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So you think Apple could do a better job marketing Macs on the
   Internet? Put your mouse where your mouth is and win Apple garb!
   We also bring you news on Apple's latest set of Internet servers,
   info on Internet Explorer and Symantec's Java development tools,
   plus Tonya's overview of new and updated HTML authoring tools,
   including Adobe's PageMill and SiteMill. Finally, do you remember
   the $10,000 Macintosh Web Security Challenge? Find out what did -
   or didn't - happen.

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Copyright 1990-1996 Adam & Tonya Engst. Details at end of issue.
   Information: <[e-mail]> Comments: <[e-mail]>
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Topics:
    MailBITS/04-Mar-96
    Help Apple's Internet Story
    Serving Up Servers
    Web Authoring Update
    Macintosh Web Security Challenge Results
    Reviews/04-Mar-96

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MailBITS/04-Mar-96
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**Internet Explorer 2.0b3** -- Microsoft released beta 3 of
  Internet Explorer last week. The release includes support for
  Netscape plug-ins, Internet Config, and GIF animations, as well as
  an enhanced History feature and support for inline QuickTime
  movies without a plug-in. If you have a Power Mac and QuickDraw
  3D, Internet Explorer also includes preliminary support for VRML
  (Virtual Reality Modeling Language); ironically, Internet Explorer
  now directly supports more Mac-specific technologies than Netscape
  Navigator. The beta can be downloaded from Microsoft's Web site,
  and is a little over 1 MB in size. [GD]

<http://www.msn.com/ie/ie.htm>
<http://product.info.apple.com/qd3d/QD3D.HTML>


**Free Java Tools for Symantec C++** -- Symantec released its
  first set of Macintosh Java development tools (codenamed Caffeine)
  for Symantec C++. Caffeine is free to Symantec C++ customers, and
  integrates Sun's virtual machine, Java compiler, and other
  components of Sun's Macintosh Java Development Kit into the
  Symantec Project Manager, letting users create and compile Java
  applets, then run them in Sun's Java Applet viewer. Caffeine is a
  precursor to Symantec's already-announced Java development
  environment Cafe, a stand-alone set of Java development tools that
  will also be free to Symantec C++ customers. The Caffeine release
  is about 5 MB in size. Caffeine is available for Power Macintosh,
  with a 68K version due "in a few weeks." [GD]

<http://www.symantec.com/lit/dev/caffeine.html>
<ftp://mirror.aol.com/pub/info-mac/dev/sym/symantec-caffeine.hqx>


**Apple Recalling Early PowerBook 5300s** -- MacWEEK reports that
  Apple is quietly recalling some early PowerBook 5300s shipped on
  or before 12-Nov-95 and with serial numbers at FC545 or lower.
  Before you ask, no, the problem doesn't have anything to do with
  fire, but rather a potential lock-up during intense use of a PC
  Card and expansion-bay devices like the floppy drive. Users
  experiencing problems can call the Apple Assistance Center at
  800/767-2775 to get their machines serviced under warranty. [GD]

<http://www.zdnet.com/macweek/mw_1009/news_recall.html>


Help Apple's Internet Story
---------------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  In TidBITS-311_ I wrote about a dinner Apple gave at Macworld Expo
  to solicit feedback from various Internet folks. In that article I
  said Apple planned to set up a way for you to provide your opinion
  on how Apple should market the Mac as an Internet machine.
  Needless to say, with rumors of acquisition and a change in CEO,
  things have taken longer than the marketing people at Apple would
  have liked, but the project's in place now.

  We all know the Mac is a killer Internet machine, but for the most
  part Apple's marketing message hasn't done a great job of
  expressing that fact, especially in market segments where the Mac
  isn't already strong. So, you can help Apple by sending in
  suggestions for ways Apple can improve its Internet marketing
  message.

