From Jeff Bachtel <jeff@cepheid.org>, reviewed by naddy@
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w3mir is a all purpose HTTP copying and mirroring tool. The main
focus of w3mir is to create and maintain a browseable copy of one,
or several, remote WWW site(s). Used to the max w3mir can retrieve
the contents of several related sites and leave the mirror browseable
via a local web server, or from a filesystem, such as directly from
a CDROM.
w3mir's goal is to be able to make useful mirrors of any reasonable
WWW site. It specifically preserves link integrity within the
mirrored documents as well as the integrety of links outside the
mirror, following redirects as needed. If you want it to. w3mir has
a powerful ``multi-scope'' mechanism enabling the user to make
mirrors of several related sites and have links between them refer
to the mirrored documents rather than the original site. w3mir has
several features directed at getting mirrors for CDROM burning and
handling of some not too often seen problems when mirroring.
w3mir supports HTML4, and has partial support for CSS, Java and
ActiveX.
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mcrypt is intended to be a replacement of the old unix crypt(1)
under the GNU General Public License. Unix crypt(1) was a popular
file encryption program in unix boxes.
It was based on the Enigma encryption algorithm but it was considerable
trivialized. Since this was not adequate, even for individual privacy
needs, mcrypt was created as a similar program using some modern
block encryption algorithms.
Mcrypt also has a compatibility mode with unix crypt(1) and with
Solaris des(1). It supports all the algorithms and modes found in
libmcrypt and it is very extendable.
At the time writing this, it supports the algorithms: BLOWFISH,
TWOFISH, DES, TripleDES, 3-WAY, SAFER, LOKI97, GOST, RC2, RC6, MARS,
IDEA, RIJNDAEL, SERPENT, CAST, ARCFOUR and WAKE.
Block algorithms are implemented in modes: CFB, CBC, ECB, OFB (8
bit and n bit, where n is the size of the algorithm's block length).
For a brief description of the algorithms and the modes look at the
mcrypt manpage (this may be out of date). In mcrypt it is on the
user to decide which algorithm he considers best for encrypting his
data.
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libmcrypt is the library which implements all the algorithms and
modes found in mcrypt. It is currently under development but it
seems to work pretty good.
Unlike most encryption libraries libmcrypt does not have everything
(random number generators, hashes, hmac implementation, key exchange,
public key encryption etc.). Libmcrypt only implements an interface
to access block and stream encryption algorithms.
Its purpose was to assist in the development of mcrypt by providing
a uniform interface to access several different encryption algorithms,
so that the main program is independent of the encryption algorithms
and the modes used.
Libmcrypt supports the algorithms: BLOWFISH, TWOFISH, DES, TripleDES,
3-WAY, SAFER-sk64, SAFER-sk128, SAFER+, LOKI97, GOST, RC2, RC6,
MARS, IDEA, RIJNDAEL-128 (AES), RIJNDAEL-192, RIJNDAEL-256, SERPENT,
CAST-128 (known as CAST5), CAST-256, ARCFOUR and WAKE. Block
algorithms can be used in: CBC, ECB, CFB and OFB (8 bit and n bit,
where n is the size of the algorithm's block length).
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October 21, 2000, Version 3.0.18
- Fixed file upload bugs (Sascha)
October 11, 2000, Version 3.0.17
- Fixed output functions (Sascha)
- Added odbc_tables() (Frank)
- Fixed htmlspecialchars/htmlentities inconsistencies (Rasmus)
- Added is_uploaded_file() (Zeev)
- Clean up htmlspecialchars/htmlentities inconsistencies (Rasmus)
- Add optional charset parameter to sybase_[p]connect (alf@alpha.ulatina.ac.cr)
- Fixed incorrect handling of 0-precision strings (e.g., %4.0s)
in printf (Ken Coar)
- You can now call Ora_Error() without prameters to get the reason
for a failed connection attempt. (Kirill Maximov)
- Fixed crash in OCIFetchStatement() when trying to read after
all data has already been read. (Thies)
- Added --enable-sigchild. Use this option if you encounter
<defunc> processes when using Oracle 8i. (Thies)
- Uncommitted outstanding OCI8 transactions are now rolled back
before the connection is closed. (Thies)
- Improved configure checks for Oracle 8i. (Thies)
- Added imap_mime_header_decode() function (Skalski)
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Postfix official release 19991231 patchlevel 11 is available.
This release folds in code changes from recent snapshot releases.
These changes track changes in RedHat Linux, fix two minor bugs in
the Postfix queue manager scheduling behavior that were spotted by
Patrik Rak, and turn off one misfeature.
- On RedHat Linux 7.0, you must install the db3-devel RPM before
you can compile the Postfix source code.
- The queue manager could schedule too many connections to the same
destination (domain name spelled in upper and lower case).
- The queue manager could schedule too few connections to the same
destination (back off even in case of successful delivery).
- The confusing site_hog_factor feature is disabled by default. It
caused unnecessary mail delivery delays on inbound mail gateways.
This introduces a new 'pop3' flavour, since the package bundles a POP3
server that can read from maildirs and use the same authmodules also.
And a number of stability fixes, including leaking file descriptions,
maildir handling, and also compliance with the latest IETF IMAP drafts.
