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--- a/lib/inets/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/lib/inets/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2002</year><year>2014</year>
+ <year>2002</year><year>2015</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -33,7 +33,339 @@
<file>notes.xml</file>
</header>
- <section><title>Inets 6.0</title>
+ <section><title>Inets 6.2.4.1</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Shutdown gracefully on connection or TLS handshake errors</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-14173 Aux Id: seq13262 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Inets 6.2.4</title>
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Handle multiple \t in mime types file</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-13663 Aux Id: seq13132 </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 6.1.1.1</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 6.1.1</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>
@@ -765,9 +1097,9 @@
<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>
@@ -861,7 +1193,7 @@
<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>
@@ -1038,15 +1370,11 @@
<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>
@@ -1234,15 +1562,13 @@
<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>
@@ -1255,7 +1581,7 @@
<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>
@@ -1283,7 +1609,7 @@
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>
@@ -1297,7 +1623,7 @@
<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>
@@ -1497,7 +1823,7 @@
<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>
@@ -1692,23 +2018,21 @@
<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>
+ <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>
@@ -1729,8 +2053,8 @@
<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>
@@ -1771,7 +2095,7 @@
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>
@@ -1784,20 +2108,19 @@
<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>
+ <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>
@@ -1808,8 +2131,7 @@
<p>TBD</p>
</item>
-->
- </list>
- </p>
+ </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
@@ -2040,7 +2362,7 @@
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> -->
@@ -2147,7 +2469,7 @@
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>
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