wwwoffle-announce-admin
Sat, 09 Feb 2002 22:10:07 -0800
------------------------ WWWOFFLE Announcement ------------------------ The new version of WWWOFFLE is now available (version 2.7). Bug Fixes (since version 2.6d): IPv6 getnameinfo() bug fixed. IPv6 freeaddrinfo() bug fixed. IPv6 ftp bug fixed. Fix compile problem when not using zlib. Client acceptable compression type detection fixed. Upgrade config script fixed (purge age). Remove gcc warnings for xml.l and errors.c. Renamed UdmSearch to mnoGoSearch. Fixed bug with purge min-free option. Fix Javascript removal problem with ^M characters. Check the wildcards in URL-SPECIFICATIONs in the configuration file are valid. Distinguish between timeout and compression errors from the remote host. Delete the Content-Length headers from URLs that wwwoffle has uncompressed. Allow multi-line headers in requests. Don't request pages when monitor times changed. Give warning on error writing to cache (disk full?). Don't remove the If-Modified-Since header on non-cached requests. Fix iframe link finding error. Reply to conditional requests when online as unchanged if unchanged on server. Handle reserved HTML characters in FTP directory listings. Fix error finding iframes when finding HTML links. Allow the compiled in localhost to be changed. Change the default buffer size to 4KBytes to try and increase performance. Fix more Javascript removal problems when modifying HTML. Added a question about the order of URL-SPECIFICATIONs to the FAQ. Give an error if there is an equal sign in the conf file when not expected. Handle the 'Cache-Control: max-age=0' header from the client. Added an answer to the most common IPv6 questions to the FAQ. Bug Fixes (since version 2.7-beta): Another fix for javascript in HTML modifications. Stop uncompress-cache from crashing on zero length files. Include sys/time.h in various files. Fix another bug with script removal when modifying HTML. Make 'wwwoffle URL' put a request in outgoing in all cases. Fix the configuration editing when there are no entries for an item. Make 'wwwoffle URL' put a request in outgoing even if already cached. Choose client compression based on q factor. Fix bug with gethostbyaddr() parameters. Documentation and HTML message updates. HTML parser updates for Javascript. Improved socket error messages. Stop permanent lockup in case of parsing error. Configuration editing doesn't crash if file is not writable. Better handling of FTP servers that can't handle EPSV command. Fix ConfirmRequest option. New Features (since version 2.6d): All message translations are installed and chosen by browser language settings. Added the option to use the Namazu and mknmz-wwwoffle programs to search cache. Removed the pages at /control/edit that edit the configuration file. Add a new set of pages to edit the configuration file, each item individually. Add the option to disable iframes that include URLs in the DontGet list. Add the option to remove shockwave/flash animations. Check the modification time of FTP files on the server if conditional request. Handle conditional requests that use If-None-Match headers. Add the option to cycle the lasttime/prevtime & lastout/prevout indexes daily. Add a timestamp to the lasttime/prevtime & lastout/prevout index pages. Added a summary of the quantity of files deleted and compressed by the purge. Added URL-SPECIFICATIONS for the options in the FetchOptions section. New Features (since version 2.7-beta): Added the option to re-request URLs that contain a redirection to another URL. Display the current value of the item in the configuration url page. Make the referer-self and referer-self-dir options add headers if none present. Disable HTML modifications when a 'Cache-Control: no-transform' header is seen. Programs (since version 2.6d): Added a '-f' option to wwwoffled to simplify debugging (for development usage). Added '--help' and '--version' options to all programs. Add a '-status' option to 'wwwoffle' to get the current 'wwwoffled' status. The wwwoffle program exits with an error status when reporting an error message. Allow wwwoffle-tools to be run with an argument to specify operating mode. Allow multiple arguments to 'wwwoffle-ls' and 'wwwoffle-rm' programs. Add a wwwoffle-hash program (part of wwwoffle-tools) to print URL hash. Add '-c <config-file>' option to 'convert-cache' & 'uncompress-cache' programs. Make wwwoffle-ls output the time in the local language. Make wwwoffle-ls work if the whole directory path to the cache is specified. Translations (since version 2.6d): Updated translated pages for German Language. Translations (since version 2.7-beta): Updated translated pages for French, Dutch and Polish Languages. Downloading ----------- As always the full selection of source versions are available from the wwwoffle download page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.7/download.html The complete version (813 kB) is available from: http://www.gedanken.freeserve.co.uk/download-wwwoffle/wwwoffle-2.7.tgz The source is also being uploaded to the FTP servers today and will be available from them soon. -- Andrew. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/ WWWOFFLE users page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.6/user.html ------------------------ WWWOFFLE Announcement ------------------------ Send all replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send the command 'unsubscribe' as the subject of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]