Re: checklink 4.4 release? (Was: [Bug 5648] Handle gzip content-encoded content)

On Thursday 01 May 2008, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> I just had a look, and seems that the thing needing most work is HTML
> output in command line mode.  I'm working on a patch, it should be ready
> pretty soon.

Done.

> The other thing I found is that the "Checking link" javascript callbacks
> printed from perl don't get the URL to display in HTML escaped form (in
> check_uri()).  HTML escaping them is trivial but doing so makes my Firefox
> and Konqueror display &'s as &amp's in the status widget.  I'm a bit slow
> today and maybe I'm missing something obvious there, but doesn't that sound
> like a browser bug?

I added the escaping anyway.

With these patches, I'm not aware of anything that would block the 4.4 
release.  The fix for command line HTML mode was more intrusive than I 
thought so the more things could be tested before the release, the better.