Re: reportbug defaults [Re: Bug#367200: ITP: libemail-send-perl -- Simply Sending Email]
Scripsit Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>
>> What about modifying it to work through something like an http POST?
> I'm personally not too terribly interested in implementing an HTTP
> access method for the BTS, because it makes it more easy for bug
> submissions to be sent from people who can not be accessed via e-mail.
How does sending directly to from reportbug to an ISP's smarthost
validate the user's email address better than sending directly from
reportbug to a HTTP POST somewhere?
It is not necessary that there is anywhere any HTML form that refers
to the posting URL; only reportbug would need to know it.
--
Henning Makholm "This imposes the restriction on any
procedure statement that the kind and type
of each actual parameter be compatible with the
kind and type of the corresponding formal parameter."
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