From 2a730c9865a742619f89c5041e98372873fa7746 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Tatham <anakin@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 12:51:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Ensure we ignore a hostname in Default Settings, if a
 perverse user has set one up using regedit. It badly confuses Plink.

[originally from svn r1404]
---
 settings.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/settings.c b/settings.c
index 267b46d6..26c77443 100644
--- a/settings.c
+++ b/settings.c
@@ -296,7 +296,11 @@ void load_settings(char *section, int do_host, Config * cfg)
     cfg->remote_cmd_ptr = cfg->remote_cmd;
     cfg->remote_cmd_ptr2 = NULL;
 
-    gpps(sesskey, "HostName", "", cfg->host, sizeof(cfg->host));
+    if (do_host) {
+	gpps(sesskey, "HostName", "", cfg->host, sizeof(cfg->host));
+    } else {
+	cfg->host[0] = '\0';	       /* blank hostname */
+    }
     gpps(sesskey, "LogFileName", "putty.log",
 	 cfg->logfilename, sizeof(cfg->logfilename));
     gppi(sesskey, "LogType", 0, &cfg->logtype);