11 INETS Release Notes

This document describes the changes made to the INETS application.

11.1 INETS 2.2.5

11.1.1 Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

• The server-side include parsing (mod_include(3)) no longer has problems with big HTML files. These problems previously resulted in a memory intensive emulator and lingering processes.
  Own Id: OTP-2507
  
• HTTP-1.1 requests are now accepted; even though the server is HTTP-1.0 compliant. HTTP-1.1 uses the same external protocol as HTTP-1.0 anyway; as defined in RFC 1945.
  Own Id: OTP-2679
  

11.1.2 Known bugs and problems

• If a Web browser connect itself to an SSL enabled server using a URL not starting with https:// the server will hang due to an ugly bug in the SSLeay package!
  

11.2 INETS 2.2.2

11.2.1 Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

• "unknown" is not always put into the remotehost field of access logs when the obsolote sockets type is used. The remotehost field is furthermore always a numerical IP address even if the new ip_comm socket type is used.
  Own Id: OTP-2225, seq 682
  
• The server does a complete cleanup even though httpd:stop/1 wasn't used to terminate the server.
  Own Id: OTP-2229
  
• The server now uses the new inet(3) distribution mechanism as default if the SocketType directive not is used in the server configuration, i.e. as stated in httpd_core(3).
  Own Id: OTP-2554
  
• The ErrorLog and ErrorDiskLog directives now handles absolute file paths on Windows NT/95.
  Own Id: OTP-2504, seq885
  

11.2.2 Known bugs and problems

• If a Web browser connect itself to an SSL enabled server using a URL not starting with https:// the server will hang due to an ugly bug in the SSLeay package!
  

11.3 INETS 2.2.1.1

11.3.1 Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

• TCP errors is now taken care of.
  Own Id: OTP-2389
  
• Passwords are now encoded before storage in Mnesia.
  Own Id: OTP-2278,seq737
  
• httpd_socket:peername problem solved.
  Own Id: OTP-2225,seq682
  
• "ErlScriptAlias all" makes the server accept client access to all modules in the Erlang node.
  Own Id: OTP-2285,seq743
  

11.3.2 Known bugs and problems

• If a Web browser connect itself to an SSL enabled server using a URL not starting with https:// the server will hang due to an ugly bug in the SSLeay package!
  

11.4 INETS 2.2.1

11.4.1 Improvements and New Features

• The module mod_ecgi is now called mod_esi and the "Module" config directive has to be updated accordingly.
  (*** INCOMPATIBILITY with INETS 2.1 **)
  
• The config directives "ServerName", "Port", "ServerRoot" and "DocumentRoot" are now mandatory.
  (*** INCOMPATIBILITY with INETS 2.1 **)
  
• The default value for the config directive "SocketType" is "ip_comm" (Erlang's new communication mechanism) instead of the obsolete sockets dito.
  (*** INCOMPATIBILITY with INETS 2.1 **)
  

11.4.2 Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

• The access log format now uses a correct date format.
  Own Id: OTP-2068
  
• ftp:open/2 no longer hangs indefinitely.
  Own Id: OTP-2041, seq526
  

11.4.3 Known bugs and problems

• If a Web browser connect itself to an SSL enabled server using a URL not starting with https:// the server will hang due to an ugly bug in the SSLeay package!
  

11.5 INETS 2.2

11.5.1 Improvements and New Features

• The server documentation has been thoroughly reviewed and enhanced. The documentation has been grouped into 18 manual pages and the Erlang Web Server API (EWSAPI) is described in detail.
  Own Id: OTP-1439
  
• Mnesia based management of authentication data is now supported. It is now possible to on-the-fly manage user and group information to be used for authentication. (Read more about this in the EWSAPI module mod_auth_mnesia description).
  Own Id: OTP-1591
  Own Id: OTP-1491
  
• An alternative mechanism for storage of log information is no supported. This mechanism uses disk_log(3) to enable the use of wrap logs etc. (Read more about this in the EWSAPI module mod_disk_log description).
  Own Id: OTP-1491
  
• A new config directive SocketType has been added making it possible to specify which communication mechanism to use, i.e. ip_comm, sockets or ssl. ip_comm is the default choice if nothing is specified in the server config file. (Read more about SocketType in httpd_core(3).
  Own Id: OTP-1600
  
• A new mandatory config directive ServerName has been added telling the server about its actual host name. ServerName must be specified for the server to start. (Read more about ServerName in httpd_core(3).
  
