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991

HFS ~ HTTP File Server / 2.0 coming...

« on: April 18, 2005, 06:39:18 PM »

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I think there will come a time that we have to realize not all errors will get fixed.  There's a good possibility that some of the errors reported may be system specific or resulted from something that was done in the background that shouldn't have been while the server was busy.

The same errors don't appear to be happening over and over again.   In my case, over the last year or more, I can only think of 2 times I had an error popup (both of which I reported) and my server is used every day.  I would say that's pretty good performance for a excellent small free program like HFS.

maverick
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992

HFS ~ HTTP File Server / processQ Bug

« on: April 17, 2005, 11:50:54 PM »

Rejetto,

Just thought I would let you know that my server has been really busy the last few days - running HFS 2.0 beta 23 - and not one processQ error or any other error.  The processQ errors I recently reported were with beta 22.  Maybe this bug has been fixed with beta 23.  Good work.  Looks like a v2.0 FINAL is getting close.

maverick

993

HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Re: Limit IP's

« on: April 15, 2005, 06:13:36 PM »

It cannot easily be done, since there is no "session"/logout in HTTP...

There is a lot of information about this on the net.  I just did a search and here is just one of many examples I found...

Allow HTTP Users to Log Out!

Ever wanted to have your authenticated users log out from their current session without having to close all browser windows (which doesn't *really* close the HTTP user session anyways)?

Of course you have! So here's the how-to:

Domino allows for you to kill a user's HTTP session by simply appending "/?logout" in a URL after the database in accordance to the following scheme:

http://server/path/database.nsf/?logout

(*NOTE - Session Authentication needs to be enabled for this to work properly)

Now you could hardcode this... but that's sloppy design.
Easiest this to do would be to create a Computed Text string (highlight and mark as pass-thru HTML) with the following:

db := @ReplaceSubstring( @Subset( @DbName; -1); "\\"; "/");
url := "<a href=\"/" + db + "/?logout\">Log Off " + @Name([CN];@UserName) + "!</a>";
@if(@UserName="Anomymous";""; URL)

This will show a log off link for your authenticated users (a logout for anonymous would just be plain silly) as well as keeps the logout dynamic:

Not only displaying the user's common name for "personalization" but also keeping the pathing totally relative... so you don't have to recode!

http://www.dominoguru.com/dominoguru/home.nsf/0/cc75d65176b75b2085256c7e0015af31?OpenDocument

So it can be done.  

Also...
A similar feature to the current connection inactivity timeout feature in HFS limits might be used --> called IP inactivity timeout (or something like that) which would be used to kill an inactive IP therefore allowing a new IP into the server until the max chosen IP limit is reached. Rejetto would know more if this is workable.

maverick

994

HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Limit IP's

« on: April 15, 2005, 04:59:24 PM »

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Well I just finished reading through a whole bunch of posts looking for this subject.  Finally found it and here is a reply from rejetto (which I missed)....

If I want only 5 people (5 different IP addresses) access to my server at one time, how do I set that limit?

you can't, currently. there's no such feature. but it sounds interesting.

http://www.rejetto.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2180&highlight=&sid=b88a820497feb1b3d226da59ad1a7147

Hopefully it hasn't been forgotten but in the todo list.

maverick

995

HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Re: Limit IP's

« on: April 15, 2005, 04:05:18 PM »

I don't think I'm confused ... May be you have to explain again what YOU want.  

I explained that very clearly in my posts above in this thread.  Re-read them.

maverick

996

HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Re: Limit IP's

« on: April 15, 2005, 02:36:43 PM »

So what is limits->"max # of connections/downloads" ?

You are confusing connections and individual IP addresses.

Connections are connections.  For example, with the available  limit options in HFS you can allow one IP (one address) to have a maximum limit of 10 connections or even no limit of connections while surfing your site.  Everything displayed from your site - icon, gif, folder etc. takes a different seperate connection to begin with before it is displayed to the user.  You can easily see that activity in your logs.

maverick

997

HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Re: Limit IP's

« on: April 15, 2005, 02:01:10 PM »

If so - I sure it is simply a bug.

No, not a bug.  That option or feature I would like to see hasn't been implemented in HFS - yet.  

I know it can be done because I also run BulletProof FTP Server where you can select Maximum Number of Users (a.k.a. Max. No. of IP's).

maverick

998

HFS ~ HTTP File Server / 2.0 coming...

« on: April 15, 2005, 01:56:00 PM »

i have something mistake with my HFS coz my client can't load file *.r01 .r02 and.... any file which have r0x
what does it seem like? bug? or my mistake
p.s. file type r0x (x is number of file number)is extract file of winrar

Works fine here.  In the Virtual File System pane of HFS, just right click on the root, or wherever you want to put those files, then select add files from the menu, select which files from your drive,  and they will be added to your VFS.

maverick

999

HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Re: Limit IP's

« on: April 15, 2005, 01:22:15 PM »

I think - Menu->limits->Max connections +  Max connections per IP + Max downloads + max downloads per IP -
I'm sure you can manages with some of those...  

