[tlug] WWWJDIC backdoor issue

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 15/06/2007, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:

> The WWWJDIC backdoor[1] used to work quite well for me with a Firefox
> quick search:
>   http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1MUJ%s
> But recently, it has started giving me an error. e.g.
>   http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1MUJ%20%E5%A5%BD%E3%81%8F
> gives me:
>   "Warning: the romaji key  好く did not convert correctly. Try again?"

I thought I'd got it figured out now, thanks to a recent Firefox
upgrade. The relevant section of my bookmarks.html now looks like
this:

<DT>
  <A HREF="http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1MUJ%s";
       ADD_DATE="1140048344" LAST_VISIT="1166665788"
       LAST_MODIFIED="1140055462"
       SHORTCUTURL="jje"
       ICON="data:image/x-icon;base64,[...]";
       LAST_CHARSET="EUC-JP"
       ID="rdf:#$eC1vX2">WWWJDIC J-&gt;E JP (RILCAA)</A>
<DD>jje

Changing that LAST_CHARSET="EUC-JP" to LAST_CHARSET="UTF-8" gave me
false hope... but did not work. :(

I think the only thing to be done is to write a Greasemonkey script
that encodes GETs to WWWJDIC correctly based on the backdoor encoding
key. I'll add that to my list of stuff to do.

-- 
Cheers,
Josh