Bug Fixes:
Ensure that only one argument is given to wwwoffle -o or -O. Some more version
2.7 documentation updates. Fix crash using 'wwwoffle -O|-o|-put|-post <URL>'.
Put refresh URLs in the outgoing directory with correct URL. Delete
auto-generated files in Makefile before re-generating. Choosing 'edit selected
item' in configuration pages shows current values. Fix potential crash with
wwwoffle-hash. Put a DESTDIR variable in Makefile for easier installation.
Fix parsing IPv6 addresses in audit-usage.pl script. Makefile change for
FreeBSD make. Bug fix for the Alias section of the config file. Fix Makefile
for Win32.
New Features:
Allow CGI scripts to be used with the built-in web server.
dealing better with javascript pages, and fixes for old ftp servers.
Lots of new features and configure options, too. Also, new
translations for French, Dutch, Polish, German; docs and notes in
a few other languages; and translations for local pages are now
selected by browser settings!
rather than "wwwoffle.conf.default", so that wwwoffle-upgrade-config*.pl
can use it to populate the new config file with comments (and to minimize
gratuitious changes).
Bug Fixes:
Fix pagination problem in wwwoffled manual page. Fix core dump with missing
DontCompress section. Fix error with convert-cache and uncompress-cache
programs not recognising valid configuration items. Fix harmless buffer
overrun. Improve the URL decoded strings displayed in indexes. Don't complain
about empty directory when installing. Canonicalise the pathname in URLs.
Compile on __bsdi__ systems. Convert decimal IP addresses to dotted-quad.
Add support for compilation on Apple OS X. Enable HTML modifications on URLs
with error status. Use a case-insensitive check when censoring headers. Fix
up HTML to that it validates with an SGML checker.
New Features:
Added IPv6 support.
Added bind-ipv4 and bind-ipv6 options to specify local IP address to bind to.
Added 'random' sort order option for indexes.
Made index sorting use alphabetical as a secondary sort.
Added HTTP/1.1 'Cache-Control: max-age=..' header handling (same as 'Expires').
Translations:
Updated the Russian translations of the WWWOFFLE messages.
Version 2.6b of WWWOFFLE released : Sat Mar 24 14:30:00 2001
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Bug Fixes:
HTML parsing optimisations. HTML parser memory leak fixed. Fix stylesheet
link parser. Stop cached pages containing trailing junk. Fixed wwwoffle
manual page quote character bug. Fix problems parsing parameter strings in
URLs. Fix ssl-allow-port config file parsing.
Win32 Bug Fixes:
Fixed the socket closing code.
Documentation:
Updated the README.win32 file.
Updated FAQ to version 2.6.
Updated French translated pages.
Added a README.compress that describes the compression problems and solutions.
New Features:
Request data from servers is sent compressed, config option (see zlib note).
Reply to client with compressed data if asked, config option (see zlib note).
Compress the files in the cache when purging, based on age (see zlib note).
Allow fetching in autodial mode as well as online mode.
*NOTE* The use of zlib to enable compression should be considered a beta quality
feature in this version. It requires the zlib library to compile it.
*NOTE* If upgrading from a version < 2.6a then see the notes for version 2.6a.
Version 2.6 of WWWOFFLE released : Sat Nov 18 19:15:00 2000
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Bug Fixes:
Improve HTML modification for unterminated tags. Allow passworded pages to be
fetched. Improve compilation on non-Linux systems. Fix bug with proxy config
file entry. Fix an error with not truncating files. Fix an error with
dir-perm and file-perm. Fix problem when getting pages with passwords. Fix
problem deleting pages with passwords.
Documentation
Added a note to the FAQ about DoS attacks and ipchains.
*NOTE* If upgrading from version 2.[2345] then you will need to convert your
cache to the new format, see the file CONVERT for details.
*NOTE* If upgrading from version 2.4[abc] the max-size option in the Purge
section of the configuration file has changed. See CHANGES.CONF.
*NOTE* If upgrading from version 2.[123] the setting of the times of monitoring
URLs has changed, check the monitor index and correct where needed.
*NOTE* If upgrading from version 1.x or 2.[01] then you will need to delete
your cache since conversion from those formats is no longer provided.
Version 2.6-beta of WWWOFFLE released : Sun Oct 22 10:30:00 2000
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Bug Fixes:
Handle usernames specified in URLs including the '@' character. Fix problems
deleting URLs with arguments. Fix bug with recursive fetching in same dir.
Retry the select system call if it is interrupted.
Win32 Bug Fixes:
Fix for local web-pages not being opened in binary mode. Compilation fixes.
Internal Changes:
Re-examined all URL-encoding and URL-decoding issues (small cache change).
Ensure that the canonical form of the URL is used throughout.
Changed the URLs in the indexes for monitor, delete & refresh.
Documentation
Re-written the README.CONF file with new layout and more information.
Added three more questions to the FAQ and updated several others.
Configuration File
Allow many of the configuration file options be selectable on a URL by URL basis.
Move some configuration file options around and create some new sections.
Allow purge ages to be specified in larger units (weeks, months, years).
Allow re-request times to be specified in larger units (minutes, hours, days).
New Configuration Options
Add the ability to demoronise HTML (replace bogus characters with real ones).
Add the ability to remove meta refresh tags that redirect browsers.
Added the option to convert redirections to DontGet pages to errors.
Allow the HTML modifications to happen to pages viewed when online.
Add timeouts to DNS lookups to stop WWWOFFLE servers hanging up.
Add the option to enable the use of lock files (defaults to disabled).
New Features
Remove the index of the latest pages (was slow on big caches).
Add an index of the pages that were in the outgoing directory last time.
Change the don't cache option so that pages are not requested when offline.
Allow password protected URLs to be deleted.
Aliased pages now use a redirect rather than re-writing the URL.
Make it safe to have symlinks in the cache.
Searching
Changed the ht://Dig search URLs in WWWOFFLE from /htdig/* to /search/htdig/*.
Allow the use of UdmSearch instead of ht://Dig.
Contrib
Improved the audit-usage.pl script to show cache hit/miss status for requests.
Related changes:
- Fix the permissions for the installed files
(this fix is the same one that Frederick Bruckman did for 2.5c).
- Remove the extra newline added to POST requests.
- Only clear the supplementary group list if running as root.
- Stopped overflow of 32 bit integer when purging.
- Allow wrong reply to CWD from broken FTP server.
- Don't get confused by badly nested script or blink tags.
- Disallow the Accept-Encoding header on outgoing requests.
- Make the URL-SPECIFICATION in the config file have lower case
for protocol and host.
- Modified the Meta refresh tag handling.
- Fix FTP directory listings for files with ':' in them.
- and other bug fixes.
- Added Russian and Polish translations of WWWOFFLE messages.
- Updated FAQ.
