[Refdb-users] problem updating reference with web interface

[Martin V. <mar...@ur...>]

Hi all,

updating a reference with the web interface seems not to work if you are
using a browser on a MsWindows environment. I looked into the logfile of
refdbc and saw that the CGI data contained "%0D%0A", i.e. DOS-like line
breaks, whereas refdb only wants UNIX-like line breaks. The following
quick-and-dirty hack works for me:

refdb-0.9.2/src/cgi.c, function static void unescape_url(char* url):
Change the line
<---------------
url[x] = x2c(&url[y+1]);
---------------->
to
<---------------
 if ((url[x] = x2c(&url[y+1])) == 0x0D)
 {
   x--;
 }
---------------->

but I don't know about MacOS line break coding and there sure is a better
way to deal with this problem.

Regards
Martin