5.3 Build 448: Info on update released December 31, 1999

WINDOWS 2000 SUPPORT

As of this AUP, Wildcat! will now work under a network environment where wcServer is running on a remote server and clients are running on Windows 2000.

NOTE: Windows 2000 is a unreleased product from Microsoft. It is scheduled to be released on Feb/2000.

wcServer

Disabled an old logic where the security access profiles automatically reassigned the E-MAIL conference. Now, you can effectively disable the E-MAIL conference per security access and it will no longer get reset upon restarting the system.
Fixed the intermittent CHAP password problem with wcRadius connections. The fix at the server will make sure it will not happen again for any type of client connections.

wcHTTP (Web Server)

Uploads via HTTP were not updating the user record with the uploadKB and number of uploads. This is now implemented.
The web server now increments the users times online. This is limited to web browser logins via the /login url. Logins performed by directly accessing some page within the non-public directories will not increment this value. This is to prevent 'inflation' of this value.

wcOnline

Enhanced the display of wcOnline. Now a "since last date" statistics is shown. The heart beat is default at 3 seconds.
A major improvement was made to wcOnline running on a network with wcServer on another machine. No longer will wcOnline will be wasting networking bandwidth with unnecessary IP access checks that was done for PPP connections. The problem was this was being doing regardless if you had wcPPP installed or not. So it is disabled now if wcPPP is not installed.

wcMail

Fixed a bug with UUCP mail having bang addresses.
Fixed a problem in the exporter that removed some blank lines from messages
wcMail now separates HTML from multipart mime messages that are received (if user does not have preserve mime)

wcFTP

Added new feature for Automatic HOME (File Area) directory for users. When a FTP user connects, he will be automatically put into his home directory if and only if the following connections are met: He has access to only 1 File Group and 1 File Area within this File Group.

NOTE:

This is a quick solution for specific conditions where some customers have a user system where each has their own and single file area. The logic will not work when multiple groups or file areas are accessible by the user. We plan to have a different solution that will encompass a much broader scope of design in WINSERVER 2000.

wcSMTP/wcPOP3

Relaxed the verification of proper E-mail headers.
In the past, if an E-mail did not have the lines: TO: and DATE:, wcSMTP/wcPOP3 would add its header to compensate. This could confuse E-mail readers from handling MIME sections of the E-mail (attachments). Now, all that is needed is the TO: to validate an E-mail header. Note: This only happen with users using E-mail systems like PC-ACCESS which was non-compliant with standard RFC E-mail headers. The vendor has been informed and they have indicated fixes will be available in the future.

wcSMTP

Enhanced the speed of operation by improving the speed of the DATA\BAD*.TXT filter check. (More about E-mail/Domain filter)
By default wcSMTP is now secure against relaying. (Detail)

wcRadius

Fixed the intermittent CHAP password problem with wcRadius connections.

wcNode

Added a speed column to the connected nodes viewer.

wcListServe

Fixed an export format bug that caused crashing during re-importing.

wcQWK

Cleaned up wcqwk.exe. Fixed a small bug where if it would fail, it would set the QWK mail conference pointers high regardless.

wcSetup

Fixed obscure bug in wcSetup that caused problems on failed file imports from wildcat 4.

wcNode

Fixed 2 bugs with modem nodes. If node was TAPI, than wcNode didn't work right and setting states. If node state is set for refuse, then it works the first connect, but after recycle the node state is set back to up.

wcSDK

Added new SDK/wcBasic function:

DeleteMessageAttachment(tmsgheader)
The SDK function wcDeleteFile() will also update the message structure.

wcDraw

Added missing macros

@ USER.PRESERVEMIMEMESSAGES @
@ USER.SHOWEMAILHEADERS @
@ USER.MEMODATE @
@ OTHERUSER.PRESERVEMIMEMESSAGES @
@ OTHERUSER.SHOWEMAILHEADERS @
@ OTHERUSER.MEMODATE @

Added new macros

@ USER.POP3SNOOP @

wcBasic

Changed in wcBasic logic for Uploading files. Wildcat! traditionally followed the transfer protocol logic for naming a file. If the protocol allowed a file name to be passed, then it became the eventual file name stored overriding the file name provided by the user when Wildcat! asked the user before the upload took place.
Now if a file name is provided, wildcat will use this name for the uploaded file if and only if a single file is uploaded. In other words, when Wildcat ask the user for the file name, this is the name used for storage if there is only 1 file uploaded. If more than one file is uploaded, then it reverts back to using the file names uploaded because Wildcat will not be able to make a reliable determination of matching predefined file names with the disk directory order of files uploaded.
Added new wcBasic command:

SetIdleTimeoutLogoff(TRUE or FALSE).

Added new function to htmlutil.wcc/wch:

UrlEncode()

Dynamic HTML

Added support for a new WCX file: htmlScanFile.wcx. (Detail)

ANSI BBS Files

Made some corrections to HELP BBS files where the links were pointing to the wrong BBS file names. Corrected files:

ANSI File Lister File List.bbs
File Group List.BBS
ANSI File Lister File Area List.bbs
ANSI File Lister Group List.bbs
Files List Command-List.bbs