[Xastir-Dev] 1.2.0: shouldn't be trying to connect to terraserver

[Alan Crosswell]

Yeah, I don't care about the .geo files, just that the app is trying to make an 
Internet connection unbidden and in my case spewing error message on a 
non-Internet connected laptop.  Forget dialup, the only internet connection 
might be over ax.25 at 1200 baud:-)
/a

Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Alan Crosswell wrote:
> 
> 
>>vaio% xastir
>>curl told us 6
>>curlerr is Couldn't resolve host 'terraserver-usa.net'
>>curl told us 6
>>curlerr is Couldn't resolve host 'terraserver-usa.net'
>>
>>Apparently because the installation puts terraserver.geo into the maps
>>directory.
>>
>>This is not a good thing as the application shouldn't do Internet access unless
>>the person running it asks it to.  Installation of terraserver.geo should
>>be optional.
> 
> 
> Well, I disagree that the installation of the .geo should be
> optional (but that's only one opinion).  I was the one that put
> those two .geo's in there.  The intent was to make it easy for
> beginning users to have Tiger/Topo/Satellite maps from the get-go.
> Perhaps they should only get installed if ImageMagick and
> wget-or-libcurl are installed, so that the user can make use of the
> online maps.
> 
> I do however agree that the app shouldn't do internet access unless
> asked.  This sort of thing can both make users nervous, and really
> kill things on a dial-up line.
> 
> I'm considering tweaking the indexing so that one of these happened:
> 
>     a) All maps were disabled under automaps by default, or
>     b) GEO's with URL's were disabled under automaps by default.
> 
> Would either of those solve the problem sufficiently?  Perhaps make
> sure that the default for the global Automaps toggle was "disabled"
> as well?
>