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    <title>Inets Release Notes</title>
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    <date>2002-02-28</date>
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  <section><title>Inets 6.3</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	    <p> Add handling of DELETE Body to http client. </p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13383 Aux Id: PR-972 </p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Removed references to mod_include and webtool from
	    examples and tests.</p>
          <p>
	    Thanks to waisbrot</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13445 Aux Id: PR-988 </p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Remove module inets_regexp. Module re should be used
	    instead.</p>
          <p>
	    *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13561</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 6.2.3</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Put back unused module inets_regexp and remove it in OTP
	    19 instead as it is an incompatibility, although it is an
	    undocumented module and should not affect other
	    applications.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13533</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 6.2.2</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Add environment information item peer_cert to mod_esi</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13510</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 6.2.1</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Mend ipv6_host_with_brackets option in httpc</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13417</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 6.2</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    The TFTP client/server has been fixed to allow file sizes
	    larger than 32MB block by allowing the 16 bit block
	    counter to wrap. Since this is a commonly accepted
	    behavior we regard it as a bug fix.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13403</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Handle HTTP PATCH method in client.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13286</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Expected termination should not be logged as an
	    application error.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13389</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 6.1.1</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    mod_alias now traverses all aliases picking the longest
	    match and not the first match.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13248</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 6.1</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Replace obs-folds with spaces instead of failing</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13069</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Add validation fun for URI scheme to http_uri API</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13071</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Handle stream bodies as documented.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13093</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Correct error handling of mod_esi generated chunks. Send
	    warning headers in chunk trailers instead of generating
	    an unexpected additional 500 request response, when
	    problems, such as a timeout occurs.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13110</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    HTTP client terminates gracefully when an invalid chunked
	    length header is encountered.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13117</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Add default for SNI (Server Name Indication) when running
	    https using the inets HTTP-client.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12985</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Be forgiving to chunked sizes that have trailing
	    whitespaces as prior implementation was. Also some legacy
	    embedded devices does actually have trailing whitespaces
	    even though this in not according to the spec.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13116</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 6.0.3</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Improved error handling and gracfully termination when an
	    invalid chunked length header is encountered.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13061</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Add possibility to set socket options, such as nodelay,
	    for httpd. Also phase out legacy option value inet6bf4
	    for the ipfamily option. This value will be translated to
	    the value inet.</p>
          <p>
	    *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13062</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 6.0.2</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Avoid crash in mod_auth_server and mod_security_server
	    due to using an atom instead of a string when creating a
	    name.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13022</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Add function response_default_headers/0 to httpd
	    customize API, to allow user to specify default values
	    for HTTP response headers.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-13013</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 6.0.1</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Fix broken socket feature, that is on Linux systems a
	    socket may be opened before starting Erlang and then
	    passed to Erlang's httpd daemon. This is useful as the
	    wrap program can open a privileged port and Erlang does
	    not have to be run as root.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12875 Aux Id: seq12878 </p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Fix broken socket feature, that is on Linux systems a
	    socket may be opened before starting Erlang and then
	    passed to Erlangs tftp daemon. This is useful as the wrap
	    program can open a privileged port and Erlang does not
	    have to be run as root.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12898 Aux Id: seq12900 </p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    httpc_handler should react properly to cancel requests
	    even when the request to be canceled was already finished
	    but httpc_manager did not get notified about that yet.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12922</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Added format_status function to httpd process to avoid
	    sensitive information to be printed in supervisor logs.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12976</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Return meaningful error reason disregarding whether a
	    http proxy is used or not.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12984</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 6.0</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Fix race condition in httpc. If the socket is closed by
	    the peer do not try to close it again.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11845</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Avoid process leak by gracefully terminating httpc
	    request handler process when send operation fails.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12362</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Reject messages with a Content-Length less than 0</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12739 Aux Id: seq12860 </p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Let gen_tcp:controlling_process/2 and
	    inet_sctp:connect/[45] propagate prim_inet:setopt/3
	    errors instead of having them generate badmatch
	    exceptions.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12798</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Remove Server Side Include support from inets, as this is
	    an old technic that has security issues and was not well
	    tested.</p>
          <p>
	    *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12156</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    New value in <c>server_tokens</c> config for limiting
	    banner grabbing attempts. </p>
          <p>
	    By setting <c>{server_tokens, none}</c> in
	    <c>ServiceConfig</c> for <c>inets:start(httpd,
	    ServiceConfig)</c>, the "Server:" header will not be set
	    in messages from the server.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12661 Aux Id: seq12840 </p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    To enable the HTTP server to run in a virtualized
	    environment, where there can be more that one server that
	    has the same ip-address and port, we add a new option
	    profile.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12674</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    httpc: Fix implementation of gracefull shudown to work as
	    intended for keep alive connections not using pipelining.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12803</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Correct handling of proxy options when using persistent
	    connections.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12822</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 5.10.9</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Add behaviour with optional callbacks to customize the
	    inets HTTP server.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12776</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 5.10.8</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Reject messages with a Content-Length less than 0</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12739 Aux Id: seq12860 </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 5.10.7</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    New value in <c>server_tokens</c> config for limiting
	    banner grabbing attempts. </p>
          <p>
	    By setting <c>{server_tokens, none}</c> in
	    <c>ServiceConfig</c> for <c>inets:start(httpd,
	    ServiceConfig)</c>, the "Server:" header will not be set
	    in messages from the server.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12661 Aux Id: seq12840 </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 5.10.6</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    inets: parse correctly 'Set-Cookie' header with empty
	    value</p>
          <p>
	    httpc_cookie should parse cookies with empty values and
	    no attributes set in the 'Set-Cookie' headers.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12455</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Add parsing of URI fragments to http_uri:parse</p>
          <p>
	    This fixes a bug in httpc where redirection URIs could
	    lead to bad requests if they contained fragments.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12398</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    httpc: http client now ignores invalid set-cookie headers</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12430</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 5.10.5</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    mod_alias now handles https-URIs properly</p>
          <p>
	    Consistent view of configuration parameter
	    keep_alive_timeout, should be presented in the
	    httpd:info/[1,2] function in the same unit as it is
	    inputted.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12436 Aux Id: seq12786 </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Gracefully handle invalid content-lenght headers instead
