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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.
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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.
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wwwoffle's author, removing world read permissions from the spool directory
was a mistake, which will be rectified in wwwoffle-2.5d.
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Requested by Christoph Badura.
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port and query part) as "http://foo.bar:80/?query".
Patch is from the wwwoffle author via Feico Dillema.
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Based on PR #8562 by Feico Dillema.
- Do not automatically remove the cache on un-installation.
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Patches supplied by Feico Dillema in PR pkg/8290.
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WWW proxy with support for offline browsing
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