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9/2/97
Announcing: Sambar Server 4.03 BETA 2 Release
I appreciate any bug reports. To support aliasing and a number of
bug fixes, a great amount of code was rewritten for this release.
Most significant was the change from PC-style directory separators (\)
to UNIX-style directory separators (/).
Thanks,
Tod Sambar
Sambar Technologies
tod@sambar.com
4.03 Beta 2 Features/Bug Fixes:
Added CGI and Document aliasing
Changed search indexes to use relative paths
Fixed FTP_WELCOME macros to allow new-lines
Added FTP_GOODBYE macro
Changed all PC-specific directory notation to now use UNIX forward
slash (/) (affects config.ini and security.ini)
Implemented FTP REST (restart command)
Included Ceilidh 1.50 Group discussion forum from www.lilikoi.com
Fixed a POST bug affecting many PERL discussion forums.
Added HTTP_COOKIE CGI environment variable.
Fixed FTP RENAME bug.
Added CR/LF to all configuration and log files.
Fixed document directory listing of server when "home page" is missing.
Fixed search bug that caused words following HTML tags to be missed
4.03 Features/Bug Fixes:
Implemented Sambar Server as an NT Service
Implemented Virtual Hosts
Implemented HTTP PUT -- not fully tested!
Implemented FTP APPE (append) command -- not fully tested!
Support for ISINDEX queries
Fixed many CGI bugs (thanks for being patient)
Fixed bug in security.c where case-sensitive comparinson was performed.
Fixed bug when writing out server configuration that caused the document directory to get trashed
Fixed bug in security processing when directory is not the install directory
Modified FTP to support file names with spaces and dashes (valid characters are alpha-numeric, space, dash and underline)
Provide status update while Search Indexer is running (file list)
Implemented Server-side includes (see SSI documentation for implementation notes)
Improved the log analysis agent discovery (more extensible)
Added active users report (and the ability to terminate sessions)
Added parent environment to CGI environment
Added REMOTE_USER and CONTENT_TYPE to CGI
Fixed FTP root directory path bug
Fixed WinCGI and CGI to work with 16-bit applications and fixed parameter passing
Fixed CGI QUERY_STRING bug (was passing URL with <query>)
Upgrading from 4.X:
- DO NOT install over an existing installation!
- The config.ini and security.ini files have changed from the
previous release. Most significantly all directory paths must now
use a forward slash (/) rather than the PC-style backward slash (\)
- The output written to the access.log file has changed
- The logstats.ini file has a new format.
- All Search Indexes must re-generated.
- Scripting language and Server APIs are 100% compatible.