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- Version 2.5e of WWWOFFLE released : Xxx Xxx XX XX:00:00 2000
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- Changed the htsearch.conf file. Fixed a bug with ModifyHTML option on large
- blocks of text. Improved the lex parsers by using better flex options and
- re-coding parts. Alternative fix for the FTP listings with ':' in them.
- Change the values of the del-dontget and del-dontcache config file options in
- supplied wwwoffle.conf.
- Translations:
- Added Italian translations of WWWOFFLE messages.
- Contrib:
- Added some new files.
- *NOTE* See also the notes for version 2.5d below.
- Version 2.5d of WWWOFFLE released : Sun Feb 20 10:00:00 2000
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- Fix the permissions for the installed files. Remove the extra newline added to
- POST requests. Only clear the supplementary group list if running as root.
- Fix a bug with censoring headers on some systems. Now compiles on IRIX systems
- 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.
- Handle the promotion of char to int in varargs functions. Modified the Meta
- refresh tag handling. Fix FTP directory listings for files with ':' in them.
- Translations:
- Added Russian translations of WWWOFFLE messages.
- Added Polish translations of WWWOFFLE messages.
- Contrib:
- Added some new items.
- Documentation:
- Fix the FAQ entry for DNS configuration problems.
- Add a FAQ entry about Cookies.
- Update the FAQ "who, when, why" section with the latest versions.
- *NOTE* See also the notes for version 2.5c below.
- Version 2.5c of WWWOFFLE released : Sat Dec 18 17:00:00 1999
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- Check that the filesystem block size is non-zero before purging. Make sure
- that SocketTimeout and ConnectTimeout are initialised. Allow SSL tunneling to
- local network when offline. Improved HTML parser (fixes Javascript breakage).
- Handle servers that fail to send a reply header. Fixed POST requests to root
- directory (e.g. seti@home). Fixed HEAD requests when online. Made portable to
- OpenBSD. Clear supplementary group ids. Fix a file descriptor leak. Make sure
- that 'Connection: close' is sent for internally generated pages. Fix SSL via
- external proxies. Fix HTML modifications to invalid HTML format links. Set
- the permissions after installation better. Allow wwwoffle-tools programs to
- use compiled in SPOOLDIR.
- Server Features:
- Use 'LIST -a' on FTP servers to get better directory listing.
- Change FTP listings for symbolic links.
- Ensure that Content-Length on cached replies is correct.
- *NOTE* See also the notes for version 2.5b below.
- Version 2.5b of WWWOFFLE released : Sun Oct 24 11:00:00 1999
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- Fix possible bug with lasttime directory handling. Allow the wwwoffle program
- to make requests even if confirm-requests=true. Fix the problem with deleting
- all outgoing pages. Don't delete the backup web-page when online in case of
- error. Fix the adding of a newline to POST requests. Delete the incoming
- Proxy-Authentication username/password from outgoing requests. Fix some errors
- in HTML message pages. Mark pages kept from interrupted downloads so they will
- be refreshed next time viewed online. Parse HTML better on things that might
- not be legal tags.
- Configuration File:
- Added a mime type for PNG images to the default configuration file.
- *NOTE* See also the notes for version 2.5a below.
- Version 2.5a of WWWOFFLE released : Sun Oct 10 16:00:00 1999
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- Fix the dir-perm and file-perm config file options on big-endian machines. Fix
- the AllowedConnectUsers section of the configuration file. Fix the delete all
- options in the outgoing and monitored indexes. Fix the HTML modification bug
- that stripped out comments. Add an expiry header to the Confirm Request page.
- Fix bugs with links within the indexes. Fix bug in upgrade-config.pl. Send an
- extra newline after posted forms. Fix Makefile for Win32.
- Documentation:
- Add the WWWOFFLE_PROXY environment variable to the wwwoffle(1) manual page.
- *NOTE* See also the notes for version 2.5 below.
- Version 2.5 of WWWOFFLE released : Sun Sep 19 19:30:00 1999
- -----------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- Make posted requests with passwords work in Fetch mode. Fix crashes with some
- indexes. Fix htsearch bug with file descriptor duplication. Fix HTML parsing
- problems with badly formated comments. Use the Last-Modified time in the page
- header for If-Modified-Since requests. Return a Not-Modified reply if the
- Last-Modified time and the If-Modified-Since times are the same.
