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1$eterna: CHANGES,v 1.77 2010/09/20 22:26:28 mrg Exp $
2
3changes since bozohttpd 20100617:
4	o  properly fully disable multi-file mode for now
5	o  fix the -t and -U options when used without the -e option, broken since
6	   the library-ifcation
7	o  be explicit that logs go to the FTP facility in syslog
8	o  use scandir() with alphasort() for sorted directory lists, from moof
9	o  fix a serious error in vhost handling; "Host:.." would allow access to
10	   the next level directory from the virtual root directory, from seanb
11	o  fix some various non standard compile time errors, from rudolf
12	o  fix dynamic CGI content maps, from rudolf
13
14changes since bozohttpd 20100509:
15	o  fix some compile issues
16	o  fix SSL mode.  from rtr
17	o  fix some cgi-bin issues, as seen with cvsweb
18	o  disable multi-file daemon mode for now, it breaks
19	o  return 404's instead of 403's when chdir of ~user dirs fail
20	o  remove "noreturn" attribute from bozo_http_error() that was
21	   causing incorrect runtime behaviour
22
23changes since bozohttpd 20090522:
24	o  major rework and clean up of internal interfaces.  move the main
25	   program into main.c, the remaining parts are useable as library.
26	   add bindings for lua.  by Alistair G. Crooks <agc@netbsd.org>
27	o  fix http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566325
28
29changes since bozohttpd 20090417:
30	o  avoid dying in daemon mode for some uncommon, but recoverable, errors
31	o  close leaking file descriptors for CGI and daemon mode
32	o  handle poll errors properly
33	o  don't try to handle more than one request per process yet
34	o  add subdirs for build "debug" and "small" versions
35	o  clean up a bad merge / duplicate code
36	o  make mmap() usage portable, fixes linux & ranges: support
37	o  document the -f option
38	o  daemon mode now serves 6 files per child
39
40changes since bozohttpd 20080303:
41	o  make bozohttpd internally more modular, preparing the way
42	   to handle more than one request per process
43	o  fix http-auth, set $REMOTE_USER not $REMOTEUSER.  also fix
44	   cgi-bin with cvsweb, from Holger Weiss <holger@CIS.FU-Berlin.DE>
45	o  fix an uninitialised variable use in daemon mode
46	o  fix ssl mode with newer OpenSSL
47	o  mmap large files in manageable sizes so we can serve any size file
48	o  refactor url processing to handle query strings correctly for CGI
49	   from Sergey Katsev at Coyote Point
50	o  add If-Modified-Since support, from Joerg Sonnenberger
51	   <joerg@netbsd.org>
52	o  many more manual fixes, from NetBSD
53
54changes since bozohttpd 20060710:
55	o  fix some cgi header processing, from <thelsdj@gmail.com>
56	o  add simple Range: header processing, from <bad@bsd.de>
57	o  man page fixes, from NetBSD
58	o  clean up various parts, from NetBSD
59
60changes since bozohttpd 20060517:
61	o  prefix some function names with "bozo"
62	o  align directory indexing <hr> markers
63	o  clean up some code GCC4 grumbled about
64
65changes since bozohttpd 20050410:
66	o  don't allow "/.." or "../" files
67	o  don't write ":80" into urls for the http port
68	o  fix a fd leak when fork() fails
69	o  make directory indexing mode not look so ugly
70	o  build a text version of the manual page
71	o  make "make clean" work properly
72
73changes since bozohttpd 20040808:
74	o  fix some off-by-one errors from <roland.illig@gmx.de>
75	o  properly support nph- CGI
76	o  make content maps case insensitive
77	o  fix proto header merging to include the missing comma
78	o  major source reorganisation; most features are in separate files now
79	o  new -V flag that makes unknown virtualhosts use slashdir
80	   from <rumble@ephemeral.org>
81	o  HTTP/1.x protocol headers are now properly merged for CGI
82
83changes since bozohttpd 20040218:
84	o  CGI status is now properly handled (-a flag has been removed)
85	o  CGI file upload support works
86	o  %xy translations are no longer ever applied after the first '?',
87	   ala RFC2396.  from lukem
88	o  daemon mode (-b) should no longer hang spinning forever if it
89	   sees no children.  from lukem
90	o  new .bzabsredirect file support. from <martin@netbsd.org>
91	o  return a 404 error if we see %00 or %2f (/)
92	o  don't print 2 "200" headers for CGI
93	o  support .torrent files
94
95changes since bozohttpd 20031005:
96	o  new .bzredirect file support for sane directory redirection
97	o  new -Z option that enables SSL mode, from <rtr@eterna.com.au>
98	o  the -C option has been changed to take two explicit options, rather
99	   than a single option with a space separating the suffix and the
100	   interpreter.  ``-C ".foo /path/to/bar"'' should now be written
101	   as ``-C .foo /path/to/bar''
102	o  the -M option has been changed like -C and no longer requires or
103	   supports a single argument with space-separated options
104	o  with -a, still print the 200 OK.  from <rtr@eterna.com.au>
105	o  with -r, if a .bzdirect file appears in a directory, allow direct
106	   access to this directory
107
108changes since bozohttpd 20030626:
109	o  fixes for basic authorisation.  from <ecu@ipv42.net>
110	o  always display file size in directory index mode
111	o  add .xbel, .xml & .xsl -> text/xml mappings.  from
112	   <wiz@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at>
113
114changes since bozohttpd 20030409:
115	o  fix a recent core dump when given no input
116	o  add new -r flag that ensures referrer is set to this host
