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New Linux Client Release: 2.7b9

Submitted by spot on Thu, 2008-08-28 02:45. User Forum

See the previous post for how to install it. If you have subscribed to our PPA, then your client will be auto-updated.

The changelog is below. The important addition is support for authentication. If you create an account on the new drupal and then enter the same information into the "electricsheep-preferences" dialog, you'll get better bandwidth.

change default nickname to empty string to protect user
privacy, instead of broadcasting USER envar. add a button to
the preferences dialog that tests the current network settings
(including if the user/password account is valid). use 20th
percentile instead of median for deletion limit, ie protect
fewer sheep. remove cvs version strings. follow http
redirections vi -L option to curl. enable basic authentication
(the user/password refers to the drupal on the sheep server).
put the client version into the URL for the help page.

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recurring error in get_control_points

Submitted by bpurvis on Sun, 2008-09-14 11:34.

(doh, should have replied instead i guess to keep the thread intact. sorry)
i think this is related to the server and not the client and might have simply been intermittent, but i thought i would report it and place it here since this is the version i am using. It looks like there was/is perhaps some bad xml being generated ?

electricsheep --nthreads 3 --max-megabytes 0 --debug 1 --logfile ~/.electricsheep/electrisheep.log

-= instance 1 =-
time do_render Sun Sep 14 03:04:21 2008
get_control_points nice -n 10 curl --location --silent --show-error 'http://v2d7b.sheepserver.net/cgi/get?n=XXXXXXX&w=&v=LNX_2.7b9&u=1234567890ABCDEF&r=1&c=1'
| gunzip -c
unclosed token at line 128
cleanup_and_exit 1
handle_sig_term render 0 cleanup.
handle_sig_term download 15 cleanup.
handle_sig_term render 15 cleanup.
handle_sig_term render 15 cleanup.

-= X =-
time do_render Sun Sep 14 01:56:20 2008
get_control_points nice -n 10 curl --location --silent --show-error 'http://v2d7b.sheepserver.net/cgi/get?n=XXXXXXX&w=&v=LNX_2.7b9&u=1234567890ABCDEF&r=1&c=1'
| gunzip -c
mismatched tag at line 840
cleanup_and_exit 1

-= X =-
time do_render Sat Sep 13 20:21:11 2008
get_control_points nice -n 10 curl --location --silent --show-error 'http://v2d7b.sheepserver.net/cgi/get?n=XXXXXXX&w=&v=LNX_2.7b9&u=1234567890ABCDEF&r=1&c=1'
| gunzip -c
mismatched tag at line 840

-= X =-
time do_render Sat Sep 13 10:33:09 2008
get_control_points nice -n 10 curl --location --silent --show-error 'http://v2d7b.sheepserver.net/cgi/get?n=XXXXXXX&w=&v=LNX_2.7b9&u=1234567890ABCDEF&r=1&c=1'
| gunzip -c
no element found at line 3

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thanks for the report. it

Submitted by spot on Mon, 2008-09-15 01:04.

thanks for the report. it looks like the server has a problem and is delivering bad frames. i don't have time to fix it right now, but when i get to it, i should probably also change the client so it doesn't exit when the server does this.

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