My RSS Newsreader script stopped working (Tiger?)

noleli · Post by **noleli** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 2:35 am

So I finally upgraded to Tiger, and everything's been smooth except now my RSS News Headlines script doesn't seem to be working. It does that thing where you type the keyword (%_rss), and it just thinks it's typing forever, but never sends anything.

What's weird is that all of the individual components work: if I open the substitute script in Script Editor and call substitute(), the results that it returns are totally correct; if I comment out the whole thing and just have it return static text, the keyword correctly substitutes it in Adium. Does anyone have any thoughts on why this might be happening? Thanks!

Oh, I'm running r12955, but all other scripts (including those that return links) work fine.

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:48 pm

Look at the Info.plist. There might be an error there.

And it seems like you have %rss in your Insert Scripts menu, so I guess there is no Case Sensitive problem.

noleli · Post by **noleli** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:05 pm

The reason I don't think it's a problem with the plist is that if I change the subsitute function to just return a static string of text, it subs into Adium fine.

If Adium gets poorly formed HTML, does is exhibit the behavior I described?

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:10 am

noleli wrote:The reason I don't think it's a problem with the plist is that if I change the subsitute function to just return a static string of text, it subs into Adium fine.

If Adium gets poorly formed HTML, does is exhibit the behavior I described?

Eh? Yeah, it stalls and eveytually crashes. Tried it before…

Post by **evands** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 4:25 am

Sounds like an AIHTMLDecoder bug. Can you give example HTML output that makes Adium go *boom*? If you can do it locally, it's also a remote exploit, since a malicious client could send whatever the HTML is and make Adium crash trying to decode it.

noleli · Post by **noleli** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:03 am

Actually, it seems like a problem with the fact that "do shell script" always uses sh, and Adium seems to be using a different shell.

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on substitute()
	set HLfile to "$HOME\"/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Scripts/RSS News Headlines.AdiumScripts/Contents/Resources/headline.txt\""
       --headline.txt contains the text of the RSS headline
	
	set URLfile to "$HOME\"/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Scripts/RSS News Headlines.AdiumScripts/Contents/Resources/url.txt\""
	--url.txt contains the url of the RSS article
	
	set theHeadline to do shell script "more " & HLfile
	set theURL to do shell script "more " & URLfile
	
	set theLink to "<HTML><A HREF=\"" & theURL & "\">" & theHeadline & "</A></HTML>"
	return theLink
end substitute

The above code works fine from script editor, but not in Adium. (Adium isn't actually crashing; it will show me as typing indefinitely, or until I send something else.)

If I specify a full path (i.e. not using $HOME), it works in Script Editor and Adium. This seems to be a change in Tiger.

Post by **evands** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 4:24 pm

Use

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path to application support folder from user domain as string

to get the application suport folder.

noleli · Post by **noleli** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 5:02 pm

Sweet! Thanks. Is there any way I can use that to return the Unix path instead of the old-school MacOS path with the colons? I'm using it in a "do shell script".

zaudragon · Post by **zaudragon** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 5:22 pm

noleli wrote:Sweet! Thanks. Is there any way I can use that to return the Unix path instead of the old-school MacOS path with the colons? I'm using it in a "do shell script".

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POSIX path of (path to application support folder from user domain as string)

noleli · Post by **noleli** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 5:45 pm

I thought it had something to do with that POSIX thing. I'd seen that before, but never really bothered to read up on it. Thanks!

I got it working!