[aprssig] Issue with stations beaconing with leading spaces in path

[Kenneth Finnegan]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

We've been chasing an issue on some of the peripheral mailing lists related
to some stations using paths with a leading space in one of the elements.
i.e. "[SPACE]WIDE2-1"

I would hazard that many of these leading spaces are coming from parsing
comma separated lists for the path. It isn't unreasonable to expect a user
to enter "WIDE1-1,[SPACE]WIDE2-1" instead of the expected
"WIDE1-1,WIDE2-1", so this might explain why this issue is periodically
seen.

I would recommend developers examine their tokenization routines for path
elements and consider adding support to remove excess spaces around path
elements entered by the user.
--
Kenneth Finnegan, W6KWF
http://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/
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