Patch to add html download link.

[Allen Reese]

Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 20:11:14 +0300
From: VilleSkytt?<scop at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Patch to add html download link.
To: freebsd-cvsweb at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <1115053874.16399.2.camel at bobcat.mine.nu>
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>On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 15:17 -0700, Allen Reese wrote:

>> I store html files in a cvs repository that we access via cvsweb.  I
>> find myself downloading the html file to open it in a web browser, or
>> changing the link that I clicked on so I can just display the html
>> file straight from cvsweb.

>Just clicking the "download" link should result it being sent as
>text/html assuming you have it configured so in cvsweb.conf (which is by
>default set up to do that).  See for example the *.html files at
>http://cvs.fedora.us/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/docs/

>Which version of cvsweb are you running?

I'm not sure.  I'll pester our admins to fix the cvsweb.conf.  I bet
they just configured it wrong.

>> I got sick of it and wrote a patch to get around this today.  ;)
>>
>> The patch adds a html link between text & markup that passes the
>> mimetype as text/html.

>That doesn't make much sense for files other than HTML.

Yes you're right there.  :)