The last submission used to give random 
chars within the MOTD, acted strange 
after the first download, and incoming 
packets sometimes would be interpreted 
in the wrong way.. those bugs  are now 
fixed. 
Remember, this is an example 
for educational purposes.. 
Anyway, 
I liked this so much, I put in a vote 
for myself ;)

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Gnapster Vulnerability: It is possible 
for anyone to obtain any user-readable 
file by sending a properly formed "GET" 
command that contains the full path of 
the file. This vulnerability exists 
because Gnapster fails to check that 
the requested file is an explicitly 
shared MP3 file before providing 
it.
Source: 
http://www.tlsecurity.net/archive/exploi
ts/05_00/%5b05.11.2000%5d_gnapster.txt
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Just something to be aware of 
:-)

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VERY NICE....SO I GAVE IT EXCELLENT

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Do u want me to translate it into 
Swedish?...i can do it for you!!!

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I get an error saying I am unable to 
download the songs saying something 
about possibly being behind a firewall. 
 Does anyone else have trouble 
downloading songs?

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hmmm...I can't even connect at all.  
Says "Connection timed out".  Yet, I 
can fire up Napster, and connect no 
problemo, same account even.

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Stesoft, thanks. uhm.. a Swedish 
translation? 

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Nick Taylor, it gives that error when 
the *other* client (i.e. the remote 
client 
you are trying to download 
from) 
returns listening port "0". 
Please 
reread the intro 
comments.
Biznatchasaurus, it's 
not 
a bug. It's a server issue. It's 
likely 
you used the program once or 
twice then 
gave up (?). Whether you 
connect or not 
depends on what server 
the main napster 
server gave you. If 
the server it 
redirected you to is 
busy, then you 
will not connect. If 
the main server 
itself is busy, it 
will redirect you to 
your own 
computer - "127.0.0.1"
for 
example... When you used this 
example, 
it probably gave you server 
A, which  
happened to be busy at the 
time. But 
when you started up the 
official 
windows client, it probably 
recommended
server B, which happens to 
be 
available. Email me if you 
continue to 
have problems.

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Yep, when the server is busy it'll send 
you an IP od 

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Screwed that last one up...
When the 
server is busy, it'll send you an IP of 
"127.0.0.1" and Port "1111" - atleast I 
did....
Also if when trying to 
download, you get a port of "zero", you 
need to send a "500" command to the 
server to request the remote client 
"push" the file to you...
I too am 
working on a Nap Client, but using 
winsock api...

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Nice work I like it alot. I hope to see 
more improvments. I am going to work 
with it alittle my self 2. keep it up

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You should use microsofts listview 
listbox for the search results, not a 
lot of listboxes in a row, if you dont 
know how IM me w/ AIM or Aol at 
Utopiaprez
nice project...

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Keep update this....it can be very good

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Jay, yep and good luck with your 
client. Willy, thanks. Shawn, I was 
considering using listview but then I 
thought I'd leave it with the basic 
controls (with the addition of just the 
winsock control) for this example.. 
SteSoft, I'll see what else I can 
add/fix..
Michael, I got your email 
but I couldn't respond. When I tried I 
recieved a message undeliverable error 
(550). Anyway, concerning your 
question, I'm not sure but I guess the 
limited search results you were 
experiencing with your client could be 
a server issue of some sort (?). And  
about the pings, yeh the official 
windows client filters with pings which 
can make the results appear more scanty 
than they actually are (mine doesn't by 
default automatically, thus showing all 
results all the time). But I don't 
think the ping has much to do with it  
since you were recieving 2-6 packets 
from the get-go. Hrmm.. dunno.. sorry 
can't be of much help. 

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Limca3,  After I have the firewalled 
downloading section finished I'll post 
a rough walkthru for it.
I'm currently 
working on the file server section 
now... Are you using winsock.ock or 
winsock.dll???

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For those who haven't found the napster 
protocol doc. look 
here:
http://opennap.sourceforge.net/na
pster.txt
The 500  messsage is 
explained in here...

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i got firewall downloading down, and i 
can do it perfect!
what i need help 
with is when i download from a 
not-firewalled user, i have a problem 
that the downloaded file is smaller 
than the orgianl and the remote user 
disconnects about 2 sec's before 
downloading is finished, then it says 
on the remote user file is downloaded u 
know whats wrong?

