Subj : syncWXremix and Dial-up
To   : Digital Man
From : KenDB3
Date : 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 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 the IP
 DM> address of the BBS computer, or possibly 127.0.0.1 (I forget which). You
 DM> can programatically detect a SEXPOTS/dial-up connection by checking if
 DM> user.connection is a number (e.g. "28800") rather than a protocol string
 DM> (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 know how
 DM> 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();

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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/astronomy/ 
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).

~KenDB3

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