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Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (18,770 posts) bio Forum Administrator

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Reply #30 on Tue 09 Feb 2010 12:22 AM (UTC) [ quote ]

Amended on Tue 09 Feb 2010 12:26 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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Well I can reproduce your problem, not quite sure why:


MUD: Enter an option or enter your character's name. \ff\f9\ff\fe\19\ff\fd\c8\ff\fdV\ff\fc\19\ff\faV\ff\f0

Me: 1

MUD: What is the name you are known by in Achaea? > \ff\f9 

Me: name deleted

MUD: What is your password? \ff\f9 

Me: password deleted

MUD: \ff\fb\01\ff\fc\01Password correct. Welcome to Achaea.

Notice the sequence of events: It asks the password followed by IAC GA.

I reply (echoed).

It then sends IAC WILL 01 (turn echo off).
Then in the same packet it sends IAC WONT 01 (turn echo on).
It then sends "Password correct."

So in that packet sequence, it is turning echo off at the wrong moment.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

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Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (18,770 posts) bio Forum Administrator

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Reply #31 on Tue 09 Feb 2010 01:18 AM (UTC) [ quote ]

Amended on Tue 09 Feb 2010 01:27 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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OK, I think I have worked it out.

Version 4.48:


Enter an option or enter your character's name. <IAC><GA>
<IAC><DONT><EOR><IAC><DONT><200><IAC><DONT><MCCP>
1
<IAC><WONT><EOR><IAC><WONT><200><IAC><WONT><MCCP>
What is the name you are known by in Achaea? > <IAC><GA>
<IAC><DONT><EOR><IAC><DONT><200><IAC><DONT><MCCP>
name
What is your password? <IAC><GA>
<IAC><WILL><1>
password
<IAC><WONT><1>Password correct. Welcome to Achaea.

That works with Achaea, note that it sends <IAC><WILL><1> after asking for the password, so it isn't echoed.

Version 4.49:


Enter an option or enter your character's name. <IAC><GA>
<IAC><DONT><EOR><IAC><DONT><200><IAC><DO><MCCP>
<IAC><WONT><EOR><IAC><WONT><200><IAC><SB><MCCP><IAC><SE>
1
What is the name you are known by in Achaea? > <IAC><GA>
name
What is your password? <IAC><GA>
password
<IAC><WILL><1><IAC><WONT><1>Password correct. Welcome to Achaea.

This one doesn't work, it turns echo off too late.

However spot the difference? Version 4.48 doesn't turn on MCCP (because of the bug someone noted). So it is all done uncompressed.

Try this, turn compression off, and the password is suppressed correctly.

Try an earlier version of MUSHclient (before all the telnet negotiation changes) and see what happens if compression is on.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

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Posted by Nick Gammon Australia (18,770 posts) bio Forum Administrator

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Reply #32 on Tue 09 Feb 2010 01:55 AM (UTC) [ quote ]

Amended on Tue 09 Feb 2010 01:56 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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Well I carefully stepped through it with the debugger. Although the problem point is around when compression is turned on, I don't believe MUSHclient is faulty here.

I confirmed we were in compressed mode by the time it asked for the name (and waited for a reply) (as you can see from the packet debug, where it asks for the name after sending <IAC><SB><MCCP><IAC><SE>), so it is not as if the transition from uncompressed to compressed is causing the problem per se.

This seems to me to relate to the other problem with Achaea, where you don't see the final "goodbye" message after disconnecting. I speculated at the time they might not be flushing the compressed data, and this seems to me to be the same thing. Note what happens in decompressed mode:


What is your password? <IAC><GA>
<IAC><WILL><1>

So that final 3 bytes could still be in the compressed buffer at the server end. The zLib documentation recommends *against* flushing the buffer all the time, as that would cause a performance hit.

OTOH, they must flush the buffer when prompting for input, or you would probably miss every 2nd prompt.

My guess is, they flush the buffer after <IAC> <GA>, to make sure the player sees the prompt. So it would look like this:


What is your password? <IAC><GA> <flush>
<IAC><WILL><1>

In other words, they didn't flush after the <IAC><WILL><1>.

Also, the bug (see page 1 of this thread) where you don't see:


You feel your insides clench as your soul is frozen.
You have played 4095 games.

Goodbye for now!

... could be explained the same way. They aren't sending <IAC><GA> so they aren't flushing that final message.

I suggest a polite message to the Achaea admins along the lines of:

Please flush the zlib buffer after sending <IAC><WILL><1> after requesting the password.
Please flush the buffer after the final "Goodbye for now!" message.

That should fix your problems.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

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Reply #33 on Tue 09 Feb 2010 01:58 AM (UTC) [ quote ]

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That sounds very plausible. Thanks again, Nick!

'Soludra' on Achaea

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