Andrew M. Bishop
Sat, 18 Nov 2000 12:03:53 -0800
----------------------- WWWOFFLE Announcement ------------------------ The new version of WWWOFFLE is now available (version 2.6). Changes ------- The changes for this version compared to version 2.5e are listed below. 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. Improve HTML modification for unterminated tags. 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. Downloading ----------- As always the full selection of source versions are available from the wwwoffle download page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.6/download.html The complete version (547 kB) is available from: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/download-wwwoffle/wwwoffle-2.6.tgz The source is also being uploaded to the FTP servers today and will be available from them soon. ----------------------- WWWOFFLE Announcement ------------------------ Send all replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send the command 'unsubscribe wwwoffle-announce' in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]