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diff --git a/lib/inets/doc/src/notes_history.xml b/lib/inets/doc/src/notes_history.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..53375c9aa7 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/inets/doc/src/notes_history.xml @@ -0,0 +1,1826 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="latin1" ?> +<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd"> + +<chapter> + <header> + <copyright> + <year>2004</year><year>2009</year> + <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. + + </legalnotice> + + <title>Inets Release Notes History</title> + <prepared></prepared> + <responsible></responsible> + <docno></docno> + <approved></approved> + <checked></checked> + <date>04-09-30</date> + <rev>A</rev> + <file>notes_history.sgml</file> + </header> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.7.17</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[HTTP client] - Could fail in retry_pipeline/2 due to an + incorrect assumption of an internal returnvalue.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6791</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[HTTP client] - The check of the value of the transfer + encoding has been updated so that it is case insensitive.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6807</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[HTTP client] - When receiving a 304 "Not Modified" + reply, the httpc_handler will no longer expect to receive + a HTTP body.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6821</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[HTTP client] - Parsing of the HTTP response failed when + there was no headers fields in the response.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6830</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[HTTP server] - Started clean up of code so that it uses + stdlib functions instead of reinventing them.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6808</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.7.16</title> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Minor Makefile changes.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6689</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>http_base_64:encode/decode and + httpd_util:to_upper/to_lower are now deprecated, as these + functions has been moved to stdlib, using them will now + cause an compiler warning and the documentation of them + has been removed.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6716</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>When making an asynchronous HTTP request and the + underlying gen_tcp:connect failed with timeout (not a + very common case) the return of the asynchronous HTTP + request was delayed for "timeout" seconds. This happened + due to the fact that when spawning a gen_server process + the spawn will wait for the init function to complete. + This is now avoided using proc_lib and + gen_server:enter_loop/3, hence the asynchronous HTTP + request return will not be delayed. Also the request + timeout value is now propagated to gen_tcp rather that + relying on the system default.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6735</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.7.15</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[tftp] The TFTP client/server implements now a more + relaxed interpretation of the RFC 1350 regarding + re-receive of acknowledgments. If multiple copies of the + same acknowledgments is received the spurious ones are + silently ignored. This fix was intended for inets-4.7.14 + but accidentaly it was not included in that release.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6706 Aux Id: OTP-6691 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Minor Makefile changes.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6689</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.7.14</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[tftp] The TFTP client/server implements now a more + relaxed interpretation of the RFC 1350 regarding + re-receive of acknowledgments. If multiple copies of the + same acknowledgments is received the spurious ones are + silently ignored.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6691</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.7.13</title> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[tftp] The TFTP client/server implements now a more + relaxed interpretation of the RFC 1350 regarding + re-receive of data packets. If multiple copies of the + same data packet is received the spurious ones are + silently ignored.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6642</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.7.12</title> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[httpd] - When calling httpd:restart there was a file + descriptor and ets table leek due to the fact that the + semantics of the function restart is not restart but + reload.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6573 Aux Id: seq10607 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[tftp] Crash in tftp_engine:terminate/3 caused big crash + report. The file was however transferred as normal, but + the ugly printout is now gone.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6596 Aux Id: seq10618 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.7.11</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[http] - Chunked encoding updated to handle the empty + chunk.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6511</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[http] - Removed minor bugs and dead code found by + dialyzer.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6522</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.7.10</title> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[httpd] - The server no longer produces error messages + when the client resets the the connection. This is not an + error as far as the server is concerned.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6484 Aux Id: seq10568 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[tftp] The server is now silent by default. Error + messages can however be displayed by setting the debug + level to 'error' (new) or higher.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6498</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.7.9</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Bug in in handling of request timers has been corrected.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6476</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[tftp] - Daemon was only able to process one request when + fd option was given.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6480</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.7.8</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[ftp, httpc] - Updated the internal ensure_started + functions to handle that inets was started as an included + application.