[gopher] Mosaic-CK (fwd)

Cameron Kaiser spectre at floodgap.com
Tue Oct 13 19:54:13 UTC 2009


For the VMS fiends out there, I exchange code and ideas with the VMS Mosaic
maintainer, and I got this from him yesterday.

----- Forwarded message from George Cook -----

Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:05:23 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Mosaic-CK
Organization: West Virginia Network

>> I finally had a chance to download the Mosaic-CK tar file.
>> Assuming I can find the time to do it, I want to include
>> some of your changes (e.g. the gopher fixes) into VMS Mosaic.
>> Do you have particular gopher servers you test against?

>The gopher changes were, IMHO, necessary -- the old code has some ghastly
>security issues. I'm thinking there are probably more in the CSO code and
>I should probably review that for ck8. The main changes I made were to avoid
>HTML injection, plus types i and 3 and hURLs.

I finally got your gopher fixes added to VMS Mosaic.  I hope to
get the next release (4.3) out in the not too distant future.


George Cook

----- End of forwarded message from George Cook -----

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