117	o  fix several compile time errors with -DNO_CGIBIN_SUPPORT
118	o  fix some man page details. from lukem@wasabisystems.com
119	o  re-add a missing memset(), fixing a core dump. from lukem
120	o  support HTTP basic authorisation, disabled by default.  from lukem
121	o  print the port number in redirects and errors. from lukem
122	o  only syslog the basename of the program. from lukem
123	o  add __attribute__() format checking. from lukem
124	o  fix cgibin SCRIPT_NAME to have a leading /.  from zakj@nox.cx
125	o  simplify some code in -C to avoid a core dump.  from lukem
126	o  add a .css -> css/text entry to the content_map[].  from zakj@nox.cx
127
128changes since bozohttpd 20030313:
129	o  -d without DEBUG enabled only prints one warning and continues
130	o  one can now define the C macro SERVER_SOFTWARE when building to
131	   change the Server: header and CGI variable of the same name
132	o  add new -s flag the force logging output to stderr. from zakj@nox.cx
133	o  add new -a flag for CGI bin that stops bozohttpd from outputting
134	   any HTTP reply, the CGI program must output these.  from zakj@nox.cx
135	o  new REQUEST_URI and DATE_GMT environment variables for CGI.  from
136	   zakj@nox.cx
137	o  add a "Makefile.boot" that should work with any make program
138	o  build on linux again
139	o  fix core dumps when using -C
140
141changes since bozohttpd 20021106:
142	o  deprecate -r flag; make this the default and silently ignore -r now
143	o  add support for file extentions to call CGI programs (from lukem)
144	o  add dynamic support to add new content map entries, allowing both
145	   new file types and non /cgi-bin CGI programs to be run with the
146	   new -C "suffix cgihandler" and -M "suffix type encoding encoding11"
147	   options
148	o  in -b mode, set the http date after accept() returns, not before we
149	   call accept()
150	o  in -b mode, bind all addresses found not just the first one
151	o  unsupport old hostname API
152	o  in -b mode, set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option (lukem)
153	o  allow -x (index.html) mode to work with CGI handlers
154
155changes since bozohttpd 5.15 (20020913):
156	o  add .bz2 support
157	o  properly escape <, > and & in error messages, partly from
158	   Nicolas Jombart <ecu@mariejeanne.net>
159	o  new -H flag to hide .* files in directory index mode
160	o  fix buffer reallocation when parsing a request, to avoid
161	   overflowing the buffer with carriage returns (\r)
162	o  do not decode "%XY"-style cgi-bin data beyond the "?"
163
164changes since bozohttpd 5.14 (20020823):
165	o  add .ogg support -> `application/x-ogg'
166	o  fix CGI requests with "/" in the query part
167
168changes since bozohttpd 5.13 (20020804):
169	o  allow -X mode to work for "/"
170	o  work on systems without MADV_SEQUENTIAL
171	o  make a local cut-down copy of "queue.h" (fixes linux & solaris
172	   support at the very least)
173	o  portability fixes for pre-ipv6 socket api systems (eg, solaris 7)
174	o  portability fixes for missing _PATH_DEFPATH, LOG_FTP and __progname
175	o  better documentation on virtual host support
176
177changes since bozohttpd 5.12 (20020803):
178	o  support .mp3 files (type audio/mpeg)
179	o  use stat() to find out if something is a directory, for -X mode
180
181changes since bozohttpd 5.11 (20020730):
182	o  constification
183	o  fixes & enhancements for directory index mode (-X)
184
185changes since bozohttpd 5.10 (20020710):
186	o  more man page fixes from Thomas Klausner
187	   <wiz@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at>
188	o  de-K&R C-ification
189	o  fix Date: header for daemon mode
190	o  fix core dump when asking for /cgi-bin/ when CGI isn't configured
191	o  use a valid Server: header
192
193changes since bozohttpd 5.09 (20010922):
194	- add freebsd support
195	- fix a couple of header typos
196	- many cgi-bin fixes from lukem@netbsd.org
197	- add -T chrootdir and -U user, plus several minor other cleanups
198	with signals and return values.  from xs@kittenz.org
199	- add -e that does not clear the environment for -T/-U
200	- fix a formatting error noticed by ISIHARA Takanori <ishit@oak.dti.ne.jp>
201
202changes since bozohttpd 5.08 (20010812):
203	- add a daemon mode
204	- document how to use bozohttpd in netbsd inetd with more than 40
205	connections per minute and also with cgibin
206	- man page fixes from wiz@netbsd.org
207
208changes since bozohttpd 5.07 (20010610):
209	- add directory index generation support (-X) from ad@netbsd.org
210	- add .pa as an alias for .pac
211	- make server software version configurable (RFC)
212
213changes since bozohttpd 5.06 (20000825):
214	- add .png support
215	- new "-x index.html" flag to change default file
216	- new "-p public_html" flag to change default ~user directory
217	- fixes cgi-bin support and more from chuck@research.att.com
218	- add many new content-types, now support most common ones
219
220changes since bozohttpd 5.05 (20000815):
221	- add IPv6 suppor from itojun@iijlab.net
222	- man page fixes from jlam@netbsd.org
223
224changes since bozohttpd 5.04 (20000427):
225	- fix a virtual host bug, from kleink@netbsd.org
226
227changes since bozohttpd 5.03 (20000427):
228	- fix virtual host support; URI takes precedence over Host:
229
230changes since bozohttpd 5.02 (20000426):
231	- fix a bug with chdir()
232
233changes since bozohttpd 5.01 (20000421):
234	- .pac spport from simonb
235
236changes since bozohttpd 5.00 (19990519):
237	- .swf support
238	- virtual hosting support
239
240