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  •  11 Sep 2004 12:04

Release Notes: Updates were made the chapters about IP, UDP, TCP, ICMP, email, SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, FTP, gopher, DICT, daytime, finger, DNS, and whois. New IP topics include TTL, traceroute, fingerprinting, and portscanning. New TCP topics are telnet and netcat. The new ICMP topic is blocking of pings. Discussion of problems with firewalls was added to the FTP chapter. Recursive finger-looksups were added to the finger chapter. Sections about some subprotocols of IRC were added, namely CTCP, DCC, and XDCC. A section about the automation of DICT was added, and the section about HTTP-scripts was updated. A new text processing system is now used.

  •  07 Aug 2003 04:38

Release Notes: Sections about the TRACE-request, chunked-encoding, and partial content were added to the HTTP chapter. The IHAVE-command and special headers (Followup-To, Control) are now explained in the NNTP chapter.

  •  31 Jul 2003 07:07

Release Notes: Chapters about IMAP4 and Daytime were added.

  •  30 Jul 2003 04:26

Release Notes: This version adds chapters about Gopher and Finger, and updates NNTP.

  •  27 Jul 2003 05:17

Release Notes: Chapters about IRC and DICT were added.

  •  25 Jul 2003 11:26

Release Notes: A chapter about FTP and added some details about HTTP have been added.

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