Re: User-Agent header: indicate system-type?

[Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net>]

Frank Schmitt <Azzrael@rz-online.de> writes:
 
>>Huh?  I can't see anything wrong with the line when I look at the
>>USEFOR article EBNF.  Does it complain if you replace "i586-pc-win32"
>>with "xxxxxxxxxxxxx"?  Maybe it is the line width?
>
>>Do you have source code to the news server?  Maybe you can have a look
>>to see what the error really means.
>
>Just had a short look. It seems that's a bug in the newsserver. I
>posted it to the appropriate group and hope it's fixed soon. The only
>thing which really amazes me is that I can send an article with the
>same header from an other newsreader (xnews) without problems.
>
>Well, let's see what the maintainers (of hamster) say.

It's fixed in the source now. (The problem were the additional
whitespaces, which were stripped somewhere as a sideeffect and then
hamster failed in finding the original header (because it was modified)
and searched over the end of the headers list.)

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