Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Add Auction Link in Web Interface

Yep, adding or deleting auctions would be particularly helpful.

Re: security, I wonder if you could just do some kind of MD5 hash of the password without having to use full-fledged SSL? Actually one of my biggest issues is the fact that the password, if I’m not mistaken, is stored as plaintext on the host machine.

As for encrypting the actual control session, maybe I’ll play around with tunnelling http over SSH..

Topic: JBidwatcher Tips and Tricks / Add Auction Link in Web Interface

My 0.02:

I would love to use the web interface more, but here are my 2 deal-breakers:

1) security isn’t too strong
2) Can’t add/edit auctions

The way I see it, the main value in Jbidwatcher is lost if it isn’t running continuously. Personally I run it on a Linux box that stays on 24×7.

Problem is, if I’m not near that box I don’t have any view or control of auctions I’m interested in. Being able to add/edit auctions (including changing things like snipe price) through the web interface would be a very worthwhile addition, to me anyway. Especially if the security is good. :-)

Topic: JBidwatcher Help / ebay communication problem

I just posted a bug report on this in the bug-tracking section.

FYI I’m using linux but an older version of the JRE.

java -version reports:

java version “1.3.0”
Java™ 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition, root-13Dec2001-12:38
Java HotSpot™ Client VM, Caldera Systems, mixed mode