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Version 2.1 of WWWOFFLE released : Thu Mar 5 17:50:00 1998
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Bug fixes:
Modified the ftp web-pages to work with Netscape. Explicitly deny access to
URLS that include usernames and passwords instead of mishandling them. Allow
'!' in URLs except immediately after a '?'. Don't recursively fetch, or get
images, from pages with an error status. Follow Meta Refresh links when
fetching.
Use stricter checking in the config file.
Allow a username and password to be specified for external proxy authorisation.
Allow a username and password to be specified for different FTP servers.
Specify the maximum age of cached pages to use while online instead of a yes/no.
Allow users to cancel their own requests without a password (one chance only).
Added an option to not make requests while used offline.
Added an autodial mode that uses cached file if exists or gets from network.
Provide an index of all files fetched while online the last time.
Store a list of URLs to be fetched at regular intervals automatically.
Keep backup copies of pages so remote server errors do not overwrite the cache.
Added the finger protocol as an option.
Add a WWWOFFLE_PROXY environment variable option to the wwwoffle program.
*NOTE* If upgrading from version 1.x see also the NEWS for version 2.0 below.
Version 2.0c of WWWOFFLE released : Mon Jan 12 18:40:00 1998
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Bug fixes:
When using 'wwwoffle -o' stop core dumps, make HTML better, fix bug that
stopped images or frames from being fetched automatically, stop HTTP header
information appearing in browser, use add-info-refresh on all spooled pages
even errors.
*NOTE* If upgrading from version 1.x see also the NEWS for version 2.0b below.
Version 2.0b of WWWOFFLE released : Fri Jan 02 19:30:00 1998
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A bug fix to stop crashes when used while online.
*NOTE* If upgrading from version 1.x see also the NEWS for version 2.0a below.
Version 2.0a of WWWOFFLE released : Wed Dec 31 19:30:00 1997
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Bug fixes:
When purging it now deletes all appropriate files if atime is used, the
default FTPPassWord code is more portable, forms using POST work, FTP access
to Microsoft servers works, some Makefile fixes, MIME Types file extensions
match more sensibly.
Print more useful error messages for hostname lookup errors.
Allow the error level for stderr to be specified on the wwwoffled command line.
Added some more automation scripts to the contrib directory.
*NOTE* If upgrading from version 1.x see also the NEWS for version 2.0 below.
Version 2.0 of WWWOFFLE released : Sun Dec 21 10:30:00 1997
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Updated and improved all of the README files.
Fixed several small bugs:
Config file editing page file parser, closing outgoing spool file, Location
header will not get missed in reply.
FTP directory listings are now in clickable HTML format.
FTP requests for directories without a traiing '/' now redirect browser.
Added a button to the index to delete all pages from a host or all requests.
Included some scripts to automate using wwwoffle (in contrib directory).
*NOTE* See also the NEWS for version 2.0-beta below.
Version 2.0-beta of WWWOFFLE released : Sun Dec 14 12:30:00 1997
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Upgraded the cache file format:
More extensible to new protocols (ftp etc.).
Better hashing function (md5, less collisions).
Outgoing directory same format as cache.
No 'special cases' in filename to URL conversion.
URL-encoding of URLs handled better.
Re-written a lot of the code to make it easier to maintain.
Improved the index - easier to navigate.
Pages that are requested but not yet fetched do not appear in index.
Added in a '-kill' option to wwwoffle to kill the server.
Allow wwwoffle to read a file to specify the links to get.
Added a Mirror section to the config file for mirrored hosts.
Rewritten the proxy section to allow different proxies for different protocols.
Rewritten the DontCache, DontGet and DontGetRecursive sections to simplify them.
Added in the ftp protocol.
*NOTE* You *MUST* run the upgrade-cache program before using version 2.x.
See the file UPGRADE for details.
*NOTE* The wwwoffle.conf file has changed format in some sections, see the file
CHANGES.CONF for details of the changes.
Version 1.3a of WWWOFFLE released : Mon Oct 6 18:00:00 1997
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Fixed a bug where the index links did not work for URL-encoded URLs.
Version 1.3 of WWWOFFLE released : Wed Sep 24 19:00:00 1997
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Added an interactive configuration file editing web-page.
Recursive fetching now uses more than one server process.
Added in a DontGetRecursive section to the configuration file.
Fixed bugs with recursive getting of pages containing frames.
Proxy now recognises the If-Modified-Since header and gives suitable reply.
Optionally ignore the 'Pragma: no-cache' header with a config file switch.
Small improvements to the indexes.
Added in a CONFDIR option for the configuration file location.
Formalise the way that logical links work for directories in the cache.
*NOTE* The loglevel option in the configuration file is now called log-level.
Version 1.2e of WWWOFFLE released : Sat Aug 30 14:00:00 1997
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Better handling of child servers exiting.
Optimised outgoing directory for large numbers of requests.
Added the age of the page to the 'add-info-refresh' option.
Added in two new options to the wwwoffle.conf file:
The maximum number of servers and the maximum number of fetch servers.
The logging level of error messages.
Bug fixes
Recursive fetching could fail or hangup the program.
URLS with names like http://www.foo.com/. did not work.
Fix the outgoing directory index for certain URLs.
Version 1.2d of WWWOFFLE released : Sun Aug 3 10:30:00 1997
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Added in more information about the compile time options in INSTALL.
