Re: mothra ignores <br>, funky text entry

[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 13:08:10 -0500
sl@9front.org wrote:

> > > Have you verified that the forums in question are actually
> > > presenting a <br> and not something else?
> >
> > Right. What it's not parsing correctly is <br/>. It also doesn't parse
> > <hr/> although it parses <hr> correctly. Both errors can be seen at
> > http://ethan.uk.to/static/brtest.html
> 
> Note: I have not yet updated to the newest changes committed
> while I was asleep last night.
> 
> It seems <br> and <br /> were handled more ore less correctly,
> while <br/> was treated as what appears to be two spaces. It
> is true that multiple consecutive tags were treated as only one.

I think it was treated as nothing at all if there was no whitespace
between the tags. *nods*

> 
> term% webfs -d >[2]out
> term% hget http://ethan.uk.to/static/brtest.html
> hget: too many errors with no progress host unreachable
> term% cat out
> term% ip/ping -n 3 ethan.uk.to
> sending 3 64 byte messages 1000 ms apart to icmp!ethan.uk.to!1
> 0: rtt 163652 µs, avg rtt 163652 µs, ttl = 40
> 1: rtt 157109 µs, avg rtt 160380 µs, ttl = 40
> 2: rtt 140876 µs, avg rtt 153879 µs, ttl = 40

Yeah, Ethernet lead slipped out again. A couple more weeks & I'll get a
t61 and then I can stop trying to use my CPU server as a terminal.

-- 
This is obviously some strange usage of the 
word "simple" that I was previously unaware of.