lynx-dev bug and patch for excluded dirs in reject.dat

[Brian S Queen]

I recently found a problem with the reject.dat mechanism for excluding
directories during crawls.  The docs mention putting lines like:

http://www.serv1.com/cgi-bin/*

in reject.dat to exclude all such link from a traversal.  I found it was
not working.  In particular I was trying to exclude all user dirs from
my traversal with this line in reject.dat:

http://www.server2.com/~*

Anyway I poked around in the code and made the following patch which seems
to have fixed it up.

Brian McQueen
NASA/Ames
NAS Division

%%% Created Thu Aug  9 14:47:03 PDT 2001 by target lynx.patch. %%%
diff -bru orig/lynx2-8-4/src/LYTraversal.c lynx2-8-4/src/LYTraversal.c
--- orig/lynx2-8-4/src/LYTraversal.c    Thu Dec 21 18:44:11 2000
+++ lynx2-8-4/src/LYTraversal.c Thu Aug  9 14:46:16 2001
@@ -153,9 +153,9 @@
     while (LYSafeGets(&buffer, ifp) != NULL && !result) {
        len = strlen(buffer);
        if (len > 0) {     /* if not an empty line */
-           if (buffer[len-1] == '*') {
+           if (buffer[len-2] == '*') {
                /* if last char is * and the rest of the chars match */
-               if ((len == 1) || (strncmp(line,buffer,len - 1) == 0)) {
+               if ((len == 1) || (strncmp(line,buffer,len - 2) == 0)) {
                    result = TRUE;
                }
            } else {

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