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This program rulez! You deserve the 
excellent vote :)

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Exellent program. I just had to vote 
because this program is great. I also 
like how you commented unlike some 
other programmers on this site. Great 
job. Keep up the good work.
Josh

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when I try to connect I get an error on 
the sub's replace, and split is there a 
bas you forgot to add, or am I not 
doing something, please help me

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I guess you didn't read the intro 
comments on the main form.... Anyway, 
it's because you're not using vb6 
(those are vb6 functions), but you can 
find equivalents to these functions 
somewhere on this website. 

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haha, I just noticed something... It 
says vb5 on the compatibility field - 
whoops! Hrm.. it mustve got reset to 
that when they changed the vb5/vb6 
category into distinct seperate fields. 
Ahh well. 
Anyway, this was designed 
with vb6 people. 

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Man For Some Reason! I can't search it 
doesn't list anything! Iwould list 
couple of songs and their title and it 
will not even show 1! Even tried 
popular "Slim Shady" see if it could 
track that one down! nothing. If you 
can help me with this error in the next 
24 hours i'll rate it excelent if not 
i'll rate it poor.
Thanks, & Sorry 
Ruben

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Ruben,
Gee now doesn't that threat 
just make  me wanna jump up and help 
ya... 
Although I haven't worked on 
this code for over a month now, I took 
a breif look at it to see if I could 
identify the bug. It seems the example 
has already become a bit outdated. The 
glitches that are preventing the search 
results from being listed involve the 
MOTD and the list sorting routine. 
Anyhow, to fix it take out the entire 
select case step routine, in the main 
form, and make the code work entirely 
off of If/Then condition statements to 
determine what type of data is what 
message (rather than select case step, 
and If/Then)...or you can change the 
"if instr(data,'want to promote') then" 
line to reflect whatever the current 
last line of the MOTD is (i.e. "if 
instr(data,'thanks for your 
support')"). 

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Perhaps I'll upload an update to this, 
but don't hold your breath. I only 
wrote this code to see if I could, and 
I did so there's pretty much no 
incentive anymore :) I included what I 
consider a very detailed explanation of 
how this vb example works, so any 
newbie can fix it up so it functions 
like new...

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Moccasin, thanks for that last update.  
Even though ruben was a jackass, it 
seems to relate to a problem I am 
having.  If it fixes my situation, I'll 
let you know.

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Very nice code, no problems here at all

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Great Idea
Bad GUI
Great Login 
Process
Bad Code
None of your code 
works
You Log in and after that thats 
about the only thing that works
You 
people forget that Napster will send 
several types of data @ the same time 
like Size of Library and Napster Search 
Results. You retrieve only part of the 
MOTD. Your Search routine doesn't work. 
I had to go in and edit your code so it 
works. It turns out you were never 
letting it search so I had to make your 
Search Routine a Separate Step. After I 
finally fixed all of your Search Bugs 
(And it would have been easire to use a 
List View Control ) every thing that I 
tried downloading from was either 
behiind a Firewall or would send 
another error message. 
Your code 
needs lots of improvement. I don't even 
know how you got the awards that you 
did because nobody can search for 
anything. 

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I haven't been on napster in over 3 
months since my old pc crashed. As 
indicated by your comments, this code 
is now obsolete. Almost completely 
defunct. In my haste and excitement to 
finish my first major personal project 
during the beginning of summer vacation 
I created a quick and somewhat 
confusing example, instead of a more 
stable, efficient, cleanly coded 
client. How did I get so many votes? 
Well, for nearly the same reason a good 
percentage of households in the U.S. 
had the Atari or regular Nintendo at 
one point or another. Even though these 
game consoles aren't much more than 
cheesy 2-8 bit laughable graphics now, 
back in the days we all know it was the 
iisshh (or that's what I hear). :)

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Of course, at one point this thing did 
work perfectly and was one of the first 
functional napster clients made in vb. 
I don't believe its completely fubar. I 
don't have vb, or napster, yet on this 
pc so I can't confirm that. But I 
suppose recovery might be possible and 
relatively simple if the basic protocol 
is the same.

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Do you have a new VB napster client 
coming? If so I got a really good Idea 
on a project we could do.

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Can someone please post one of these 
napster clients that actually works? I 
can connect with this one, just when i 
try to search it does aboslutely 
nothing. So please can someone just 
post one that works.

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yeah whatever, it doesn't search

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pretty good, do u guys go on 
opennap/slavanap servers now?

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