I just hacked together a Flash Socket Policy server in .js
and upped it at bbs.defcon.no and vert

The "protocol" so so darned simple, the file is to be considered
public domain.

(Posting this via vert, because I am unable to set the BBS tagline
on Defcon BBS because of segfault on Enter.. Need to recompile some day ;)

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Re: Flashterm related: Socket server
By: Fishy to All on Wed Sep 30 2009 12:02 pm

I just hacked together a Flash Socket Policy server in .js
and upped it at bbs.defcon.no and vert

Jeez, even managed to post on the wrong group ;) N3wb styl!

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On 9/30/2009 12:04 PM, Fishy wrote:

I just hacked together a Flash Socket Policy server in .js
and upped it at bbs.defcon.no and vert

Jeez, even managed to post on the wrong group ;) N3wb styl!

Already made one myself a few weeks ago...

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Tracker1 wrote:

On 9/30/2009 12:04 PM, Fishy wrote:

I just hacked together a Flash Socket Policy server in .js
and upped it at bbs.defcon.no and vert

Jeez, even managed to post on the wrong group ;) N3wb styl!

Already made one myself a few weeks ago...

the vadv developer made one that i really love

http://bbsnews.org/news/node/80

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On 10/1/2009 9:00 PM, Jas Hud wrote:

Already made one myself a few weeks ago...

the vadv developer made one that i really love http://bbsnews.org/news/node/80

Yeah, actually did some tcp/ip snooping to discover that the xml response you send back doesn't work well with cr/lfs in the response... Mine runs *inside* of synchronet though, so it can be included with it.

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Re: Re: Flashterm related: Socket server
By: Jas Hud to Tracker1 on Thu Oct 01 2009 11:00 pm

Tracker1 wrote:

On 9/30/2009 12:04 PM, Fishy wrote:

I just hacked together a Flash Socket Policy server in .js
and upped it at bbs.defcon.no and vert

Jeez, even managed to post on the wrong group ;) N3wb styl!

Already made one myself a few weeks ago...

the vadv developer made one that i really love

http://bbsnews.org/news/node/80

The point of making a .JS version, is to run the policy server as an
integrated service on Synchronet. With the services-system on synch,
there is no need to run an externap app. Looks like a nice alternative for Win32-heads running BSSes and such that do not support integrated services tho.

To Tracker1: "Already made one myself".... does not really help other
SysOps much unless you post/publish, does it?

I see you did, over on the Synchronet Java devel after posting here, but
just seeing your answer here pissed me off a little....

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Re: Re: Flashterm related: Socket server
By: Tracker1 to Jas Hud on Fri Oct 02 2009 04:58 pm

On 10/1/2009 9:00 PM, Jas Hud wrote:

Already made one myself a few weeks ago...

the vadv developer made one that i really love http://bbsnews.org/news/node/80

Yeah, actually did some tcp/ip snooping to discover that the xml response yo send back doesn't work well with cr/lfs in the response... Mine runs *insid of synchronet though, so it can be included with it.

Yeah, running the policy server as a service was the point of my approach too, I did'nt want yeat another separate process running with root/admin rights seeing that the policyserver by default uses a port < 1024 ...

I found that CR/LF is a big no-no, but plain LF's work with Flash9 at least.
As the Adobe documentation only specifies "this is XML", i dropped CR and LF altogether to be sure it would work...

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Fishy wrote:

The point of making a .JS version, is to run the policy server as an integrated service on Synchronet. With the services-system on synch,
there is no need to run an externap app. Looks like a nice alternative for Win32-heads running BSSes and such that do not support integrated services tho.

To Tracker1: "Already made one myself".... does not really help other
SysOps much unless you post/publish, does it?

I see you did, over on the Synchronet Java devel after posting here, but
just seeing your answer here pissed me off a little....

so how well does a synchronet .js policy server service preform?

i know those other services can cause the bbs side to lag for users when
ran.

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Re: Re: Flashterm related: Socket server
By: Jas Hud to Fishy on Mon Oct 05 2009 02:43 am

so how well does a synchronet .js policy server service preform?

i know those other services can cause the bbs side to lag for users when ran.

Seeing how simple a policy server should be, there should really be no load
or lag. And I stress-tested mine a little, and cant see any load at all.
So, they perform very well indeed.

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On 10/6/2009 12:54 AM, Fishy wrote:

so how well does a synchronet .js policy server service preform?

i know those other services can cause the bbs side to lag for users when ran.

Seeing how simple a policy server should be, there should really be no load or lag. And I stress-tested mine a little, and cant see any load at all.
So, they perform very well indeed.

yeah, mine doesn't even parse the input, just spits out the XML file from the ../conf directory, runs fast enough... far less overhead than the HTTP request to get the HTML that the flash was included on, that's for sure.

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