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  1. Posted

    Do you have any plans to provide some kind of https api to the client so its easy to send in a command and get result maybe in JSON or XML?

     

    This is very much the eventual intention for the "webserver" its current implementation is dated, unuseful and not flexible. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually the idea of built in web UI ceased to exist and be replaced by a web based API and the usage left to external utilities or applications (one of which may be an UI of course, but which does not necessarily have to be maintained by us for example).

     

    I can look into directory searching in particular but that is likely just the tip of the iceberg, if you catch my drift. Although, thank you for validating the fact that someone is actually still (trying to) use the webserver as is because that means investing time into developing a replacement whatever it will be is worth it. It has simply been sidelined by other things.

  2. Posted

    This is caused because of an implementation quirk and is more common on NMDC hubs as far as I know.

     

    The reason for this representation, although not intuitive is actually fairly logical. In NMDC every time a user speaks in chat an identity is created for that user the display you are seeing is caused when hub uses an identity that has no representation in the actual user list. This is less common for ADC because it is less common (and less useful because of protocol design) for hubs to speak as a user that is not on the user list, it can be done though.

  3. Posted

    so might be a something wrong with the registry ??

     

    ApexDC doesn't use registry for anything meaningful whatsoever, at least when it comes to connectivity. Really if StrongDC works and ApexDC doesn't all I can think of is that either the connectivity of that specific installed copy of ApexDC is blocked by something external, or that a setting has been accidentally changed somehow without you knowing.

     

    Either way the fix is the same as what you already did with StrongDC, ie. redo the installation process either by hand or by using the installer and specifically telling it to install into a different location. If you have the option I would also install ApexDC to a drive other than your OS installation or make sure you use the option to store settings under AppData in the installer. If you do not use the installer search for dcppboot.xml for more info.

  6. Posted

    Some of that traffic looks extremely interesting... without looking into it, they seem to be either OP clients of some description, as Mek said, looking for particular defects, or malicious clients trying to run an exploit (although I did not check the existing public exploits against these patterns).

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  7. Posted

    Why is it that typing in the chat of a hub causes some clients in there to attempt a connection to me. This is immediate and automatic, and the other clients are always the same ones, suggesting a setting activated in them. They are listed in the transfers pane for a while as "Connecting..." and then disappear. Not all of them are operators, but often they are, suggesting that a special client is used. Which one that might be?

     

    Are they real users or a some type of bot. Either way, can't say I have heard of this kind of behavior exactly. Also what kind of file name they request from you (namely, if it is an actual file in your share a filelist or something else entirely) ?

     

    If you want to look into it more, open the CDM debug window and look at the protocol traffic for those connections.

  8. Posted

    What version did you update from. There aren't any specific changes that woukd cause this. Are you sure you did not accidentally sort the column different by clicking on it. Also if this is on an NMDC hub number of random things can affect things because of inconsistent encodings when it comes to NMDC.

  9. Posted

    Thank you, update seems to be working fine. However, during installation i get this window '>. My OS is Windows XP SP3 if it helps.

    Thanks for the report, this seems to be issue related to the installer software (Inno setup) itself rather than us, because it has only started to happen very recently. Assuming you do have a default internet browser on your machine. In any case it is completely harmless message.

  11. Posted

    how can i forbid plain connection?

     

    On NMDC hubs, you can not reliably do this... because only small subset of clients support encryption in NMDC at all.

     

    For ADC though, connecting to encrypted hubs is the answer you are looking for. I replied regarding encryption and enforcing it on ADCS >,

  12. Posted

    Side questions

    * How would i ensure/enforce the traffic between my clients to be encrypted? Upon connecting, on the bottom right i see "DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA". I assume this is client to hub status.

    After downloading a test file from one of the users, the "cipher" stated AES128, which I assume signifies encrypted traffic, is that correct?

    * In the early stages of my setup I was using StongDC to test connectivity and it had "DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA" on the bottom right upon connection. Is ApexDC's standard - AES128? Is there a way to bump that up. Would it matter?

