I have just uploaded Arachne 1.67 for DOS to browser.arachne.cz
Many of incorporated bug fixes and improvements are either inspired
by comments from Clarence and Glenn, or they are directly contributed by
Bernie.
I could log into mail.yahoo.com with latest version of Cookies, and I feel
like I was not able to do so with previous version 1.66.. but maybe
something got changed rather on the side of Yahoo, who knows ;-) Make sure
you change user before login to Yahoo mail - I got error messages when
Arachne returned to Yahoo mail cookie-defined session, and lost some
cookies meanwhile. When you "change user" and log again, all required
cookies should be restored. I think this also means, that
"mail.arachne.cz" freemail project will be probably
abandoned: mail.yahoo.com works, and it is pretty swift and graphicaly
minimalistic too...
There is also experimental suppport for authenticated HTTP proxy: but it
is not tested, as I don't have access to any such proxy ;) Add
ProxyUsername and ProxyPassword to your ARACHNE.CFG and let me know what
happend ;-)
Unfortunately, not all user suggestions were implemented, as usual. Most
of changes are in fact fixes, which attempt to correct something, which
have been broken in recent releases... ;-)
But I hope anti virus companies will shut up, because Arachne no longer
deletes %TEMP% direcotry, so your out-of-the-box MS-DOS 5.0 setup is safe
from being deleted now. And L.D.Best and others can peek into CORE.EXE
binary wihtout fear of being exposed to any indecent stuff any more - I
sligghtly encrypted registration key passphrase, to get rid of all those
numerous private e-mails from many Arachne users, trying to explain me
that DOS binary content cannot be tolerated to be indecent
;-)) (fortunately, I have received so far only one e-mail complaining
about H.R.Giger's weird fantasy, used as example for resizing images...)
Anyway, is it true, that Arachne maybe deserves new look'n'feel, which
would make it clear, that it is not application designed for
yuppies and suits, who need white backgrounds and blue headlines, but I
would also like to avoid too much trendy or MTV-like design. I think only
way to go is to add skin support to Arachne, like in WinAMP....
I would also like encourage anyone, who feel like publishing interesting
links, stories, Arachne,. DOS and Linux tips and tricks, etc. in Arachne
News column on Arachne homepage. It is very easy, and with 600-1000
unique IP addresses every day, you have good chance to find someone who
will like what you write...
I will wait with arachne-announce post until I receive some at least
partly positive feedback from someone...
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http://arachne.cz/
(Arachne WWW browser for DOS+Linux / Webhosting / MP3streaming)
