I’m at it again! We had another tree problem the other day which I was involved in fixing. However, this wasn’t a standard sized tree, it was huge!

I whipped out the tree inspector and starting working away on the tree. Everything was going smoothly, but with such a large tree and so many levels deep, it became really confusing, really fast!

I’ve updated the tree inspector with +, – and | placed strategically so it looks a little more like the trees as displayed in Explorer (on Windows). I will update this to use images at some point, but I didn’t want to make the distribution of the tree inspector hard (at the moment it is one file, and nice and easy to install). I’ll look into embedding images into the HTML using base64 encoding.

I’ve also encountered a seemingly common problem with the basic HTTP authentication that I added in the last version. On a couple of windows based servers the basic http controlled authentication (using the WWW-Authenticate header) wasn’t working properly (better described here).

If you’re working with a shared host, this is not always so easy to fix. In this instance, it was easier to comment the authentication code out of the script, upload, use it and then delete the file. I decided to make it easier to disable the authentication, and now you can turn it on or off by changing the bUseAuthentication variable at the top of the script.

Happy tree fixing.