Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:45:26 -0400   
   From: WINSERVER SUPPORT   
   To: all   
   Subject: AUP 451.9e GAMMA is now available   
   Newsgroups: winserver.public.gamma.testing   
   Message-ID: <1159991528.40.0@winserver.com>   
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   This is the first PUBLIC GAMMA for AUP 451.9.   
      
   We will like to get as many field testers as we can on this one,   
   especially developers.  For this first one, we concentrated only BINARY   
   updates. No templates, no new WCWEBAUTH.ZIP with the new login stuff.   
      
   To access the GAMMA AUP, type:   
      
            AUTOUPDATE -GAMMA   
      
   If you are upto par, approximately 24-30 files will be updated.   
      
   The goal here is 100% PLUG AND PLAY COMPATIBILITY.  Absolutely no change   
   is required your part.  Developers, Sysops who are testing the   
   HTML-SIGNUP stuff made new a small change.  I will describe this below.   
      
   However, overall, for the normal sysop, no change is expected and there   
   are some significant enhancements and fixes which you all should welcome   
   and appreciate.  I, for one, highly appreciate that we finally addressed   
   all issues related to COOKIE/DIGEST Web Authentication Login issues that   
   arose since their introduction back in 451.4.   
      
   You should read the AUP HISTORY for 451.9 for complete change history.   
   The following is the major highlights I think are significant.   
      
   - Consistent SIGNUP logic for both TEXT and WEB mode.   
   - Consistent LOGIN logic for all methods of connection.   
      
   The bottom line here is that user accounts can now have "dots" in them,   
   in particular when signing up or logging in via the web, like:   
      
       john.smith   
       j.d. smith   
      
   This was always allowed via the TEXT and WEB mode, but with the WEB,   
   when COOKIES/DIGEST login methods were introduced in 451.4, this caused   
   some inconsistencies and bugs.  The bugs found were fixed in 451.6 by   
   basically having the WEB Server REJECT login names with a dot in it with   
   a "USER NOT FOUND" error.  However, it was now found that the WEB still   
   allowed the new SIGNUP name to contain dots, but then the new user was   
   not allowed to login, hence the main reason to address this entire issue   
   in this update.  We accomplished that.   
      
   I would like to thank Brian Caouette for highlighting the problem   
   related to COOKIE/DIGEST and user names with dots in them.   
      
   - Wildcat POP3 now supports POCKET PC and MS Entourage Mail Readers.   
      
   I would like to thank Rick Wagner for reporting this problem.   
      
   There were other transparent changes/fixes that will help support   
   cookie-based login form customization and CLOSED/VALIDATION System   
   operations.  This will be introduce as optional templates/zip files,   
   etc.   
      
   The main thing now is to make sure this BINARY update fixes the above   
   issues, and is PLUG and PLAY with no change in logic to your current web   
   pages.   
      
   Thanks for your support   
      
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