gnatsweb news

["Dirk Bergstrom" <dirk at juniper dot net>]

changelog for gnatsweb in the savannah.gnu.org CVS repository:

2001-09-07  Dirk Bergstrom  <dirk@juniper.net>

	* gnatsweb.pl (get_mailto_link): rewritten to properly
html-escape
	the followup mailto: link contents.

	* gnatsweb.pl (help_page): Changed bare calls to p() & a() to
	$q->p() style calls.  Missed these yesterday.

2001-09-06  Dirk Bergstrom  <dirk@juniper.net>

	* gnatsweb.pl: Use CGI qw/-nosticky/; This prevents CGI.pm from
	appending a bunch of .cgifields to every self_url().  AFAIK,
we're
	not using CGI.pm's sticky field features, so we can do w/o the
	overhead and the unreasonably long URLs it produces.

	* gnatsweb.pl: Changed bare calls to CGI.pm routines to
qualified
	calls (ie. submit(foo... becomes $q->submit(foo... ).  This
allows
	us to stop importing the :standard and :netscape extensions to
	CGI.pm.  Doing so should improve the startup time and decrease
	memory footprint.

	* gnatsweb.pl: Refresh headers choke on semicolon-separated
	query-strings, so we change semicolons to ampersands in the URL
	everywhere we use refresh.

	* gnatsweb.pl (view, edit, submitedit, download_attachment):
Added
	code to strip non-digit characters from $pr.  Gnatsd sometimes
	accepts category/number, and sometimes does the Wrong Thing, and
I
	thought it best to remove the possibility of problems.

	* gnatsweb.pl (camouflage, set_pref): Removed camouflage()ing of
	'user', since the first time I used this version of gnatsweb, it
	became convinced that my username was 'ag`tavqw'.  This
migration
	problem far outweighs the meager benefits of masking the
username
	in the cookie.  camouflage()ing the password will still cause
	migration problems for sites that have used a previous
incarnation
	of gnatsweb, but it might be worth it...

	* gnatsweb.pl (page_start_html): Don't show logout button if
	$site_gnatsweb_server_auth is set.  Don't show button bar on
main
	page.  Changed all the html tags to lowercase, for
	standards-compliance.

	* gnatsweb.pl (datemenu, edit): Removed datemenu(), and the one
	(unreachable) reference to it.  It was unused, and probably
	justifiably so, given the robust date parsing abilities in
gnatsd.

	* gnatsweb.pl (display_query_results): Strip empty params out of
	$url for the "View for bookmarking" link.

	* gnatsweb.pl (store_query): Strip empty params out of
	$query_string before building cookie, to help keep it under the
4K
	limit.  Check (approx) length of cookie, error if it looks like
	it's going to be over 4K.

	* gnatsweb.pl (get_mailto_link): Added a new config parameter,
	%site_pr_submission_address.  If set for the current database,
	get_mailto_link() adds a mailto: link ("submit followup via
	email") that goes to the local PR submission address and the
PR's
	Reply-To address.  The subject is set so that the message gets
	tacked on to the PR's audit trail.


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