Total Network Tools 2002/NextStepPublishing-TotalNetworkTools2002-Win95.iso/Archive/Download Tools/NetAnts.exe/HISTORY.TXT

Text File | 2000-10-09 | 19.6 KB | 519 lines

NetAnts History
Written by Lewis Hong([e-mail])

Version 1.23 (2000.10)
*************************************************************************
New Feature:
1) Invert selection job items
2) Parse HTTP header "Content-Disposition" filename (freedrive.com)
3) OEM Info in splash and about dialog
4) Letter series can be used when add batch jobs
5) Showing big figure in K unitú¼and with comma separator
6) "Total time" and "Average BPS" added to info window
7) URL Bookmark added
8) Shell context menu integration
9) Update version check
10) Import broken download

Bug Fix:
1) Check downloading file when auto rename
2) Can't save security configuration
3) Crash when sending file to recycle bin under NT4
4) Get correct file length with FTP symbol link
5) Using 8.3 filename to feed virus scanner
6) Display local filename dynamically when downloading
7) "Internet explorer should restart" reported when startup
8) Receive 1 byte when reading server reply

Version 1.22 (2000.6)
*************************************************************************
New Feature:
1) Delete downloaded file to recycle bin
2) Show language menuitem in order

Bug Fix:
1) "Download by NetAnts" crash in zdnet download
2) Disable "Set Priority to don't download" when job is running or in queue
3) Initial toolbar state when startup
4) Restart ant to retry if can't resume (101% with transparent web cache)

Version 1.21 (2000.6)
*************************************************************************
Bug Fix:
1) Can't save job column customization under NT
2) Can't save toolbar customization under NT
3) Corrupted string load from registry under NT
4) Update job list and info view when auto rename
5) Set job status to error after changed priority
6) Hide or show main window when toggle desktop
7) Can't restore window normal position

Version 1.2 (2000.5)
*************************************************************************
New Feature:
1) Save rebar band position
2) Skin supported
3) Support SOCKS4a with DNS lookup
4) Remember last download directory
5) Localize NetAnts by making easy-to-make language packages
6) Customise toolbar button
7) Customise job window column
8) Delete downloaded file when delete job
9) Use default proxy for all jobs
10) Extract comment when drop HTML fragment
11) Prase <BASE HREF=...> as referer
12) Edit multi jobs' property
13) Restart ant when downloading
14) Retrieve username and password from DUN
15) Don't download job priority
16) Backup download database every day
17) Fix corrupt zip archive
18) Small banner added to AD bar

Bug Fix:
1) Incorrect splitter clip rectangle
2) Unpaint region when toggle toolbar or wavebar
3) Can't create file map under NT
4) User, password and download directory will be reset incorrectly when edit job
5) Decode HTML clipboard data as UTF8
6) Deal with relative path when combine URL
7) Using job URL as referer when add links from link window
8) Keep authorization when redirect
9) Ignore invalid FTP list data (ftp://ftp.cs.virginia.edu)
10) Don't use EWX_FORCE when shutdown

Version 1.1 (2000.4)
*************************************************************************
New Feature:
1) Auto scroll log window
2) Show notification message
3) New style job log
4) Proxy list added
5) Support SOCKS4/5
6) Authorization supported with HTTP proxy connect mode
7) Export URL list
8) Start and stop every ant when downloading
9) Default file name button added in job property dialog
10) Toggle toolbar, statusbar, histogram bar, virtual folder and views
11) Save splitter position

Bug Fix:
1) Can't download FTP file with HTTP proxy connect mode
2) Get file length with HCLFTPD server
3) Blank category menu in urllist dialog
4) Using existing dailup connection
5) Can't show main menu

Version 1 (2000.2)
*************************************************************************
New Feature:
1) Info window added
2) Credits in about dialog
3) Double click downloaded job to launch it
4) Select jobs based on filename regular expression (Addjobs Dialog)
5) Enhanced job window tooltip
6) Refuse to enter suspend mode when downloading (Power managerment)
7) Link window added
8) Virtual folder window added
9) Show menuitem with icon
10) Tab window animation effect
11) Set 256-colors bitmap as background of window
12) Show bps with gradient bar
13) Removable rebar control
14) 256-colors small icon used (JobStat, TabIcon...)
15) Antbar in log window
16) Using listview to show log message
17) Autosize statusbar part
18) Show job stat in status bar
19) Simulate NetVampire(3)'s DDE interface to work with WWW&FTP observer(http://www.allnetic.com/)
20) Auto exit when done downloading
21) Check all links and selected links in urllist dialog
22) Confirm when clear job log
23) FTP ASCII mode: Yes, No and Auto (base on file backsuffix)
24) Stop if server doesn't support resume
25) Change local filename automatically where redirecting
26) Auto-fit drop basket position when dropping URL
27) Registry value Layout\NoWindowBK added

