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- --- Release of Lynx v2.8 (March 10, 1998) ---
- =======================================================================
- 1998-03-10
- * omit platform-specifics about release (recommended by HN). - TD
- * drop samples/lynx.cfg since it is redundant (recommended by HN). - TD
- * modify makefile.in so that "make install-cfg" does not edit lynx.cfg
- to point at local helpfiles, while "make install-help" will now do
- that (reported by LP). - TD
- 1998-03-07
- * move ifdef's for EXP_8BIT_TOUPPER inside UPPER8 function to allow
- check for DOS/WINDOWS display charsets. - LP
- 1998-03-06
- * clarify relationship between the configure script and userdefs.h with
- respect to the LYNX_CFG_FILE definition. - TD
- * newer CF_FIND_LIBRARY autoconf macro, to allow ncurses library in /lib
- only, needed for SUSE Linux. - TD
- * add casts to UPPER8 function's comparison for equality of parameters, and
- to TOUPPER macro to guard against sign-extension due to prototype. - AAC
- * correct spelling of -lcur_colr library in aclocal.m4, change order of
- tests to put -lHcurses second on HP-UX (patch by Jonathan Sergent).
- * restore simple zmodem downloader script, displaced by recent undocumented
- change (there are some concerns about security or permissions with the
- alternate script). - DK
- * DOSPATH localfile patch: corrected display of file://localhost/c:/,
- which was displayed as file://localhost/c%3A/ (tweak LYConvertToUrl() in
- LYUtils.c). Now we may start "lynx c:" or 'go' c: and not see these
- strange letters. On the other hand, if % and # symbols found in local
- path it will be escaped as before (note that #fragment is not supposed here
- to be used from command line...) - LP
- * workaround error in vendor's terminfo description of 'dtterm' by ensuring
- we limit color pair-number accordingly. - TD
- 1998-03-04
- * strip -g compiler option if not otherwise specified, for debugging (note
- that autoconf 2.12 does not try to use -O option due to concerns about
- compiler optimization). - TD
- * correct value of $host_os used in CF_CURSES_LIBS for special-case of
- HP's -lHcurses (Jonathan Sergent <sergent@ecn.purdue.edu>).
- * correct def7_uni.tbl for Greek letters, note about UPPER8 assumption
- added to chrtrans/README.format. - LP
- * few comments corrected. - LP
- 1998-02-28
- * create new PRCS revision (2.8pre) for pre-release testing of Lynx 2.8 -TD
- * remove RELEASE_STATEMENT, merging it into README as per HN's
- recommendation - TD
- * comments/minor changes to HTDOS.c, HTDOS.h, LYUtils.c - LP
- * document recent fix for RAW_DOS_KEY_HACK in lynx.cfg - DK
- * rename CHANGES.new to docs/CHANGES2.8 - TD
- * undo last minor change to UPPER8 - LP
- 1998-02-27
- * add RELEASE_STATEMENT file. - TD
- * modify slang configuration to add fake 'scrollok()' - JED
- * modify LYmktime() so that 2-digit years must be greater/equal to 70 to be in
- 1900's (patch by Bela Lubkin). Also adjust parse_windows_nt_dir_entry() and
- parse_cms_dir_entry() as noted by Bela - TD
- * comment-out entries in cp1252_uni.tbl which correspond to nonprinting
- control-characters - LP
- * add logic in SGML.c to correspond with 2.7.2 logic for codes used by
- Microsoft FrontPage. - LP
- * remove unneeded code for nbsp, ensp, emsp, thinsp and shy from handle_entity()
- in SGML.c - LP
- * ifdef UPPER8 function with EXP_8BIT_TOUPPER,
- add configure option --enable-8bit-toupper to allow testing. - TD
- * case-insensitive search and 8bit letters: It was realized that
- information about upper/lower mapping got from TOUPPER which depends on
- locale in its 8bit and usually fails on non-UNIX systems. We introduce
- UPPER8 and strcasecomp8 to implement 8-bit aware case-independent search
- using one simple assumption: 8bit upper/lower case letters have their
- "7bit approximation" images in def7_uni.tbl matched case-insensitively
- (7bit). The cost of this assumption is that several differently accented
- letters may be interpreted as equal but this is negligible if the search
- string is more than one character long. (LYStrings.c, also HTString.c
- and LYMainLoop.c). - LP, TD
- * add SunOS 4.x-specific ifdef to quiet redefinition warnings for sys/ioctl.h
- vs sys/termios.h - TD
- * convert usage/options messages into arrays to simplify maintenance. - TD
- * add "-useragent" command-line option to set "User-Agent" (request by Merlin
- Mathesius <merlin_mathesius@swissbank.com>). - LP
- * tweak HTML in LYDownload.c, LYPrint.c to restore some double-spacing effects
- altered in 'collapsible spaces' change 1998-01-25 (reported by James Elkinton
- <zio@blueneptune.com>). - LP
- * use strncasecomp/strcasecomp consistently throughout to avoid library
- dependency on strncasecmp/strcasecmp. - TD
- * correct lengths in several strncasecmp calls for command-line options
- (though -w is still an abbreviation for -width). - TD
- * test-build with BSD curses on OS/2 EMX (does not display properly), and
- with ncurses -TD
- * add configure check CF_FUNC_LSTAT -TD
- * modify CF_CHECK_ERRNO so that configure script on OS/2 EMX finds
- sys_errlist[] -TD
- * reset styles[] and styleSheet list in DefaultStyle.c, HTML.c so that when
- a user reloads a page with ^R, we undo changes to those data structures
- (reported by Larry Virden). - TD
- * remove extra copy of HTML.h from Implementation directory. - TD
- * add CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES to configure script, to use in flushing out unused
- parameter warnings (and later, to support prototypes for logging). - TD
- * rename 'extra_entities' to 'unicode_entities' (recommended by LP) - TD
- * add configure option --use-default-colors, to allow background color to use
- default value (request by SUNAGAWA Keiki <Keiki_Sunagawa@yokogawa.co.jp>) -TD
- * change default for --disable-internal-links so it is normally-off - TD
- 1998-02-19
- * add configure test CF_FIONBIO, some ifdef's (e.g., S_IFLNK) to support
- build on OS/2 EMX. - TD
- * add configure option --disable-extended-dtd, for testing - TD
- * split-out entities.h from HTMLDTD.c - TD
- * remove obsolete mapping in "private" e000 area of mnem_suni.tbl,
- mnem2_suni.tbl, rfc_suni.tbl - LP
- * remove unused function HTMLGetLatinOneValue() - LP
- * remove logic that would attempt lookup of Unicode entities by index into the
- unicode_entities.put_entity method (e.g., of HTML_dtd), in HTML.c
- (HTML_put_entity) and HTMLGen.c (HTMLGen_put_entity) - LP
- * tweaks to HTPlain.c, LYCharUtils.c and SGML.c, remove extra checks for
- Unicode mdash, ndash, trade, as well as "iso-8859-2", "koi8-r", since they
- are done in the chartrans tables - LP
- * add an alias 'H' for F1 when using RAWDOSKEYHACK (LYStrings.c) - DK
- * restore -DRAWDOSKEYHACK to src/makefile.dos, reported by DK - TD
- * correct a typo in CF_CURSES_LIBS configure macro, which caused the configure
- script to not add termcap library to the list - TD
- * correct --disable-internal-links, by adding DONT_TRACK_INTERNAL_LINKS to
- config.hin - TD
- 1998-02-13
- * use size_t in SGML_dtd. - TD
- * remove extra trademark symbol and quotes from chrtrans/*.tbl, since
- they are in the default def7_uni.tbl - LP
- * New item to lynx.cfg added: PREPEND_CHARSET_TO_SOURCE (similar to BASE), we
- need it to resolve charset for downloaded/printed HTML sources which became
- local. This is really useful because downloaded and printed texts may
- happened to have different charsets so assume_local_charset fails. For
- downloaded source meta charset added from HTTP charset header (if and only if
- present). For printed source meta charset added from display_charset (real
- charset after chrtrans). If the original source has its own meta charset
- and we add the second on top - Lynx currently use those on top and ignore
- others (old) value (that is correct, although non standard like BASE on top).
- The compilation default is FALSE (compatibility). - LP
- * modify ncurses mouse behavior to match slang (use button 3 rather than
- button 2 for "previous document" (reported by Michael Ritzert) - TD
- * use case-independent comparison for tail-only comparison in override_proxy
- (patch by pg@sweng.stortek.com) - TD
- * remove unneeded definitions of ALT_CHAR_SET, NCURSES_VERSION in
- src/makefile.dos - DK
- * correct syntax for the RAW_DOS_KEY_HACK in lynx.cfg, add a little information
- on how to compile this. Also patched makefile.dos to make compilation of the
- raw dos key hack the default when compiling in DOS. - DK
- * change back to boolean since the logic was unused: UCCanTranslateFromTo(),
- UCCanTranslateUniTo(), and UCCanUniTranslateFrom(). - TD
- * Mods of SGML.c and LYCharUtils.c to improve handling of entities,
- obsolete stuff removed (not all yet). - LP
- * -localhost mode: disable interpreting BASE HREF= if local_host_only
- to resolve local html files with BASE (Lynx add base to downloaded
- sources and this may affect links if looking them with -localhost).
- (tweak in html.c). - LP
- * Modify HTMLGetEntityUCValue in LYCharSets.c:
- we begin to move from old style entities[] to unicode-based. - LP
- * added a few comments. - LP
- 1998-02-07
- * Fixed a bug in HTTP.c which could cause trashing of authorization info
- for an origin HTTP(s) server if the request is being proxied. - FM
- * Tweak in HTTP.c so that the reloading variable is not reset until
- after any resubmissions due to authorization challenges. - FM
- * Tweaks of userdefs.h, lynx.cfg, LYMessages_en.h, LYMain.c, LYMainLoop.c,
- LYClean.c, LYReadCFG.c, and LYGlobalDefs.h so that the QUIT_DEFAULT_YES
- compilation symbol can be overridden in lynx.cfg, in keeping with
- the principle that only strict security-related compilation symbols
- cannot be overridden at run time. - FM
- 1998-02-05
- * adjust formatting, comments & some messages in WWW files to simplify
- comparison with 2.7.2 version. (I have preserved some chunks of difference,
- ifdef'd NOTUSED_FOTEMODS or NOTDEFINED for ease of comparison -- these may be
- removed at a later time, when we are done absorbing changes from 2.7.2) - TD
- * Update SGML entity to Unicode table in HTMLDTD.c from ftp.unicode.org -
- lots of new entities, iso-latin-1 now included there.
- See also new files in test/ directory: sgml.html and unicode.html.
- Tweak a few typos in test/*.html according to sgml.html.
- Add a few new entries in def7_uni.tbl according to sgml.html - LP
- * Cleanup iso01-iso09, cp866 tables against ones found at ftp.unicode.org -LP
- * Strip the fat from LYCharSets.c - unnecessary obsoleted tables removed
- and redirected to SevenBitApproximation table (ones which have unicode tables
- override it anyway, those for CJK had exactly the same tables as
- SevenBit..). - LP
- * Remove obsolete "Other ISO Latin" charset, which works _exactly_ the same
- as "7 bit approximation" (See the note on 06-14-96 where it comes from) -LP
- * Sort the list of charsets in Options according to 2.7.2 for 1997-10-15,
- see the comments in UCinit at the bottom of UCDomap.c - LP
- * add ifdef to HTFile.c to workaround conflicting S_IFIFO vs S_IFSOCK
- (e.g., on Apollo, from a report by Dave Eaton <dwe@arde.com>) - TD
- * updated INSTALLATION (patch by HN) - TD
- * modify DOS handling of CTL-C and CTL-BREAK handling for DOS to allow
- exiting via SIGINT when pressing CTL-C or CTL-BREAK regardless of the
- BREAK setting in DOS. This leaves the BREAK setting unchanged unless
- CTL-C or CTL-BREAK is actually pressed (in which case it leaves BREAK
- ON) - DK
- * add note about Lynx vs frames to User's Guide (from Al Gilman) - TD
- 1998-01-27
- * correct lynx.man to reference section "1" (one), not "l", since it is
- not installed in the latter (reported by Jason Castonguay
- <jcast@ntplx.net>) - TD
- * fix for VMS declarations of mainloop() and from_hex() (reported by FM) - TD
- * add to include-paths in libmake.com, build.com (reported by FM, citing
- Brian Tillman) - TD
- * revert HTML.c to use LYHandleSELECT() - TD
- * align cases for function keys in LYStrings.c with 2.7.2 - TD
- * remove EXP_CHARTRANS ifdef's - TD
- * remove symbol USE_SIZECHANGEHACK -TD
- * adjust formatting, comments & some messages in most remaining ./src files to
- simplify comparison with 2.7.2 version. - TD
- 1998-01-25
- * Changed the utf-8 Display Character Set string to "UNICODE UTF-8"
- (i.e., added the hyphen between UTF and 8), and fixed typos in
- the comments about iso-8859-5. -LP, FM
- * Modified HTML.c to add collapsible spaces before and after IMG ALT
- strings or pseudo-ALTs whether or not the IMG element is within
- Anchor content. The occasional absence of such spaces due to poor
- HTML was problematic for blind users. Note that markup which uses
- an image for a fancy letter with the ASCII letter as an ALT will
- have that letter separated from the rest of the word. Also note
- that these spaces will not be collapsed in PRE blocks, but IMG is
- invalid in PRE blocks. The spaces could be omitted when IMG is
- used invalidly in PRE blocks, but that would revive the problem
- for blind users that they might not be present at all, so it seems
- better to suffer extra spaces in such cases. - FM
- 1998-01-24
- * Tweak in HTAccess.c to reset the title element in anchors on forced
- reloads. - FM
- 1998-01-22
- * Tweaks in HTML.c to prevent collapsing of blank lines within TEXTAREA
- default values. Note that we still strip any leading or trailing
- blank lines (reported by Edward S. Marshall <emarshal@xnet.com>). - FM
- * Tweaks of LYCurses.c, LYMain.c, LYOptions.c, LYReadCFG.c, LYUtils.c
- and LYAuto.c to ensure properly setting, with internal buffering, and
- avoid memory leaks for the display and homedir values (reported by
- pg@sweng.stortek.com). - FM
- * include userdefs.h in LYCurses.h to address redefinition warnings for
- curses-related configuration. - TD
- * adjust formatting, comments & some messages in recently-modified files to
- simplify comparison with 2.7.2 version. - TD
- * remove obsolete logic from UCCanTranslateFromTo, (recommended by LP). - TD
- * make character set names (e.g., cp437, cp850, next) consistent in lynx.cfg,
- userdefs.h (reported by LP). - TD
- * change configure script to check for termcap library before curses, in case
- it is dependent. - TD
- * More corrections in the Russian Cyrillic area of def7_uni.tbl. - LP
- 1998-01-17
- * correct logic for no_color_video by ensuring that if not defined, it
- doesn't disable underline with color. - TD
- * remove NSL_CLONE - didn't build. - TD
- 1998-01-16
- * eliminate gcc "shadowed variable", "nested declaration", "no previous
- prototype" warnings. - TD
- * add --disable-internal-links configure option. - TD
- * remove W3C gateway (patch by DK, based on email from Gerald Oskoboiny
- <gerald@w3.org>). - TD
- * documentation updates (patch by JS). - TD
- * add CONTENT_TYPE to environment of lynxcgi POST documents (reported by
- Ty Sarna <tsarna@endicor.com> & FM). - TD
- * add NSL_CLONE ifdef that enables use of the Linux clone() call instead of
- fork() for the gethostbyname() calls in HTTCP.c. (patch by Ryan Nielsen
- <ran@haxor.com>). - TD
- from the lynx code. I think the following patch does this.
- 1998-01-15
- * Tweak of the NSL_FORK code in HTTCP.c to prevent zombie processes from
- being created when gethostbyname() is interrupted. - RN
- * Corrected the Russian Cyrillic area of the def7_uni.tbl Unicode to
- 7-bit approximations conversion table. - LP
- * Mods of UCAux.c, LYCharUtils.c, SGML.c and HTPlain.c to use 7-bit
- approximations instead of 8th bit stripping when the document charset
- is koi8-r and the Display Character Set does not have the corresponding
- characters. - FM
- * Tweaks in HTML.c to ignore a newline character immediately following
- a PRE start tag more consistently. When PRE blocks are used to create
- blank lines, you should get only as many as are actually included in
- the PRE block, unless you include less than the number specified for
- "before" the block to which you return, in which case you'll get the
- latter number of blank lines. - FM
- 1998-01-13
- * Fixed a typo in the HTParse() code of HTParse.c for checking whether
- a colon in the host field indeed delimits a port number. - FM
- * Changed the internal MIME names for all Microsoft Windows codepages
- from cp#### to windows-####, since the latter is used more commonly
- as the charset value in META elements and/or Content-Type headers,
- and most of them have been registered that way with IANA. Note,
- however, that Microsoft uses cp instead of windows- prefixes in the
- charset names for the Unicode conversion tables submitted to the
- Unicode Consortium. Also note that we still treat cp, cp-, and ibm
- prefixes as synonyms for the windows- prefix. - FM
- 1998-01-06
- * work around for 'keypad()' function w/o corresponding key defines
- (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres for NeXTstep 4.0). - TD
- * quote message in install rule, just in case (from HN). - TD
- * correct expression to supply default value of .cfg file's pathname
- (reported by LE & Ambrose Li <acli@acli.interlog.com>). - TD
- * correct dependency of .cfg files upon $(libdir) in makefile.in - TD
- 1998-01-04
- * correct temporary filename for -traversal -crawl (patch by Doug Kaufman). - TD
- * correct redefinition of SYSTEM_MAIL_FLAGS. (reported by Doug Kaufman). - TD
- * uncache current document when character set may have changed (patch
- by Andrey A. Chernov) - TD
- * modify Linux setfont code to restore the original font on exit - TD
- * correct missing backslash (again) in makefile.in
- (reported by Mark Mentovai - again) - TD
- 1998-01-02
- * workaround for sed expression when rerunning configure with config.cache
- for slang libraries (reported by Hynek Med). - TD
- * fix indicated by Laura Eaves (LE) for LYUCFullyTranslateString_1() - TD
- * modify SPAWNING_MSG for DOSPATH configuration, avoid unnecessary use
- of clear-screen in shell (patch by Doug Kaufman). - TD
- * remove install-help from list for install rule, adding message to
- indicate how to install it. - TD
- * install lynx.lss only if color-style is configured. - TD
- * correct filemode for DJGPP when processing config-file, patch by
- Doug Kaufman). - TD
- * add LYNX_LSS_FILE to config.hin, reported by Ambrose Li
- <acli@acli.interlog.com>. - TD
- * new copy of INSTALLATION file from HN. - TD
- * add COPY* to install rule. - TD
- * simplify includes in UCdomap.c by using include-path in makefiles. - TD
- * build configure script with patched autoconf to workaround limited
- environment space on CLIX 3.1 - TD
- * rename mnemonic_suni.tbl to mnem2_suni.tbl to accommodate 'make' on
- older system with 14-character name-limit. - TD
- * sorted some lists (e.g., character sets) which were unreadable. - TD
- * incorporate most of FM's changes from 971124 to 971230 (see below). - TD
- (Note: don't try to use fflush(stdin) -- it's an FAQ -- nonstandard,
- dumps core on some platforms).