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6409 Aux Id: seq10546 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[httpd] - Guard added to API function + httpd_util:integer_to_hexlist/1.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6397</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[tftp] - Introduced ability to use prebound ports (see + the option {port, Port} for more info). Added peer info + (host and port) as new optional argument to prepare and + open functions in tftp callback modules.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6413</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.7.7</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[httpd] - The http server could throw away pipelined + requests leaving the client hanging.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6310</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[ftp] - Code for handling fallback to ipv4 was not + exhaustive.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6312</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[httpd] - Incorrect handling of ipv6 address would crash + the loading of the BindAddress parameter, which had the + consequence that you could not start more than one HTTP + server on an erlang node.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6323</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[httpc] - Some 30X codes, as for instance 302, should not + always be automatically redirected but in inets-4.7.6 some + restrictions where made too hard, never allowing an + automatic redirection. (Automatic redirect should be + allowed for get and head.)</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6332</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[ftp] - The mode flag that could be used to force ftp + active mode was ignored. Only the deprecated function + force_active/1 works for prior releases to this one.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6342</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[httpc] - Added debug feature to turn on/off some basic + erlang tracing on client processes.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6326</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.7.6</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[httpc] - The parsing of uri's was rewritten so that it + should handle all types of uri's including ipv6 uri's.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5677</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[httpc, httpd] - Extensions and trailers where not + properly handled by the chunk decoding implementation.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6005 Aux Id: OTP-6264 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[httpc] - A request resulting in an empty body is now + returned without any delays.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6243</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[httpc] - When http:request/4 was used with a configured + proxy, and the webserver returns 3XX code, http:request/4 + entered an endless loop. Two problems was solved in this + area, the absolute uri is now updated when a redirect is + issued, so that the problem in this case will not arise, + and the redirection endless loop detection was fixed so + that will actually detect potential endless loops.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6244</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[httpc, httpd] - In some cases if a body contained the + sequence "\\r\ + 0" and was chunked encoded this sequence + was incorrectly interpreted as the last chunk.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6264 Aux Id: OTP-6005 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[httpc, httpd] - http_request.erl didn't handle https + URIs, which meant that redirects from ESI did not work.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6274</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[httpc, httpd] - The base 64 decoder was missing a guard + so that invalid input lead to an emulator crash instead + of a function clause as expected. Also the http server + has been improved to handle the function clause error + returning a bad credentials reply to the client.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6279</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[httpc] - Changed internal default value as it sometimes + would be interpreted incorrectly causing the client to + return an incomplete body.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6283</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[httpc] - Handling of 30X codes was changed so that it + works according to the documentation. For instance 301 + and 302 codes will not be automatically redirected.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6297</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[httpc] - A bug in the pipeline-handling code could cause + a response to be sent to the client with an incorrect + request id.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6303</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[httpc] - Added feature to send header values as they + where typed by the user of the client. Note that the http + standard requires them to be case insensitive. This + feature should only be used if there is no other way to + communicate with the server or for testing purpose.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5527</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[httpc] - When using asynchronous HTTP-request it is now + possible to receive "200-responses" as streams instead of + having to wait until the whole response has been + delivered. It also possible to stream "200-response + bodys" to a file both for synchronous and asynchronous + requests.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6263</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[httpc] - Added option to generate Proxy-Authorization + header from provided proxy username and password.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6280</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.7.5</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[FTP] Change documentation so that it agrees with the + default behaviour of the code regarding the use of + transfer type, which is right according to rfc959.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6018</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[ftp] The application handles the case if the owning + process terminates with the reason 'shutdown'.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6035</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[ftp] Handle file errors from the FTP server.