SV: Why HTTP is so bad?

Why HTTP is so bad?

On the http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/ I've found very interesting
statment about HTTP: "or best of all: don't use HTTP". Can someone
explain me why the author claims that? What is bad in http?

Regards,
Szymon

[st] problem reading man pages

Hi, 

I just noticed that man pages are not rendered properly under st-0.4.1 tip.
For example in "man st" the SYNOPSYS line shows as:
       st  [-a]  [-c       ] [-f     ] [-g         ] [-o     ] [-t      ] [-w         ] [-v] [-e        ...]

st-0.3 shows the line as:
       st  [-a]  [-c  class] [-f font] [-g geometry] [-o file] [-t title] [-w windowid] [-v] [-e command...] 
(actually class, font, etc are all underlined)

xterm shows the same thing.

Is there a bug in st-0.4.1 or have I mis-configured something?

Regards,
David

[surf] new commandline flag syntax

Greetings comrades,

the surf repository now has a new common way to handle to enable or dis‐
able features. The only direct change of the meaning is  ‐k,  which  now
disables kiosk mode.

Upper case: enable feature
Lower case: disable feature

Sincerely,

Christoph Lohmann

[tabbed] buttonpress on border bug

tabbed recieves buttonpress events on the border, with a negative x value. 
The consequence is that tabbed interprets this as a press on the leftmost 
item in the tab bar. Patch attached.

Sincerely,
David

gettext-stub

http://penma.de/code/gettext-stub/

[dwm] Running dwm in KDE

When I'm on school computers, I run dwm on top of gnome by doing
something like: 
pkill -9 metacity && dwm
And then I have some rules set to move all the taskbars and things to
workspace 9. It works pretty well.

I've been given a laptop for work that's running Kubuntu. In the KDE
world is there something similar to metacity that I can kill so that I
can start dwm? 

--

-- 
Martin Miller
witsquash.com

trying to get surf working on Raspberry pi

Hello

i've been building my Raspberry pi system for months now using
http://crux-arm.nu/SupportedDevices/Raspberrypi as base. crux has only
minimal stuff to build on and thus is the best system for me ( it is
really difficult to find minimalist enough system now-a-days ).

i've buit x.org, git, dwm, st and some other things - removed udev and
using devtmpfs, edited startup scripts for my taste ( only some rc.*
files, no directories, etc.).

i also built webkitgtk-2.0.1 with only webkitgtk1 ( and glib, cairo,
atk, gnutls, openssl, gstreamer, gtk2, ....) but surf only gives me
'segmentation' error - no idea why = nothing on syslog, etc...

/mc
---keep-IT-simple---

upload via html?

Hi suckless users,
I was wondering what tool or method you would use to purpose simple file
upload on your server (via an html form as example)? CGI? PHP? Other?

Regards,
--

-- 
 ,--.
: /` )   Xavier Cartron
| `-'    
 \_

surf: typo in manpage

hopefully the right way to report this. applying the following patch the  
manpage formats as it should:

8<-----------------------------------
diff --git a/surf.1 b/surf.1
index 89276a0..4f66ca9 100644
--- a/surf.1
+++ b/surf.1
 <at>  <at>  -103,7 +103,7  <at>  <at>  Zooms page out
  .B Ctrl\-Shift\-q
  Resets Zoom
  .TP
-.B Ctrl\-f and Ctrl\-\\
+.B Ctrl\-f and Ctrl\-/
  Opens the search-bar.
  .TP
  .B Ctrl\-n
8<-----------------------------------

currently, the corresponding line renders as "Ctrl-f and Ctrl-" when  
calling `man surf'

j.

st slow startup

Hi,

as others also have noticed, Xft based st starts slow on some
systems. For me it helps if FcFontSort() is done lazily as shown
below.

Regards,
Johannes

diff --git a/st.c b/st.c
index 50090a4..425f669 100644
--- a/st.c
+++ b/st.c
 <at>  <at>  -2643,10 +2643,7  <at>  <at>  xloadfont(Font *f, FcPattern *pattern) {
 	if(!match)
 		return 1;

-	if(!(f->set = FcFontSort(0, match, FcTrue, 0, &result))) {
-		FcPatternDestroy(match);
-		return 1;
-	}
+	f->set = NULL;

 	if(!(f->match = XftFontOpenPattern(xw.dpy, match))) {
 		FcPatternDestroy(match);
 <at>  <at>  -2666,6 +2663,16  <at>  <at>  xloadfont(Font *f, FcPattern *pattern) {
 	return 0;
 }

+int
+xloadfontset(Font *f) {
+	FcResult result;
+
+	if(!(f->set = FcFontSort(0, f->pattern, FcTrue, 0, &result))) {
+		return 1;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
 void
 xloadfonts(char *fontstr, int fontsize) {
 	FcPattern *pattern;
 <at>  <at>  -2987,7 +2994,6  <at>  <at>  xdraws(char *s, Glyph base, int x, int y, int charlen, int bytelen) {
 	r.width = width;
 	XftDrawSetClipRectangles(xw.draw, winx, winy, &r, 1);

-	fcsets[0] = font->set;
 	for(xp = winx; bytelen > 0;) {
 		/*
 		 * Search for the range in the to be printed string of glyphs
 <at>  <at>  -3045,6 +3051,10  <at>  <at>  xdraws(char *s, Glyph base, int x, int y, int charlen, int bytelen) {

 		/* Nothing was found. */
 		if(i >= frclen) {
+			if (!font->set)
+				xloadfontset(font);
+			fcsets[0] = font->set;
+
 			/*
 			 * Nothing was found in the cache. Now use
 			 * some dozen of Fontconfig calls to get the