Bug Fix:
1) Disable "Start all" when all downloaded
2) Calculate statusbar height dynamically
3) ClipCursor when dragging splitter
4) Save configure in HKEY_CURRENT_USER
5) Save configure just after modified
6) Process readonly HTML file
7) Don't show plain password in log window
8) Case-insensitive when parsing default protocol
9) Reset job status to be checked update
10) Don't report error at startup when netscape hasn't been installed
11) Can't explore local file when name = "download.aspid=1909"
12) Spin style UDS_NOTHOUSANDS added
13) Start jobs from top to bottom
14) String template max-match (1.1.jpg <-> *.jpg)
15) Ignore duplicate URL captured from clipboard
16) Can't get ftp list data when permission denied
17) Set timer with id = 0
18) Play sound once when add multiple jobs
19) Revised block-split algorithm
20) Invalid time elpased when system time changed
21) Base URL like http://www.foobar.com/ allowed when parsing HTML
22) Wrong port number with http://user:[e-mail]/foo/bar.zip
23) Convert %xx in FTP URL
24) Go on downloading if get FTP LIST error response code
25) Crash when parsing http reply code
26) Don't using default port number when constructing HTTP HOST tag
27) Invalid field value in DDE reply

Version 1 Beta 2.75(1999.10)
*************************************************************************
New Feature:
1) Support external resource dll (multi language)
2) Default action if file already exists
3) Toggle open cancelled URL in browser
4) Support HTTP proxy mode : CONNECT (Wingate 2.1d)
5) Create .NFO file
6) Crash report added
7) Abortive shutdown no use socket
8) User and password based on URL mask (Option->Security)
9) Process web page file
10) Support HTML clipboard format (Drag&Drop)
11) Register .!!! as new shell file type
12) Add "Start All" and "Stop All" to context menu
13) IE5 toolbar/menu quick launch
14) Show transfer speed by animation frame rate

Bug Fix:
1) Go on downloading with some error reply code (FTP LIST)
2) Changed how clipboard monitoring works to avoid MS Word crashing when text is cut from a document.
3) OLE Server busy when drop link (InSendMessage)
4) Go on downloading with FTP 421 reply code
5) Logo margin in about dialog box
6) Max job number limit removed
7) Local filename changed when choose different URL from edit job dialog
8) Stack overflow when using "Download All by NetAnts"
9) Correctly show chinese character in log window
10) Reposition splitter bar after startup
11) Reset job file if corrupt
12) TBM_SETRANGE failed when Maximum value is too large
13) Load RICHED20.DLL if exist
14) URL list file didn't be closed after used

Version 1 Beta 2.70(1999.8)
*************************************************************************
New Feature:
1) Using HTTP proxy and using FTP proxy separately
2) Move PASV mode to protocol tab (default mode)
3) Support FTP ASCII mode
4) Get file date and time from server
5) Category popup menu added
6) Download again & check update
7) Overwrite, resume, auto rename or cancel can be choosed if file already exists

Bug Fix:
1) Delay wait for next retry didn't take effect sometimes
2) Didn't show default AD image when started by browser click
3) Uncheck "schedule download" when popup dropbasket menu

Version 1 Beta 2.67(1999.8)
*************************************************************************
New Feature:
1) Save option tab added to add multi jobs dialog
2) Import URL list file (URL list file, HTML import file)
3) Enhanced storage I/O when delete or add many jobs
4) Improved Browser Integration for IE 5.0
5) Generate sequence URL
6) Open cancelled URL in browser
7) Advert banner added

Bug Fix:
1) Popup "Save as empty" infinitely with add job dialog
2) Create title tip fail if NoSplash has been set
3) Always set "Download all by NetAnts" to c:\program files\netants\nagetall.htm
4) Can't get correct suffix of URL when NetAnts isn't running
5) Get next job incorrectly when delete multi selected jobs
6) Alt + -> and Alt + <- in browser

Version 1 Beta 2.65(1999.8)
*************************************************************************
New Feature:
1) Reset colors in option->visual
2) More precisely auto dialup support, tiny change in dialing dialog
3) Delay before every retry
4) Improved Browser Integration with Netscape 3.0+ and IE 4.0+
5) Server side control tag added : HTTP(NetAnts: MaxConnection=x), FTP(230-NetAnts: MaxConnection=x)
6) Browser integration and clipboard monitor menuitem added
7) Yield speed when connecting (automatic mode)
8) Upgrade option->saveto
9) Show URL list dialog when choose "download all" from IE context menu
10) Regular expression support (?*) with suffix in Option->Saveto, Option->Automation