  Hang on a second before you start writing. Apple doesn't want
  feel-good notes saying "my Mac was super easy to set up on the
  Internet and DOS sux." (The place to send those stories -
  especially amusing ones - is Guy Kawasaki's EvangeList - to
  subscribe, send email to <[e-mail]> with
  "subscribe macway your name" in the body of the message.) Instead,
  Apple's looking for serious messages that point out a specific
  advantage the Mac has over other systems in quantitative terms.
  Something such as the following hypothetical example would be
  helpful:

  "Apple should tell IS managers Mac Web servers are easier to set
  up and more reliable than Windows NT Web servers. I'm a system
  administrator in charge of 300 Macs and PCs at Widgets
  International. We recently set up a Power Mac 6100 running WebSTAR
  and a Pentium running Microsoft's Windows NT Web serve. The Mac
  server took approximately 15 minutes to set up, as compared to
  five hours for the NT server, and in the four weeks we've been
  using them, the Mac server has crashed twice, whereas the NT
  server dies about once per day."

  In other words, think numbers. Point out features that make an
  appreciable difference. Quantify your experiences. Apple wants
  marketing suggestions about the advantages the Mac currently has
  as an Internet client, an Internet server, or as a tool for
  creating Internet content. They're not looking for suggestions for
  ways to improve the Mac or Mac software, though. Send your ideas
  to <[e-mail]>.

  I've made some suggestions as to how Apple can run this project,
  and as a result, I'll be writing a follow-up in TidBITS, focusing
  on some of the best ideas and reporting on how useful the
  information has been to Apple. In addition, although the email
  address is an auto-reply (and Apple won't respond to each
  suggestion), they will read each one. On a periodic basis, they'll
  select some of the best suggestions and award those people an
  Apple t-shirt wardrobe, including classics like Windows 95 =
  Macintosh 89; Been There, Done That; MacAttack; and 21 million
  Macs say thanks. (If you're especially lucky, they may have a few
  extra Apple Internet Server Solution shirts, which read "Get your
  AISS online.")

  Apple has promised to avoid the "black hole syndrome," in which
  they ask for feedback and never provide any of their own. If you
  go to the effort of making a suggestion, they'll return the favor
  and let you know every few months how the project is going.

  Here's your chance to tell Apple how they can do a better job of
  communicating the Mac's current Internet advantages. Some
  advantages may be obvious - such as ease of use - but others may
  be less clear. For instance, the vast majority of Web servers on
  the Internet reportedly take less than 5,000 hits per month. Why
  then, do so many people setting up Web servers think they need a
  high-end Unix or NT machine, when a PowerBook 100 could handle
  that many hits if it didn't get bored and go to sleep?

  Again, send suggestions to <[e-mail]>. There could be a
  t-shirt wardrobe with your name on it if you do.


Serving Up Servers
------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  Last week Apple announced a slew of new servers, ranging from the
  high-end Network Servers to the second release of the popular
  Apple Internet Server Solution machines. For more information
  about these servers and their shipping dates, check out Apple's
  Web site at:

<http://www.solutions.apple.com/newservers/>


**Network Servers** -- In a fairly drastic move, Apple announced
  the Network Servers 500/132 and 700/150, which run not the Mac OS,
  but rather AIX 4.1.4, IBM's variant of Unix. The Network Servers
  are based on the PowerPC 604 chip running at either 132 or 150
  MHz, come with two built-in Fast/Wide SCSI-2 channels for optimal
  hard disk performance, and accept up to 512 MB of RAM. They sport
  two PCI buses and slots for up to six PCI cards. Reportedly, one
  of the coolest features of the new servers is their physical
  design, with a patented access door that provides key-controlled
  security and access to the main parts of the machine, including
  the hot-swappable drives (you can install up to seven half-height
  3.5" or 5.25" hard drives or three 5.25" full-height drives),
  hot-swappable cooling fans, and the logic board. The Network
  Server 700 has an option for redundant, hot-swappable power
  supplies for truly mission-critical environments. Prices range
  from about $10,000 to $16,500 for a system without enhancements.

  Apple intends the Network Servers to satisfy performance-hungry
  server customers, especially those who may already have AIX or
  other Unix expertise in place. However, I think Apple must be
  careful, since the Network Servers could hurt the marketing
  message Apple's been creating about its servers, particularly the
  Internet servers. Since these Network Servers run Unix, they won't
  be easy to set up or maintain, they won't be as secure as Mac
  OS-based servers if they're on the Internet, and they certainly
  won't be as easy to sell or support, given that Apple's expertise
  isn't in the Unix world. MacWEEK tested the Network Servers and
  found their performance impressive.

