README
1WebInject
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3Copyright 2004, 2005, 2006 Corey Goldberg (corey@goldb.org)
4For information and documentation, visit the website at http://www.webinject.org
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7Release History:
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10Version 1.41 - Jan 4, 2006
11 - Added ability to add multiple HTTP Headers within an 'addheader' testcase parameter
12 - Added 'addheader' testcase parameter to GET requests (previously only supported POST)
13 - Fixed GUI layout for high dpi displays
14 - Bugfixes for 'verifyresponsecode' and 'errormessage' parameters
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16
17Version 1.40 - Dec 6, 2005
18 - Support for Web Services (SOAP/XML)
19 - Added XML parser for parsing and verification of XML responses (web services)
20 - Support for 'text/xml' and 'application/soap+xml' Content-Type (web services)
21 - Added new 'addheader' testcase parameter so you can specify an additional HTTP Header field for requests
22 - Support for setting variables/constants within test case files
23 - Added ability to call generic external Perl plugins for easier integration and post-processing
24 - More detail added to XML output
25 - Code refactoring
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27
28Version 1.35 - April 4, 2005
29 - New command line option (-o) to specify location for writing output files (http.log, results.html, and results.xml)
30 - Nagios plugin performance data support
31 - Allows multiple 'httpauth' elements in config files to support multiple sets of HTTP Authentication credentials
32 - New 'verifyresponsecode' test case parameter for HTTP Response Code verification
33 - Additional 'baseurl' elements supported in the config file
34 - Additional verification parameters supported in test cases
35 - Added -V command line option (same as -v) to print version info (necessary for it to run with Moodss)
36 - Code refactoring
37
38Version 1.34 - Feb 10, 2005
39 - MRTG External Monitoring Script (Plugin) compatibility
40 - Bugfix for using comment tags in config files
41 - Suppress logging when running in plugin mode
42 - Changed default standalone plot mode to OFF
43
44Version 1.33 - Jan 26, 2005
45 - Nagios Plugin compatibility
46 - Support for multipart/form-data encoded POSTs (file uploads)
47 - Updated results.html output so it is valid XHTML
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49Version 1.32 - Jan 14, 2005
50 - Bugfix for erroneous dummy test case printing in GUI status
51 - Bugfix for warning that appeared when running GUI with Perl in -w mode
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53Version 1.31 - Jan 11, 2005
54 - Bugfix for errors and broken status bar in GUI
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56Version 1.30 - Jan 07, 2005
57 - HTTP Basic Authentication support
58 - No longer forced to have test cases in strict incremental numbered order
59 - Source code compiles with the "use strict" pragma
60 - Ability to run engine from a different directory using alternate test case and config files
61 - Comments allowed in config file using <commment></comment> tags
62 - Other config.xml options are still used when you pass a test case filename as a command line argument
63 - New config option to change response delay timeout <timeout></timeout>
64 - New test case parameter to add a custom error message
65 - Added separators to http.log for readability
66 - Enhanced command line options/switches
67 - Nagios Plugin compatibility (beta)
68 - More verbose error handling when running from command line
69 - Ability to handle reserved XML character "<" within test cases by escaping it with a backslash "<"
70 - Changed output when using XPath notation from command line
71 - Bugfix for proxy support
72 - Bugfix for sending a parsed value in a POST body
73 - Bugfix for erroneous errors when running from command line
74 - Bugfix for warnings that appeared when running with Perl in -w mode
75 - Code refactoring
76
77Version 1.20 - Sept 27, 2004
78 - Real-time response time monitoring (stats display and integration with gnuplot for plot/graph)
79 - Added tabbed layout to GUI with 'Status' and 'Monitor' windows
80 - Added 'Stop' button to GUI to halt execution
81 - New testcase parameter 'sleep', to throttle execution
82 - Added timer summary to HTML report
83 - Removed HTML tags from STDOUT display and cleaned up formatting
84 - GUI enhancements
85 - Code refactoring
86
87Version 1.12 - July 28, 2004
88 - New test case file parameter 'repeat', to run a test case file multiple times
89 - Added GUI options for Minimal Output and Response Timer Output
90 - New config.xml parameter to define a custom User-Agent string to be sent in HTTP headers
91 - Added XPath Node selection to optional command line parameters
92 - Bugfix for GUI Restart button
93
94Version 1.10 - June 23, 2004
95 - Added XML formatted output (results.xml is created each run)
96 - New config.xml parameter for HTTP logging
97 - More detailed pass/fail status to HTML report
98 - Redefined criteria for test case pass/pail
99 - Results summary and additional formatting to STDOUT (for standalone mode)
100 - Minor code refactoring
101
102Version 0.95 - May 17, 2004
103 - Added Restart button to GUI
104 - Added 5 additional parsing parameters/variables to use in test cases
105 - Fixes to GUI positioning
106
107Version 0.94 - April 29, 2004
108 - Bugfix for malformed HTTP Post
109 - Added colors to status window text
110
111Version 0.93 - March 22, 2004
112 - Dynamic response parsing support cookieless session handling
113 - Added version number to GUI window title bar
114
115Version 0.92 - March 05, 2004
116 - Minor bug fixes
117 - Added status light to GUI
118 - New config.xml parameter for HTTP proxy support
119 - New config.xml parameter for Baseurl constant
120
121Version 0.91 - Feb 23, 2004
122 - Decoupled GUI (webinjectgui) from Test Engine (webinject) so engine can run standalone
123 - Testcase name can be passed on command line as well as via config.xml
124 - Code cleanup
125 - Output sent to STDOUT as well as reports (for standalone mode)
126
127Version 0.90 - Feb 19, 2004
128 - Initial public beta release
129 - Contains SSL/TLS support
130 - Perl/Tk GUI
131 - Automatic cookie handling
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