
Release Notes for Libwww
See also the the
latest changes that are committed to and available from CVS but not yet in a release. See also the full libwww release history.
This is a minor release that mainly provides bug fixes and small
enhancements that have been commited to CVS since the last release. Vladimir
Koslov provided indispensable help for testing and preparing the Win32
release. Special thanks to Wayne Davison, Art Barstow, Peter Stamfest,
Zhu Qun-Ying, Jens Meggers, Ken Olum for their contributions.
- Summary of principal changes (the ChangeLog provides a detailed
account)
- The following sample applications could core dump under Windows:
head.c, getheaders.c, chunk.c, chunkbody.c, multichunk.c
- When retrieving an object from the cache, the HTTP headers
associated with the object weren't stored in the HTResponse
object.
- The cache garbage collector could go into an endless loop.
- The HTResponse object now returns the HTTP reason.
- Update of expat to version 19990728.
- Optimization, enhancements, and bugs fixes to the HTRDF module
- Some memory leaks and compiler warning fixes.
- The robot could hang when accessing local files.
- Optimization of the HTChunk and HTHash modules.
- Outstanding bugs
- The
webbot
crashes from time to time under Windows. It
seems to be a problem while reading the robots.txt
file,
where the application frees a request that's still registred in the
Windows async. loop.,
- The
tiny.c
sample application doesn't prompt the user
with a text input.
- Interpretation of FD_CLOSE
under Windows.
- The FTP implementation has memory leaks and doesn't remember the
path or authentication information correctly.
- Compiling with -O2 and -Wall reveals some unitialized variables in
HTDIR and HTFTP.
- To do
- Compile the answers to the libwww survey (volunteers are
welcome).
Jose Kahan,
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