- 1997-12-30
- * Added Unicode translation support for "DosBaltRim (cp775)" and
- "WinBaltRim (cp1257)". - FM
- 1997-12-29
- * Fixed bug in the order of re-initializations for the 1997-12-22
- get_connection() mods. - FM
- * Fixed typos in some LYCharUtils.c comment. - FM
- * Fixed typo in LYrcFile.c comments concerning the NO_FROM_HEADER
- symbol. - DK
- 1997-12-24
- * resolve conflict between autoconf $INSTALL and lynx's INSTALL_PATH
- (reported by Scott McGee). - TD
- * modify CF_CHECK_FUNCDECL to work with non-gcc compilers. - TD
- * add <stdio.h> to prototype test for getgrgid getgrnam, needed on SVr3. - TD
- * add install-lss to makefile.in. - TD
- * modify order of includes in LYKeymap.c so that USE_EXTERNALS is defined
- if it comes from userdefs.h (inferred from a report by Larry Virden). - TD
- * correct spelling of USE_EXTERNALS which prevented --enable-externs from
- working. - TD
- * move assignment to stderr from VMSexit to cleanup function (reported
- by Brian Tillman & FM). - TD
- * modify UCChangeTerminalCodepage() to not use stderr, disentangling it
- from stderr/logfile hack. - TD
- * rename docs/CHANGES2-* files to docs/CHANGES2.* (reported by
- Doug Kaufman). - TD
- * add start_color() call to DOSPATH version of start_curses() to
- fix problem reported by Doug Kaufman - TD
- * correct typo in ColorCode() function (reported by Doug Kaufman) - TD
- * modify comments in makefile.in (patch by HN) - TD
- * minor fixes for CF_CHECK_ERRNO, CF_SIZECHANGE, CF_SLANG_CPPFLAGS
- macros. - TD
- * add configure option --enable-nsl-fork to turn on code defined by
- NSL_FORK. - TD
- * add configure option --enable-links to turn on code defined by
- UNDERLINE_LINKS. - TD
- * add configure option --enable-font-switch, to turn on code defined by
- EXP_CHARTRANS_AUTOSWITCH. - TD
- * modify configure CF_CURSES_LIBS test to look also for ncurses,
- since some systems do not have a "curses" library (reported by
- Michael Ritzert). - TD
- 1997-12-22
- * Reworked -width=NUMBER command line switch for specifying the screen
- width for formatting of dumps (default is 80; forced wraps occur at one
- column less than the screen width, i.e., at 79 by default). - FM
- * Tweak of get_connection() in HTFTP.c to re-initialize the elements of
- the connection structure when using a previously allocated connection
- object. -DW, FM
- * Mods of LYexit.c, LYClean.c, LYMain.c and LYMainLoop.c to fflush() all
- standard file descriptors in conjunction with all fopen() and fclose()
- operations on the TRACE log and redirections of stderr via equality
- statements (see 1997-12-16, 1997-12-13 and 1997-07-18 mods). - FM
- 1997-12-18
- * forgotten last } UN-inserted (John Line) - WB
- * few commented messages corrected according to RFC2068 (HTTP1.1)
- (Leonid Pauzner) - WB
- 1997-12-17
- * Changed all %i tokens to %d or %ld in functions that always get decimal
- values in their arguments. - FM
- 1997-12-17 (all patches by Leonid Pauzner)
- * open text mode while writing lynx.rc and bookmarks files
- LYrcFile.c and LYBookmark.c (forgotten last } inserted). - WB
- * add a comment about binary mode in LYMain.c and pile them
- in one ifdef - WB
- * few misprinted characters (in comments) corrected in
- \chrtrans\cp850_uni.tbl - WB
- 1997-12-16
- * Further mods in LYClean.c (see 1997-12-13 mods) do block the
- *stderr = LYOrigStderr; statement in cleanup() for VMS with VAXC. - FM
- * Added an ELGOTO keystroke command, mapped by default to upper case 'E'
- (lower case 'e' still invokes the editor for the current document, if
- it is a local file), for passing the URL (or ACTION) of the current
- link to the line editor for editing as a goto URL. Works like the
- ECGOTO ('G') keystroke command for editing the URL of the current
- document as a goto URL, i.e., if the URL is not modified, is set to
- a zero-length string, or ^G is entered, the command is cancelled. - FM
- * Mods of LYMainLoop.c to disallow ECGOTO or ELGOTO commands for File
- Management (DIRED_SUPPORT) menu URLs. - FM
- 1997-12-15
- * Added reporting of the Discard value (YES or NO), in the Cookie Jar Page
- (note that until we have code for storing cookies beyond the current
- session, Lynx behaves as if Discard were set, whether or not it was set
- by the server, but we still report the server's instructions, as we do
- for the Maximum Gobble Date). - FM
- 1997-12-14
- * added a lynx.cfg switch to turn on/off extended dos translations for keys.
- -WB
- * added minor DOS tweaks by Doug Kaufman and myself. - WB
- * fixed windows binary mode piping. - WB
- 1997-12-13
- * Tweaks in LYList.c to make the link numbers correspond with those in
- the current document when LINKS_AND_FORM_FIELDS_ARE_NUMBERED in on,
- and to show the current document's URL in the display. - FM
- * Mods in HTTP.c to show the body of a 305 return status instead of ever
- acting on it. A number of security/privacy problems with this status
- are being discussed in the HTTP-WG, and it's likely to be dropped or
- deprecated in the next revision of the HTTP/1.1 specs. - FM
- * Restored the v2.7.1 HTmmdecode() that's specific for iso-2022-jp in
- HTMIME.c. We still only call it when HTCJK == JAPANESE, and the
- generalized version reportedly has problems. - FM
- * Removed the *stderr = LYOrigStderr; statement from VMSexit() in LYCurses.c
- and added it to the if() claused section which closes the TRACE log file,
- if opened, in cleanup() of LYClean.c. This is just a stab in the dark
- for dealing with reported problems on exit with VAXC on VAXen. We may
- need to use freopen() for redirecting TRACE messages to a file for VAXC
- or VAXen (there's no apparent problem with the current code with DECC
- on VMS/AXP). - FM
- * Added more function key cases to the keypad() mode switch() in LYgetch()
- of LYStrings.c. We don't need them with this code set, but they may as
- well be there for completeness. - FM
- * check for and use ncurses default-color extension, use to make the
- color-style configuration usable on xterm with white background. - TD
- * add cases in LYgetch() for remaining VT220-compatible codes, reported
- by Michael Ritzert and FM. - TD
- * add configure test to see if slang can be linked without curses or
- termcap libraries, request by John Davis. - TD
- * set umask in mkdirs.sh script to work around users who have set root's
- umask to 077. - TD
- * split up install rule to install-bin, install-cfg, install-man and
- install-help. - TD
- * suppress suffixes in top-level makefile so 'make' won't try to create
- a file named "install" from install.sh - TD
- * make $(CPPFLAGS) inherit consistently from top-level makefile. - TD
- (reported by Mark Mentovai)
- * add configure option --enable-externs, to turn on USE_EXTERNS. - TD
- * use explicit comparison for enum values, fix compile problem with VAX C
- for UCAux functions (reported by Brian Tillman). - TD
- 1997-12-03
- * Remove CHANGES.configure, since it is redundant. - TD
- * Make -g3 option check for OSF/1 3.2 consistent with -Olimit check. - TD
- * Use 'result' rather than 'time' in mktime.c to avoid shadowing. - TD
- * Use wborder only if configure finds it, not ifdef FANCY_CURSES. - PHDM
- * List of systems having strerror replaced by configure test. - PHDM
- * Beautifying of mktime.c (`now' was misleading). - PHDM
- 1997-12-02
- * Mods in LYCookie.c to prompt whether to accept (or reject) cookies with
- an invalid domain value which yields a hostname prefix with a dot (as
- specified in section 4.3.2 of the IETF cookie drafts and RFC), rather
- than rejecting it silently. Note that it is rejected in non-interactive
- (-dump or -source) mode, because the user can't be prompted. - FM
- 1997-11-27
- * Added a PREPEND_BASE_TO_SOURCE configuration symbol in lynx.cfg which
- can be set FALSE to suppress prepending of a Request URL comment and
- BASE element to text/html sources retrieved for 'd'ownloading or passed
- to 'p'rint functions. Note that this prepending is not done for -source
- dumps unless the -base switch also was included on the command line, and
- the latter switch overrides the setting of the PREPEND_BASE_TO_SOURCE
- configuration variable. - FM
- 1997-11-25
- * Mods in LYMail.c and LYPrint.c to handle to=address(es), cc=address(es),
- subject=string, keywords=word_list, and body=message fields in the
- ?searchpart of mailto URLs as specified in the 1997-11-16 draft:
- ftp://ftp.isi.edu/internet-drafts/draft-hoffman-mailto-url-03.txt
- The cc=address(es) values are now handled as a Cc: header, and a self
- copy, if confirmed on prompt, is added to the Cc: header. Note that
- the draft now allows mailto:?to=address(es)[&foo=blah] as a format,
- i.e., without an address before the ?searchpart. The Netscape
- ?searchpart tack-on broke all pre-existing implementations of mailto,
- and this breaks Lynx's support through v2.7.1. Though it's now
- supported in this code set, don't use it. Complaints and formal
- requests to provide this functionality via a new scheme (e.g.,
- mail: or smtp:) without breaking existing implementation of mailto:,
- including from TimBL (HimSelf :), thus far have fallen on deaf ears.
- You can send email to those deaf ears via:
- mailto:masinter@parc.xerox.com%20(Larry%20Masinter)
- Don't allow the IETF backward compatibility principle to go down
- the drain. - FM
- * Mods to support use of the PMDF SEND command on VMS in conjunction with
- a temporary header file, so that all headers specified in the ?searchpart
- of mailto URLs can be included in the mailing, and made that the compilation
- default in userdefs.h to go with the default MAIL_ADRS mask for PMDF (If
- the "generic" VMS MAIL utility is used, not all of the headers can be
- specified on the command line, as it requires). Look at the code in
- LYMail.c and LYPrint.c that is used when isPMDF is TRUE as a model of how
- to do this with other header-file-capable VMS mailers (but I don't have
- any besides PMDF, and can't do it for you :). - FM
- * Tweak of the 1997-11-17 URL parsing mods so that relative symbolic
- elements immediately preceding a ?searchpart are handled identically
- to when a ?searchpart is not present. - FM
- * Added support for setting both SYSTEM_MAIL and SYSTEM_MAIL_FLAGS in
- both userdefs.h and lynx.cfg. - FM
- 1997-11-23
- * integrate PHDM's patch. - TD
- * Check for existence of sys/wait.h. - PHDM
- * Do not include sys/stat.h twice. - PHDM
- * New autoconf-macros to check if a function is declared after including a
- specific set of files. - PHDM
- * Declare strstr if it is not declared by string.h. - PHDM
- * Declare getgrgid and getgrnam if not declared by grp.h. - PHDM
- * Provide strstr and mktime implementations, and use them if needed. - PHDM
- * Always include sys/types.h in HTUtils.h. - PHDM
- * define NO_GROUPS if we do not have getgroups. - PHDM
- * define NEED_REMOVE also if test yields unknown. - PHDM
- * define mode_t if not done by system include files. - PHDM (phdm@macqel.be)
- * change CF_UNION_WAIT to use compile+link rather than compile, to ensure
- that we pick up the wait-macros rather than an implied function, which
- should fix configure problems on NeXT for Francisco A. Tomei Torres
- <fatomei2@mail.unm.edu>. - TD
- * spelling nit from Larry Virden. - TD
- * add osf3.0 to special case compiler options using -g3 in place of
- -O -g, from Harsh Kumar <harsh@krcl.ernet.in>. - TD
- * remove redundant "-c" option from $(installbin) in makefile.in, reported
- by Michael Warner <warner@wsu.edu>, for OSF/1 4.0. - TD
- * if configure --srcdir is not used, comment-out rmdir's in "make distclean"
- rule. - TD
- * modify recent erase/clear change so that it applies only to FANCY_CURSES,
- since BSD curses does not otherwise clear the screen when restoring after
- popup. - TD
- * modify change for boxes so this builds with BSD curses, which has no
- wborder() function. - TD
- * reverse ifdef for NO_SIZECHANGEHACK to USE_SIZECHANGEHACK, which is
- normally off, since this code did not work with BSD 4.4 curses, SVr4
- curses, or ncurses 4.1 with xterm. (Will make a configure test if anyone
- can identify a configuration that works). - TD
- 1997-11-21
- * Changed LYE_LINKN to LYE_LKCMD (still mapped by default to Ctrl-V; may
- need to be entered twice for some systems) for invoking a prompt to
- enter any Lynx keystroke command when in form text fields. - FM
- 1997-11-20
- * Added an LYK_CLEAR_AUTH command, mapped to underscore ('_') by default,
- which clears all authorization info for the current session. This is
- recommended for the situation when one leaves one's terminal but doesn't
- want to end the browser session, nor want others to be able to retrieve
- protected documents with previously entered username and password info.
- Note that we don't yet have a way to block access to any protected
- documents which are still in cache. - FM
- 1997-11-19
- * Tweak of HTTP.c to ensure closing of the connection when interrupted
- ('z'apped) on the first socket read. - FM
- 1997-11-18
- * Mods to use the explicit label "Bad HTML:" in trace messages corresponding
- to BAD_HTML_USE_TRACE messages. - FM, KW
- * Tweak of the restored TABLE-in-PRE block handling to deal with the
- case when it's encased in a CENTER or DIV with ALIGN="center". - FM
- * Changed docs/README.defines to refer to INSTALLATION file - HN
- 1997-11-17
- * Changed the default ASCII BOXVERT and BOXHORI definitions from '*' to
- to '|' and '-', and new function LYbox() for non-VMS (n)curses. - FM
- * Use explicitly specified characters for drawing the corners of popup
- boxes with non-VMS (n)curses if we have also specified characters for
- vertical and horizontal lines. - KW
- * Mods in HTTP.c to trim any "LYNXIMGMAP:" leader from Referer header
- values and strip the #fragment when making http(s) requests via links
- in the pseudo-documents constructed for MAP elements. - FM, KW
- * Mods of SGML parsing to better handle SELECT blocks with invalid markup,
- in effect for both TagSoup and SortaSGML parsing (for the latter just
- in case it doesn't already prevent invalid markup from being passed on).
- Only OPTION elements are accepted in SELECT blocks.
- Otherwise, if the element is a form-related start tag, the
- SELECT block is closed and the new form-related element is started.
- All other elements are ignored. A FORM end or start tag ends any open
- SELECT block and the current FORM (before starting another FORM if
- it is a start tag). Note that we now support SELECT blocks outside
- of FORM blocks, which some providers are using for "informational"
- popups, but no Lynx user would do anything that awful, right? - FM
- * Tweak in LYMainLoop.c to override an LYresubmit_posts flag if we are
- reloading a popped document due to a NOT_FOUND or NULLFILE return
- value from getfile(). - FM
- (But if the document that would be loaded after such a failure has POST
- data and is not in memory, still jump to the PREV_DOC code, see enttry
- for 1997-11-03. - KW)
- * Worked in a variant of AJL's suggestion of setting LINES and COLUMNS
- artificially high before the initscr() call with Unix curses, then
- using a dummy call to size_change() for setting LYlines and LYcols
- to the actual screen dimensions, so that increases in the screen size
- during the Lynx session, and not just decreases, can be handled.
