Re: Feature Request

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 14:26 +0200, Christian Birchinger wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I think it would be really helpfull if it would be possible to
> define an external url filter similar to squids `redirect_program'
> option.
> 
> This allows the user to use many of the already available url
> filters such as bannerfilter (http://www.phroggy.com/bannerfilter).
> It would *only* filter urls *not* content itself.
> 
> All Galeon had to do is pipe the url through the simple filter
> tools which read urls from stdin and write them to stdout.
> 
> This would kill the need of local one-user squid installations.
> It's really overkill to install a proxy for a simple webfilter.
> All the smaller proxies i found are content filter not simple
> url filters.
> 
> Any comments on this? Is it worth a bugreport?

I doubt galeon could do this own its own.  This type of functionality is
dependent on mozilla (gecko).  Maybe file the request with them.  If
they exported some kind of call-back on each url before loading, then
you could modify it in the call-back (in galeon).

> 
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
> 
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