[tlug] Re: WWWJDIC backdoor issue

["Jim Breen" <jimbreen@example.com>]

"Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com> asked:

> The WWWJDIC backdoor[1] used to work quite well for me with a Firefox
> quick search:
>
> http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1MUJ%s
>
> But recently, it has started giving me an error. e.g.
>
> http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1MUJ%20%E5%A5%BD%E3%81%8F
>
> gives me:
>
> "Warning: the romaji key  好く did not convert correctly. Try again?"
>
> Of course, this works:
>
> http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1MUJsuku
>
> But I wonder why the UTF-8 method doesn't work with Japanese text any
> more. Am I doing something wrong, or is there a recent bug in WWWJDIC?

The former. You have a space in front of the 好く (see the %20 in the URL
you quoted.) Any "Japanese" key starting with a non-Japanese character
(e.g. a space) is assumed to be in romaji.

I have just modified it so that leading spaces will be ignored, so it
should not happen again. (The TUFS server will catch up around midnight.)

Jim


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Jim Breen
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Clayton School of Information Technology,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia
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