[Mimedefang] Anomy:HTML Cleaner

Graham Dunn gdunn at inscriber.com
Fri Aug 16 10:44:01 EDT 2002


On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 07:18:54AM -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote:
> I seem to be having a problem losing pictures from my HTML e-mail.  I
> believe this started once I installed Anomy:HTML Cleaner.  What exactly does
> that program do?  And, do I have any benefit using it, or should I just
> remove it?

--- HTMLCleaner.pm.orig Thu Jun  6 12:15:30 2002
+++ HTMLCleaner.pm      Thu Jun  6 12:16:05 2002
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@
         "ismap"    => "anything",
         "loop"     => "alnum",
         "lowsrc"   => "src",
-        "src"      => "src",
+        "src"      => 1,
         "start"    => "alnum",
         "usemap"   => "href",
         "vspace"   => "size",

That'll let img tags through unmolested. The program looks for "evil"
HTML constructs and mangles them to be "unevil" :]

It's handy as another layer of defense against things like email worms
and web bugs.

Graham



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