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Linux-Announce Digest #987
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Linux-Announce Digest #987, Volume #3 Tue, 3 Jul 01 04:13:03 EDT
Contents:
WWWOFFLE - Web proxy with features for dial-up users ("Andrew M. Bishop")
rp-pppoe 3.1 -- Robust PPPoE suite for Linux ("David F. Skoll")
Wsmake 0.6.1 - website pre-processor (Mike Brownlow)
sysstat-4.0.1 - System performance tools for Linux (Sebastien Godard)
submission to comp.os.linux.announce (Matthias Riese)
SLACKWARE 8 RELEASED!! (Linux Cruiser)
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Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 02:31:57 CST
From: "Andrew M. Bishop" <amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk>
Subject: WWWOFFLE - Web proxy with features for dial-up users
WWWOFFLE - World Wide Web Offline Explorer - Version 2.6d
=========================================================
The WWWOFFLE programs simplify World Wide Web browsing from computers that use
intermittent (dial-up) connections to the internet.
Description
===========
The WWWOFFLE server is a proxy web server with special features for use with
dial-up internet links. This means that it is possible to browse web pages and
read them without having to remain connected.
Basic Features
- Caching of HTTP, FTP and finger protocols.
- Allows the 'GET', 'HEAD', 'POST' and 'PUT' HTTP methods.
- Interactive or command line control of online/offline/autodial status.
- Highly configurable.
- Low maintenance, start/stop and online/offline status can be automated.
While Online
- Caching of pages that are viewed for later review.
- Conditional fetching to only get pages that have changed.
- Based on expiration date, time since last fetched or once per session.
- Non cached support for SSL (Secure Socket Layer e.g. https).
- Can be used with one or more external proxies based on web page.
- Control which pages cannot be accessed.
- Allow replacement of blocked pages.
- Control which pages are not to be stored in the cache.
- Requests compressed pages from web servers (compile time option).
While Offline
- Can be configured to use dial-on-demand for pages that are not cached.
- Selection of pages to download next time online
- Using normal browser to follow links.
- Command line interface to select pages for downloading.
- Control which pages can be requested when offline.
- Provides non-cached access to intranet servers.
Automated Download
- Downloading of specified pages non-interactively.
- Options to automatically fetch objects in requested pages
- Understands various types of pages
- HTML 4.0, Java classes, VRML (partial), XML (partial).
- Options to fetch different classes of objects
- Images, Stylesheets, Frames, Scripts, Java or other objects.
- Option to not fetch webbug images (images of 1 pixel square).
- Automatically follows links for pages that have been moved.
- Can monitor pages at regular intervals to fetch those that have changed.
- Recursive fetching
- To specified depth.
- On any host or limited to same server or same directory.
- Chosen from command line or from browser.
- Control over which links can be fetched recursively.
Convenience
- Optional information footer on HTML pages showing date cached and options.
- Options to modify HTML pages
- Remove scripts.
- Remove Java applets.
- Remove stylesheets.
- Indicate cached and uncached links.
- Remove the blink tag.
- Remove refresh tags.
- Remove links to pages that are in the DontGet list.
- Replace images that are in the DontGet list.
- Replace webbug images (images of 1 pixel square).
- Demoronise HTML character sets.
- Stop animated GIFs.
- Automatic proxy configuration for Netscape.
- Searchable cache with the addition of the ht://Dig or UdmSearch programs.
- Built in simple web-server for local pages.
- Timeouts to stop proxy lockups
- DNS name lookups.
- Remote server connection.
- Data transfer.
- Continue or stop downloads interrupted by client.
- Based on file size of fraction downloaded.
- Purging of pages from cache
- Based on URL matching.
- To keep the cache size below a specified limit.
- To keep the free disk space above a specified limit.
- Interactive or command line control.
- Compression of cached pages based on age.
- Provides compressed pages to web browser (compile time option).
Indexes
- Multiple indexes of pages stored in cache
- Servers for each protocol (http, ftp ...).
- Pages on each server.
- Pages waiting to be fetched.
- Pages requested last time offline.
- Pages fetched last time online.
- Pages monitored on a regular basis.
- Configurable indexes
- Sorted by name, date, server domain name, type of file.
- Options to delete, refresh or monitor pages.
- Selection of complete list of pages or hide un-interesting pages.
Security
- Works with pages that require basic username/password authentication.
- Automates proxy authentication for external proxies that require it.
- Control over access to the proxy
- Defaults to local host access only.
- Host access configured by hostname or IP address.
- Optional proxy authentication for user level access control.
- Optional password control for proxy management functions.
- Can censor incoming and outgoing HTTP headers to maintain user privacy.
Configuration
- All options controlled using a configuration file.
- Interactive web page to allow editing of the configuration file.
- User customisable error and information pages.
Changes
=======
Since version 2.6c:
Bug Fixes:
Fix pagination problem in wwwoffled manual page. Fix core dump with missing
DontCompress section. Fix error with convert-cache and uncompress-cache
programs not recognising valid configuration items. Fix harmless buffer
overrun. Improve the URL decoded strings displayed in indexes. Don't complain
about empty directory when installing. Canonicalise the pathname in URLs.
Compile on __bsdi__ systems. Convert decimal IP addresses to dotted-quad.
Add support for compilation on Apple OS X. Enable HTML modifications on URLs
with error status. Use a case-insensitive check when censoring headers. Fix
up HTML to that it validates with an SGML checker.
