FRIGN said:
> mailcap files come pretty close, but only offer detection by mime (you
> couldn't for instance parse youtube-links if you wanted or
> differentiate between a file:// and http://-URL).
You can. Use "text/html" mime type and a script to parse URLs. (You'll
need to parse URLs anyway, if you want to do anything useful with them.)
> Additionally, with mailcap you can only provide one command, whereas
> soap offers you to give a whole set of commands, including piping and
> other stuff. You could do that with mailcap, too, by writing a
> shell-script for each handler.
Arbitrary shell commands work in mailcap.
> Now, most importantly, what you have to consider is that mailcap isn't
> called by X-programs, which soap is directed at (-> replacing xdg-open).
I must have worded it clearer: I suggested using mailcap as
configuration format for soap. Or at least extend it to support
whatever you want to support.
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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Received on Tue May 06 2014 - 21:58:40 CEST