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2007-11-11

2007-11-11 19:47:10 by Martin Nilsson <mani@lysator.liu.se>

Work (still) in progress

Rev: CHANGES:1.83

344:    stdout and stderr arguments to the spawn() call it performs.      o Protocols.DNS -  Added support for NAPTR (RFC 3403) records. -  Fix for TTL parsing in SRV records. -  gethostbyname() now returns IPv6 addresses too, if available. -  Improved support for T_TXT. +     -  +  - Added support for NAPTR (RFC 3403) records. +  +  - The gethostbyname() function now returns IPv6 addresses too, if +  available. +  +  - Fixed bugs in IPv6 record parsing. +    o Protocols.Bittorrent -  Support for gzipped and compact tracker responses. -  30% faster hashing of files. +     -  +  - Support for gzipped and compact tracker responses. +  +  - 30% faster hashing of files. +  +  - Many performance and bug fixes. +  + o Protocols.HTTP +  +  - Added support for httpu and httpmu requests. +  +  - Queries will now throw an exception in case of an errno condition. +  +  - A new function, do_async_method(), has been added to allow access +  to low level asynchronous HTTP calls. +  +  - The http_encode_string() function now know how to encode UCS-2 +  characters. +  + o Protocols.HTTP.Server +  +  - If accept() fails on the open port, the Port object will continue +  trying, to support servers with high load. +    o Protocols.HTTP.Query    -  Many async bug fixes. -  Added timed_async_fetch() +  - Added unicode_data() method that will return the payload decoded +  according to the charset described in the Content-Type header.    -  Don't silently downgrade to http from https if there is no crypto -  support. +  - Many fixes for bugs in asynchronous mode.    -  Addedunicode_data() +  - A query will not silently downgrade to http from https anymore if    -  Keep alive fixes. +  there is no crypto support.    - o Protocols.HTTP.Session -  Now possible to manually set content type. +  - Fixes for keep alive.    - o Protocols.HTTP -  http_encode_string() now know how to encode UCS-2 characters. + o Protocols.LDAP    -  +  FIXME: Many changes +  + o Protocols.SNMP +  +  The readmsg() method in the protocol object now takes an optional +  timout argument. +  + o Protocols.XMLRPC +  +  The new AsyncClient class implements an asynchronous XMLRPC client. +  + o Sql +  +  - Bugfixes in listing Postgres fields. +  +  - If ENABLE_SPAWN_RSQLD is defined, rsqld will be spawned when +  needed to complete rsql queries. +  +  - Added streaming_query() method to Sql objects which enables larger +  result sets than available memory. +  +  - It is possible to iterate over the result object from big_query() +  queries directly in foreach. +  +  FIXME: mysql +  + o SSL +  +  FIXME: client certificates: examples? +  + o Standards.IIM +  +  Some bugfixes in parsing Photoshop headers and DOS EPS Binary +  Headers. +  + o Standards.ISO639_2 +  +  Updated with the latest ISO639-2 languages. +  + o Standards.URI +  +  - Updated to conform to RFC 3986. +  +  - Added methods get_query_variables(), set_query_variables(), +  add_query_variable() and add_query_variables() to give a better +  API to to handle query variables. +  +  - The new method get_http_query() returns the query part and +  get_http_path_query() returns both the path and the query, both +  coded according to RFC 1738. +  + o Standards.UUID +  +  - Added support for UUID version 5; name based with SHA hash, which +  can be generated from the make_version5 function. +  +  - An UUID object can now be used as namespace in the second argument +  to make_version3 as well as the new make_version5. +  + o Standards.XML.Wix +  +  FIXME +  + o Stdio +  +  (module.pmod, Readline, Terminfo) FIXME +  + o String +  +  - The function int2size has been rewritten to fixpoint as well as +  using the more common abbreviation of "B" for byte. +  + o Tools +  +  FIXME +  + o Web.Crawler +  +  - Bugfix to support robots.txt created on windows. +  +  - User Agent change to "Mozilla 4.0 (PikeCrawler)" +  + o Web.RDF +  +  - Added add_statement() method which allows new relations to be +  added to an RDF set. +    o sprintf    sprintf() now attempts to lookup the name of the program when    formatting types of objects and programs.    - PROTOCOLS NOT DONE +     - o ADT.Table -  Fixed sorting of columns typed num. +     - o Calendar.Badi -  Support for the Badi calendar used in the Baha'i religion. -  +    New Modules      o ADT.List
524:   o The modules Mird, Perl, Pipe and Ssleay have been removed.       + -------------------- NOTES------------ +  + 2004/04/26 00:13:30 +    backport:      Calendar.pmod/events/regional   Calendar.pmod/TZnames.pmod -  + Protocols.HTTP.Query      update(?):      Geography.pmod/Countries.pmod   MIME.pmod/ext... -  + Bittorrent.pmod/PeerID.pmod      fixme:   Process.locate_binary