Hi -devel.
Currently packaged html2text have limited built-in http support.
This means that html2text can work not only with pipe ("curl http://www.debian.org |
html2text") and local files ("html2text index.html"), but also with web directly
("html2text http://www.debian.org";).
However, http support is very limited - it doesn't support proxy, named vhosts and http
redirections. It caused "wontfix" bugs [1], [2].
The author's opinion is to add compile option to remove http support (in some future),
mainly for compatibility reasons [3].
html2text in testing already have a README.Debian that encourage users to use html2text
through pipe with curl or wget with a short examples.
Finally, http support in html2text is unsupported bunch of code that also makes
implementing of meta-encoding tag and input/output recoding more hard to do (requested in
[4]).
Can we remove html2text's http support for squeeze?
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285378
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=307425
[3] http://www.mbayer.de/html2text/faq.shtml#sect4
[4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496226
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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, Ukrainian C++ developer.
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