<http://www.zdnet.com/macweek/mw_1008/rev_appleserver.html>


**Apple Workgroup Servers** -- On a more prosaic note, Apple also
  announced two new Mac OS-based Apple Workgroup Servers (AWS) based
  on the PowerPC 604 chip running at 120 and 132 MHz. The AWS
  7250/120 and 8550/132 sport a PCI bus and run System 7.5.3, which
  includes Open Transport 1.1. Along with the Internet software
  bundle discussed below, there are two other software bundles. The
  Application Server Solution bundle, worth about $4,000, includes
  FileWave, Now Contact, Now Up-to-Date, Viper Instant Access,
  4-Sight Fax, netOctopus, Virex, and Skyline/Satellite. The
  AppleShare Server Solution comes with AppleShare 4.2.1, which now
  has a PowerPC-native file server engine and support for Open
  Transport 1.1 to increase performance significantly (it supports
  up to 3,000 open files and 250 simultaneous logins). Other
  software, for a total value of about $6,000, includes Server
  Manager, AppleShare Client for Windows, Apple Remote Access
  Multiport Server Software, and Retrospect Remote. Prices for new
  Workgroup Server bundles range from about $2,900 to about $8,000.


**Apple Internet Server Solution 2.0** -- Although it remains to
  be seen how the market will receive the Network Servers, the
  second release of the Apple Internet Server Solution for the World
  Wide Web machines should sell extremely well, thanks primarily to
  an extensive software bundle. As with the initial release of these
  machines, there are three different options for hardware, the
  Workgroup Server 6150/66, the 7250/120, and the 8550/132. Prices
  range from $2,300 to $6,500, but the low-end 6150/66 will easily
  handle most Web serving needs. The beefier machines should attract
  people planning to run intensive CGIs.

  What makes these machines so compelling is the software bundle,
  which includes: WebSTAR 1.2.5, PageMill 1.0, RealAudio Server 1.0,
  NetCloak 2.0, HomeDoor 1.0, MacDNS, ServerStat 1.0, BBEdit 3.5.2,
  Netscape Navigator 2.0, AppleSearch 1.5.1, Acrobat Pro 2.1,
  MapServe and WebMap, Tango and a 100-record trial version of
  Butler SQL, Email CGI, HyperCard, and AppleScript. If you want
  most of that software, it's cheaper to buy the low-end 6150 than
  it is to buy the software separately. The one liability of the
  software bundle is that you may not qualify for free upgrades.
  Unfortunately, that also applies to owners of the software that
  came with the first Apple Internet Server Solution machines -
  there's no upgrade path for the bundle, so you must upgrade each
  piece of software independently.

  Overall, Apple's new Mac OS-based servers look like they'll do
  well since they provide good performance and excellent
  functionality via their software bundles. More questionable are
  the Network Servers, which represent an entirely different path
  for Apple; that path may prove too slippery for comfort despite
  the significant performance gains from moving to AIX.


Web Authoring Update
--------------------
  by Tonya Engst <[e-mail]>

  Although much of the Web authoring software available a year ago
  rated as depressingly mediocre, some tools coming out now are
  rather good. This last month saw the release of a number of new
  products and updates to existing tools, and I anticipate the next
  few months will feature a fast and furious overturning of who's
  who in the Web authoring world. So, hang on to your hat and stay
  tuned for future updates.


**W4 Adds New Features** -- Miracle Software (formerly Best
  Enterprises) recently updated World Wide Web Weaver (W4) to
  version 1.1.1. Given the level of changes and improvements, I
  wouldn't have thought twice if Miracle had released W4 at version
  1.5.

<http://www.northnet.org/best/>

  New features include improved HTML error checking, a dialog box to
  help with making frames (those awkward windows-within-windows
  currently supported only by Netscape), and help with adding fonts
  and colors using Netscape extensions to HTML. You can now paste in
  styled text from other programs and W4 automatically applies
  appropriate HTML tags to the text. The new release fixes a number
  of bugs, addresses several performance issues, and improves the
  Find/Replace feature. W4 looks like an increasingly good choice as
  a Web authoring tool, particularly if you want to learn HTML but
  don't see yourself as highly text oriented. (See my review of W4
  1.0 in TidBITS-306_.)


