Hi,

I've had a look at FreqIT, so that other systems can request files from my BBS via BinkP.

As the wiki page states, it is possible to define a "MAGIC" eg. for being able to request the latest nodelist using a wildcard as the 'real' filename.
So eg. a magic called "NODELIST" can be set to "NODELIST.*" in a file area.

But if I eg. have a file area where not only the latest nodelist is stored but also older ones, how does the magic react to this?
If I've undestood the JavaScript source freqit_common.js in 3.18b correctly, I would get *all* nodelist files, is this correct?

Can FreqIT be configured to only send out the latest file for a wildcard?

Thank you!

Regards,
Anna

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Re: FreqIT magic question
By: acn to All on Thu Aug 05 2021 04:11 pm

Hi,

I've had a look at FreqIT, so that other systems can request files from my BBS via BinkP.

As the wiki page states, it is possible to define a "MAGIC" eg. for being able to request the latest nodelist using a wildcard as the 'real' filename. So eg. a magic called "NODELIST" can be set to "NODELIST.*" in a file area.

But if I eg. have a file area where not only the latest nodelist is stored but also older ones, how does the magic react to this?
If I've undestood the JavaScript source freqit_common.js in 3.18b correctly, I would get *all* nodelist files, is this correct?

Looking at the current freqit_common.js myself, it appears it would return the *latest* file matching the pattern associated with the magic word.

Can FreqIT be configured to only send out the latest file for a wildcard?

Looks to me like that's how it already works:
if (file === undefined || fent.uldate > file.uldate)
file = fent;
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Hi dm,

Looking at the current freqit_common.js myself, it appears it would return the *latest* file matching the pattern associated with the magic word.

Okay, then I have to apologize.

Looks to me like that's how it already works:
if (file === undefined || fent.uldate > file.uldate)
file = fent;

I was mislead by the forEach statement two lines above these.

So it's working just as I like it.
Cool, thank you!

Regards,
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Hi dm,

I've set up FreqIT with the following freqit.ini using freqitcfg.js:

----<freqit.ini>
MaxFiles=10
Dirs=weednet_nodelist

[WEEDNODE]
Dir=weednet_nodelist
Secure=No
----</freqit.ini>

In the filebase, several files are available in this directory:

-rw-r--r-- 1 bbs bbs 1497 Jul 27 13:48 WEEDNET.Z04
-rw-r--r-- 1 bbs bbs 1497 Jul 30 11:12 WEEDNET.Z11
-rw-r--r-- 1 bbs bbs 1497 Aug 6 11:44 WEEDNET.Z18
-rw-r--r-- 1 bbs bbs 1497 Aug 13 07:00 WEEDNET.Z25
-rw-r--r-- 1 bbs bbs 1498 Jun 21 15:43 WEEDNET.Z76

If I request eg. "WEEDNET.Z25" from my OpenXP point, the file is sent to my point.
But if I request "WEEDNODE" from my point, nothing is sent.

Have I made a mistake?
How can I debug this behaviour?
I don't see any output in sbbs.log from FreqIT...

Thank you!

Regards,
Anna

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Hello acn,

[WEEDNODE]
Dir=weednet_nodelist
Secure=No
----</freqit.ini>

I think you need to add a match statement here, something like..

Match=WEEDNET*.ZIP

Or something similar..

Ttyl :-),
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Hello acn,

I think you need to add a match statement here, something like..

Match=WEEDNET*.ZIP

Actually..

Match=WEEDNET.Z*

might work better.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Hi Al,

Match=WEEDNET.Z*
might work better.

Thank you for your suggestion.

I've added it so that my freqit.ini looks like this:

----<freqit.ini>
MaxFiles=10
Dirs=weednet_nodelist

[WEEDNODE]
Dir=weednet_nodelist
Secure=No
Match=WEEDNET.*
----</freqit.ini>

But the result stays the same - I don't get any files...

Is it possible that there is some uppercase/lowercase problem?

Regards,
Anna

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Re: FreqIT magic question
By: acn to Al on Fri Aug 20 2021 17:58:17

I've added it so that my freqit.ini looks like this:

----<freqit.ini>
MaxFiles=10
Dirs=weednet_nodelist

[WEEDNODE]
Dir=weednet_nodelist
Secure=No
Match=WEEDNET.*
----</freqit.ini>

Hey Anna, You might want to try using the full path to the files location, it may just not be able to find the file in the path.
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Hello acn,

Match=WEEDNET.Z*
might work better.

