Re: [Freeciv-Dev] funny bug

[Nick <nick@xxxxxxxx>]

Karl-Ingo Friese wrote:

> Hello there,
>
> well, not a real bug. Just a funny thing that could be looked after.
> In short: ´Crop´ the meta strings (the server game description).
>
> I tried (yeees .... i didnt have to do :):
>
> meta with this meta i am trying to find out how long i can make a meta
>   description before the server or the client will crop it to ensure the 
> window
>   does not get to large. the other possible case would be that they did not
>   allocate enough memory for a longer string and that the whole thing will
>   crash, we will see
>
>

Yeah, I've noticed this before too. It really screws up the metaserver webpage,
including scrambling up other entries. It switches columns, and basically says
that all the servers are running on the IP 5555 on port whatever.