easily manage, by adopting a hybrid approach to Unicode text
display. The old approach of simply calling ExtTextOutW provided
font linking without us having to lift a finger, but didn't do the
right thing when it came to bidirectional or Arabic-shaped text.
Arabeyes' replacement exact_textout() supported the latter, but
turned out to break the former (with no warning from the Windows API
documentation, so it's not their fault).
So now I've got a second wrapper layer called general_textout(),
which splits the input string into substrings based on bidi
character class. Any character liable to cause bidi or shaping
behaviour if fed straight to ExtTextOutW is instead fed through
Arabeyes' exact_textout(), but the rest is fed straight to
ExtTextOutW as it used to be.
The effect appears to be that font linking is restored for all
characters _except_ Arabic and other bidi scripts, which means in
particular that we are no longer in a state of regression over 0.57.
(0.57 would have done font linking on Arabic as well, but would also
have misbidied it, so we've merely exchanged one failure mode for
another slightly less harmful one in that situation.)
[originally from svn r6910]
in an SSH connection _in addition_ to the decrypted packets. This
will hopefully come in useful for debugging wire data corruption
issues: you can strace the server, enable this mode in the client,
and compare the sent and received data.
I'd _like_ to have this mode also log Diffie-Hellman private
exponents, session IDs, encryption and MAC keys, so that the
resulting log file could be used to independently verify the
correctness of all cryptographic operations performed by PuTTY.
However, I haven't been able to convince myself that the security
implications are acceptable. (It doesn't matter that this
information would permit an attacker to decrypt the session, because
the _already_ decrypted session is stored alongside it in the log
file. And I'm not planning, under any circumstances, to log users'
private keys. But gaining access to the log file while the session
was still running would permit an attacker to _hijack_ the session,
and that's the iffy bit.)
[originally from svn r6835]
there): `plink host -nc host2:port' causes the SSH connection's main
channel to be replaced with a direct-tcpip connection to the
specified destination. This feature is mainly designed for use as a
local proxy: setting your local proxy command to `plink %proxyhost
-nc %host:%port' lets you tunnel SSH over SSH with a minimum of
fuss. Works on all platforms.
[originally from svn r6823]
in place of making a network connection. This has involved a couple
of minor infrastructure changes:
- New dlg_label_change() function in the dialog.h interface, which
alters the label on a control. Only used, at present, to switch
the Host Name and Port boxes into Serial Line and Speed, which
means that any platform not implementing serial connections (i.e.
currently all but Windows) does not need to actually do anything
in this function. Yet.
- New small piece of infrastructure: cfg_launchable() determines
whether a Config structure describes a session ready to be
launched. This was previously determined by seeing if it had a
non-empty host name, but it has to check the serial line as well
so there's a centralised function for it. I haven't gone through
all front ends and arranged for this function to be used
everywhere it needs to be; so far I've only checked Windows.
- Similarly, cfg_dest() returns the destination of a connection
(host name or serial line) in a text format suitable for putting
into messages such as `Unable to connect to %s'.
[originally from svn r6815]
it's NULL. Since we already have one back end (uxpty) which doesn't
in fact talk to a network socket, and may well have more soon, I'm
replacing this TCP/IP-centric function with a nice neutral
`connected' function returning a boolean. Nothing else about its
semantics has currently changed.
[originally from svn r6810]
Pageant for local authentication. (This is a `don't use Pageant for
authentication at session startup' button rather than a `pretend
Pageant doesn't exist' button: that is, agent forwarding is
independent of this option.)
[originally from svn r6572]
basis for other terminal-involving applications: a stub
implementation of the printing interface, an additional function in
notiming.c, and also I've renamed the front-end function beep() to
do_beep() so as not to clash with beep() in lib[n]curses.
[originally from svn r6479]
abstracted out; replace loops structured around a single interaction
per loop with less tortuous code (fixes: `ki-multiprompt-crash',
`ssh1-bad-passphrase-crash'; makes `ssh2-password-expiry' and
`proxy-password-prompt' easier).
The new interaction abstraction has a lot of fields that are unused in
the current code (things like window captions); this is groundwork for
`gui-auth'. However, ssh.c still writes directly to stderr; that may
want to be fixed.
