

Introduced pterm.exe, a PuTTY-like wrapper program for Windows command prompts (or anything else running in a Windows console).Support for HTTP Digest authentication, when talking to HTTP proxies.(Similar to running plink -nc as a subprocess, but more convenient to set up, and allows you to answer interactive prompts presented by the proxy.) Built-in support for proxying via another SSH server, so that PuTTY will SSH to the proxy and then automatically forward a port through it to the destination host.Support for interactively prompting the user if the proxy server requires authentication.Major improvements to network proxy support:.These features are new in 0.77 (released ): Also, many bug fixes, some crypto improvements, and a new application pterm.exe that wraps a Windows command prompt. The headline feature is improved proxy support: native support for forwarding a connection through another SSH server, and the ability to prompt interactively during proxy setup if the proxy requires a password or other login information. PuTTY 0.77, released today, is a feature release. So you can work on the Unix machine as if you were sitting at its console, while actually sitting somewhere else. Then, anything you type into that window is sent straight to the Unix machine, and everything the Unix machine sends back is displayed in the window. In really simple terms: you run PuTTY on a Windows machine, and tell it to connect to (for example) a Unix machine. PuTTY implements the client end of that session: the end at which the session is displayed, rather than the end at which it runs. These protocols are all used to run a remote session on a computer, over a network. PuTTY is a client program for the SSH, Telnet and Rlogin network protocols. PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator.
