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diff --git a/lib/inets/doc/src/notes.xml b/lib/inets/doc/src/notes.xml index 487b9c6c00..cfc58b8ddb 100644 --- a/lib/inets/doc/src/notes.xml +++ b/lib/inets/doc/src/notes.xml @@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ <file>notes.xml</file> </header> - <section><title>Inets 5.7.3</title> + + <section><title>Inets 5.8.1</title> <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> <p>-</p> @@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ <list> <item> <p>[httpc|httpd] Added support for IPv6 with ssl. </p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5566</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5566</p> </item> </list> @@ -57,32 +58,127 @@ <item> <p>[ftp] Fails to open IPv6 connection due to badly formatted IPv6 address in EPRT command. The address part of the command - incorrectly contained decimal elements instead of hexadecimal. </p> + incorrectly contained decimal elements instead of hexadecimal. </p> <p>Own Id: OTP-9827</p> <p>Aux Id: Seq 11970 </p> </item> <item> <p>[httpc] Bad Keep Alive Mode. When selecting a session, - the "state" of the session (specifically if the server has - responded) was not taken into account. </p> + the "state" of the session (specifically if the server has + responded) was not taken into account. </p> <p>Own Id: OTP-9847</p> </item> <item> <p>[httpc] The client incorrectly streams 404 responses. - The documentation specifies that only 200 and 206 responses - shall be streamed. </p> - <p>Shane Evens</p> + The documentation specifies that only 200 and 206 responses + shall be streamed. </p> + <p>Shane Evens</p> <p>Own Id: OTP-9860</p> </item> </list> </section> - </section> <!-- 5.7.3 --> + </section> <!-- 5.8.1 --> + + <section><title>Inets 5.8</title> + + <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> +<!-- + <p>-</p> +--> + + <list> + <item> + <p>[ftpc] Add a config option to specify a + <seealso marker="ftp#dtimeout">data connect timeout</seealso>. + That is how long the ftp client will wait for the server to connect + to the data socket. If this timeout occurs, an error will be + returned to the caller and the ftp client process will be + terminated. </p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-9545</p> + </item> + + <item> + <p>[httpc] Wrong Host header in IPv6 HTTP requests. + When a URI with a IPv6 host is parsed, the brackets that encapsulates + the address part is removed. This value is then supplied as the host + header. This can cause problems with some servers. + A workaround for this is to use headers_as_is and provide the host + header with the requst call. + To solve this a new option has been added, + <seealso marker="httpc#ipv6_host_with_brackets">ipv6_host_with_brackets</seealso>. + This option specifies if the host value of the host header shall + include the brackets or not. By default, it does not (as before). + </p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-9628</p> + </item> + + </list> + + </section> + + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> +<!-- + <p>-</p> +--> + + <list> + <item> + <p>[httpd] Fix logging of content length in mod_log. </p> + <p>Garrett Smith</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-9715</p> + </item> + + <item> + <p>[httpd] Sometimes entries in the transfer log was written + with the message size as list of numbers. This list was actually + the size as a string, e.g. "123", written with the control + sequence ~w. This has now been corrected so that any string is + converted to an integer (if possible). </p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-9733</p> + </item> + + <item> + <p>Fixed various problems detected by Dialyzer. </p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-9736</p> + </item> + + </list> + + </section> + + <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> + <p>Own Id: OTP-9359</p> + </item> + + <item> + <p>[httpc|httpd] The old ssl implementation (based on OpenSSL), + has been deprecated. The config option that specified usage of + this version of the ssl app, <c>ossl</c>, has been removed. </p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-9522</p> + </item> + + </list> + + </section> + + </section> <!-- 5.8 --> + + <section><title>Inets 5.7.2</title> <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> <p>-</p> @@ -99,6 +195,31 @@ </section> + <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> + <p>Own Id: OTP-9359</p> + </item> + + <item> + <p>[httpc|httpd] The old ssl implementation (based on OpenSSL), + has been deprecated. The config option that specified usage of + this version of the ssl app, <c>ossl</c>, has been removed. </p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-9522</p> + </item> + + </list> + + </section> + <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> <!-- <p>-</p> @@ -133,7 +254,7 @@ <list> <item> <p>[httpc|httpd] Added support for IPv6 with ssl. </p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-5566</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5566</p> </item> </list> @@ -149,24 +270,24 @@ <list> <item> <p>[httpc] Parsing of a cookie expire date should be more forgiving. - That is, if the parsing fails, the date should be ignored. - Also added support for (yet another) date format: - "Tue Jan 01 08:00:01 2036 GMT". </p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-9433</p> + That is, if the parsing fails, the date should be ignored. + Also added support for (yet another) date format: + "Tue Jan 01 08:00:01 2036 GMT". </p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-9433</p> </item> <item> <p>[httpc] Rewrote cookie parsing. Among other things solving - cookie processing from www.expedia.com. </p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-9434</p> + cookie processing from www.expedia.com. </p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-9434</p> </item> <item> <p>[httpd] Fix httpd directory traversal on Windows. - Directory traversal was possible on Windows where - backward slash is used as directory separator. </p> - <p>Andr�s Veres-Szentkir�lyi.</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-9561</p> + Directory traversal was possible on Windows where + backward slash is used as directory separator. </p> + <p>Andr�s Veres-Szentkir�lyi.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-9561</p> </item> </list> @@ -1187,570 +1308,11 @@ </section> <!-- 5.1 --> + <!-- + <p>For information about older versions see + <url href="part_notes_history_frame.html">release notes history</url>.</p> + --> - <section><title>Inets 5.0.14</title> - - <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - [tftp] The callback watchdog has been removed, as it - turned out to be counter productive when the disk was - overloaded. Earlier a connection was aborted when a - callback (which performs the file access in the TFTP - server) took too long time.</p> - <p> - [tftp] The error message "Too many connections" has been - reclassified to be a warning.