- From: Kristian Spangsege <kristian.spangsege@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:46:46 +0200
- To: bancroft@america.net
- Cc: www-lib@w3.org
Hi again
So http://www.w3.org/Library/ really is the home of the latest version
of Libwww. In that case I think the website should be updated.
Whereever it says something about the latest release, it says 5.4.0:
http://www.w3.org/Library/#News
http://www.w3.org/Library/User/ReleaseNotes.html
About the bug:
The bug seems to remain in the latest CVS version.
A very simple test case for me is to use w3c command line utility and
request 'http://www.google.com'. This fails because for some reason
Google decides to redirect to "www.google.dk" (Denmark is where I
live.) It responds with status=302 (Found) and a 'Location' header.
This is supposed to make W3C follow the redirect, but it does not.
The fact that it is supposed to follow, is apparent from the
implementation of HTAfterInit (listed in my original mail.)
The fact that it does not work, is apparent from the lack of output
and inspection of 'w3chttp.out' and in fact is also apparent from
inspecting the source I listed in my first post.
I know this test case may be unavailable to you, but maybe you know of
another site that does a similar thing, or whatever. Anyway tell me if
you want me to also produce a minimal source code test program. The
bug, however, should be entirely obvious by inspecting only the source
I listed in my original post.
Regards,
Kristian Spangsege
On 8/29/07, Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net> wrote:
> Kristian Spangsege wrote:
>
> >According to http://www.w3.org/Library/ the latest version of Libwww
> >is 5.4.1, however the version on my FedorCore 6 is 5.4.1. This leads
> >me to suspect that Libwww is maintained elsewhere these days. Is that
> >correct?
> >
> >
> Yes, the library will show 5.4.1 if you check out and build as per,
>
> http://www.w3.org/Library/cvs.html
>
> This will include the updates and authors as listed in the change
> log[1]. The packaging and build is particularly well done by Andreas
> Bierfert for fedora 6 extras [2].
>
> >The reason I'm asking is that I found a bug, and wanted to see if it
> >was fixed in the latest release (or maybe in CVS.)
> >
> >Please advise as to where I can inspect the latest version and
> >potentially report a bug.
> >
> >
> Okay, I will try to check it both places, (just grabbed a copy of the
> SRPMS for FC6).
>
> >The result is that the redirection handler only works for status TEMP_REDIRECT, which obviously is not the intended behaviour:
> >
> >
> What is the simplest test case that exhibits the unintended behavior ?
>
> more,
> l8r,
> v
>
> --
> "The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
> -- William Gibson, quoted by Whitfield Diffie
>
> [1] Changes with libwww 5.4.1
>
> 2006-12-03 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
> * configure.ac, Library/src/Makefile.am, Library/cvs2sql/Makefile.am, Robot/src/Makefile.am:
> modify configure scripts for mysql_config based autoconf processing
> * Library/src/HTSQL.c, Library/src/HTSQL.html, Library/src/HTSQLLog.c: remove
> mysql directory from include directives
>
> 2006-12-02 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
>
> * Robot/src/RobotMain.c: added flag MR_KEEP_META for -lm last modified option
> detected by Jan Hutař
>
> 2006-11-29 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
>
> * Robot/src/RobotMain.c: added flag MR_KEEP_META for -title option
> detected by Jan Hutař
>
> 2006-07-09 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
>
> * close leak in HTBound process_boundary() detected by Sam Varshavchik
> using valgrind; excised old #if 0 snippets from HTMIME.c
>
> 2006-06-18 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
>
> * Library/src/HTCookie.c: add private function HTCookie_splitPair to
> split a KEY=VALUE pair, from Jesse Morgan
>
> 2006-03-14 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
>
> * configure.ac: remove unecessary check for appkit.h as
> suggested by Roger Persson
>
> 2006-03-12 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
>
> * Library/src/wwwsys.html: change genuine angle bracket characters
> into the angle bracket entities, thanks to Bobby Jack
>
> 2005-11-11 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
>
> * Library/src/HT*.html, Library/src/SSL/HT*.html: wrap
> all header files with extern "C"
> * Library/src/HTFile, configure.ac: add a basis for
> addressing Ben's security concerns
>
> 2005-10-16 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
>
> * Library/src/HTBound.c: libwww security advisory fix from
> Sam Varshavchik, fix double-counting of processed bytes,
> rewrote HTBoundary_put_block, to fix problematic HTTP 1.1
> byte range requests
>
> 2005-08-01 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
>
> * Library/src/: HTAlert.c, HTHeader.c, HTInit.c, HTNet.c,
> HTProfil.c, HTProt.c, HTTrans.c: Patch to greatly speed up
> repeated requests, from Arthur Smith
>
> 2005-07-25 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
>
> * Library/src/HTSQL.c: modifications to compile without using
> deprecated mysql functions
> * config/: config.sub, ltmain.sh: updates for recent version of
> libtool
>
> 2005-04-04 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
>
> * INSTALL.html, Library/src/HTEvtLst.c: cleaning
>
> 2005-03-09 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
>
> * libwww-config.in: include -lwwwssl, thanks to mgoddard at
> itgs-presearch.com
>
> 2005-02-28 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
>
> * Library/src/SSL/HTSSLWriter.c: avoids an eternal loop in libwww
> (thanks to Steinar Bang)
>
> 2005-02-27 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
>
> * Library/src/SSL/HTSSL.html, Robot/src/RobotMain.c: fix for webbot
> -v option check and documentation addition
> * configure.ac, Library/src/SSL/HTSSL.c,
> Library/src/SSL/windows/wwwssl.def, Robot/src/HTRobMan.html,
> Robot/src/Makefile.am, Robot/src/RobotMain.c: basic support for
> client side certificates using PEM format
>
> 2005-01-23 Vic Bancroft <bancroft@america.net>
>
> * Library/src/SSL/: HTSSL.c, HTSSLReader.c, HTSSLWriter.c: add
> openssl to include for ssl.h and rand.h
> * config/: config.guess, config.sub, ltmain.sh: update after
> running libtoolize
> * Robot/src/Makefile.am: use SSL directory for libwwwssl.la
> * Robot/src/RobotMain.c: include HTSSL.h
> * configure.ac: fix aclocal underquoting warnings
> * Robot/src/: RobotMain.c, Makefile.am: update to enable https
> protocol
>
> 2005-01-05 Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
>
> * Library/src/HTTPReq.c: fixed , to _ in HTTRACE call
> * Library/src/HTTPReq.c: removed LIBWWW_USEIDN, because unnecessary
> * modules/idn/unicode_template.c: forgot one file
> * Library/src/HTDNS.html: moved IDN to main branch
> * Library/src/HTDNS.c: moved IDN to main branch
> * Library/src/HTTPReq.c: added "LIBWWW_USEIDN" conditional
> * Library/src/HTTPReq.c: moved IDN to main branch
>
> 2004-01-29 Jose Kahan <jose@w3.org>
>
> * Library/Overview.html: JK: Added the libwww survey results
>
> [2] Fedora Core 6, Extras, source package for w3c-libwww
>
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/SRPMS/repoview/w3c-libwww.html
>
>
--
"Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children. We
owe our minds to the deaths and lives of all the creatures that were
ever engaged in the struggle called Evolution. Our job is to see that
all this work shall not end up in meaningless waste."
-- MARVIN L. MINSKY
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