Can't see essid with "@" in its name.

[Ismael]

After I updated to Wicd 1.6.2.1 and now I can't see an ESSID named "TYPO@HOME" when scanning. Downgraded to Wicd 1.6.2 and it went back to working flawlessly.

Running Slackware Linux 13.0.

I'm not familiar with wicd code, but it probably has something to do with this commit (which changes the ESSID regex from ".*" to "\w+" ): http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~adamblackburn/wicd/1.6.2.1/revision/457

[Adam Blackburn (adamblackburn)]

I've come up with a new and improved regular expression that should solve the problem. I would appreciate testing from anyone who can test it.

Just replace the essid_pattern = re.compile(...) line in your wnettools.py with this line:

essid_pattern = re.compile(r'.*ESSID:("?)((?!"")[^\n].+?)(\1)\s*\n', _re_mode)

That should take care of all cases, except the case where the person has named their AP "" (literally two quotes) but I suspect this is a very, very uncommon case. (if anyone who is better than me at regex would like to fix this... :)

[Adam Blackburn (adamblackburn)]

 * The ioctl backend is not affected by this.

Just had an idea:

Instead of the one in my above post, try this:

essid_pattern = re.compile(r'.*ESSID:("?)((?!""\s*\n)[^\n].+?)(\1)\s*\n', _re_mode)

[Adam Blackburn (adamblackburn)]

Wicd 1.6.2.2 once again handles this case properly.

[Adam Blackburn (adamblackburn)]

Please let us know if you encounter any more problems.