	    of crashing in list_to_integer.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12429</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 5.10.4</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Fixed a spelling mistake in httpc documentation.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12221</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Add option {ftp_extension, boolean} to enable use of
	    extended commands EPSV and EPRT, as specified in RFC
	    2428, for IPv4 instead of using the legacy commands. Ipv6
	    can not be supported without the extended commands.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12255</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 5.10.3</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Fix some spelling mistakes in documentation</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12152</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    httpd: Seperate timeout for TLS/SSL handshake from
	    keepalive timeout</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12013</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Warning: this is experimental and may disappear or change
	    without previous warning.</p>
          <p>
	    Experimental support for running Quickcheck and PropEr
	    tests from common_test suites is added to common_test.
	    See the reference manual for the new module
	    <c>ct_property_testing</c>.</p>
          <p>
	    Experimental property tests are added under
	    <c>lib/{inet,ssh}/test/property_test</c>. They can be run
	    directly or from the commont_test suites
	    <c>inet/ftp_property_test_SUITE.erl</c> and
	    <c>ssh/test/ssh_property_test_SUITE.erl</c>.</p>
          <p>
	    See the code in the <c>test</c> directories and the man
	    page for details.</p>
          <p>
	    (Thanks to Tuncer Ayaz for a patch adding Triq)</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-12119</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 5.10.2</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    httpc: Fix streaming bugs when handling small responses</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11992</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 5.10.1</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Correct distirbing mode for httpd:reload_config/2</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11914</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Improved handling of invalid strings in the HTTP request
	    line.</p>
          <p>
	    Impact: May improve memory consumption</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11925 Aux Id: Sequence 12601 </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 5.10</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Fixed a spelling mistake in httpc doc (Thanks to Wasif
	    Riaz Malik)</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11538</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Application upgrade (appup) files are corrected for the
	    following applications: </p>
          <p>
	    <c>asn1, common_test, compiler, crypto, debugger,
	    dialyzer, edoc, eldap, erl_docgen, et, eunit, gs, hipe,
	    inets, observer, odbc, os_mon, otp_mibs, parsetools,
	    percept, public_key, reltool, runtime_tools, ssh,
	    syntax_tools, test_server, tools, typer, webtool, wx,
	    xmerl</c></p>
          <p>
	    A new test utility for testing appup files is added to
	    test_server. This is now used by most applications in
	    OTP.</p>
          <p>
	    (Thanks to Tobias Schlager)</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11744</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    ftp now sanitize file name, user name and passwords from
	    &lt;CR&gt; and &lt;LF&gt; tags (Thanks to Sergei Golovan)</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11750</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Corrected error handling in the HTTP client, making it
	    behave more graceful.</p>
          <p>
	    Thanks to Kirilll Zaborsky</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11794</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Support identity transfer-encoding in httpc.</p>
          <p>
	    Thanks to Anthony Ramine</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11802</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Ignore empty Set-Cookie headers to increase
	    interoperability with servers that violate the RFC. </p>
          <p>
	    Thanks to Kirilll Zaborsky</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11803</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    The commit 6189bc07 "inets: httpc improve pipelining" has
	    been reverted, as it turned out to break things rather
	    than improve pipelining utilization. It is instead up to
	    the user to configure httpc and use it wisely to be able
	    to get the most out of pipelining.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11756</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Handle all response codes in httpd_util:message/3</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11838</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 5.9.8</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Mend max_clients check that was broken and avoid too
	    extensive logging that could cause memory problems.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11557 Aux Id: seq12478 </p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 5.9.7</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Fix httpd config option 'script_timeout' and fixed httpd
	    config option 'keep_alive_timeout'. Thanks to Johannes
	    Weissl.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11276</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Make httpc:request_cancel/[1,2] asynchronous. Previously
	    these functions tried to guarantee request answer would
	    not reach the client, which only worked for some of the
	    use cases. Now these functions are totally asynchronous
	    which makes it the clients responsibility to disregard
	    possible answers to canceled requests. </p>
          <p>
	    Also pipelining implementation has been changed to
	    improve the utilization factor. Further investigation of
	    possible enhancements in this area are planned for later.</p>
          <p>
	    *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11312</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    [httpd] Add handling of new response for mod_head
	    (otherwise causing case_clause crash). Also updated
	    logging: Removed logging for keep-alive connections
	    timeout (this is a normal occurrence and not an error)
	    and some access-log body size corrections.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11328</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    The ftp client now supports ftp over tls (ftps).</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11037</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 5.9.6</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    httpc: Allow content body in DELETE requests. Thanks to
	    James Wheare.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11190</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Add missing brackets to report formatting on ftp_progress
	    process exit. Thanks to Artur Wilniewczyc.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11202</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Fix some errors in the inets documentation. Thanks to
	    Johannes Weissl.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11210</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Fix various typos in httpd, inets. Thanks to Tomohiko
	    Aono.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11226</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Fix httpd config option 'erl_script_nocache'. Thanks to
	    Johannes Weissl.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11260</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 5.9.5</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Reverted incorrect commit that broke cookie handling when
	    using httpc-profiles.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-10956</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>
    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Fix http_request:http_headers/1 to send content-length
	    when length is zero. Thanks to CA Meijer.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-10934</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Integrate elliptic curve contribution from Andreas
	    Schultz </p>
          <p>
	    In order to be able to support elliptic curve cipher
	    suites in SSL/TLS, additions to handle elliptic curve
	    infrastructure has been added to public_key and crypto.</p>
          <p>
	    This also has resulted in a rewrite of the crypto API to
	    gain consistency and remove unnecessary overhead. All OTP
	    applications using crypto has been updated to use the new
	    API.</p>
          <p>
	    Impact: Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) offers
	    equivalent security with smaller key sizes than other
	    public key algorithms. Smaller key sizes result in
	    savings for power, memory, bandwidth, and computational
	    cost that make ECC especially attractive for constrained
	    environments.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11009</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Fix {stream, {self, once}} in httpc to work as expected.
	    Thanks to Masatake Daimon</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11122</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 5.9.4</title>
    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    httpd: The modules option now defaults to the documented
	    value.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-10844</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    httpc: Fixed persistent connection implementation that
	    was broken by a patch to R13. The patch made persisten
	    connections behaved the same way as pipelining.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-10845</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    httpd: Simplified configuration of ssl in httpd, this
	    also enables all ssl options to be configured. The old
	    and limited way is no longer documented but will be
	    supported for backwards comatibility for some time.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-10846</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Handle correctly the "No files found or file unavailable"
	    error code. Thanks to Serge Aleynikov</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-10886</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section><title>Inets 5.9.3</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    httpc: The HTTP client now supports HTTPS through proxies</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-10256 Aux Id: kunagi-2
	    [ce2e800e-c99f-4050-a1c4-f47023d9c7aa-1] </p>
        </item>
        <item>
	    <p> Some examples overflowing the width of PDF pages have
	    been corrected. </p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-10665</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Fix autoredirect for POST requests responding 303. Thanks
	    to Hans Svensson.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-10765</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>
<section><title>Inets 5.9.2.2</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Make log_alert configurable as option in ssl, SSLLogLevel
	    added as option to inets conf file</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11259</p>
	</item>
      </list>
    </section>
</section>
<section><title>Inets 5.9.2.1</title>
    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Fixed obsolete error report in inets.</p>
	  <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-11185 Aux Id: seq12357 </p>
	</item>
      </list>
    </section>
</section>

