[KA9Q] feature of ASCII socket EOL translation

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From: Graham E Kinns
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 00:00

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Don't know how many versions of KA9Q this applies to but something
I've noticed - a couple of news articles posted via DejaNews have
arrived with an extra \r tagged onto the end of the References: header
so that the line arrives as

  References: <...>\r\r\n

In sockuser.c, recvchar() just throws away the next character when the
current one matches the first char of the EOL sequence (\r\n for an
ASCII TCP socket) - so it actually returns \n twice.  That extra blank
line effectively moves the rest of the header into the article body.
This could also effect mail messages and other protocols in similar
circumstances.

Cheers, Graham.
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From: Graham E Kinns <Graham@grempc.demon.co.uk>
Subject: [KA9Q] feature of ASCII socket EOL translation
Date: 1997/02/13
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