Released date: 2007.02.03

Revision number: 1767

Download link: GlowWorm-1.5.2b7.dmg.zip


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This release includes the first major improvements to the Rule Editor interface in a long time. Specifically, and for non-Lite users only, one can now re-size and re-order all of the columns. Additional columns are now available and accessible via a context menu which is activated by right-clicking in the table header (iTunes-style).

This release also includes the first cut of Magic [Black|White] Lists. This feature (or some improved version of it) should make the prospect of running a software firewall and configuring it with the strictest possible rules, a somewhat less daunting task. By enabling both the magic white and black lists for an Ask rule, two new and roughly identical rules are created, and placed immediately before the Ask rule. As you choose to Allow or Deny connections via the authorization dialog, those answers (for events pertaining to this Ask rule) are appended onto the black/white list rule so that you do not have to make the same decision twice. This can be crudely accomplished by simply enabling "Remember Forever..." for each authorization, but that would amount to an entirely unmanageable number of rules.

The obvious next-step for this feature is to support the inclusion of hostnames in the automatically appended criteria instead of relying on the (numerous) IP addresses. However, deducing the hostname that resolved to a given IP address isn't so easy. Some other time.


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