New Features:
Added IPv6 support.
Added bind-ipv4 and bind-ipv6 options to specify local IP address to bind to.
Added 'random' sort order option for indexes.
Made index sorting use alphabetical as a secondary sort.
Added HTTP/1.1 'Cache-Control: max-age=..' header handling (same as 'Expires').
Translations:
Updated the Russian translations of the WWWOFFLE messages.
Availability
============
FTP server: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/www/servers/wwwoffle-2.6d.tgz
FTP server: ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/unix/httpd/wwwoffle-2.6d.tgz
Web page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/
Author & Copyright
==================
This program is copyright Andrew M. Bishop 1996,97,98,99,2000,01
(amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk) and distributed under GPL.
email: amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk
[Please put wwwoffle in the subject line]
--
Andrew.
======================================================================
Andrew M. Bishop amb@gedanken.demon.co.uk
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
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Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 02:32:54 CST
From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs@roaringpenguin.com>
Subject: rp-pppoe 3.1 -- Robust PPPoE suite for Linux
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Version 3.1 of rp-pppoe has been released. It is the successor to 3.0.
rp-pppoe is a user-mode (and kernel mode, on Linux 2.4) client and
server for the Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet, a protocol used
by many ADSL service providers. It runs on standard Linux kernels
NetBSD and Solaris. rp-pppoe is released under the GNU General Public
License, and can be obtained from:
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/
Changed from Version 3.0 to 3.1:
o Security fix to server. It now correctly rejects PADT's from incorrect
MAC addresses. If you are using the server, you are strongly urged to upgrade.
o New server features: Server can now listen on multiple interfaces. It
can randomize session numbers, and delays reuse of a session number as long
as possible.
o Kernel-mode PPPoE is better-documented, and works with Michal Ostrowski's
latest patched PPP suite (ppp-2.4.1-pppoe2.tgz).
David F. Skoll
Roaring Penguin Software Inc. | http://www.roaringpenguin.com
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Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 02:33:50 CST
Subject: Wsmake 0.6.1 - website pre-processor
From: Mike Brownlow <mike@wsmake.org>
Wsmake is a website pre-processor. It includes a parser that handles
page ordering, tag substitution, and dependency checking. You can use
wsmake with any type of content, from PHP to XML or even your own
computer language.
See website for details and downloads:
http://www.wsmake.org/
--
Mike Brownlow
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Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 02:35:49 CST
From: Sebastien Godard <sebastien.godard@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: sysstat-4.0.1 - System performance tools for Linux
Hi everybody,
Although sysstat release 4.0.0 appeared to be quite stable, there is now
a new version of this nifty little package!
sysstat release 4.0.1 in available on sunsite/metalab server:
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/status/
87kB sysstat-4.0.1.tar.gz
89kB sysstat-4.0.1-1.src.rpm
68kB sysstat-4.0.1-1.i386.rpm
The sysstat utilities are a collection of performance monitoring tools
for Linux. These include sar, mpstat, iostat and sa tools.
sysstat 4.0.1 is a *stable* version, which is fully compatible with
Linux 2.4 kernels!
To learn some more about sysstat, check out
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/
Changes vs 4.0.0 are:
2001/06/24: Version 4.0.1
* Files created by sa2 shell script were world writable. This is now
fixed.
* sa2.sh shell script updated: only remove sa?? and sar?? files.
* Don't use PAGE_SHIFT since it no longer necessarily exists in
<asm/page.h>. Compute it using page size instead.
* Cosmetic changes for iostat.
* NLS updated: Afrikaans translation added.
--
Sébastien Godard <sebastien.godard@wanadoo.fr>
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/
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Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 02:36:53 CST
Subject: submission to comp.os.linux.announce
From: Matthias Riese <matthias.riese@b-novative.de>
Here's my submission:
daVinci Presenter 3.0.1 released
================================
daVinci Presenter (TM) is an innovative solution for graph
visualization. With daVinci Presenter, complex structures can be
automatically drawn in a most effective way. Improve your work by
creating impressive diagrams of large networks, conceptual drafts,
software architectures, work flows, etc. - much more rapidly than with
any standard drawing software. daVinci Presenter offers powerful
automatic layout algorithms, a rich set of interactive features and an
API for embedding in customer environments.
daVinci Presenter is free for educational use and for evaluation.
Changes:
New visualization functions with splines, edge labels and tool-tips
for all graph objects. Modernized, fully configurable user interface
which can be located to foreign languages. Application programmer
interface with TCP/IP sockets connection. Added support for Windows
NT and Windows 2000. Completely new rendering engine for increased
performance, extendability and more comfort. Several memory-leaks
have been removed, enabling long-lasting operation.
The complete changelog for daVinci Presenter 3.0 and 3.0.1 can be found at:
http://www.b-novative.com/download/changelog_dp.html
You can download daVinci Presenter 3.0.1 at:
http://www.b-novative.com/download
Information about how to order daVinci Presenter 3.0 is available at:
http://www.b-novative.com/order
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Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 02:37:57 CST
From: Linux Cruiser <LinuxCruiser@yahoo.com>
Subject: SLACKWARE 8 RELEASED!!
Fellow Slack Pack... and Linux Guru's... Slackware 8 is now available! As
of the wee morning hours this A.M., the long awaited and highly anticipated
Linux OS update has ben unleashed unto the world!! Get it now
http://www.SlackWare.com !!!
Yer Friend,
Linux Cruiser
Las Vegas, NV
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