Thank you for your suggestion.

I've added it so that my freqit.ini looks like this:

----<freqit.ini>
MaxFiles=10
Dirs=weednet_nodelist

[WEEDNODE]
Dir=weednet_nodelist
Secure=No
Match=WEEDNET.*
----</freqit.ini>

But the result stays the same - I don't get any files...

Hmm. I wonder why that is? I just requested nodelist and z1daily from my synchronet system and in both cases I got the files I was expecting.

Is it possible that there is some uppercase/lowercase problem?

I'm not sure but I'll include my freqit.ini below so you can see if there is anything different. I deleted the Dirs= and SecureDirs= lines.


==== Begin: "freqit.ini" ====
; Global Keys:
; Dirs: Comma-separated list of BBS directories to allow FREQing from.
; SecureDirs: As with Dirs, but only if it is a secure session.
; MaxFiles: The max files that can be FREQed in a single request.
;
; Magic words...
; Each section name is a magic word. Magic sections support the following:
; Dir: REQUIRED. The file directory to search for the file.
; Secure: Boolean... if true, only available on secure sessions.
; Match: A wildcard to identify the file. The most recently uploaded match
; to this will be returned.

;Dirs=BBS
;SecureDirs=Uploads
MaxFiles=100

;[Synchronet]
;Dir=BBS
;Secure=No
;Match=sbbs*.zip
[fidonews]
Dir=fido-fidonews
Secure=No
Match=FNEW*.ZIP
[nodelist]
Dir=fido-nodelist
Secure=No
Match=NODELIST.Z*
[z1daily]
Dir=fido-nodelist
Secure=No
Match=Z1DAILY.Z*
==== End: "freqit.ini" ====

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Hi Al,

I've changed it according to your .ini file to:

----<freqit.ini>
;SecureDirs=Uploads
MaxFiles=100
Dirs=weednet_nodelist

[weednode]
Dir=weednet_nodelist
Secure=No
Match=WEEDNET.Z*

[weedinfo]
Dir=weednet_infopack
Secure=No
Match=*
----</freqit.ini>

But it still does not work :-(
Is your SBBS running on Linux? Which version of SBBS are you using?
Could you try to request eg. WEEDNET.Z32 as one file and/or WEEDNODE as a magic?
My fido node is 2:240/5824.

Thank you!

Regards,
Anna

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Hello acn,

But it still does not work :-(

It worked for me! :)

Is your SBBS running on Linux? Which version of SBBS are you using?
Could you try to request eg. WEEDNET.Z32 as one file and/or WEEDNODE
as a magic? My fido node is 2:240/5824.

I did request WEEDNET.Z32 and got WEEDNET.Z32 and weednode and I got back WEEDNET.Z32 also.

I also requested weedinfo and got wn_info.zip.

Looks OK to me.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Hi Al,

It worked for me! :)
I did request WEEDNET.Z32 and got WEEDNET.Z32 and weednode and I got back WEEDNET.Z32 also.
I also requested weedinfo and got wn_info.zip.
Looks OK to me.

Oh?! Okay. Then there is a problem in OpenXP's way of requesting files.
That's strange.

Did you request "weednode" or "WEEDNODE"? Do both variants work from your side? Could you check this?

Thank you very much!

Regards,
Anna

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Hello acn,

Oh?! Okay. Then there is a problem in OpenXP's way of requesting
files. That's strange.

I have a point here running OpenXP and he has requested the nodelist or similar here once in a while. I don't know how well or easy that is for him.

Did you request "weednode" or "WEEDNODE"? Do both variants work from
your side? Could you check this?

I believe I tried both. I don't think the request setup is case sensitive.

I tried it with both upper and lower case just now and both times I got back WEEDNET.Z39.

Thank you very much!

No worries.. any time.

Ttyl :-),
Al
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Hello Al!

18 Aug 2021 02:37, Al wrote to acn:

Hello acn,

I think you need to add a match statement here, something like..

Match=WEEDNET*.ZIP

Actually..

Match=WEEDNET.Z*

might work better.

one big iso file for all nodelists :)

hopefully no fidonet node share iso files


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