Hallo all,
On 28/12/2022 14:23, Bernhard Bitsch wrote:
Hello,
Am 28.12.2022 um 13:47 schrieb Michael Tremer:
Hello,
I am not entirely sure whether this is a change that I can approve of or not.
On 19 Dec 2022, at 09:54, Adolf Belka adolf.belka@ipfire.org wrote:
- The check for validwildcarddomainname did not allow wildcards of
the form *.ipfire.org* which is the example given on the proxy.cgi page for excluded url's for the wpad file.
- A forum user sufferred from this problem and the bug was raised for
it.
https://community.ipfire.org/t/proxy-cgi-error-message-when-use-wildcard-in-... forum user has tested the patch change and confirmed it solves the problem.
I find it a little bit less than optimal that a user has to consider where this string goes that they enter. They should not really care about whether it goes to squid.conf which uses a different syntax than wpad.
Users should have one universal language across the distribution and nothing else. I realise that we don’t do that too well, but at least on the same page, we should have a unified syntax.
Instead, we should add an extra * if it is needed so that the user does not have to mind.
Is that an option in this case?
I think this is right. I didn't bother about the usage, when suggesting the modified regular expression syntax. The values ( language in theoretical terms of RE ) should be equal for all usages of domainnames. I know this isn't true in our software (for other names, also). I think it's time to review this collection of functions ( general-functions.pl, header.pl, network.pl, ... ). This may be done by a general revision ( a great work ;) ) or by stepwise corrections during working on functionalities using these modules.
Just my opinion.
So what do I need to do.
-Close the patch and wait for someone to do the larger fix to all functions. - Just change this function but then what needs to be changed in it.
I am not familiar enough with Regular Expressions to know how to add an extra * if it is needed so that the user does not have to do it.
Someone needs to help me with a suggestion about this or else someone else needs to pick up this bug and associated patch.
Regards, Adolf.
Bernhard
-Michael
Fixes: Bug#12937 Suggested-by: Bernhard Bitsch bbitsch@ipfire.org Signed-off-by: Adolf Belka adolf.belka@ipfire.org
config/cfgroot/general-functions.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/config/cfgroot/general-functions.pl b/config/cfgroot/general-functions.pl index 98bedb4b9..06c160e05 100644 --- a/config/cfgroot/general-functions.pl +++ b/config/cfgroot/general-functions.pl @@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ sub validwildcarddomainname($) { my $domainname = shift;
# Ignore any leading dots
- if ($domainname =~ m/^*.(.*)/) {
- if ($domainname =~ m/^*.([^*]*)*?/
$domainname = $1; }
-- 2.39.0