Re: [links] Links and pipes

> I maintain a perl script called demime.  demime takes a message and
> unmercifully flattens it - the message that comes out of demime is a
> single section plain text message with attachments elided.
>
> Currently, I use either lynx or HTML::FormatText when I must interpret a
> text/html section.
>
> Frankly, both of these programs format html poorly. I recognize that
> plain text formatting will always have issues when people expect full
> graphical formatting, but, well, I do not care all that much.  The real
> problem is that the above schemes either elide things or the order is
> screwed up.
>
> I was considering the use of elinks to do this formatting.
>
> I looked at the man page and decided that this would be a good start for
> a command line:
>
> elinks -anonymous 1 -default-mime-type text/html -dump 1  -dump-width 70
> -no-connect 1 -no-home 1 -stdin 1
>
> But this does not work. Specifying anonymous (which I need so that
> people can't use frames or other includish things to read files on my
> system) conflicts with -stdin 1 since that simply uses a
> file:///dev/stdin reference.
>
> But I don't want them to be able to crash my system or casually
> compromise it. I think what I really need is an option that says, "Do
> not resolve any urls in what I present you, just render it as best you
> are able without referencing anything out of the stream."
>
> I've read the doc and I can't find that option. Am I missing something
> or does that option not exist?
>
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Hi

Pls send this to elinks mailing list. Links with
 	links -anonymous -dump http://www.url.com
works fine.

Mikulas
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