**New HoTMetaL PRO Rule Set** -- SoftQuad has released a new rules
  file for HoTMetaL PRO that enables HoTMetaL PRO users to take
  advantage of additional Netscape and Internet Explorer extensions
  to HTML (see my HoTMetaL PRO review in TidBITS-314_).

<http://website.sq.com/rules/rules.htm>


**PageMill Update** -- Adobe recently updated PageMill to 1.0.1.
  The update fixes a number of rather technical bugs, but does not
  address problems with PageMill's handling of paragraphs (see my
  review of PageMill in TidBITS-305_). The new release also
  introduces a bug where colors in GIF images may shift dramatically
  when you open them in the image editor. An Adobe representative
  described the problem as a "mysterious bug" that only appears on
  68K machines and that tends to go away if you run your monitor at
  256 colors. If you experience the bug, don't save, since the
  incorrect colors will be saved. Instead, try opening the graphic
  into the image editor again.

<http://w1000.mv.us.adobe.com/Software/#pagemill101>


**SiteMill Ships!** SiteMill, Adobe's much-anticipated Web site
  management program, shipped about two weeks ago. SiteMill works
  much like PageMill (and includes PageMill 1.0.1), but integrates
  some tools that facilitate the creation and maintenance of entire
  Web sites. Although SiteMill's suggested retail price is $595,
  PageMill owners can purchase SiteMill for $299, and Adobe will
  currently sell you a copy for $399. I've had a chance to try
  SiteMill, and even with Adobe's discounts, I think it's
  significantly over-priced.

  Although you can get by with some lesser Macs, Adobe recommends
  you have a 68040 or better, System 7.5, 6 MB of application RAM,
  and a color monitor to use SiteMill. To use SiteMill's site
  management tools, you must have the site on a volume that you can
  mount on your desktop. Once you load a site, SiteMill does three
  things for you:

  First, it checks your entire loaded site and identifies any
  relative links (links to other files in the site) that don't
  terminate properly. SiteMill then makes it reasonably easy to fix
  those links. If you can't load your entire site, relative links to
  unloaded portions of the site appear as errors.

  Second, it lists any full URLs linked to in the site, and - for
  each URL - it shows what pages have links going out to them.
  SiteMill can't tell you if such a link is broken, but if you wish
  to change one, you can change it just once within the list, and
  SiteMill will change all the appropriate HTML for you.

  Third, SiteMill presents you with a Finder-like list view of your
  site. In that view, you can move files around (but only one at a
  time, and not folders that contain files) and SiteMill
  automatically updates the HTML as needed. You can also see an
  overview of the structure of your site and identify files that
  don't link to or from anything.

  So, the good news is you can use SiteMill to update and fix links
  in a site, and you can do this without SiteMill otherwise altering
  the HTML in your documents. The bad news is that SiteMill lacks
  features that would justify its price. SiteMill won't be much use
  to people who work locally on mirrors of their Web sites and then
  use FTP to transfer modified files to remote Web servers. If you
  make changes to a site, SiteMill does little to help you track
  which files have changed and it does _nothing_ to help you
  transfer changed files to the correct directories on a server.
  SiteMill can't go out and check external links to see if they are
  valid. My final objection is that SiteMill has a tiny interface
  and offers no way to enlarge it.

<http://w1000.mv.us.adobe.com/Apps/SiteMill/>

    Adobe -- 800/411-8657 -- 206/628-2749
    Miracle Software -- 315/265-0930 -- <[e-mail]>
    SoftQuad -- 800/387-2777 -- 416/239-4801 -- 416/239-7105 (fax)
      <[e-mail]>


Macintosh Web Security Challenge Results
----------------------------------------
  by Chris Kilbourn <[e-mail]>

  In the beginning, the concept was simple: pay $10,000 to anyone
  who could bypass the security on a Macintosh Web server using only
  off-the-shelf software to protect the system (see TidBITS-303_).
  From 15-Oct-95 to 31-Nov-95, digital.forest, ComVista Internet
  Solutions, Westwind Computing, Maxum Software, StarNine, and
  WebEdge Technologies sponsored the $10,000 Macintosh Web Security
  Challenge. Anyone who could break through the security on a
  designated server and retrieve the protected information would
  receive $10,000. The goal was to raise awareness of the fact
  Macintosh servers make the most secure platform for World Wide Web
  servers.


