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diff --git a/lib/inets/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/inets/doc/src/notes.xml index 9ab35ff38b..0926df8581 100644 --- a/lib/inets/doc/src/notes.xml +++ b/lib/inets/doc/src/notes.xml @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?> +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> <!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd"> <chapter> <header> <copyright> - <year>2002</year><year>2010</year> + <year>2002</year><year>2011</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -13,12 +13,12 @@ compliance with the License. You should have received a copy of the Erlang Public License along with this software. If not, it can be retrieved online at http://www.erlang.org/. - + Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the License. - + </legalnotice> <title>Inets Release Notes</title> @@ -32,63 +32,319 @@ <file>notes.xml</file> </header> - <section><title>Inets 5.3.4</title> + <section><title>Inets 5.6</title> <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <p>-</p> +<!-- + <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>[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> + <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 [<<>>]. + 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] - If a request times out (not during connect), 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> + <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>[tftp] - Was spelled wrong in documentation and in some - parts of the code. It should be tftp. </p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-8741</p> + <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>[htpc] - Replaced the old http client api module (http) - with the new, http client in the - <seealso marker="http_client">Users Guide</seealso>. </p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-8742</p> - <p>Ryan Zezeski</p> + <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> <!-- 5.3.4 --> + </section> <!-- 5.4 --> <section><title>Inets 5.3.3</title> @@ -363,6 +619,7 @@ <p>Own Id: OTP-8016</p> <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> </item> + </list> </section> |