Question

Why does the FormattedSearch topic ask for http authentication?

-- JasonPierce - 21 Apr 2005

Environment

-- JasonPierce - 21 Apr 2005

Answer

After getting Windows XP/ActivePerl/native RCS/Cairo working, I found that this topic just wouldn't work. This was odd considering NT authentication was turned on and I never should have gotten an http auth popup.

It turns out it was part of one of the SEARCH examples that did this:

%CALC{$SET(weekold, $TIMEADD($TIME(), -7, day))}%
%SEARCH{ "." scope="topic" regex="on" nosearch="on" nototal="on" order="modified"
reverse="on" format="$percntCALC{$IF($TIME($date) < $GET(weekold), <nop>,
| [[$topic]] | $wikiusername | $date | $rev |)}$percnt" limit="100" }% 

The $TIME($date) was for some reason breaking after the 21st item. I still don't fully understand why that is exactly, but I tracked it down to a bug in Time::Local under Windows. This may or may not affect cygwin installations.

This is fixed in the lastest version of Time::Local.

You can get the latest version of Time::Local at

• http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Time/

Here is some official info about the problem:

• http://www.mail-archive.com...msg84761.html