<section><title>Inets 5.9.2</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Minimum bytes per second</p>
          <p>
	    New option to http server, {minimum_bytes_per_second,
	    integer()}, for a connection, if it is not reached the
	    socket will close for that specific connection. Can be
	    used to prevent hanging requests from faulty clients.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-10392</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

</section>

<section>
    <title>Inets 5.9.1</title>
  
    <section>
      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <!--
	  <p>-</p>
      -->
      
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>Better handling of errorI(s) during update of the session 
	  database. </p>
	  <p>Also added and updated some debugging functions 
	  <seealso marker="httpc#which_sessions-0">which_sessions/[0,1]</seealso>
	  and 
	  <seealso marker="httpc#info-0">info/0</seealso>. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-10093</p>
          <p>Aux Id: Seq 12062</p>
        </item>

	<item>
	  <p>Removed R14B compatible version of (inets-service and
	  tftp) behaviour definition. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-10095</p>
	</item>
	
	<item>
	  <p>[httpc] Documentation of KeepAlive and Pipeline timeout 
	  options have been improved. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-10114</p>
	</item>
      </list>
      
    </section>

    <section>
      <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <!--
      <p>-</p>
      -->
	  
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>[httpc] Cancel request does not work due to incorrect 
	  handler table creation (wrong keypos). </p>
	  <p>Vyacheslav Vorobyov</p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-10092</p>
        </item>

      </list>

    </section>
    
    <section>
      <title>Incompatibilities</title>
      <p>-</p>
	
    <!--
	<list>
	<item>
	<p>[httpc|httpd] The old ssl implementation (based on OpenSSL), 
	has been deprecated. The config option that specified usage of 
	this version of the ssl app, <c>ossl</c>, has been removed. </p>
	<p>Own Id: OTP-9522</p>
	</item>
	
	</list>
    -->
	
    </section>
    
  </section> <!-- 5.9.1 -->
  
  
  <section>
    <title>Inets 5.9</title>
    
    <section>
      <title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <!--
	  <p>-</p>
      -->
      
      <list>
	<item>
          <p>[httpd] Make the server header configurable with new config
	  option 
	  <seealso marker="httpd#prop_server_tokens">server_tokens</seealso>.
	  The value of the server header, which was previously hard-coded 
	  (at compile time), is now possible to manipulate through the means 
	  of the 
	  <seealso marker="httpd#prop_server_tokens">server_tokens</seealso> 
	  config option. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-9805</p>
        </item>

        <item>
	  <p>Improve inets support for inets as an included application. </p>
	  <p><c>inets_app</c> calls <c>supervisor:start_link/3</c> directly 
	  rather than calling the root supervisor function 
	  <c>inets_sup:start_link/0</c>. 
	  This precludes using included_applications to start inets without 
	  having a wrapper function. </p>
	  <p>Jay Nelson</p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-9960</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[httpc] Add function for retrieving current options, 
	  <seealso marker="httpc#get_options-1">get_options/[1,2]</seealso>. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-9979</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>Utility module 
	  <seealso marker="http_uri">http_uri</seealso>
	  now officially supported. </p>
	  <p>Also, the 
	  <seealso marker="http_uri#parse">parse</seealso> 
	  function has been extended with more
	  scheme support and a way to provide your own scheme info. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-9983</p>
          <p>Aux Id: Seq 12022</p>
        </item>

      </list>

    </section>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
    <p>-</p>

<!--
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>[httpd] Fix logging of content length in mod_log. </p>
	  <p>Garrett Smith</p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-9715</p>
        </item>

      </list>
-->

    </section>

<!--
    <section>
      <title>Incompatibilities</title>
      <p>-</p>

      <list>
        <item>
          <p>[httpc|httpd] The old ssl implementation (based on OpenSSL), 
	  has been deprecated. The config option that specified usage of 
	  this version of the ssl app, <c>ossl</c>, has been removed. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-9522</p>
        </item>

      </list>

    </section>
-->

  </section> <!-- 5.9 -->

  
  <section><title>Inets 5.8.1</title>
    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
    <p>-</p>

