When your order is processed the Online Store will send you two emails: an invoice email providing a receipt for your transaction, and a serial number email containing the serial numbers for your products.

Please do not lose the serial number email. You will need the information it contains to utilize the Manifold products you have purchased.

Curl-url-http-3a-2f-2f169.254.169.254-2flatest-2fapi-2ftoken (Recent • 2027)

Decoding it:

: This is the specific endpoint in IMDSv2 used to request a session token.

If you are a security researcher and you see curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/api/token in a target application, — especially on a production system. A single successful request could retrieve live IAM keys, which might be considered a violation of the bug bounty terms (or even computer fraud laws in some jurisdictions).

However, as security best practices evolve, so does the service. The transition from IMDSv1 to means that simply querying curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/ often results in a 401 Unauthorized error. curl-url-http-3A-2F-2F169.254.169.254-2Flatest-2Fapi-2Ftoken

If disabled, you can enable it via the AWS Console, CLI, or CloudFormation (requires instance stop/start if not using MetadataOptions at launch).

If you are working with AWS EC2 instances, you have likely encountered the special IP address 169.254.169.254 . This link-local address is the gateway to the , allowing running instances to securely retrieve information about themselves without needing explicit credentials.

The keyword as written omits -X PUT and the TTL header. This is a common mistake. The raw GET request will work on any EC2 instance that has IMDSv2 enabled (which is now the default for new instances). We’ll correct that below. Decoding it: : This is the specific endpoint

The curl command for this URL is used to retrieve a session token for .

Once you have the token, you must pass it inside the X-aws-ec2-metadata-token header to fetch actual metadata:

Every EC2 instance has a built‑in, non‑routable metadata service accessible at the IP address 169.254.169.254 . This service provides the instance with information about itself – such as instance ID, AMI ID, hostname, security groups, IAM role credentials, and much more. However, as security best practices evolve, so does

curl -X PUT "http://169.254.169.254/latest/api/token" -H "Content-Type: text/plain"

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The Product Downloads page has important information regarding the above downloads, with links to help topics that will answer questions and will assist you in determing if your computer is running 64-bit Windows. The downloads page also has useful links to highly recommended free downloads that you will want, such as example files and image server files you will find very useful with Manifold.

Download files are "zip" files. Unzipping them creates three files: an installation.txt file that gives step-by-step installation instructions, a release notes text file describing changes in the release, and a .msi Microsoft standard installation file. If upon download your "zip" utility reports an error when trying to unzip the files, that means there was an error during download. Try downloading the files again.

For installation of Release 9, please see the Installation and Activation web page.

For installation of Release 8, read and apply the step-by-step instructions in the installation.txt file that is part of the installation package you downloaded. Installation is quick and easy if you follow the simple, step-by-step instructions in that file.

For quick help on activation see the Activation Support web page.

If you have licensed Release 8 and have procured an extension like Geocoding Tools please first install your main Manifold System license. There is no need to download a separate or additional installation file for extensions: instead, the extension is "turned on" within the main Manifold System installation by launching Manifold and then providing the serial number for the extension in the Help - Activate Extension dialog.

After installing Manifold System Release 8, you can turn on an extension using the procedure given in the Installing and Activating a Manifold Extension user manual topic.

The Release 8 Universal Edition and Release 8 Ultimate Edition bundles use a single serial number to turn on the main Manifold System edition and all three extensions - no need with Universal or Ultimate to turn on extensions with separate serial numbers for the extensions.

All tech support for installation or activation questions is provided by email. There is no charge for technical support for installation and activation if you follow the procedure given in the Activation Support web page. The web page provides quick tips on how to solve a problem immediately, and also provides tips on what information to send to tech support if you have a question so support can respond and solve your problem right away.

Manifold is committed to protecting the privacy of customer information. We will not sell, exchange or lease out any customer information (including name, email address, mail address, telephone number, credit card details and transaction records) to any third party.

The Manifold Online Store is operated by Manifold Software Limited with online transaction processing using SSL encryption. All confidential information is automatically encrypted before it is transmitted, to protect your confidential data from being read and interpreted. For additional security, Manifold never sees your credit card information: all pages which accept credit card information are popped open directly by the credit card processing service, either PayPal or PayDollar/AsiaPay.

For help with ordering on the Manifold Online Store, please also click on:

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Please do not hesitate to contact Manifold at with any questions about the ordering process.