook for plugging in a ClamAV scanner, perhaps, which could simply
decline to save the files it doesn't like. Still have the same problem,
though, of needing to save to a temporary file or else hold it in memory.
--8<--
https://bugs.debian.org/496583

thx for your feedback.




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