GNU bug report logs - #58774
29.0.50; [WISH]: Let us make EWW browse WWW Org files correctly

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Message #155 received at 58774-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>
Cc: 58774-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#58774: 29.0.50; [WISH]: Let us make EWW browse WWW Org
 files correctly
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2023 10:53:05 +0200

Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support> writes:

> This wish request is related to Emacs EWW and Org mode.
>
> Please make EWW recognize Org file when served by WWW server. Currently
> it does not recognize the MIME type text/x-org and opens the file as
> text, it does not invoke the org mode. In my opinion, it should.
>
> Inspect following file by using lynx:
>
> $ lynx -head https://gnu.support/files/tmp/example.org
>
> uHTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Server: nginx/1.14.2
> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 12:04:26 GMT
> Content-Type: text/x-org
> Content-Length: 364
> Last-Modified: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 11:58:22 GMT
> Connection: close
> ETag: "6357cf5e-16c"
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
>
> One can see that Content-Type is text/x-org
>
> My expectation is that EWW opens the Org file served by WWW server in
> Org mode. But it doesn't. Can this be done?
>
> This will open opportunity to directly serve Org files by using WWW
> servers and to browse such files through Emacs, meaning, bunch of notes,
> tasks and similar may be kept online, with or without protection and
> directly accessed by Emacs. It becomes new area or WWO or World Wide Org
> environment.

The discussion here showed that this will introduce security issues and
is not something we want to do.

I'm therefore closing this feature request as wontfix.

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