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7888</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - - <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list> - <item> - <p>[httpc] - Incorrect http version option check. </p> - <p>Mats Cronqvist</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-7882</p> - </item> - - <item> - <p>[httpc] - Unnecessary error report when client - terminating as a result of the server closed the - socket unexpectedly. </p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-7883</p> - </item> - - <item> - <p>[httpc] - Failed transforming a relative URI to - an absolute URI. </p> - <p>[email protected]</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-7950</p> - </item> - - <item> - <p>[httpd] - The HTTP server did not handle the config - option ssl_ca_certificate_file. </p> - <p>[email protected]</p> - <p>Own Id: OTP-7976</p> - </item> - - </list> - </section> - - </section> <!-- 5.0.14 --> - - - <section><title>Inets 5.0.13</title> - - <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - Ssl did not work correctly with the use of new style - configuration due to sn old internal format that was not - changed correctly in all places.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7723 Aux Id: seq11143 </p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - [httpc] - Now streams 200 and 206 results and not only - 200 results.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7857</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - - <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - [httpc] - The inets http client will now use persistent - connections without pipelining as default and if a - pipeline timeout is set it will pipeline the requests on - the persistent connections.</p> - <p> - *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7463</p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - [httpd] - added option ssl_password_callback_arguments.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7724 Aux Id: seq11151 </p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - Changed the socket use so that it will become more robust - to non-functional ipv6 and fallback on ipv4. This changes - may for very special os-configurations cause a problem - when used with erts-versions pre R13.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7726</p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - Removed deprecated function httpd_util:key1search/[2,3]</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7815</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - </section> - - <section><title>Inets 5.0.12</title> - - <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - [httpd] - Updated inets so that it not uses the deprecated - function ssl:accept/[2,3].</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7636 Aux Id: seq11086 </p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - </section> - - - <section><title>Inets 5.0.11</title> - - <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - Transient bug related to hot code swap of the TFTP server is - now fixed. It could happen that the first TFTP server that was - started after a code upgrade to Inets-5.0.6 crashed with a - function clause error in tftp_engine:service_init/2.</p> - <p> Own Id: OTP-7574 Aux Id: seq11069 </p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - [httpd] - Validation of ssl_password_callback_module was - incorrect.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7597 Aux Id: seq11074 </p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - [httpd] - Misspelling in old apachelike configuration - directive TransferDiskLogSize has been corrected.</p> - <p> Own Id: OTP-7598 Aux Id: seq11059 </p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - Minor problems found by dialyzer has been fixed.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7605</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - </section> - -<section><title>Inets 5.0.10</title> - - <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - Enhanched an info report.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7450</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - - <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - Changed errro message from - {wrong_type,{document_root,"/tmp/htdocs"}} to - {invalid_option,{non_existing, - document_root,"/tmp/htdocs"}}.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7454</p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - Relative paths in directory authentication did not work - as intended, this has now been fixed.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7490</p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - The query-string passed to the callback function was not - compliant with the documentation, it is now.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7512</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - -</section> - - <section><title>Inets 5.0.9</title> - - <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - Parameters to error_logger:error_report/1 has been - corrected.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7257 Aux Id: OTP-7294, OTP-7258 </p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - [httpd] - If a Module/Function request matching an - erl_script_alias registration does not exist as a function in - the module registered a 404 error will now be issued instead of a - 500 error.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7323</p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - [httpd] -The option auth_type for mod_auth is no longer - mandatory, for backward-compatibility reasons.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7341</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - </section> - - <section><title>Inets 5.0.8</title> - - <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - [httpd] - Spelling error caused client connection header - to be ignored.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7315 Aux Id: seq10951 </p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - [httpd] - Call to the function - mod_get:get_modification_date/1 was made too early - resulting in that httpd did not send the 404 file missing - response.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7321</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - </section> - - <section><title>Inets 5.0.7</title> - - <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - [httpc, httpd] - Now follows the recommendation regarding - line terminators in section 19.3 in RFC 2616 e.i: "The - line terminator for message-header fields is the sequence - CRLF. However, we recommend that applications, when - parsing such headers, recognize a single LF as a line - terminator and ignore the leading CR".</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7304 Aux Id: seq10944 </p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - </section> - - <section><title>Inets 5.0.6</title> - - <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - [tftp] If a callback (which performs the file access in - the TFTP server) takes too long time (more than the - double TFTP timeout), the server will abort the - connection and send an error reply to the client. This - implies that the server will release resources attached - to the connection faster than before. The server simply - assumes that the client has given up.