[SURBL-Discuss] Experimental CGI GetURI

[Ryan Thompson]

Hey all,

I've started phase two of GetURI's development, in the form of a CGI
interface. So far, the interface supports lists of ham and spam domains,
which will be especially handy for discussions on this list, and for
those of you hand-checking lists of submitted domains.

I'll also probably at least add a message checker and maybe even an mbox
upload feature, based on feedback and testing.

The CGI version produces the same output that the commandline version
does. (In fact, it uses some clever tricks to communicate with the
commandline version and provide progress to the browser).

http://ry.ca/cgi-bin/geturi.cgi

This will be *especially* useful for all of these "FP" discussions we've
been having lately. Now, f'rinstance, if I proclaim topical7074rneds .com 
should be whitelisted (it shouldn't!!), I could just feed you this:

http://ry.ca/cgi-bin/geturi.cgi?domains=topical7074rneds.com&surbl=ws.surbl.org&type=ham

...which is ugly, and gets uglier in a hurry with more domains. So, I
implemented caching and unique IDs, so you can just do the lookup
yourself, and then cut and paste the resulting (potentially much
shorter) link that will show up in your Address bar, like so:

http://ry.ca/cgi-bin/geturi.cgi?id=spam-X52p6q8FMYYEINMCsepAG1

These cached results (if referenced by id, as in the last URL) will be
available for at least 30 days from their last access time. The page
itself describes the caching algorithm in a bit more detail, for those
that are interested.

Try it out, please, and make some noise about it. It's experimental
(read: I started with an idea in my head and a blank file in my editor
about 4.5 hours ago), so there are bound to be some interesting bugs.
;-)

- Ryan

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