bug in gnatsweb-site.pl

[Dirk Schenkewitz]

Hi people,

we discovered the following bug in gnatsweb-site.pl for gnats4:

On the main page of gnatsweb there are tho buttons behind
"Direct search". If someone clicks one of them, he/she gets an
overwiew of all matching messages, every one in the form of a
string where the different fields are delimited by "|" - and
the whole string is placed under the column "Number", while
all other columns are empty.

I figured out what's wrong: in gnatsweb-site.pl in
sub callback below "elsif ($reason eq 'cmd')" a new format is
defined via 'qfmt' - the "offending" line is:

client_cmd('qfmt "%s|%d|%s|%d|%d|%{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z}D" ' .

this must be changed to:

client_cmd('qfmt "%s^_%d^_%s^_%d^_%d^_%{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z}D" ' .

("^_" is "unit seperator", octal 037)

because 'sub display_query_results' in gnatsweb.pl uses this
"character" to find the field borders. The "|" is not considered
as a delimiter and so everything lands in the first column.

The same problem exists some lines deeper, below
"elsif ($cmd eq 'not closed')", the solution is the same:
replace every '|' in the line

client_cmd('qfmt "%s|%d|%s|%d|%d|%{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z}D" ' .

with '^_' (octal 037).

greetings
        dirk

p.s. Please anyone give me a hint that this is been read by
     someone who can fix it... :-)

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Dirk Schenkewitz 

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