From 9e80356dd5f13c32dc265d3a499623134d95beb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 16:07:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Luck Call made win32 password prompting support backspace
---
CHANGES | 3 +++
RELEASE-NOTES | 3 ++-
src/getpass.c | 5 +++++
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index d3ef2754a3..3be7a475fc 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
Changelog
Daniel (13 January 2004)
+- Luke Call made the win32 version of the password prompting function support
+ backspace.
+
- Dan Fandrich fixed the hugehelp source file to contain both a compressed and
an uncompressed version in the distribution, so that more people easier can
build curl with the compressed version.
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 1637a1c3fe..4e59fd34cf 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ This release includes the following changes:
This release includes the following bugfixes:
+ o the win32 password prompting supports backspace
o builds natively on AmigaOS (without unix emulation)
o ftps:// now uses port 990 by default
o the "configure --with-spnego" action was improved
@@ -79,6 +80,6 @@ advice from friends like these:
W. Rozycki, Nicolas Croiset, Josh Kapell, Gaz Iqbal, Dave May, Markus
Moeller, James Clancy, Giuseppe Attardi, swalkaus at yahoo.com, Steve Green,
Marty Kuhrt, Dominick Meglio, Diego Casorran, David Byron, John McGowan,
- David J Meyer, Dan Fandrich, Pierre, Brian R Duffy
+ David J Meyer, Dan Fandrich, Pierre, Brian R Duffy, Luke Call
Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
diff --git a/src/getpass.c b/src/getpass.c
index 225f7f04ec..77e950c9dc 100644
--- a/src/getpass.c
+++ b/src/getpass.c
@@ -203,6 +203,11 @@ char *getpass_r(const char *prompt, char *buffer, int buflen)
buffer[i] = 0;
break;
}
+ else
+ if ( buffer[i] == '\b')
+ /* remove this letter and if this is not the first key, remove the
+ previous one as well */
+ i = i - (i>=1?2:1);
}
/* if user didn't hit ENTER, terminate buffer */
if (i==buflen)
--
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