- Note that one still needs to do a RELOAD (^R) overtly to create a
- new HText structure based on the current screen size. - FM
- (The new code can be disabled by defining NO_SIZECHANGEHACK, in case
- some curses version or terminal cannot deal with it. - KW)
- * Tweaks of the chartrans code. - FM, KW
- * Change in HTNews.c to ignore very long bogus newsgroup names when listing
- available groups. - KW
- * Tweaks in code for highlighting search text in anchors, to better deal with
- terminals in UTF-8 mode. - KW
- * Mods to ignore anything past a '?' character when simplifying URL paths,
- as is now more clearly specified in the Fielding URL draft. Note that
- we still assume a ';' is not in fact a parameter delimiter, or won't
- have a value with characters that could be misinterpreted as relative
- path specs. - FM
- * Increased the redirection limit to the original Lynx's value of 10,
- because the HTTP/1.1 draft no longer will restrict it to 5, but instead
- will leave it to the discretion of the browser (and I like 10, as a
- reminder of the "good old days" :). - FM
- 1997-11-15
- * Mods of parsing in HTML.c to restore support for the TABLE-in-PRE-block
- HTML kludge described in http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/tablejob.html,
- which stopped working in conjunction with the 1997-05-21 mods (see below)
- for treating TABLEs as DIVisions to support ALIGNment attributes in TABLE
- markup. The PRE-in-TABLE-block HTML kludge was not affected by those mods
- but works only with the TagSoup parsing mode. - FM, KW
- 1997-11-12
- * Made handling of the 'x' in hexadecimal character references (&#xH;)
- case insensitive, as for the "alphabetic digits" (a-f, A-F). - FM
- * Added a LINKN command key in the line editor, mapped to Ctrl-V, for
- invoking the F_LINK_NUM prompt when in form text fields. Ctrl-V is
- still a dead key under other circumstances in the line editor. - FM
- * remove options --with-lss-file and --with-cfg-file, since the corresponding
- files will always be installed under $(libdir), reported by Henry Eric
- Nelson (HN). - TD
- * modify configure script and makefile templates to permit builds with the
- --srcdir option, noted by Philippe De Muyter. - TD
- 1997-11-08
- * Added Unicode support for "DosArabic (cp864)", "WinArabic (cp1256)",
- "DosGreek (cp737)", "DosGreek2 (cp869)", "WinGreek (cp1253)",
- "DosHebrew (cp862)", and "WinHebrew (cp1255)". Note that we still
- have no code for taking DIR attributes, or directionality in general,
- into account. - FM
- * Mods to handle "cp-#" charset names as synonyms for "cp#", and some
- cp# names as synonyms for "windows-#". -FM, KW
- 1997-11-07
- * Change of LY_SLrefresh() in LYCurses.c as suggested by JED - FM
- * add logic to make install-directories as needed. - TD
- * remove --disable-char-trans option (ifdef's still remain). - TD
- * correct type used in first compile-test for union wait. - TD
- * correct order of deletions in "make distclean" rule. - TD
- * new versions of macros used to check for ncurses version. - TD
- * don't suppress -I/usr/local/include when checking -I/usr/local/include/*,
- to accommodate older versions of gcc. - TD
- 1997-11-06
- * Use erase() instead of clear() in some places, to avoid unnecessary full
- screen repainting even for UNIX (and similar) curses. Renamed LY_SLclear
- to LY_SLerase, but it is used for erase() and clear() now, so there should
- be no change in behavior for slang introduced by this. - KW
- * Added new format for lines in chartrans .tbl files: U+NNNN "a string" where
- the string can have C backslash-escaped characters. This allows to write
- replacement strings with 8-bit characters that won't be garbled when the
- .tbl files are transferred in some non-binary way. Note there is no ':'
- between the Unicode value and the beginning quote character. - KW
- * Changes to HTMLDTD.c (for SortaSGML parsing) and HTML.c (second line of
- defense) for dealing with invalid SELECT tags. Also tolerate SELECT
- outside of forms. - KW
- * Change in HTLocalName for DOSPATH so that it doesn't depend on whether
- HTDOS_name returns a pointer to static memory or not. - KW
- * Started new file docs/README.defines. Renamed CHANGES to CHANGES2-7,
- removed duplicate 2-7-1 entries. Minor changes to INSTALLATION, other
- files. CHANGES.chartrans is gone. - KW
- * Tweaked color style stuff again. Statusline may behave better. - KW
- * Don't use memmove for HEAD in HTNews.c. - KW
- * For UNIX, use normal umask permissions, instead of the extra-cautious temp
- file permissions, for files saved to disk by the default actions for PRINT
- and DOWNLOAD. - KW
- * Changes (untested) in the code dealing with reading of compressed files in
- HTFile.c, in parallel to the code for other systems. - KW
- * Mods to avoid va_start redefinition warnings when building with slang. - FM
- 1997-11-05
- * Change in LYForms.c to avoid full screen repaint after popup is retracted
- for slang. - KW, FM
- 1997-11-03
- * Internal links code revised. Some details follow, but first a summary
- of the basic premises. Links in a document given as href="#fragment" or
- href="" (empty, but href attribute is present) mean something different
- from href="url#fragment" or href="url" (where url is a non-empty absolute
- or relative URL not including a fragment), they are internal links pointing
- to an element or a location within the same copy of the document (or to the
- document itself, for href=""). In contrast, a URL-Reference with a non-
- empty URL refers to a (generally...) external resource. If the "url"
- happens to coincide with (or, if it is relative, resolve to) the URL from
- which the current document was retrieved, the current document is a
- representation of the resource, but not the same thing. In most such cases
- we can treat href="#fragment" and href="url#fragment" the same way, i.e.
- activating such a link is interpreted as a request to reposition within
- the current document; we are using the current document as a cache copy
- of the resource (like we would other documents in the memory cache). But
- if we have marked our copy as no-cache, it seems more consistent to treat
- activation of a href="url#fragment" link as a request for retrieving a
- new copy and _then_ locating #fragment in it, as we do for "any-other-url
- #fragment" if we have cached a document which represents "any-other-url"
- and which is marked no-cache. Following a href="" link should just result
- in repositioning to the start of the document, not in a new retrieval for
- no-cache documents.
- If the current document is the result of a POST submission, there is in
- general no way to refer to its underlying resource with a URL, since there
- is no URL notation for "url+post_data". Internal links can be used within
- the context of this document, but there is no way to hyperlink to it or
- parts of it from "outside". A link to a href="url" or href="url#fragment"
- target should always imply a GET retrieval, whether it occurs within a
- document from a POST submission or not, for consistency.
- This understanding also applies to other than <A href=..> uses of URL-
- References in documents, for example the link implied between a USEMAP
- attribute and a MAP element; but not to all uses, for example a FORM's
- ACTION requires an external resource and not an internal reference, so
- ACTION="" is resolved to an absolute URL (using a base URL if one is
- given).
- The semantics for URL-less URL-References are given in Internet Draft
- <http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/url/draft-fielding-url-syntax-09.txt>,
- including that "Traversal of such a reference should not result in an
- additional retrieval action." No comparable prescriptions are made for
- references which have a URL, in particular it is not stated that they
- should be treated as equivalent when the URL coincides with or resolves
- to the current document's retrieval URL.
- The changes to the Lynx code attempt to implement what is outlined above,
- by keeping track of how a link destination was originally specified. href=
- "#fragment" and href="" links are still "resolved" into a "url#fragment"
- and "url" form, for use internally, and if an explicit NOCACHE action is
- requested, and for generating lists of links etc., and in general for use
- outside of the context of the current document.
- To the best of my knowledge they do not lead to unwanted (or misdirected)
- resubmission of POST content without prompting the user for confirmation
- (although the prompt texts probably need improvement). - KW
- * The notion of the context of the "current document" is extended, so that
- auxiliary LYNXIMGMAP documents generated by Lynx are within the scope of
- the underlying document, i.e., the document containing the MAP and AREA
- elements. Although they are treated as separate documents for display
- and internal handling, following links between the underlying document
- and its LYNXIMGMAP documents will result in display from cached data
- (if available) even for no-cache documents, if a fragment-only (or empty)
- URL-Reference was used in the HTML. This includes the link generated for
- pointing from the IMG to the LYNXIMGMAP if the USEMAP attribute value was
- was fragment-only; the LYNXIMGMAP is normally regenerated from the list
- of MAP and AREA elements kept internally when a link to it is activated.
- (Note that a LYNXIMGMAP screen is still not reloaded from external sources
- even when RELOAD or NOCACHE keys are used, if data for the MAP is found
- in the internal list; but that reloading the underlying document will
- refresh the internal lists.) - KW
- * List Page screens are also in the context of the underlying document, so
- that internal links in the underlying document can be listed and activated
- from the List Page. When following an internal link from a List Page, it
- is not pushed on the history stack (similar to the History List Page), to
- reduce the chance of confusion when walking back through history. - KW
- * LYNXIMGMAP and List Page auxiliary documents can now be associated with
- POST data. This does not mean that the data is posted to a "LYNXIMGMAP:"
- or "file:" URL, which is impossible; but that the underlying document is
- associated with the POST data. This way these aux documents can still
- have links regarded as "internal" pointing to the document of which they
- are logically a part, keeping track of what POST data are applicable if
- several form submissions have occurred. Normally the underlying document
- should be in the document cache when such a link is activated, so that
- resubmission of the POST can be overridden. If it is not found,
- resubmission may happen after user confirmation. Although the POST data
- content is not shown on such aux pages, it can be inspected with the INFO
- ('=') command. Note that the association of LYNXIMGMAPs and List Pages
- with POST data automatically excludes them from various operations which
- may otherwise be possible, such as bookmarking or inclusion in the
- 'V'isited Links Page. Note also that such aux pages are treated internally
- as different documents from their POST-free counterparts with the same
- address, which might be generated for example after typing the address
- at a 'g'oto prompt while viewing a different text. It may be possible to
- generate confusing situations, but regenerating the displayed data (by
- invoking 'L'IST again, or by following a LYNXIMGMAP: link) will always
- show the currently applicable information.
- For image maps, the change implements link-following capabilities which
- come naturally to graphical UAs, which can handle IMG USEMAP and the
- corresponding MAP elements from the same data stream as objects within
- the same document instance. - KW
- * To implement the above, MAP and AREA information from a POST response is
- not kept in the global list shared by all other documents, but in a separate
- list specific to the underlying (containing) document and the POST data.
- The specific lists are managed with the underlying document's anchor
- structure so that they can automatically expire after the anchor is removed
- from memory and will not stay around and accumulate until session end. - KW
- * POST data is kept in mainloop when following an internal link, but is now
- always dropped for links that were given with a URL. This removes the
- limitation by which a link in a POST response to the URL of the POST
- submission script would be inappropriately converted to a resubmission of
- the POST data. (example: search form from <http://www.marshall.edu/htbin/
- calendar>) - KW
- * Changes to the PREV_DOC handling in mainloop. When encountering documents
- that may need to be reloaded while walking back in history, because they
- have POST data associated and are not marked "safe" and are either not found
- in the memory cache or -resubmit_posts has been set, the user is prompted
- for confirmation as before; if the reply is 'n' the document will be skipped
- but if the user cancels with ^G the walkback operation is cancelled and the
- currently viewed document remains loaded. Some of the aux documents which
- can new be associated with POST data may be automatically skipped if their
- document structures are not any more in memory. - KW
- * When following a link marked internal from a List Page and confirmation is
- required, ^G may also have the different effect of cancelling the operation
- while responding 'n' may attempt to follow the link as a GET request (i.e.
- with POST data dropped). - KW
- * In some situations, automatic popping from the history stack in mainloop
- after getfile fails to load a new document could lead to resubmission of
- a previous POST request without prompting. This is now avoided by jumping
- to the code handling PREV_DOC. - KW
- * Use new LYinternal_flag variable for propagating info to HTAccess, rather
- than overloading LYoverride_no_cache. - KW
- * Tweaks for bad form tag soup with crashes on unclosed SELECT. Changes in
- HTML.c and GridText.c to prevent memory leaks resulting from insanely
- placed or unclosed form field tags, hopefully not introducing other
- problems... - KW
- 1997-11-02
- * Changes in HTParse's scan to leave additional '#' characters alone after
- the first has been found when scanning (from left) for fragments, and
- to apply the "don't treat '#' as start of a fragment for some kinds of
- URLs" hack only when the '#' will become part of what has been scanned
- as a path. NNTP articles with more than '#' in the message-id are now
- accessible with the "news:" or "nntp:" schemes. We should actually always
- escape when generating URLs and unescape when parsing them instead. - KW
- * Changed HTUnEscape to leave '%' alone if not followed by two valid hex
- digits. - KW
- * Allow the HEAD key and -head and -mime_header flags for "lynxcgi:" URLs
- and for "news:" and "nntp:" URLs that specify a single news article. - KW
- * Change to writing of POST data in LYCgi.c, to close file descriptor after
- done writing and before reading as suggested by mhw@bcs.org.uk (Mark
- H. Wilkinson), and to check status from the write() call and retry if
- needed. Note that the code is not appropriate for handling large
- amounts of POST data, since it still first does all the writing and
- then all the reading. - KW
- 1997-11-01
- * Added support for presentation of text/plain files in SOURCE ('\') mode,
- homologously to text/html files, rather than treating the command as a
- synonym for 'd'ownload when viewing a text/plain file. Note that if the
- text/plain file has no long lines, the display of it will not change,
- but otherwise, the long lines will not be wrapped in SOURCE mode, and
- thus can be 'p'rinted without line wrapping. One still should use
- 'd'ownload for a faithful copy of the file, i.e., without charset
- conversions and expansions of TABs. - FM
- 1997-10-30
- * Get numbering of links on List Page right, by faking hidden links for
- form fields which get counted but are not selectable. - KW
- * Allow LYNXHIST: links in List Page since the History Page may get
- 'L'isted... - KW
- * Mods of HTML.c parsing to close any open Anchor or emphasis elements
- at the starts of TABLE elements, as the Big Two's TABLE handlers appear
- to do now. - FM
- * Tweaks of charset handling via META elements and CHARSET attributes. - FM
- 1997-10-29
- * Tweak of SortaSGML DTD for insane HTML with FORM start before HEAD. - KW
- * Prevent memory leaks from HTChunks for option and textarea with very
- bad markup, added TRACE and BAD_HTML_USE_TRACE warnings for those. - KW
- * Don't call tigetnum("ncv") for _WINDOWS - BD
- * Added Unicode tables for the "DEC Multinational", "Macintosh (8 bit)",
- and "NeXT character set" display character sets. - FM
- 1997-10-28
- * Disable setting of the `reloading' flag in HTLoadDocument which would
- generate no-cache headers for request where this is not appropriate. - KW
- * Memory leak for first OPTION in SELECT removed. - KW
- * Changed HTDOS_name to not return pointer to static area. - Binh Do
- <bdo@mailman.epnet.com>
- * Changes to INSTALLATION file. - HN
- * Fix in HTMIME.c to recognize Content-location. - KW
- 1997-10-27
- * Don't disable FORMs that have INPUTs with TYPE="file" or TYPE="range"
- since those fields may be optional and the rest of the FORM may be
- valid to submit. - FM
- * Updated links to www.w3.org in help files. - KW
- * Some changes for DOS compilation. - DK
- * Changes to INSTALLATION file. - HN
- * Tweaks of internal links stuff. - KW
- * Allow HEAD on URLs starting with LYNXIMGMAP:http by stripping the
- prefix. - KW
- * Reverted LYCheckForCSI() to previous incarnation. - KW
- 1997-10-26
- * If compiled with -DDONT_TRACK_INTERNAL_LINKS, behavior with respect to
- internal links as in FM's code. - KW
- * Some chartrans tweaks. - KW
- 1997-10-25
- * Changes to INSTALLATION file. - HN
- * Make temp file names conform to 8+3 naming convention for DOS, and
- give LYNX_TEMP_SPACE priority over TEMP and TMP for DOS. - DK
- * Create temp file names with '-' char as separator between pid and
- sequential number for non-8+3 systems, to prevent (unlikely)
- collision. - KW
- 1997-10-24
- * Change in HTML.c to use the base (rather than current document, if the
- base differs) in all cases for form ACTIONs (i.e., if the ACTION is
- empty, or has a lone fragment, or an ACTION attribute is not included)
- as specified in the -07 to -09 Fielding URL drafts. - FM
- 1997-10-23
- * Fixed a few typos and glued together a few URLs to make it easier for
- folk to cut and paste them, in the new INSTALLATION file. - LV
- 1997-10-22
- * Many locations of files changed, about_lynx/ directory and references to
- aboutfilepath removed, userdefs.h reorganized, changed README, new
- INSTALLATION file, doc changes, some doc files removed. - HN
- (Removed paragraph in README which doesn't apply yet, some files still
- not done - KW)
- * Patch to WWW/Library/djgpp/makefile - WS
- * Added entity names from HTML 4.0 draft to extra entities in HTMLDTD.c - KW
- * Understand lists in ACCEPT-CHARSET attributes. Added a list of forms
- to GridText structure (currently underused). - KW
- * Don't try to use box drawing chars in UTF-8 display mode. - KW
- * Changed chartrans mechanism (UCdomap.c, makeuctb.c) so that the "default"
- translation table is now used as a fallback for other translation tables.
- This also applies to display character sets which do not have a chartrans
- table file but are listed in LYCharSets.c. Changed syntax of table files
- (see src/chrtrans/README.format), added a keyword to disable using the
- fallback. Currently def7_uni (corresponding to "7 bit approximations"
- and the MIME charset "us-ascii") is used as default table, as before;
- but previously the default table didn't have any real meaning.
- Conceptually every translation table (unless it disables fallback) is
- extended as if it included all the replacements from the default table.
