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+++ b/lib/inets/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -8,16 +8,17 @@
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
- The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License,
- Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in
- 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.
+ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
</legalnotice>
@@ -32,7 +33,184 @@
<file>notes.xml</file>
</header>
- <section><title>Inets 5.10.9</title>
+ <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>
@@ -675,9 +853,9 @@
<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">which_sessions/10,1</seealso>
+ <seealso marker="httpc#which_sessions-0">which_sessions/[0,1]</seealso>
and
- <seealso marker="httpc#info">info/0</seealso>. </p>
+ <seealso marker="httpc#info-0">info/0</seealso>. </p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-10093</p>
<p>Aux Id: Seq 12062</p>
</item>
@@ -771,7 +949,7 @@
<item>
<p>[httpc] Add function for retrieving current options,
- <seealso marker="httpc#get_options">get_options/1,2</seealso>. </p>
+ <seealso marker="httpc#get_options-1">get_options/[1,2]</seealso>. </p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-9979</p>
</item>
@@ -948,15 +1126,11 @@
<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>
+ <seealso marker="httpc">httpc</seealso>. </p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-9359</p>
</item>
@@ -1144,15 +1318,13 @@
<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>
+ <seealso marker="httpc#request-4">request/[4,5]</seealso>
function. </p>
<p>Filipe David Manana</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-9094</p>
@@ -1165,7 +1337,7 @@
<item>
<p>[httpd]
- <seealso marker="mod_esi#deliver">mod_esi:deliver/2</seealso>
+ <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>
@@ -1193,7 +1365,7 @@
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>
+ <seealso marker="inets#start-2">inets:start(httpd, ...)</seealso>
function. </p>
<p>Attila Rajmund Nohl</p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-9202</p>
@@ -1207,7 +1379,7 @@
<p>See the httpd
<seealso marker="httpd#props_comm">socket_type</seealso>
communication property or the httpc
- <seealso marker="httpc#request2">request/4,5</seealso> function
+ <seealso marker="httpc#request-4">request/[4,5]</seealso> function
for more info. </p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-9230</p>
<p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
@@ -1407,7 +1579,7 @@
<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
+ <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>
@@ -1639,8 +1811,8 @@
<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>
+ <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>
@@ -1681,7 +1853,7 @@
deliver an async reply to more receivers then the calling
process. </p>
<p>See the
- <seealso marker="httpc#request2">receiver</seealso>
+ <seealso marker="httpc#request-2">receiver</seealso>
option for more info, </p>
<p>Own Id: OTP-8106</p>
</item>
@@ -1950,7 +2122,7 @@
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>
+ <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> -->
@@ -2057,7 +2229,7 @@
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>
+ <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>