--- loncom/lonnet/perl/lonnet.pm	2002/04/04 20:37:05	1.207
+++ loncom/lonnet/perl/lonnet.pm	2002/04/26 18:49:09	1.209
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # The LearningOnline Network
 # TCP networking package
 #
-# $Id: lonnet.pm,v 1.207 2002/04/04 20:37:05 albertel Exp $
+# $Id: lonnet.pm,v 1.209 2002/04/26 18:49:09 matthew Exp $
 #
 # Copyright Michigan State University Board of Trustees
 #
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ qw(%perlvar %hostname %homecache %hostip
 use IO::Socket;
 use GDBM_File;
 use Apache::Constants qw(:common :http);
-use HTML::TokeParser;
+use HTML::LCParser;
 use Fcntl qw(:flock);
 my $readit;
 
@@ -1877,11 +1877,11 @@ sub modifyuser {
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------- Create User
     if (($uhome eq 'no_host') && ($umode) && ($upass)) {
         my $unhome='';
-	if ($ENV{'course.'.$ENV{'request.course.id'}.'.domain'} eq $udom) {
-	    $unhome=$ENV{'course.'.$ENV{'request.course.id'}.'.home'};
-        } elsif (defined($desiredhome) && $hostdom{$desiredhome} eq $udom) { 
+        if (defined($desiredhome) && $hostdom{$desiredhome} eq $udom) { 
             $unhome = $desiredhome;
-        } else {
+	} elsif($ENV{'course.'.$ENV{'request.course.id'}.'.domain'} eq $udom) {
+	    $unhome=$ENV{'course.'.$ENV{'request.course.id'}.'.home'};
+        } else { # load balancing routine for determining $unhome
             my $tryserver;
             my $loadm=10000000;
             foreach $tryserver (keys %libserv) {
@@ -1907,7 +1907,7 @@ sub modifyuser {
         if (($uhome eq '') || ($uhome eq 'no_host') || ($uhome ne $unhome)) {
 	    return 'error: verify home';
         }
-    }
+    }   # End of creation of new user
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Add ID
     if ($uid) {
        $uid=~tr/A-Z/a-z/;
@@ -1943,14 +1943,15 @@ sub modifyuser {
 
 sub modifystudent {
     my ($udom,$uname,$uid,$umode,$upass,$first,$middle,$last,$gene,$usec,
-        $end,$start,$forceid)=@_;
+        $end,$start,$forceid,$desiredhome)=@_;
     my $cid='';
     unless ($cid=$ENV{'request.course.id'}) {
 	return 'not_in_class';
     }
 # --------------------------------------------------------------- Make the user
     my $reply=&modifyuser
-	($udom,$uname,$uid,$umode,$upass,$first,$middle,$last,$gene,$forceid);
+	($udom,$uname,$uid,$umode,$upass,$first,$middle,$last,$gene,$forceid,
+         $desiredhome);
     unless ($reply eq 'ok') { return $reply; }
     my $uhome=&homeserver($uname,$udom);
     if (($uhome eq '') || ($uhome eq 'no_host')) { 
@@ -2389,7 +2390,7 @@ sub metadata {
         my %metathesekeys=();
         unless ($filename=~/\.meta$/) { $filename.='.meta'; }
 	my $metastring=&getfile($perlvar{'lonDocRoot'}.'/res/'.$filename);
-        my $parser=HTML::TokeParser->new(\$metastring);
+        my $parser=HTML::LCParser->new(\$metastring);
         my $token;
         undef %metathesekeys;
         while ($token=$parser->get_token) {
@@ -2478,7 +2479,7 @@ sub metadata {
 		  $metacache{$uri.':'.$unikey.'.'.$_}=$token->[2]->{$_};
               }
               unless (
-                 $metacache{$uri.':'.$unikey}=$parser->get_text('/'.$entry)
+                 $metacache{$uri.':'.$unikey}=&HTML::Entities::decode($parser->get_text('/'.$entry))
 		      ) { $metacache{$uri.':'.$unikey}=
 			      $metacache{$uri.':'.$unikey.'.default'};
 		      }