- Configuration File:
- Add the option to re-request pages that say they are not to be cached.
- Internal Program Changes:
- Use a new data type for the bodies of requests to handle binary PUT requests.
- *NOTE* The URLs of the index pages have changed slightly, the old URL
- /index/proto/host/?alpha becomes /index/proto/host/?sort=alpha etc.
- *NOTE* The use of symbolic links in the cache instead of using the Alias
- configuration file section has been removed.
- *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 way that the times of monitoring
- URLs has changed, check the monitor index and correct where needed.
- *NOTE* If upgrading from version 2.[01] see also the NEWS for version 2.2 below.
- *NOTE* If upgrading from version 1.x see also the NEWS for version 2.0 below.
- Version 2.5-beta of WWWOFFLE released : Sun Aug 29 19:00:00 1999
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- Don't allow re-requesting a posted form reply that has been deleted. Rare bug
- with monitor making duplicate requests fixed. Install the wwwoffle.conf file
- with permissions 0640. Don't recursively request URLs in the DontGet section.
- Show the lockfile error message without waiting if offline. Fix SSL handling
- with other proxies. Running ht://Dig does not change the access time of the
- pages. Fixed rounding error bug when purging.
- Win32 Bug Fixes:
- Replace the illegal ':' character in directory names with '!'.
- Configuration File:
- Using symlinks in the cache instead of using the Alias section is ignored.
- Added a connect-timeout option like socket-timeout but for the connection.
- Added options to set the permissions on directories and files created.
- Allow for censoring of incoming headers from server.
- Allow negation of hostnames or URL-SPECIFICATIONS in some config file sections.
- Add the option to have different replacement URLs for different DontGet URLs.
- Allow configuration file sections to be included from other files.
- Add the option to disable animated GIFs.
- Add the options to disable scripts and blink tags.
- Allow URL-SPECIFICATIONS to match URLs with arguments.
- Allow programs to be run when changing mode (online/offline/autodial).
- Allow partial pages to be kept for timeout and/or browser interrupted transfer.
- Add the option to continue downloading pages if browser interrupts transfer.
- Add the option to re-request pages that have expired while online.
- Server Features:
- The HTTP HEAD request method now works correctly.
- HTTP/1.1 requests are now converted to HTTP/1.0 for ease of handling.
- All pages output by the proxy now contain a valid Content-Length header.
- Use new FTP commands to get the file size and modification time.
- Purging uses a child server so that cache access is possible at the same time.
- Allow deleting more than one page from the index at a time.
- Allow the buttons for each URL in the indexes to be turned on and off.
- Include the option in the indexes to show all pages (ignore DontIndex section).
- Sort the indexes so URLs with passwords appear in correct alphabetical order.
- Allow the PUT method to be used, it is handled exactly like the POST method.
- The PUT method now works with FTP to send files to a server.
- Checks are made that the method and the protocol used are valid in combination.
- Control Program Features:
- The wwwoffle program now accepts -post and -put options to create requests.
- Internal Program Changes:
- Create temporary file for internally generated pages and modified HTML pages.
- Added new Header datatype to make handling of requests and replies easier.
- Re-written HTML parser and HTML modifier to make it simpler.
- *NOTE* The URLs of the index pages have changed slightly, the old URL
- /index/proto/host/?alpha becomes /index/proto/host/?sort=alpha etc.
- *NOTE* The use of symbolic links in the cache instead of using the Alias
- configuration file section has been removed.
- *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 way that the times of monitoring
- URLs has changed, check the monitor index and correct where needed.
- *NOTE* If upgrading from version 2.[01] see also the NEWS for version 2.2 below.
- *NOTE* If upgrading from version 1.x see also the NEWS for version 2.0 below.
- Version 2.4e of WWWOFFLE released : Mon Jun 28 19:00:00 1999
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- Make purge.c compile on FreeBSD, Solaris, SunOS. Make the no-lasttime-index
- option work. Minor monitored pages bug fixes. Fix problem with translated
- page installation.
- Internationalisation (i18n):
- Added in more translated web-pages (French, Spanish) with installation options.
- Features:
- Add an option to wwwoffled to print the pid on stdout.