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6036</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[httpd] Header parsing of reply from cgi script incorrect.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6145</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[ftp] The timeout given in the ftp:open call was not + properly used, which could leave the caller hanging + forever.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6184</p> + <p>Aux Id: seq10388</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[httpd] HTTPD request handler does not handle unexpected info + properly, which causes an unnecessarily obscure error + message.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6189</p> + <p>Aux Id: seq10395</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[http] Misc fixes in the URI parsing module.</p> + <p>Igor Goryachev</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6191</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Added application interface module: <c>inets</c>.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6135</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.7.4</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Removed code generating compiler warnings</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6069</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[tftp] Added documentation (manual page) for + <seealso marker="tftp">TFTP</seealso>.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6082</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.7.3</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[http,server] started dbg even though no debugging was + desired.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5984 Aux Id: seq10290 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[http,server] request handler process died ugly due to a + parse error when validating a bad request.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6003 Aux Id: seq10260 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.7.2</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[http,server] Server falsely sets ipv6 enabled when it + gets an ipv4-mapped ipv6 address.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5941 Aux Id: seq10221 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[http,server] In case http version is unknown of client + use HTTP1.0 to send status.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5943 Aux Id: seq10198 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[http,server] The process handling a request now ignores + garbage messages.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5961 Aux Id: seq10198 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[http,server] Changed some actions taken if config data + in httpd services was faulty.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5962 Aux Id: seq10198 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>inets 4.7.1</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[http,server] It was possible to read arbitrary files on + server by prepending ././ and ../../ in front of the file + name.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5938</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.7</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[http,server] Handling of undefined file times (e.g. + modification time: the mtime field on the file_info + record).</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5865 Aux Id: OTP-5844 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[http,server]It is now possible to set the wanted timeout + for the server to setup a request connection. A new + syntax for inets.config is provided in the users guide + documentation. This syntax also allows to set tracing of + the server for debug purposes.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5913 Aux Id: seq10198 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.6.2</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[http,server] Had earlier forgot to convert a value in + entity_body to a binary.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5796</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[http,server] Now application checks whether the + necessary directives under directive Directory exist.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5821</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.6.1</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[http, client] If an Ipv4-mapped ipv6 address is used the + client now falls back on ipv4.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5773 Aux Id: OTP-5765, OTP-5764 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[http,server] Content-length may got a too low value, + causing loss of data in clients.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5775 Aux Id: seq10110 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[http, client] The verbose mode prints what was sent and + received during a request. Added a <c>verbose</c> option + that can be used by <c>http:set_options/1</c></p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5766</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.6</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[ftp, client] - Improvement of error handling if + something goes wrong while handling the option list in + ftp:open/[1,2,3].</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5711</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[ftp, client] - Error when parsing a multiple FTP + response line. The last line in a multiple response must + be the response code followed by a space. A server may + have intermediate lines that start with the response code + even if this is not recommended. The parsing missed to + make sure that that space was present in what it + considered to be the last line.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5712</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[http, client] - The HTTP client will now retry a + pipelined request that was unsuccessful due to the fact + that the server unexpectedly closed the pipeline + connection.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5728</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[http, server, esi] - Under some circumstances mod_esi + would send a corrupted content-length header.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5735</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[http, server, get] - Removed debug printout which + caused a confusing "Socket closed"-printout at high + load.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5762 Aux Id: seq10101 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>FTP: a data connection setup to the ftp server that + failed caused a crash of the client. Now it is handled + smoothly.