Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 15:32:31 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@smtp.ne.mediaone.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Way Off Topic: Bookmarks Message-ID: <20011011153231.F3862@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: <15301.59685.564955.472776@guru.mired.org> References: <109790281@toto.iv> <15301.59685.564955.472776@guru.mired.org>
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On 10/11/01 01:47 PM, Mike Meyer sat at the `puter and typed: > > Thank you. Yes, I can add things automatically from my primary > browser. I use w3m, which is the only browser I know of that supports > the concept of "open another browser on a page". One of the "other" > browsers is a script that accepts the URL on the command line, digs > the title up over the network, and adds the url and title to the > database. > > Any scriptable browser could do this kind of thing, though the only > scriptable browsers I know of are Amosaic, Ibrowse and AWeb, none of > which run on Unix. In fact, this all started with Amosaic. Hmm. There must be a way to handle this from within Galeon, Mozilla, or Netscrape. Maybe some kind of kludge. Maybe just a perl tool you can just pass the URL to. It could then grab the title and dump it to the cgi handler at your site. > If you read the paper, there's a *lot* of machinery behind the > thing. Do you *really* want to install an SQL server and a language > interpreter just to keep your bookmarks? I already had all this > mechanism in place for other reasons - my web site search engine uses > them (and is equally cool :-), for instance - so this wasn't a problem > for me. Yes, but I do already have PostgreSQL installed, it's just not doing much right now. I think I also have MySQL here, but it's equally loaded. > I'm also not sure how the py_apache module would be dealt with. It's > not a port, and the port with that functionality doesn't build and > would require rewriting the thing. I have a /usr/ports/www/mod_python port. As far as I can tell, it's the same idea, just a different implementation. > If you really want, I might be able to find the original versions that > kept text in a page. I'm pretty sure I've got the ARexx version, and > there are rexx interpreters in the ports tree. I'm not so sure about > the version that I used on Unix before I write the current version. I still think perl will do this. Even a secure connection would be possible to connect to a secure server. I am interested, very interested, but I'm afraid I don't have any more hands to juggle projects right now :) I will bookmark your site and keep it in the back of my mind. I couldn't ask you to take time to dig things up for me right now though. But thanks! Cheers. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc leblanc@acadia.ne.mediaone.net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://acadia.ne.mediaone.net ԿԬ The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." -- Isaac Asimov To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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