Re: wapbox -- support for external filters

Hi!

> Something like this has been suggested before. It has been
> discarded for different reasons, foremost security (don't
> start programs from servers that interact with untrusted
> clients). 

Well, second option is to integrate html parser into kannel. I guess
you don't want to do that.

This is from kannel.org | Projects:

[leppä] Generic filtering and conversion extensions.  It would be
useful to be able to specify in Kannel's configuration files filters
and converters for various MIME types. For example, one should be able
to specify that if the HTTP server gives a response of type text/html,
then an specific external program should be used for converting it to
text/vnd.wap.wml. Or that a

...so it seems to me external programs are actually on the todo
list. I do not see security as a problem: of course I should be pretty
sure that external apps I'm running are written in secure manner, but
that should be my problem...

								Pavel

> diff -ur kannel-1.3.1-ofic/debian/kannel.conf
> kannel-1.3.1/debian/kannel.conf
> --- kannel-1.3.1-ofic/debian/kannel.conf	2003-02-17
> 16:50:56.000000000 +0100
> +++ kannel-1.3.1/debian/kannel.conf	2003-10-16 01:22:33.000000000 +0200
> @@ -20,3 +20,8 @@
>  group = wapbox
>  bearerbox-host = localhost
>  log-file = "/var/log/kannel/wapbox.log"
> +filters-num = 1
> +filter-from-0 = "text/html"
> +filter-to-0 = "text/vnd.wap.wml"
> +filter-command-0 = "/tmp/html2wml %s"
> +

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