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- Welcome to the IBM Internet Connection Secure Server V4R2 for Windows NT.
-
- This README file contains late-breaking information about installing
- and using your IBM Internet Connection Secure Server. This information
- corrects and supplements the information in the IBM Internet Connection Secure
- Server's Quick Beginnings book and Webmaster's Guide.
-
- For answers to frequently asked questions about the Internet Connection
- Secure Server, go to our Internet Connection Family Web Site at
- http://www.ics.raleigh.ibm.com and read our FAQ.
-
- LATE-BREAKING INFORMATION...
-
- o The Request Label Entries from Third-Party Rating Service form is not
- currently available, but should be ready by mid-March.
-
- o Some Web browsers may display either a blank page or the pop-up "Document
- contains no data" on some long HTTP requests. Such a request might be
- S-HTTP or a large form post. The client closes the socket before the
- entire request can be received by the Web server. Re-submitting the
- form or request often solves the problem.
-
- o The server currently does not allow the use of blank characters within a
- file name specified in the configuration file. Blank spaces are treated
- as delimiters.
-
- o Starting a PICS rating service and label bureau
-
- When configuring your server as a PICS rating service,
- add the Service directive to the configuration file
- to inform the server that you are a PICS service
- and specify where to direct the PICS rating label requests.
- To add the Service directive, use the Request Routing form
- in the Configuration and Administration forms.
-
- NOTE: It is advisable to use the Configuration and Administration
- form, Request Routing, to ensure correct placement of the Service
- directive in the configuration file. Conversely, if you insert the Service
- directive manually, place it with the default Service directives already
- in the configuration file.
-
- For example:
-
- Service /Ratings INTERNAL:PICS-Ratings
-
- Replace /Ratings with the path and file name portion of the
- URL you will use for label requests. For example, if you publish
- the URL http://www.coolratings.com/CoolSite, you would
- include only /CoolSite in the Service directive.
-
- o If you plan to use servlet support, be aware that the current version of the
- Java Servlet API does not provide any method in its ServletResponse interface
- to write response header information. We have added the writeHeaders()
- method to the Java.servlet.ServletResponse interface to provide this support.
-
- NOTE: WebExplorer does not support Java.
-
-
- o When you use the certutil command, you might see messages similar to the messages listed
- here. Please ignore the messages; they are issued by the Windows NT operating system and
- do not affect the certutil function.
-
- D:\WWW\Bin>certutil -k cakeyfile.kyr < certreq.txt > cert.txt
- The handle could not be opened
- during redirection of handle 1.
- The handle could not be opened
- during redirection of handle 1.
- Key File Password: ********
-
- o To prevent the entire screen going black and flashing before a pop-up
- window is displayed, set the default MS-DOS mode for the Display Options
- for Console Windows to "Window" rather than "Full Screen". Use the "Console"
- control panel to set the Display Options for Console Windows to "Window".
-
- o Revisions to example URLS in the chapter "Customizing your Web site"
-
- - The example URLs for list item 3 of the "Configuration instructions" section
- should not include your server name.
-
- 3. Insert lines in the Web page HTML file for the functions
- you are using.
-
- Page count:
- <img src="/cgi-bin/apicounter/counter_name?&[common_options] [counter_option]">
-
- Date and time:
- <img src="/cgi-bin/datetime?[common_options] [date_and_time_option]">
-
- Text:
- <img src="/cgi-bin/text2gif?[common_options] [text_to_gif_option]">
-
-
- - At the beginning of the "Options" section, the URL examples in note 3
- (using an ampersand to separate options) and note 4 (RRGGBB color options)
- should not include your server name.
-
- Note 3.
- For example, to display a page counter with a foreground color
- of blue and a background color of white, use the following URL:
-
- <img src="/cgi-bin/apicounter/counter_name?FG=blue&BG=white">
-
- Note 4.
- For example, to display a page counter with a foreground color
- of blue and a background color of white, use the following URL:
-
- <img src="/cgi-bin/apicounter/counter_name?FG=FFFF00">
-
- - For the Text to gif option, the example URLs should not include
- your server name. The following URLs show an example
- of how you can display text and page count on a web page:
-
- <img src="/cgi-bin/text2gif?BG=white&Text=This%20Web%20page%20has%20been%20accessed%20">
- <img src="/cgi-bin/apicounter/counter_name?FG=red&BG=white">
- <img src="/cgi-bin/text2gif?BG=white&Text=%20times%20since%20January%201,%201997.">
-
-
- o The new version of reporting is not able to handle very large logfiles in the browser.
-
- Your server might not be able to create a report for a very large access log file
- (60 MB, for example). If your system encounters a problem while trying to generate a report,
- the cause might be an access log that is too large. To generate reports against very large
- access log files, try increasing the RAM and (or) the swapper file space on your system.
- A short-term solution to this problem is to turn off report generation by renaming
- the htlogrep executable file.
-
- o The previous version of htlogrep is available for those who need the old functionality.
- If you need to use the previous version of htlogrep, please see the Internet Connection
- Family Web Site at http://www.icw.raleigh.ibm.com for additional information.
-
- o Byte count variations when monitoring server performance and status
-
- The bytes sent and bytes received counts on the Internet
- Connection Server Activity Monitor are different than those
- on the Windows NT Performance Monitor. The Server Activity Monitor
- displays bytes sent and bytes received counts for content only.
- The Windows NT Performance Monitor displays bytes sent and bytes
- received counts for content and header data.
-
-
- SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS...
-
- For Windows NT, you need:
- ---------------------------
- o Microsoft Windows NT or NT-J Server or Client (Workstation) 3.51
- with TCP/IP configured
-
- o A partition formatted using the NT File System (NTFS), the
- High Performance File System (HPFS), or the File Allocation Table (FAT).
- We recommend that you use NTFS for better file protection.
-
- o For SNMP support, install the SystemView Agent Developers
- toolkit which can be downloaded from the
- http://www.software.ibm.com/download/ URL.
-
- o To compile and run Java servlets, you will need the
- Java Developers' Kit (JDK), Version 1.0.2. You can download
- JDK from the IBM software download library at URL:
-
- http://www.software.ibm.com/download
-
- We will provide our own version of the Java servlet classes in the
- icsclass.zip file.
-
- NOTE: To use Java servlet support, the CLASSPATH environment variable
- must be set as follows before you install the server
-
- CLASSPATH=C:\java_home_directory\lib\classes.zip
-
- When you install the server, the installation program will
- automatically add the icsclass.zip file to your CLASSPATH
- environment variable.
-
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