Bug Fix:
1) Play wave file serially (winmm.dll crash)
2) Misspell HTTP header (Referrer shoud be Referer)
3) Duplicate IE context menu item "Download by NetAnts"
4) Encrypted password corrupt if length = 8 * X
5) Explorer crash if local file has been deleted
6) Automatic speed limit > maximun speed

Version 1 Beta 2.60(1999.7)
*************************************************************************

New Feature:
1) Speed limit mode : Unlimited, Manual and Automatic
2) User can customize the color of histogram
3) Support Internet Explorer link click by implementing COM server
4) Support UrlPro (http://www.enterpspace.org/molsoft)
5) Hyperlink effect in about dialog
6) Add "Download All by NetAnts" to IE context menu
7) Simulate GetRight's DDE interface for funny Screensaver(http://www.getright.com/getright_sparks.zip)
8) Download directory in drop basket
9) Editable Referrer and User-Agent tag
10) Recreate tray icon after explorer crash (>=IE4)
11) Async DNS lookup
12) Show current total BPS in status bar
13) Registry value Layout\NoSplash added
14) Formal installer(uninstall) used

Bug Fix:
1) VBScript function name conflict with IE5
2) "New version of comctl32.dll needed" reported
3) Create splash window in main thread (rasapi32 no response randomly)
4) Get local filename from URL incorrectly
5) Virus scan file path with blank
6) Memory block corrupt when analysis URL with :port
7) Dialup and auto hangup can't work under NT
8) Right-bottom corner in statusbar

Version 1 Beta 2.55(1999.4)
*************************************************************************

New Feature:
1) Schedule download and hang up
2) Delete all downloaded job
3) Click animate logo to visit website of NetAnts
4) Add "Download by NetAnts" to IE context menu
5) Check host name loosely, such as http://you&me.163.net
6) Animate window zoom effect
7) Assign directories for received files with certain extensions
8) "Send email" and "Visit home page" add to menu

Bug Fix:
1) Limited log message line count
2) Decode %xx in URL when save to local file name
3) Choose add job when valid URL in clipboard didn't show dialog
4) Change "browse virus scanner" dialog template from "save as" to "open"
5) Ignore URL with CGI query when click in browser
6) Menu shortcut "Alt+D"
7) Defragment when save job file
8) Addjob dialog can't pop out in Win98
9) Tray context menu position when appbar is on the top
10) Non-absolute URI redirection, such as http://www.shareware.ru/load.asp?id=97
11) Right click in tray context menu
12) Autoshutdown can't take effect on NT

Version 1 Beta 2.51(1999.2)
*************************************************************************

New Feature:
1) Auto paste URL in add job dialog
2) Show host and proxy address in log window
3) Default sound effect (voice from my girlfriend :-) )

Bug Fix:
1) DDE request URL with comma in double quote paire
2) force main window redraw after first startup
3) Don't reprot "register netscape fail" if Netscape hasn't been installed

Version 1 Beta 2.5(1999.2)
*************************************************************************

New Feature:
1) User can hide "User-Agent" tag with HTTP protocol
2) Support Internet Explorer link click
3) Click with Atl will get any link in browser, click with Ctrl will not get any link in browser
4) Simulate NetVampire(2.41)'s DDE interface to work with HTMLImport and URLPost(http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Campus/9680/index.html)
5) Always retry when error occurs
6) Automatically start all jobs after running
7) Explore and lanuch local file
8) Use Cookies from your web browser(IE and Netscape)
9) Support Opera link click with help of plugin
10) Add Job priority
11) Sortable job list
12) Create directory in the fly
13) User:Pass@URL syntax support for FTP and HTTP

Bug Fix:
1) NT clipboard viewer
2) Check job column width > 0 (Empty job win ?)
3) Check duplicate URL before adding job
4) Fix "modify tray icon fail" and "delete tray icon fail"
5) "Stop all jobs" didn't decrease number of queue jobs
6) Rewrite netscape protocol handler after startup
7) Don't always show "please restart netscape"
8) Enlarge buffer size of ftp reply (ftp://ftp..novalogic.com crash)
9) Fix bug with multipart boundary (Netscape-Commerce/1.12, www.adom.com)
10) Check Content-Range header (Netscape-Commerce/1.12, www.adom.com)
11) Set wrong splitter bar position when window is maximized
12) Set menuitem state correctly

*************************************************************************
Version 1 Beta 2.41(1998.10)

Bug Fix:
1) Proxy authorization with wrong tag

*************************************************************************
Version 1 Beta 2.4 (1998.9)

New Feature:
1) Show received bytes in tooltip of tray icon
2) Show job status in tooltip of drop basket
3) Using state image instead of resume column
4) Compressed job file, less disk space need
5) Always show tray icon
6) Dialer, auto hangup, auto shutdown toolbar and menu added
7) Select all, stop all, start all menu added
8) Save password with encryption in registy and job file
9) Auto redial when disconnected
10) Copy URLs of selected job item
11) Accelerator key