- Version 2.4d of WWWOFFLE released : Mon May 10 19:00:00 1999
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- Fix the bug introduced in the previous version that stops password protected
- pages from being accessed.
- Version 2.4c of WWWOFFLE released : Sun May 9 19:00:00 1999
- -----------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- Make the refresh-force option work correctly on the first level pages. Update
- the upgrade-config script with more MIME types. Fixes to the URL-SPECIFICATION
- parsing. Security fix for local web server and paths with '..'. Make
- recursive fetching of URLs with passwords work. Deleting a URL now deletes it
- from the lasttime/prevtime indexes also. Allow strange characters in web-page
- passwords. Fix a file handle leak with the builtin web server.
- Win32 Bug Fixes:
- Fix the call of the htsearch script. Open spool files in binary mode.
- ht://Dig:
- Allow indexing of the lasttime index (requires htdig version 3.1.0 or later).
- Internationalisation (i18n):
- Added in the first translated web-pages (German) and an installation option.
- Features:
- Allow links that have been requested but are not cached to be modified.
- Allow the lasttime/prevtime indexes to be disabled.
- Purging:
- Made the disk usage more accurate with block sizes and directory entries.
- Add the option to purge to leave a specified amount of the disk free.
- *NOTE* The max-size option in the Purge section of the configuration file has
- changed meaning slightly. See CHANGES.CONF for details.
- Version 2.4b of WWWOFFLE released : Tue Feb 2 17:00:00 1999
- -----------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- Fix some typos in the documentation. Allow recursive fetches to be requested
- online even if offline requests are banned. Reduce the browser timeout waiting
- for a page to become unlocked. Check the re-location pages when doing
- recursive fetches on the same host. Include all types of links and objects in
- the wwwoffle program file parsing.
- Document Parsing
- Added in parsers for VRML and XML documents (to fetch sub-documents).
- Add some more HTML parsing for HTML 4.0 features.
- ht://Dig
- Remove the CONFIG file, allow use with unmodified binary versions of htdig.
- Version 2.4a of WWWOFFLE released : Wed Dec 30 15:10:00 1998
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- FAQ to html conversion problem fixed. Some documentation minor changes.
- Compatibility changes for SVR4 unixes. Compatibility changes for Win32.
- Better Java class parsing integration. Problems with monitor intervals fixed.
- ht://Dig
- Upgrade the documentation to refer to the htdig-2.1.0b4 version of htdig.
- Version 2.4 of WWWOFFLE released : Sat Dec 12 13:30:00 1998
- -----------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- Compilation problem on FreeBSD. Socket name problem on Win32. Improved the
- handling of comments in the configuration edit page. Don't modify HTML links
- for protocols that WWWOFFLE does not handle. Re-instate the HEAD method, but
- still broken. Remove whitespace in message HTML page language parsing. Bug
- fixes for upgrade-config.pl. Stop infinite recursion when fetching pages with
- cyclic links. Fix the configuration edit textareas for HTML special
- characters.
- Cache programs
- The wwwoffle-ls program can now read from the prevtime[0-9] directories.
- ht://Dig
- Allow indexing of the ftp and finger protocols using localhost:8080 URLs.
- Include the icons from the htdig distribution for users that already have htdig.
- Index the pages that htdig indexes from so incremental digging works.
- Version 2.4-beta of WWWOFFLE released : Wed Nov 25 18:45:00 1998
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- Fix the ConfirmRequests option. Stop disk thrashing when going online. More
- recursive fetching fixes.
- Purging:
- Purge the tmp files in the outgoing directory.
- Change files with a future datestamp to the current time.
- Server features:
- Added in support for the ht://Dig search engine.
- Allow Secure Socket Layer (SSL) (e.g. https) transparent proxying (tunneling).
- Disallow HTTP methods other than GET, POST and CONNECT.
- Allow the monitor interval to be set in more complex ways (more configurable).
- Enable links in HTML documents to be modified depending if it is cached or not.
- Allow sorting by domain name in the indexes.
- Option to allow/deny proxy access based on username and password (HTTP/1.1).
- Do recursive fetching of Java class files (used by other Java class files).
- Made the HTML messages that WWWOFFLE outputs more consistent in formatting.
- Configuration File:
- Add a way of specifying if URLs are to be checked only once per session online.
- Added a DontRequestOffline section to replace the offline-requests option.
