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UBB File Compression #57270 02/14/2004 6:02 AM Joined: May 2001 Posts: 684 d-talk Code Monkey d-talk Code Monkey Joined: May 2001 Posts: 684 What about a hack like UBB-File Compression for 6.7.... https://www.ubbdev.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/20/633.html Webmaster of d-talk & Kabel-Forum.com

Re: UBB File Compression #57271 02/14/2004 1:06 PM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 5,073 Portland, OR Charles Capps Admin Emeritus Charles Capps Admin Emeritus Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 5,073 Portland, OR That hack should work perfecetly in any 6-series version... UBB.classic: Love it or hate it, it was mine.

Re: UBB File Compression #57272 02/14/2004 1:31 PM Joined: May 2001 Posts: 684 d-talk Code Monkey d-talk Code Monkey Joined: May 2001 Posts: 684 Hi Charles C., it does not work at my testboard... http://www.ubb-test67.board-world.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi Webmaster of d-talk & Kabel-Forum.com

Re: UBB File Compression #57273 02/14/2004 2:47 PM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 5,073 Portland, OR Charles Capps Admin Emeritus Charles Capps Admin Emeritus Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 5,073 Portland, OR Mmmm. I wonder why it wants MD5.pm rather than Digest::MD5... UBB.classic: Love it or hate it, it was mine.

Re: UBB File Compression #57274 02/14/2004 4:27 PM Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 3,456 Likes: 2 Saint Johns, PA Ian Spence Master Hacker Ian Spence Master Hacker Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 3,456 Likes: 2 Saint Johns, PA If this was working, would it work with ultimatebb.php also? Would it be considered an alternative for those who can't enable ultimatebb.php?

Re: UBB File Compression #57275 02/14/2004 4:34 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 2,667 London, UK Charles Veteran Charles Veteran Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 2,667 London, UK I think ultimatebb.php already uses zlib if available. Do you believe in love at first sight, or should I walk by again?

Re: UBB File Compression #57276 02/14/2004 4:41 PM Joined: May 2001 Posts: 684 d-talk Code Monkey d-talk Code Monkey Joined: May 2001 Posts: 684 Last time the hack worked for me was with 6.4 Webmaster of d-talk & Kabel-Forum.com

Re: UBB File Compression #57277 02/14/2004 6:28 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas AllenAyres I type Like navaho AllenAyres I type Like navaho Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas The guy who wrote the module hasn't updated it in 3 years or so I was looking to see if he updated it just this past week - Allen - What Drives You?

Re: UBB File Compression #57278 03/22/2004 10:24 AM Joined: May 2001 Posts: 684 d-talk Code Monkey d-talk Code Monkey Joined: May 2001 Posts: 684 Hi, can nobody help me, to get this hack working again? Webmaster of d-talk & Kabel-Forum.com

Re: UBB File Compression #57279 05/05/2004 8:12 PM Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 3,456 Likes: 2 Saint Johns, PA Ian Spence Master Hacker Ian Spence Master Hacker Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 3,456 Likes: 2 Saint Johns, PA Interesting note... This worked for me perfectly on my first try. File size of summary went from 65KB to 10KB

Re: UBB File Compression #57280 05/05/2004 10:30 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas AllenAyres I type Like navaho AllenAyres I type Like navaho Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas It worked, but was hit and miss for the most part. Would toss errors for no apparent reason. - Allen - What Drives You?

Re: UBB File Compression #57281 05/05/2004 10:31 PM Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 3,456 Likes: 2 Saint Johns, PA Ian Spence Master Hacker Ian Spence Master Hacker Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 3,456 Likes: 2 Saint Johns, PA what kind of errors?

Re: UBB File Compression #57282 05/05/2004 10:49 PM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 5,834 Likes: 20 Portland, OR, USA Gizmo UBBDev Owner Time Lord Gizmo UBBDev Owner Time Lord Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 5,834 Likes: 20 Portland, OR, USA I wonder if theil be the same as UGN's... UBBDev - Putting Dev into UBB.threads Company: VNC Web Services - UBB.threads Scripts and Scripting, Install and Upgrade Services, Site and Server Maintenance. Forums: A Gardeners Forum, Scouters World, and UGN Security UBB.threads: My UBB Themes, My UBB Scripts

Re: UBB File Compression #57283 05/06/2004 12:06 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas AllenAyres I type Like navaho AllenAyres I type Like navaho Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas Quote Originally posted by Ian Spence: what kind of errors? Don't remember, maybe 500ISE's or something similar, it's been years since we tried this. - Allen - What Drives You?

Re: UBB File Compression #57284 05/06/2004 12:07 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas AllenAyres I type Like navaho AllenAyres I type Like navaho Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas I had written the guy to see if he planned to update the .pm, but never heard back from him. - Allen - What Drives You?

Re: UBB File Compression #57285 05/06/2004 12:13 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas AllenAyres I type Like navaho AllenAyres I type Like navaho Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas hmmm... it uses md5, IO::String, and Compress::Zlib - possibly the errors back then were due to these modules, which have all been updated since. Maybe the errors are gone - Allen - What Drives You?

Re: UBB File Compression #57286 05/06/2004 12:54 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas AllenAyres I type Like navaho AllenAyres I type Like navaho Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas and ubb is now running strict, more or less, so that could have fixed it as well (since part of the instructions were to uncomment the 'use strict' line). - Allen - What Drives You?

