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.
Bug Fixes:
Fix crash with invalid entries in config file. Handle some invalid URL
encodings that servers/clients use. Stop crashes when monitoring illegal
refresh URLs. Handle malformed headers better. Check the DontGet section of
the configuration file when doing SSL. Print error messages when starting on
stderr. Read the configuration file if using wwwoffle-write. Fix bug with
form argument parsing. Set fetch-stylesheets to true in the default config
file. Bug fixes for modifying HTML with meta refresh tags. Stop duplicated
items in the configuration file.
Win32 Bug Fixes:
Fixed logfile opening problem. Added a fchdir() function for cygwin.
Workaround cygwin socket closing problem. Change the makefile for cygwin
installation (don't auto install .dll or .bat).
Documentation
Updated the Welcome.html page to include more links to useful information.
Include an HTML version of README.CONF in the html directory.
Updated several README files and INSTALL file.
*NOTE* The default location of the replacement .gif file for the DontGet section
has changed, upgrade-config.pl should fix wwwoffle.conf automatically.
*NOTE* If upgrading from a version < 2.6 then see the notes for version 2.6.
NetBSD package changes:
- - Install upgrade-config-2.x-2.5.pl (as wwwoffle-upgrade-config-2.x-2.5.pl).
- - Protect convert-cache the same way as upgrade-config -- prefix with wwwoffle-.
- - Update MESSAGE file accordingly.
- - Add a new-style rc.d script.
- - Fix the included "htdig" scripts to work with packaged "htdig".
("htdig" remains optional.)
- - Install the convert-cache and upgrade-config-pl tools to make
upgrading less painful. Run convert-cache automatically for binary
package install, but only suggest to for source install.
- - Expand the MESSAGE text to explain how to use all this.
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.
