Subj : Network messsage information missing
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Oct 24 2015 08:42 pm

 Re: Network messsage information missing
 By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Sat Oct 24 2015 05:49 pm

> Subject: Network messsage information missing
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>   Re: Network messsage information missing
>   By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Wed Oct 21 2015 02:02:19
>
>  >> Well, it seems that when I iterate through the header fields in
>  >> JavaScript, I'm not seeing all the same information that Synchronet's
>  >> built-in reader shows when I have it display the header information.
>  >> But I suppose I'll have to investigate more to be sure.
>
>  DM> All of the header fields should be available via JS. If you have an
>  DM> example of the discrepencies, please share. It's always possible that
>  DM> there is a bug somewhere, but we've had other JS-methods of displaying
>  DM> the header fields (event the old runemaster/WebUI has that ability) and
>  DM> scripts which convert them (e.g. to NNTP equivalents) and I've never
>  DM> noticed a problem with it. If you do continue to see a problem, please
>  DM> let me know. Thanks,
>
> I've looked into it a bit more, and I think I understand it a bit better.
> It looks like the field_list array in the header is meant to contain other
> arbitrary message header data.  It looks like the 'type' property of each
> object in field_list is a number, and the .data property is the information
> for that field.  Is there any documentation that lists the field types in
> the field_list and the numbers that they correspond to?

Yes, here: http://synchro.net/docs/smb.html#Header Field Types:

But note that the values are given in hexadecimal.

> It looks like 162
> is FTN seen-by and 163 is FTN path, but I've also seen 176 for some
> messages, and I'm not sure what that represents, or what other types might
> exist.

Yes, load/822header.js and load/newsutil.js contain a couple of references to
specific header field types that aren't other-wise represented as JS properties
of the message header.

                                           digital man

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