- Note that mappings for some characters in the default table file still
- differ from the old mappings given in LYCharSets.c, and what is displayed
- e.g., for umlaut characters may not be consistent, this still has to be
- sorted out. It may just have become more visible now. - KW
- * Tweaks to some replacement strings in def7_uni.tbl; contributions of
- more useful strings would be welcome... - KW
- * Removed mappings for invalid chars from some chartrans files, removed
- Ethiopic chars from iso01_uni.tbl. - KW
- * Some other corrections and tweaks for chartrans mechanisms. - KW
- 1997-10-21
- * Fixed handling of Control-D (delete character under the cursor) in the
- line editor when the cursor is at the end of the line instead of on a
- character in the string being edited. - FM
- * revised tests for wait/waitpid/union-wait. - TD
- * correct/update handling of default prefix in CF_WITH_PATH macro, used for
- parsing --with-cfg-file and --with-lss-file options. - TD
- * add uninstall target to top-level makefile. - TD
- * remove redundant install options from $(INSTALL_DATA). - TD
- * add configure --with-lss-file option - TD
- * minor cleanup of gcc warnings, ifdefs. - TD
- 1997-10-20
- * Mods in the CSO/PH gateway to set the anchor's safe flag to TRUE so the
- user need not be bothered with confirmation prompts on resubmissions of
- the search form. - FM
- * Tweaked the break point setting code in GridText.c for CJK di-bytes
- so that one is set after a recognized "ESC(" ISO 2022 escape sequence
- has been found. - FM
- 1997-10-16
- * Tweaks to recognition of Japanese (better recognize x-euc-*), and to
- the mechanism in GridText.c keeping track of which encoding is used for
- Japanese. The state for this is now reset on explicit '\n' and '\r'
- received by the HText object in addition to space chars. - KW
- * Tweaks in HTTP.c to avoid access to uninitialized memory and pacify
- paranoid dbx. - KW
- * Try to more consistently remember the charset in effect for a document
- when going to SOURCE view, using new LYUC{Push,Pop}Assumed functions.
- Note that this is only in effect immediately when switching to SOURCE
- view; any later reloading while within SOURCE view (including those
- caused by RELOAD, RAW_TOGGLE and other keys, or by Options Screen changes)
- may still revert to the usual assumption about charset, which means a
- charset specified in a META tag may be forgotten at that point; this may
- be considered a feature... - KW
- * Refer to TagSoup and SortaSGML parsing (coined by FM), rather than "old"
- and "new" DTD. - KW
- * Made some of the changes concerning and removal and location changes of
- files proposed by HN. - KW
- * Restored LYCheckForCSI example function to its previous form, with a check
- added and comments added. - KW
- 1997-10-15
- * Changed the order of display character set entries for the options menu
- popup. "ISO Latin 1" and its "DosLatin1 (cp850)" and "WinLatin1 (cp1252)"
- equivalents come first, then the system-based charsets (note that I
- changed "IBM PC character set" to "DosLatinUS (cp437)"), then the CJK
- and Vietnamese charsets, then "Other ISO Latin" (probably don't need
- that one any more), then the known ISO 8859-# charsets with their
- homologs (e.g, Dos and Win Cyrillic and KOI8-R) in groups, then
- "UNICODE UTF 8" and the Unicode mnemonic charsets. - FM
- * Various fixes for color style code, should prevent memory corruption. - KW
- * Some LYCharUtils.c cleanup. - KW
- * Added some of the changes from fotemods to SGML.c, especially handling of
- ‌ as allowing a line break, and conversion to UNICODE UTF-8. - KW
- * Mods in code handling mailcap lines, to avoid access to invalid memory. - KW
- 1997-10-12
- * Added LYLeakSACopy and LYLeakSACat to LYLeaks.c. Running Lynx compiled
- with LY_FIND_LEAKS defined will now give the source locations where
- StrAllocCopy and StrAllocCat are used, if those create leaks. Added
- missing include of LYLeaks.h in LYCookie.c. - KW
- * More heavy tweaks in LYCharUtils.c. Associated changes in HTChunk.c
- (new functions), small change for -raw (in connection with attribute
- values) in SGML_character. LYCharUtils.c is still a work in
- progress... - KW
- * Tweaks to allow some chars as data input (0x97, 0x9b, 0xa0) if the
- current display character set seems to have those values as printable
- characters (by testing LYlowest_eightbit[]). - KW
- 1997-10-11
- * Mods in HTFTP.c to recognize NetPresenz server (variation of AppleShare
- claiming to be Peter Lewis server?, try current ftp://www.unicode.org/),
- and to show server's identification from initial greeting on info
- screen for FTP URLs. Other cosmetic changes in HTFTP.c. - KW
- * Fixed various memory leaks. - KW
- * Some more minor cleanup tweaks for color style code. - KW
- * Avoid unnecessary pauses if TRACE is on and a Trace Log file is in use. - KW
- 1997-10-10
- * Renamed lynx_help/keystroke_commands/ directory to lynx_help/keystrokes/
- for the benefit of DOS, and changed references accordingly. - KW
- * Changed parsing of command line options for -lss file, it should now
- be used and override the default from userdefs.h or environment variables
- as advertised. - KW
- * More tweaks and cleanup in HText_SubmitForm. - KW
- * Code to recover from memory exhaustion, sometimes. The requests for
- dynamic memory which heuristically most often fail for lack of memory
- when rendering large documents are the calloc() calls in split_line.
- They are replaced by LY_check_calloc() which has the same calling
- conventions as calloc() but additionally checks if "enough" memory is
- available for the requested amount plus some margin and tries some
- remedial action if this is not the case. The additional safety margins
- are required to make it likely that other allocation requests in other
- places of the program won't fail before the next check. The actions
- which may be taken in order to avoid exiting if low memory is detected:
- (1) Try to unload cached documents (other than the one currently being
- loaded), until we seem to have enough memory. (2) If that fails (or
- there are no other documents cached in memory), try to fake a 'Z' key
- interruption; this will have the same effect as if the user had pressed
- 'Z' so it will only detected if some other part of the program tests
- HTCheckForInterrupt() and acts on it. (3) If this seems not to be
- sufficient to stop loading, halt appending of normal text data to the
- document structure (A warning *** MEMORY EXHAUSTED *** is appended
- instead). - KW
- * A tweak of color style memory allocation. - KW
- 1997-10-09
- * Some more tweaks from FM for VMS build - KW
- * For DJGPP compilation, src/chrtrans/makefile.dos - WS (Bill Schiavo
- <Wschiavo@concentric.net>)
- * Some cleanup in Hext_SubmitForm (needs more). Start using ACCEPT-CHARSET
- (doesn't recognize list yet, only recognized if on the INPUT field that
- causes submission). - KW
- * Added two test files for iso-8859-2 charset. - KW
- * Tweaks in LYMainLoop.c for various keys that page up, to better preserve
- keep the current link selected if possible and to correct a glitch with
- UP_LINK. - KW
- * Reorder text/html and text/plain to the beginning of HTPresentations list,
- so they will be found more quickly and will appear at the beginning of
- Accept request header fields. - KW
- 1997-10-08
- * add logic to implement mouse button 2 "previous document" for
- ncurses configuration. - TD
- * add dependencies on 'lynx' to top-level 'all' and 'install' rules
- in makefile.in - TD
- * add osf4.0 to special case compiler options using -g3 in place of
- -O -g, for Heikki Kantola <hezu@iki.fi>. - TD
- * correct some of the uninitialized-variable warnings. - TD
- * Removed the compilation of the old libwww-FM HTAlert.c module for VMS,
- as previously removed for Unix. - FM
- * Added comments and tweaks of build.com, build-slang.com and libmake.com,
- (and a complementary tweak of tcp.h) to make more clear how compiler
- definitions and compiler and linker options can be added. - FM
- 1997-10-07
- * Changed PROBLEMS file for ^Z and for "forgetting emphasis of link text"
- problem (which shouldn't occur any more). - KW
- 1997-10-05
- * Changed SGML.c parsing of unrecognized and invalid start tags. If the
- '<' character in HTML is followed by a 7-bit letter character, we now
- do tag parsing even if the element name is not recognized, instead of
- going to 'S_junk_tag' mode, so that a '>' embedded in an attribute value
- (which may also be part of a CJK character's encoding) will not
- prematurely end the tag. (But "soft double-quotes parsing" mode is
- recognized.) Treat a '<' followed by most other 7-bit chars as data,
- i.e., recover it and the following char. - KW
- 1997-10-04
- * Corrected check for empty string at beginning of LYUnEscapeEntities. - KW
- * Squeezed option for "Assume charset if unknown:" into Options screen.
- It is selected with a control char (^A), is only available in Advanced User
- mode, and the value is currently not saved into .lynxrc with '>', i.e.
- for a persistent change lynx.cfg has to be modified (or use an alias or,
- for DOS, a batch file to call lynx with -assume_charset=...). The
- interaction with the Raw M(O)de setting may be confusing (or confused :) ),
- and it is possible to set nonsensical values that have no effect. - KW
- * Changed order and criteria of transformation attempts in HTPlain.c to
- be more like SGML.c. For plain text KOI8-R would use 8-bit stripping
- to early. HTPlain_write still is too different from SGML_character... - KW
- * Reinstate the slash after special interpretation of /~ at beginning of
- file URL path for DOSPATH - DK
- * Changed SGML_character to not try to convert attribute values to UTF-8
- if HTCJK is in effect (arrggh!) - KW
- * Changed effect of -raw / '@' for CJK display character sets: it now toggles
- the effective charset assumption between that specified with ASSUME_CHARSET
- or -assume_charset (or iso-8859-1 if none given) and the charset that
- corresponds to the selected display character set, as for non-CJK. An
- exception is made if both charsets are CJK charsets, so that the toggle
- will still have the function of toggling CJK mode on and off. Explicitly
- specifying a CJK charset as assumed is currently not very useful, since we
- cannot translate from that to other character sets. - KW
- * Oh, by the way: compilation without defining EXP_CHARTRANS won't work any
- more. Regard #ifdef EXP_CHARTRANS as some strange kind of comment for
- now, until it goes away. - KW
- * Write comment at top of .lynxrc file to make clear that it is different
- from lynx.cfg, suggested by LV. - KW
- 1997-09-30
- * Changed order of display character sets on options screen a bit, and
- corrected charset listings in lynx.cfg and userdefs.h files - KW
- * Added comment on lynx.lss in userdefs.h, moved it. - KW
- 1997-09-27
- * Made TRACE messages which correspond to BAD_HTML_USE_TRACE warnings stand
- out more by decorating them with ***** characters, so that users who
- follow the BAD_HTML_USE_TRACE advice can more easily find the relevant
- messages. - KW
- * Reworked LYUnEscapeEntities() while loop into a (hopefully) more
- understandable and consistent state-based switch, and integrated
- LYUnEscapeToLatinOne functionality. - KW
- * Non-ASCII characters in URLs and similar strings encountered in the HTML.c
- processing (previously handled by LYUnEscapeToLatinOne) are now generally
- URL-encoded, instead of doing this just for 8-bit characters which are
- the result of entity expansion. There is no clear standard definition what
- non-ASCII characters in URLs in HTML attributes (HREF etc.) actually mean,
- especially if the transmission character encoding is something else than
- iso-8859-1. Leaving them as the raw byte values as received runs against
- the HTML i18n view that the transmission encoding is distinct from the
- document character set and has to be (conceptually at least) decoded before
- SGML parsing. It also won't work in general for entities that expand to
- to Unicode characters which cannot be expressed at all in the currently
- effective (or assumed) charset, and would lead to problems with displaying
- URLs on the statusline or representing them in auxiliary screens or bookmark
- files. So now we try to first transform to the document charset "as usual"
- (undo the transmission encoding), then translate the Unicode value into a
- sequence of (one or more) byte values which are then URL-encoded. Since
- character values > 255 cannot be expressed in a byte, always use UTF-8
- for them. It may not be what the author intended, but should be at least
- consistent between internal (fragment) HREFs and NAME (or ID) attributes
- in the same document or set of documents. Since this is dealing with
- bytes currently disallowed in URLs, it falls under error recovery. But
- the handling should be roughly in line with current Internet Drafts
- (draft-masinter-url-i18n-00.txt, draft-duerst-query-i18n-00.txt,
- draft-ietf-ftpext-intl-ftp-02.txt).
- For character values < 256 (but > 127) this isn't currently consistently
- done, we may still be URL-escaping the byte value without UTF-8 encoding -KW
- 1997-09-25
- * Integrated the attribute and form field translation stuff from separate
- code line. This is still a rough attempt. Needs testing and refinement,
- for various character set situations, expect glitches and bugs. - KW
- 1997-09-24
- * Removed the compilations of the old libwww-FM HTInit.c and HTFWriter.c
- modules for VMS, as previously removed for Unix. - FM
- * Added other changes from FM's feedback for VMS. - KW
- * Fixed a bug in the SGML unescaping of OPTION values. - FM
- * Fixed a bug in the SGML unescaping of TEXTAREA text. - KW
- 1997-09-23
- * Fixed file 'E'dit command from dired directory listing, which I had
- broken in 2.7.1ac-0.69. - KW
- * Added -width=NUMBER option to specify line width for non-interactive
- formatting (-dump output). Also used by -preparsed source mode. - KW
- * Changed suffix mapping mechanism to deal with "real" content-encoding
- parameters (gzip, compress) in addition to 7bit, 8bit, and binary. Added
- a new field for brief descriptive text, so that the MIME type doesn't have
- to be abused for this purpose, but left most settings in HTInit.c unchanged
- for now. - KW
- * Changes in HTFWriter.c and HTFile.c so that we don't forget the file type
- and encoding information we already have for a compressed file when passing
- control to HTLoadFile (possibly after uncompression). - KW
- * Introduced FNAMES_8_3 symbol (for DOS 8+3 file system), and HTML_SUFFIX
- which should be defined as ".htm" for DOS and ".html" otherwise. Various
- tweaks to deal with systems with 8+3 restricted filenames, in general and
- in connection with uncompression. - KW
- * Applied diffs from FM for VMS, compared with recent fotemods. - KW
- 1997-09-21
- * Use 0.01 rather than 0.001 as the q value for inserted iso-8859-1 and
- us-ascii charset parameters in Accept-Charset headers. - FM
- * Added internal buffering of I.value elements in HTML_start_element()
- of HTML.c. - FM
- 1997-09-20
- * Show HTTP header for all 2xx status codes (including 204-206) if requested
- with HEAD or -head. - KW
- 1997-09-19
- * Modified the Unix "strange character" filter in exec_ok() of LYGetFile.c
- to allow '+', '&' and '=' characters. - FM
- * minor ifdef/declaration fixes required to build on IRIX 6.2,
- SunOS (K&R) and VAX C. - TD
- 1997-09-18
- * Try again after interrupted waitpid() in LYLoadCGI(), as in LYExecv() - KW
- * Tweak in LYKeymap.c to bypass the isalpha() test for non-ASCII values,
- including values > 255 mapped to arrow keys, etc., when generating the
- 'k'eymap display. - KW
- * Changes to prevent many (but not all) compiler warnings about `const'.
- Not that this is different from TD's recent changes. Also some other minor
- tweaks relating to (gcc) compiler warnings. - KW
- 1997-09-17
- * Mods in GridText.c to use HTEscapeSP() for space-to-plus conversions of
- name fields, and not just value fields, in submitted form content. Note
- that some CGI scripts may still be doing plus-to-space restorations only
- for value fields, and only hex unescaping for name fields, while others
- may not be hex unescaping the name fields, so we may as well follow the
- specs fully (and cross our fingers :). - KW, FM
- * merge symbols 'has_color' and 'lynx_has_color' to simplify ifdef's,
- and correct a problem building color-style configuration. - TD
- * add configure symbol for ifdef'ing presence of waitpid, which
- was stopping build on HP-UX. - TD
- * correct the symbol that is defined by CF_SIZECHANGE test, noted
- by failure to build SCO version after making an include for
- <sys/ioctl.h> ifdef'd according to configure test. - TD
- * corrected check for broken (pre-1.9.9g) ncurses versions so that
- they can build with color support. - TD
- * cache state of CF_NETLIBS so that rerunning configure will yield
- the same results for network libraries. - TD
- * Add configure test for HP-UX -lHcurses library. - TD
- * Minor adjustments to names of configure-script variables, to make
- them the same as other programs (e.g., tin-unoff). - TD
- 1997-09-16
- * Added code to JKT's and KW's mods in LYPrint.c to also handle VMS, i.e.,
- set the document's title as a logical on VMS (can be accessed via
- f$trnlnm("LYNX_PRINT_TITLE") in scripts). - FM
- * Smaller cleanups here and there - FM, KW
- 1997-09-15
- * Recover from bad sequence "<=" in SGML.c by outputting those characters
- literally. - KW
- * Try again after interrupted waitpid() in LYExecv(). - JED
- * Some tweaks in new DTD, some doc typo corrections. - KW
- 1997-09-13
- * Changes in LYConvertToURL() for better handling of the case when the
- pathname of the current directory (when Lynx is invoked) contains
- unusual, URL-reserved characters (especially '#') and we test for
- a relative but URL-encoded path. (no change for VMS) - KW
- 1997-09-13
- * Changes in LYStrings.c to enable keypad() processing for non-NCURSES
- if HAVE_KEYPAD is defined. - KW
- 1997-09-12
- * Correct mismatch/omission of HAVE_TYPE_UNIONWAIT symbol from
- change for wait vs waitpid. - TD
- 1997-09-11
- * Tweaks in HTMLGen.c for display of special characters and line breaking
- with -preparsed. - KW
- * Got rid of use of underlining together with reverse for non-current
- links for (n)curses if color is not used. - KW
- * Small HTMLDTD.c changes for new parsing. - KW
- * Change in SGML.c to always recognize SOFT HYPHEN when given as ­. - KW
- 1997-09-10
- * Modify CF_WITH_PATH to allow substitution of --libdir and other
- configure options pathnames, e.g., for --with-cfg-file. - TD
- * Include lynx_cfg.h in userdefs.h to resolve redefinition reported by
- AAC. - TD
- * Remove Ultrix/sony_news -specific ifdef's for curses headers,
- replace with configure-tests. - TD
- * Remove AIX/NeXT/sony_news -specific ifdef's for wait vs waitpid,
- replace with configure-tests. - TD
- * Add/use CF_HELP_MESSAGE macro to visually break down the very long
- help message into sections. - TD
- * Move the development options to the beginning of the configure script,
- to facilitate adjustment of compiler options (especially for Ultrix)
- to reduce the number of spurious warnings from miscombining -g/-O
- options. - TD
- * Correct misplaced assignment to cf_cv_ncurses_header in configure.in,
- which caused misconfigure against vendor curses, reported by Hynek Med
- (Ultrix) and Roger Hill (HP-UX 10.x). - TD
- 1997-09-09
- * Added arguments to the multinet_htons() and multinet_ntohs() declarations
- in tcp.h. - FM
- * Tweak of the this_MIMEcharset[] and this_LYNXcharset[] checks in
- makeuctb.c. - FM
- * Replaced the index() and bcopy() with strchr() and memcpy() in the
- putenv() for NeXT in LYUtils.c. - FM
- 1997-09-08
- * Added a -preparsed flag, to be used with -source or with SOURCE view.
