Creating a todo list is the only route to sanity when trying to finish and release a project. I rejected each of these items in favor of project completion.

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The default scheme should be "https" instead of "http" (Google will sometime stop serving "http" pages.) Steps include: Change the <:base> to use https, Uncomment the redirect in .htaccess, Change default in admin/redirect.php to https. Fix the fact that when addressed as https://physpics.com, the template layout is omitted.

/

screen layout should adapt for mobile sizes

/about/

Create an /about/ page

/admin/com/physpics/admin/MapManage.java

Check (again!) that redirection is to an existing file or folder (by checking filesList.txt).

/admin/command.php

Add to display a total count of all count fields from urlmap

/admin/urlHandler.php

Pictures were once viewed with

library/viewpix.php?dir=/$1/➖ &cap=/$1/localcaptions.cap➖ &image=$2&ext=$3 [L]

urlhandler could be coded to convert such a request to

library/servepicture.php?cap=/$1/localcaptions.cap➖ &image=$2.$3 [L]

/admin/urlHandler.php

Sometimes I put out a picture and then change my mind and delist it. If a webcrawler notes it in between, it get errors many times for revisits. If the pictures is still in the /pictures directory, there ought to be a way to display it instead of an error. urlHandler could try such for requests in form /annals/yyyy/.../ppppdddd.eee, where yyyy is a year,ppp is arbitrary, dddd is four digits, and eee is an extension.

/admin/urlHandler.php

Some checks for webscum are redundant. In each of these lists, the first covers the items in parentheses:

• */admin* (/admin/*)
• */login* (/login/*)
• *xmlrpc* (*/xmlrpc.php /xmlrpc.php)
• *wp-* (/wp-admin/* /wp-content/* /wp-login.php /wp-login/*)
• /master/* (/master/login.aspx)
• /member/* (/member/space/company/info.txt)

/admin/urlHandler.php

need to test file_readable instead of file_exists

/admin/urlHandler.php

if a 403 goes to name w/ .../javadoc/... urlHandler.php should remove the second ... the only index.html in javadoc is .../javadoc/index.php

/admin/urlHandler.php

prefer redirect to sendpage if use sendpage, include() calls in the sent file do not work they get the wrong base URL

/admin/urlHandler.php

problem occurs if fetching /Java/apps/indexer/...png & get redirected to /Java/apps/indexgofer/ then the browser is reading text as the contents of an image could check for this in urlHandler as part of redirection if redirecting gif jpg or png, fail if not redirecting to gif png or jpg

/error.php

Use urlmap in error.php to ignore 404 errors for apple-app-site-association (which requires https!) and /.well-known/...

/index.php

Adapt for mobile devices

/Java/tools/…/PropCon.java

visit jardir/Pictools.properties, foreach jar; after visiting projdir and parents

/Java/tools/…/PropCon.java

link to propcon.c

/Java/tools/selfinstall

When installing multiple Pictools.properties in one directory, merge them. (They will anyway be merged as they are read in.)

/library/dirbar.php

the dirbar overflows for "> Java > apps > fontviewer > FontViewer-tour > FontViewer-notes" Ideally, in case of overflow, the dirbar should get thicker.

/library/displayCode.html

Replace /library/displayCode.html with code on the server to build a page that embeds the calls to syntaxhighlighter and the requested file.

/library/displayCode.html

Find a displayCode strategy that allows embedding code segments within HTML. Perhaps Prism.

/library/pkscripts.php

Allow slash in "file:" value in captions files ???

/library/servepicture.php

For showpicture, send redirect if warranted, but do redirect at the image dir level, and do not redirect to showpicture

/library/titleandlogo.php

In pages where the right column is small, the "by ZweiBieren" field is shortened to "by Zwei". one solution is to change the title bar to overlay the "by ZweiBieren" over colored rectangles

/Pictools.properties /pictools/*

pictools: remove scp and scpupload.xml. Setting picscp=fakescp is futile because files are transferred with tar|ssh-tar. It would be nice to have a replacement for ftp-only site hosts.

