Re: --local and redirection

Jorge Arellano Cid <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Dec 2014 19:00:08 -0300

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.dillo.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 08:58:16PM +0000, eocene wrote:
> Jorge wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 01:09:04AM +0000, eocene wrote:
> > > Jorge wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 06:30:30PM +0000, eocene wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > I notice that redirection defeats --local.
> > > > > You go to www.dillo.org and images aren't loaded.
> > > > > You go to dillo.org, it redirects to www.dillo.org, and images are loaded.
> > > > 
> > > >   Oh, yes.
> > > > 
> > > >   Originally,  --local  was  meant for local files only. To allow
> > > > safe displaying of HTML email in sylpheed (IIRC).
> > > > 
> > > >   Now,  from  the  console  help given by dillo, it seems like it
> > > > should  work  with  non-local  URLs  too.  It  makes sense to me,
> > > > although  I  haven't  found a compelling use case for that. Maybe
> > > > for opening news site without the images...
> > > > 
> > > >   Attached is a brief patch. Please test and send feedback.
> > > 
> > > It appears to fix the case that I mentioned, but then I tried a local file like
> > > 
> > > <head>
> > > <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://example.com/">
> > > </head>
> > > <body>
> > > text
> > > </body>
> > > 
> > > and the redirection is followed.
> > 
> >   Please try the attached patch.
> 
> Looks like it works properly...

  Committed.

  You may want to update the splash page and Changelog.

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  Cheers
  Jorge.-