WWWOFFLE Version 2.8 Changes Page

Changes from version 2.7h to version 2.8.

New Features

• Chunked encoding from servers and to clients is now possible.
• Changed all HTML output to HTML 4.01 DTD and validated most output pages.
• Added in a WWWOFFLE stylesheet and some styles to the interal web pages.
• Removed the use of temporary files between server/cache and client.
• Added a parser for CSS (Stylesheets) to detect included files and images.
• The default directory for configuration files is /etc/wwwoffle.
• Remove the enable-modify-online option (no penalty for modifying online).
• Handle deflate compression (the commonly implemented but wrong version).
• Guess the compression type coming from servers (don't believe the headers).
• Stop infinite recursion when following Location headers or Meta Refresh tags.
• Stop infinite recursion if images are actually HTML (e.g. non-404 error pages).
• Fetch images etc in pages with error status codes.

New Options

• Added options to enable chunked encoding from servers and to clients.
• Added an option to disable the use of Etag as a cache validator.
• Added an option to force the insertion of a User-Agent header.
• Added an option to not make conditional requests to specified hosts.
• Added an option to fetch the favourite/shortcut icons automatically.
• The *-no-cache options now appear in OnlineOptions and OfflineOptions.
• Add an option to disable cookies from being set by HTML meta tags.

Program Changes

• Added '-g' option to wwwoffle to fetch no images, stylesheets etc.

Translations

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Bug Fixes

These are bugs that existed in version 2.7h (and may or may not have been in earlier version 2.7 patch versions).

• Allow viewing Javascript source in info pages.
• Make parsing of monitor option day/hour ranges more robust.
• Show correct times for URLs monitored every hour.
• Remove newline from end of line when calling syslog.
• Preserve username and password in FTP links.
• Fix some small memory leaks.
• Purge unmatched O* and U* files from outgoing.
• Improve spool error messages.
• Validate the -d option in wwwoffled.
• Keep the config file permissions when writing new one.
• Don't call freeaddrinfo(NULL).
• Running 'wwwoffle URL' when online now actually fetches the URL.
• Improve lexical analyser code for EOF condition, speed and new version of flex.
• Remove some lockfile race conditions.
• Better handling of non-ASCII URLs when parsing.
• The info page for a URL now shows all links.
• Index sorting by file type is case insensitive.
• Handle & in HTML tags like '&'.
• Better memory freeing in certain cases.
• Make the wwwoffle -[drR] options handle spaces before number.
• Allow wwwoffle program to request recursive fetching of depth 0.
• FTP requests with passwords work like HTTP.
• Running 'wwwoffle http://www/bar#foo' now does the right thing.
• Correctly handle recursive fetch options.
• Running 'wwwoffle http://aaa:bbb@www.foo/bar' now does the right thing.
• Allow files on the local web server with spaces in them.
• Fix overwriting of old error message with page.
• Remove title attributes from DontGet images when modifying.
• Check form entries for unwanted whitespace.