A few days ago, Michael Polak asked if Arachne 1.71;UE01 was about ready for general distribution.
I have been using it steadily for about a month, now, and it seems real solid. The MyYahooMail lockup problem is not Arachne's problem, primarily, and isn't going to be fixed quickly, IMNSHO.. The primary 1.70r3 bug, the RunawayDownloadLoopCounter bug has been firmly stomped down by Glenn (it isn't completely dead, but it only wriggles a little, and doesn't crash Arachne, so it IS now forgetable). The new https-spoof has worked flawlessly on all the sites where I encounter casual, https required, stupidity. Anywhere I really want real https to be NOT spoofed, it cannot do it, so...this is working fine. The experimental IgnoreJS function works very well, and only throws me off on an occasional page, and when I encounter the problems, I just delete it in the .CFG and try again...so this is experimentally working fine. You already know that 1.70r3 cured the serious 1.69 problems, and I would have been using THAT for the past 1 1/2 years, but the downloadloopcounter bug made that version generally unusable... Version 1.71UE01 now has all that 1.70r3 functionally plus does NOT have the d/l-loop bug, and does have the added https-spoof functionality. Plus, there are a lot of nice little enhancements which I am still being surpirsed by which add value to the overall package. So, all known major problems have been fixed. No new problems have been introduced. Quite a bit of new functionality and enhancement has been added. There will NEVER be a perfect version. There will never be a final version (unless you burn the source code....<g g g>....). So, I think the answer to Michael's question is YES... Put it up...let the whole world beat a path to the arachne.cz door. ......gregy -- This mail was sent by a user of Arachne - The Ultimate Internet Client
