From 2dd448f0e08d8d0ffa5adbff40298dd80c72a8d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rswindell <>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:37:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Special finger requests can now be triggered with '.' (e.g.
".ver@yourbbs") since some finger gateways (e.g. finger.cgi) don't like the
'?'.
---
exec/fingerservice.js | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/exec/fingerservice.js b/exec/fingerservice.js
index 7770d9f9c4..7fbd0ae49a 100644
--- a/exec/fingerservice.js
+++ b/exec/fingerservice.js
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ if(findfile && 0) { // What is this supposed to do?
// MODIFICATION BY MERLIN PART 1 ENDS HERE
-if(request.charAt(0)=='?') { // Handle "special" requests
+if(request.charAt(0)=='?' || request.charAt(0)=='.') { // Handle "special" requests
request=request.slice(1);
switch(request.toLowerCase()) {
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ if(request.charAt(0)=='?') { // Handle "special" requests
send_file(system.data_dir + "finger/" + file_getname(request));
break;
}
- writeln("Supported special requests (prepended with '?'):");
+ writeln("Supported special requests (prepended with '?' or '.'):");
writeln("\tver");
writeln("\ttime");
writeln("\tstats");
--
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