All of those options serve their intended purposes and work well for what they have been designed to do.  But, they don't limit the number of different IP's entering the server at the same time.  I have tried all different combinations of settings for those options to get things running more smoothly but they don't solve the issue I stated above.

Rejetto even refers to that issue in his thread called announcement: help me testing where he states, and I quote, "if many other people is downloading while you are, you may find the speed to be much lower".

I'm sure that anyone who has an active site with many people accessing their server at the same time know what I'm talking about.

We have to have a way to limit the number of different IP's accessing the server at the same time.

maverick

1000

HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Limit IP's

« on: April 14, 2005, 04:04:22 AM »

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rejetto,

Is there any chance that you would be able to include and option that would let us limit (select) how many different IP's we allow access to the server at the same time?

In most cases, without a commercial account, upload bandwidth on the net is much slower than download bandwidth.  If there are to many different IP's downloading from the server at the same time, these users experience slow KB/s as available server bandwidth is shared.  If we could limit the number of IP's accessing the server at the same time, the users will experience better performance and better download speeds and we will receive less complaints about having a slow server.

In my case, I have an upload limit of 60 KB/s.  I have been averaging at least  8-10 different IP's on at the same time downloading.   That results in slow download KB/s for them and really ties up the server until these downloads complete and they finally leave.  I have even limited the max downloads per IP to 1 at a time, but that makes no difference.
 
Hope you can include an IP limit feature.  I think this was brought up before some place but I don't recall seeing a reply.

maverick

1001

HFS ~ HTTP File Server / 2.0 coming...

« on: April 08, 2005, 05:50:42 PM »

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:?:  

There is no way to know what is enabled or not in the shell context menu options by looking at it. (no check marks available for selected option).

maverick

1002

HTML & templates / My Edited Template

« on: April 08, 2005, 11:35:03 AM »

i was wondering how u got the msn search engine onto ur server as i would like todo the same on mine.

You will find all the information you are asking for here....

Code: [Select]

http://search.msn.co.uk/docs/siteowner.aspx?t=SEARCH_WEBMASTER_REF_AddMSNSearchToYourSite.htm&FORM=ASSEEnjoy!

maverick

1003

HFS ~ HTTP File Server / 2.0 coming...

« on: April 07, 2005, 11:20:19 PM »

I played with it for a while and it seems not working very good. Sometimes it opens new session of hfs with blank tree, and it drops file on root.

Also select associate.vfs from the same menu then it won't open a new HFS vfs session.  If it is just a file or files you are adding, they will be added to the root of your current vfs.  You can move them to wherever you want after that.  I think rejetto's idea of adding this shell option is to give you an easy way to get files or folders into the HFS vfs which it does.

maverick

1004

HFS ~ HTTP File Server / 2.0 coming...

« on: April 07, 2005, 08:38:40 AM »

menu -> shell context menu -> add for all

It would be nice if there was a "check-mark" or something beside our selected choices in menu -> shell context menu.  Thanks.

maverick

1005

Bug reports / HFS Error

« on: April 03, 2005, 12:23:49 AM »

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I got about 30 of these before I terminated.....