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5738</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[ftp] If host name is a ipv4 tuple ftp erroneous tries to + connect as a ipv6 address with the ipv4 address.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5764</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[ftp] Handles connect to ipv6/ipv4 address differently + according to a change in <c>inet:getaddr</c>.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5765</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[http, server] - The HTTP request handling was remoduled + to have a more straight forward error-handling. And the + internal debug strategy was changed to use tracing + instead of debug macros, which means we do not have to + write special debug code.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5729</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>ftp:ls towards different ftp servers resulted in + different return results. E.g. the solaris 9 default + server caused <c>{ok,[]}</c> while older servers caused + <c>{error,epath}</c> as the result. For backwards + compatibility the behaviour has been changed to the old + result.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5731</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[http, server] - The documentation for the HTTP server + has been partly rewritten and very restructured too + provide a better overall picture. Lots of information + provided by "semi manual pages" has been moved to the + Users Guide.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5752</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>FTP: verbose mode now also prints what the client sends + on the control channel.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5753</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.5.4</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[ftp, client] - Timing related issues could sometimes + cause the ftp response to be delayed.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5705 Aux Id: seq10055 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[http, server, esi] - The dispatching of the post body to + the esi callback function was broken.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5706</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.5.3</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[ftp, client] - The FTP error code 550 was handled in an + unexpected way. Some earlier versions of inets had a + workaround for this in ftp:recv_bin/2 that was eliminated + during restructuring of the ftp module while implementing + ipv6 capabilities. The problem is now fixed.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5682 Aux Id: seq10048 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[http, client] Post request with a body in binary format + failed as length was used instead of size.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5686</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[ftp, client] - For some FTP commands the FTP server will + send more than one reply on the FTP control channel. In + the case of a fast FTP server the client would sometimes + wrongly disregard the second answer as trailing garbage + attached to the first reply.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5690 Aux Id: seq10055 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[ftp, client] - A new option {progress, {CBmodule, + CBFunction, InitProgressTerm} has been added to allow + users to create things such as progress bars in there + GUI's. The option affects ftp:send/[3,4] and + ftp:recv/[3,4].</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5680</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[http, client] - Added new API function http:request/1</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5691</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[httpd, server] - mod_cgi is implemented according to + CGI-1.1 RFC 3875, an early implementation was based on + some draft that is not totally compliant to the RFC. + Documentation was updated. Also some code was + restructured to facilitate testing and maintenance of the + server.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5694</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.5.2</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[ftp, client] Calling ftp:recv/2 twice on the same + connection failed due to that the last message on the + ctrl channel was not appropriately taken care of. This + could potentially cause a problem for any operation + performed on the same connection where there had + previously been an ftp:recv/2 call. Also, in some cases, + when the process tries to close the data connection, it + does not take into account that the data connection may + actually not have been established.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5662 Aux Id: seq10004, seq9988 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[ftp, client] Enhanced error handling, mainly so the ftp + client behaves gracefully when the user does strange + things such as violate the user API.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5665</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[ftp, client] Added open option: mode.Deprecates + function force_active/1.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5663</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.5.1</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[http, server] The server did not handle the config + directive BindAddress value "*" properly. + When creating the option list for the listen call, + everything beside the atom undefined (if BindAddress + was never given) and an 4-tuple (e.g. BindAddress + value is 192.168.0.30) was incorrectly assumed to be + an ipv6 address. + For undefined (no BindAddress), Inets attempts to + figure out if it is running on a ipv6-machine, and if + so, add the inet6 option when calling listen. The + same approach should be used when BindAddress is + assigned the value "*".</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5642</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Some data doesn't pass through http_base_64:decode/1 correctly. + The decoding routine fails whenever a 4-character group of the + encoding ends with "9" or "99". If it ends with 99, two bytes + will be lost in the decode routine. If it ends with a single 9, + one byte will be lost in the decode.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5635 Aux Id: seq9971</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[http, server,esi] Web server does not handle status-code + returned by an esi function. I.e. the esi-function + can no longer control the status code.