- Allow the Referer header to be censored in various ways.
- Allow the DontIndex section to be specified to apply to particular indexes.
- Added in wildcard matching for the hostname and pathnames.
- *NOTE* If upgrading from version 2.[123] the way that the times of monitoring
- URLs has changed, check the monitor index and correct where needed.
- Version 2.3e of WWWOFFLE released : Wed Nov 4 18:50:00 1998
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Changes to compile and run on WIN32 platforms using the Cygnus cygwin dev kit.
- Version 2.3d of WWWOFFLE released : Sat Oct 11 16:30:00 1998
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- Fix the confirm-requests option. Make recursive requests work whether online
- or offline or if the page is already cached or not. Put the password in the
- RefreshWillGet message. Fix the LastTime index PrevTime version number.
- Version 2.3c of WWWOFFLE released : Fri Sep 18 16:15:00 1998
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- Handle the case of 'default' correctly when matching URL-SPECIFICATIONs.
- Version 2.3b of WWWOFFLE released : Sat Sep 12 12:40:00 1998
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- Request URL form now works while offline.
- Added application/x-javascript to the MIMETypes in the default wwwoffle.conf
- Version 2.3a of WWWOFFLE released : Tue Aug 25 18:50:00 1998
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- Configuration file reading of URL-SPECIFICATION fixed.
- Version 2.3 of WWWOFFLE released : Sat Aug 22 12:20:00 1998
- -----------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- Relocated URLs now get fetched even if not in a recursive mode. Password
- handling for command line requests added. upgrade-config.pl problems with
- comments fixed.
- Server features:
- Add in an option to require confirmation of all offline requests for pages.
- Logging:
- A Perl script to collate the log information has been added.
- wwwoffle-tools:
- Can now read and write directly to the cache.
- Version 2.3-beta of WWWOFFLE released : Tue Aug 4 18:30:00 1998
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- The Netscape bug fix from 2.2c has been improved. Several recursive fetching
- bugs have been fixed.
- Server features:
- Store password protected pages with password needed to access cached version.
- Added a lock file for better interaction between fetching and online accesses.
- Made all of the index pages customisable.
- Purging:
- Can purge all pages from hosts in the DontGet and DontCache section.
- Purging can be specified on a URL by URL basis rather than host by host.
- Made the purge process clean out any junk files that should not be in cache.
- Index:
- Allow specified pages to be excluded from the index.
- Aliases:
- New name for the index section of the configuration file.
- Allows aliasing on the level of sub-directories not just whole hosts.
- Configuration file:
- Change the format of sections to allow a unified approach to URL specification.
- Allow a replacement URL to be used for those in the DontGet section.
- Version 2.2c of WWWOFFLE released : Fri Jul 10 15:30:00 1998
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- Added Solaris ix86 into the STD_ARG test. Stop crashes with monitor age of
- zero. Stop Netscape complaining about a broken connection. Make the refresh
- button work when online. Check the protocol and notgot status correctly when
- refreshing.
- Version 2.2b of WWWOFFLE released : Mon Jun 22 18:30:00 1998
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- Pass on the If-Modified-Since header to servers that are not cached. Check for
- If-Modified-Since header on local pages. Fix bug in header checking. Fix bug
- in meta-refresh requesting.
- Version 2.2a of WWWOFFLE released : Sun Jun 21 16:30:00 1998
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug Fixes:
- Zero length POSTed forms work. All HTTP headers are tested without checking
- case. Allow access to other www servers on localhost. Ensure the installed
- html files are world readable.
- HTML Parser
- Add the BASE tag to the html parser.
- Control program (wwwoffle):
- Disable the add-info-refresh option when using 'wwwoffle (-o|-O)'.
- Version 2.2 of WWWOFFLE released : Tue Jun 16 20:40:00 1998
- -----------------------------------------------------------
- Web pages:
- Make the error message and other control pages user customisable.
- Added a built-in trivial web server for local pages.
- Added Netscape automatic proxy configuration file, a robots.txt file, the FAQ.
- Server features:
- Use the Host header on http requests to act as firewall and not as proxy.
- Changed a lot of the WWWOFFLE URLs to cope with customisable web pages.
- Indexes:
- Keep the contents of the lasttime index in some prevtime indexes.
- Added a 'delete all' button for each host in the protocol indexes.
