On Wed, 17 May 2006, Henning Makholm wrote: > 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? I'm talking about an HTTP access method in general; if it were to be done, I'd expect that it validate the users email address before actually forwarding bug reports from the user. reportbug is somewhat of a special case because it actually provides useful information along with the bug report; non-reachable submitters are slightly less anoying than in other cases. > It is not necessary that there is anywhere any HTML form that refers > to the posting URL; only reportbug would need to know it. Except for the fact that anyone can create a page which posts to that url. In any case, I'm not stoping anyone else from implementing it; I've just explained why I'm not going to implement it. Don Armstrong -- Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly). -- Matt Welsh http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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