<!--
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>[httpc|httpd] Added support for IPv6 with ssl. </p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-5566</p>
        </item>

      </list>
-->

    </section>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<!--
    <p>-</p>
-->

      <list>
        <item>
          <p>[ftp] Fails to open IPv6 connection due to badly formatted
          IPv6 address in EPRT command. The address part of the command
          incorrectly contained decimal elements instead of hexadecimal. </p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-9827</p>
          <p>Aux Id: Seq 11970 </p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[httpc] Bad Keep Alive Mode. When selecting a session, 
          the "state" of the session (specifically if the server has 
          responded) was not taken into account. </p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-9847</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[httpc] The client incorrectly streams 404 responses. 
          The documentation specifies that only 200 and 206 responses 
          shall be streamed. </p>
          <p>Shane Evens</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-9860</p>
        </item>

      </list>
    </section>
  
  </section> <!-- 5.8.1 -->


  <section><title>Inets 5.8</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<!--
    <p>-</p>
-->

      <list>
        <item>
          <p>[ftpc] Add a config option to specify a 
	  <seealso marker="ftp#dtimeout">data connect timeout</seealso>.
	  That is how long the ftp client will wait for the server to connect
	  to the data socket. If this timeout occurs, an error will be 
	  returned to the caller and the ftp client process will be 
	  terminated. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-9545</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[httpc] Wrong Host header in IPv6 HTTP requests.
	  When a URI with a IPv6 host is parsed, the brackets that encapsulates
	  the address part is removed. This value is then supplied as the host 
	  header. This can cause problems with some servers.
	  A workaround for this is to use headers_as_is and provide the host
	  header with the requst call. 
	  To solve this a new option has been added, 
	  <seealso marker="httpc#ipv6_host_with_brackets">ipv6_host_with_brackets</seealso>. 
	  This option specifies if the host value of the host header shall 
	  include the brackets or not. By default, it does not (as before). 
	  </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-9628</p>
        </item>

      </list>

    </section>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<!--
    <p>-</p>
-->

      <list>
        <item>
          <p>[httpd] Fix logging of content length in mod_log. </p>
	  <p>Garrett Smith</p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-9715</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[httpd] Sometimes entries in the transfer log was written 
	  with the message size as list of numbers. This list was actually 
	  the size as a string, e.g. "123", written with the control 
	  sequence ~w. This has now been corrected so that any string is 
	  converted to an integer (if possible). </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-9733</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>Fixed various problems detected by Dialyzer. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-9736</p>
        </item>

      </list>

    </section>

    <section>
      <title>Incompatibilities</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>[httpc] Deprecated interface module <c>http</c> has been removed. 
	  It has (long) been replaced by http client interface module 
	  <seealso marker="httpc">httpc</seealso>. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-9359</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[httpc|httpd] The old ssl implementation (based on OpenSSL), 
	  has been deprecated. The config option that specified usage of 
	  this version of the ssl app, <c>ossl</c>, has been removed. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-9522</p>
        </item>

      </list>

    </section>

  </section> <!-- 5.8 -->

  
  <section><title>Inets 5.7.2</title>
    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
    <p>-</p>

<!--
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>[httpc|httpd] Added support for IPv6 with ssl. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-5566</p>
        </item>

      </list>
-->

    </section>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<!--
    <p>-</p>
-->

      <list>
        <item>
          <p>[httpd] XSS prevention did not work for hex-encoded URL's. </p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-9655</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[httpd] GET request with malformed header date caused 
	  server crash (non-fatal) with no reply to client. Will
	  now result in a reply with status code 400. </p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-9674</p>
          <p>Aux Id: seq11936</p>
        </item>

      </list>
    </section>
  
<!--
    <section>
      <title>Incompatibilities</title>
      <p>-</p>

      <list>
        <item>
          <p>[httpc] Deprecated interface module <c>http</c> has been removed. 
	  It has (long) been replaced by http client interface module 
	  <seealso marker="httpc#">httpc</seealso>. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-9359</p>
        </item>

      </list>

    </section>
-->

  </section> <!-- 5.7.2 -->


  <section><title>Inets 5.7.1</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
    <p>-</p>

<!--
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>[httpc|httpd] Added support for IPv6 with ssl. </p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-5566</p>
        </item>

      </list>
-->

    </section>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<!--
    <p>-</p>
-->

      <list>
        <item>
          <p>[httpc] Parsing of a cookie expire date should be more forgiving. 
          That is, if the parsing fails, the date should be ignored.
          Also added support for (yet another) date format: 
          "Tue Jan 01 08:00:01 2036 GMT". </p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-9433</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[httpc] Rewrote cookie parsing. Among other things solving 
          cookie processing from www.expedia.com. </p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-9434</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[httpd] Fix httpd directory traversal on Windows. 
          Directory traversal was possible on Windows where
          backward slash is used as directory separator. </p>
          <p>András Veres-Szentkirályi.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-9561</p>
        </item>

      </list>
    </section>

  </section> <!-- 5.7.1 -->


  <section><title>Inets 5.7</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<!--
    <p>-</p>
-->

      <list>
        <item>
          <p>[httpc|httpd] Added support for IPv6 with ssl. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-5566</p>
        </item>

      </list>

    </section>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<!--
    <p>-</p>
-->

      <list>
        <item>
          <p>[httpc] Remove unnecessary usage of iolist_to_binary when 
	  processing body (for PUT and POST). </p>
	  <p>Filipe David Manana</p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-9317</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[ftp] FTP client doesn't work with IPv6 host.</p>
	  <p>Attila Rajmund Nohl</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-9342 Aux Id: seq11853</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[httpd] Peer/sockname resolv doesn't work with IPv6 addrs 
	  in HTTP. </p>
	  <p>Attila Rajmund Nohl.</p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-9343</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[httpc] Clients started stand-alone not properly handled. 
	  Also it was not documented how to use them, that is that 
	  once started, they are represented by a <c>pid()</c> and not by 
	  their <c>profile()</c>. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-9365</p>
        </item>

