RE: {bb} HTTP check changes value syntax

[Chris Denneen <bb@ghostspace.com>]

Yeah those changes weren't enabled until 1.9d and we have 1.9c.

any other way to fix the & in a URL from being changed to a _ ?

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 10:57 -0700, Kimberly McKinnis wrote:
> Check $BBHOME/etc/bbdef-server.sh on your big brother server.  It's
> almost at the very bottom of the file.
> 
> #
> # What runtime options for bbd do you want to use ?
> # valid options are:
> # ENABLE_DISABLE - turn on enabling/disabling of notifications
> # DATAMSG - accept "data" messages
> # NOTESMSG - accept "notes" messages
> # EMBEDHTML - If defined, Keep HTML code in incoming status
> # CONVHTMLTAGS - If defined, Change HTML <> tags to &lt; and &gt; in
> incoming status
> # LARRD - Inline code for LARRD when generating HTML status log
> 
> RUNOPTS="EMBEDHTML ENABLE_DISABLE LARRD"
> export RUNOPTS
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-bb@bb4.com [mailto:owner-bb@bb4.com] On Behalf Of Chris
> Denneen
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 10:27 AM
> To: bb@bb4.com
> Subject: Re: {bb} HTTP check changes value syntax
> 
> RUNOPTS isn't located anywhere in my BB Install.
> I have grep'd for it in the entire BB tree.
> 
> Any other ideas where this can be tweaked?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 07:22 +0000, Henrik Storner wrote:
> > In <1118123754.14348.6.camel@hobbes.home.denneen.net> Chris Denneen
> <bb@ghostspace.com> writes:
> > 
> > >Is there a reason to replace & with _?? I can't seem to figure out 
> > >why but maybe there was a good reason behind this.
> > 
> > BB is implemented mostly from shell scripts, so by default it will 
> > weed out "dangerous" characters from the status messages to guard 
> > against potential attacks involving shell meta-characters like '&', 
> > '|', ';' and such.
> > 
> > There's a setting in the RUNOPTS that you can tweak to allow these.
> > Browse through the etc/bbdef* files and you'll see it.
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Henrik
> > 
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