A Day of Open Source Releases
Thursday July 3, 2008
Both Microsoft and Google have released open source versions of internal tools. Google's release is Ratproxy, a cross-platform
tool for helping identify security vulnerabilities in your web server if you're running a Web 2.0 site. Written in C, it monitors traffic flow
between browser and web server so there's no risk of disruption. It's available for Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X, and Windows (Cygwin)
environments. I do wonder if people looking to exploit vulnerabilities might use it?
Microsoft's offering is their Sandcastle project for producing documentation. It was first released a month ago but only as closed source onto their open source Codeplex website. Not surprisingly this was not well received and it was quickly withdrawn. Now Microsoft has released it again but this time as open source. It's the same software that they use for generating api documentation for MSDN and works by examining assemblies and incorporating XML comments in source code if provided.
- Link to C# Code Library
- Link to C Code Library
PS. Challenge Thirteen has been updated! The source code of entries is now available.
Comments
The question is, what is this news message worth?
(No link )
So in my opinion it is worth nothing…
@khrl
Anything that we dont understand is worth nothing. Looks like you landed at the wrong place this friday.
Why you guys moaning like old ladies?
The links are under the C# Code Library and C Code Library sections in the entry.