- When invoked with this flag, show HTML text as it is output from the SGML
- parsing stage, regenerated via HTMLGen.c functions, rather than the usual
- more raw rendering (in SOURCE view) or the original byte stream (as with
- the -source flag, possibly with BASE information prepended). Lynx will
- attempt to wrap the text to screen width (or 80 cols for the -source flag),
- but will not always succeed. Unrecognized tags and attributes as well as
- comments are dropped, attributes reordered, missing end tags supplied,
- abd other changes made, showing how Lynx internally treats the document's
- structure. This is probably most useful for debugging (of either Lynx's
- parsing or of HTML documents, although a real validator should be used for
- the latter!). It can also be instructive to switch the DTD parsing mode
- (with the ^V key) while viewing preparsed source.
- Note that this doesn't work so well now with character translations and
- entity expansion don't work well now, showing some of the same problems
- which appear for rendered documents and dropping some characters. Making
- those problems of parsing more directly visible was one of the motivations
- for this flag. Also note that META tags which may contain charset info
- are never interpreted when using -source (with or without the -preparsed
- flag), but when interactively switching to SOURCE view, Lynx MAY remember
- that charset info from the previous non-SOURCE full parsing (again this
- applies with or without -preparsed); the INFO screen should always show
- the assumption currently in effect. - KW
- * Updated some HTMLGenerator functions to use line wrapping logic found in
- newer libwww versions, and further mods in HTMLGen.c. - KW
- * Tweaks to use of chartrans stages, should now better preserve charset
- info from META tags even in compressed HTML files. - KW
- * Fixed a problem with LYCheckForCSI which could lead to crashes. - KW
- 1997-09-06
- * Modifications to allow the Lynx lynxcgi feature to process
- PATH_INFO in addition to QUERY_STRINGS in URLs. DOCUMENT_ROOT
- may be set by the user in lynx.cfg and is then passed as well.
- If DOCUMENT_ROOT is set, then PATH_TRANSLATED is calculated and
- passed as well. - JKT (J Kevin Ternes <jkternes@mindspring.com>)
- * Changes to LYPrint.c to put the variable LYNX_PRINT_TITLE
- into the system()'ed environment for use by post-Lynx, pre-lp
- formatting scripts. LYNX_PRINT_TITLE is simply generated by
- calling HText_GetTitle(). - JKT
- * Corrections to JKT's mods (to avoid memory leaks etc.). Avoid
- unnecessary stat() calls. Other fixes in LYCgi.c. Make
- setting of HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET actually work. Now URL-unescape
- the path in lynxcgi URLs before doing anything with it.
- Better logic for when to check for restrictions, the previous checking
- for !reloading could be easily circumvented. Also check whether
- the full path including a possible PATH_INFO passes the restrictions
- test by exec_ok(), to catch "../" segments. Don't try to handle
- a non-executable lynxcgi URL as a file URL if there was a PATH_INFO
- part, it gets too confusing. Strip '#' fragments from the lynxcgi
- path, but leave the interpretation of '#' characters after a '?' as
- before so that they are still regarded as part of the query or search
- string. If PATHINFO is present, unescaped '#' characters in it will
- still be rejected by exec_ok(). - KW
- * added a bit of text about running ./configure to INSTALLATION
- file - David Combs (<dkcombs@netcom.com>), KW
- * Added a translation table for Vietnamese (VISCII), and associated code
- changes. See the file viscii_uni.tbl. - KW
- 1997-09-05
- * Mods in LYGetFile.c to retain a fragment on redirection if the redirection
- URL does not include a fragment. - FM
- 1997-09-04
- * Correct ifdef'ing for getbkgd function calls. - TD
- * Correct ifdef'ing for remaining inline chmod calls. - TD
- * Consolidate various logic for opening secure files into utility
- functions, correcting portability problems as well. - TD
- * Add configure option --with-cfg-file to override default location of
- Lynx configuration file (requested by Laura Eaves). - TD
- * Strip -g option from CFLAGS for the non-debug version of Ultrix
- configuration (requested by Hynek Med). - TD
- * Add configure test for HP "color" curses (noting that this cannot
- possibly comply with XPG4 due to naming conventions, we'll expect
- other problems with it). - TD
- * Add checks to configure test for COLOR_CURSES to work around bug
- report for HP-UX. - TD
- * Don't cache configure options except where essential (e.g., the
- setting of 'screen'). - TD
- * Change some configure options to disable/enable for consistency. - TD
- 1997-09-03
- * Tweaks in HTML_put_string() and LYUnEscapeEntities() to deal with line-
- breaks within attributes more consistently, and more independently of
- which convention is used (CRLF, CR, or LF). - KW
- * Tweaks to prevent a few compiler warnings. - KW
- * Tweaks of the iso06_uni.tbl and iso08_uni.tbl files now compiled in.
- Note that a replacement character or string to replace invalid or
- unrecognized characters can be defined by mapping the Unicode value
- U+FFFD, which is done here (for testing, and because these two charsets
- have a lot of undefined code points). Also some mods in default 7-bit
- table for some Hebrew characters and points. - KW
- 1997-09-02
- * Mods to include "ISO 8859-6 Arabic" and "ISO 8859-8 Hebrew" in the display
- character set options (Note, though, that Lynx presently has no code to
- deal overtly with non-Latin directionalities.). - DK, FM
- 1997-08-31
- * Mod of HTMIME.c to ignore any Content-Encoding header with a value of
- "identity" (case insensitive). Shouldn't happen, but better safe than
- sorry. - FM
- 1997-08-28
- * Correct a quoting error in CF_RECHECK_FUNC macro. - TD
- 1997-08-27
- * Further refine/correct configure macros for finding network and curses
- libraries, adding CF_RECHECK_FUNC to simplify CF_NETLIBS. - TD
- * Rename #define for NCURSESHEADER to HAVE_NCURSES_H, for consistency. - TD
- * Add-back test for -lm to support slang shared libraries. - TD
- * Modify test for disentangling ncurses library from mytinfo on FreeBSD
- to workaround linker limitation. - AAC
- 1997-08-22
- * Fixed typo in LYReadCFG.c when checking for a NOVICE mode default. - JN
- (Note that this and other lynx.cfg defaults which have 'o'ptions settings
- are overridden when the 'o'ptions are saved to the RC file. - FM)
- 1997-08-21
- * Tweak to LYHistory.c to better remember last position on page. - KW
- * Eliminated two more MIME types (application/html and text/x-sgml) from
- the Accept header generated by default by setting the q-value to 2.0,
- since there are more standard alternatives for these names. - KW
- * Lower maximum length for generated Accept header lines from 1000 to 252,
- to accommodate an incompetent Windows HTTP server. - KW
- * Changed order of some functions in LYCharUtils.c (no other change there
- yet). - KW
- 1997-08-20
- * Modify top-level install rule to depend on 'all'. - TD
- * Suppress check for ANSI compiler when we are using gcc. - TD
- * Use -g3 option in place of -O -g for Ultrix compiler --debug configuration
- (request by Hynek Med). - TD
- * Drop "-lm" library from slang configuration, since it does not seem to
- be used. - TD
- * Add configure --includedir and --oldincludedir values to header search
- path for ncurses and slang. - TD
- * Modify configure checks for ncurses and slang libraries to generate
- -L options as required, using new macros CF_FIND_LIBRARY and
- CF_LIBRARY_PATH. - TD
- * Add substitution for CPP in src/makefile.in so that .c.i rule works. - TD
- * Add configure test for lint program. - TD
- * Add "make depend" target to generated makefiles. This is intended only
- for use in editing/developing, since many of the header dependencies in
- chrtrans are generated during the build process and cannot be determined
- by makedepend in advance. - TD
- * Add configure option --with-zlib. - TD
- 1997-08-19
- * Tweak of highlight() in LYUtils.c to ensure that split link names with a
- soft hyphen are handled identically for slang, VMS curses and Unix curses
- when such links are made current. - FM
- 1997-08-17
- * Use 0.01 rather than 0.001 as the q value for the global wildcard in
- Accept headers. - FM
- * Put up correct makefile for dos port (oops) - WB
- 1997-08-16
- * Mini tweaks for the win-dos ports. One fix for the pull down boxes
- and the rest mostly maintenance. - WB
- * Fixed a bug in LYNews.c which caused overwriting of the first three
- characters in the Subject for a followup. - FM
- 1997-08-15
- * Hack in highlight() to preserve a '-' character at the end of line
- within anchor text, which can result from splitting at the position
- of a ­ or <SHY> or SOFT HYPHEN character. - KW
- * Tweaks in print_wwwfile_to_fd print_crawl_to_fd to output a soft hyphen
- character if it is present at the end of a line. For -dump, a raw
- ISO 8859 SOFT HYPHEN character may be written if the Display Character
- Set (default from lynx.cfg or saved value in .lynxrc) is an ISO 8859
- character set, but this may be overridden with the -raw toggle.
- Otherwise represent soft hyphen with '-' as usual. - KW
- * Modified the news gateway to try XGTITLE for wildcarded lists of
- available newsgroups (e.g., news:bionet.* for the bionet hierarchy,
- or news:* for all of its served newsgroups). If that fails, Lynx
- retries with the old behavior of using LIST NEWSGROUPS and parsing
- the reply itself for the desired groups. Note that LIST NEWSGROUPS
- can take a wildcarded argument for some nntp servers, but not all,
- so we don't risk it. - FM
- * Fixed a bug in HTHandleAuthInfo() of yesterday's HTNews.c which could
- yield an infinite while() loop. - FM
- * Various tweaks in HTNews.c to HTHandleAuthInfo() and elsewhere, to
- keep connections open more often in some common cases of non-fatal
- errors, and also avoid trying to use the network socket after some
- recognized case of closing by the server. Only based on some testing
- with INN's nnrpd, not on any written specs. - KW
- 1997-08-14
- * Added nntp authorization (AUTHINFO) handling to the news gateway. - FM
- * Added a "Loading cfg file '%s'." trace message in LYMain.c to indicate
- the absolute path of the configuration (lynx.cfg) file which was used
- at startup (if Lynx is invoked with the -trace command line switch). - FM
- * Added code in HTFWriter.c to avoid calling HTLoadFile() on the temporary
- file which results from decompression of a temporary file created by
- HTCompressed(), if this would just result in making a copy of the file
- and then invoking an external viewer. Instead the viewer command is
- now invoked directly from the HTFWriter_free of the HTCompressed()
- stream after decompression. - KW
- * Added code in HTFWriter.c, HTFile.c, and HTFormat.c to support reading
- of gzipped local files directly, using functions from the zlib library.
- Note that gzipped files from remote servers are still first copied to
- a temporary file before lynx can process them further, and an external
- GZIP_PATH command is still needed at least for passing such files to an
- external viewer, as well as for various DIRED_SUPPORT File menu functions.
- To activate this code, the symbol USE_ZLIB has to be defined, it is
- currently not set by the auto-config script. The zlib library may be
- already installed on your system (probably called libz.a or libz.so.1
- or similar, the required header files are zlib.h and zconf.h), otherwise
- it is available through <http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/>, it
- appears to support all platforms for which lynx is available (including
- VMS, DOS, MS Win32). Note that this library would probably also be
- needed if in the future support for the HTTP/1.1 "deflate" content-coding
- is added. - KW
- * Don't send MIME types in Accept headers whose q values are outside of the
- allowed range 0.0 <= q <= 1.0 - KW
- * Tweaks in HTInit.c to use the official names for image/png and image/tiff,
- but still support the image/x-* forms. - KW
- 1997-08-13
- * Tweaks of LYConvertToURL() in LYUtils.c and HTParseInet() in HTTCP.c
- to deal more coherently with 'z'ap attempts during gethostbyname()
- calls. - FM
- * Tweaks of split_line() and HText_endAppend() in GridText.c to handle
- trimming of spaces from the tails of link names more effectively. - FM
- * Expanded the OL nesting depth and type counters to track up to 12 list
- depths before punting to the lowest negative number. Note that the
- indentations still are limited to 6 nested depths, so use the TYPE
- attribute to distinguish OLs with deeper nestings. - FM
- 1997-08-12
- * Mods of LYMainLoop.c to maintain treatment of a local startfile as
- text/html source when it does not have a suffix mapped to that MIME
- type and the -force_html switch was used. - FM
- * Added .phtml to the default suffix mappings for text/html. - FM
- * Mods of LYCurses.c to avoid using /dev/tty arbitrarily for stdin on
- Unix when compiling with slang versions greater than 0.99-35, based
- on JED's suggestion to lynx-dev. - FM
- * Tweaks of HTCheckFnameForCompression() in GridText.c to avoid warnings
- from some compilers. - FM
- 1997-08-09
- * Changed the code of 1997-08-06 which modifies suggested filenames for a
- 'D'ownload to be more cautious: don't remove a '.gz', '.Z' etc. suffix
- if there is no header indication that we have a compressed file. Not
- all servers and gateways (including the internal FTP gateway) detect
- and label compressed content reliably. - KW
- 1997-08-08
- * Mods of HTTP.c so that download requests are converted to presentation
- requests for interactive users, and traversal requests are converted to
- cancels, when servers return non-success statuses with bodies which
- should be displayed to interactive users. - FM
- * Added the "DosCyrillic (cp866)" display character set to the chartrans
- support, and tweaked the other Cyrillic charset tables. - AAC, KW
- * Tweaked MULTI_SUFFIX support in HTFile.c, so that it now somewhat
- works. Dunno whether it's useful for anybody. - KW
- 1997-08-07
- * Tweaks of yesterdays mods in GridText.c. - FM
- * Correct storage class of variables in UCMap.h, from -warn-common linker
- option. - TD
- * Refine configure tests for acs_map, ttytype to accommodate broken linker
- on FreeBSD 2.1.5 - TD
- * Modify README.configure to indicate the associated definitions for
- each configure option, as suggested by Klaus Weide. - TD
- * Correct duplicate declaration of Current_Attr, which Linux linker ignores
- (reported by Hynek Med). - TD
- * Add -G7 option to Ultrix compiler options (request by Hynek Med
- <xmedh02@lada.vse.cz>). - TD
- * Add include for <sys/types.h> to utmp configure test (reported by Andrey
- A. Chernov). - TD
- * Add check for FreeBSD library mytinfo (reported by Andrey A. Chernov
- <ache@null.net>). - TD
- * Modify ./makefile.in so that 'all', the default target, will build the
- Lynx executable. The old 'all' target is retained as "make help". - TD
- * Modify src/makefile.in to allow development compiles within the src
- directory. - TD
- * Mask spaces in the bkgd (background attribute) calls for color curses to
- make the color-style code work better with SVr4 curses. - TD
- * Change workaround for 8-bit acs characters by adding to the initialization
- a loop forcing the entries of acs_map[] to 8-bits. - TD
- * Many minor tweaks for the DJGPP version by DK - WB
- * A rename of about_lynx_dev.html to lynx_dev.html for 8.3 systems - WB
- 1997-08-06
- * Modified HTMIME.c and LYCharUtils.c so that setting of suggested filenames
- via a filename=value pair in Content-Disposition headers and META elements
- is not restricted to the file disposition type. - FM
- * Mods in GridText.c, LYGetFile.c and HTAnchor.c so that suggested filenames
- will have appropriate suffixes when 'd'ownloading, based on whether or not
- the file is gzipped or Unix compressed. - FM
- 1997-08-05
- * Mods of the lead relative symbolic element stripping for http/https
- URLs in cases for which they would persist when resolved to an
- absolute URL. The latest URL draft is ambiguous about whether this
- should be considered an error, and leaves the handling of it up to the
- UA. So we now get rid of all lead relative symbolic elements from the
- resolved http/https URLs, but no others, and still issue a Bad Partial
- Reference statusline message. - FM
- * Tweaks of title handling in LYMainLoop.c and LYShowInfo.c so that the
- known title, or link name associated with ACTIVATE-ion, form submission,
- or a HEAD request, will be used in the INFO ('=') display. - FM, KW
- 1997-08-04
- * Fixed header parsing in HTMIME.c so that "Safe:" is recognized. - KW
- * Changed confirmation prompts for HEAD (']') commands acting on a POST
- document, to reflect the fact that the POST request body will not
- actually be submitted in a HEAD request. - KW
- * Reset LYCancelDownload to FALSE at top of getfile(), to prevent delayed
- effect which can otherwise occur. - KW
- * Block URLs with port numbers outside the range of valid numbers in
- getfile(). - KW
- 1997-08-03
- * Changed the NSL_FORK code in HTTCP.c so that the gethostbyname() call
- is retried without forking if the child process exits without returning
- enough data. Also added trace output, to show whether something
- unusual has happened to the child process. - KW
- * The IETF has indicated intent to adopt KW's "status 307" proposal for
- dealing with the status 302 problems, so HTTP.c and HTAlert.c implement
- that now. The 302 status is "General (temporary) Redirection" which
- can be handled as 303 at the UA's discretion, so we do that in all cases,
- rather than prompting the user whether to do that when the 302 is for
- a POST submission. The 307 (and 305) for POST submissions invokes a
- prompt whether to P)roceed or C)ancel, without the Use G)ET option.
