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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 10 May 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Sun, 10 May 2009, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > > Another problem with reading news is that I can
> > > look at messages with w3m at textnews.news.cambrium.nl,
> > > but trying the same with lynx, I can get the list of messages,
> > > but trying to look at a specific message produces:
> > >
> > > Network Error: connection lost
> >
> > I see this too - sounds like a bug...
>
> A quick check with strace shows me that lynx does get a valid response, and 
> then (for some reason...) closes the connection
>
> 4377  18:33:40 read(3, "220 0 <address@hidden>

The problem is from the SSL patch which I applied in 2001 (it just happens
that the result from reading the news article contains a rubout 255 
code, which is being sign-extended to a -1, which lynx then sees as an
EOF - end of file).

Here's a fix:

--- WWW/Library/Implementation/HTNews.c 2009/01/01 17:00:01     1.58
+++ WWW/Library/Implementation/HTNews.c 2009/05/10 22:53:23
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
        (Handle ? SSL_write(Handle, buff, size) : NETWRITE(sock, buff, size))
 #define NEWS_NETCLOSE(sock) \
        { (void)NETCLOSE(sock); if (Handle) { SSL_free(Handle); Handle = NULL; }
 }
-static char HTNewsGetCharacter(void);
+static int HTNewsGetCharacter(void);

 #define NEXT_CHAR HTNewsGetCharacter()
 #else
@@ -3044,7 +3044,7 @@
 }

 #ifdef USE_SSL
-static char HTNewsGetCharacter(void)
+static int HTNewsGetCharacter(void)
 {
     if (!Handle)
        return HTGetCharacter();


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