In the GUI apps, user interaction is moved to terminal.c. This should
make it easier to fix things like UTF-8 username entry, although I
haven't attempted to do so. Also, control character filtering can be
tailored to be appropriate for individual front-ends; so far I don't
promise anything other than not having made it any worse.
I've tried to test this fairly exhaustively (although Mac stuff is
untested, as usual). It all seems to basically work, but I bet there
are new bugs. (One I know about is that you can no longer make the
PuTTY window go away with a ^D at the password prompt; this should be
fixed.)
[originally from svn r6437]
[this svn revision also touched putty-wishlist]
there are servers which could in principle operate in this mode, although I
don't know if any do in practice. (Hence, I haven't been able to test it.)
[originally from svn r5748]
[this svn revision also touched putty-wishlist]
Unix Plink sends everything sensible it can find, and it's fully configurable
from the GUI.
I'm not entirely sure about the precise set of modes that Unix Plink should
look at; informed tweaks are welcome.
Also the Mac bits are guesses (but trivial).
[originally from svn r5653]
[this svn revision also touched putty-wishlist]
that the global `sesslist' got out of sync with the saved-sessions submenu,
causing the latter to launch the wrong sessions.
Also, Change Settings wasn't getting a fresh session list, so if the set of
sessions had changed since session startup it wouldn't reflect that (at least
until a session was saved). Fixed (on all platforms).
Therefore, since the global sesslist didn't seem to be useful, I've got rid
of it; config.c creates one as needed, as do the frontends. (Not tried
compiling Mac changes.)
Also, we now build the saved-sessions submenu on demand on Windows and Unix.
(This should probably also be done on the Mac.)
[originally from svn r5609]
<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/wcwidth.c>.
This is identified both internally and in HTTP headers as 2003-05-20,
for Unicode 4.0.
Only changes from upstream are to make mk_wcwidth_cjk() non-static and to
#include "putty.h" for prototypes.
The status of some code points has changed; see the wishlist item. We've
had some feedback from the CJK and Arabic communities that upgrading is
probably the right thing to do.
[originally from svn r5547]
[this svn revision also touched putty-wishlist]
* All the PuTTY tools for Windows and Unix now contain the fingerprints of
the Master Keys. The method for accessing them is crude but universal:
a new "-pgpfp" command-line option. (Except Unix PuTTYgen, which takes
"--pgpfp" just to be awkward.)
* Move the key policy discussion from putty-website/keys.html to
putty/doc/pgpkeys.but, and autogenerate the former from the latter.
Also tweak the text somewhat and include the fingerprints of the
Master Keys themselves.
(I've merged the existing autogeneration scripts into a single new
one; I've left the old scripts and keys.html around until such time
as the webmonster reviews the changes and plumbs in the new script;
he should remove the old files then.)
[originally from svn r5524]
[this svn revision also touched putty-website]
discussed. Use Barrett and Silverman's convention of "SSH-1" for SSH protocol
version 1 and "SSH-2" for protocol 2 ("SSH1"/"SSH2" refer to ssh.com
implementations in this scheme). <http://www.snailbook.com/terms.html>
[originally from svn r5480]
This was harder than verify_ssh_host_key() and askalg() put
together, because:
(a) askappend() can be called at any time, since it's a side effect
of data-logging functions. Therefore there can be an unfinished
askappend() alert at any time, and hence the OS X front end has
to be prepared to _queue_ other alerts which occur during that
time.
(b) logging.c has to do something with data that comes in while
it's waiting for an answer to askappend(). It buffers it until
it knows what the user wants done with it. This involved
something of a reorganisation of logging.c.
[originally from svn r5344]
now returns an integer: 0 means cancel the SSH connection and 1
means continue with it. Additionally, they can return -1, which
means `front end has set an asynchronous alert box in motion, please
wait to be called back with the result', and each one is passed a
callback function pointer and context for this purpose.
I have not yet done the same to askappend() yet, because it will
take a certain amount of reorganisation of logging.c.
Importantly, this checkin means the host key dialog box now works on
OS X.