    Regarding the ciphers AES-256 is in fact slightly less secure than AES-128, because one is designed better than the other the number of bits used is not everything (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/another_new_aes.html#c386957).

    There is no one simple way for a hub to enforce encrypted client to client connections. But typically clients in ADCS hubs use encryption if both clients support encrypted client connections. You can read more on the specifics over here: http://adc.sourceforge.net/ADC-EXT.html#_adcs_symmetrical_encryption_in_adc. In short you can check the presence of INF SU field, for support of encrypted connections but there is no way for a hub to force a client to actually make use of that support when connecting to clients. Also see SUDP extension, for active searches, the alternative to this is enforcing passive searches, that go through the hub, for everyone. However, majority of clients do not support SUDP and that there is discussion on a better version of SUDP but that has been talked about for a while now.

  13. Posted

    I assume you have not changed any of the settings under security and that UPnP is not an option.

    Unless you have two (or more) active network connections, and thus actually need to set the bind address, it is advisable not to mess with the bind address at all. You can also attempt to leave the IP field blank. Try with more than one user, also try with both active and passive users to see where exactly the problem is.

    Additionally if the users on your hub connect to it locally (ie. it is a LAN hub) then you should always connect locally to the hub as well obviously and same works in reverse for internet accessible hubs. Easy way to start diagnosing connectivity issues is to find a user X in active mode that you can connect to when you yourself are in passive mode. Because that means that the user is guaranteed to be connectable on his end and then try different methods of port forwarding starting from there in active mode checking against the same user.

  14. Posted

    There is no real workaround for this at the moment, luckily it should be easy enough to fix. Although I really can't say I can see a reason to leave apexdc running when you are not logged onto the network (unless that session somehow times out, but it would seem rather unusable if it does, to me anyways).

    To be completely honest I never considered a fail state like this where the internet access is not "real", although I would criticize the implementation of it in your case, to use the 200 (OK) http status code for the login page seems frankly to be a wrong choice. It should either use one of the 4xx codes or even possibly some unusual application of one of the 3xx codes (I assume it already does signal redirect, if it is in any way competent). Because the response is not what an application would ever know to expect.

    Edit: this should be fixed on our end in the next version... whenever that might be.

  15. Posted

    "The procedure entry point getlogicalprocessorinformation could not be located kernel32.dll"

     

    Above is the error.

    Run windows update and install Service Pack 3, further discussion on this topic is in the 1.5.11 release topic as well as in the first post of this topic. People in this topic have mentioned a potential way of running older versions of ApexDC on pre-SP3 versions of XP but this is not in any way officially supported by us (nor will there be any future public discussion on how this can be done, because it is as stated not supported).

    The gist of it, for anyone reading this, we no longer can support versions of Windows XP that do not have the latest (or last as it may) updates installed. This is not a choice by us but something Microsoft has kindly decided for us.

  16. Posted

    Update: The voting period has ended, thank you for everyone who participated.

    We have been, presumably randomly or based on recent activity, selected for the community choice vote for SourceForge May Project of the Month (fairly new thing they have been doing). If you have a SourceForge account look at the projects listed and vote as you will... or don't, it is really up to you. But it would be a shame for us not to say anything at all, considering this isn't likely to happen again any time soon. We have so far been a featured project (a weekly thing, for handful of projects at a time) twice within the last two or three years.

    Direct Connect hasn't been prominently featured in any way in recent memory. It would be nice to make that happen, as well as an achievement for the project of course.

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  17. Posted

     

    Hello, I think is something wrong Logs -> Plugins etc. :) or is this new? and Params and Raw doesn´t work. Other, I think works ok.

     

     

    Something wrong with options here too,

    when I choose COLORS&FONTS or USER LIST COLORS, it gives me some other options, like general or toolbars ...

     

     

    This problem can be entirely avoided by staying away from the Colors & Fonts page. Which also explains why I did not see it, because I never change those settings. This one was fun one to track down because it had literally nothing to do with the manifested problem whatsoever. Also it is worth to note that XP binaries do not have this issue at all.

     

    I will reupload 1.5.12 builds with the fix soon, sorry for any inconvenience in advance.