/pictools/doc/*

Improve docs: add list of class invoked by page components; add styles list to component pieces; add list of properties and styles definitions employed

/pictools/doc/*

add docfile="file.php" to <a>, as needed; for example <a href="error.php" docfile="error.php">

/pictools/doc/directories.php

there are three home directories c:/Users/Fred WINDOWS home directory - unused /home/Fred linux home directory; only .login is used /cygdrive/u/Fred set as HOME by /home/Fred/.login scripts and libraries refer to $HOME

/pictools/doc/index.php scripts.php

if xmlhttp is false, just fallback to reloading Components.php

/pictools/doc/localdefs.php

Make it possible to download all pieces documented in pictools/doc; the object file reference in the bottom right of the title bar should be an active link

/pictools/doc/login.php

rewrite login.php to describe its file location

/pictools/doc/pages.php

Describe in doc/pages.php that some extensions (e.g. doc. xls. ppt) need to be listed in the downloadable property

/pictools/doc/pictd.php

pictd.php should remind the reader that relative links must not be used

/pictools/doc/PIXetc.php (new)

Somewhere describe how to use BLOG, PIX, MAP:  <a ...> space <span></span>link text</a>

/pictools/doc/propcon.php

doc/propcon.php - document the order files are visited. Include a link to Java propcon. Note that propcon.c visits HOME/Pictools.properties. Note that PropCon.java visits jardir/Pictools.properties.

/pictools/doc/propcon.php

link to PropCon.java

/pictools/genhtml.c

genhtml could be taught about properties; it could also fetch properties where it currently calls getenv()

/pictools/genhtml.c

genhtml.processdollar and genhtml.expandcaptionstohtml implement (two different) syntaxes for setting and using variables. But genhtml does not process captions themselves so neither mechanism works.The simplest approach would be to abandon both syntaxes.

/pictools/genhtml.c /scripts/pkscripts.php

Define comments for cap files; lines starting w/ #

/pictools/logo.php (new)

Add a generalized logo script based on the logos constructed in dirbar.php and slidescontrol.php; It should accept a single icon, a string, or both (ala Java's JLabel)

/pictools/Makefile

fix "make updateall" in pictools so it fully installs pictools

/pictools/MakeHelpers

Possibly revise MakeHelpers to be included rather than made with $(shell); have build depend on helpersinstalled; MakeHelpers then has helpersinstalled depend on the .exe files and the shell scripts. The scripts buildnumber might be part of the recipe for the tar but it must precede the call to procon.exe. (All these approaches have problems. propcon MUST be built before including MakeVars.)

/pictools/MakeTargets

On some hosts, the initial directories for ftp and ssh may differ; in such cases picsdir should be one of them and a new property introduced for the other

/pictools/MakeTargets

MakeTargets ought to write to PICTOOLSDEBUG someimes. And report the size of PICTOOLSDEBUG at the end of a run.

/pictools/propcon.c

should visit installdir/Pictools.properties after visiting projdir and parents. But this requires defining install for c programs

/pictools/propcon.c /Java/tools/…/propcon.Java

Add to propcon a pragma that says this properties file is in SRCROOT; test for it in propcon parent scan (instead of looking for robots.txt)

/pictools/propcon.c /Java/tools/…/PropCon.java

A pragma should apply only to the next line, and not (as now) until the next property definition (otherwise commenting out a property definition requires extra care

/pictools/propcon.c /Java/tools/…/PropCon.java

Should propcon evaluate $xxx in property values?

/pictools/propcon.c et al.

Remove propsource from Pictools.php; use $! private for page.maintitle

/pictools/rgb2hex.c .h

Oughta have rgb2hex

/pictools/strtbl.c

Use binary search in strtbl

/pictools/tocyg

tocyg: convert /home, /usr/, ... by prepending cygwin.dir

/script/download.php

use urlhandler on destination of scripts/download

/scripts/* /library/*

Use extension .p0p on scripts and include files to distinguish them from page files.

/scripts/download.php

Consider always allowing downloadable if MIME image/ or text/ (it can already be viewed)

/scripts/mimetype.php

Consider teaching mimetype.php that some items (which ones??) should be downloaded instead of served

/scripts/mimetype.php

If ever xsendfile has an option to send a Content-Encoding value the code in mimetype:sendpage that checks maybeGzip() should be tested and uncommented. Then files will be compressed and sent faster.

/tarpit.php

Tarpit does tie up villain's resources, but it also ties up mine; better would like to simple go mute and not reply; there does not seem to be a way to do this in php

cloudfare.com

I reported to DreamHost that some bad-actors send bursts of probes looking for pages that allow disruptive access. They replied:

You should be able to implement CloudFlare https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/7087974733332 For more details as to what you can implement with CloudFlare, https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/troubleshooting/general-troubleshooting/troubleshooting-surges-or-spikes-in-web-traffic/

dreamhost.com

Switch to fastcgi; it seems far better when using sqlite3. (But it requires a separate test environment; which should be done anyway.)