[originally from svn r5330]
changing its mouse pointer. Currently this is only used in the (slightly-
arbitrarily-defined) "heavy" bits of SSH-2 key exchange. We override pointer
hiding while PuTTY is busy, but preserve pointer-hiding state.
Not yet implemented on the Mac.
Also switch to frobbing window-class cursor in Windows rather than relying on
SetCursor().
[originally from svn r5303]
deal with rekeys at all: they totally ignore mid-session KEXINIT
sent by the client. Hence, a new bug entry so we don't try it.
[originally from svn r5092]
of polishing to bring them to what I think should in principle be
release quality. Unlike the unfix.org patches themselves, this
checkin enables IPv6 by default; if you want to leave it out, you
have to build with COMPAT=-DNO_IPV6.
I have tested that this compiles on Visual C 7 (so the nightlies
_should_ acquire IPv6 support without missing a beat), but since I
don't have IPv6 set up myself I haven't actually tested that it
_works_. It still seems to make correct IPv4 connections, but that's
all I've been able to verify for myself. Further testing is needed.
[originally from svn r5047]
[this svn revision also touched putty-wishlist]
mid-session if we are not using SSHv1. I've done this by introducing
a generic `cfg_info' function which every back end can use to
communicate an int's worth of data to setup_config_box; in SSH
that's the protocol version in use, and in everything else it's
currently zero.
[originally from svn r5040]
[r5031 == d77102a8d5]
(which will gain more content anon).
Retire BUG_SSH2_DH_GEX and add a backwards-compatibility wart, since we never
did find a way of automatically detecting this alleged server bug, and in any
case there was only ever one report (<3D91F3B5.7030309@inwind.it>, FWIW).
Also generalise askcipher() to a new askalg() (thus touching all the
front-ends).
I've made some attempt to document what SSH key exchange is and why you care,
but it could use some review for clarity (and outright lies).
[originally from svn r5022]
the start of every contiguous run passed to do_text() or
do_cursor(), and arranges never to overwrite only part of such a run
on the next update.
I'm a bit worried about this checkin because I've also completely
revamped cursor handling: the cursor was previously being drawn
_outside_ the main loop over the display line, and is now drawn as
part of that loop when it gets to the cursor location. It _seems_ to
still work sensibly, even in complex cases involving LATTR_WIDE and
double-width CJK characters etc, but I won't be entirely happy until
it's had some beta use.
[originally from svn r5003]
[this svn revision also touched putty-wishlist]
results in unacceptable performance for him on Win2000. Add a checkbox to
revert to the old behaviour.
[originally from svn r4988]
[this svn revision also touched putty-wishlist]
timing.c, and hence takes its own responsibility for calling
noise_regular() at regular intervals. Again, this means it will be
called consistently in _all_ the SSH-speaking tools, not just those
in which I remembered to call it!
[originally from svn r4913]
blink when the window doesn't have focus, we don't schedule blink
timers at that point either.
Infrastructure change: term->has_focus should now not be written
directly from outside terminal.c. Instead, use the function
term_set_focus, which will sort out the blink timers as well.
[originally from svn r4911]
which pretty much any module can call to request a call-back in the
future. So terminal.c can do its own handling of blinking, visual
bells and deferred screen updates, without having to rely on
term_update() being called 50 times a second (fixes: pterm-timer);
and ssh.c and telnet.c both invoke a new module pinger.c which takes
care of sending keepalives, so they get sent uniformly in all front
ends (fixes: plink-keepalives, unix-keepalives).
[originally from svn r4906]
[this svn revision also touched putty-wishlist]
of the SSH servers I conveniently have access to (Debian stable OpenSSH --
3.4p1 -- and lshd) seem to take a blind bit of notice, but the channel
requests look fine to me in the packet log.
I've included all the signals explicitly defined by
draft-ietf-secsh-connect-19, but I've put the more obscure ones in a submenu
of the specials menu; there's therefore been some minor upheaval to support
such submenus.
[originally from svn r4652]
the same window (Windows version only).
Policy change: it's now the backend's responsibility to call
update_specials_menu() at the start of a session (or whenever it feels ready),
if it has any special commands. Otherwise the menu won't be displayed.
