From 30927ad7741ac0959e0b19ec994ed1521cb86b71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rswindell <>
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:20:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Supports command lines and responses up to 4 Kbytes per line
(8 times the max specified in RFCs).
---
exec/newslink.js | 14 ++++++--------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/exec/newslink.js b/exec/newslink.js
index 0790ee25c7..2be1d6487d 100644
--- a/exec/newslink.js
+++ b/exec/newslink.js
@@ -106,11 +106,12 @@ function writeln(str)
write(str + "\r\n");
}
-function readln(len)
+// RFC977 and RFC3977 clearly state 512-bytes per response line,
+// but "Timelord" reported a problem with some news server sending
+// > 512-byte response lines for the XOVER command
+function readln()
{
- if(!len)
- len=512; // RFC977 and RFC3977 specify a maximum of 512-octets per response line
- rsp = socket.recvline(len);
+ rsp = socket.recvline(4096);
if(debug)
printf("rsp: %s\r\n",rsp);
return(rsp);
@@ -545,10 +546,7 @@ for(i in area) {
if(parseInt(readln())==224) {
printf("Getting headers for articles %u through %u\r\n", ptr, last_msg);
article_list = new Array();
- // RFC977 and RFC3977 clearly state 512-bytes per response line,
- // but "Timelord" reported a problem with some news server sending
- // > 512-byte response lines for the XOVER command
- while((rsp=readln(1024))!='.' && socket.is_connected && !js.terminated) {
+ while((rsp=readln())!='.' && socket.is_connected && !js.terminated) {
if(rsp)
article_list.push(parseInt(rsp));
maybe_yield();
--
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