login.cgi

Notes

Certificates

Cookies

Cookies are used to identify each session. Please logout when done. Cookies will auto-expire after some time.

Javascript

FAQ

Q. What can I do with this service?
A. The specific reason for this was to allow account-level access to this machine, allowing bidirectional communication. Specifically, the features designed/planned are:

Q. I get weird messages or strange behavior, such as infinite refreshing of a blank(content-less) page, or a nondescriptive access denied page (401) with Microsoft Internet Explorer.
A. I think I found a bug with IE dealing with meta refreshes and MSIE does not render pages when a error code is provided. A workaround to use javascript has been placed. The code tries to detect the case when it may have problems and issues a click link to work around the problem. Please click the link when instructed to do so to continue. My testing is on Mozilla Firefox which appears to always work properly.

Q. I can login, but I instantly dropped back to the login prompt or when I reconnect.
A. There potentially can be bugs dealing with my work in progress, but this can also be caused with cookies expiring inadvertently or if your IP address changes from what you used to login. Some multiple machine NAT services may use different, round-robin outgoing machines which will not work properly with this service.
This feature is to help prevent someone stealing your cookie and obtaining access to your account along with my computer.
Regular single-host NAT should work just fine. If you're on dynamic IP and your IP address changes, it will invalidate the login and prompt for new user and password.
For cases where your web address changes frequently due a round robin proxy, use the main login page (don't use minilogin) and check the round robin proxy checkbox when logging in. This will remain valid until you logout. Don't use this checkbox unless necessary, and make sure you logout when you're done.

Q. I get a 404 File not Found error when trying to load login.cgi.
A. Make sure you're using https://vanade.com/login.cgi which encrypts your connection to ensure secure transactions. The https:// indicates a secure socket should be used over port 443 instead of the insecure http:// protocol over port 80.

Q. I get a certificate warning "Self signed certificate" when I open the web page.
A. You should accept it, it's safe for your computer to do so. Unfortunately I cannot afford to buy a Verisign signed key so I sign it myself. This could mean that Man in the Middle attacks are possible by spoofing my key, there's nobody to vouch the server you're connected to belongs to me. It's a reasonable risk, you should just accept the certificate, it only affects security of my computer if someone tries to socially engineer your password away (by making a fake website that looks like mine). Please call for the certificate/certificate fingerprint.

Q. I uploaded a file and I'm not sure where it went!
A. Remember the login system is equivalent to being logged into my computer locally, through SSH, or telnet. Files you create on the system are exactly where you created them. Watch the "Destination" directory and your "LSCWD" - your current working directory that's stored in a cookie. Because of this, you have full access to my computer and can write anywhere you normally can with your account.
Notes: if you want to create or edit your own webpage, please upload and edit files in your "www" directory under your home directory, or create one if it doesn't exist. This directory is used when accessing http://vanade.com/~userid.

Q. What does the upload file entry "Notes:" do?
A. Nothing, yet. :) Well, it puts a note in the logfile, but I decided a good use for it yet. Perhaps to make things easier I'll use RCS within the uploader, and this will be the revision control note when overwriting a file. But as of right now it's disallowed to overwrite a file so it's moot.

Q. How do I move or rename a file?
A. If you have Javascript enabled, you can rightclick on a file and select move, to move/rename a file. If you PIN a directory, it will be made as your default move/copy directory, else you can simply rename it within the directory. The old method of using a command line still works, of course.

Q. What software is this?
A. This is weblogker, and is custom, from-scratch software written in Perl for use only vanade.com. This software may not be redistributed or executed on other systems, and is not open-source. Persons with normal accounts may review the code if so desired, but I'd prefer it not be used anywhere else.

Known Bugs

HOWTO

If you are not logged in, you will be redirected to a login page.

Here describes the most common usage method options:

Notes for ?view= in picture mode:
When viewing a photo, you may click on different portions of the picture to browse the directory the picture is in. This works regardless if you have the previous/index/next top index buttons turned disabled or not.
Imagine the picture in 9 quadrants:

+---+---+---+
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
+---+---+---+
|   |   | 3 |
+---+---+---+
| 3 | 3 | 3 |
+---+---+---+

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