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5648 Aux Id: seq9982</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[http, server,esi] Corrected header format. First character + was lower case, and there where no space after the ":" + character, example: content-length:0. Now, first character + was upper case, and a space after the ":" character, + example: Content-Length: 0 (To preserve + backward compatibility with the de-facto standard as the + new way does not break the HTTP standard!)</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5649 Aux Id: seq9982</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[http, server, cgi] Parsing of the status header field could + cause a crash.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5650 Aux Id: seq9982</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.5</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>The internal design of using blocking gen_tcp:recv with a + timeout and retries resulted in code that was hard to get + a good overview of, and ultimate led to situations where + the client got the wrong answer or no answer at all. The + errors where many times very timing dependent and mainly + effected the chunk-related functions, so if you where + lucky you probably would not have noticed. The internal + design was changed to use gen_tcp active once semantics. + The API is not effected except for the function + ftp:quote/2 which now returns a list of strings (ftp + result lines) where the line endings "\\r\ + " has been + removed. This was the original intention for the return + value of ftp:quote/2 but it was non trivial to make a + good such solution with the old design and a compromise + was made.</p> + <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5623</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>The new implementation of pipelining in inets-4.1 alas + was slightly broken and unfortunately not caught by the + test suite that apparently needs some additions. The + result was that requests that ought to have been + pipelined where not, this has now been fixed.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5624</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>When using the latest esi interface with the callback + interface of arity 3, HTTP Content-Type headers where + ignored, this due to a subtle difference between this + interface and the old one in how they viewed HTTP + delimiters.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5627</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>The HTTP server now supports ipv6 in the case that the + underlying mechanisms also do so. (ssl does not yet + support ipv6.)</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5141</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>The FTP client now supports ipv6 in the case that the + underlying mechanisms also do so.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5142</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>An option was added to disable the ipv6 support in the + HTTP client. This to provide a workaround possibility for + buggy ipv6-stacks.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5625 Aux Id: seq9872</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>When generating dynamic HTTP response bodies the the + default content-type is now set to "text/html" instead of + "text/plain" which is more intuitive.</p> + <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5626</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.4.1</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Wrapper function http_transport:accept/3 did + error-handling that it should not do because only the + caller of the wrapper can determine what action to take. + So timeouts where handled twice, once in http_transport + and once in httpd_acceptor. Clean up of the wrapper + module http_transport changed the action of the wrapper + module and made the unwanted behavior noticeable in in + OTP error logs. And now the unwanted error handling has + been removed. The cleanup helped us find bad code but + alas it also generates a lot of log printouts that are + quite disturbing to the user of the HTTP-server.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5549 Aux Id: seq9851 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>In the rewrite for 4.4 some mod_esi-environment values + where mistaken for ordinary header values and where + incorrectly transformed to strings. They are now atoms + again.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5551 Aux Id: seq9854 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>The HTTP server now handles "GET /\\r\ + \\r\ + " as well as + "GET / \\r\ + \\r\ + ". According to the RFC the whitespace is + not needed.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5552 Aux Id: seq8426 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>The ftp client now supports passive mode. Actually the + ftp client will always try to use passive mode and if it + fails it will use active mode instead. It is also + possible to force the ftp-client to use active mode, if + that is desired, by calling ftp:force_active/1 this way + you can get the old behavior.</p> + <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5148</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.4</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>The server did not handle HTTP-0.9 messages with an + implicit version.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5513</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>An internal server timeout killed the request handling + process without sending a message back to the client. As + this timeout only affects a single request it has been + set to infinity (if the main server process dies the + request handling process will also die and the client + will receive an error). This might make a client that + does not use a timeout hang for a longer period of time, + but that is an expected behavior!</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5514 Aux Id: seq9806 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>That a third party closes the http servers accept socket + is recoverable for inets, hence inets will only produce + an info report as there was no error in Inets but + measures where taken to avoid failure due to errors + elsewhere.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5516 Aux Id: seq9806 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>The HTTP client proxy settings where ignored. Bug + introduced in inets-4.3.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5517</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Inets only sent the "WWW-Authenticate" header at the + first attempt to get a page, if the user supplied the + wrong user/password combination the header was not sent + again. This forces the user to kill the browser entirely + after a failed login attempt, before the user may try to + login again. Inets now always send the authentication + header.