Changes with libwww 5.4.1
2006-07-09 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
* close leak in HTBound process_boundary() detected by Sam Varshavchik
using valgrind; excised old #if 0 snippets from HTMIME.c
2006-06-18 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
* Library/src/HTCookie.c: add private function HTCookie_splitPair to
split a KEY=VALUE pair, from Jesse Morgan
2006-03-14 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
* configure.ac: remove unecessary check for appkit.h as
suggested by Roger Persson
2006-03-12 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
* Library/src/wwwsys.html: change genuine angle bracket characters
into the angle bracket entities, thanks to Bobby Jack
2005-11-11 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
* Library/src/HT*.html, Library/src/SSL/HT*.html: wrap
all header files with extern "C"
* Library/src/HTFile, configure.ac: add a basis for
addressing Ben's security concerns
2005-10-16 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
* Library/src/HTBound.c: libwww security advisory fix from
Sam Varshavchik, fix double-counting of processed bytes,
rewrote HTBoundary_put_block, to fix problematic HTTP 1.1
byte range requests
2005-08-01 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
* Library/src/: HTAlert.c, HTHeader.c, HTInit.c, HTNet.c,
HTProfil.c, HTProt.c, HTTrans.c: Patch to greatly speed up
repeated requests, from Arthur Smith
2005-07-25 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
* Library/src/HTSQL.c: modifications to compile without using
deprecated mysql functions
* config/: config.sub, ltmain.sh: updates for recent version of
libtool
2005-04-04 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* INSTALL.html, Library/src/HTEvtLst.c: cleaning
2005-03-09 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
* libwww-config.in: include -lwwwssl, thanks to mgoddard at
itgs-presearch.com
2005-02-28 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
* Library/src/SSL/HTSSLWriter.c: avoids an eternal loop in libwww
(thanks to Steinar Bang)
2005-02-27 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
* Library/src/SSL/HTSSL.html, Robot/src/RobotMain.c: fix for webbot
-v option check and documentation addition
* configure.ac, Library/src/SSL/HTSSL.c,
Library/src/SSL/windows/wwwssl.def, Robot/src/HTRobMan.html,
Robot/src/Makefile.am, Robot/src/RobotMain.c: basic support for
client side certificates using PEM format
2005-01-23 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
* Library/src/SSL/: HTSSL.c, HTSSLReader.c, HTSSLWriter.c: add
openssl to include for ssl.h and rand.h
* config/: config.guess, config.sub, ltmain.sh: update after
running libtoolize
* Robot/src/Makefile.am: use SSL directory for libwwwssl.la
* Robot/src/RobotMain.c: include HTSSL.h
* configure.ac: fix aclocal underquoting warnings
* Robot/src/: RobotMain.c, Makefile.am: update to enable https
protocol
2005-01-05 Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
* Library/src/HTTPReq.c: fixed , to _ in HTTRACE call
* Library/src/HTTPReq.c: removed LIBWWW_USEIDN, because unnecessary
* modules/idn/unicode_template.c: forgot one file
* Library/src/HTDNS.html: moved IDN to main branch
* Library/src/HTDNS.c: moved IDN to main branch
* Library/src/HTTPReq.c: added "LIBWWW_USEIDN" conditional
* Library/src/HTTPReq.c: moved IDN to main branch
2004-01-29 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Library/Overview.html: JK: Added the libwww survey results
Changes with libwww 5.40
2003-11-17 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Added a public patch to expat that kept if from compiling
under C++ (misplaced enum).
http://downloads.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs-patches/
expat-1.95.6.patch
2003-04-18 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Richard Atterer: HTHost_killpipe() didn't behave correctly:
The private function killPipeLine() called by it wasn't
closing the HTTP/1.1 pipelined connection. This could cause
many problems:
- We call HTHost_killPipe() while the pipeline is active, in
the middle of a download
- The requests of the pipeline are removed from the queue,
but the connection is still open
- Instead of executing the main loop, we *immediately*
start another request for the same host.
