5.3 Build 448.2: Info on update released February 08, 2000

wcMail

Fixed importing and exporting of news groups.
Fixed receipt of E-mail with multipart/report mime types, used by some systems for administrative messages, such as bounced E-mail messages.

wcFile

Fixed bug where File Request Wizard Page was not going back correctly after a successful request was completed.

wcOnline

Fixed: Using ZMODEM over telnet would hang a node if the user aborted the transfer.
Fixed: File uploads of zip files that are password protected would cause the node to hang.
Fixed: Some log entries in the activity logs used only 2 digits for the year. This caused statistics generated by wcStats (wcReports) to incorrectly calculate dates. A fix has also been applied to wcStats to correctly deal with 2 digit years in the activity log files.

wcView

Cleaned up the property display for users. Date field was too small and it showed bad date for undefined dates.

wcNews

Fixed: Log file output of a certain condition would cause wcNews to abort.

NOTE: Other problems with importing and exporting news groups were actually a problem within wcMail, see notes above on wcMail.

wcStart

Fixed: Using a delay to start applications would cause wcStart to consume 100% of the CPU until that application started. WcStart now works without doing this.

wcHTTP (Web Server)

New: the client?terminal.wcn URL will now redirect a web browser user to the URL /code/html-terminal which in turn redirects the user to telnet://hostname where HOSTNAME is the same as the web servers domain name. Most web browsers today will open telnet.exe when it receives a telnet:// URL. (More about alias URL)
New: There are now several new error files that can be used in place of the unauthorized.htm file. These files must be in the wc5\http\errors directory. (Detail)
Fixed: CGI’s would not execute correctly if the option allow only in CGI directory (under the script map tab in wcconfig/web) was unchecked. CGI now executes in the CGI directory correctly regardless of that setting.
Fixed: Under Windows 95/98 users would stay logged in. This has been fixed. This fix also deals with the occasional hung user in versions prior to 448.
Fixed: The web server now denies logins from users who are over their time limits.

wcStats (wcReports)

Fixed: wcStats incorrectly calculated dates from the activity log files that had only 2 digits for the year.

wcListServe

Fixed: Digest list messages were sent without a subject line.

AutoUpdate Client

For owners who purchased WINServer in the month of January, AutoUpdate.exe would not allow them to enter a purchase date in the year 2000. This did not have to do with any Y2K calculation errors, but rather the purchase validation routine did not consider purchases made after 1999 as valid (ie. It was too far into the future when WINServer was released, so they considered it to be an invalid date).