What about a hack like UBB-File Compression for 6.7....

http://www.ubbdev.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/20/633.html

That hack should work perfecetly in any 6-series version...

Hi Charles C.,

it does not work at my testboard...

http://www.ubb-test67.board-world.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi

Mmmm. I wonder why it wants MD5.pm rather than Digest::MD5...

If this was working, would it work with ultimatebb.php also?

Would it be considered an alternative for those who can't enable ultimatebb.php?

I think ultimatebb.php already uses zlib if available.

Last time the hack worked for me was with 6.4

The guy who wrote the module hasn't updated it in 3 years or so I was looking to see if he updated it just this past week

Hi,

can nobody help me, to get this hack working again?

Interesting note...

This worked for me perfectly on my first try.

File size of summary went from 65KB to 10KB

It worked, but was hit and miss for the most part. Would toss errors for no apparent reason.

what kind of errors?

I wonder if theil be the same as UGN's...

Don't remember, maybe 500ISE's or something similar, it's been years since we tried this.

I had written the guy to see if he planned to update the .pm, but never heard back from him.

hmmm... it uses md5, IO::String, and Compress::Zlib - possibly the errors back then were due to these modules, which have all been updated since. Maybe the errors are gone

and ubb is now running strict, more or less, so that could have fixed it as well (since part of the instructions were to uncomment the 'use strict' line).

Hi Allen,

is it possible the modify the hack?

no modification needs to be done. if it doesn't work for you, then most likely you're missing some modules.


One thing I did was reupload my 6.7 modules after I uploaded the included ones so that newer modules were there instead of the old ones from 6.x

Hi Ian,

it does not work for me:

http://www.ubb-test.board-world.de/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi

I'm fully aware it doesn't work for you, as you started the topic saying so

Ian, I have all the required modules installed and it doesn't work for me ...

I will work on this, however, I will require ftp to a server that it doesn't already work on. My installation works, so I can't test it there

Lol you have my FTP :x... Use it, I don't care, just don't break anything...

Here is how I got this to work, might/might not work for you.

First, make sure you have Compress::Zlib installed on your server.

Then, in cgi_buffer.pm, find and remove use MD5;

Add:

After:
OK, now do that instructions as they say.

Once you've uploaded the modified files, reupload the Modules that came with your 6.7 zip, ensuring files are as up to date as possible.

nice work on this Ian Did you update the topic in the mod forum?

should I start a new thread as this workaround probably only works 6.4-6.7?

I'd think so I may try it myself, it was a good mod

I say make a new topic.

Hi,

I have made a new package based on cgi_buffer and the latest version of IO::String along with an installation manual. Maybe it will be useful:

http://www.geocities.com/q8_bond/download_ubbcompress.html

Note: Digest::MD5 is needed in cgi_buffer only to generate ETags, so I modified the module to load and use Digest::MD5 only when necessary.