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
 > @MSGID: <562C2726.2022.dove_sync_js@digitaldistortionbbs.com>
 > @REPLY: <5627549B.2032.sync-js@vert.synchro.net>
 > @TZ: c1e0
 >   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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