**The Plan** -- Our original plan was to protect a single page on
  the Web server so only one person would have access to it. After
  some consideration, we decided to make the challenge even more
  enticing by allowing users to see the page and only protect one
  line on the page. The only software used was StarNine's WebSTAR
  (the Web server) and NetCloak (a CGI application from Maxum
  Development). Security was provided in two ways. We used WebSTAR's
  Realms capability to require a username and password of anyone
  viewing the secure page, and we employed the filtering capability
  of NetCloak to hide the secure line on the page from anyone who
  did not provide both the proper password and come from the proper
  IP address. The server was available at challenge.comvista.com (it
  is no longer on the Web) and Henry Norr of MacWEEK was enrolled as
  the "authorized user" with access to the secure page. Henry logged
  in during the Challenge to verify that the page was, in fact,
  available to the proper user while still denying all others.

<http://www.starnine.com/>
<http://www.maxum.com/>

  Challengers were given a username and password to access the page,
  as well as Henry's username (just to get them started), the IP
  address of the server, information about our AppleTalk and IP
  network, and a listing of the software available on the server.
  Occasionally, we received requests for additional information
  about the setup and, with the exception of the password and IP
  address, we answered them. The only restrictions on claiming the
  prize were that we had to receive notice within two days of the
  end of the Challenge and the winner had to explain how the feat
  was accomplished.


**Designing the Network** -- digital.forest provided the Internet
  connection for the server and monitored the Web site at the
  network layer. The network configuration consisted of a burstable
  T-1 connection to the Internet through a Cisco 2501 router. The
  network hub was an Asante 24 port non-managed hub, and the Web
  server itself was an Apple Workgroup Server 8150 with the Apple
  Internet Server bundle.

  When we planned the challenge, I'd hoped to experiment with
  various network configurations to help isolate traffic. Our
  original start date was 01-Oct-95, but unfortunately delay of the
  installation of our T-1 (read about my struggles with GTE at the
  URL below) did not allow time for network configuration
  experiments. With the new start date approaching, I settled on the
  rather flat network architecture of router-hub-server. The server
  was on the same network segment as all other computers served by
  our T-1. We didn't need a firewall or packet filter on the router,
  since all of the CPUs on the network were Macs.

<http://www.forest.net/advanced/isp/gtesucks1.html>


**Watching and Waiting** -- This network configuration made
  traffic analysis more of a bother than I would have liked, but it
  wasn't impossible. Apple Computer Northwest loaned me a Quadra 630
  for a monitoring station, but I rapidly discovered NetMinder
  Ethernet from Neon Software would not work with the 630's
  communication slot Ethernet card. Disappointed, I used my trusty
  PowerBook 165 with an Asante SCSI Ethernet adapter. I experienced
  a performance loss running through the SCSI adapter, but I could
  still track what was going on behind the scenes.


**The Results** -- In the 45 days the contest ran, no one broke
  through the security barriers and claimed the prize.

  I generally ran the network packet analyzer for three to five
  hours a day to check for interesting packets destined for the
  Challenge server. I created packet filters that captured all
  TCP/IP network traffic in or out of the Challenge server. (Hint to
  Neon: drop the limit of five packet filters - it's frustrating
  when you want to do advanced filtering). Some things I saw were
  amusing, others downright hilarious.


**The Mac OS is not Unix** -- One of the more amusing things was
  that with all the information and technical specifications posted
  on the server itself, most people who tried to bypass the security
  thought the server was a Unix box! People tried to telnet and send
  mail to the server, looking for a process they could exploit.
  These types of attacks were fairly regular during the course of
  the challenge. I still smile when I think about how many people
  saw:

 % telnet challenge.comvista.com
 telnet> Connection refused.

