ProcessFilter and the command attribute.

• From: Anselm Baird_Smith <abaird@www43.inria.fr>
• Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 08:43:37 +0200 (MET DST)
• To: Julianne Freire de Sousa Pepeu <jfsp@di.ufpe.br>
• Cc: www-jigsaw@w3.org
• Message-Id: <199706050643.IAA22400@www43.inria.fr>

Julianne Freire de Sousa Pepeu writes:
 > 
 > I read at The ProcessFilter reference guide
 > (http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Jigsaw/User/Reference/w3c.jigsaw.filters.ProcessFilter.html) 
 > that... 
 > 
 > "The ProcessFilter is for post-processing a reply's content. It allows you
 > to run the target's reply content through external filters before it is
 > sent back to the browser.
 > 
 > The external program is given by the command attribute, which can specify
 > any additional arguments for the external process (along with its path, of
 > course)." 
 > 
 > Does this mean that my external program will receive as argument the
 > Reply, i.e., a Reply object? Or a InputStream object? 

It will get the Jigsaw std reply input stream as input, and has to
output the transformed input (the one the browser will actually get)

Anselm

Received on Thursday, 5 June 1997 02:44:08 UTC