Subj : NNTP and To: field
To   : Digital Man
From : Carlos Navarro
Date : Thu Nov 13 2025 18:08:55

12 Nov 2025 23:21, you wrote to me:

 > I just wrote and executed a quick test and the msg header reply_id
 > property does appear to be a string, as expected:

 > var msgbase = new MsgBase("test");
 > if(!msgbase.open())
 >         exit();
 > var hdr = msgbase.get_msg_header(27);
 > print(typeof hdr.reply_id);

 > when run, prints 'string'.

Ok, in that script nothing happens to hdr after loading from the MSGbase. But in nntpservice.js, before being passed to function getReferenceTo, it is processed by function parse_news_header (in newsutil.js). It seems hdr.reply_id is then an array of string (typeof "object"). I think it happens here:

 hdr.reply_id = data.match(/<[^\<]*>$/);

Carlos

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