      </list>
    </section>

  </section> <!-- 5.7 -->


  <section><title>Inets 5.6</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>

      <list>
        <item>
          <p>[httpc] Add support for upload body streaming (PUT and POST).</p>
	  <p>For more info, 
	  see the definition of the <c>Body</c> argument of the 
	  <seealso marker="httpc#request-4">request/[4,5]</seealso> 
	  function. </p>
	  <p>Filipe David Manana</p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-9094</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[ftp] Added (type) spec for all exported functions.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-9114 Aux Id: seq11799</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[httpd] 
	  <seealso marker="mod_esi#deliver-2">mod_esi:deliver/2</seealso> 
	  made to accept binary data. </p>
          <p>Bernard Duggan</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-9123</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[httpd] Prevent XSS in error pages.
	  Prevent user controlled input from being interpreted 
	  as HTML in error pages by encoding the reserved HTML 
	  characters. </p>
	  <p>Michael Santos</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-9124</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[httpd] Improved error messages. </p>
	  <p>Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-9157</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[httpd] Extended support for file descriptors. 
	  In order to be able to bind to a privileged port 
	  without running the erlang VM as root, the support 
	  for using file descriptors has been improved. 
	  It is now possible to add the file descriptor to the config 
	  (option fd) when calling the 
	  <seealso marker="inets#start-2">inets:start(httpd, ...)</seealso> 
	  function. </p>
	  <p>Attila Rajmund Nohl</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-9202</p>
          <p>Aux Id: seq11819</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>The default ssl kind has now been changed to <c>essl</c>. </p>
	  <p><c>ossl</c> will work for as long as the ssl application 
	  supports it. </p>
	  <p>See the httpd 
	  <seealso marker="httpd#props_comm">socket_type</seealso> 
	  communication property or the httpc 
	  <seealso marker="httpc#request-4">request/[4,5]</seealso> function
	  for more info. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-9230</p>
	  <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
        </item>

      </list>
    </section>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<!--
    <p>-</p>
-->

      <list>
        <item>
          <p>[httpd] Wrong 
	  <seealso marker="httpd#props_sec">security property</seealso> 
	  names used in documentation. </p>
	  <p><c>security_data_file</c> used instead of <c>data_file</c>. </p>
	  <p><c>security_max_retries</c> used instead of <c>max_retries</c>. </p>
	  <p><c>security_block_time</c> used instead of <c>block_time</c>. </p>
	  <p><c>security_fail_expire_time</c> used instead of <c>fail_expire_time</c>. </p>
	  <p><c>security_auth_timeout</c> used instead of <c>auth_timeout</c>. </p>
	  <p>Garrett Smith</p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-9131</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[httpd] Fix timeout message generated by mod_esi.
	  When a mod_esi request times out, the code to send a 
	  timeout response was incorrect and generated an 
	  internal server error as well as an invalid response 
	  line. </p>
	  <p>Bernard Duggan</p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-9158</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[httpc] httpc manager crashes. 
	  When a request results in a retry, the request id will be "reused" 
	  in the previous implementation a race condition could occur causing 
	  the manager to crash. </p>
	  <p>This is now avoided by using proc_lib:init_ack and 
	  gen_server:enter_loop to allow mor advanced initialization of 
	  httpc_handlers without blocking the httpc_manger and eliminating 
	  extra processes that can cause race conditions. </p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-9246</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[httpc] Issuing a request (<c>httpc:request</c>) to an 
	  host with the ssl option 
	  <c>{ip, {127,0,0,1}}</c> results in an handler crash. 
	  The reason was that the connect call resulted in an exit with 
	  reason <c>badarg</c> 
	  (this was the same for both <c>ssl</c> and <c>gen_tcp</c>). </p>
	  <p>Exits was not catched. This has now been improved. </p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-9289</p>
          <p>Aux Id: seq11845</p>
        </item>

      </list>
    </section>

  </section> <!-- 5.6 -->


  <section><title>Inets 5.5.2</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
    <p>-</p>

<!--
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Miscellaneous inet6 related problems.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-8927</p>
        </item>
      </list>
-->

    </section>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>[httpd] httpd_response:send_chunk handles empty list and 
          empty binary - i.e. no chunk is sent, but it does 
	  not handle a list with an empty binary [&lt;&lt;&gt;&gt;]. 
	  This will be sent as an empty chunk - which in turn 
	  will be encoded by http_chunk to the same as a final 
	  chunk, which will make the http client believe that 
	  the end of the page is reached.</p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8906</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

  </section> <!-- 5.5.2 -->


  <section><title>Inets 5.5.1</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>Miscellaneous inet6 related problems.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-8927</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>Updated http-server to make sure URLs in error-messages
	  are URL-encoded. Added support in http-client to use
	  URL-encoding. Also added the missing include directory
	  for the inets application.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-8940</p>
          <p>Aux Id: seq11735</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
	  <p>Fix format_man_pages so it handles all man sections
	  and remove warnings/errors in various man pages. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8600</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>[httpc] Pipelined and queued requests not processed when
	  connection closed remotelly.</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-8906</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

  </section> <!-- 5.5.1 -->


  <section><title>Inets 5.5</title>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    [httpc] If a request times out (not connect timeout), the
	    handler process exited (normal) but neglected to inform
	    the manager process. For this reason, the manager did not
	    clean up the request table., resulting in a memory leak.
	    Also the manager did not create a monitor for the
	    handler, so in an unforseen handler crash, this could
	    also create a memory leak.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-8739</p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    The service tftp was spelled wrong in documentation and
	    in some parts of the code. It should be tftp.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-8741 Aux Id: seq11635 </p>
        </item>
        <item>
          <p>
	    [httpc] Replaced the old http client api module (http)
	    with the new, httpc in the users guide.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-8742</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>


    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <list>
        <item>
          <p>
	    Eliminated warnings for auto-imported BIF clashes.</p>
          <p>
	    Own Id: OTP-8840</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