Bug Fix:
1) Drag drop basket with left hand mouse
2) load proxy configure of Beta 2.1
3) Don't increase received bytes when connecting
4) Invalid send winpopup to
5) Dynamically load RAS api
6) Disable dialup when no RAS entry
7) Check valid dialup entry
8) Job can been edit after done (readonly)

*************************************************************************
Version 1 Beta 2.3 (1998.8)

New Feature:
1) Proxy and Connection per job
2) Add comment column
3) Toggle drop basket always on top
4) User can type "netants" from StartMenu->Run, AppPath
5) Double click drop basket to show or hide main window
6) More sensitive BPS update, estimate time depend on history (7/8)
7) Dial-Up network support
8) Auto shutdown and auto hang up
9) Set max error limit to 200

Bug Fix:
1) Check window position when startup
2) Check HTTP and FTP reply with file length <= 0
3) More retries when meet protocol error reply
4) Do PostMessage until success, message queue full, zomb ant
5) Deal with HTTP/0.9 server
6) Don't send STAT again, extract size from RETR directly
7) Don't clear all downloaded block when meet unresume server
8) HTTP Reply 200 is not always equal to unresume
9) Import broken file from unresume site
10) Save job win column width = 0
11) Job statistics with better algorithm , never be a CPU hog with many jobs
12) Move Permanently and move Temporarily
13) Filter invalid character when saving file
14) Erase head and trail blank when getdlgitemtext
15) When edit job, change always be saved, even if press cancel

*************************************************************************
Version 1 Beta 2.2 (1998.8)

New Feature:
1) Resume broken download file
2) Support HTTP basic authorization(base64)
3) Support HTTP proxy authorization
4) Customize sounds from Control Panel
5) FTP via HTTP proxy
6) FTP PASV mode
7) Log window autoscroll
8) FTP proxy mode: SITE, OPEN, USER, USER with logon
9) Add MRU
10) Virus check
11) Histo sampling interval
12) Add resume column
13) Add "option" and "add job" in context menu

Bug Fix:
1) Check configure when load from registry
2) Save uninitialized configure
3) Two "\r\n" when "Content-type: multipart/x-byteranges" (websitepro)
4) Show previous instance if already run
5) Wrong job status if restart with unsupport protocol
6) Relative redirect URL (www.winzip.com)
8) HTTP header "Connection : close" added
7) HTTP header Host with port
8) SetClipboardViewer fail
9) _beginthreadex instead of CreateThread, prevent from memory leak
10) Extract file size from reply of RETR
11) Adjust MIN_BLOCK_SEG_LEN to 20, less connection
12) Only show one add job dialog
13) Repaint histo wavebar with better algorithm

*************************************************************************
Version 1 Beta 2.1 (1998.7)

New Feature:
1) Add job default in configure
2) Support HTTP redirect link
3) Autosave job
4) Edit job URL and save file
5) Detail download log
6) Send winpopup message when job complete
7) Max running jobs limit and job queue
8) Auto delete job when job complete
9) Dbclick to edit job
10) Multi select job list
11) job list tooltip

Bug Fix:
1) Unregister netscape fail if reg value not exist
2) Job refresh block window, setblockstate
3) Save jobs when windows shutdown
4) Save jobfile in current directory
5) Job listview flash
6) EndPaint with wrong parameter, user resource leak

*************************************************************************
Version 1 Beta 2 (1998.7)

New Feature:
1) Add Bps and Est time to job list
2) Support http proxy
3) Support ftp proxy(user@site)
4) Support ftp login authorization
5) Save job list to compound file
6) Add drop basket
7) Add tray icon context menu
8) Add detail log window
9) Add histogram

Bug Fix:
1) Not ping until resolved
2) Anonymous logging with no passwod
3) Dynamically link to ICMP api
4) Set iRet to -2 when received message
5) Create socket with protocol = 0 to work with NetSonic
6) Default download directory with other attributes
7) Server reply wrong content-length with 0-
8) Delete !!! file when delete job
9) Auto add '\r' with winproxy
10) Add host and user-agent header in http request

*************************************************************************
Version 1 Beta 1.01 (1998.6)

Bug Fix:
1) Auto append '\' after download directory
2) Send "TYPE I" before send "SIZE" to ftp server
3) Restore the window position to maximize after start
4) correct ratio with large file

*************************************************************************
Version 1 Beta 1.0 (1998.6)

Initial release