[Mailman-Users] htdig integration patches

[Richard Barrett]

At 16:21 22/01/2003, Todd C. Miller wrote:
>After a bit of head scratching I have tracked the problem down to
>privoxy (a filtering, ad-blocking proxy).  It has the following
>rule in its default config:
>
># The status bar is for displaying link targets, not pointless blahblah
>#
>s/([\n =;{}]|window\.)(default)?status\s*=/$1dUmMy=/ig
>
>which is where the dUmMy bits were coming from.
>
>  - todd

I assume this proxy sites between your web browser and the world.

Looks like an accident waiting to happen if that regex and similar is run 
without any further qualification against the content of every response 
received to an HTTP reqeust on your machine.