Subj : syncWXremix and Dial-up
To   : Digital Man
From : KenDB3
Date : Thu Jan 07 2016 01:22 am

  Re: syncWXremix and Dial-up
  By: Digital Man to KenDB3 on Wed Jan 06 2016 10:12 pm

 DM> Re: syncWXremix and Dial-up
 DM> By: KenDB3 to Digital Man on Wed Jan 06 2016 10:23 pm

 > DM>> Re: Re: Sync Weather App - syncWXremix
 > DM>> By: KenDB3 to tbirdsradio on Fri Jan 01 2016 08:11 am

 > >>> Re: Re: Sync Weather App - syncWXremix
 > >>> By: tbirdsradio to KenDB3 on Thu Dec 31 2015 09:34 am

 > > tb>>> Once again i got ahead of myself. Dial up user phoned in and
 > > tb>>> received this error:

 > > tb>>> "Error in weather.js api.underground.com returned a
 > > tb>>> 'querynotfound' error with this description. 'No cities match
 > > tb>>> your 
 >> search query'."
 > > tb>>> Do i have the above right?

 > >>> That's all correct. I just didn't account for dial-up users. Mainly
 > >>> because I don't have any dial-up access, it didn't really dawn on
me. 
 > >>> Can anyone shed some light on how I might test for this scenario?
 > >>> I'm guessing the user's IP comes up as undefined in this case?

 > DM>> Assuming the BBS is using SEXPOTS, the user's IP address should be
 > DM>> the IP address of the BBS computer, or possibly 127.0.0.1 (I
 > DM>> forget which). You can programatically detect a SEXPOTS/dial-up
 > DM>> connection by checking if user.connection is a number (e.g.
 > DM>> "28800") rather than a protocol string (e.g. "Telnet").

 > DM>> Something like this:
 > DM>> var dialup = (parseInt(user.connection) > 0);

 > DM>> At least, I think would work (without actually trying it). Let me
 > DM>> know how it works for you,

 >> DM, I was hoping you might be able to help point me in the right
 >> direction on  this. tbirdsradio had a chance to try out the new
 >> version from GitHub that used
 >> this bit of code (but had no luck):

 >> var dialup = (parseInt(user.connection) > 0);

 >> function getQuerySuffix() {
 >> var qs;
 >> if (dialup === 'true')
 >> {
 >> if (fallback_type == 'nonip') {
 >> qs = fallback + '.json';
 >> } else {
 >> qs = 'autoip.json?geo_ip=' + resolve_ip(system.inet_addr);
 >> }
 >> } else if (user.ip_address.search(
 >> /(^127\.)|(^192\.168\.)|(^10\.)|(^172
 >> \.1[6-9]\.)|(^172\.2[0-9]\.)|(^172\.3[0-1]
 >> \.)|(^169\.254\.)|(^::1$)|(^[fF][cCdD])/ ) > -1
 >> ) {
 >> if (fallback_type == 'nonip') {
 >> qs = fallback + '.json';
 >> } else {
 >> if (client.protocol === 'Telnet') {
 >> qs = wstsGetIPAddress();
 >> } else if (bbs.sys_status&SS_RLOGIN) {
 >> qs = wsrsGetIPAddress();
 >> }
 >> if (typeof qs === 'undefined') qs = resolve_ip(system.inet_addr);
 >> qs = 'autoip.json?geo_ip=' + qs;
 >> }
 >> } else {
 >> qs = 'autoip.json?geo_ip=' + user.ip_address;
 >> }
 >> return qs;
 >> }

 >> var wungrndQuery = getQuerySuffix();

 >> **********

 >> However, tbird is still seeing an error when the app is launched at
 >> Logon and  also as a Door/External for his dial-up user.

 >> DEBUG for weather.js API call looked like this at the time of error:
 >> http://
 >> api.wunderground.com/api/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/conditions/forecast/astronom
y/ alerts/q/autoip.json?geo_ip=812XXXXXXX 
 >> (Blocked out API and last 7 of phone number).

 >> Any thoughts as to why I am missing catching this scenario? It's got
 >> me boggled
 >> and I can't really see it.

 >> Thanks for any help you can lend (and sorry for the long post).

 DM> For a dial-up connection (via SEXPOTS), the user.ip_address property could
 DM> either the caller-ID information (if provided by the modem) or the IP
 DM> address of the SEXPOTS proxy (e.g. 127.0.0.1).

 DM> Is dialup not being set to true (in your code) for the dial-up connection?

 DM> Some more debug-level log output could help identify exactly what's
 DM> happening here.

Good point, I don't know what's happening to "dialup" during this process. I
do know that the phone number is being dropped into user.ip_address and that's
where the query string is failing. I'm just not catching it. I'll add some
DEBUG to grab "dialup" and I think user.connection as well. 

Thanks DM!

~KenDB3

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