[Mailman-Users] Adding exception to html-stripping in the archive

[Laurence Berland]

begin  quote from Laurence Berland on Wednesday 31 July 2002 12:04 pm
> I've already written code that filters the messages on their way to the
> archiver, substituting based on regular expressions.  It does this in the
> Queue/ArchRunner.py file, in just about the last spot before the actual
> archiver gets called.  It can't go in the archiver, because it needs to be
> able to read the mlist variable for configuration and such.  I need to be
> able to use a regular expression to substitute in a snippet of html code.
> This could be used for several things, but my intention is to use it to add
> an img tag.  Is there a way to configurably get around the html-sanitizing
> done by the archiver in some non-kludge way?

I'm not sure if anyone is reading these, though I tend to suspect not.  In any 
case, I've found the kludge way to go about doing this, but it's really quite 
awful.  I changed the websafe function in utils.py to just return the very 
string it is passed.  Please tell me there's a better way, as this requires a 
recompile to change, and it's not something I even want done for every list.  
If there isn't a better way yet, can anyone think of how to code one?  My 
biggest problem is the lack of an mlist object near many websafe calls, 
meaning I can't readily grab config variables for a list.

>
> TIA,
> Laurence
>