[originally from svn r4649]
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#activate
feels strongly that it should be easy to make _all_ your
applications work in UTF-8 mode, without having to remember a switch
for each one. Every application should simply note a UTF-8 locale
setting and switch into UTF-8 mode automatically.
Therefore, for the Unix port only, there's now a checkbox, enabled
by default, which causes the drop-down Translation box to be
overridden if the locale indicates UTF-8. Anyone who doesn't like
this, or doesn't like MGK, is welcome to turn it straight back off.
I'm not _completely_ convinced by MGK's argument myself; for
xterm/pterm to do _useful_ UTF-8 you also need to specify a decently
Unicode-capable font, and there's no way _that_ can be automagically
done on noticing a locale setting. But it's a de facto standard
(i.e. xterm does it :-) so I might as well at least be _able_ to
support it.
[originally from svn r4648]
array of each `termline' structure now contains optional additional
entries after the normal number of columns, which are used to chain
a linked list of combining characters off any primary termchar that
needs it. This means we support arbitrarily many combining
characters per cell (unlike xterm's hard limit of 2).
Cut and paste works correctly (selecting a character cell containing
multiple code points causes all those code points to be cut and
pasted). Display works by simply overlaying all the relevant
characters on top of one another; this is good enough for Unix
(xterm does the same thing), and mostly seems OK for Windows except
that the Windows Unicode fonts have a nasty habit of not containing
most of the combining characters and thus overlaying an
unknown-code-point box on your perfectly good base glyph.
I had no idea how to add support in the Mac do_text(), so I've
simply stuck in an assertion that will trigger the first time a
combining character is displayed, and hopefully this will bite
someone with the clue to fix it.
[originally from svn r4622]
PuTTY / Plink not to run a remote shell/command at all. Supported in
the GUI configuration and via the (OpenSSH-like) -N command-line
option.
No effort is currently made to arrange `nice' UI properties. If you
do this in GUI PuTTY, a full-size terminal window will still be
created, and will sit there with almost nothing in it throughout
your session. If you do it in Plink, Plink will not accept any kind
of request to terminate gracefully; you'll have to ^C or kill it.
Nonetheless, even this little will be useful to some people...
[originally from svn r4614]
The active terminal screen is no longer an array of `unsigned long'
encoding 16-bit Unicode plus 16 attribute bits. Now it's an array of
`termchar' structures, which currently have 32-bit Unicode and 32
attribute bits but which will probably expand further in future.
To prevent bloat of the memory footprint, I've introduced a mostly
RLE-like compression scheme for storing scrollback: each line is
compressed into a compact (but hard to modify) form when it moves
into the term->scrollback tree, and is temporarily decompressed when
the user wants to scroll back over it. My initial tests suggest that
this compression averages about 1/4 of the previous (32 bits per
character cell) data size in typical output, which means this is an
improvement even without counting the new ability to extend the
information stored in each character cell.
Another beneficial side effect is that the insane format in which
Unicode was passed to front ends through do_text() has now been
rendered sane.
Testing is incomplete; this _may_ still have instabilities. Windows
and Unix front ends both seem to work as far as I've looked, but I
haven't yet looked very hard. The Mac front end I've edited (it
seemed obvious how to change it) but I can't compile or test it.
As an immediate functional effect, the terminal emulator now
supports full 32-bit Unicode to whatever extent the host platform
allows it to. For example, if you output a 4-or-more-byte UTF-8
character in Unix pterm, it will not display it properly, but it
will correctly paste it back out in a UTF8_STRING selection. Windows
is more restricted, sadly.
[originally from svn r4609]
by default (although they can be included). There's also an option to remove
session data, which is good both for privacy and for reducing the size of
logfiles.
[originally from svn r4593]
when talking to SOCKS 5 proxies. Configures itself transparently (if
the proxy offers CHAP it will use it, otherwise it falls back to
ordinary cleartext passwords).
[originally from svn r4517]
`all session data' modes, without completely mauling the performance, by
fflush()ing once per term_out(). If anyone complains I suppose we can
make this optional.
[originally from svn r4445]
