Glitches -- PassiveFTP and Janus/.Net

With Passive FTP 1.4 I've encountered a number of occasions in live use — but not, alas when running in set-up tests, where it seems that operations on a large server-side directory and shuffling that around by adding or deleting files can cause some sort of fault in the icon rendering.

In Janus.Net 1.1, I have observed that null credentials (empty username and password) will suffice to perform NTLM authentication. A little digging suggests that this is a "feature" of the protocol. Note that IE prevents you giving an empty username+password in the login dialog box by keeping the OK button disabled under those circumstances.

Janus/.Net 1.1

Janus.Net 1.1 experimental — version 1.1.1569.19993 — contains experimental code to perform HTTP Basic and NTLMv2 authentication to HTTP based proxies. The only reliance on library code by the NTLM support is for the System.Security.Crypto.MD5 class — everything else for NTLM is in-line. The code is experimental in that I've tested the authentication code against a local copy of IIS, rather than against a real authenticating web proxy.

From the Windows page.

Janus/.Net

Janus for .Net — Yes, we do do requests, if not very quickly. Last August, Bob Morgenthaler asked for a Windows version of Janus, and now there is one (using the .NET framework to make things easier).

From the Windows Page.

Janus v1.2

Firewall traversal proxy Janus v1.2. The updated (less CPU intensive) Pump.java class to ferry data back and forth through the application should be of equal use in my SOCKS classes that use some of the same code.

I suppose I really ought to get around to writing a Java SDK 1.4 version using the new I/O classes for even better performance.