  </section> <!-- 5.5 -->


  <section><title>Inets 5.4</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<!--
      <p>-</p>
-->

      <list>
        <item>
	  <p>[httpc|httpd] - Now allow the use of the "new" ssl, by using
            the <c>essl</c> tag instead. </p> 
          <p>See the <c>http_option</c> option in the 
            <seealso marker="httpc#request-4">request/[4,5]</seealso> or 
            the <seealso marker="httpd#props_comm">socket-type</seealso>
            section of the Communication properties chapter for more info, </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-7907</p>
        </item>

        <item>
	  <p>Deprecated functions designated to be removed in R14 has been
            removed. Also, some new functions has been marked as deprecated
            (the old http client api module). </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8564</p>
	  <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
        </item>

        <item>
	  <p>[httpd] - Improved mod_alias. 
            Now able to do better URL rewrites. </p> 
          <p>See 
            <seealso marker="httpd#props_alias">URL aliasing properties</seealso> 
            and the 
            <seealso marker="httpd#props_cgi">CGI properties</seealso>
            section(s) for more info, </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8573</p>
        </item>

      </list>
    </section>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>

      <p>-</p>

<!--
      <list>
        <item>
	  <p>[httpd] The server did not fully support the documented module
            callback api. Specifically, the load function should be able to
            return the atom <c>ok</c>, but this was not accepted. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8359</p>
        </item>

      </list>
-->

    </section>

  </section> <!-- 5.4 -->


  <section><title>Inets 5.3.3</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <p>-</p>

<!--
      <list>
        <item>
	  <p>[httpc] - Allow users to pass socket options to the transport 
            module when making requests. </p> 
          <p>See the <c>socket_opts</c> option in the 
            <seealso marker="httpc#request2">request/4</seealso> or 
            <seealso marker="httpc#set_options">set_options/1,2</seealso>
            for more info, </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8352</p>
        </item>

      </list>
-->
    </section>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>

<!--
      <p>-</p>
-->

      <list>
        <item>
	  <p>[httpc] - Made cookie handling more case insensitive.</p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8609</p>
          <p>Nicolas Thauvin</p>
        </item>

        <item>
	  <p>[httpc|httpd] - Netscape cookie dates can also be given with a 
            2-digit year (e.g. 06 = 2006). </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8610</p>
          <p>Nicolas Thauvin</p>
        </item>

        <item>
	  <p>[httpd] - Added support (again) for the documented debugging 
            features. See the User's Guide 
            <seealso marker="http_server#config">Configuration</seealso> 
            chapter for more info. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8624</p>
        </item>

      </list>
    </section>

  </section> <!-- 5.3.3 -->


  <section><title>Inets 5.3.2</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <p>-</p>

<!--
      <list>
        <item>
	  <p>[httpc] - Allow users to pass socket options to the transport 
            module when making requests. </p> 
          <p>See the <c>socket_opts</c> option in the 
            <seealso marker="httpc#request2">request/4</seealso> or 
            <seealso marker="httpc#set_options">set_options/1,2</seealso>
            for more info, </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8352</p>
        </item>

      </list>
-->
    </section>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>

<!--
      <p>-</p>
-->

      <list>
        <item>
	  <p>[httpc] - Memory leak plugged. 
            The profile manager never cleaned up in its handler database. 
            This meant that with each new request handler, another entry 
            was created that was never deleted. Eventually the request
            id counter (used as a key) would wrap, but the machine would 
            most likely run out of memory before that happened.</p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8542</p>
          <p>Lev Walkin</p>
        </item>

        <item>
	  <p>[httpc] - https requests with default port (443) not handled 
            properly. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8607</p>
          <p>jebu ittiachen</p>
        </item>

      </list>
    </section>

  </section> <!-- 5.3.2 -->


  <section><title>Inets 5.3.1</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <p>-</p>

<!--
      <list>
        <item>
	  <p>[httpc] - Allow users to pass socket options to the transport 
            module when making requests. </p> 
          <p>See the <c>socket_opts</c> option in the 
            <seealso marker="httpc#request2">request/4</seealso> or 
            <seealso marker="httpc#set_options">set_options/1,2</seealso>
            for more info, </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8352</p>
        </item>

      </list>
-->
    </section>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>

<!--
      <p>-</p>
-->

      <list>
        <item>
	  <p>[httpc] - Badly formated error reason for errors occuring 
            during initial connect to a server. 
            Also, the possible error reasons was 
            not properly documented.</p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8508</p>
	  <p>Aux Id: seq11407</p>
        </item>

        <item>
	  <p>[httpd] - Issues with ESI erl_script_timeout. </p>
          <list type="bulleted">
	    <item>
	      <p>The <c>erl_script_timeout</c> config option is ducumented
              as a number of seconds. But when parsing the config, in the
              new format (not a config file), it was handled as if in
              number of milliseconds. </p>
            </item>
	    <item>
	      <p>When the erl-script-timeout time was exceeded, the server
              incorrectly marked the answer as sent, thereby leaving 
              client hanging (with an incomplete answer).
              This has been changed, so that now the socket will be
              closed. </p>
	    </item>
	  </list>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8509</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

  </section> <!-- 5.3.1 -->


  <section><title>Inets 5.3</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<!--
      <p>-</p>
-->

      <list>
        <item>
	  <p>[httpc] - Allow users to pass socket options to the transport 
            module when making requests. </p> 
          <p>See the <c>socket_opts</c> option in the 
            <seealso marker="httpc#request-4">request/4</seealso> or 
            <seealso marker="httpc#set_options-1">set_options/[1,2]</seealso>
            for more info, </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8352</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[httpc] Fix bug crafting Host header when port is not 80. </p>
          <p>The host header should include the port number as well as the 
            host name when making a request to a server listening on a port 
            other than the HTTP default of 80. Currently, only the host 
            name is included. This is important to make the http client 
            more compliant with the HTTP specification. </p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-8371</p>
          <p>Kelly McLaughlin</p>
        </item>

