Root folder v7

A new root folder has been added. The main difference are relative delegate URIs with "../" instead of absolute URIs as in "firebat-2.7.7".

"v7" is the new root folder. "firebat-2.7.7" is deprecated and now frozen. Future mapping changes will be only in "v7".

pennergame.de

Due to popular demand, http://www.pennergame.de has been split into several categories. See the new config for more information.

Individual Rooms for Facebook Profiles and Apps

Each profile and each app is now a separate room. While you will be missing the company, you will now know that the person you meet is on the same profile and is visiting the same user.

See the facebook configuration.

5 rooms 4 Youtube

The Youtube site has been split into 5 rooms. One for the home page (www.)youtube.com and 4 for the videos. Relevant is the first letter of the video ID (after the "v="). People meet if they watch the same video. But the video watching crowd is distributed over 4 rooms for video ID starting with a-h, i-q, r-z, and the rest. Also, if the host name starts with anything except "www.", then this is interpreted as a country domain and taken into account. So, de.youtube.com is different from www.youtube.com. Please see the youtube.xml.

Even more Structure

Two new toplevel folders have been added. There are now 3 hierarchical structures and the 2 toplevel files.

Toplevel files:

• root.xml: starting point for all mappings
  
• default.xml: a general fallback

Structures:

• ip4: IP 4 adresses
  
• tld: toplevel domains
  
• name: global names which span multiple domains
  

The mapping starts at root.xml, then branches out to IP4 adresses or continues in the "name" hierarchy. If there is no name, then mapping is forwarded to the "tld" hierarchy. If no location matches then the general fallback (default.xml) applies. Each hierarchical structure has its own starting and fallback points.

Here is a sample mapping process for http://www.slashdot.org/

It starts at:

• http://www.slashdot.org/_vpi.xml

...then uses these files in the global phase:

1. root.xml
2. name/_.xml
3. name/default.xml
4. tld/org/_.xml
5. tld/org/s/_.xml
6. tld/org/s/l/_.xml
7. tld/org/s/l/slashdot.xml

...until a matching location tag is found.

Removed Auto-Enter for heavy email sites

Configured some heavy traffic utility sites so, that people do not enter automatically. There is an [Enter] button, if users really want to meet there.

Sites:

*.mail.yahoo.com
*.mail.live.com
*.hotmail.msn.com

Tag:

<delay sec="infinite" bypass="true">

weblin.com -> muc1.virtual-presence.org

Moved all *.weblin.com rooms to the chat server muc1.virtual-presence.org. TTL has been set to 5 minutes days before. Users entering the pages are directed to the new server. Users already entered stay in the old room until they navigate.

Hierarchical folder structure

Switched to the new hierarchical folder structure where a TLD has a folder and the domain is split by single letters. How many prefix letters will depend on the domain name density. We are starting with 2. Example:

root/
root.xml
de.xml
de/
_.xml
y/
_.xml
a/
yam.xml
_.xml

Also: a hierarchy for IP4 addresses:

_ip4/
_.xml
80/
_.xml
154/
_.xml
16/
_.xml
235/
_.xml

TLD files still contain the individual configs. They will be migrated to the folder structure on demand.

Schema firebat-2.7.7

Migrate to firebat-2.7.7 schema. (<delegate> now separate from <location>)

.org -> muc1

Switch .org domains to Halvar chat server

.net

Switch .net to Halvar

More TLDs

Added biz.xml, cc.xml, eu.xml, ag.xml, tv.xml

edu

Added edu mapping

de prefix

Removed prefix for de domains

trnd.com

Added mapping for trnd.com