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5521</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>A major rewrite of big parts of the HTTP server code was + performed. There where many things that did not work + satisfactory. Cgi script handling can never have worked + properly and the cases when it did sort of work, a big + unnecessary delay was enforced. Headers where not always + treated as expected and HTTP version handling did not + work, all responses where sent as version HTTP/1.1 no + matter what.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5537</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.3.1</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>When further testing the functionality of https requests + that goes through a proxy. We realised that alas this can + not currently be supported as it requires features from + the ssl implementation that is not currently available. + So for now an error message will be returned when trying + to use this functionality.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5453</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>When trying to get a url from a server that does not + exist the client hanged instead of returning an error + message. Bug introduced in inets-4.3.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5454</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.3</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Tunneling of SSL through a proxy has now been + implemented. However due to lack of test sites this has only + partially been verified, it is likely that there will + have to be future improvements in this area.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5443</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>The pipeline timeout was changed to be zero by default to + avoid that people by accident would create connection + processes that never dies and eats up the socket + resources.</p> + <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5442</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Altered the way spawn_link is used in mod_esi to avoid + getting, in this scenario unwanted error reports, from + spawn_link. (The behavior of spawn_link was altered in a + not backwards compatible way.)</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5444</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.2.1</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Sometimes EWS modules where called with an Info record + where the peername field was {-1, "unknown"}. This could + happen when a client was making a lot of requests which + it discards before they where answered by the server. The + server now ignores such requests and does not call the + EWS modules in this case.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5380 Aux Id: seq9739 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>The HTTP-server now returns the 408 status code upon a + request timeout as expected instead of the previous + faulty behavior of sending a 500 status code.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5409</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>The content length was put in to the HTTP-headers as an + integer instead of as a string.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5410</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>It was wrongly presumed that code:priv_dir would always + be writable due to how the test-server works. The + directory is now a configuration parameter in the + inets-application configuration file. Failing to + configure it will result in that all cookies are treated + as session cookies.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5411</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>An undocumented beta version of tftp is included.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5419</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.2</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>When sending a request through a proxy the absolute URI + must be used.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5368</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Basic support for cookies was implemented. Later some + more functions to inspect cookies may be added.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5331</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>A top tftp supervisor was added in preparation for adding + a tftp service in a future Inets release.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5379</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.1</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>The URI check that disables relative links that goes + outside the server-root still missed a few cases, in + spite of the improvement in OTP-5140.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5249</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>The http client pipelining implementation has been + rewritten as the old implementation was too optimistic + about when to pipeline. In the process of doing this also + the error handling was improved, better clean up is + performed when the request handling process terminates + and better handling of the case that the httpc_manager + process dies and is restarted.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5303</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Improved handling of status codes 30X and 50X.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5309</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>The Inets supervision tree has been reorganized to create + a better balance between the Inets services. Preferably + they should not effect each other. The ftp service has + also been included in the Inets supervision tree, it was + for reasons unknown, not included before.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5188</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>The service concept in Inets is now better documented.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5189</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>The Inets shutdown times have proven to be too short + under some circumstances, as a heavy load, therefore they + have been prolonged.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5261 Aux Id: seq9624</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Options for automatic redirection and pipelining is now + available in the http client API.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5304</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.0.1</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>A programming error could cause a badmatch in the + http-client when the http response was chunk decoded.