Subj : Re: newsutil.js - content
To   : Ash-Fox
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Nov 20 2007 05:34 pm

  Re: Re: newsutil.js - content
  By: Ash-Fox to Digital Man on Tue Nov 20 2007 07:14 pm

 > Digital Man wrote:
 > 
 > >
 > > I'm not really sure what to suggest in that case. <shrug>
 > >
 > 
 > Well after a bit of thinking, I came up with this code, which appears to
 > work well. It's a bit of hack though, and I'm not sure if this logic does
 > enough to determine a message came from usenet.
 > 
 >         if(content_type==undefined) {
 >                 //Check that we're not from Fidonet
 >                 if(hdr.ftn_area==undefined) {
 >                         //If we don't have a ftn, we're likely not from usen
 >                         if(hdr.ftn_pid==undefined) { content_type_header(); 
 >                 }
 >                 //We're from fidonet, need a header.
 >                 else { content_type_header(); }
 >         }
 > }
 > 
 > function content_type_header()
 > {
 >         /* No content-type specified, so assume IBM code-page 437 (full ex-A
 > */
 >         writeln("Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437");
 >         writeln("Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit");
 > }
 > 
 > Do you think I need to add any other checks?

The correct way to check if a message came from a network (any network) is to
see if hdr.from_net_type!=NET_NONE. If you specifically want to see if the
message came from the Internet (e.g. USENET), then check if
hdr.from_net_type==NET_INTERNET.

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