- Because the connection is still up, the request is
added to the pipeline and the HTTP request headers are
sent off
- The new request's event object now "listens" to the connection
- Instead of the HTTP reply headers it expects, it only gets
what it thinks is "garbage" - in fact, it is the remaining
data of the request which was aborted by HTHost_killPipe()
earlier
- libwww concludes that "this is a HTTP 0.9 or earlier host"
and aborts the new request with an error :-(
The solution was to close the connection inside killPipeline(),
but only if the pipeline isn't idle, i.e. it contains 1 or
more requests.
2003-04-14 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* The previous patch made a call to strcasecmp which isn't
portable under Windows. Changed its call to libwww's strcasecomp.
2003-04-10 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* The generation of a Digest Authentication answer didn't work
if the server sent a QoP with two options, rather than a single
one. As we didn't handle auth-int anyway, I made auth the only
available one.
2003-03-21 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Updated expat to version 0.96.6
* Updated the autoconf tools to the latest versions (2.5x, 1.5x)
2003-03-19 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Changed the order between -lwwwxml and -lwwwapp in libwww-config
as suggested by Frank Traenkle.
Changes with libwww 5.3.2
2002-06-06 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Make the make dist generate a .tgz file.
2002-06-05 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* The Library/User/Extrnals.html file (a list of all exported
functions and variables) wasn't being generated with the
consequence that make failed.
2002-06-05 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Updated the auto-tools files in ~/libwww and ~/libwww/config
to the latest versions (autoconf 2.13, libtool 1.4.2a, automake
1.4-p4). If when compiling you see warning messages saying:
libtool: test =: unary operator expected
it means you're running an old version of libtool. If you
cannot update this tool, then, go to the libwww directory and type:
libtoolize -c -f
then bootstrap the library again. This will fix your problem.
2002-06-05 Richard Atterer <libwww@list02.atterer.net>
* Patched configure.in and wwwsys.html for building libwww
on mingw32 (a version of GCC that doesn't make produced
binaries depend on the Cygwin DLL).
See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-lib/2002AprJun/0053.html.
2002-06-04 Thurog <thurog@gmx.de>
* Patched configure.in to avoid a broken configure error in
autoconf 2.5.3.
See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-lib/2002AprJun/0034.html.
2002-05-29 Manuele Kirsch <mkirsch@terra.com.br>
* Fixes for windows plataform concerning WebDAV and Extension
methods. In HTMethod and HTRequest, functions defined for
the Extension Methods are now defined always, but return
fail values when HT_EXT is not defined. In addition, the
files "Library/src/WWWDAV.html" and "Library/src/windows/wwwdav.files"
have been added. These files and modifications were needed
to produce the correct "*.def" files, for windows plataform.
2002-05-29 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Created the necessary makefiles and changed the windows
project files for WebDAV and Extension methods.
2002-05-28 Manuele Kirsch <mkirsch@terra.com.br>
* Minor fixes concerning WebDAV module and Extension methods. At
src/HTTP.c source file, the 207 status codes has now the result
HT_MULTI_STATUS (line 310), and in Examples/davsample.c,
options "-l", "-c" and "-m" can not anymore produce "Segment dump"
error when an command line argument is missing.
* Concerning to Extension Methods, the definitions of
HTMethod_hasEntity macro into HTMethods.html have been changed
to improve the code readability.
2002-03-19 Manuele Kirsch <Manuele.Kirsch_Pinheiro@inrialpes.fr>
* The WebDAV module has been changed to use HTRequest entity
and PostCallback to send all message bodies in its requests.
* Extension methods have been changed - now the application
may chose, when register an extension method, between use
"Expect: 100-continue" heander and HTRequest Entity, or the
new message body present in HTRequest. When using the first
one, the application must set a PostCallback, and when using
the second, it may set a small message body to be sent with
the request. This last may be used to other protocols, other
than HTTP.
* Added a new example (myext2.c) that shows how to set the
extension methods and how to use it with "Expect: 100-contine"
and with message body.
