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  1. Posted

    I would like to echo Lee's comments and say this is a great achievement   I have been with apexdc++ (peerweb++) probably since about the time of it inception or not long after.  In my time i have been in the support forums, tester, donator and also naively tried to do some of the dev at one point.  I was also one of the members always actively pushing for a linux client.  That was until the time the the project managed to make some leg-way in developing a linux client, when i unfortunately dropped of the planet.

     

    Over the years lee has asked me to get involved again and i have stopped by made some promises and vanished again.  I guess one of the reason this was easy to do was because the project was moving on very well without me.  Then a few months back possibly the end of last year lee came to me with a working linux client (beta), i was excited but when i got it i realised i still had no where to run it, my linux machine is pretty much headless and i now have a mac.  That said i did test it out and was impressed.  it was on my list of things to work on.  

     

    Then lee sent me the following 

    6:47:29 PM Lee: http:///Screen-Shot-2013-04-07-at-17.06.48.png
    Changed status to Idle (6:51:14 PM)
    Changed status to Available (6:51:44 PM)
    6:53:18 PM john : what am i looking at?
    6:53:24 PM Lee: apex on mac?
    6:53:38 PM john : oh yes nice
    6:53:44 PM Lee: i know you are unfamiliar with GUI's but come on

     

    So yes i have now managed after many years to run apexdc on my laptop with a gui*.  It is nice to be back and any mac users will be lucky o get a chance to test this.

     

     Thanks Lee, Crise, Gevorg and anyone else that has helped make this happen.

     

    *for anyone interested im using ncdc on my server but it dose not support segmented downloading .  its ncurses but if you run irssi you might be interested in ncdc.

  2. Posted

    this wiki article gives a high level view of the differences. in relation to having an active connection over a proxy server, it would be possible by setting up a reverse socks proxy however you will still need to open the port the socks proxy is listening on. so one has to ask if you have enough control to pat the proxy port why not just pat the trafic directly to your machine. What im sayig is people genreally use proxies because they have no control over the firewall policy i.e. uni. to get DC to work in active mode you need to be able to update the firewall rule base weather using a proxy or not. The only benefit i could see of using a proxy would be to try and create a load balancing dc client.

    could be interesting to see if this has been done. proxy all Get and (U)Get(Z)Block commands to one or more backed servers with shared storage. this could be split between you sending and receiving a get to split up/download and all other commands to your laptop. this would allow you to have a server to do actual up and down load and a client to do seraching and chating. wonder if anyone has done something like this before

  3. Posted

    In an attempt to move this on to something a bit more relevent and away from the school yard politics.

    * is there a public cvs/svn/git repositry for apex i havn't been able to find it if there is. if there is which modules/projects (sorry dont know the correct teminolagy) represnt the core.

    - if not would it be possible to make a tar file which only contains the stuff that you consider core?

    * correct me if im wrong but im gussing one of the first steps is to move away from vcproject files and move to make/gmake/(s)cons for both windows and linux

    * has any effort been made to get the windows source building in minGW

    - if not this should probably be the first step should it not?

    * any modifications to the windows still needs to compile in windows and linux with no further mdifications?

    - any one got recomendations on this eg #ifdef statments?

    Ok so I am not a programmer, i can hack code and script. I genreally use vi which should give you an impretion of the size of things im use to working on. dont waste your breath on flaming me. if i have made a statment that is incorrect then correct me and move on. im big enough and stupid enough to listen to corrections.

    Other than that lets get thes questions answered because at this stage i think they are more important than what gui should be used.

  6. Posted

    Any news about fixing of this problem?

    Anyone want to provide a patch... because personally the way it is now does not bother me at all (and yes I use external hdds), and right now I am concentrating on different areas altogether...

    I doubt this has changed so

    Make your DCPlusPlus.xml file read only.

  7. Posted

    Wow this is great news, you guys have obviously moved on leaps and bounds since i was last around. I read the post on OpenCandy sounds like a good idea especially if it has allowed you to to make offer like this. I will have to install things and start been active again. I know its been a few years but i'm sure ill be able to offer something. Good to see you all doing so well. Congrats :D

  8. Posted

    ok so i have been away from apex for a long time so the below is dealing with ssl not apex. hopefully it will give guiedn's to orthers

    is it really true, that, if two clients have generated these cetificates in the right folder, an TLS encrypted connection is used automatically between them without exchanging the users client certificate (client.crt) ? Does ApexDC send this 'public key' automatically to the other client?

    not sure if apex will automaticly use TLS. however ssl. when you connect to a client they present you there pulilc cert and you, yours to them. if you trust each other you exchange session keys for in-going and out-going connections. you encypt a packer with your partners public key and vice versa. only the private key is able to decrypt the packet. the contence of this packet is used then used as a Symmetric-key to encypt the [ssl] tunnel

    2. is it really true, that, only if unticking the "allow TLS connections to ..." checkboxes, I need to put the other users certificate into my trusted certificate folder ?