- The 301 is treated as permanent, normally, but for POST submissions
- still is treated as temporary and invokes a prompt which includes the
- Use G)ET option, because scripts written to empirical behavior may
- still be expecting that (it's virtually never encountered in redirections
- of POSTs, though, because the document containing the form typically
- is redirected, so the user only sees the form if a local copy has been
- made, and it would be best to C)ancel and get a new local copy of the
- document from the correct http/https URL, to serve as a BASE for the
- form's ACTION). - FM
- * Changed the typedef for HTCoord in HTStyle.h from float to int, for
- significant speedup of rendering on machines without floating-point
- hardware based on DW's, KW's, BL's analyses. Note that this should
- be taken into account when/if external style sheet support is added
- for page formatting (e.g., for optimum handling by speech synthesizers
- and braille interfaces), beyond the current emphasis on colorizing. - FM
- 1997-08-02
- * The cookie pre-draft has been adopted as an IETF ID, see
- ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-http-state-man-mec-03.txt
- so the code for combining Set-Cookie and Set-Cookie2 headers has been
- eliminated in LYCookie.c (see mods for 1997-07-31). - FM
- 1997-08-01
- * Fixed typos in LYCookie.c. - FM
- 1997-07-31
- * Mods of the cookie handling based on the latest pre-draft. Add a
- Cookie2: $Version="1" header in any requests that use historical
- cookies in the Cookie: request header, so that modern servers will
- use Set-Cookie2 headers with modern cookies in their subsequent
- replies. Limit the scheme for commentURLs to http or https, not
- just to network servers (e.g., gopher is now barred too). Include
- a $Port attribute in modern Cookie request headers if it was set
- via a server's reply header. The pre-draft indicates intention
- to drop the requirement to combine Set-Cookie2 and Set-Cookie
- headers if both types were received. We're still combining them,
- but based on bona fide one-to-one correspondence checks (which were
- not specified in the earlier draft), so that's OK, and we'll get
- rid of that needless overhead if the current pre-draft holds up
- and becomes an official IETF draft. - FM
- * Added a -nocc command line switch for disabling the Cc: prompt
- for self copies of mailings. Note that this does not disable
- any CCs that have been incorporated within a mailto URL or form
- ACTION. - FM
- * Added a NO_FORCED_CORE_DUMP compilation (userdefs.h) and configuration
- (lynx.cfg) symbol, normally set FALSE, which if changed to TRUE will
- block forced core dumps on Unix via abort() calls on fatal errors or
- assert() calls on potentially fatal error checks. Also added a -core
- command line switch for toggling the default. - FM
- * Updated the documentation and 'h'elp concerning the new symbol and
- switches. - FM
- 1997-07-30
- * Added workaround for curses with broken handling of 8-bit acs characters
- (which may be used for drawing of popup boxes) to LYCurses.h. This fixes
- box characters and attributes/colors for solaris curses used with linux
- console as terminal. Currently it is not automatically enabled or
- configured, but can be enabled by -DBROKEN_CURSES_8BIT_ACS. - KW
- * Mod in HTFWriter.c to change the statusline appropriately when an
- uncompression has completed. - FM
- * Fixed code in LYOptions.c for the case when NEVER_ALLOW_REMOTE_EXEC was
- not defined and ALLOW_USERS_TO_CHANGE_EXEC_WITHIN_OPTIONS was defined. - KW
- 1997-07-28
- * Avoid traversing the full list of anchors each time when HText_endAnchor()
- is called with a non-zero anchor number, if that number corresponds to
- the last anchor added to the HText structure. It is is the most common case
- that HText_endAnchor() refers to the last anchor, and the only case that
- could be handled correctly before FM's changes of 1997-05-13. Avoiding
- the loop over the list of anchor can improve loading time significantly,
- especially for large files with thousands of anchors. - KW
- * Add progress display and 'z'appability for loading of local files.
- They are activated only after a few hundred k bytes have been read.
- Added define for HT_PARTIAL_CONTENT to HTUtils.h, used in above.
- (The WWW Library 5.x uses HTTP-ish status codes like this throughout.
- I find it much less confusing than -29998 and so on, and there's no
- conflict in this case. - KW
- * Minor LYUtils.c tweaks. - KW
- 1997-07-27
- * Changed code for checks in LYGetFile.c for URL schemes which should
- be rejected when received as redirections, added checks for more
- schemes. - FM
- * Rename top-level Makefile to Makefile.old (it's obsolete) - TD
- * Reduce top-level targets to one, 'lynx' - TD
- * Move comments describing DirEd to README.configure from makefile.in,
- leaving only the definitions that haven't been integrated yet. - TD
- * Add configure options to enable/disable DirEd and its associated modes. - TD
- * Add configure option to enable/disable char-trans support. - TD
- * Correct sense of autoconf'd symbol for size-change. - TD
- * Accommodate systems with obsolete ncurses.h in configure tests. - TD
- 1997-07-26
- * Changed the variable hline in LYUtils.c to hLine, so as not to conflict
- with a curses function or macro. - FM
- * Fixed an esoteric glitch in highlight() of LYUtils.c which could cause
- the last character of a current link to receive WHEREIS search target
- emphasis if it happened to be the first character of the target (though
- perfection is unattainable, we should strive to achieve it :). - FM
- * Changed the default value for STRIP_DOTDOT_URLS (lynx.cfg) to TRUE. - KW
- * Made some of the additional checks introduced yesterday in LYMainLoop.c
- for invalid links to internal dired URLs more strict, as they probably
- were intended. - KW
- * Added checks for some internal URL types, which should be rejected
- if received in a server redirection, to LYGetFile.c. Maybe more types
- should be added to the list. - KW
- 1997-07-25
- * Map charsets of the form "ibmNNN<...>" to "cpNNN<...>" in UCdomap.c
- if not already recognized. Also recognize "windows-1252". - KW
- * Compared the handling of 4-way "show color (&)" in the 'o'ptions menu
- against FM's implementation, and made some changes (mostly in formatting,
- variable and constant names and usage, ordering of statements) to aid
- further comparison. The logic is still messy and needs further cleanup
- and simplification, but seems to do what it should. Note that this
- also handles color-curses, in a (hopefully) reasonable way. Command
- line flags -nocolor and (if using slang) -color override a preference
- found in the RC file. See updated "Lynx Users Guide" file and the
- comments written to the RC file.
- Documentation changes adapted from FM's changes. - KW
- * Mods of the DIRED_SUPPORT to check the actual URLs of temporary files
- rather than just their titles when filtering for spoofing attempts via
- external files with internal URLs. Also recast the PRIVATE my_spawn()
- to a PUBLIC LYExecv(), so that it can be used by any module (though
- presently it's still used only by LYLocal.c functions). - FM
- * Tweaks of LYCharUtils.c to handle Set-Cookie HTTP-EQUIVs in META elements
- without risking crashes in LYCookie.c or HTParse.c. - FM
- 1997-07-24
- * Made "show color" option a 4-way choice, if compiled with color support
- and if saving of options to a .lynxrc file is allowed. - KW
- * Made changing file permissions with DIRED_SUPPORT work again; one of
- the recently added checks in LYMainLoop.c was too restrictive.
- Added protection to permit_location in LYLocal.c, similar to the changes
- of 1997-06-24 to LYDownload.c. - KW
- * Generate CANCELLED message when editing of a string value on the Options
- Screen has been cancelled (typically with ^G), instead of an
- inappropriate VALUE_ACCEPTED statusline. - KW
- 1997-07-23
- * Tweaks of the strtok() calls for textarea values in HTML.c, so that they
- will never be repeated after NULL has been returned, and thus won't cause
- linux-alpha to crash. - FM
- * Make -nocolor command line flag work if compiled with slang. Note that
- -nocolor is strong, it overrides all other reasons that might otherwise
- turn color on. - KW
- * Tweaks in LYCurses.c to ensure that slang library and Lynx flags for
- whether color support is on stay in register. - FM
- * Change the default in userdefs.h for SHOW_COLOR to FALSE for USE_SLANG.
- Because of the different logic used for LYShowColor in the curses code
- vs. slang code, setting SHOW_COLOR to TRUE makes it difficult to invoke
- a binary compiled with slang so that color is not used on startup
- (except by using -nocolor).
- Note that reading show_color from .lynxrc is still commented out. - KW
- * There is now a "trailing comment" handler in LYReadCFG.c. It treats '#'
- as a comment token only if it is somewhere after the last colon for the
- lynx.cfg entry and is preceded by a space or tab. - FM
- * Added TT to the Utterly Tag and Attribute Soup group of HTML elements. - FM
- (applies only to "old" DTD in this code set, as usual - KW)
- 1997-07-22
- * Modify curses popups in LYForms.c and LYOptions.c to use background color
- from main window - TD
- * Ifdef'd out the logic that saves "show color" to .lynxrc, since it is
- deemed to be confusing to users - TD
- * Merged FM's changes to the "show color (&)" toggle to save to .lynxrc,
- support slang, update online documentation - TD
- * Add error message to show actual context in error-checking for color
- parsing suggested by Filip M Gieszczykiewicz - TD
- * Check for/suppress duplicate -lsocket in network library configure - TD
- * Remove HP-UX snake2/snake3 targets from makefile.in - TD
- * Add configure script case for 'sequent', drop ptx, ptx2 targets from
- makefile.in - TD
- * Add logic to configure script handling of slang to suppress spurious
- -Ipredefined when header location is given in $CFLAGS - TD
- 1997-07-21
- * Check for lynx_uses_color and LYShowColor in lynx_start_status_color()
- and lynx_stop_status_color() of LYCurses.c so that the statusline
- will appear reverse (or otherwise highlighted if the terminal doesn't
- support reverse), if color support is compiled in but not currently
- used. - KW
- * Added comments on color usage to lynx.cfg. - KW
- 1997-07-20
- * Added command-line option "-nocolor" to disable color on terminals that
- would otherwise support it. Added options toggle for colors, tested
- with ncurses. - TD
- * Remove option value from configure option "--with-color-styles". - TD
- * Correct background of popups in LYOptions.c - TD
- * Add configure check for compiler options to enable prototypes - TD
- * Remove IRIX "-cckr" compiler flags. - TD
- * Correct whitespace as per LPS: LYCurses.c, LYOptions.c - TD
- * Tweaks of LYMainLoop.c in the code controlling how the document is reloaded
- due to any changes in the 'o'ption menu which require a new rendering of
- the document (but still without forcing a proxy cache refresh when that is
- inappropriate; see the 1997-05-26 mods). - FM
- 1997-07-18
- * Mods in LYexit.c and LYCurses.c to ensure restoration of stderr (if it
- was changed for output to the trace log) on all exits. - BL, FM
- * Include an unsigned char typecast in the HASH_FUNCTION definition for
- HTAtom.c - CK
- * Modified change to is_url() of 1997-07-13 to check for the slash after
- stripping any lead space characters. - FM
- 1997-07-16
- * Added the Windows Cyrillic display character set. - AAC
- (Andrey A. Chernov <ache@null.net>)
- 1997-07-15
- * Added support for a commentURL attribute in cookies. This attribute is
- under discussion in the HTTP-WG and not presently in the draft (see the
- 1997-07-09 mods for the draft's URL), but would be extremely advantageous
- for multi-lingual and non-English-speaking sites because the comment
- attribute can have only ASCII characters in its value, whereas a request
- for the comment via a URL in turn allows use of charset and language
- negotiation for what the server returns. The value of the commentURL is
- resolved and retained only if it's scheme points to a server (i.e., file
- and special lynx URLs are rejected), and if it is retained, is included
- as a link in the Cookie Jar Page. If commentURL is not ultimately
- included in the revised State Management RFC, sites which wish to use
- it could do a User-Agent check for Lynx (and any other browsers which
- implement it). - FM
- * Fixed a typo in HTCompressed() of HTFWriter.c so that the last dot in a
- tentative temporary filename is sought via strrchr(), as is done for
- HTSaveAndExecute() and HTSaveToFile(). - KW
- 1997-07-14
- * Yet more tweaks of the cookie support. We include $PATH and/or $DOMAIN
- attribute/value pairs in Cookie request headers only when their values
- were set explicitly via a server's Set-Cookie and/or Set-Cookie2 reply
- headers (and the cookies are $VERSION="1" or greater). - FM
- * Added support for IFRAME homologous (but not identical) to that for FRAME.
- It is handled as a block with a blank line before and after style, and
- with margins and default alignment inherited from the containing block,
- division, or span. The IFRAME rendition always begins with an emphasized
- "IFRAME: " label followed by the NAME attribute's value, if present, or
- the URL for the SRC attribute, serving as a link for the SRC, followed
- on a new line by any rendered IFRAME content. - FM
- * Added handling of LEGEND elements. The content is rendered in place,
- as for CAPTION elements, since we don't have multiple pass inlining
- capabilities. Hopefully, if the LEGEND is intended to be ALIGN-ed at
- the "top" or "bottom" of the associated insert, the author will place
- the LEGEND element above or below it, respectively. Note that LABEL
- elements similarly are rendered in place, and will be displayed
- interpretably only if the INPUT to which the LABEL's "for" attribute
- refers, immediately follows the LABEL element. - FM
- * Added recognition of BUTTON elements, and handling of them (sorta :)
- when they are TYPE="submit" or TYPE="reset" in forms. The default
- "submit" or "reset" string, or the value of a VALUE attribute, if
- present, is embedded in parentheses and used for the link, and the
- content is simply rendered and displayed in place. Until we see what
- kind of markup the real world puts in such elements, it's too risky
- to try to use that rendition as the link. Also, the W3C's HTML 4.0
- draft presently is very fuzzy about whether, and if so, when, an IMG
- element in the BUTTON content should be treated as an image map, so
- the present code doesn't try to cast any submitted BUTTON name/value
- pairs into the format for INPUTs with TYPE="image". When the BUTTON
- is a script control rather than submit or reset button, a "[BUTTON]"
- pseudo-ALT is inserted to warn users of its presence, but the form
- is not disabled. The W3C's HTML 4.0 draft makes scripting intrinsic,
- with no SGML-based fallbacks if it is not available or is disabled by
- security-conscious sites. Dave Raggett of the W3C replied to criticisms
- of this in www-html@w3c.org by saying that he wished it have been
- otherwise, but "market forces" prevailed (Sigh...) - FM
- 1997-07-13
- * Changed is_url() to return immediately if the string to check starts with
- a slash character. This prevents some false positives if the string
- contains ':' characters. - KW
- * Added support for "MACOS AppleShare IP FTP Server" to HTFTP.c.
- Only based on and tested with (the current incarnation of)
- <ftp://www.unicode.org/>. - KW
- 1997-07-12
- * Correct some build issues with the merge (ifdefs for the curses modules)
- as well as minor fix for makefile distclean rule. - TD
- * More refinements of the cookie support in relation to recent discussions
- in the HTTP-WG, and for more fully effective protection against denial
- of service attacks. If the same attribute appears more than once for
- the same cookie, ensure that the first instance will be used. Limit
- the total number of cookies across Set-Cookie and Set-Cookie2 headers
- to 50 per server reply, and each cookie to a maximum of 4096 bytes. - FM
- 1997-07-11
- * Added support for hexadecimal character references (&#xH;) as proposed
- in the W3C HTML 4.0 draft. - FM
- 1997-07-10
- * Synchronized the development code against the fotemods patches up to
- 1997-07-06 (relevant changes listed below, as usual). Note that FM
- has now included the chartrans code, but has eliminated conditional
- compilation of it; however, in this code set setting "-DEXP_CHARTRANS"
- at compile time is still necessary (but compilation without it has not
- been tested). - KW
- * Fixed character counting logic in display_line() for lines where
- soft hyphens (­ or <SHY> or a soft-hyphen character) are used
- for their intended purpose. - KW
- NOTE: The W3C HTML 4.0 draft explicitly specifies handling of ­,
- ­ (and now also ­) in the manner long implemented by Lynx
- (i.e., as a truly soft hyphen), and not in the brain-dead manner
- implemented by Netscape and MSIE. - FM
- * Various tweaks of the cookie support to handle likely (based on past
- experience in the real world :) abuses of Set-Cookie and Set-Cookie2
- headers from servers. Most importantly, apply sanity checks to the
- values of port attributes so that any unquoted port list will not be
- misinterpreted as the start of a new cookie within the port list.
