Bug#32815: marked as done (cgi-scripts' finger script gives incorrect output)
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From: Mark Wharton <mjw41@cam.ac.uk>
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Reply-To: Mark Wharton <mjw41@cam.ac.uk>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: cgi-scripts' finger script gives incorrect output
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MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Package: cgi-scripts
Version: 1.0.9
The cgi finger script always returns MIME type text/html. The problem with
this is that (apart from the html being technically invalid - which is of
little or no importance) any <'s or >'s screw things up. The main problem
being that if you put your PGP key in your .plan or .project file (which
many people do) the identifiers go missing.
I enclose a modified script which is more friendly:
#!/bin/sh
FINGER=/usr/bin/finger
if [ -x $FINGER ]; then
if [ $# = 0 ]; then
cat << EOM
Content-type: text/html
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Finger Gateway</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Finger Gateway</H1>
<ISINDEX>
This is a gateway to "finger". Type a user@host combination in your browser's
search dialog.<P>
EOM
else
echo "Content-type: text/plain"
echo
$FINGER "$*"
fi
else
echo Cannot find finger on this system.
fi
--
M J Wharton. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
finger mjw41@mjwpc.corpus.cam.ac.uk for PGP key
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