2002-03-08 Manuele Kirsch <Manuele.Kirsch_Pinheiro@inrialpes.fr>
* Added new methods in HTMethod enumeration. There are the 7
methods defined in WebDAV protocol (LOCK,UNLOCK,PROPFIND,
PROPPATCH,MKCOL,COPY and MOVE), and also 7 extension methods
(METHOD_EXT_0 to METHOD_EXT_6). These methods are undefined
methods that can be set/unset for the applications using two
new functions introduced to HTMethod module
("HTMethod_setExtensionMethod" and "HTMethod_deleteExtensionMethod").
Those extension methods are available only if configure used
--with-extension option (which define HT_EXT).
* Added new fields to HTRequest structure: a message body array,
its length and format. HTTPGenMake functions in HTTPGen.c has
been changed to include Content-Type and Content-Lenght headers
if messageBody field and messageBodyType/messageBodyFormat are
set. It also send this message body only if it is set. This
message body may be use for XML message bodies (indeed, it is
used by some DAV methods in HTDAV module). These modifications
are activated only if HT_DAV or HT_EXT are defined.
* Added a new module HTDAV with high level functions for WebDAV
protocol. It is defined in HTDAV.h/html and implemented in
HTDAV.c. This is only enabled with "--with-dav" option in
configure procedure (this option will define HT_DAV). An example
of use (davsample.c) have been included in Library/Examples.
* Added new status codes (in HTUtils.h/html) and error codes (in
HTError.h/html) defined by WebDAV protocol (102,207,422,423,424
and 507). This codes are activated only if HT_DAV is defined.
2002-03-21 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Added the HTDNS.c configure patches for the reentrant call to
gethostbynamer function. (sorry, I can't find the name of
the person who contributed this patch right now).
2001-08-30 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Added a new field in the HTRequest structure for specifying
a user defined Content-Location. This allows to use the library
functions to access a resource, while in fact the request sent
to the server is made to the value of the user defined
Content-Location. This sound silly, but it allows to keep the
libwww state coherent and it doesn't break the requests like
the previous (and banned since long time) real content-location
handling. To avoid confusion, this field is called
default_put_name. See HTReqMan.h for the name of the functions
that handle this field.
* New public function in HTCache.c to reset the value of a cache
entry and delete the cached file. This is interesting when
we want to keep a cache entry, but force the cache entry to be
refreshed. HTCache_resetMeta ().
2001-08-14 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* HTProfile_newPreemptiveClient wasn't intializing the
default event loop in all cases (bug reported by
Olivier Steinau).
2001-03-14 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Digest authentication didn't work well with pipelining requests.
Only one of such requests got the stale nonce. The other 401
were being re-interpreted as if the user had given a wrong
login name or password. To fix this, we try to infer a stale
nonce if the previous nonce and the new one sent by the server
are different and a wrong login name/password if they are the
same. The patch is in HTAABrow.c.
I also added a second bug fix in the same patch as not all
pipelined requests seem to go thru the first authentication filter.
2001-03-09 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Digest authentication wasn't being compiled by default in Win32
because windows/config.h was missing the HT_MD5 define.
2001-03-06 Serge Adda <sAdda@infovista.com>
* HTAnchor bug. HTAnchor_delete wasn't removing the reference to
the deleted anchor. This caused a bug whenever requesting another
anchor for the same URL. Thanks to Anton Belov for having
reported the problem and to Serge for his patch. See
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-lib/2001JanMar/0133.html.
2001-03-06 Stefan Wiesner <sw@ais-ag.de>
* Timer bug. There was a bug in the code of function HTTimer_new
if a timer is already expired when HTTimer_new is called. See
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-lib/2001JanMar/0123.html
for the full analysis.
2001-02-26 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Cache bug. An HTResponse object was being freed repetively inside
a while loop, when reading a cached metadata in meta_read(). I
moved the delete to outside this function.
Changes with libwww 5.3.2
2000-12-19 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Compilation fix: two prototypes in HTResponse.html were declared
as PUBLIC, instead of as external.
