[Dxspider-support] SSID filter bug

[Dirk Koopman]

Sigh...

I stick it it on the list...

Dirk

On 13/02/2025 13:48, Ciemon Dunville via Dxspider-support wrote:
> OK but I hear Keith's issue.
>
> If DX Spider is going to mimic the base callsign set then the user 
> needs to be able to interrogate and get a response of what is set. 
> When  G0TRT-3 is set to VHF only CW only and I login with G0TRT-5 and 
> set it to RTTY only will I only get spots from VHF, I would expect to 
> get them from all bands.
>
> ---
> Ciemon Dunville - GØTRT <https://www.qrz.com/db/G0TRT>
> Warminster, Wiltshire. UK
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 at 13:28, Keith, G6NHU via Dxspider-support 
> <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>
>     Yes, different SSIDs can have different filter sets.
>
>     I’m not sure I understand the logic of a callsign with an SSID
>     inheriting the filters of the callsign without the SSID though.
>
>     73 Keith G6NHU
>     On 13 Feb 2025 at 13:17 +0000, Ciemon Dunville via
>     Dxspider-support <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>, wrote:
>>     Just to pull on this a bit more, I am able to set different
>>     filter sets based on SSID aren't I?
>>
>>     I'm using SSIDs based on how I'm operating, be that by frequency,
>>     mode, or location.
>>
>>     73, Ciemon
>>
>>     ---
>>     Ciemon Dunville - GØTRT <https://www.qrz.com/db/G0TRT>
>>     Warminster, Wiltshire. UK
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 at 10:47, Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support
>>     <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>         I'm afraid that this is not a bug. It is a feature. And I
>>         will need quite a bit of persuasion to change it. This sort
>>         of thing is prevalent all through the way DXSpider works. And
>>         you have done the thing you need to do to cope with it.
>>         Having said that, after logging in with the ssid of your
>>         choice, a clear/spots or an accept/spots all should have worked.
>>
>>         Dirk
>>
>>         13 Feb 2025 08:35:05 Keith, G6NHU <g6nhu at me.com>:
>>
>>             I’m sure this is a bug.
>>
>>             I have a filter set for G6NHU, as visible in the
>>             /spider/filter/spots/G6NHU.pl file.
>>
>>             If I log in with [say] G6NHU-17, which has no filter
>>             file, the filters from G6NHU are applied.
>>
>>             What makes it worse is that when I’ve logged in as
>>             G6NHU-17 and do a show/filters command, the response is
>>             "No filters defined for G6NHU-17” but the filters defined
>>             in G6NHU.pl are being applied.
>>
>>             I’ve suspected this for a while but haven’t bothered
>>             investigating further but I set up a test node last night
>>             using G6NHU-5 and the only spots which were being
>>             forwarded to it were those that were allowed through due
>>             to the G6NHU.pl filter.  I had to specifically add a
>>             filter for G6NHU-5 to allow everything through from
>>             0/250000000 to ensure it received everything.
>>
>>             Can you take a look please, Dirk.
>>
>>             Thanks,
>>
>>             73 Keith G6NHU
>>
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