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Pastebin clipboard support

Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 22:41 | Category : Pastebin, Software Development

I had a feature suggestion to add a “copy to clipboard” link to pastebin.com. This was easy for IE, but I had a hard time getting Firefox to play ball. There’s an article at MozillaZine covering the issue, but I wasn’t able to get the technique to work. If anyone knows how, let me know!

I know clipboard access is a potential security vulnerability, but Firefox has the right idea in explicitly granting sites access to the clipboard rather than IE’s rather dumb “yeah, clipboard, here you go!” approach.

Anyway, for the time being, a bit of javascript during onload will figure out if your browser can do clipboard copies and will insert a “copy to clipboard” link when you’re looking at a post. Seems like a handy feature.

There’s also been a few bug fixes since the release a few days ago.

Download pastebin.tar.gz (130 KB)

6 Comments for “Pastebin clipboard support”

  1. 1Zachariah

    wrote on 27 April 2006 at 1:36

    Thank You Sir.
    :)

  2. 2Zachariah

    wrote on 27 April 2006 at 20:04

    lib\pastebin\pastebin.class.php

    line: 253
    $post['parent_diffurl']=$this->conf['this_script'].”diff=$pid”;

    to:
    $post['parent_diffurl']=$this->conf['this_script'].”?diff=$pid”;

  3. 3Zachariah

    wrote on 27 April 2006 at 20:07

    line 257 :o my mistake.

  4. 4lordelph

    wrote on 27 April 2006 at 20:18

    Thanks for that, I’d fixed on the live site this morning but not updated the downloadable package yet – will update that shortly.

  5. 5Jörn Nettingsmeier

    wrote on 4 June 2006 at 12:26

    i’ve seen the same problem with cut&paste not working in recent firefoxen, and all the suggested workarounds and user_pref() settings don’t seem to help… .(
    pity because i need it for a wysiwyg content editor in my apache lenya cms…

  6. 6Lilu_Gabriel

    wrote on 14 August 2008 at 16:37

    There is a software to download any video from YouTube called RipTiger (riptiger.com). IÂ’m running it for over a month and captured any video I was playing from internet on my computer 1 to 1.
    BTW, it’s possible to save up to 10 – 12 videos in parallel

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