Attempts at damage limitation from the name similarity with pterm.
Also try to refresh the ports section of the FAQ a bit.
[originally from svn r8139]
[this svn revision also touched putty-website]
to manually tweak the host name and port number under which the SSH
host key is read and written.
I've put it in the cross-platform Connection panel. Partly under the
flimsy pretext that other backends _can_ use it if they so wish (and
in fact it overrides the host name for title-bar purposes in all
network backends, though it has no other effect in anything but
SSH); but mostly because the SSH panel was too full already :-)
[originally from svn r8033]
advertise so that the server can't exceed our maximum packet size.
Enable it for "1.36_sshlib GlobalSCAPE" which apparently sends oversize
packets otherwise.
[originally from svn r7804]
know how I'd go about retrieving money from them any more because my
last exchange transaction went through a company who subsequently
turned out to be dodgy; and a user points out that e-gold is in
legal trouble, which suggests that avoiding it is probably wise.
[originally from svn r7604]
We now have an option where a remote window title query returns a well-formed
response containing the empty string. This should keep stop any server-side
application that was expecting a response from hanging, while not permitting
the response to be influenced by an attacker.
We also retain the ability to stay schtum. The existing checkbox has thus
grown into a set of radio buttons.
I've changed the default to the "empty string" response, even in the backward-
compatibility mode of loading old settings, which is a change in behaviour;
any users who want the old behaviour back will have to explicitly select it. I
think this is probably the Right Thing. (The only drawback I can think of is
that an attacker could still potentially use the relevant fixed strings for
mischief, but we already have other, similar reports.)
[originally from svn r7043]
and various calls to WinHelp() have been centralised into a new file
winhelp.c, which in turn has been modified to detect a .CHM file as
well as .HLP and select between them as appropriate. It explicitly
tries to load HHCTRL.OCX and use GetProcAddress, meaning that it
_should_ still work correctly on pre-HTML-Help platforms, falling
gracefully back to WinHelp, but although I tested this by
temporarily renaming my own HHCTRL.OCX I haven't yet been able to
test it on a real HTML-Help-free platform.
Also in this checkin: a new .but file and docs makefile changes to
make it convenient to build the sources for a .CHM. As yet, owing to
limitations of Halibut's CHM support, I'm not able to write a .CHM
directly, more's the pity.
[originally from svn r7000]