  18. Posted

    FYI

    So i did install ApexDC 1.5.9 on same Wine version and the hashing here works. So it seems to be an issue of ApexDC 1.5.10-12

     

    Well technically it is an issue in Wine. Also doesn't seem like it is a quick and easy one to solve on our end either, the changes in hash management done in .10 certainly work just fine on an actual windows :).

  20. Posted

    I will look into this but I am positive those pages were under correct headings when I tested the release version.

     

    Edit: I made a clean install on a computer that has never seen ApexDC before and I can't replicate any of the issues in your post, likewise 64bit Win8. Also I would hope that an issue like this would have been reported by multiple people because it is very visible. Likewise my development installation (which is also my primary ApexDC install) is fine.

     

    Based on above, this seems to be specific to your installation of ApexDC. Can you backup your Settings directory (or ApexDC directory under AppData, depending on your setup) and see if you have the same issues with a blank install. If a blank install solves the issue for you could you then PM me your DCPlusPlus.xml file.

  21. Posted

    Unfortunately it is not really up to us as much as it is up to Microsoft the 2013 edition of msvc basically disregards compatibility with any version of XP apart from SP3.

    And if I had to guess the next major version of msvc will not support XP in any meaningful capacity. While we can hold out on upgrading to said version in the future going back a compiler version to retain compatibility with SP2 seems like overkill. Especially when SP3 is a free upgrade.

    So with SP2 it is unlikely that the situation will change, but we have no plans to stop supoorting XP SP3 as long as it remains feasible. If you wish to keep using older versions with SP2 you can do so but we do not support this and you will have to make any neccessary changes on your own.

  22. Posted

    Update: We have re-released 1.5.12 to address an usability concern with the original release version, we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

    We have published a maintenance release available for immediate download. 1.5.12 fixes the remainder of known issues for 1.5.10 and majority of known issues for 1.5.11. You can check out the full changelog here.

    On April 8th, 2014 Microsoft officially ceased its consumer support for their Windows XP operating system, originally released in 2001. With the release of 1.5.11 it was brought to our attention that ApexDC can no longer run on all versions of Windows XP, more specifically installations that have not been upgraded with the last available service pack for the operating system (SP3). Unfortunately there is nothing we can do to address this problem and as such Service Pack 3 is the only supported version of XP for ApexDC going forward.

    We will continue to provide binaries that can run on Windows XP Service Pack 3 as long as it is technically possible and otherwise feasible for us to do so. However, in practice this means that when it comes to ApexDC all support for Windows XP is likely end sometime later this year. This will also mean that support for old CPU's without SSE2 instructions will end at that time.

    Download: ApexDC++ 1.5.12

  23. Posted

    Without an option not to install??

    There is always an option not to install, select the "Advanced Installation" option and then uncheck the checkbox that appears. The text at the bottom will then reflect that no changes will be made.

     

    That said I agree that this is convoluted and will see if we can remove that offer. Usually when we come to know about things like these we will remove these kind of offers. Unfortunately due to how things work we can not pre-emptively filter these kind of offers but have to exclude them after the fact.

  24. Posted

    What information do you need?

    When I add a folder for sharing,the system.log shows no entries the "indexing progress" dialog shows no activity.

    I would need some kind of Wine diagnostics to see what the problematic code is, and if it can be rewritten within reason without problems for the Windows build.

    Basically I already know that it isn't doing what it should be doing, but I need some idea as to why before I can even consider looking into it. I am not familiar with Wine's implementation of WinAPI so to go in blind would be a fools errand.

  25. Posted

    Hi... I did the update to 1.5.11 and since that my file share is 0 bytes. I did uncheck all shared folders, restart ApexDC and add the share again... There is no hashing and the the share amount is still 0bytes.

    Im using Wine 1.7.16_x64 - the version 1.5.9 was running fine on that version! Does anybody have the same issue?

    It seems to be a Wine bug, unfortunately fixing it without breaking the build for actual Windows is probably not viable. Also we would need to know more than simply that it doesn't hash. The changes to hashing in 1.5.10 are substantial enough to make playing a guessing game an unattractive proposition.