        <item>
	  <p>[httpc|httpd] http_chunk data handling/passing improvement. </p> 
          <p>This is a modification to the http_chunk module to forward any 
            full chunk received, regardless of whether the size field for the 
            following chunk has been received yet.  This allows http_chunk to 
            be used in situations where a long term HTTP connection is used to 
            send periodic status updates as individual chunks.  Previously a 
            given chunk would not be forwarded to the client process until the 
            size for the next chunk had been read which rendered the module 
            difficult to use for the scenario described. </p>
          <p>Bernard Duggan</p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8351</p>
        </item>

        <item>
	  <p>Include the inets test suite in the release of the 
            application. </p> 
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8349</p>
        </item>
	
        <item>
	  <p>[httpc] - It is now possible to configure the client to 
            deliver an async reply to more receivers then the calling 
            process. </p> 
          <p>See the 
            <seealso marker="httpc#request-2">receiver</seealso>
            option for more info, </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8106</p>
        </item>
	
	<item>
	  <p>[httpd] - Methods "PUT" and "DELETE" now allowed. </p> 
          <p>[email protected]</p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8103</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>[httpc] Several more or less critical fixes:</p>
          <list type="bulleted">
	    <item>
	      <p>Initial call between the httpc manager and request 
              handler was synchronous. </p>
	      <p>When the manager starts a new request handler, 
              this is no longer a synchronous operation. Previously, 
              the new request handler made the connection to the 
              server and issuing of the first request (the reason 
              for starting it) in the gen_server init function. 
              If the connection for some reason "took some time", 
              the manager hanged, leaving all other activities by 
              that manager also hanging. </p>
            </item>
<!--
	      <item>
	        <p>Copying of data between processes</p>
	        <p>TBD</p>
	      </item>
	      <item>
	        <p>Reading of requests</p>
	        <p>TBD</p>
	      </item>
-->
	  </list>
          <p>As a side-effect of these changes, some modules was also 
            renamed, and a new api module, 
            <seealso marker="httpc">httpc</seealso>, has been introduced
            (the old module <c>http</c> is <em>not</em> removed, but is 
            now just wrapper for <c>httpc</c>). </p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-8016</p>
	  <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
        </item>

      </list>
    </section>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>

<!--
      <p>-</p>
-->

      <list>
        <item>
	  <p>[httpd] The server did not fully support the documented module
            callback api. Specifically, the load function should be able to
            return the atom <c>ok</c>, but this was not accepted. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8359</p>
        </item>

        <item>
          <p>Fixing various documentation-related bugs (bad quotes).</p>
          <p>Own Id: OTP-8327</p>
        </item>

        <item>
	  <p>Fixing minor Dialyzer and copyright problem(s). </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8315</p>
        </item>

        <item>
	  <p>[httpc] - Added basic sanity check of option value 
            combinations.</p>
          <p>[email protected]</p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8056</p>
        </item>
      </list>
    </section>

  </section> <!-- 5.3 -->


  <section><title>Inets 5.2</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<!--
      <p>-</p>
-->
        <list>
          <item>
	    <p>[ftpc] - Start of the FTP client has been changed in 
              the following way: </p>
	      <list type="bulleted">
		<item>
		  <p>It is now also possible to start a standalone FTP client 
		    process using the re-introduced  
                    <seealso marker="ftp#open">ftp:open</seealso> 
                    function. </p>
                  <p>This is an alternative to starting the client using the 
		    <seealso marker="ftp#service_start">inets service framework</seealso>. </p>
		  <p>The old <c>ftp:open/1</c>, undocumented, function, 
                    caused the client to be hooken into the inets service
                    supervision framework. This is <em>no</em> longer the
                    case. </p>
                  <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
		</item>
		<item>
                  <p>Previously, the FTP client attempted to use IPv6, 
                    unless otherwise instructed (the <c>ip_v6_disabled</c> 
                    flag), and only used IPv4 if this did not work. 
                    This has now been <em>changed</em>. </p>
                  <p>A new option, 
                    <seealso marker="ftp#ipfamily">ipfamily</seealso>, 
                    has been introduced, with the default value 
                    <c>inet</c> (IPv4). </p>
                  <p>See <seealso marker="ftp#open">ftp:open</seealso> 
                    for more info.</p>
                  <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
		</item>
              </list>
	    <p>Own Id: OTP-8258</p>
	    <!-- <p>Aux Id: seq11407</p> -->
	  </item>

          <item>
            <p>The documentation is now built with open source tools 
              (<em>xsltproc</em> and <em>fop</em>) that exists on most 
              platforms. One visible change is that the frames are removed.</p>
            <p>Own Id: OTP-8249</p>
          </item>

        </list>
    </section>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>

<!--
      <p>-</p>
-->

      <list>
        <item>
	  <p>[httpc] - Streaming to file did not work.</p>
          <p>[email protected]</p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8204</p>
        </item>

        <item>
	  <p>[ftpc] - The 
            <seealso marker="ftp#ls2">ls/2</seealso> function (LIST command) 
            and the 
            <seealso marker="ftp#nlist2">nlist/2</seealso> function 
            (NLST command) 
            with wildcards did 
            not work properly. </p>
          <p>These functions is documented as working on directories, but 
            this is actually not according the standard. The LIST and NLST
            commands are specified to operate on a directory or other 
            group of files, or a file.</p>
          <p>Previously, an attempt was made to check if the listing
            returned by the server was actually an error message. This
            was done by changing remote directory (cd) into the 
            (assumed) "directory". This may work if Pathname was actually 
            a directory, but as this is not always the case, this test 
            does not work. Instead, we now return the actual server 
            result and leave the interpretation to the caller. </p>
          <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8247</p>
	  <p>Aux Id: seq11407</p>
        </item>

