Bug 234514 – wicd-1.5.1 breaks connecting to hidden essid containing '.'

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Stephen Ziemba 2008-08-12 00:15:21 UTC]

After installing 1.5.1 I am no longer able to connect to the essid 'PAL2.0'.

This is due to changes within wnettools.py and most specifically line 78 of the 1.5.1 release. The following function is the problem:

def _sanitize_string(string):
# blacklist = [';', ' ', '`']
# new_string = []
# for c in string:
# if c in blacklist:
# new_string.append("\\" + c)
# else:
# new_string.append(c)
# return ''.join(new_string)
    try:
        return re.escape(string)
    except TypeError:
        return None

I am unsure of the full intent of _sanitize_string (it was added between 1.5.0 and 1.5.1 and is called several places). However, re.escape(essid) changes 'PAL2.0' to 'PAL2\.0'. Changing return re.escape(string) to return string fixes this behavior (but loses whatever functionality which was added)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect to a hidden essid containing '.' 

Actual Results:  
No connection is made.  iwconfig essid PAL2\.0 is called instead of iwconfig essid PAL2.0

[Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2008-08-12 01:06:27 UTC]

Talked to upstream and it will be fixed in the next release. thanks for reporting.

[Comment 2 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2008-09-14 14:56:40 UTC]

Version bump in cvs now, should hit your mirrors in an hour or so. Please test.

[Comment 3 Stephen Ziemba 2008-09-17 23:24:16 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Version bump in cvs now, should hit your mirrors in an hour or so. Please test.
> 

1.52 corrects the problem.  Can be marked as fixed.