############# ERROR ON: 4/02/05 5:59:34 PM
D:\Program Files\HTTP File Server\hfs.exe
Access violation at address 004C6C16 in module 'hfs.exe'. Read of address 02690680
HFS 2.0 beta22
----------------------------------------------------------------
Stack list, generated 4/02/05 5:59:33 PM
[004C6C16]{hfs.exe     } HSlib.ThttpSrv.processQ (Line 660, "HSlib.pas" + 6) + $4
[0040413F]{hfs.exe     } System.@HandleAnyException + $33
[004C6AA6]{hfs.exe     } HSlib.ThttpSrv.timerEvent (Line 602, "HSlib.pas" + 27) + $3
[0044308F]{hfs.exe     } ExtCtrls.TTimer.Timer + $F
[00442F73]{hfs.exe     } ExtCtrls.TTimer.WndProc + $2B
[00428AA8]{hfs.exe     } Classes.StdWndProc (Line 10565, "classes.pas" + + $0
[00433192]{hfs.exe     } Contnrs.TComponentList.GetItems + $A
[00455873]{hfs.exe     } Forms.TApplication.ProcessMessage + $83
[004558AA]{hfs.exe     } Forms.TApplication.HandleMessage + $A
[00452727]{hfs.exe     } Forms.TCustomForm.ShowModal + $147
[0047D800]{hfs.exe     } ftmExceptionForm.TerrorHandler.ShowForm (Line 322,
"ftmExceptionForm.pas" + 16) + $5
[0047D462]{hfs.exe     } ftmExceptionForm.TerrorHandler.AppException (Line 265,
"ftmExceptionForm.pas" + 10) + $5
[00455B95]{hfs.exe     } Forms.TApplication.HandleException + $61
[00442F91]{hfs.exe     } ExtCtrls.TTimer.WndProc + $49
[004043EA]{hfs.exe     } System.@HandleFinally + $2A
[004C6AA6]{hfs.exe     } HSlib.ThttpSrv.timerEvent (Line 602, "HSlib.pas" + 27) + $3
[004043EA]{hfs.exe     } System.@HandleFinally + $2A
[0044308F]{hfs.exe     } ExtCtrls.TTimer.Timer + $F
[00442F73]{hfs.exe     } ExtCtrls.TTimer.WndProc + $2B
[00428AA8]{hfs.exe     } Classes.StdWndProc (Line 10565, "classes.pas" + + $0
[0045EBBC]{hfs.exe     } Menus.TPopupMenu.Popup + $A8
[004A4C93]{hfs.exe     } ComCtrls.TToolBar.CheckMenuDropdown + $287
[004A0B49]{hfs.exe     } ComCtrls.TToolButton.CheckMenuDropdown + $39
[004A36A0]{hfs.exe     } ComCtrls.TToolBar.CNNotify + $B8
[00465BCC]{hfs.exe     } Controls.TControl.WndProc + $188
[00468B6F]{hfs.exe     } Controls.TWinControl.WndProc + $157
[0044F66D]{hfs.exe     } Forms.TCustomForm.WndProc + $421
[0041DC7A]{hfs.exe     } Classes.TThreadList.UnlockList (Line 3097, "classes.pas" + 1)
+ $7
[0042F264]{hfs.exe     } Graphics.FreeMemoryContexts + $98
[004687EC]{hfs.exe     } Controls.TWinControl.MainWndProc + $2C
[00468801]{hfs.exe     } Controls.TWinControl.MainWndProc + $41
[00428AA8]{hfs.exe     } Classes.StdWndProc (Line 10565, "classes.pas" + + $0
[00468B6F]{hfs.exe     } Controls.TWinControl.WndProc + $157
[0044F66D]{hfs.exe     } Forms.TCustomForm.WndProc + $421
[0041DC7A]{hfs.exe     } Classes.TThreadList.UnlockList (Line 3097, "classes.pas" + 1)
+ $7
[00468B6F]{hfs.exe     } Controls.TWinControl.WndProc + $157
[004A4261]{hfs.exe     } ComCtrls.TToolBar.WndProc + $231
[0046599C]{hfs.exe     } Controls.TControl.Perform + $24
[00468CA7]{hfs.exe     } Controls.DoControlMsg + $23
[00469325]{hfs.exe     } Controls.TWinControl.WMNotify + $D
[00465BCC]{hfs.exe     } Controls.TControl.WndProc + $188
[00468B6F]{hfs.exe     } Controls.TWinControl.WndProc + $157
[004A4261]{hfs.exe     } ComCtrls.TToolBar.WndProc + $231
[004687EC]{hfs.exe     } Controls.TWinControl.MainWndProc + $2C
[00428AA8]{hfs.exe     } Classes.StdWndProc (Line 10565, "classes.pas" + + $0
[004A4023]{hfs.exe     } ComCtrls.SendDropdownMsg + $63
[004A41F4]{hfs.exe     } ComCtrls.TToolBar.WndProc + $1C4
[004A4250]{hfs.exe     } ComCtrls.TToolBar.WndProc + $220
[004687EC]{hfs.exe     } Controls.TWinControl.MainWndProc + $2C
[00428AA8]{hfs.exe     } Classes.StdWndProc (Line 10565, "classes.pas" + + $0
[00456509]{hfs.exe     } Forms.TApplication.StopHintTimer + $15
[00455873]{hfs.exe     } Forms.TApplication.ProcessMessage + $83
[004558AA]{hfs.exe     } Forms.TApplication.HandleMessage + $A
[00455ACA]{hfs.exe     } Forms.TApplication.Run + $96
[004FD550]{hfs.exe     } hfs.hfs (Line 58, "c:\code\mine\hfs\hfs.dpr" + 14) + $2
----------------------------------------------------------------
System   : Windows XP Professional, Version: 5.1, Build: A28, "Service Pack 2"
Processor: Intel, Pentium 4, 3000 MHz MMX
Display  : 1024x768 pixels, 24 bpp
----------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------
Product Versions

hfs.exe: Build: 0 3/27/05 5:05:38 PM
### END LOG

*STRANGE*:
After I got the above errors, I couldn't get back online, even locally, with HFS (and yes, the server is turned "ON").  Self-Test Failed, then it was OK on a second try, "BUT" I still couldn't do anything online or locally?  I'll have to reboot and see what happens.

*AND* my "customized" hfs.tpl just disappeared, vanished, gone??  Where did it go?

Doesn't look like the processQ bug is fixed.

*EDIT*:
After a reboot, HFS worked and my hfs.tpl mysteriously re-appeared!
Strange.  Very Strange.

maverick