Known Problems and Bug Fixes for Release 2.3.5 of GnuDIP

This is a record of the known problems with the current release of GnuDIP. If possible corrected versions of the affected scripts are provided.

• When operating the Windows client using the wPerl.exe version of the Perl interpreter, a query command invoked using the -q option cannot return the address via standard output. This appears to be a problem with ActivePerl. Perhaps it will go away in a later ActivePerl release.

• The Java applet for determining the IP address of the machine that the browser is running on does not work under Mozilla or the Konqueror browser that comes with KDE. This appears to be a problem with Gecko, the Mozilla rendering engine.

  In earlier releases of Netscape, and still in Internet Explorer, Javascript code can call a method in a Java applet that has been included in the same HTML page as Javascript code. This is what does not seem to work in Gecko. Perhaps it will work again in later releases.

  Otherwise the "IPdetect" Java applet could be modified to send the address at the local end of its connection back to GnuDIP to a new CGI in GnuDIP. A unique ID would have to be passed to the applet and also placed in a hidden CGI input field in the HTML for the login page. The new CGI would have to save the IP address so that it can be retrieved again using this ID. This would greatly complicate GnuDIP. It might be better to just drop this feature.