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Well, I'm currently working on bug-154. I plan on posting a full walkthrough when I'm done... but for now I'm still banging my head against it.
It seemed at first like a rather trivial thing, but after a few nights of work, and quite a few hours of sleep lost over it, I learned better.
Yesterday evening I managed to find where the ?replyto pages are generated, or at least I think I did. At the time of this writing I'm pretty convinced they're created through talkpost.bml, passing the 'replyto' argument to the $init variable (I'm not by my private server, so can't really be sure what this variable points at, but it should be easy enough to find out).
I think it's mostly taking me so long because looking for stuff in the DW code is a rather messy process with which I'm not yet fully familiar - and talkpost.bml specifically is a monstrosity beyond words. I'm told it's going to be overhauled, or better yet - completely replaced - soon.
Just before I went to sleep, I decided to do a CVS update - mostly to clean all the debugging crap I've been putting in the code through my attempts to try and figure stuff out. But the hour was late, and I wasn't thinking straight - so I ended up vanila-ing my server. Shouldn't be too hard to fix, but I definitely took that as a "time to go to bed" sign.
Lesson learned: don't do major codehack steps when you're not fully awake. Or well - who am I kidding, lesson-not-learned-for-the-hundredth-time.
I'll keep at it during the weekend, hopefully I'll make some progress.
After I get it done (and post the walkthrough), I plan on posting a tutorial here regarding my torrent downloading setup at home (rtorrent+GNU Screen+a perl Email fetching and parsing script).
For now though, after I got this out of my system - back to the stuff they pay me for: delving through IGMP and OMCI.
It seemed at first like a rather trivial thing, but after a few nights of work, and quite a few hours of sleep lost over it, I learned better.
Yesterday evening I managed to find where the ?replyto pages are generated, or at least I think I did. At the time of this writing I'm pretty convinced they're created through talkpost.bml, passing the 'replyto' argument to the $init variable (I'm not by my private server, so can't really be sure what this variable points at, but it should be easy enough to find out).
I think it's mostly taking me so long because looking for stuff in the DW code is a rather messy process with which I'm not yet fully familiar - and talkpost.bml specifically is a monstrosity beyond words. I'm told it's going to be overhauled, or better yet - completely replaced - soon.
Just before I went to sleep, I decided to do a CVS update - mostly to clean all the debugging crap I've been putting in the code through my attempts to try and figure stuff out. But the hour was late, and I wasn't thinking straight - so I ended up vanila-ing my server. Shouldn't be too hard to fix, but I definitely took that as a "time to go to bed" sign.
Lesson learned: don't do major codehack steps when you're not fully awake. Or well - who am I kidding, lesson-not-learned-for-the-hundredth-time.
I'll keep at it during the weekend, hopefully I'll make some progress.
After I get it done (and post the walkthrough), I plan on posting a tutorial here regarding my torrent downloading setup at home (rtorrent+GNU Screen+a perl Email fetching and parsing script).
For now though, after I got this out of my system - back to the stuff they pay me for: delving through IGMP and OMCI.