Added the ability to index the outgoing directory.
Added in the ability to delete pages from the outgoing directory and the cache.
Version 1.2c of WWWOFFLE released : Thu Jul 17 16:40:00 1997
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Added in a fetch-frames option that works like fetch-images but gets frames.
Fixed a bug in the DontGet and DontCache sections ('host=foo' was broken).
Fixed a bug that caused a proxy to be used for pages on the local network.
Added config options for user/group id to run as.
Make wwwoffled detach from the terminal when started (no '&' needed).
Allow a HUP signal to force a re-read of the config file.
*NOTE* wwwoffled now detaches itself from the console by default and syslog is
needed to get the error messages, use '-d' to get the previous behaviour.
*NOTE* The force option to wwwoffle is now '-F' not '-f' so that '-f' can be
used for frames.
Version 1.2b of WWWOFFLE released : Thu Jun 26 16:20:00 1997
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Changed the operation of the 'wwwoffle -f' option to work better.
Better handling of POST method
- Works with posting to a URL with args.
- POST method always gets sent again even if currently cached.
- No longer allow refresh of a POSTed URL.
Added an Options button pointing to the refresh page with URL filled in.
- In the indexes.
- In the add-info-refresh tag on the bottom of the page.
- On the 'WWWOFFLE will get' message page.
Changed the add-info-refresh time-tag to local time not GMT.
Version 1.2a of WWWOFFLE released : Fri Jun 13 20:45:00 1997
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A couple of minor bug-fixes for fetching and outgoing dir handling.
- Possible race condition in outgoing directory.
- Failure to get all pages requested in outgoing directory.
- Refresh of remote host error pages gives wwwoffle error page.
- Remote host error message handling improved.
Added a 'wwwoffle -f' option to force refreshing of a page.
Version 1.2 of WWWOFFLE released : Thu May 29 17:00:00 1997
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Added the ability to get a URL from the cache using the wwwoffle command line.
Added a config file option to use a file from the cache even when online.
Added in a method of not getting files based on the file extension or host.
Added in a method of not caching files based on the file extension or host.
Recursive fetch while offline works exactly like when online.
Recursive fetch can be limited to links in the same directory or sub-dir.
Censorship can be applied to outgoing headers (username, browser version etc).
Added in a Host header in HTTP requests for browsers that do not add it.
Can now purge the oldest files until the cache is down to a specified size.
Support 'Pragma: no-cache' used by browsers to force a refresh through proxies.
Fixed a number of bugs that caused crashes due to signal handling.
Zero length files in the spool are refetched or deleted as appropriate.
Version 1.1 of WWWOFFLE released : Wed Mar 26 20:00:00 1997
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Provide cache size information when doing a purge.
Maintain directory access times even after doing an index.
Improved the options for the recursive fetching using wwwoffle.
Added an interactive page to the server for refresh or recursive fetching.
Version 1.1-beta of WWWOFFLE released : Mon Mar 10 18:00:00 1997
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Added a Welcome Page with info and links to the index, control and homepage.
Made the index more user-friendly and moved it to /index/.
Added an interactive web page to control the server, as well as wwwoffle.
Pages requested while online are refreshed only if newer than the one in cache.
If the page requested while offline has been moved then the link is followed.
Merged wwwoffles into wwwoffled to simplify them and allow future iprovements.
Allow wwwoffle to optionally fetch links from the specified page.
Added the option to use syslog for messages as well as standard error.
Changed to a configuration file:
Removed the wwwoffled command line parameters.
Added cache purge ages on a host by host basis, and mtime or atime choice.
Added a list of server host names, allowed client hosts and non-cached hosts.
Allow different proxies for different hosts.
Added a password to control the use of wwwoffle to configure wwwoffled.
Added an option to fetch images that are contained in requested pages.
Added the option to put a refresh button at the bottom of every spooled page.
Version 1.0 of WWWOFFLE released : Sat Jan 25 13:00:00 1997
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Made POST method work for the more general case.
Changed the way wwwoffle requests URLs, now the same as refresh button in index.
Tidied up the code ready for first release version.
Version 0.9b (beta) of WWWOFFLE released : Sun Jan 19 17:30:00 1997
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Added support for POST method, but no refresh available (impossible).
Server messages have correct status codes.
A server reply with code 304 does not get cached.
Accesses to localhost do not go via the specified external proxy.
Refresh button in index fetches or stores request and shows cached version.
The index process does not modify the access time of the files for purging.
Version 0.9a (beta) of WWWOFFLE released : Fri Jan 17 21:00:00 1997
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Localhost is not cached, all requests are fetched.
Purge does not alter the time of the directories, and now works on access time.
When connected, requested pages that are already cached are not fetched again.
The index can now be sorted by time, or alphabetical, and can force refreshing.
Version 0.9 (beta) of WWWOFFLE released : Sat Jan 11 13:30:00 1997
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The WWWOFFLE programs simplify World Wide Web browsing from computers that use
intermittent (dial-up) connections to the internet.
- Caching of pages that are viewed while connected for review later.
- Browsing of cached pages while not connected, with the ability to follow
links and mark other pages for download.
- Downloading of specified pages non-interactively.
- Command line interface to select pages for downloading.
- Index of pages stored in cache for easy selection.