- Added a 'delete all' button for the monitored index.
- Fetching / Refreshing:
- Get images from input entries in forms when parsing HTML.
- Follow links in image maps when doing recursive fetching.
- Allow recursive fetching of applets, stylesheets and scripts as well.
- Monitoring:
- Allow the monitored pages to have user specified intervals.
- Purging:
- When using max-size option scale the host's purge age to chose final age.
- Configuration file:
- Put the socket timeout value as a configuration file option.
- Allow fake values to be used to replace censored headers.
- Include a program to update the configuration file.
- Control program (wwwoffle):
- Add an option to wwwoffle to allow a URL to be output with header.
- Change the options used to select fetching of embedded images/frames etc.
- Cache format
- Added a program to convert the cache to the correct format (endian problem).
- *NOTE* If upgrading from version 2.x on a big-endian machine (e.g. sparc,68000)
- you *MUST* run the program endian-cache before using the new version.
- See the file CONVERT for details.
- Version 2.1c of WWWOFFLE released : Sat Apr 25 08:30:00 1998
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug fixes:
- Bug with meta-refresh if URL is given as relative rather than absolute.
- URLs not deletable from info-refresh banner if they have an '&' in them.
- Bug in wwwoffle-tools wwwoffle-(ls|rm|mv).
- Version 2.1b of WWWOFFLE released : Wed Apr 15 18:10:00 1998
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug fixes:
- Bug with the timestamp on the If-Modified-Since header. Name lookup for
- numeric IP addresses fixed for some UNIXs. Pointer confusion with isdigit()
- in URL parsing fixed. Lookup IP address and use that when checking allowed
- connections. Makefile fixed for SunOS/Solaris make.
- Version 2.1a of WWWOFFLE released : Sat Mar 28 17:30:00 1998
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed the crashes that came from recursive downloads.
- Return the host indexes to having only pathname and not full URL.
- Version 2.1 of WWWOFFLE released : Thu Mar 5 17:50:00 1998
- ----------------------------------------------------------
- Bug fixes:
- Modified the ftp web-pages to work with Netscape. Explicitly deny access to
- URLS that include usernames and passwords instead of mishandling them. Allow
- '!' in URLs except immediately after a '?'. Don't recursively fetch, or get
- images, from pages with an error status. Follow Meta Refresh links when
- fetching.
- Use stricter checking in the config file.
- Allow a username and password to be specified for external proxy authorisation.
- Allow a username and password to be specified for different FTP servers.
- Specify the maximum age of cached pages to use while online instead of a yes/no.
- Allow users to cancel their own requests without a password (one chance only).
- Added an option to not make requests while used offline.
- Added an autodial mode that uses cached file if exists or gets from network.
- Provide an index of all files fetched while online the last time.
- Store a list of URLs to be fetched at regular intervals automatically.
- Keep backup copies of pages so remote server errors do not overwrite the cache.
- Added the finger protocol as an option.
- Add a WWWOFFLE_PROXY environment variable option to the wwwoffle program.
- *NOTE* If upgrading from version 1.x see also the NEWS for version 2.0 below.
- Version 2.0c of WWWOFFLE released : Mon Jan 12 18:40:00 1998
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug fixes:
- When using 'wwwoffle -o' stop core dumps, make HTML better, fix bug that
- stopped images or frames from being fetched automatically, stop HTTP header
- information appearing in browser, use add-info-refresh on all spooled pages
- even errors.
- Version 2.0b of WWWOFFLE released : Fri Jan 02 19:30:00 1998
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- A bug fix to stop crashes when used while online.
- Version 2.0a of WWWOFFLE released : Wed Dec 31 19:30:00 1997
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Bug fixes:
- When purging it now deletes all appropriate files if atime is used, the
- default FTPPassWord code is more portable, forms using POST work, FTP access
- to Microsoft servers works, some Makefile fixes, MIME Types file extensions
- match more sensibly.
- Print more useful error messages for hostname lookup errors.
- Allow the error level for stderr to be specified on the wwwoffled command line.
- Added some more automation scripts to the contrib directory.
- Version 2.0 of WWWOFFLE released : Sun Dec 21 10:30:00 1997
- -----------------------------------------------------------
- Updated and improved all of the README files.
