[LON-CAPA-cvs] cvs: loncom(version_0_5_1) /lonnet/perl lonnet.pm

[albertel]

albertel		Mon Sep 16 16:30:26 2002 EDT

  Modified files:              (Branch: version_0_5_1)
    /loncom/lonnet/perl	lonnet.pm 
  Log:
  - backport of 1.282 fix
  
  
Index: loncom/lonnet/perl/lonnet.pm
diff -u loncom/lonnet/perl/lonnet.pm:1.267.4.5 loncom/lonnet/perl/lonnet.pm:1.267.4.6
--- loncom/lonnet/perl/lonnet.pm:1.267.4.5	Mon Sep  2 21:29:35 2002
+++ loncom/lonnet/perl/lonnet.pm	Mon Sep 16 16:30:26 2002
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # The LearningOnline Network
 # TCP networking package
 #
-# $Id: lonnet.pm,v 1.267.4.5 2002/09/03 01:29:35 albertel Exp $
+# $Id: lonnet.pm,v 1.267.4.6 2002/09/16 20:30:26 albertel Exp $
 #
 # Copyright Michigan State University Board of Trustees
 #
@@ -2537,7 +2537,7 @@
 # --------------------------------------------------------- Value of a Variable
 
 sub EXT {
-    my ($varname,$symbparm,$udom,$uname)=@_;
+    my ($varname,$symbparm,$udom,$uname,)=@_;
 
     unless ($varname) { return ''; }
 
@@ -2694,10 +2694,16 @@
 # --------------------------------------------- last, look in resource metadata
 
 	$spacequalifierrest=~s/\./\_/;
-	my $metadata=&metadata($ENV{'request.filename'},$spacequalifierrest);
+	my $filename;
+	if (!$symbparm) { $symbparm=&symbread(); }
+	if ($symbparm) {
+	    $filename=(split(/\_\_\_/,$symbparm))[2];
+	} else {
+	    $filename=$ENV{'request.filename'};
+	}
+	my $metadata=&metadata($filename,$spacequalifierrest);
 	if ($metadata) { return $metadata; }
-	$metadata=&metadata($ENV{'request.filename'},
-			    'parameter_'.$spacequalifierrest);
+	$metadata=&metadata($filename,'parameter_'.$spacequalifierrest);
 	if ($metadata) { return $metadata; }
 
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------ Cascade up