Re: [Lynx-dev] -dump/-source vrs .newsauth: bug or feature?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 13 May 2009, address@hidden wrote:

> > ...........
> >
> > good.
> >
> > I have a handful of other fixes to investigate for pre.3 (have been
> > busy on other projects...), and will have this in pre.3
> >
> > .............
> >
> > --
> > Thomas E. Dickey
> > http://invisible-island.net
> > ftp://invisible-island.net
>
> Anything I can do (test?) to help on the .newsauth problem?

It should be reading the file in WWW/Library/Implementation/HTNews.c
around line 175:

    LYAddPathToHome(fname, sizeof(fname), NEWS_AUTH_FILE);

    if ((fp = fopen(fname, "r")) != 0) {

I had in mind to add

        CTRACE((tfp, "Reading authentication file %s\n", fname));

before the fopen, just so it's clear what's read.  Something like

diff -u -r1.59 HTNews.c
--- HTNews.c    2009/05/10 22:53:23     1.59
+++ HTNews.c    2009/05/14 00:53:47
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@
     LYAddPathToHome(fname, sizeof(fname), NEWS_AUTH_FILE);

     if ((fp = fopen(fname, "r")) != 0) {
+       CTRACE((tfp, "loading NNTP authinfo \"%s\"\n", fname));
        while (fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), fp) != 0) {
            char the_host[LINE_LENGTH + 1];
            char the_pass[LINE_LENGTH + 1];
@@ -190,10 +191,16 @@
                StrAllocCopy(auth->pass, the_pass);
                StrAllocCopy(auth->user, the_user);

+               CTRACE((tfp,
+                       "adding authinfo host=\"%s\" user=\"%s\" pass=\"%s\"\n",
+                       the_host, the_pass, the_user));
+
                HTList_appendObject(NNTP_AuthInfo, auth);
            }
        }
        fclose(fp);
+    } else {
+       CTRACE((tfp, "did not find NNTP authinfo \"%s\"\n", fname));
     }
 }

It could be reading the file properly, but not using - there are several
uses of NNTP_AuthInfo scattered around in the file...

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Thomas E. Dickey
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