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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I have no issue taking your spots at N2WQ-1 and VE3EID-1</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Rudy N2WQ</div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 07:07:44 PM EDT, Tim Tuck via Dxspider-support <dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">So it seems that a number of web clusters, such as our own, use the <br></div><div dir="ltr">following valid syntax to post spots on behalf of our users...<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">'dx by '. $poster. ' ip '. $user_ip. ' '. $entry_freq. ' '. $entry_dx. ' <br></div><div dir="ltr">'.$entry_message<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">which results in a spot input looking like this...<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">03.dat:1741417468^DXCommand^AX2AZ-16 connected from 149.28.170.222 cols 80<br></div><div dir="ltr">03.dat:1741417468^cmd^AX2AZ-16|149.28.170.222|dx|by VK4CZ ip <br></div><div dir="ltr">1.132.23.174 7074 AO8M FT8 Tnx QG62LP08<>IM98<br></div><div dir="ltr">03.dat:1741417468^DXCommand^AX2AZ-16 disconnected<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Given that the syntax is a valid method for injecting a spot AND web <br></div><div dir="ltr">cluster users can only do this if they have a username and password on <br></div><div dir="ltr">the web cluster, and the web cluster pseudo user is also registered on <br></div><div dir="ltr">the spider node - the spot is valid.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">So the network needs to accept spots created in this fashion somehow.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Or... remove that methodology from the software and provide an API for <br></div><div dir="ltr">web services to post spots.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Or... add support code to the code behind the current syntax to generate <br></div><div dir="ltr">the appropriate PC statements so that others accept the spots. This <br></div><div dir="ltr">would mean that all the web clusters do not have to re-write any interface.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Or... turn of the recent "enhancement" and find some other method to <br></div><div dir="ltr">achieve its intent.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">While I accept that the intent of recent changes was to ensure a spot is <br></div><div dir="ltr">valid by a user on a cluster, none of those users on web clusters really <br></div><div dir="ltr">are "on" the dxcluster.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Hopefully this can be resolved in some fashion.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">regards<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Tim<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">sysop VK2AZ-2<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr">VK2XAX : QF68KM : ITU59 : CQ30 : ORARC : WIA<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">_______________________________________________<br></div><div dir="ltr">Dxspider-support mailing list<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:Dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dxspider-support@tobit.co.uk</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://mailman.tobit.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dxspider-support" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://mailman.tobit.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/dxspider-support</a><br></div></div>
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