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diff --git a/lib/inets/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/inets/doc/src/notes.xml index 489e88cbe5..c954d4b7eb 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>2009</year> + <year>2002</year><year>2011</year> <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder> </copyright> <legalnotice> @@ -32,6 +32,426 @@ <file>notes.xml</file> </header> + <section><title>Inets 5.3.6</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <item> + <p>[httpd] XSS prevention did not work for hex-encoded URL's. </p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-9655</p> + </item> + + <item> + <p>[httpd] GET request with malformed header date caused + server crash (non-fatal) with no reply to client. Will + now result in a reply with status code 400. </p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-9674</p> + <p>Aux Id: seq11936</p> + </item> + + </list> + </section> + + </section> <!-- 5.3.6 --> + + + <section><title>Inets 5.3.5</title> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list> + <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> + + <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> + </list> + </section> + + </section> <!-- 5.3.5 --> + + + <section><title>Inets 5.3.4</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] - 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> + </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> + </item> + + <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> + </item> + + </list> + </section> + + </section> <!-- 5.3.4 --> + + + <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> @@ -139,7 +559,7 @@ <p>Timeout out requests are retried. </p> </item> </list> - <p>Jean-S�bastien P�dron</p> + <p>Jean-Sébastien Pédron</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-8248</p> </item> @@ -214,7 +634,7 @@ request, when the client connects to the server. Default value is that of the <c>timeout</c> option. </p> <p>See the - <seealso marker="http#request2">request/4,5</seealso> + <seealso marker="httpc#request2">request/4,5</seealso> function for more info. </p> <p>Own Id: OTP-7298</p> <!-- <p>Aux Id: seq11086</p> --> @@ -321,7 +741,7 @@ 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="http#set_options">http:set_options/1,2</seealso> + <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> |