alp-beta.zip - 3.4 MB ZIP file. Run ALPInstall after unpacking.

alp-beta.exe - 2.7 MB Self extracting exe - jut download and open. (created with WinRAR).

See the "what's new" page in the included documentation for a short list of the new features and components.

The version 1.2 in brief

Active Local Pages 1.2 has almost doubled number of components in its run-time library. Now it contains components for TCP/IP and IRDA communications, self dependent zero-configuration SQL database engine which can run on the fly (perfect for autorun scenarios) and several new components added to the AXPack1 core library. A database manager is included (see the start menu/programs/newobjects/alp/SQLite Database Manager).

ALP 1.2 supports a set of new features in the ALP engine and the ALPFrame browser that give the developers means to make their applications safe from any possible hacker attacks, to prepare environments that will suit the application but will prevent the user from doing potentially dangerous actions. Also ALP engine supports now a SecurityURL directory setting that stamps the content generated by ALP with developer specified URL. Thus the local ALP content is stamped as coming from the URL specified which avoids the information bar in Windows XP SP2 (client side scripts run normally) and most importantly it allows safe cross-frame scripting in framesets where part of the frames show ALP content and part show online content from the site specified in the security URL setting.

Unattended Code Execution Protection allows the developer mark parts of the application as potentially dangerous and thus protect them from unattended invocation - i.e. prevent using the application as a hole by using redirection, misleading URL placed on a WEB page and so on. Any application that accesses the file system and has pages that determine their actions from the query or form parameters can just be marked as requiring "safe entrance" which will disallow any attacks aiming to use these pages as a gateway to the local system.

ALPInstall supports set of new features: Setting/resetting the zone information of the files (XP SP2 specific, but this works even on older OS versions), Advanced registry entries entries, Ability to check the OS, IE versions and the versions and availability of a list of COM libraries specified by the developer in the setup configuration.

The official publication of ALP 1.2 will occur in the last days of February 2005. Meanwhile we will try to update the documentation, the samples and the other tools in the this package as the work over them proceeds.