From c87b3b88710edcd94d1b3cc41af631d50c24e195 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:21:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] A hopefully better attempt at ESSIDs with '\x00' in them

---
 wicd/wnettools.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/wicd/wnettools.py b/wicd/wnettools.py
index 3b316e2..0f7f0d4 100644
--- a/wicd/wnettools.py
+++ b/wicd/wnettools.py
@@ -1252,6 +1252,11 @@ class BaseWirelessInterface(BaseInterface):
             print 'Unicode problem with current network essid, ignoring!!'
             return None
 
+        # We (well, DBus) don't support ESSIDs with null bytes in it.
+        # From some bugreports, it seems like some APs transmit the "hidden"
+        # essid as NULL bytes. Let's strip them off.
+        ap['essid'].replace('\x00', '')
+
         if ap['essid'] in ['Hidden', '<hidden>', "", None]:
             print 'hidden'
             ap['hidden'] = True