Re: Strange Goings on..
  By: KK4QBN to echicken on Fri Mar 09 2018 16:24:10

 KK> ctrl dir, but for some reason ftelnet is missing in my /web/root dir..
 KK> even though the physical files are there it acts as if it does'nt exist.

It's not that anything thinks ftelnet doesn't exist on your webserver, it's
that the script that's rendering the page is crashing before the ftelnet embed
code gets sent.  I just tried visiting your site, and it's failing at the same
point as before - 'webSocket is null', which would result from an inability to
find details of your WebSocketTelnet service in services.ini.

 KK> morning.. but ftelnet is still giving issues. I'm sure to get it fixed
 KK> soon. 

Take another look at ctrl/services.ini and be sure that you have a section like
this in there:

[WebSocketTelnet]
Port=1123
Options=NO_HOST_LOOKUP
Command=websocket-telnet-service.js

The spelling (and probably case) of the section name is important, but it will
also work if it's just called WebSocket.

 KK> nothing has been changed in any of the *.ini files. I'm wordering if all
 KK> the new TLS code changes may have something to do with it?

Not likely - the 'webSocket is null' error points to a specific problem, which
I've described.

If you were browsing your site via HTTPS, you would run into problems with
mixed secure/insecure content. The HTTPS connection would be secure but the
WebSocket service would not be, and the browser would complain; that isn't the
problem here (yet) though.  That's a problem I'll have to think about solving
later.  (On my own server, I just use a reverse proxy for both HTTPS and
WebSockets, and I'm not yet using any built-in SSL/TLS stuff.)

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