Closed Bug 26753 Opened 26 years ago Closed 26 years ago

finger: parse output into HTML (+ turn email addresses to mailto: links)

Categories

(Core :: Networking, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Assigned: bryner)

Details

(Keywords: testcase)

In the new finger protocol the "e-mail" line should be a mail-to link
Perhaps it could also be possible to run the .plan text through the text2url function so that URLs gets converted into clickable URLS. Ex: if your do: finger:johnc@idsoftware.com
Assignee: gagan → bryner
Unfortunately there is not always an "email" line. The format of the response is completely up to the server, and I don't think it would be a good idea to try to guess at what format it's trying to use. The automatic URL highlighting sounds like a good idea though, I'll look into it.
I think the converter is called mozIHTMLToTXTConv
Will try to get done for M15.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M15
Updating summary.
Summary: Add mailto: links to new finger protocol → Add URL parsing to finger protocol
OS: Windows 98 → All
How would it handle something like "johnc@idsoftware.com" within the finger text? Would that be interpreted as an e-mail or finger address?
It could be pretty cool it if was a finger address.
I think the most logical thing to translate that to is a mailto: link. Email addresses are often NOT usable as finger: URL's, because you need a server name, not an MX entry in DNS. As for the status on this one... We need asynchronous text->html conversion to make this work. Currently only synchronous conversion is available. valeski is working on the asynchronous methods.
We could add "go to address as a finger address" to the context menu within finger:* pages. Of course, then people will start complaining that there's no "go to address as a finger address in a new window".
Hardware: PC → All
Moving to M16... I have this done but did not get it checked in in time for the M15 tree closing. Will check in as soon as the tree opens for M16 work.
Target Milestone: M15 → M16
Depends on: 20212
This can be implemented now with nsTXTToHTMLConv/nsITXTToHTMLConv, and changed (easily) later if we use a different interface. Clearing dependency.
No longer depends on: 20212
Checked in code to implement this.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 26 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Can anybody verify this. My firewall seems to block finger...?
Verified.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
QA Review: added to test cases.
Summary: Add URL parsing to finger protocol → finger: parse output into HTML (+ turn email addresses to mailto: links)
Keywords: testcase
transferring these to my netscape.com email.
Assignee: bryner → bryner
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