Re: Where is Libwww maintained today

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=3D302 (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 <[email protected]> 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_RE=
DIRECT, 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 <[email protected]>
>         * configure.ac, Library/src/Makefile.am, Library/cvs2sql/Makefile=
.am, Robot/src/Makefile.am:
>           modify configure scripts for mysql_config based autoconf proces=
sing
>         * Library/src/HTSQL.c, Library/src/HTSQL.html, Library/src/HTSQLL=
og.c: remove
>           mysql directory from include directives
>
> 2006-12-02       Vic Bancroft <[email protected]>
>
>         * Robot/src/RobotMain.c: added flag MR_KEEP_META for -lm last mod=
ified option
>           detected by Jan Huta=F8
>
> 2006-11-29       Vic Bancroft <[email protected]>
>
>         * Robot/src/RobotMain.c: added flag MR_KEEP_META for -title optio=
n
>           detected by Jan Huta=F8
>
> 2006-07-09       Vic Bancroft <[email protected]>
>
>         * close leak in HTBound process_boundary() detected by Sam Varsha=
vchik
>           using valgrind; excised old #if 0 snippets from HTMIME.c
>
> 2006-06-18       Vic Bancroft <[email protected]>
>
>         * Library/src/HTCookie.c: add private function HTCookie_splitPair=
 to
>           split a KEY=3DVALUE pair, from Jesse Morgan
>
> 2006-03-14       Vic Bancroft <[email protected]>
>
>         * configure.ac: remove unecessary check for appkit.h as
>           suggested by Roger Persson
>
> 2006-03-12       Vic Bancroft <[email protected]>
>
>         * Library/src/wwwsys.html: change genuine angle bracket character=
s
>           into the angle bracket entities, thanks to Bobby Jack
>
> 2005-11-11       Vic Bancroft <[email protected]>
>
>         * 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 <[email protected]>
>
>         * 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 <[email protected]>
>
>         * 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 <[email protected]>
>
>         * 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 <[email protected]>
>
>         * INSTALL.html, Library/src/HTEvtLst.c: cleaning
>
> 2005-03-09       Vic Bancroft <[email protected]>
>
>         * libwww-config.in: include -lwwwssl, thanks to mgoddard at
>           itgs-presearch.com
>
> 2005-02-28       Vic Bancroft <[email protected]>
>
>         * Library/src/SSL/HTSSLWriter.c: avoids an eternal loop in libwww
>           (thanks to Steinar Bang)
>
> 2005-02-27       Vic Bancroft <[email protected]>
>
>         * Library/src/SSL/HTSSL.html, Robot/src/RobotMain.c: fix for webb=
ot
>           -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 <[email protected]>
>
>         * 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 <[email protected]>
>
>         * Library/src/HTTPReq.c: fixed , to _ in HTTRACE call
>         * Library/src/HTTPReq.c: removed LIBWWW_USEIDN, because unnecessa=
ry
>         * 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 <[email protected]>
>
>         * 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/repovie=
w/w3c-libwww.html
>
>


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