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    <title>Inets Release Notes</title>
    <prepared></prepared>
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    <docno></docno>
    <approved></approved>
    <checked></checked>
    <date>2002-02-28</date>
    <rev>A</rev>
    <file>notes.xml</file>
  </header>
  
  <section><title>Inets 5.8</title>

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

      </list>

    </section>

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

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      <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>

      </list>
-->

    </section>

    <section>
      <title>Incompatibilities</title>
<!--
      <p>-</p>
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      <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	  It has (long) been replaced by http client interface module 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</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>
<!--
    <p>-</p>
-->
      <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#request2">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">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 Jim�nez</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#start2">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#comm_prop">socket_type</seealso> 
	  communication property or the httpc 
	  <seealso marker="httpc#request2">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#sec_prop">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#request2">request/4,5</seealso> or 
            the <seealso marker="httpd#comm_prop">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#alias_prop">URL aliasing properties</seealso> 
            and the 
            <seealso marker="httpd#cgi_prop">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>
          <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>
	  <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#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>

        <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#request2">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>
          <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>
          <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>
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	  </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>

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      <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>

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

    <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
      <p>-</p>
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            <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>
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    <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>

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      <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>
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        <p>-</p>
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      <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
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        <p>-</p>
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        <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#request2">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>
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        <p>-</p>
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        <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>
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        <p>-</p>
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      <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#comm_prop">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>
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        <p>-</p>
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        <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">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>
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        <p>-</p>
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        <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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