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NetXpress Server README.TXT
===========================
Version 1.1 updates:
General:
- All password checks are now case-sensitive!
- Altered the user database interface in SETUP
- Fixed some user database access problems
WWW:
- NetXpress Server now includes a CGI program that allows
for word searches through your documents. Please see
SEARCH.ZIP for more info.
- Added a special HTML keyword that returns the number of
accesses for that document. All you must do is place
<!!ACCESS> in a HTML and NetServer will send out a number
instead of that string. If you change a documents
location, then its access count will reset. Only
documents with a content type of text/html will be
recorded. NetServer uses the ACCESS.WWW file in the
system directory to keep track of this information.
Before: [ Visitor # <!!ACCESS> ]
After: [ Visitor # 143 ]
- Added the ability for the Web server to handle
If-Modified-Since headers
- Added User Authorization to the Web server.
- CGI programs may return, in the header of their message,
the following:
Status: <num>
Content-type: <type>/<subtype>
Location: <url>
- Fixed the Web POST method
- CGI programs now get these additional environmental
variables:
HTTP_ACCEPT:
HTTP_USER_AGENT:
CONTENT_LENGTH:
REMOTE_USER:
- CGI programs no longer receive the PATH_INFO variable.
- NXCGI now correctly feeds input from POST operations
through the stdin instead of trying to create the
QUERY_STRING variable
- Fixed massive problems with the WWW interface with CGI
- Added the ability to add other Content-Types to the Web
server.
- Made all references to URLs in the NETSRV.WWW file able
to handle the wildcard character '*' (must be the last
character).
- Added to the NETSRV.WWW file the following:
protect_ip <url> <ip_address>
protect_mask <url> <ip_mask>
protect_user <url> <user_name>
protect_group <url> <group(s)>
The protect_ip and protect_mask keywords grants access to
certain documents or directories to certain IP addresses.
The protect_user and protect_group keywords will use the
Basic authorization scheme to request a user name and
password from the user.
You may have more than one protect keyword per document.
Their operation will be ORed together.
- Added the WWW POST command.
- Web requests to *.html will be processed as *.htm
- Added the Date:, Server:, MIME-Version:, Content-Type:,
Last-Modified: headers on outgoing HTTP/1.0 requests.
- Caused a HEAD HHTP method to produce the same headers as
a GET method.
SMTP:
- When SMTP bounced a message due to delivery problems, it
created a share violation.
- Altered the SMTP server to become an Extended SMTP server
(ESMTP)
- Added a POP3 server
- Added a SMTP to POP3 gateway
- SMTP will now wait 15 minutes after unsuccessfully trying
a destination.
- Got rid of the .LCK SMTP files.
- The SMTP client now opens messages in DENYALL mode so
only one session accesses the same message at the same
time.
UUCP:
- Added support for FOSSIL and Smart DigiBoard in the UUCP
module.
FTP:
- Added a User's FTP home directory.
- The FTP server did not initialize the data transfer port
correctly if no PORT command was sent.
Finger:
- The Finger server was not closing the connection on some
requests.
Welcome to NetXpress Server!
============================
This is a special early release of our exiting NetXpress Server
product. Thus this version thus not include the BBS client door
nor does it include the IP Router. These product will be
made available for a small upgrade fee.
■ The BBS client door includes all of the most popular internet
clients like Telnet, FTP, WWW, Gopher, Finger and IRC. It can
run under any BBS software.
■ The IP Router allows any internet application that uses
packet drivers to communicate with the Internet through the
Netxpress Server without any other software.
Bonus Software
==============
Two extra programs are provided; NXDIAL and NXUUCICO.
NXDIAL is a stand alone modem dialer that is compatible with
NetXpress Server's internal dialer. The command file uses
a command structure similar to the internal dialer.
NXUUCICO is a stand alone UUCP transfer agent. It is exactly
like the one in NetXpress Server. It uses the netsrv.cfg file.
Ammendments
===========
Telnet Wait for Carriage Return:
A new option has been added to the Telnet Service window;
Wait for the user to press <Enter>
When enabled, the user will need to press the <Enter> key after
the welcome file is displayed and before a free node is searched
for.
Maximum File Handles:
This value is no longer configurable. NetXpress Server now comes
with 256 file handles built-in. You must make sure that your
"FILES=xx" value in your CONFIG.SYS file is enough to handle all
of the open files.
Syntax:
The manual omits the syntax for netsrv.exe:
Syntax: netsrv.exe [netsrv.cfg] [/E] [/5] [/S <uucp_host>]
Where: [netsrv.cfg] is the path & filename of a config file
/E will expand all display sessions
/5 will display in 50 row mode
/S will utilize UUCP to poll <uucp_host> and then exit
Internal Dialer & SLIP Driver:
If you are using the internal dialer and the internal SLIP
driver, you must ensure that after the dialer finishes there are
almost no characters in the receive buffer. The rational behind
this is that sometimes if you send out a TCP packet before your
provider's host machine is in SLIP mode, it might echo that
packet back thus corrupting the SLIP stream.
Technical Support
=================
If you experience any problems with this software, please
contact our technical support:
Merlin Systems Inc.
P.O. Box 3043, Station C, Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y 4J3 Canada
Phone: (613) 749-0888
Fax: (613) 741-7583
BBS: (613) 741-7583
Email: support@merlinsys.com
Web: http://www.merlinsys.com
FidoNet: 1:163/5091
Bugs
====
If you perceive that these problems maybe bugs in the
software please contact our development staff at:
Email: netsrv.bugs@merlinsys.com
Known Problems
==============
■ Zmodem downloads & uploads are known not to work properly.
This will be fixed in a later release. We have also seen
other protocols not work as well, although Xmodem & Kermit
seem to work most of the time. We would encourage you to
use the FTP server for transfering file instead of the telnet.
You will get much better performance from the FTP protocol.