5.6 Build 450.3: Info on update released November 12, 2002

Special notes about this update

This Build concentrates on adding security (SSL and/or TLS) to the Wildcat! Internet hosting servers.

Added SSL support to Wildcat! Internet Hosting servers. (Detail)
Added new SSL configuration, setup and certificate management utility called wcSSLConfig.exe.

Fixed an intermittent files database bug when moving files or changing file descriptions.
Enhanced the shutdown window to show the process names still connected to the server.
Added new server SDK functions for TLS (SASL) authentication.

New NNTP Server setup
New FTP Server setup
New Mail Server Setup section:
The new Mail Server (SMTP/POP3) setup combines the key "mail setup” sections into one section. The "Networking" and "SMTP Server" setup sections were merged into the new "Mail Server" setup. The SMTP Server setup was enhanced and a new POP3 Server setup section was added. In addition, we added new views of the e-mail access and security domains.
We believe the new layout will make it easier to setup your e-mail server.

Added new Internet options to the Access Profiles.
Added new View menu options to help add the default external modules and to customize the view of the configuration icon window:
See the new menu options under the menu View.
The option "Add Default Modules" will add the external module icons to the wcConfig Control View window so that you can run these modules from within wcConfig. The default external modules for configuration are:
- wcDraw.exe
- wcMenu.exe
- wcQues.exe
- wcncfg.exe
- wcFile.exe
- wcSSLConfig.exe
This is useful when you wish to run wcConfig from a remote machine and the external module information is not stored on the remote machine registry. Another typical reason why the information may not be stored in the local registry is because the installation of Wildcat! was done manually on the local machine.
Enhanced the Access Profiles manager using a new "Options List Property Page" system. In the future, many of the configuration property page dialogs will take on this new look and feel.

Added Tray Icon option.
See wcOnline menu option Tools | Use Tray Icon.

Added some interesting WCX functionality to the FTP server (Detail)
FTP now supports the ACCT command for setting the file password.
The FTP server registry options are now in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
This resolves the issue of the FTP server running as an NT service and the HKEY_CURRENT_USER not being accessible.
Added REST (restart) support for downloads and uploads.
Note: The FTP client has to support this REST extension.
Added APPE (append) support.
Wildcat! will add to the existing file. If the original does not exist, Wildcat! will create a new file.
Note: Wildcat! will only allow the original file owner or sysop of the file to append.

Added SSL and TLS support.
Added POP BEFORE SMTP allow relay option. (Detail)
The POP3 server registry options are now in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
This resolves the issue of the FTP server running as an NT service and the HKEY_CURRENT_USER not being accessible.
Added SSL and NON-SSL server support.
This allows you to have both an SSL POP3 server and a regular non-SSL POP3 server.
However, if the SSLRequired option is set to 1, then the non-SSL POP3 server will not allow a non-SSL connection to log in. It will tell the client that SSL is required.
Fixed bug that caused MAC version of Outlook Express to timeout.

Added SSL Support to WEB Server.
The WEB server will allow both types of connections, non-secured and secured. The non-secured port 80 is still used just like always. If SSL is enabled for the web, a secondary secured web server is created using the default port 443.
To add a secure connect URL link option to the public default page, use a default.wct with a https:// link. For example (I switch the angle bracket to square brackets to not confuse HTML mail here)
[a href="/login?mode=HTML"]Login[/a][br]
[a href="https://www.box24.ch/login?mode=HTML">Login via SSL[/a][br]

Added an exception handler for the WireHandler callback in wcsrv2.dll
The exception handler allows the application to continue or abort. This is very useful to trap VB applications using the Wildcat! Callback system incorrectly or because of VB run time library errors faulting the application.
Added TChatMessage and TPageMessage to wcBasic and SDK:

Added to wcServer, new SDK function and structures:
BOOL APIENTRY WcGetProcessTimes(TWildcatProcessTimes &pt);

BOOL APIENTRY WcSASLGetMethodName(char *buf, DWORD bsize, DWORD tid);

DWORD APIENTRY WcSASLAuthenticateUser(TWildcatSASLContext *ctx, const char *fromclient, char *response, DWORD szresponse, TUser &u);

DWORD APIENTRY WcSASLAuthenticateUserEx(TWildcatSASLContext *ctx, const char *fromclient, char *response, DWORD szresponse, DWORD calltype, const char *speed, TUser &u);
A new wcBasic security function was added to detect a secured session IsSessionSecured()

Updated the NT service batch files and description.
Wildcat! Hosting Services no longer requires the Wildcat! Server (wcServer) as a NT service dependency.

Type -? for the applications to see the command line switches. For example: wcOnline -?

wcSetup was enhanced with a new setup wizard, better conversion options and new maintenance/fixup options.

Fixed a possible telnet socket read buffer bug which might address two possible situations; 1) intermittent session lockup when telnet sessions are ungracefully aborted, 2) and possibly address the wcNavigator terminal client not displaying its characters.
These items needs to be verified.

The Wildcat! NNTP News server now has a GUI configuration section in wcConfig. See the new NNTP Server icon in wcConfig.
Added wcNode support.
You will now see the NNTP server listed under wcNode's computer servers list window (left side) which allows you to control the server availability. You will also see news client user connections in the nodes window (right side).
Added support for showing new/changed "Newsgroups" mail conferences to the user's news client software (if requested by the client). This means that when you add a new newsgroup or published mail conference, the next the user connects to your news server, the user will see a "New NewsGroups" popup windows offering him a chance to subscribe to the newsgroups.
Added support for NNTP Server access profile option:
[X] Allow NNTP Server Access
See wcConfig access profiles internet options. If this is not set, the user will not have access to the news server.
Support for Anonymous account connections. See the new NNTP Server options in wcConfig. (Detail).
Added Session tracing.
See NNTP Server options in wcConfig. With this debugging option enabled, a wcNNTPTrace#.log file per node will be created. This session trace log is useful for debugging or tracking how clients talk to the news server.