[MlMt] Visualize Bundle - not working?

[Stephan van Maris]

Starting a local webserver just to serve a CSV file for a bundle seems a 
bit like overkill to me. Wouldn’t it be easier to just generate a 
Javascript file with the data instead of a CSV and include it in the 
page using a <script> tag?

On 4 Jul 2018, at 9:22, Max Andersen wrote:

> if it can help the absolute simplest way I can think of bringing up a 
> local
> server is running `cd folderwithcontent; python -m SimpleHTTPServer 
> 3456`
>
> this will give you http://localhost:3456/<path relative to
> folderwithcontent>
>
> and the nice plus that if a server is already running on port 3456 it 
> will
> just exit so for a crude but working script for the visualizer it will
> "always" work.
>
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 6:49 AM, Sherif Soliman <sherif at ssoliman.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> On 3 Jul 2018, at 8:21, Ben Hyde wrote:
>>
>> Maybe I just need a poke withe the clue stick, but I think this 
>> bundle
>> isn’t
>> working today.
>>
>> I installed it a half hour ago, for the first time.
>>
>> And when I select a group of messages and hit cntl-t it
>> opens a page in Safari; but I don’t see a chart.
>>
>> I'm the author of the plugin. You're not missing anything. 
>> Unfortunately,
>> the plugin stopped working somewhat recently due to a change in the
>> security models in browsers (all major ones, as far as I know) where
>> loading an external file in the way MailMate enabled the plugin to do 
>> was
>> considered insecure and no longer allowed. The problem is explained 
>> by
>> Benny in this GitHub issue
>> <https://github.com/sheriferson/Visualize.mmBundle/issues/6#issuecomment-334471941>
>> .
>>
>> It seems that for this to work, MailMate (or the plugin) would need 
>> to
>> spin up a simple http server to be able to read the file generated by
>> MailMate.
>>
>> I am happy to put in some time/effort to make it work if Benny has an 
>> idea
>> — and needed bandwidth — to find an alternative and guide me to 
>> an extent :)
>>
>> Sherif
>>
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