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5101</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>The parsing of HTTP messages was missing a base case. + This caused unexpected behavior when the separator CR and + LF where received in different tcp packets.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5239</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 4.0</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>When receiving a status 100 code, the client should only + respond by sending the message body, if the client sent + an expect header in the first place. Failing to do so may + result in that the server receives the body twice.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4848</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>mod_get now also handles http version HTTP/0.9</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4935 Aux Id: seq8426 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>"Last-modified" field was incorrectly set to local time + with the tag GMT, it is now corrected so that the time + reflected is in fact GMT.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4936</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>The client will only add a host-field to the request if + there is not one already present.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-4984</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>The Inets application tries to be compatible with + Apache. To be more compatible the option + 'MaxKeepAliveRequest' is renamed 'MaxKeepAliveRequests'. + The old name is kept for backward compatibility.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5024</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Changing the base 64 decoding to not accept invalid + input, uncovered a logical error in mod_security.erl An + already decoded string was sent as input to decode. In + this case, as it so happened, the two errors worked + together creating the illusion that everything was right. + This has now been corrected.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5083</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>URLs where not properly scrutinised for relative paths. A + malicious user could exploit this to read files outside + the document root. This is no longer the case.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5140</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>A HTTP 1.1 client is officially included in Inets. It is + loosely based on the previously unsupported code + contributed by Johan Blom. In this first version only the + most basic HTTP functionality is supported. The user API + has been changed.</p> + <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5047</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Fixed erroneous link in documentation.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5089 Aux Id: seq8887 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Added the function quote/2 that lets you send an + arbitrary FTP command to the FTP client.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5099 Aux Id: seq8961 </p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Started integration of the HTTP client and server code + too facilitate maintenance and further development.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5110</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Due to several possibilities to interpret the ftp + standard some newer ftp-servers have interpreted the + standard in such a way that the documented return value + of ftp:nlist/2 does not always match the actual return + value. Some extra checks have now been added to ensure + the documented return value. This will also result in + that ftp:nlist is not bug compatible in the case that + nlist is given a filename instead of a directory it will + now return an error instead of {ok, FileName}.</p> + <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5165</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Created a Users Guide for Inets. Earlier there where some + fake manual pages and information was scattered + everywhere and hard to find.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5180</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 3.0.10</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[httpd] - When calling httpd:restart there was a file + descriptor and ets table leek due to the fact that the + semantics of the function restart is not restart but + reload. This is solved in inets-4.7.12 and this special + inets-3.0.10 release is intended for old systems only.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6579 Aux Id: OTP-6573, seq10607 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 3.0.9</title> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[http,server] Illegal hexadecimal code in URL was not + handled. The validation of URI:s are therefore updated.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-6078 Aux Id: seq10306 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 3.0.8 </title> + <p>Special version featuring some small 4.1 improvements + without enforcing the big changes of the 4.X releases. </p> + + <section> + <title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>The URI check that disables relative links that goes + outside the server-root missed a few cases.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5249</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and New Features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>The inets shutdown times have proven to be too short + under some circumstances, as a heavy load, therefore they + have been prolonged.</p> + <p>Own Id: OTP-5261 Aux Id: seq9624 </p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 3.0.7</title> + + <section> + <title>Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>[httpd] Fixed a number of transfer-encoding problems.</p> + <p>First part of the data received from a CGI-script was sent + as chunked even if the client was HTTP/1.0.</p> + <p>Introduced new directive + (<c>DisableChunkedTransferEncodingSend</c>) to turn off usage + of chunked transfer-encoding (when sending) since it appear's + some browser's have problems handling this. This applies + if the client is HTTP/1.1.</p> + <p>(Own Id: OTP-4806) + <br></br> + Aux Id: Seq 8150</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[httpc] HTTP client reformats some URLs (e.g. containing %20, + space).</p> + <p>Updated client from sowap.sf.net as of 2003-09-08.</p> + <p>Johan Blom of Mobile Arts AB</p> + <p>(Own Id: OTP-4807)</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[httpd] In module mod_browser, malformed search for parsed + header, user-agent.</p> + <p>Also added new os and browser</p> + <p>(Own Id: OTP-4808)</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>[ftp] FTP client doesn't notice when disk is full.