Re: [Websec-users] Version 1.5.0 released

[Trevor Boicey]

Baruch Even wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to announce that I've released version 1.5.0 after a long time
> of inactivity.

  Good to see this project continuing. Like most of you, this is 
something I use obviously "every day".

  I upgraded to this version from 1.3.4. I had tried 1.4.0 in the past, 
but for some reason I forget I chose to revert and it stayed on my drive 
but unreferenced. But this version seems to perform fine.

  A couple of issues:

  - I used to use a lot of "Hicolor = Yellow", which now does not work. 
It comes out black, although the source of the HTML message shows 
"Yellow" coming through in the highlights. Perhaps the old websec used 
to replace this with a hexcode, where the new one just passes it along 
and Mozmail doesn't understand it? Not a big problem.

  (Although I do notice that the HTML comes out "TD BGCOLOR==Yellow", 
is there something I don't know that makes that double-equals important 
instead of the more standard single?)

  - The source code still has the line similar to:

 $subj = "[websec] - " + something;

  ...although the default seems to be no prefix to the subject. I got 
around this by putting the AddSubject in each of my URL lists, but there 
might be some dead code there.

  Also, a bit of a feature request... it would be useful if websec 
could somehow keep track of how long it's been since the page has 
changed, either with a date or a number of page requests.

  Most useful to me, it could then have a threshold where it will start 
to send the page again to the user with a message like "this page hasn't 
changed in two years" and the user could decide if they wanted to delete 
it from their url.list. Everytime I upgrade and actually watch websec 
run in person rather than cron, I am amazed at some of the URLs that are 
in there that I know I haven't gotten updates for in years.

  Secondary feature, you could add the update into the output somehow, 
like at the bottom, saying something like "Page updated after 7 days" or 
"...2 months" or "...5 years".


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