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Free Software

Here's my collection of free software I've written. Some of it is licensed under the GPL, other of it is not. Please check the licenses of each before you assume rights you may or may not have. License terms of future versions might change; the license that applies to any copy you might have is that specified for that copy at the time you received it.

Some of this software is very old and some was coded under pressure, so it might not represent my best work. As time goes on, I'll be revisiting each of these titles and updating them as I feel is necessary. If you're using any of my free software titles, you might want to check back from time to time to discover any updates.

• ASForm: A secure and very flexible web-to-mail gateway, similar to formmail but not nearly as stupid. ASForm does not require (or even currently support) a local mail transfer agent, such as sendmail; it delivers all messages via SMTP. ASForm includes a handy "debug" mode that allows you to check your configuration and discover problems before they rise up to bite. ASForm is first on my list of things to rework, but it works well as-is. Get ASForm here.
• generate_dspam_aliases: If you're using DSPAM to keep spam out of your inbox (and you should be!), this handy little utility will allow you to create your user-spam aliases in a more flexible manner than DSPAM's included dspam_genaliases utility. As soon as I get around to twiddling it just a bit, generate_dspam_aliases will be folded into the main DSPAM distribution. For now, you can get it here.
• redirect.pl: a handy-dandy little CGI redirector, allowing you to use select elements for navigation on your web site without dependence upon client-side functionality like javascript. Is SSI'able, so you can drop the same navigational elements on many pages of your site if you can use server-side includes. Very configurable. Get redirect.pl here.

Webmaster Resources

A collection of information that might be of use to web designers, webmasters, and others who have to work with internet technology that is still just a bit foreign to them:

• Art Sackett's Grey Papers:
  • Perl CGI Scripts: Brokenly Installed. If your shiny new perl CGI script from some repository or other fails to work for you, take a look here.
  • Command Line FTP: So, you have to transfer some files to your new web hosting provider, but you don't have a pretty FTP client handy? Read this and you and your files will be on the way in no time.
  • Server Side Includes for the rest of us. So, you want to use SSI, huh? This will get you started, even if it won't make you an SSI guru. Some day I'll get around to writing the advanced SSI guru stuff, but for most folks, what I've written here is more than enough.

Finally, some vocabulary tips: "web site" is always two words. "Hacker" is not a guy who breaks into your computer. The guy who breaks into your computer is a "cracker", like a safe cracker. The title hacker is reserved as an honor for those who write software that's elegant through and through, or who manage to do things in software that mere mortals cannot accomplish. You'll look like a dweeb if you use these terms incorrectly in knowledgable technical company, so don't. Now you know.

Service to 38.103.63.16 on Sunday, 06-Jul-2008 19:36:46 GMT.