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Re: OT moz-firefox's cookperm.txt is now hostperm.1



On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 01:16, Nano Nano wrote:
> FYI:
> 
> CVS builds of moz-firefox have changed the cookperm.txt file to a 
> hostperm.1.  I don't know about you, but I've built up my cookperm.txt 
> file over the past year with a wonderful list of blocked cookie and 
> images hosts -- and I back it up, because I've already blocked 
> everything *I* need blocked.
> 
> This bit of perl will translate your old cookperm.txt to the new format:
>                                                                                 
> $T[0]='cookie';$T[1]='image';
> $C{'T'}=1; $C{'F'}=2;
> printf "# Permission File\n";
> printf "# This is a generated file! Do not edit.\n\n";
> while (chomp ($x=<>)) {
>   if ($x =~ /^([^\t]+)\t([01])([TF])\t?([01]?)([TF]?)$/) {
>     printf "host\t%s\t%s\t%s\n", $T[$2], $C{$3}, $1;
>     if ($5) {
>       printf "host\t%s\t%s\t%s\n", $T[$4], $C{$5}, $1;
>     }
>   }
> }
> 

Perl for the swines, well I'll gobble it up, thanks!

Looks very useful. I like to block things too. If it moves shoot it.

Chris



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