Changing the Notification and ONAIR server used by EasyPal
Why?
Unfortunately it seems that vk4aes.com is no more.
EasyPal relies on vk4aes.com for the notification window, even when
using a custom FTP server for images in hybrid mode.
This is hard-coded into the program and can not be changed without
re-compiling from source.
However there is good news - In his wisdom, VK4AES decided to call a
freely available external FTP program for all the transactions!
This is great, because all we have to do is replace that program to
intercept access to vk4aes.com and redirect it wherever we like.
And that's exactly what this little program does - it replaces
ftps.exe with a small program that replaces the user, password and
host whenever it sees access to vk4aes.com, and then calls the
original ftps.exe. Any other custom servers will still work as
usual.
How?
You can download a zip file here
which includes the replacement sftp.exe, a sample configuration file
and a simple batch file which installs everything in the right
place.
Unzip it into a new folder, and double-click "install". This
won't appear to do much, except open a configuration file in
Notepad, but don't worry, the two tiny files should already be in
place.
Edit the configuration by changing the user and password (the
defaults are "Easypal" and "put_the_password_here").
Change ftp.wasstv.net to the host name you want to use, and save the
file.
All done!! You can re-run the install any time you need to
change the config (or just edit the config file but that can be hard
to find).
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