- Fixed several small bugs:
- Config file editing page file parser, closing outgoing spool file, Location
- header will not get missed in reply.
- FTP directory listings are now in clickable HTML format.
- FTP requests for directories without a traiing '/' now redirect browser.
- Added a button to the index to delete all pages from a host or all requests.
- Included some scripts to automate using WWWOFFLE (in contrib directory).
- Version 2.0-beta of WWWOFFLE released : Sun Dec 14 12:30:00 1997
- ----------------------------------------------------------------
- Upgraded the cache file format:
- More extensible to new protocols (ftp etc.).
- Better hashing function (md5, less collisions).
- Outgoing directory same format as cache.
- No 'special cases' in filename to URL conversion.
- URL-encoding of URLs handled better.
- Re-written a lot of the code to make it easier to maintain.
- Improved the index - easier to navigate.
- Pages that are requested but not yet fetched do not appear in index.
- Added in a '-kill' option to wwwoffle to kill the server.
- Allow wwwoffle to read a file to specify the links to get.
- Added a Mirror section to the config file for mirrored hosts.
- Rewritten the proxy section to allow different proxies for different protocols.
- Rewritten the DontCache, DontGet and DontGetRecursive sections to simplify them.
- Added in the ftp protocol.
- *NOTE* You *MUST* run the upgrade-cache program before using version 2.x.
- See the file UPGRADE for details.
- *NOTE* The wwwoffle.conf file has changed format in some sections, see the file
- CHANGES.CONF for details of the changes.
- Version 1.3a of WWWOFFLE released : Mon Oct 6 18:00:00 1997
- -----------------------------------------------------------
- Fixed a bug where the index links did not work for URL-encoded URLs.
- Version 1.3 of WWWOFFLE released : Wed Sep 24 19:00:00 1997
- -----------------------------------------------------------
- Added an interactive configuration file editing web-page.
- Recursive fetching now uses more than one server process.
- Added in a DontGetRecursive section to the configuration file.
- Fixed bugs with recursive getting of pages containing frames.
- Proxy now recognises the If-Modified-Since header and gives suitable reply.
- Optionally ignore the 'Pragma: no-cache' header with a config file switch.
- Small improvements to the indexes.
- Added in a CONFDIR option for the configuration file location.
- Formalise the way that logical links work for directories in the cache.
- The loglevel option in the configuration file is now called log-level.
- Version 1.2e of WWWOFFLE released : Sat Aug 30 14:00:00 1997
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Better handling of child servers exiting.
- Optimised outgoing directory for large numbers of requests.
- Added the age of the page to the 'add-info-refresh' option.
- Added in two new options to the wwwoffle.conf file:
- The maximum number of servers and the maximum number of fetch servers.
- The logging level of error messages.
- Bug fixes
- Recursive fetching could fail or hangup the program.
- URLS with names like http://www.foo.com/. did not work.
- Fix the outgoing directory index for certain URLs.
- Version 1.2d of WWWOFFLE released : Sun Aug 3 10:30:00 1997
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Added in more information about the compile time options in INSTALL.
- Added the ability to index the outgoing directory.
- Added in the ability to delete pages from the outgoing directory and the cache.
- Version 1.2c of WWWOFFLE released : Thu Jul 17 16:40:00 1997
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Added in a fetch-frames option that works like fetch-images but gets frames.
- Fixed a bug in the DontGet and DontCache sections ('host=foo' was broken).
- Fixed a bug that caused a proxy to be used for pages on the local network.
- Added config options for user/group id to run as.
- Make wwwoffled detach from the terminal when started (no '&' needed).
- Allow a HUP signal to force a re-read of the config file.
- *NOTE* wwwoffled now detaches itself from the console by default and syslog is
- needed to get the error messages, use '-d' to get the previous behaviour.
- *NOTE* The force option to wwwoffle is now '-F' not '-f' so that '-f' can be
- used for frames.
- Version 1.2b of WWWOFFLE released : Thu Jun 26 16:20:00 1997
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Changed the operation of the 'wwwoffle -f' option to work better.
- Better handling of POST method
- - Works with posting to a URL with args.
- - POST method always gets sent again even if currently cached.
- - No longer allow refresh of a POSTed URL.
- Added an Options button pointing to the refresh page with URL filled in.
- - In the indexes.