    Again not sure what options Apex has but you can disable trust in ssl. just let your contac present there public cert and automaticly trust it. however this automaticly undermins the majority of the security presented by ssl. if somone has access to you traffic then the can do a man in the middle attack on you. if you trust anything you wont know. if someone is trying to snif at your traffic they already have the access to do this so why encypt if you trust anyone? that said it depends on how you are blocking. Although it is theoreticly possible that an isp will MIM every dc++ ssl connection it is unlikly, therefore if you simply want to hide your traffic form the logs it is better to trust everyone, just remeber it is not "secure"

    3. how to do that exactly? the other users certificate will have the same filename like my own certificate in the same folder. I guess, I should not overwrite my own certificate with that other users one.

    file name shouldn't matter it should use the CN of the cert

    4. if really everything is right and the connection is TLS encrypted, how can I see that? what is the proof for an encrypted connection?

    download wireshark

    Apparently there are two ways of encrypted transfers - trusted and untrusted. And it seems that only for trusted encrypted transfers it is necessary to exchange the client (or Hub) certificates.

    could have saved some time if i read this post befor answering the other

    How to place the other users (or hubs) certificate into my own trusted certificate folder without overwriting my own certificates? Renaming it? - If yes, to which name? And how Apex is able then to assign that certificate to the right client or hub?

    At a gusse i would say the name doesn't matter. DC will read all files and use the DN as an identifier. but it is a gusse, if chris can't answer this the dc++ forums are probly your best bet

  10. Posted

    My ip address is the only one that shows up after I registered. How do others hide their IP, Please ????

    if you want to hide your ip address you will need to go to an anonymous proxy of some type. An onion network would be best look up Tor. however your bandwith will take a hit. most people dont hide there address and connect directly.

  12. Posted

    not sure waht your asking. Do you wany your browser to bind to a specifi address. browsers normally bind to all addresses and then use your routing table to decide where to send traffic. this is by design. for exsample my PC has two nics 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.1.2. 0.2 is my internet connection 1.2 is my lan connection. i have a website on 192.168.1.1, if i bound my browser to the internet (0.2) interface i would not be able to visit the web site on 1.2 because there would be no route. Anyway long story short im pretty sure its not possible but if you could explain a bit more it may help

  14. Posted

    hi s2k, just wanted to make a pasing coment and hope you dont take offence. so i will start by saying thankyou for showing atention and ofering to help. what i wanted to say is that it would be benifitial if you could offer solutions to your questions. from what you have writen it suggests you know what ou are talking about. if instead of the following

    Why you don't provide the full chat callback with the timestamp and so other maybe in some special function like onCompleteChat( or whatever.

    you said something like

    could you provide full chat callback with the timestamp ... possibly like the following 

     provide sudo code or patch code

    this will enable the dev team or posibly others intrested in a simlar feature to implment it much easier. i gusse what im saying is plugins are a developer feature and as such its expected to get requests from developers and that these requests should be constructed in the afformentioned manner.

    im not sure i may be speeking out of turn but either way if you can do the above it will help. i think that as developers you should understand the dev process and know that some features get more atenetion then others. i kow that if i was tech architecture for apex i would hope that the plugins side of a projected woud get active support from it devs. i.e. if the plugin api is not good enough send a patch.

    anyway as i said i hope i haven't offended and apreciated your assistance

  16. Posted

    a lua plugin would be good. but for an API i thin the following functions would be good

    *full search feauters (starting with the simple ability to search all loged in hubs)

    *start a download

    *query download queue

    *query upload queue

    *query all queue's

    *query the statues of the hubs you are connected to (or not)

    *basicly exposing as most information as possible in as many ways concivable

    *as well as letting search and start a new download

    this would allow apps like pidgen, firefox & more to develope some pretty nice plgins

    so i gusse i can expect those features in about a week :)

    EDIT: :) should have probably read this first :)

  18. Posted

    Hello everyone i just wanted to drop by and say a masive congratulations. i know i have been vacent for a bit and i may be for a bit more but it is awsome to se that you guys are still going strong. this is a massve milestone and im glad you guys have made it (it being the best dc client :) ). anyway keep up the good work and lee,chris & nas you have my msn you know where my skills are. if i can help give me a holla

  19. Posted

    Well in my diffense the guide was never intnded to have a working filter just give people the idea of how they work but thanks for the working example have updated the guide ;)