</p> - <p> - [tftp] If the TFTP server receives yet another request - from the same client (same host and port) while it - already has an active connection to the client, it will - simply ignore the new request if the request is equal - with the first one (same filename and options). This - implies that the (new) client will be served by the - already ongoing connection on the server side. By not - setting up yet another connection, in parallel with the - ongoing one, the server will consumer lesser resources.</p> - <p> - [tftp] netascii mode is now supported when the - client/server has native ascii support (Windows). The new - optional parameter native_ascii in the tftp_binary and - tftp_file callback modules can be used to override the - default behavior.</p> - <p> - [tftp] Yet another callback module has been added in - order to allow customized handling of error, warning and - info messages. See the new configuration parameter, - logger.</p> - <p> - [tftp] Yet another configuration parameter, max_retries, - has been added in order to control the number of times a - packet can be resent. The default is 5.</p> - <p> - [tftp] tftp:info/1 and tftp:change_config/2 can now be - applied to all daemons or all servers in one command - without bothering about their process identifiers.</p> - <p> - External TR HI89527.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7266</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - -</section> - -<section><title>Inets 5.0.5</title> - - <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - [tftp] Blocks with too low block numbers are silently - discarded. For example if a server receives block #5 when - it expects block #7 it will discard the block without - interrupting the file transfer. Too high block numbers - does still imply an error. External TR HI96072.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7220</p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - [tftp] The problem with occasional case_clause errors in - tftp_engine:common_read/7 has been fixed. External TR - HI97362.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7221</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - -</section> - - <section><title>Inets 5.0.4</title> - - <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - Changed calls to file open to concur with the API and not - use deprecated syntax.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7172</p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - [tftp] Server lost the first packet when the client timed - out</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7173</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - </section> - - <section><title>Inets 5.0.3</title> - - <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - Updated copyright headers and fixed backwards - compatibility for an undocumented feature, for now. This - feature will later be removed and a new and documented - option will take its place.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7144</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - </section> - - <section><title>Inets 5.0.2</title> - - <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - [httpd] - Error logs now has a pretty and a compact - format and access logs can be written on the common log - format or the extended common log format.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-6661 Aux Id: Seq 7764 </p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - [httpc] - Added acceptance of missing reason phrase to - the relaxed mode.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7024</p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - [httpc] - A new option has been added to enable the - client to act as lower version clients, by default the - client is an HTTP/1.1 client.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7043</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - </section> - - <section><title>Inets 5.0.1</title> - - <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - [httpd] - Deprecated function httpd:start/1 did not - accept all inputs that it had done previously. This - should now work again.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7040</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - [httpd] - Changed validity check on bind_address so that - it uses inet:getaddr instead of inet:gethostbyaddr as the - former puts a too hard restriction on the bind_address.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7041 Aux Id: seq10829 </p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - [httpc] - Internal process now does try-catch and - terminates normally in case of HTTP parse errors. - Semantical the client works just as before returning an - error message to the client, even if the error massage - has been enhanced, but there is no supervisor report in - the shell of a internal process crashing. (Which was the - expected behavior and not a fault.)</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-7042</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - </section> - - <section><title>Inets 5.0</title> - - <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title> - <list> - <item> - <p> - [httpd, httpc] - Deprecated base64 decode/encode - functions have been removed. Inets uses base64 in STDLIB - instead.</p> - <p> - *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-6485</p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - [httpd] - It is now possible to restrict the length of - acceptable URI:s in the HTTP server.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-6572</p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - [httpc] - Profiles are now supported i.e. the options - available in set_options/1 can be set locally for a - certain profile and do not have to affect all - HTTP-requests issued in the Erlang node. Calls to the - HTTP client API functions not using the profile argument - will use the default profile.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-6690</p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - A new uniform Inets interface provides a flexible way to - start/stop Inets services and get information about - running services. See inets(3). This also means that - inflexibilities in the HTTP server has been removed and - more default values has been added.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-6705</p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - [tftp] Logged errors have been changed to be logged - warnings.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-6916 Aux Id: seq10737 </p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - [httpc] - The client will now return the proper value - when receiving a HTTP 204 code instead of hanging.</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-6982</p> - </item> - <item> - <p> - The Inets application now has to be explicitly started - and stopped i.e. it will not automatically be started as - a temporary application as it did before. Although a - practical feature when testing things in the shell it is - not desirable that people take advantage of this and not - start the Inets application in a correct way in their - products. Added functions to the Inets API that call - application:start/stop.</p> - <p> - *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> - <p> - Own Id: OTP-6993</p> - </item> - </list> - </section> - - <!-- p>For information about older versions see - <url href="part_notes_history_frame.html">release notes history</url>.</p --> - </section> </chapter> |