- Also added code to fold (CR LF TAB) Cookie request headers if they
- contain a long sequence of cookies which would exceed 1024 bytes on
- one line, since some servers suffer buffer overruns and crash in such
- cases. - FM
- * Modified HTNews.c to use HTmmdecode() and HTrjis() for the Subject and
- Author strings in listings of news articles when using a Japanese display
- character set. - HN
- 1997-07-09
- * Massive updating and revamping of the cookie support in accordance with
- http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/draft-ietf-http-state-man-mec-02.txt
- which is scheduled to replace RFC 2109 on July 15, 1997. Noteworthy
- changes are that (1) the blanket port restriction is now lifted, and
- sharing of cookies among servers with matching domains but different
- ports is blocked only if a port attribute was included in the
- Set-Cookie2 header (or Set-Cookie header, though it's not expected
- there), with a value which defaults to the request's port, but can
- be a comma separated list of ports, and (2) the blanket restriction
- on sharing of SSL-encrypted (https) cookies with http servers is
- lifted, and normally depends on the Set-Cookie or Set-Cookie2 header
- having included a secure attribute. However, a configuration option
- (see lynx.cfg) to FORCE_SSL_COOKIES_SECURE is now available, and the
- compilation or configuration default can be toggled via a -force_secure
- command line switch. - FM
- * Make NOCACHE ('x' key) work as expected from history list for internal
- links. - KW
- * Removed bogus checking for a config file in home directory which had
- been introduced into the development code. - KW
- 1997-07-08
- * Synchronized the development code against the fotemods patches up to
- 1997-06-24 - TD, KW
- 1997-07-06
- * Implemented popup windows for the 'o'ptions menu, homologous to those
- for SELECT blocks in forms. They are implemented when select_popups
- is on, and include WHEREIS search and 123[g,p] features (very useful
- for navigating the choice list of 28 display character sets :). Use
- the F_LINK_NUM command ('0') to invoke the prompt for a choice list
- number when in NUMBERS_AS_ARROWS mode. The popups are not invoked for
- the simple, binary choice options. Also modified the options menu so
- that the cursor is positioned to the left of choices when show_curser
- is on (but it is still positioned initially at the endings of strings
- when the line editor is invoked for options that have user-entered
- values). - FM
- 1997-07-04 (KaBoom! :)
- * Mods of HTMIME.c and HTFile.c to ignore Content-Type parameters other
- than charset when charset is not present, as we do when it is present
- and we know we can handle it. - FM
- * Fixed bug in LYNews.c which could cause Lynx to crash when posting or
- sending followups to news groups and the Organization header was
- obtained from the /etc/organization file. - FM
- * Fixed bug in LYEdit.c which could cause Lynx to crash when an editor
- to which a line number is passed as an argument is used and there are
- no links on the current page of the document to be edited. - FM
- * Added information about the new $USER feature to the comments about
- TEMP_SPACE in userdefs.h. - FM
- 1997-07-03
- * Tweaks of change_sug_filename() in LYUtils.c to make protections against
- buffer overruns explicit within the function. - FM
- * Tweaks of the #ifdef'ing in HTTCP.c. - FM
- 1997-07-02
- * Mods in LYDownload.c and LYPrint.c to treat a suggested output file
- entry of "/dev/null" on Unix, and "nl:" or "/nl/" paths on VMS (case
- insensitive), as a cancel (^G). - FM
- * Mods in LYGetFile.c to include URLs with content from a form submission
- with method GET in the group for which Referer headers are never sent,
- because the content might include private (e.g., password or credit
- card) information which should not be visible in Referer logs. - FM
- * Added -G 7 to the LYFLAGS and MCFLAGS for the ultrix and ultrix-slang
- Makefile targets when using the native ultrix compiler. - HM
- * Added -DNSL_FORK to the LYFLAGS for all of the solaris2 and Linux
- targets in Makefile. - FM
- * The above two changes don't affect the makefile used by auto-config - KW
- 1997-06-30
- * Removed a redundant declaration in UCdomap.c which was causing some
- compilers to balk. - FM
- * Fixed typos in SGML.c which could cause echoing of numeric character
- references for some of the display character sets. - FM
- 1997-06-29
- * Updated lynx.hlp, lynx.man and the online 'h'elp concerning the chartrans
- support. - FM
- 1997-06-26
- * Tweak of the "tag and attribute soup" parsing mods in HTML.c so that the
- PLAIN attribute works for UL blocks again. - FM
- * More tweaks of LYMainLoop.c to issue informative statusline messages
- about attempts to ACTIVATE, DOWNLOAD, or submit URLs or ACTIONs which
- are disallowed in the current context and destined to fail, rather than
- acting on them and generating actual failures. - FM
- * Mods of LYmktime() in LYUtils.c to support dd-mm-yyyy format for expires
- headers and cookie attributes. - FM
- * Oops, hadn't included checks for whether there are links on the page
- in this morning's LYMainLoop.c mods to ensure appropriate statusline
- messages for attempts to bookmark special URLs that can't be bookmarked,
- which could yield a crash it there aren't any. The checks are in there
- now. - FM
- * Added ability to bookmark links from the Lynx List Page, as from the
- Visited Links Page, but not for those pages, themselves, since they
- are temporary files. Note that Lynx List Page links will not have
- the documents' titles, as do those in the Visited Links Page, unless
- you've visited them before invoking the Lynx List Page. - FM
- * Added explicit protections against buffer overruns in the LYDownload.c
- handling of suggested filenames. - FM
- * Changes in LYCurses.c, GridText.c, HTML.c, and LYUtils.c, and smaller
- changes to some other files, to fix problems with RP's style code.
- Color leaking should now be at least much reduced, and some possible
- crashes avoided. - KW
- 1997-06-24
- * Mods in LYDownload.c to check whether the File= field in a LYNXDOWNLOAD
- URL has the value that was inserted into the URL via the most recent
- download options menu. This prevents spoofing with arbitrary LYNXDOWNLOAD
- URLs entered via the 'g'oto or ECGOTO commands, or ACTIVATE-ed in a file
- other than the most recent download options menu which was created by
- Lynx internally. - FM
- * Mods in LYMainLoop.c to ignore LYNXCOOKIE, LYNXDIRED, LYNXDOWNLOAD, and
- LYNXPRINT URLs if entered via a 'g'oto or ECGOTO command, and to issue
- a statusline message explaining that the special URL is not allowed as a
- goto. This is just for informational purposes, and the above anti-spoof
- mod is not dependent on it. - FM
- 1997-06-23
- * remove "Styles" identifier from Lynx version string in userdefs.h
- since it causes "patch-o-matic" to choke. - JES
- 1997-06-20
- * Now that we add or subtract attributes for Unix FANCY_CURSES, as for VMS
- curses and slang, the 1997-05-30 mods based on LE's patch for keeping track
- of whether links occur in an underlining context, and if so, restoring it
- when a current link is made non-current, should be extended to FANCY_CURSES
- as well. So they are extended, now, in highlight() of LYUtils.c. - FM
- * Added code in LYNewsPost() of LYNews.c for converting any EUC or SJIS to
- JIS (ISO-2022-JP) in posts or followups to Usenet news groups if the
- display character set is "Japanese (EUC)" or "Japanese (SJIS)". The mods
- need testing by Japanese users, because the TO_JIS() function I added
- long ago in SGML.c has not actually been used before. - FM
- * Modified the hack in LYPrint.c for mailing HTML source so that it never
- appends a charset parameter to the "text/html" value of the Content-Type
- header if compiled without chartrans enabled. - FM, KW
- 1997-06-18
- * Added a check for nonsense LINES and COLS values in setup() of LYCurses.c,
- homologous to the check in size_change() of LYUtils.c, and set LYlines and
- LYcols to the 80x24 default if they're nonsense. The slang library and
- most curses implementations do the equivalent themselves, but we may as
- well make sure it's done. - FM
- * Tweaks of the anti-spoof mods in HTFWriter.c for additional protection
- against extra %s entries in viewer command mappings. - FM
- 1997-06-17
- * Came up with a low overhead way to restore the emphasis for WHEREIS
- search targets when links are made current or non-current and the
- target string starts before and/or extends past the end of the link
- name (hightext or hightext2) string (see 1997-06-14 mods), so the
- restoration works in that case as well, now. - FM
- 1997-06-14
- * Fixed a longstanding bug in highlight() of LYUtils.c which caused seeking
- of a column position less than 0 and strange behavior when a link is made
- current, if show_cursor is on and the link begins at column 0 (as can
- happen in PRE blocks). We now position the cursor on the first character
- of such links, so the current link will remain clear for those with speech
- or braille interfaces. - FM
- * Added functions in LYCurses.c, along the lines of those in the development
- code, so that the [w]start_foo() and [w]stop_foo() functions no longer
- just replace character attributes for Unix FANCY_CURSES, but now add or
- subtract them as for VMS curses and slang. - FM
- * More mods in GridText.c and LYUtils.c so that the handling of WHEREIS
- search target emphasis when links are made current and non-current is the
- full equivalent for Unix FANCY_CURSES of that for VMS curses and slang.
- Note that the restoration of search target emphasis does not succeed if
- the hit started before or extends beyond the link name (hightext or
- hightext2 string). What it would take to succeed in that case as well
- doesn't seem worth the overhead, but I'm still thinking about it. Also
- note that we still do not emphasize search target hits, but only do link
- or page re-positioning, for Unix curses when only standout() and standin()
- are supported. In that case, standout() is being used for all links,
- including the current (with the latter indicated via cursor position by
- turning show_cursor on), so we don't want to create a totally confusing
- situation by using standout() for search target hits as well. The code
- is still designed to degrade gracefully when the terminal does not have
- the capabilities of the curses or slang with which Lynx was built. - FM
- 1997-06-13
- * Tweak of yesterday's LYGetFile.c mods. Lost a lynx_edit_mode = FALSE
- statement that is still needed when DIRED_SUPPORT is defined. - FM
- * Mods in LYForms.c so that the cursor is positioned at the left of the
- current option in select popup windows when show_cursor is on, as when
- the cursor is used to indicate the current link in the main document.
- This is important when Lynx is used with a speech or braille interface,
- or a terminal which does not respond to the highlighting/color for the
- current option. When show_cursor is off, the cursor is still positioned
- to the right of the current option for curses, and is fully "hidden" in
- the lower right corner for slang, so that the highlighting or color of
- the current option can be used without the distraction of a blinking
- cursor in the left-to-right reading field. - FM
- * Added ability to change the show_cursor setting via the 'o'ptions menu
- and to save that as the default in the RC file (otherwise, the default
- is still that set in userdefs.h or lynx.cfg). The -show_cursor command
- line switch toggles the default, however obtained, homologously to the
- -popup toggle. Updated the online 'h'elp accordingly (option_help.html
- and Lynx_users_guide.html). - FM
- 1997-06-12
- * Tweaks of the 1997-06-04 mods for restoring emphasis of WHEREIS search
- targets in link names when they are changed to the current link or again
- made non-current. When the link is made current, the first and last
- characters of the link name never are emphasized, so they'll retain the
- attributes/color for the current link, and the user can see (if sighted)
- that the link was made current. With this change, the restoration of
- emphasis also is interpretable with Unix FANCY_CURSES, so the block for
- that is lifted. Note that I figured out why the bold+reverse+underline
- combination doesn't work for that. The vanilla and this Lynx code are
- not adding or subtracting attributes for their start_foo() and stop_foo()
- functions (as is done for slang and VMS curses), but are replacing them,
- so you always end up with the last attribute in a series of start_foo()
- calls (underlining for the search target emphasis). I don't know if
- ability to sum attributes applies to all Unix curses flavors for which
- FANCY_CURSES is defined in the Makefile, so I left the Unix, non-slang
- start_foo() and stop_foo() functions the way they are, for now. - FM
- * Mods in LYGetFile.c so that any '~' in file URLs is handled as when in
- startfile, home page, or 'g'oto commands. Only the first '~' is converted
- to Home_Dir(), and only for the first symbolic element in the URL, and if
- it is followed by a username, that username is stripped (so that the
- "~username" becomes a reference to the home of the account running Lynx,
- as if only '~' had been used, and can't be used as a reference for an
- arbitrary home). Note that we don't do this stripping for ftp URLs,
- because the ftp server should decide, itself, whether to grant access to
- arbitrary homes, based on the username and password that were used to
- log in. Note, also, that if the account running Lynx is allowed access
- to the root of the file system for its home, then access to any arbitrary
- home in that file system can be gained from there. Access to the root
- never is allowed for file URLs in the for-VMS code, but depends on the
- root's protection in the for-Unix code. Also, any arbitrary path in file
- URLs will be attempted if it is specified as an absolute path. The
- stripping of the username from "~username" in most cases on Unix only
- protects against probing for homes in other file systems, without the
- user knowing the corresponding absolute path. - FM
- 1997-06-11
- * Mods in HTAABrow.c, HTTP.c and HTAlert.c so that auth_proxy is no
- longer a module wide global, and the structures which handle/create
- authentication/authorization headers maintain separate setup trees
- for proxy authentication/authorization versus for protected limbs of
- http/https data trees (realms) on the same server. This ensures that
- each proxy's template, which is the global '*' for all paths (that are
- in fact full URLs) in its proxying requests, are kept distinct from
- the templates for true paths of the protected limbs on the same saver,
- even if the user fails to include that proxy in the no_proxy list, or
- the server's WebMaster fails to do the equivalent configuration for
- the server, and the realm names overlap. Also modified the prompt
- strings for the username and password to be encrypted for protected
- document requests versus for proxy access so that they indicate
- explicitly whether the user's entries will be used for one or the
- other. - FM
- * Added a -pauth=id:pw switch for proxy servers, homologous to the
- -auth=id:pw switch for protected documents, along the lines of AJL's
- patch. Note that the -pauth value is used only for authorization
- headers to the first protected proxy server encountered, and the -auth
- value is used only for the authorization headers in document requests
- for the first protected limb encountered. Now that we have an explicit
- switch for proxy authentication, it should be used explicitly for that,
- instead of still allowing use of the -auth=id:pw switch for either
- (IMHO). Also, there's no serious need to make inclusion of the code
- for handling these switches a compilation option, because they are only
- available to users with shell access. Updated the help files concerning
- these switches, and included advice to make sure any script files which
- use these switches have restricted access. - FM
- 1997-06-09
- * More refinements of the code in GridText.c, HTML.c and LYCharUtils.c
- for handling visible versus hidden links, blank lines, stripping of
- the numbered brackets for links, and the interactions of these things
- with soft hyphens. - FM
- 1997-06-06
- * Fixed typos in LYrcFile.c which caused failure to start two comments
- on new lines when writing to the RC file. - FM
- * Fixed a typo in the lead dot pair stripping code in LYLegitimizeHREF()
- of LYCharUtils.c. - FM
- * Tweak of code in GridText.c for handling soft hyphens so that we don't
- display a hyphen if it's the first character in the line, or is preceded
- by a space, even if it is followed by a newline. - FM
- * Mods of the hidden link handling and numbered bracket stripping code in
- GridText.c so that it succeeds no matter how many blank lines are in
- the anchor content. - FM
- 1997-06-04
- * Mods in LYLegitimizeHREF() of LYCharUtils.c for dealing more effectively
- with fragments which have illegal characters, as is becoming common due
- to authoring tools such as Microsoft's Frontpage and Netscape's HTML
- editor. The actual URL-reference is still handled so as to yield a
- fully legitimate absolute URL, without any unescaped spaces, but the
- fragment is checked only for problem characters such as tab or newline,
- and otherwise is unmodified. (Try the vanilla versus modified code with
- the http://www.cnib.org/library/ww_flw96.htm atrocity, brought to you
- discourtesy of Frontpage. :) - FM
- * Worked into the fotemods code use of bold+reverse+underline highlighting
- of WHEREIS search hits for VMS curses, and slang on both VMS and Unix (with
- or without the color mode on), and added code in highlight() of LYUtils.c
- for restoring that highlighting when links are made current or non-current
- if the string for the hit was contained within the string for the link (won't
- be restored if the hit's string starts before or extends past the link's
- string). Couldn't get any of this to work with curses and the solaris2
- target, so for Unix curses the hit string still is just underlined and
- not restored when links are made current or non-current. - FM
- * Fixed typo in the 1997-06-01 LYOptions.c mods. - FM
- 1997-06-03
- * Mods in LYList.c to skip setting up a list block for visible links if
- the document has only hidden links, and in HTML.c to include a notice
- about this with a suggestion to use the 'l'ist command. Try it with
- the http://www.sony.com/ atrocity. - FM
- * Tweak in LYMainLoop.c to fix a longstanding bug which would cause the
- curdoc.line and curdoc.link numbers to be mishandled, and thus cause
- the wrong page and current link to be restored on return to the document
- via PREV_DOC or the History Page, if the document was fetched originally
- with a fragment and a link on its first page had been activated. - FM
- * Tweaks in GridText.c so that returns from image map menus to parent
- documents are not treated as if a different document is being sought,
- and thus any no-cache directives associated with the parent will be
- ignored unless another fetch is initiated within the parent or via
- another, externally existing document. - FM
- * Added SEEK_FRAG_MAP_IN_CUR and SEEK_FRAG_AREA_IN_CUR configuration
- (lynx.cfg) options for how to resolve USEMAP attribute values in
- IMG or OBJECT tags and HREF attribute values in AREA tags when they
- consist solely of a fragment (USEMAP="#frag" or HREF="#frag"). The
- compilation default is TRUE, i.e., they are resolved with respect
- to the current document's URL, even if the base is different, as is
- being done for the HREF attribute values of Anchors and LINKs. The
- compilation default seems to be working out, even though most of the
- currently deployed browsers still use the base. - FM
- 1997-06-02
- * Mods in LYMain.c so as not to require that a lone "-" argument for
- invoking input of command line arguments from stdin be the only
- argument on the actual command line. That requirement preluded use
- of this feature when the command for invoking Lynx was aliased so
- as to include arguments, because the lone "-" then could not be the
- only argument. Also tweaked the code so that any stdin-derived
- arguments which need to be processed early in main() are so processed.
