Web-FTP Version 1.5.2 Web-FTP only works on systems with fork(), i.e. not Windows or Macintosh. Sorry. Web-FTP is an http based ftp portal which allows you to provide secure web-based file management through ftp using SSL or can be used as an ftp client. Client use is particularly helpful for be able to ftp through an http only firewall. Tom Stepleton started this project and I, Anthony Ball <ant@web-ftp.org> have picked up the torch as of early 2000. Any questions/comments/complaints/requests should be relayed to me. The official web page for Web-FTP can be found at http://www.Web-FTP.org/. The Project is hosted by http://www.sourceforge.net and has online forums and a mailing list. You may subscribe to the mailing list here: http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/web-ftp-general There will also be a link from the home page. The preferred way to get help and basically anything else is the mailing list. I always appreciate feedback, either to the mailing list or directly to myself. A note on how things are going and what you are using Web-FTP for is always interesting. Also, I am in no way too proud to accept gifts :) Bribing me to add functionality will almost always work :) Heck, if the bribe is big enough I'll even start a whole new open source project. <G> Enjoy! - Ant TODO * Add ability to have drop down lists of hosts * Add way of selecting multiple files easily. BUGS * None known (yet) CHANGES IN VERSION 1.5.2 * Now works with Netscape Server! Changed redirects to be full path and make check for https with env variable https = on Much thanks to Ellen Davis for testing and helping root out this annoying bug CHANGES IN VERSION 1.5.1 * Fixed a bug with redirects popping you out of https back to http Fixed a bug that gave uploaded file full client path name... oops. Added ability to have a drop down list of sites. Added a SITE button to allow you to run SITE commands. Added more Upload fields to the upload page. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.5.0 * Lots of changes, done over a period of time. I expect bugs, so don't use this to replace anything critical, though it seems to work. I Will appreciate bug reports. New Features: Experimental Crypto card access. I am not at all sure if this will work for people other than The ones I wrote it in for, but if you try and it fails, I will see what I can do. Changes to the editor to make it more robust and warn you that you are not able to write to a file. And a Save As option. A chdir field. A window for viewing FTP server messages and errors. I may not get them all, but this has been needed. Ability for users to log in without having cookies on. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.3 * Fix a problem with the simplified permissions editor. It didn't work with directories. Oops CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.2 * Uploads were not taking you back to the MAIN screen. Made Editor take focus when it opened. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.1 * Excellent change. Now users may download a file in the background and continue to browse or even download multiple files at once. A very good thing. Also the HidePermButton option in the conf now turns off the permissions link as well... simply showing the permissions. Woohoo! Thanks to Graham Barr for helping me with a Net::FTP question. Also fixed a bug with the new permissions in HideOctal CHANGES IN VERSION 1.3.0 * Crazy! Added a file viewer and simple text editor. Added javascript to opening screen to allow quicker logins. Added a simplified way of editing permissions. Added a refresh link. Fixed a bug that broke login on hostnames without two . in them. Fixed a bug with FTP servers that don't send . and .. which caused things to display wrong. Fixed a bug that made Web-FTP buffer the file before it was sent to the user, this was a major issue in downloading large files. There were some other things, but I think this covers the major ones. Enjoy. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.3 * Fixed it so that symlinks to directories show up as directories. However, if you have a symlink that points to a file of size 0, it will show up as a directory, till I find a better way to do it. I consider it an acceptable sacrifice, since empty files aren't really useful for download, anyway. CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.2 * I left out a stupid " so Parent Directory didn't work... GRR CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.1 * Made redirects relative so https would work! (Hopefully this will work everywhere) CHANGES IN VERSION 1.1.0 * BIG CHANGE! Web-FTP is now completely cgi driven. It still starts It's own mini-server to handle individual clients, but instead it uses a unix socket and the user connects to this through a cgi removing the need for SSL support in Web-FTP, YAY! Now any secure server that you set Web-FTP up on will handle the SSL piece. This Also solves the problem of allowing people to connect to other ports on your server, or through a proxy. Excellent! I expect bugs though :) And I am sure there is room for improvement. Have fun. * Added a Parent Directory link * Added color Alternation to file and dir listings * Added message and redirect for timeouts and errors. * Made links to directories show up in directory window (this may or may not work with all ftp servers) * Chnaged the name of SelectiveHTTPD.pm to MiniServer.pm since it is no longer really an httpd server. CHANGES IN VERSION 0.94b * Added the ability to specify a port range that Web-FTP will use so web-ftp may be set up on a server on a firewall if the ports are allowed. CHANGES IN VERSION 0.93b * Fixed a bug that broke files with spaces and strange characters. CHANGES IN VERSION 0.92b * Made Web-ftp more customizable. You can change colors, what fields show, and what buttons show, useful for dumbing down the interface or just changing the look a little. Also added timeout to the conf file so you can set the user timeout yourself. CHANGES IN VERSION 0.91b * Fixed MSIE download bug, unfortunately this disables multiple file download capability (not that you didn't have to click Ok for every file in order anyway) * Fixed bug with some browsers (esp. MSIE) that prevented the redirect due to an unclosed connection through STDOUT. Thanks to Shawn Asmussen for helping with that one. CHANGES IN VERSION 0.91a * Fixed QUIT button to replace entire window when clicked, not just a frame. * Got rid of some pesky warnings being thrown. CHANGES IN VERSION 0.9alpha * New Maintainer: Anthony Ball has picked up development of web-ftp * New Look: Web-FTP has an entirely new interface nothing like the previous version. Columns line up and frames (I know, I know) are used to improve useablility. * New Web site... www.web-ftp.org * Added web-ftp.conf file so users would not have to edit script. * changed web-ftp.pl to web-ftp.cgi * Added host input to login for connecting to remote hosts. * Other things I may remember later