</p> + <p>(Own Id: OTP-4822) + <br></br> + Aux Id: Seq 8175</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 3.0.6</title> + + <section> + <title>Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>On Windows the <c>ftp:ls</c> function sometimes exits.</p> + <p>Workaround for a problem that seems to happen only on Windows + when calling the ls function. Closing an already closed socket + will result in enotsock returned which will result in an exit.</p> + <p>(Own Id: OTP-4770)</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 3.0.5</title> + + <section> + <title>Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Web server does not handle econnaborted accept result.</p> + <p>This results in an unnecessary acceptor process restart.</p> + <p>(Own Id: OTP-4732)</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 3.0.4</title> + + <section> + <title>Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>ESI callback generates broken HTTP.</p> + <p>This was a problem for (at least) Netscape 4.75. It worked for + Mozilla 1.4a (on Solaris 8) and rumor has it that it also worked + for IE.</p> + <p> <br></br> + Sean Hinde</p> + <p>(Own Id: OTP-4696)</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Log-size values ignored for security- and error disk-logs + (SecurityDiskLogSize and ErrorDiskLogSize in mod_disk_log). + Instead the TransferDiskLogSize was used. + <br></br> + Thomas Lange</p> + <p>(Own Id: OTP-4659)</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 3.0.3</title> + + <section> + <title>Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>HTTP client called undefined function in HTTP server + (httpd_response:send_status/3).</p> + <p>(Own Id: OTP-4628)</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 3.0.2</title> + + <section> + <title>Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>HTTP client <em>now</em> updated to jnets-0.1. + <br></br> + Auther: Johan Blom of Mobile Arts AB.</p> + <p>(Own Id: OTP-4588)</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 3.0.1</title> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and new features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>FTP client now supports chunked receive. Proposal of Luke Gorrie + provided inspiration but not algorithm.</p> + <p>(Own Id: OTP-4549)</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>HTTP client updated to jnets-0.1, now supporting proxy. + <br></br> + Auther: Johan Blom of Mobile Arts AB.</p> + <p>(Own Id: OTP-4552)</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item> + <p>Body length calculation incorrect.</p> + <p>(Own Id: OTP-4548)</p> + <p>(Aux Id: OTP-4207, Seq 7209)</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>HTTP-request with a BODY length longer than 0 does not work.</p> + <p>(Own Id: OTP-4550)</p> + <p>(Aux Id: Seq 7653)</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Calculation of remaining chunk size incorrect.</p> + <p>(Own Id: OTP-4551)</p> + </item> + <item> + <p>Wrong module name used when attempting to stop the security + server (mod_sec_server instead of mod_security_server).</p> + <p>(Own Id: OTP-4556)</p> + </item> + </list> + </section> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Inets 3.0</title> + + <section> + <title>Improvements and new features</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item>Added HTTP client to the application. + <br></br> + Auther: Johan Blom of Mobile Arts AB.</item> + <item>FTP: More info in exit reason when socket operation fails. + <br></br> + (Own Id: OTP-4429)</item> + <item>Make install targets corrected (INSTALL_SCRIPT is used instead + of INSTALL_PROGRAMS for scripts). + <br></br> + (Own Id: OTP-4428)</item> + <item>In inets, mod_cgi crashes when a directory is protected for + a group or for a user and we try to execute a CGI script + inside this protected directory. + <br></br> + Guillaume Bongenaar. + <br></br> + (Own Id: OTP-4416)</item> + <item>Removed crypto application dependency. + <br></br> + Matthias Lang + <br></br> + (Own Id: OTP-4417)</item> + <item>Use the same read algorithm for socket type ssl as is used + for ip_comm. As of version 2.3.5 of the ssl application it + is possible to use socket option {active, once}, so the same + algorithm can be used for both ip_comm and ssl. + <br></br> + (Own Id: OTP-4374) + <br></br> + (Aux Id: Seq 7417)</item> + <item>Added inets test suite to the release. Including the + lightweight inets test server.</item> + <item>Incorrectly formated disk log entries. + <em>term_to_binary</em> was (incorrectly) used for the + external format. + <br></br> + Own Id: OTP-4228 + <br></br> + Aux Id: Seq 7239</item> + <item>Adding verbosity printouts to 'catch' cgi problems on some + platforms.</item> + <item> + <p>Updated to handle HTTP/1.1.</p> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item>Persistent connections are now default for http/1.1 clients</item> + <item>Module <c>mod_esi</c> can send data to the client in chunks.</item> + <item>Updated configuration directives <em>KeepAlive</em></item> + <item> + <p>New configuration directives:</p> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item><em>MaxKeepAliveRequest</em></item> + <item><em>ErlScriptTimeout</em></item> + <item><em>ErlScriptNoCache</em></item> + <item><em>ScriptTimeout</em></item> + <item><em>ScriptNoCache</em></item> + </list> + </item> + <item>New functions in httpd_utility to ease the development of + http/1.1 complaint modules.</item> + <item>Record mod has a new field absolute_uri.</item> + <item>All header field names in parsed_header is in lowercase.</item> + <item>httpd handles chunked requests.</item> + <item>New module <em>mod_range</em> that handles range-requests.</item> + <item>New module <em>mod_responsecontrol</em> that controls how + the request will be handled the due to the If-Modified, + If-Match and If-Range http header fields.</item> + </list> + </item> + </list> + </section> + + <section> + <title>Reported Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title> + <list type="bulleted"> + <item>POST requests not properly handled. + <br></br> + (Own Id: OTP-4409) + <br></br> + (Aux Id: Seq 7485)</item> + <item> + <p>Change in the inets API. + <br></br> + (Own Id: OTP-4408) + <br></br> + (Aux Id: Seq 7485)</p> + <p>*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p> + <p></p> + </item> + <item>When opening the disk log (mod_disk_log), an open attempt + is made without a size option. If the file exist, then it is + opened. If the file does not exist, then another attempt is + made, this time with the size option. + <br></br> + (Own Id: OTP-4281) + <br></br> + (Aux Id: Seq 7312)</item> + <item>Changing of disk log format fails. Restart of webserver after + change of disk log format (DiskLogFormat) fails with + <em>arg_mismatch</em>. + <br></br> + (Own Id: OTP-4231) + <br></br> + (Aux Id: Seq 7244)</item> + </list> + </section> + </section> +</chapter> + + |