Subj : strange things, {at}synchronet sites
To : Alan Ianson
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Sun Nov 08 2020 11:01 pm
Re: strange things, {at}synchronet sites
By: Alan Ianson to August Abolins on Sun Nov 08 2020 09:45 pm
> Re: strange things, {at}synchronet sites
> By: August Abolins to Alan Ianson on Mon Nov 09 2020 05:31 am
>
> AA> Revisiting trmb.ca, when I hover over the "File Libraries", it just
> AA> shows "
ftp://trmb.ca" ..and never loads anything.
>
> There is only one file area at trmb.ca right now. I'll get that fixed up
> soonish. I have to take it offline for a time and work on another issue not
> BBS related. Hopefully I'll have it up and running smoothly in a week or
> two.
>
> AA> The link is the same thing at vert, but after what seems like a long
> AA> time, ultimately the 00index.html content loads. But some of the
> AA> navigation to other pages seems broken and fails.
>
> I think most browsers have dropped or will drop support for loading html
> from ftp sites.
>
> AA> Also, sometimes when I click on [Message Groups], I get this:
>
>
> AA> /* $Id: index.ssjs,v 1.10 2006/02/25 21:41:08 runemaster Exp $ */
>
> AA> load("../web/lib/msgslib.ssjs");
>
> AA> template.title="Message Groups on " +system.name;
>
> AA> if(do_header)
> AA> write_template("header.inc");
> AA> if(do_topnav)
> AA> load(topnav_html);
> AA> if(do_leftnav)
> AA> load(leftnav_html);
> AA> if(do_rightnav)
> AA> write_template("rightnav.inc");
>
> AA> template.groups=msg_area.grp_list;
>
> AA> ETC..
>
> I've seen that happen too from time to time but I'm not sure why.
>
> AA> FYI, I am doing this from my replacement laptop: Win7, Firefox 82.0.2
> AA> 64bit.
>
> My firefox on slackware is 68.?.?. I suspect as we move up in versions I'll
> be having trouble with ftp also but haven't noticed yet.
>
> I'm thinking of using webv4 with Synchronet. That'll solve any ftp issues
> since it uses all http rather than ftp. ftp should still work I think, just
> no 00index.html support in most browsers.
Sounds like maybe you're missing this update to the legacy Synchronet web UI:
https://gitlab.synchro.net/sbbs/sbbs/-/commit/f2cd3bfe543033032a3de02c
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