Re: Req: Need a way to "wash" CGI parameters of URLs contained in cached
amb-Uxr6IM1mbv2TY6FTCsQk+9Bc4/[email protected] (Andrew M. Bishop)
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Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[email protected]> writes: > I found out this (Subject) request in debian bug database: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=203882 > > Thinking of it, I found it as a good idea (mostly because broken or > braindead webs), and there are another parameters I'd optionally skip when > comparing with the cached informations, e.g. "sourceid=" in google requests > or some arguments whenb querying cddb databases from various clients. Two things that I sometimes get asked for as new features in WWWOFFLE are the ability to change URLs or to modify the contents of web pages (both using a user supplied program). In both cases these are not features that I have a very strong feeling for adding to WWWOFFLE. It would take a lot of CPU effort to pass every URL or every page through an external script. You have the overhead of starting the scripting engine and people are going to want to use perl or other fully featured script languages not simple shell scripts for this. I thought that people might use the built-in web server and CGI functions but very few people have ever mentioned using them. Some features that seem useful to people who want to write scripts like this won't get used by most people and will be a waste of effort to implement and maintain. -- Andrew. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew M. Bishop amb-Uxr6IM1mbv2TY6FTCsQk+9Bc4/[email protected] http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/ WWWOFFLE users page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.8/user.html