urlize - how to prevent from use in notifications?

[Joe Rhett]

> That WAS a serious reply.  It is the method I use in my shop.

No, it wasn't a serious reply.  It's a hack that doesn't solve the general
problem, only a single instance.  A bandaid isn't a "serious" response to a
sword wound.  It may stem the bleeding long enough to get to the hospital,
but you're still going to die.

The problem isn't how to mangle output for e-mail notification, the
problem is that HTML-ized output is only useful for one output.  Hacking
the input at 1 place and then hacking the output at N places where N equals
the total number of output mechanisms is wasteful.

The generalized problem is that NO output EXCEPT for the web interface 
wants urlized output.  The database shouldn't be storing URLs that 
must be decoded before use.  These URLs will also suddenly become invalid
after an interface change, or an IP address change or anything else.

The HTML-modified output should be done closer to the web interface, not
altering the input mechanism.

As stated in my original post: (which was quoted but apparently ignored)
> Before I go digging into the code to determine how to split up the web
> and notification output, has someone already solved this problem?

The apparent solution (without having finished review of the code) is that
the URLize syntax should be stored as another attribute, and performed by
the web interface prior to output.  The data is stored in raw form, and
formated appropriated for the web output. (or any other output mechanism
that requests urlized output)

That is a serious response.  A quick fix isn't a serious response.

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 09:48:17PM -0800, Tedman Eng wrote:
> That WAS a serious reply.  It is the method I use in my shop.
> 
> The original Nagios munged output you get probably looks something like
> this:
> A HREF=/nagios/cgi-bin/cgi.cgi?host=somehost: CPU:80 /A
> 
> Edit your mail notification command to format however you want, without
> <A..../A> tags if your mail reader strips tags.  Do this by inserting a few
> sed  or cut commands in there to make $OUTPUT$ look like this:
> 
> <A HREF=/nagios/cgi-bin/cgi.cgi?host=somehost> CPU:80 </A>
> 
> or this:
> CPU:80
> 
> A simplified notify-by-email example using the "cut" method:
> printf '$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ on host $HOSTALIAS$\n\nMore
> info:`echo $OUTPUT$ | cut " " -f 3` | /usr/bin/mail $CONTACTEMAIL$'
> 
> HTH,
> Tedman
> 
> 
> "Joe Rhett" <jrhett at isite.net> wrote in message
> news:20031129000548.GA2802 at isite.net...
> > They are stripped from $OUTPUT$ by Nagios, not by my commands.
> >
> > Also, no mail readers will create a link from an anchor tag in the middle
> of
> > a plain text message.  It just won't work.
> >
> > Serious replies?
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 08:28:40PM -0800, Tedman Eng wrote:
> > > Edit the email notification command to put the (< > & and other) bad
> shell
> > > characters back into the original email, so that the readers of the
> email
> > > can click the link from within email also.
> > >
> > > "Joe Rhett" <jrhett at isite.net> wrote in message
> > > news:20031127234432.GA5804 at isite.net...
> > > > I've got urlize working just fine for the web interface, but this has
> an
> > > > unintended side effect of putting HTML into the e-mail notifications.
> > > > (with < > & and other bad shell characters stripped out naturally)
> > > >
> > > > Before I go digging into the code to determine how to split up the web
> and
> > > > notification output, has someone already solved this problem?
> > > >
> > > > -- 
> > > > Joe Rhett                                                      Chief
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> > > > JRhett at Isite.Net                                      Isite Services,
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> > Joe Rhett                                                      Chief Geek
> > JRhett at Isite.Net                                      Isite Services, Inc.
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