  (A hint to crackers: there's no shell in the Mac OS to talk to,
  and even if we ran a mail server, you still wouldn't be able to
  mail yourself /etc/shadow. The Mac just doesn't work that way.)

  People also tried to FTP to the server, looking to either put
  something on the server, or copy something from it. Again, this
  was a fruitless exercise as there was no FTP server on the
  Challenge server.

  Things became more interesting, however. I noticed a fair amount
  of UDP (User Datagram Protocol) traffic coming from various
  computer science departments in universities. It appeared some
  enterprising students had written scripts that went up the UDP and
  TCP port numbers, looking for hidden processes that could be
  attacked. We did not run any TCP/IP processes other than the Web
  server on port 80, so all this did was waste bandwidth.


**Another MacTCP Quirk** -- There was also quite a bit of ICMP
  (Internet Control Message Protocol) redirect packet traffic on the
  network. As I traced them back to their source, they turned out to
  be from people trying to do traceroutes to the Web server.
  Something I was unaware of until the Challenge was that MacTCP
  does not respond to ICMP packets properly, making traceroutes to
  MacTCP hosts impossible. The packets time out at the closest
  gateway to the host because the Mac never responds to them. I
  confirmed this by running my own traceroutes to the Challenge
  server from a Unix host and comparing those packets with those
  coming from outside sources. Open Transport fixes this behavior,
  and it is now possible to do a traceroute to a Macintosh host that
  uses Open Transport.

  This particular quirk of MacTCP begat an email message from a
  gentleman saying our challenge was unfair because he could not
  perform a traceroute to the server. After I pointed out that this
  was a failure of MacTCP and not anything I had done, he backed
  off. He then pointed out that it would be trivial to snoop the
  password to the locked page, yet for some reason he did not step
  forward to collect the $10,000. I wonder why?


**Summary** -- On the whole, I learned that network-level security
  on the Macintosh is really quite good. Unlike Unix, there are no
  TCP/IP server processes built into the Mac OS, so there is nothing
  to attack unless you put it there yourself. In addition, TCP/IP
  services on a Mac lack the low-level communications available on
  Unix systems, which provides additional security. If you keep
  mail, FTP, and Web file spaces from overlapping, there is no way
  to pipe data from one service to another.

  One note about server design: when installing multiple TCP/IP
  services on a single machine, be certain there is no way to upload
  a file with one service and make it available to another. If a
  user can FTP files directly into Web server file space, that user
  could upload a CGI application and immediately launch it.

  In sum, the Challenge did nothing to contradict our belief that if
  you have a Macintosh-only TCP/IP Internet-connected network, you
  have little to fear from outside intruders coming from the
  Internet. Further, if you are running a Mac Web server, there
  appears to be no way to compromise it from the network level.
  However, if you have a Unix computer within your network, you must
  still safeguard and protect that machine lest it become
  compromised and provide a close and easy platform for launching
  other attacks.


**A Closing Warning** -- Please note these results do not mean the
  Mac community can ignore security; on the contrary, we need to be
  even more on our toes for security breaches, simply because they
  will most likely come from an unexpected vulnerability. Most of
  the attacks attempted were based on known vulnerabilities in Unix
  systems. Once Macs become more popular as servers and make their
  way into larger commercial networks, crackers will have more
  incentive to compromise these systems.

  In addition, it is not our contention that this contest proved
  anything about Macintosh network security, or that such a contest
  could replace quality testing for flaws in server software. In
  fact, we would not have risked our money if we had not first
  convinced ourselves of the security of the system.

  Finally, it is possible that a cracker did bypass our security and
  discover the hidden phrase, but is unwilling to come forward
  because the information is potentially more valuable than the
  $10,000 reward.

  [Chris Kilbourn, <[e-mail]>, is President, System
  Administrator, and Network Janitor for digital.forest, an Internet
  service provider in Redmond, Washington. Jon Wiederspan,
  <[e-mail]>, of ComVista Internet Solutions assisted in
  preparing this article.]


Reviews/04-Mar-96
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 26-Feb-96, Vol. 10, #8
    Apple Network Server 700 -- pg. 1
    Photoshop machines -- pg. 39
      Intergraph TD-400
      Sun Ultra1 Creator 3D
      DayStar Genesis MP 600


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