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warrimoo · 05-30-2020, 01:03 AM

Hi,

I could be missing a pre-existing option somewhere but would it be possible to scan the library for ebooks that contain links that refer outside the current book? Ideally as a requested scan within the quality checker, but also as a selectable action on the 'control the adding of books' dialog.

I recently encountered an ebook with a link to a now defunct Yahoo based page/image ( https://ad.yieldmanager.com/st?ad_ty...section=280303 ) that would probably have been used for advertising/usage tracking. Every time I viewed the book or a htm file within the book it opened a new browser window to report the page could not be found. Samples of this type of linking can be found in this epub at ( https://epdf.pub/the-complete-nero-wolfe.html )

Aside from the pain of the random page openings and needing to edit the files to remove the links, it seems to me that this could be a security weakness if people aren't aware of the possibility of links.

Of course, some books will be published with planned links to reference sources so the behaviour after discovery might need to be left to the user. But maybe an option to disable the links that are found could be useful or to tag the book in the metadata for later review.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

05-30-2020, 01:03 AM	#998
warrimoo Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2020 Device: Apple Shubook app	Link quality check Hi, I could be missing a pre-existing option somewhere but would it be possible to scan the library for ebooks that contain links that refer outside the current book? Ideally as a requested scan within the quality checker, but also as a selectable action on the 'control the adding of books' dialog. I recently encountered an ebook with a link to a now defunct Yahoo based page/image ( https://ad.yieldmanager.com/st?ad_ty...section=280303 ) that would probably have been used for advertising/usage tracking. Every time I viewed the book or a htm file within the book it opened a new browser window to report the page could not be found. Samples of this type of linking can be found in this epub at ( https://epdf.pub/the-complete-nero-wolfe.html ) Aside from the pain of the random page openings and needing to edit the files to remove the links, it seems to me that this could be a security weakness if people aren't aware of the possibility of links. Of course, some books will be published with planned links to reference sources so the behaviour after discovery might need to be left to the user. But maybe an option to disable the links that are found could be useful or to tag the book in the metadata for later review. Thoughts? Thanks.