- - In the add-info-refresh tag on the bottom of the page.
- - On the 'WWWOFFLE will get' message page.
- Changed the add-info-refresh time-tag to local time not GMT.
- Version 1.2a of WWWOFFLE released : Fri Jun 13 20:45:00 1997
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- A couple of minor bug-fixes for fetching and outgoing dir handling.
- - Possible race condition in outgoing directory.
- - Failure to get all pages requested in outgoing directory.
- - Refresh of remote host error pages gives WWWOFFLE error page.
- - Remote host error message handling improved.
- Added a 'wwwoffle -f' option to force refreshing of a page.
- Version 1.2 of WWWOFFLE released : Thu May 29 17:00:00 1997
- -----------------------------------------------------------
- Added the ability to get a URL from the cache using the wwwoffle command line.
- Added a config file option to use a file from the cache even when online.
- Added in a method of not getting files based on the file extension or host.
- Added in a method of not caching files based on the file extension or host.
- Recursive fetch while offline works exactly like when online.
- Recursive fetch can be limited to links in the same directory or sub-dir.
- Censorship can be applied to outgoing headers (username, browser version etc).
- Added in a Host header in HTTP requests for browsers that do not add it.
- Can now purge the oldest files until the cache is down to a specified size.
- Support 'Pragma: no-cache' used by browsers to force a refresh through proxies.
- Fixed a number of bugs that caused crashes due to signal handling.
- Zero length files in the spool are refetched or deleted as appropriate.
- Version 1.1 of WWWOFFLE released : Wed Mar 26 20:00:00 1997
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- Provide cache size information when doing a purge.
- Maintain directory access times even after doing an index.
- Improved the options for the recursive fetching using WWWOFFLE.
- Added an interactive page to the server for refresh or recursive fetching.
- Version 1.1-beta of WWWOFFLE released : Mon Mar 10 18:00:00 1997
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- Added a Welcome Page with info and links to the index, control and homepage.
- Made the index more user-friendly and moved it to /index/.
- Added an interactive web page to control the server, as well as wwwoffle.
- Pages requested while online are refreshed only if newer than the one in cache.
- If the page requested while offline has been moved then the link is followed.
- Merged wwwoffles into wwwoffled to simplify them and allow future iprovements.
- Allow wwwoffle to optionally fetch links from the specified page.
- Added the option to use syslog for messages as well as standard error.
- Changed to a configuration file:
- Removed the wwwoffled command line parameters.
- Added cache purge ages on a host by host basis, and mtime or atime choice.
- Added a list of server host names, allowed client hosts and non-cached hosts.
- Allow different proxies for different hosts.
- Added a password to control the use of wwwoffle to configure wwwoffled.
- Added an option to fetch images that are contained in requested pages.
- Added the option to put a refresh button at the bottom of every spooled page.
- Version 1.0 of WWWOFFLE released : Sat Jan 25 13:00:00 1997
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- Made POST method work for the more general case.
- Changed the way wwwoffle requests URLs, now the same as refresh button in index.
- Tidied up the code ready for first release version.
- Version 0.9b (beta) of WWWOFFLE released : Sun Jan 19 17:30:00 1997
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- Added support for POST method, but no refresh available (impossible).
- Server messages have correct status codes.
- A server reply with code 304 does not get cached.
- Accesses to localhost do not go via the specified external proxy.
- Refresh button in index fetches or stores request and shows cached version.
- The index process does not modify the access time of the files for purging.
- Version 0.9a (beta) of WWWOFFLE released : Fri Jan 17 21:00:00 1997
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- Localhost is not cached, all requests are fetched.
- Purge does not alter the time of the directories, and now works on access time.
- When connected, requested pages that are already cached are not fetched again.
- The index can now be sorted by time, or alphabetical, and can force refreshing.
- Version 0.9 (beta) of WWWOFFLE released : Sat Jan 11 13:30:00 1997
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- The WWWOFFLE programs simplify World Wide Web browsing from computers that use
- intermittent (dial-up) connections to the internet.
- - Caching of pages that are viewed while connected for review later.
- - Browsing of cached pages while not connected, with the ability to follow
- links and mark other pages for download.
- - Downloading of specified pages non-interactively.
- - Command line interface to select pages for downloading.
- - Index of pages stored in cache for easy selection.