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Re: GNATS Login
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 02:09:30AM -0500, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> I just tried your gnatwebber.pl and it worked with IE 5.0 under Windows XP.
(boo! :)
> Just some general GNATS questions for you too:
The GNATS project has a note about MIME and GNATS:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnats/mimedecode.html
Unfortunately gnats was written long before MIME was prevalent, so
ad hoc methods like this are not very good. The gnatsweb access
mode has its own attachment mechanism, which no other gnats access
methods can decode; the URL above stores attachments as seperate
files, which no gnatsd access method could read (you'd need to log
in to the machine directly to access them).
I suppose it'd be possible to use a script like the one mentioned
above, store the attachments in an anonftp directory, and add links
to those files in the PRs. That would all work correctly and
reasonably. This is me not volunteering to do that, though.
gnats will be undergoing a big change when gnats v4 is finished;
it will probably be worthwhile to upgrade to that on gcc.gnu.org
at some point, and they may have addressed this issue in gnats v4
in a more integrated manner.
Jason