
html-node Node Configuration Utility for Wildcat!5/WINS

by John Edwards
sysop@pinnacle.net.au 
April 97

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This is the first of my utilities I've chosen to upload to MSI.

To be honest, its the only one in a polished enough state to release!


What it does:

html-node is simply a CGI version of wcnodew.exe that comes with wildcat

Since I do a lot of my sysoping remotely, I designed it so I could use the features of wcnode to kick annoying users from remote, without having to leave what I was doing in the terminal client. It also supports bringing nodes up and down.

It also makes a neat sysop's alternative to html-who, as node status is color coded using html table backgrounds.

Security:

Any user who does not have the master-sysop flag set will not be able to access this utility. They will simply get a link refering them to html-who.

Installation:

Copy html-node.wcx to your c:\wc5 directory (or wherever it may lie) and  then simply use the URL http://myserver.com/code/html-node

Its as simple as that! Since its all point and click, you dont really need to know anything else!

Known bugs:

If you kick a user off, then refresh the page, you could inadvertantly kick off the next user who dials into that node, as the cgi command to kick node X will still be the URL.

This has been remedied by adding a META tag that takes it back to the start after 20 seconds, clearing out the html parameters.

Thanks:

Thanks to Rohan Viljoen (empire.bbs.net.au) for his advice in designing the interface (I'm a programmer, not a designer :) and also Ross Jonas (fpbbs.pinnacle.net.au) for helping to test this product, and motivate me to actually finish something.

Other Neat Stuff I have "in the works" thats not in a release state..

A Real-time billing and time accounting package for Wildcat5/WINS
(Yes, it works for PPP and wcnav users as well..)

Pinnacle Chat, a chat with colours and alias's that is Still 100% compatable with wcnav chat!

An email processor for all internet email .. allows instant forwarding, filtering, email receipts, 3rd party mail processors (even .wcx ones), the possibilites are endless!

A program to upgrade user security based on caller id (IP address)

An "Access more time" function (my callers love this)

A few simple programs to redial RAS on my system, and connect back to the file server in the event of a power failure.

A split screen sysop-chat for WC5!! (only works in windows 95 right now..)



Please Write and let me know what you think of this program, and if you'd like to see (or pay for) any more like it!

Feel free to telnet into pinnacle.net.au any time for a chat!


John Edwards
Sysop@pinnacle.net.au
Aldgate, South Australia