Re: UBB File Compression #57287 05/10/2004 11:44 AM Joined: May 2001 Posts: 684 d-talk Code Monkey d-talk Code Monkey Joined: May 2001 Posts: 684 Hi Allen, is it possible the modify the hack? Webmaster of d-talk & Kabel-Forum.com

Re: UBB File Compression #57288 05/10/2004 12:01 PM Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 3,456 Likes: 2 Saint Johns, PA Ian Spence Master Hacker Ian Spence Master Hacker Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 3,456 Likes: 2 Saint Johns, PA Quote Originally posted by d-talk: Hi Allen, is it possible the modify the hack? no modification needs to be done. if it doesn't work for you, then most likely you're missing some modules. One thing I did was reupload my 6.7 modules after I uploaded the included ones so that newer modules were there instead of the old ones from 6.x

Re: UBB File Compression #57289 05/10/2004 1:41 PM Joined: May 2001 Posts: 684 d-talk Code Monkey d-talk Code Monkey Joined: May 2001 Posts: 684 Hi Ian, it does not work for me: http://www.ubb-test.board-world.de/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi Webmaster of d-talk & Kabel-Forum.com

Re: UBB File Compression #57290 05/10/2004 8:33 PM Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 3,456 Likes: 2 Saint Johns, PA Ian Spence Master Hacker Ian Spence Master Hacker Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 3,456 Likes: 2 Saint Johns, PA I'm fully aware it doesn't work for you, as you started the topic saying so

Re: UBB File Compression #57291 05/10/2004 10:16 PM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 5,834 Likes: 20 Portland, OR, USA Gizmo UBBDev Owner Time Lord Gizmo UBBDev Owner Time Lord Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 5,834 Likes: 20 Portland, OR, USA Ian, I have all the required modules installed and it doesn't work for me ... UBBDev - Putting Dev into UBB.threads Company: VNC Web Services - UBB.threads Scripts and Scripting, Install and Upgrade Services, Site and Server Maintenance. Forums: A Gardeners Forum, Scouters World, and UGN Security UBB.threads: My UBB Themes, My UBB Scripts

Re: UBB File Compression #57292 05/10/2004 10:50 PM Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 3,456 Likes: 2 Saint Johns, PA Ian Spence Master Hacker Ian Spence Master Hacker Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 3,456 Likes: 2 Saint Johns, PA I will work on this, however, I will require ftp to a server that it doesn't already work on. My installation works, so I can't test it there

Re: UBB File Compression #57293 05/10/2004 11:45 PM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 5,834 Likes: 20 Portland, OR, USA Gizmo UBBDev Owner Time Lord Gizmo UBBDev Owner Time Lord Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 5,834 Likes: 20 Portland, OR, USA Lol you have my FTP :x... Use it, I don't care, just don't break anything... UBBDev - Putting Dev into UBB.threads Company: VNC Web Services - UBB.threads Scripts and Scripting, Install and Upgrade Services, Site and Server Maintenance. Forums: A Gardeners Forum, Scouters World, and UGN Security UBB.threads: My UBB Themes, My UBB Scripts

Re: UBB File Compression #57294 06/26/2004 2:13 PM Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 3,456 Likes: 2 Saint Johns, PA Ian Spence Master Hacker Ian Spence Master Hacker Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 3,456 Likes: 2 Saint Johns, PA Here is how I got this to work, might/might not work for you. First, make sure you have Compress::Zlib installed on your server. Then, in cgi_buffer.pm, find and remove use MD5; Add: Code do "Digest/MD5.pm"; if (!$Digest::MD5::VERSION) { require Digest::Perl::MD5; import Digest::Perl::MD5 'md5_hex'; } else { import Digest::MD5 'md5_hex'; } # end if After: Code BEGIN { OK, now do that instructions as they say. Once you've uploaded the modified files, reupload the Modules that came with your 6.7 zip, ensuring files are as up to date as possible.

Re: UBB File Compression #57295 07/01/2004 4:23 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas AllenAyres I type Like navaho AllenAyres I type Like navaho Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas nice work on this Ian Did you update the topic in the mod forum? - Allen - What Drives You?

Re: UBB File Compression #57296 07/01/2004 4:35 PM Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 3,456 Likes: 2 Saint Johns, PA Ian Spence Master Hacker Ian Spence Master Hacker Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 3,456 Likes: 2 Saint Johns, PA should I start a new thread as this workaround probably only works 6.4-6.7?

Re: UBB File Compression #57297 07/01/2004 5:30 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas AllenAyres I type Like navaho AllenAyres I type Like navaho Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas I'd think so I may try it myself, it was a good mod - Allen - What Drives You?

Re: UBB File Compression #57298 07/01/2004 6:48 PM Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 5,834 Likes: 20 Portland, OR, USA Gizmo UBBDev Owner Time Lord Gizmo UBBDev Owner Time Lord Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 5,834 Likes: 20 Portland, OR, USA I say make a new topic. UBBDev - Putting Dev into UBB.threads Company: VNC Web Services - UBB.threads Scripts and Scripting, Install and Upgrade Services, Site and Server Maintenance. Forums: A Gardeners Forum, Scouters World, and UGN Security UBB.threads: My UBB Themes, My UBB Scripts

Re: UBB File Compression #57299 08/06/2004 2:53 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 162 Kuwait ( q8 ) JB007 Member JB007 Member Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 162 Kuwait ( q8 ) Hi, I have made a new package based on cgi_buffer and the latest version of IO::String along with an installation manual. Maybe it will be useful: http://www.geocities.com/q8_bond/download_ubbcompress.html Note: Digest::MD5 is needed in cgi_buffer only to generate ETags, so I modified the module to load and use Digest::MD5 only when necessary.

Re: UBB File Compression #57300 08/06/2004 5:14 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas AllenAyres I type Like navaho AllenAyres I type Like navaho Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 21,079 Likes: 3 Texas - Allen - What Drives You?