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authorHans Bolinder <[email protected]>2016-09-01 14:32:27 +0200
committerHans Bolinder <[email protected]>2016-09-01 14:34:41 +0200
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doc: Correct errors introduced by Editorial changes
Fix some older errors as well.
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diff --git a/lib/inets/doc/src/http_server.xml b/lib/inets/doc/src/http_server.xml
index aeda961714..65b3dcde95 100644
--- a/lib/inets/doc/src/http_server.xml
+++ b/lib/inets/doc/src/http_server.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2004</year><year>2015</year>
+ <year>2004</year><year>2016</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@
<item>Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)</item>
<item>Erlang Scripting Interface (ESI)</item>
<item>Common Gateway Interface (CGI)</item>
- <item>User Authentication (using <c>Mnesia</c>,
- <c>Dets</c> or plain text database)</item>
+ <item>User Authentication (using Mnesia,
+ Dets or plain text database)</item>
<item>Common Logfile Format (with or without disk_log(3) support)</item>
<item>URL Aliasing</item>
<item>Action Mappings</item>
@@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ http://your.server.org/eval?httpd_example:print(atom_to_list(apply(erlang,halt,[
<title>mod_auth - User Authentication</title>
<p>The <seealso marker="mod_auth">mod_auth(3)</seealso>
module provides for basic user authentication using
- textual files, <c>Dets</c> databases as well as <c>Mnesia</c> databases.</p>
+ textual files, Dets databases as well as Mnesia databases.</p>
<p>Uses the following Erlang Web Server API interaction data:
</p>
<list type="bulleted">
@@ -580,15 +580,15 @@ http://your.server.org/eval?httpd_example:print(atom_to_list(apply(erlang,halt,[
<section>
<title>Mnesia As Authentication Database</title>
- <p>If <c>Mnesia</c> is used as storage method, <c>Mnesia</c> must be
- started before the HTTP server. The first time <c>Mnesia</c> is
+ <p>If Mnesia is used as storage method, Mnesia must be
+ started before the HTTP server. The first time Mnesia is
started, the schema and the tables must be created before
- <c>Mnesia</c> is started. A simple example of a module with two
- functions that creates and start <c>Mnesia</c> is provided
+ Mnesia is started. A simple example of a module with two
+ functions that creates and start Mnesia is provided
here. Function <c>first_start/0</c> is to be used the first
time. It creates the schema and the tables.
<c>start/0</c> is to be used in consecutive startups.
- <c>start/0</c> starts <c>Mnesia</c> and waits for the tables to
+ <c>start/0</c> starts Mnesia and waits for the tables to
be initiated. This function must only be used when the
schema and the tables are already created.</p>
@@ -616,25 +616,25 @@ start() ->
mnesia:start(),
mnesia:wait_for_tables([httpd_user, httpd_group], 60000). </code>
- <p>To create the <c>Mnesia</c> tables, we use two records defined in
+ <p>To create the Mnesia tables, we use two records defined in
<c>mod_auth.hrl</c>, so that file must be included. <c>first_start/0</c>
creates a schema that specifies on which nodes the database is to reside.
- Then it starts <c>Mnesia</c> and creates the tables. The first argument
+ Then it starts Mnesia and creates the tables. The first argument
is the name of the tables, the second argument is a list of options of
how to create the table, see
- <seealso marker="mnesia:mnesia"><c>mnesia</c></seealso>, documentation for
+ <seealso marker="mnesia:mnesia"><c>mnesia(3)</c></seealso>, documentation for
more information. As the implementation of the <c>mod_auth_mnesia</c>
saves one row for each user, the type must be <c>bag</c>.
When the schema and the tables are created, function
<seealso marker="mnesia:mnesia#start-0">mnesia:start/0</seealso>
- is used to start <c>Mnesia</c> and
- waits for the tables to be loaded. <c>Mnesia</c> uses the
+ is used to start Mnesia and
+ waits for the tables to be loaded. Mnesia uses the
directory specified as <c>mnesia_dir</c> at startup if specified,
- otherwise <c>Mnesia</c> uses the current directory. For security
- reasons, ensure that the <c>Mnesia</c> tables are stored outside
+ otherwise Mnesia uses the current directory. For security
+ reasons, ensure that the Mnesia tables are stored outside
the document tree of the HTTP server. If they are placed in the
directory which it protects, clients can download the tables.
- Only the <c>Dets</c> and <c>Mnesia</c> storage
+ Only the Dets and Mnesia storage
methods allow writing of dynamic user data to disk. <c>plain</c> is
a read only method.</p>
</section>
@@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ start() ->
<section>
<title>mod_disk_log - Logging Using Disk_Log.</title>
<p>Standard logging using the "Common Logfile Format" and
- <seealso marker="kernel:disk_log">kernel:disk_log(3)</seealso>.</p>
+ <seealso marker="kernel:disk_log">disk_log(3)</seealso>.</p>
<p>Uses the following Erlang Web Server API interaction data:
</p>
<list type="bulleted">