        <item>
	  <p>[httpc] - Fixes various bugs in timeout and keep-alive queue 
            handling. </p>
          <list type="bulleted">
            <item>
              <p>When a queued request times, out the error mssage is sent 
                the owner of the active request. </p>
	    </item>

            <item>
              <p>Requests in the keep-alive queue is forgotten when 
                handler terminates. </p>
	    </item>

            <item>
              <p>Timeout out requests are retried. </p>
	    </item>
          </list>
          <p>Jean-S&#233;bastien P&#233;dron</p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8248</p>
        </item>

        <item>
	  <p>[httpd] - Unnecessarily strict matching when handling closing sockets. </p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8280</p>
        </item>

      </list>
    </section>

  </section> <!-- 5.2 -->


  <section><title>Inets 5.1.3</title>

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <p>-</p>
<!--
        <list>
          <item>
            <p>[httpc] Added support for web services using only basic auth,
              with a token as the user part and no password part.</p>
            <p>[email protected]</p>
            <p>Own Id: OTP-7998</p>
          </item>

        </list>
-->
    </section>

    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>

<!--
      <p>-</p>
-->

      <list>
        <item>
	  <p>[httpc] - Raise condition. 
            When http:request is called and httpc_manager selects a session 
            where there's already a pending request, then the connection 
            handler for that session effectively resets its parser, readying
            it for the response to the second request. But if there are still 
            some inbound packets for the response to the first request, things 
            get confused.</p>
          <p>[email protected]</p>
	  <p>Own Id: OTP-8154</p>
        </item>

      </list>
    </section>

  </section> <!-- 5.1.3 -->


  <section><title>Inets 5.1.2</title>
<!--
        <p>-</p>
-->

      <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
<!--
        <p>-</p>
-->

        <list>
	  <item>
	    <p>[httpc] - Added http option <c>connect_timeout</c> for http 
              client request.
              The <c>connect_timeout</c> option is used for the initial 
              request, when the client connects to the server. Default 
              value is that of the <c>timeout</c> option. </p>
            <p>See the 
	      <seealso marker="httpc#request-4">request/[4,5]</seealso> 
              function for more info. </p>
	    <p>Own Id: OTP-7298</p>
	    <!-- <p>Aux Id: seq11086</p> -->
          </item>

        </list>
      </section>


      <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<!--
        <p>-</p>
-->

        <list>
	  <item>
	    <p>[httpd] - Failed to create listen socket with invalid 
              option combo. The http-server failed to create its listen 
              socket when the bind-address was an IPv4-address (a tuple of
              size 4) and the ipfamily option was inet6fb4. </p>
	    <p>Own Id: OTP-8118</p>
	    <p>Aux Id: seq11321</p>
          </item>

	  <item>
	    <p>[httpd] - Removed documentation for non-existing function 
              (httpd_util:header/2,3,4). </p>
	    <p>Own Id: OTP-8101</p>
	    <!-- <p>Aux Id: seq11321</p> -->
          </item>

        </list>
      </section>

  </section> <!-- 5.1.2 -->


  <section><title>Inets 5.1.1</title>
<!--
        <p>-</p>
-->

      <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
        <list>
	  <item>
	    <p>[httpd] - When starting inets (the web-server) and supplying 
              a descriptor on the command line 
              (example: erl -httpd_8888 &lt;descriptor&gt;) 
              it is now possible to specify which ip-family to use:
              <c>inet | inet6 | inet6fb4</c>. </p>
            <p>Example: erl -httpd_8888 10|inet6</p>
            <p>When starting the web-server either using a file with 
              property list (the proplist_file) or a an property list,
              using the ipfamily option: 
              <c>{ipfamily, inet | inet6 | inet6fb4}</c>. </p>
            <p>Finally, when starting the web-server using the classical
              apache-style config file, the <c>BindAddress</c> directive
              has been augmented to allow the specification of the 
              IpFamily: <c>BindAddress blirk.ericsson.se|inet</c></p>
            <p>Default is <c>inet6fb4</c> which emulates the 
              behaviour of the previous version. </p>
            <p>See the 
	      <seealso marker="httpd#props_comm">Communication properties</seealso> 
              section for more info. </p>
	    <p>Own Id: OTP-8069</p>
	    <p>Aux Id: seq11086</p>
          </item>

        </list>
      </section>


      <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<!--
        <p>-</p>
-->

        <list>
	  <item>
	    <p>[httpc] - Reception of unexpected data causes handler crash. </p>
	    <p>Own Id: OTP-8052</p>
          </item>

        </list>
      </section>

  </section> <!-- 5.1.1 -->


  <section><title>Inets 5.1</title>

      <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
        <list>
          <item>
            <p>[httpc] Added support for web services using only basic auth,
              with a token as the user part and no password part.</p>
            <p>[email protected]</p>
            <p>Own Id: OTP-7998</p>
          </item>

	  <item>
	    <p>[httpc] - Bind HTTP client to IP-addr. It is now possible 
              to specify an alternate ip-address and port to be used when 
              the client connects to the server. </p>
	    <p>As a side-effect of this, the option <c>ipv6</c> has been 
              removed and replaced by the <c>ipfamily</c> option. </p>
	    <p>See <seealso marker="httpc#set_options-1">http:set_options/[1,2]</seealso> 
              for more info. </p>
            <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
	    <p>Own Id: OTP-8004</p>
          </item>

        </list>
      </section>


      <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
<!--
        <p>-</p>
-->

        <list>
          <item>
            <p>Updated guard tests (i.e. is_list(L) instead of
              list(L) and possibly andalso/orelse instead of ","/";"). </p>
            <p>Own Id: OTP-7994</p>
          </item>

          <item>
            <p>[httpc] - Remove use of the deprecated regexp module. </p>
            <p>Own Id: OTP-8001</p>
          </item>

	  <item>
	    <p>[httpc] - The option <c>max_keep_alive_length</c> was 
              not handled properly. </p>
	    <p>Own Id: OTP-8005</p>
          </item>


        </list>
      </section>

  </section> <!-- 5.1 -->

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