[Noffle-devel] [ noffle-Bugs-756585 ] Noffle cannot handle @ in the username

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Bugs item #756585, was opened at 2003-06-18 14:24
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Steve Lamb (greydmiyu)
Assigned to: Jim Hague (bears)
Summary: Noffle cannot handle @ in the username

Initial Comment:
My ISP outsources news to Supernews.  My login through
that route is use...@is... and not just
username.  Noffle cannot handle that in the
configuration file.

root@teleute:/etc/news# noffle -q news.foobar.com
Unknown argument -q news.foobar.com
Fetch from 'news.foobar.com'
Connected to 216.168.3.50:119
Fetch from 'news.foobar.com' finished

If I place quotes around the username the quotes are
sent to the remote side.

root@teleute:/etc/news# vim noffle.conf
root@teleute:/etc/news# noffle -q news.foobar.com
Unknown argument -q news.foobar.com
Fetch from 'news.foobar.com'
Connected to 216.168.3.50:119
Password rejected. Server status: 502 no permission (no
match for 'ex...@fo...')
Connection to remote server lost (article numbers could
be inconsistent)
Fetch from 'news.foobar.com' finished

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>Comment By: Jim Hague (bears)
Date: 2003-06-18 16:20

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=184

Thanks for the bug report.

I don't see the problem here. Or not the problem you're
describing, at any rate.

Noffle can't cope if the username contains a space or tab,
and if that becomes a problem I'll need to update the config
file parser to cope with quoted strings. But in this case
your login seems to be working pefectly.

The 'Unknown argument -q news.foobar.com' message is because
you have the command wrong.  It should be either 'noffle -q
groups news.foobar.com' or 'noffle -q desc news.foobar.com'.
There *is* a bug in the code here; if neither is given
Noffle should just stop. But I stuffed up, so in fact it
continues after issuing the error and connects to the
server, logging in successfully in the first instance, and
then disconnects without actually fetching anything. I'll
fix this soon.

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