>
> Hi:
> I've just discovered that Netscape has stopped reading any
> newsgroups beacuse nntpcache has encountered an illegal char
> in one of the newsgroup names -- alt.children's-camps
>
> These messages appear in the syslog file whenever I try
> to read another newsgroup:
>
> Sep 26 19:44:33 gondor ./nntpcached[4282]: sockets.c:326: <- GROUP alt.children's-camps
> Sep 26 19:44:33 gondor ./nntpcached[4282]: article.c:28:Illegal seek: group name contained suspect characters
>
> Unfortunately, after that netscape again started to
> make all messages read in uncached remote groups. Closing and
> reopening the netscape news window didn't seem to help.
Looks like I was a bit ruthless in the newsgroup name conformity ;)
In article.c you can change the following:
X (bool safeGroup (char *s))
{
if (strspn(s, ".abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890_-+=") == strlen(s))
return TRUE;
logw (("group name contained suspect characters"));
return FALSE;
}
and
X (bool safePath (char *s))
{
if (strstr(s, "../"))
{
logw (("path contained ../"));
return FALSE;
}
if (strspn(s, ".abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890_-/+=") != strlen(s))
{
logw (("path contained suspect characters"));
return FALSE;
}
return TRUE;
}
To reflect the '
--
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims
may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons
than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may
sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who
torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with
the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_
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