Hello Itay,

> Lack of "use=web" support is very annoying to us who need it.  This
> patch should add preliminary support for that (to be improved on...)
> 
> Also corrects a minor bug in the config script where it tries to guess
> some default answers ([ -z ... ] should have been [ -n ... ])

Thanks for the patch.
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 3.1
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-3
> Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
> 
> Versions of packages ddclient depends on:
> ii  debconf                       1.4.41     Debian configuration management sy
> ii  perl [perl5]                  5.8.4-4    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
> 
> -- debconf information excluded

> diff -u -Nru ddclient-3.6.2/debian/config ddclient-3.6.2.new/debian/config
> --- ddclient-3.6.2/debian/config	2004-12-09 20:05:36.000000000 -0600
> +++ ddclient-3.6.2.new/debian/config	2004-12-09 20:00:09.000000000 -0600
> @@ -102,16 +102,24 @@
>    db_input critical ddclient/names || true
>    db_input critical ddclient/username || true
>    db_input critical ddclient/password || true
> -  db_input critical ddclient/interface || true
> +  db_input critical ddclient/method || true
>    db_go
>  
> +  db_get ddclient/method
> +  if [ "$RET" = interface ]; then
> +    db_input critical ddclient/interface || true
> +    db_go
> +
> +    db_get ddclient/interface
> +    interface="$RET"
> +  else
> +    interface=""
> +  fi
> +
>    # set the default mode ddclient should run in (ip-up | daemon),
>    # depending on the entered interface (XpppX or other)
> -  db_get ddclient/interface
> -  interface=$RET
> -  
>    # if it is actually a ppp or related interface
> -  if [ -z "${interface##*ppp*}" ]; then
> +  if [ -n "${interface##*ppp*}" ]; then
>      db_fget ddclient/run_ipup seen
>      if [ $RET = "false" ]; then
>        db_set ddclient/run_ipup true
> diff -u -Nru ddclient-3.6.2/debian/postinst ddclient-3.6.2.new/debian/postinst
> --- ddclient-3.6.2/debian/postinst	2004-12-09 20:05:36.000000000 -0600
> +++ ddclient-3.6.2.new/debian/postinst	2004-12-09 20:02:33.000000000 -0600
> @@ -44,8 +44,17 @@
>      db_get ddclient/names    		&& names="$RET"
>      db_get ddclient/username 		&& username="$RET"
>      db_get ddclient/password 		&& password="$RET"
> +    db_get ddclient/method 		&& method="$RET"
>      db_get ddclient/interface 		&& interface="$RET"
>  
> +    case "$method" in
> +      interface)
> +        use="if, if=$interface"
> +        ;;
> +      web)
> +        use="web, web=checkip.dyndns.org/, fw-skip='IP Address'"
> +        ;;
> +    esac
>  
>      # create configuration file /etc/ddclient.conf
>      config=`mktemp /etc/ddclient.conf.XXXXXX`
> @@ -57,7 +66,7 @@
>  
>  pid=/var/run/ddclient.pid
>  protocol=$protocol
> -use=if, if=$interface
> +use=$use
>  server=$server
>  login=$username
>  password=$password
> diff -u -Nru ddclient-3.6.2/debian/templates ddclient-3.6.2.new/debian/templates
> --- ddclient-3.6.2/debian/templates	2004-12-09 20:05:36.000000000 -0600
> +++ ddclient-3.6.2.new/debian/templates	2004-12-09 19:56:09.000000000 -0600
> @@ -61,6 +61,14 @@
>   Geben Sie das zu Ihrem DynDNS Benutzernamen zugehörige Passwort ein.
>   Die Tastatureingabe wird nicht auf dem Bildschirm dargestellt.
>  
> +Template: ddclient/method
> +Type: select
> +Choices: interface, web
> +Default: interface
> +Description: IP detection method
> + You can detect your current IP address by watching an interface,
> + or using web-based detection.
> +
>  Template: ddclient/interface
>  Type: string
>  Description: Interface used for dynamic DNS service


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