Libwww News and Event Timeline

See also the libwww release history extending all the way back to 1991!

• Dec 16, 1998: Jose Kahan announces client-side Digest Authentication implementation in libwww - try it out!
• Dec 3, 1998: Number of libwww check-outs from CVS exceeds 700!
• Dec 1, 1998: Libwww now runs in the latest Cygwin b20 environment - please help testing!
• Nov 1, 1998: Release of libwww 5.2 - a result of close collaboration and extensive testing by the libwww community. Special thanks to Bob Racko, John Punin, Vladimir Kozlov, and Jose Kahan.
• Sep 24, 1998: New binary version of the Web Commander made available . This version avoids the lost update problem
• Sep 14, 1998: The latest CVS version of libwww supports HTTP/1.1, rev 05
• Sep 1, 1998: The number of people having checked out libwww from CVS exceeds 300!
• Jun 1, 1998: The libwww cvs repository log can now be browsed online.
• May 21, 1998: The libwww repository is now available to the public - come and try it out. The hope is that this will speed up development and deployment of new features.
• Mar 27, 1998: Try out the latest Windows based PUT Tool - a small Windows Widget that can be the start to something big :)
• Mar 25, 1998 : Libwww Version 5.1l available for HTTP/1.1 testing! Check out the performance!
  • This release is a "second generation" HTTP/1.1 implementation using persistent connections, pipelining, smart output buffering, and persistent caching. It is the code base that was used in the "Network Performance Effects of HTTP/1.1, CSS1, and PNG" paper
  • • This release implements HTTP/1.1 Rev-02!
    • Check out the list of new features
    • Complete HTTP/1.1 compliant client side persistent cache manager
    • Support for zlib based decompression and regular expressions - can do really cool things in the Robot
• Dec 24, 1997 : Libwww is looking for a new home!
  • W3C is looking for volunteers to either help or to take over the maintenance and development of the source base including libwww, the Mini Robot (webbot), the terminal based Line Mode Browser, and the Command Line Tool which can be used in batch tools etc. Interested parties can contact Henrik for details!