• Server-Side Includes is now supported. (Read more about this in the EWSAPI module mod_include description).
  
• Filetype/method-based script execution is now supported (Read more about this in the EWSAPI module mod_actions description).
  
• Basic directory indexing is now supported (Read more about this in the EWSAPI module mod_dir description).
  
• The ftp client has been extended with a set of new functions: delete/2, recv_bin, rename, rmdir, send_bin, and functions for sending file chunks.
  Own Id: OTP-1724, OTP-1803
  

11.5.2 Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

• It is now possible to start a server using erl command's -s option.
  Own Id: OTP-1444
  
• Erlang CGI-scripts now correctly handles %3A character sequences in the CGI QUERY_STRING
  Own Id: OTP-1459
  Aux Id: HA54106
  
• The ftp client now correctly receives a file in the current directory of the client
  Own Id: OTP-1809
  
• The ftp client is now linked to the owner.
  Own Id: OTP-1802
  

11.5.3 Known bugs and problems

• If a Web browser connect itself to an SSL enabled server using a URL not starting with https:// the server will hang due to an ugly bug in the SSLeay package!
  

11.6 INETS 2.1

11.6.1 Improvements and New Features

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is now supported. Read more about SSL in the OTP SSL application.

• Erlang CGI-scripts now correctly handles colons (:) in the QUERY_STRING
  Own Id: OTP-1444
  
• httpd beam start-up configuration problems solved.
  Own Id: OTP-1467
  Aux Id: HA54102
  

11.6.2 Known bugs and problems

• It is currently not possible to start a server using erl command's -s option!
  
• If a Web browser connect itself to an SSL enabled server using a URL not starting with https:// the server will hang due to an ugly bug in the SSLeay package!
  
• That the ftp client did not check for eof in a file read, has been corrected.
  Own Id: OTP-1572
  

11.7 INETS 2.0

11.7.1 Improvements and New Features

The Web server has been totally redesigned and now supports the Erlang Scripting Interface (ESI), CGI-1.1, User Authentication, Common Log Format , URL Aliasing, Mime Type Settings, Erlang Web Server API (EWSAPI) and External Config Files (Apache style) etc.

11.7.2 Known bugs and problems

It seems that there is a problem starting the server using the erl command's -s option!

11.8 INETS 1.0.2

11.8.1 Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

• A file with a .js file suffix is now mime stamped with application/x-javascript (Ticket: OTP-1221).
• Output produced by an Erlang CGI script is now parsed before delivery, i.e. a valid response status code is generated, e.g. Location: http://www.yahoo.com\n\n generates the status code 302 to inform the client of the redirect declared in the Location: field (Ticket: OTP-1227).

11.9 INETS 1.0.1

11.9.1 Improvements and New Features

• Addition of httpd:parse_query/1 which parses input to eval and erl scripts.
• Examples in httpd_example + documentation has been updated and no longer use flatten and ++ as extensively. Cause: It is OK to return nested lists to a port, term_to_binary/1 and size/1.
• It is now OK to use "/" instead of ":" in eval and erl scripts as module:function separator.

11.9.2 Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

• Manually started HTTP servers (start/6) no longer linked to the eshell (gosh!).
• Data transfer is now gracefully stopped if a HTTP client aborts a HTTP request.
• Input to erl and eval script no longer gets automatically (and wrongly) converted (+ made into space and %xx made into the appropriate character). Use the new parse_query function instead.

11.10 INETS 1.0

New application.