Updated the copyright date of the WinCommander
Fixed runtime crashes with the following example applications:
chunk.c chunkbody.c getheaders.c head.c multichunk.c
2000-12-18 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Compilation fix: The HTMIME_anchor2response() function
added a dependency between the cache and mime mini-libs.
I changed the call to a stream converter (HTCacheCopyHeaders)
to make it optional and to avoid the dependency. The converter
is initialized in HTInit.c:HTConverterInit.
2000-12-14 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Bug fix: make dist didn't work because of a recurrent rule
in the ComLine make file (it tried to use www to create a
documentation file).
2000-12-13 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Bug fix: When objects were retrieved from the cache, the
response object didn't have a copy of the request headers.
These headers were only found in the anchor associated to
the request. In order to make a coherent behavior, I made
a new function HTMIME.c:HTMIME_anchor2response() that copies
the headers from one object to the other. Well, more than a
copy, it adds a link to the headers. I call this function in
HTCache:CacheCleanup when it succesfully retrieved an object
from the cache. Result, you can now use the response object
in both cases.
2000-10-30 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Enhancement, added a new field to the HTResponse object to
store the HTTP reason sent by the server. Two new functions to
get it/set it: HTResponse_reason(), HTResponse_setReason()
2000-09-01 Wayne Davison <wayne@clari.net>
* HTAccess.c: Typo fix
* HTChunk.c, HTChunk.html: new function, HTChunk_fromBuffer for
creating a chunk from an existing block of memory, without having
to allocate more memory.
2000-09-01 Peter Stamfest <peter.stamfest@eunet.at>
* Makefile.am: corrected a DESTDIR problem
2000-09-01 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* config.h: Updated the libwww version
2000-09-01 Zhu Qun-Ying <qunying@yahoo.com>
* config.h: BUG FIX: wrong closing comment
2000-08-30 Arthur Barstow <barstow@w3.org>
* HTRDF.c: BUG FIX: nested typedNode constructs with
attributes caused re-using a free'd pointer.
* HTRDF.c: per a request from the Redland RDF project, added
a void * context parameter to HTRDF_parse{File,Buffer}.
The application-specific context will be available in the
triple callback handler.
* HTRDF.html - updated to API changes mentioned above
* Library/Examples/ updated rdf_parse_{file,buffer} programs
to reflect the above API changes.
2000-08-29 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Temporarily commented the XML structured stream in HTXML.c
(HTXMLStructured_new) and its related code, as it creates
a dependency with the libwwwxml mini-library. If this code
is still useful, it should go into another module, HTSXML.c
to avoid the forced dependency.
2000-08-28 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Updated expat to the test version 19990728, as this version
adds some interesting API extensions and is now being widely
used by other projects, including the Perl XML modules. The
previous version is CVS tagged as expat-1-1.
2000-08-18 Arthur Barstow <barstow@w3.org>
* HTRDF.c: Added a new public API HTRDF_parseBuffer. It
parses an arbitrary buffer (char *) of RDF.
* HTRDF.c: Changed the name of HTRDFParseFile to HTRDF_parseFile.
it now returns BOOL instead of char * to be consistent with
other RDF parser APIs.
* HTRDF.html - updated to HTRDF.c changes mentioned above
* Library/Examples/: added two new example programs:
1. rdf_parse_file - demos/tests HTRDF_parseFile()
2. rdf_parse_buffer - demos/tests HTRDF_parseBuffer()
* configure.in - added the two new programs above
* Library/Examples/Makefile.am - added the two new programs
2000-08-17 Arthur Barstow <barstow@w3.org>
* HTRDF.c: Fixed a memory leak. (HTElement structures for elements
within a property with parseType="Literal" were not free'd
after the parser was done.)
* HTRDF.c: Bug fixes. Added code to circumvent calls to HTSAlloc
(via StrAllocCopy) when the src and dest were identical (this
causes a free'd pointer to be used) or both NULL.
* HTRDF.c: Changed addMarkup{Add,End} to make one call to
StrAllocMCat instead of multiple StrAllocCat calls.
