Re: [WebSec-users] New patches

[Baruch Even]

Hi,

Thanks for the patches, I've taken a quick look and they look fine. I'll look
more soon and will incorporate the patches in the next version.

Let me know if you get the ignore feature integrated with HTML::Diff,
I've taken a look at it once and couldn't find a way to do it, and I
feel that the ignore feature is important for the uses of Web Secretary.

If the HTML::Diff can do proper diffing and ignore we can ditch webdiff.

Baruch

* Dominik Stadler <address@hidden> [030530 15:04]:
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> I have submitted a new patch at the website that tries to add two new 
> features 
> to websec:
> 
> 1. Option to use HTML::Diff for producing the html-diff
> 
> I added a new possible value for the Diff-option "htmldiff" to use a 
> different 
> HTML-Diff-Algorithm.
> 
> In the diff-output of websec I wanted to see deleted items also. webdiff 
> cannot do this and with the way it is written, it is also not easy to add it.
> 
> The patch adds a new small script "htmldiff" to websec (which I actually took 
> from the HTML::Diff package) that produces a diff between HTML-Pages via 
> HTML::Diff. 
> 
> The options for ignoring certain differences are not working yet with this, I 
> will try to add these features to htmldiff also.
> 
> This should solve bug 3497
> 
> You need to download thw following two perl packages from cpan.org and 
> install 
> them on the machine.
> 
> http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/data/html-diff/HTML/Diff.html
> Download at 
> http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cpan/authors/id/E/EZ/EZRAKILTY/html-diff-0.52.tar.gz
> 
> and
> 
> http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/data/Algorithm-Diff/Algorithm/Diff.html
> at 
> http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cpan/authors/id/N/NE/NEDKONZ/Algorithm-Diff-1.15.tar.gz
> 
> 
> 2. Option to only open a summary page when using "Program"
> 
> I added a new option "ProgramDigest = true" that will open only one page of 
> summary information with links to the diff-output for all changed URLs.
> 
> For this to work websec now stores the change-page under 
> ../archive/name.diff.html in order to allow later access to the pages.
> 
> Dominik.
> 
> 
> 
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