Re: fTelnet, websockify and SBBS
  By: Apam to Digital Man on Sun Aug 04 2019 02:52 pm

 >   Re: fTelnet, websockify and SBBS
 >   By: Digital Man to Apam on Sat Aug 03 2019 02:45 pm
 >
 >  > I could add an option to disable the SEND_LOCATION *request* during
 >  > answer, but completely disabling it doesn't really see like a good
 >  > option. Fixing the client(s) - assuming that's where the problem with the
 >  > option lies, would be better.
 >
 > Yeah, I'm not sure what's going on, I re-enabled it, and sometimes it works
 > sometimes it doesn't.
 >
 > When it doesn't work, the debugging log lists that it received a telnet set
 > location but the location is empty and turns up on the login prompt. When it
 > does work, the logging lists the location.
 >
 > I wondered if it's something like the response is sent over two packets
 > occasionally and synchronet is expecting it all at once? I don't know, my
 > assumption would be that synchronet can handle that situation.

Yeah, it should work even if every byte were a separate packet.

 > It doesn't matter too much, I might try and set it up to use rlogin instead,
 > otherwise people can press backspace a few times before entering their login
 > name ;P

Since you don't need it, an option to disable the location request would be a
good thing to have. In the mean-time, just commenting out that one line in
answer.cpp should work fine for ya too.

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