2000-08-11 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Memory leak. The HTPlain (HTPlain.c) stream wasn't freeing the
HTTextImp (me->text) object in the HTPlain_free and
HTPlain_abort. I found the bug while running the robot
thru Insure and found the fix by seeing what was being
done in the HTML (HTML.c) stream.
* The make dist command wasn't copying the .c, .files, and .mak
files found in the Library/src/windows. As a result, the tar files
created with this command were missing those files. The problem
came from some wrong assumptions in the Makefile.am of the
windows directory.
2000-08-11 Wayne Davison <wayne@clari.net>
* Added two new functions to HTHash.c, HTHashtable_removeObject()
and HTHashTable_walk. The first one allows to delete individual
elements from a hash-table, the second one allows to walk
throug all associated elements in a table without having to ask
for a list of all keys and then looking each one up. See
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-lib/2000JulSep/0146.html
for a more detaile description on how to use these functions.
* I got rid of a few useless variable initializations in HTHash.c
(when the variables were being set to a value immediately
following the init value).
* I removed some superfluous spaces that I saw.
2000-08-10 Wayne Davison <wayne@clari.net>
* Since "cvs update" was complaining about a bunch of generated
files in the Library/src dir, I tweaked it to ignore the *.la
files and the .libs dir.
2000-08-10 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Because (IMO) of a very imbricated protocol stack, the Robot
could hang when accessing local files, as it become starved
on its own sockets. I fixed the problem by adding a new
state in HTFile:FileEvent() to take into account the case when
a request goes pending. This is mostly based on a previous
(not commited) patch by Kinuko Yasuda, plus some long debugging to
find out what was happening and a fix to a memory bug that the
other patch had.
2000-08-08 Wayne Davison <wayne@clari.net>
* New HTChunk_setSize function to allow to set the size of a
chunk object upwards or downwards. (HTChunk_truncate() still
exists and still enforces the sizing of the string downwards.)
Both these string-sizing functions only zero the relevant bytes
in the "size" region (if the string is being shortened). Note
that HTChunk_clear() was left unchanged -- it still clears all of
the Chunk's allocated memory.
* Fixed the HT_OUTOFMEM() calls in HTChunk_ensure() to have the
proper location string.
* Some code in HTBind.c was optimized to use HTChunk_truncate().
* HTFTP.c and HTNews.c was optimized to use HTChunk_setSize()
rather than using HTChunk_ensure() and writing data past the "size".
* Optimized the code in HTMIME.c and HTML.c to use
HTChunk_truncate(chunk,0) rather than HTChunk_clear(chunk).
* Documented the new HTChunk_setSize() function.
* Improved the comments for HTChunk_clear().
* Fixed the comments for HTChunk_ensure() (it was describing the
extra-size parameter incorrectly).
* Fixed the comments for HTChunk_toString() (to indicate that the
function destroys the chunk when handing off the CString data).
* Fixed a few spelling errors in HTChunk.html.
* Note: There are probably other places in the code that could be
optimized to use truncate rather than clear, but I didn't have
time to check each one to see if the chunk's data was properly
respecting the size indicator or not.
2000-08-09 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
* Updated the "how to bootstrap section" with instructions on what to
do if libtool and aclocal are installed in different directories.
Thanks to Ken Olum and James Henstrige for the tips.
2000-08-08 Jens Meggers <jens@meggers.com>
* The cache garbage collector (HTCacheGarbage()) could go into an
endless loop when it tried to removed locked entries. The problem
was that it wasn't checking the return code of HTCache_remove().
2000-08-07 Wayne Davison <wayne@clari.net>
* Changed the macro argument from "data" to "dp" in
HTArray_firstObject() and HTArray_nextObject(). These macros
are defined such that if the caller doesn't pass in a variable
named exactly "data" as the second parameter, there will either be a
syntax error generated during the compilation OR the wrong structure
element will get referenced. This is because the macro argument
"data" was the same name as the HTArray structure element that was
being referenced in the macro.
Changes with previous versions
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