- The vanilla code had severely flawed logic in this respect. The
- security considerations associated with switch handling have gotten
- hairy beyond reasonable bounds, but I think I've thought it all through
- (we'll see :), and have plugged some holes in the vanilla code for
- this feature. Redirection of stdout and/or stderr to a file now also
- works reliably in conjunction with this feature. - FM
- * Added an explanation in the PROBLEMS file of the bad getsockname() and
- getpeername() functions within SOCKETSHR 0.9D which affect the ftp
- gateway, and the URLs for Andy Harper's (A.HARPER@kcl.ac.uk) fixes of
- the SOCKETSHR 0.9D sources. - FM
- * Cast LYLocal.c into the Lynx programming style. - FM
- 1997-06-01
- * Added support for numbered form fields, and options in SELECT popups,
- based on LE's patch. The LINKS_AND_FORM_FIELDS_ARE_NUMBERED keypad
- mode can be defined in userdefs.h and via the 'o'ptions menu. When
- in SELECT popups, the F_LINK_NUM ('0') command can be used in any mode
- to invoke a "Select option (or page) number:" prompt, which can take
- 'g' or 'p' suffixes, homologously to the
- "Follow link (or goto link or page) number:"
- prompt in the main document with popups retracted. Note that when in
- the main document, the F_LINK_NUM command has an implied 'g' suffix
- for form links (i.e., will position you on the form link, not, for
- example, ACTIVATE a submit button), but *not* in popup windows (i.e.,
- without a 'g' suffix, the option corresponding to the number will be
- selected, and the popup will be retracted, as if you had pressed
- ACTIVATE when positioned on that option). The 123p feature is quite
- useful in popups with a very large number of options, and supplements
- the HOME, END and WHEREIS functions for seeking positions in the list
- (again, regardless of keypad mode, if F_LINK_NUM is used to invoke
- the prompt). A "page" is defined as the number of lines within the
- vertical dimension of the popup box. - FM
- * Mods in LYEdit.c to seek the current page and line when the editor
- is sedt on VMS. - FM
- * Updated the online 'h'elp concerning the "Follow link (or page) number:"
- and "Select option (or page) number:" features (Lynx_users_guide.html,
- follow_help.html, keystroke_help.html and other_help.html). - FM
- * changes to help files to reflect the different prompt string. - KW
- 1997-05-30
- * Worked in LE's patch for keeping track of whether links occur in an
- underlining context, and if so, restore it when slang color is on and
- a current link is made non-current, thereby actually dealing with the
- longstanding bug discussed in the 1997-05-27 mods (This is just a hobby,
- and I always reserve the right to change my mind! :). - FM
- * Mods of LYForms.c and LYStrings.c to deal with form field values too
- long to fit in the line editor's buffer (such as long TEXTAREA values
- which have no newlines in them). As much of the tail as fits in the
- buffer is offered for editing, with statusline messages explaining the
- situation. If the tail is modified, it is combined with the unmodified
- head when the form field is made non-current. The result can be edited
- further by making the form field current again. If the form has a
- Reset button, it can be used to restore the original value. The
- vanilla code would crash on buffer overflow (Ugh! A potential
- security hole.). - FM
- 1997-05-29
- * Restored underlining in conjunction with reversing for the current link
- with slang when colors are being used, but not otherwise. - FM
- * The 1997-05-26 mods to bypass screen redraws on retractions of SELECT
- popups when the selected OPTION was not changed worked properly only
- for VMS curses. Tweaked the for-slang code so that it now works like
- VMS curses (though not as efficiently). However, with Unix curses,
- the delwin() - refresh() sequence does not restore what was there
- before the popup was invoked, and none of the tweaks I tried got that
- to work, so the poor Unix folks using Unix curses are now stuck again
- with screen redraws for every popup retraction. - FM
- 1997-05-27
- * Eliminated in the fotemods code underlining in conjunction with reversing
- for the current link with slang, to avoid the longstanding bug of
- underlining being lost (and distracting color changes occurring) when that
- link ceases to be current and it was embedded in an underlined region of
- text. The attributes of the current link can be better handled in the
- development code based on configurable style sheets, so there's no
- point letting this bug ride, nor trying to deal with it through
- temporary internal mods, in the fotemods code set. - FM
- 1997-05-26
- * Mods of display_title() in GridText.c to eliminate the "format"
- mask as in KW's 1997-05-14 development code mods, and to make the
- memory management more efficient. - FM
- * Mods of change_form_link() in LYForms.c to bypass the screen redraw
- on retraction of a SELECT popup if the SELECT block is DISABLE-ed
- or the selected OPTION was not changed. Note that the complete
- elimination of the screen redraw in the 1997-05-20 development code
- mods, i.e., even when the selected OPTION was changed, results in
- the change not being made evident to the user in the retracted popup
- unless the screen is redrawn fortuitously (e.g., due to subsequent
- paging). - FM
- * Modified the caching-related changes of 1997-05-15 to LYMainLoop.c,
- handling automatic reloading after a change of the User-Agent string
- like after comparable other option changes.
- We force a reload if "preferred document lan(G)uage"
- or "preferred document c(H)arset" are changed via the 'o'ptions menu,
- and to set the "reloading" flag for forcing a proxy cache refresh if
- those or "user (A)gent" are changed and the current document has an
- http, https or lynxcgi scheme, but not force a proxy cache refresh if
- we're reloading due to an INLINE_TOGGLE, IMAGE_TOGGLE, or RAW_TOGGLE
- command. - KW, FM
- 1997-05-25
- * Mods in LYMain.c to convert $USER if present in the TEMP_SPACE
- definition or LYNX_TEMP_SPACE environment variable to the string
- returned by getenv("USER"). - FM
- * Fixed two typos for me->inFONT settings in HTML.c - TD
- * Added chmod(file, 0600) calls for most files created by Lynx. - FM
- 1997-05-24
- * integrate patch JED's mods which support mouse for slang as well as add
- new functions to encapsulate differences between slang/curses. - TD
- 1997-05-21
- * Mods in HTML.c and LYCharUtils.c so that TABLE blocks are treated
- as divisions in the DIV nest, with a default alignment of HT_LEFT
- if the TABLE start tag lacks an ALIGN attribute, and otherwise,
- that attribute's value. Nested TABLEs extend the DIV nest. This
- avoids the problem in the vanilla code of TABLE content inheriting
- the alignment of a containing CENTER or DIV which is intended for
- alignment of the TABLE as a whole. Also added support for ALIGN
- attributes in TR elements. If the TR has no ALIGN attribute, it
- inherits that of the current division, which should be that of the
- current TABLE. This, of course, still does not yield true TABLEs
- for truly tabular content, but makes TABLEs used for formatting
- more readable. - FM
- 1997-05-20
- * correct 2 occurrences of "me->inFONT == TRUE;" in HTML.c - TD
- * add configure --with-color-style option to merge RP's alpha changes for
- color styles (this works only with ncurses, since it does not initialize
- the window background, leaving it null, thereby exploiting a bug in
- ncurses which sets null backgrounds to a space). Also some whitespace
- (and renamed CS to make this build w/o ncurses) - TD
- * test-built with ncurses 1.8.7, 1.9.4, 1.9.9e and 4.0, as well as bsd 4.4
- curses and slang - TD
- * Tweak of HTFWriter.c so that it does the anti-spoof tests normally
- done by tempname() (see the 1997-05-19 mods) in all cases for which
- it changes the temporary file suffix from any of those checked by
- tempname() itself. At this point, every way I've thought of for
- trying to spoof Lynx via links for temporary files is blocked, but
- people should beat on today's code to see if there's any spoofing
- strategy I haven't yet blocked. - FM
- * Modified the Lynx Trace Log handling so that it doesn't use actual
- redirection of stderr via freopen() calls, and restores the original
- value of stderr during any escape to shell. This avoids the problem
- on Unix that sh and ksh send their prompt strings to stderr, and that
- bash sends both its prompt and command line echo to stderr, so they
- end up in the log instead of being visible. I had tested the initial
- design on VMS and with csh on Unix, and thus didn't notice this
- foolishness for the other Unix shells. Anyway, it's OK for all of
- them now. - FM
- * Tweaked SIGTSTP interrupt handler in the USE_SLANG for-unix code, so
- that it gets set to SIG_DFL when stop_curses() is called, to prevent
- strange interferences experienced when ^Z is used while a helper
- process is in the foreground. - KW
- * Change in LYForms.c to prevent forced screen refresh after selection
- from a popup box. - KW
- 1997-05-19
- * Recognize Linux console F1 key in LYgetch() (applies if "-DNO_KEYPAD"
- is in effect, as for all binaries built with slang). - KW
- * Protect LYgetch() against returning raw values of keypad() symbols
- which are invalid when used later as an index into keymap[],
- override[], etc. - KW
- * in the USE_SLANG for-unix start_curses(), honor the no_suspend flag
- if set. This implements -restrictions=suspend handling for slang
- (although it was intended for curses implementations which have
- problems with ^Z within Lynx; see the PROBLEMS file).
- Note that the no_suspend flag cannot be suspected to have
- the desired effect if lynx is executed from a shell script, unless
- the shell process forked for the script also ignores the SIGTSTP
- signal generated (usually) by the ^Z key. Also if the user is
- allowed to execute any helper process (VIEWER, PRINTER, etc.) which
- does allow suspending while no_suspend is in effect for the Lynx
- parent process (by overriding the SIG_IGN setting done by Lynx or by
- other means), then suspending may still be possible, in addition to
- strange effects either immediately or when the process or process group
- is continued (wrong tty and screen state, zombie processes, total
- hang of the session without any way to interrupt - you get the idea...).
- Trying to use the suspend restriction in order to prevent users from
- getting a shell prompt doesn't make much sense anyway when they are
- allowed access to execute commands which may be interrupted or allow
- escaping to a shell... - KW
- * Tweak of HTFile.c so that we no longer lose an LYforce_HTML_mode
- directive if the file is gzipped or compressed and the uncompressed
- suffix is not mapped to text/html. - FM
- * Modified tempname() in LYUtils.c so that it checks whether files
- with the current PID and target count already exist, and if so,
- increments the count until a name for a non-existing file has been
- created. - FM
- 1997-05-18
- * Mods in LYMainLoop.c and LYClean.c so that Control-G is treated as
- a synonym for 'n'o in quit confirmation prompts. - FM
- * Mods in LYPrint.c to strip any gzip or compress suffix from the
- suggested filename, on the assumption that we're deal with a text/html
- or text/plain file that had a corresponding Content-Encoding and no
- Content-Disposition: file; filename=name.suffix header indicating
- the appropriate filename after uncompression. This assumption does
- apply for our current ftp gateway, and for most present-day http
- servers. This mod in turn ensures that text/html files which are
- not being printed as source will have their uncompressed suffixes
- converted to .txt, indicated that they are rendered. - FM
- 1997-05-17
- * Fixed long-standing bug in display_page() of GridText.c. When it
- was updating the links structures, it wasn't re-initializing the
- form element if the links structure is not for a form field. - FM
- * Mods in HTML.c to deal more effectively with H# headers used instead
- of LH in lists. We now, in effect, treat them fully as if they were
- LH, so that their left indentations are in register with the current
- list nesting depth, and we apply better error recovery in cases where
- the author is mis-using H# for a FONT change rather than as an actual
- header. - FM
- 1997-05-16
- * Changed the line where a WHEREIS search target should preferably be
- displayed to the 4th line (not counting the title line). This can
- be changed by redefining SEARCH_GOAL_LINE in userdefs.h.
- SEARCH_GOAL_LINE can also be a simple expression in terms of the
- variable display_lines, e.g., `#define SEARCH_GOAL_LINE (display_lines/3)',
- this should then automatically adapt to screen size changes (provided the
- display system can deal with that...)
- Note that this this goal line will normally not be used if the next
- target, according to the algorithm Lynx uses, is already on the displayed
- screen. Also, when the displayed page changes to show a search result,
- there is no guarantee that it will end up on the line set by
- SEARCH_GOAL_LINE. It should rather be regarded as a maximum.
- For example the presence of anchors on the line with the target or on
- the preceding lines will change the positioning. - KW
- * The SEARCH_GOAL_LINE line will also be used for "going to" a link with
- 'g' suffix at the "Follow link ..." prompt, although the algorithm is
- quite different. As for a search target, this only applies when Lynx
- has to position to a different page of the document, and then is only
- a maximum. - KW
- * Enabled the no-cache setting for the pseudo document Lynx creates for
- a client-side image map in LYMap.c, for now. - KW
- * Minor typo fix for the proxy authentication mods. - FM
- * Tweak of PRE block handling in HTML.c to ensure an implied paragraph
- after the block if it is in a list and not followed by an LI. - FM
- * Tweaks of SGML.c and LYCharUtils.c to allow any non-digit to terminate
- a numeric character reference once at least one digit has been found in
- the reference. - FM
- * Change in LYUnEscapeToLatinOne() to use isdigit() instead of isalnum()
- for recognizing numeric character references like LYUnEscapeEntities()
- does. - KW
- 1997-05-15
- * Worked in JED's mods for taking a suspend into account during select()
- calls. - FM
- * Mods in LYMainLoop.c to not force a cache refresh on a proxy any more
- when INLINE_TOGGLE, IMAGE_TOGGLE, RAW_TOGGLE are used. On the other
- hand, do force a proxy cache refresh after one of the variables relevant
- for content negotiation `language' or `pref_charset' has been changed
- from the Options screen, if the current document is from a http, https, or
- lynxcgi resource. - KW
- * Set HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET environment variable for the child process in
- LYCgi.c if pref_charset is not NULL. - KW
- * (chartrans) Write a META tag with the current display character sets to
- the files generated for Bookmarks, List, Info, History, and Visited Links
- pages, so title strings contained in those files will (hopefully) not
- get erroneously translated again. Use new function LYaddMETAcharsetToFD()
- in LUCharUtils for this purpose. - KW
- * (chartrans) makeuctb now sets RawUni to UCT_ENC_8BIT if not otherwise set
- and if there are char values above 127. - KW
- * (chartrans) Change in HTuncache_current_document() to prevent caching of
- UCStages info which should be discarded. Still allow caching for this
- in the node_anchor for source display, so that a META tag in the parsed
- HTML can influence the display after using the SOURCE '\' key. - KW
- 1997-05-14
- * Don't use title in showlist() if it is empty, to prevent "hidden links"
- on the List Page itself caused by documents with <TITLE></TITLE>. - KW
- * Changed display_title() in GridText.c to not rely on sprintf() to get
- the number of blanks right. - KW
- * (chartrans) Added new lynx.cfg symbols ASSUME_CHARSET,
- ASSUME_LOCAL_CHARSET, and ASSUME_UNREC_CHARSET. They are only
- recognized if compiled with -DEXP_CHARTRANS. They correspond to the
- command line options -assume_charset, -assume_local_charset, and
- -assume_unrec_charset.
- The default for ASSUME_CHARSET is iso-8859-1 (corresponding to display
- character set "ISO Latin 1"). If no ASSUME_LOCAL_CHARSET is set,
- the explicit or default value for ASSUME_CHARSET will also be used for
- local files. ASSUME_UNREC_CHARSET has no default. See added text
- in lynx.cfg. - KW
- * (chartrans) Changes in LYCharSets.c to HTMLSetCharacterHandling() and
- HTMLSetUseDefaultRawMode() to support (hopefully) more consistent
- and user-friendly handling of raw mode and its default.
- Note that the following description does not apply if the display
- character set is one of the CJK settings. In that case, -raw and
- the corresponding Options setting is used as a CJK toggle as before.
- Note that the -raw flag is a toggle. It changes the "raw mode"
- setting from the default. The current setting of "raw mode" can be
- seen on the Options screen, and is also shown in a statusline message
- when the RAW_TOGGLE key (normally '@') is used.
- The default depends on the display character set (as previously)
- but now also on the ASSUME_CHARSET setting (as determined by a setting
- in lynx.cfg, possibly overridden by -assume_charset on the command
- line, or the default iso-8859-1). When the display character set
- corresponds to the ASSUME_CHARSET, the default for "raw mode" is ON,
- otherwise it is OFF.
- The effect of "raw mode" on the interpretation of documents which have
- no explicit charset label (from HTTP headers, a META tag, or otherwise)
- is as follows. There is an internal "assume charset" which may differ
- from the user-specified ASSUME_CHARSET value. When "raw mode" is set
- ON, the internal variable is set to correspond to the display character
- set. When "raw mode" is set OFF, the internal variable changes to
- the user-specified ASSUME_CHARSET or, if that also corresponds to the
- display character set (so that otherwise there would be no change),
- reverts back to the iso-8859-1 Web default.
- Raw mode doesn't imply total rawness. HTML character entities may
- be expanded and translated with either setting, 8-bit characters which
- are inappropriate for the display character set will not be sent to
- the terminal. For a "more raw" setting, try the "Transparent" pseudo
- display character set. - KW
- 1997-05-13
- * Changed the compilation default in userdefs.h for USE_TRACE_LOG
- to FALSE, for now. - KW
- * Code for "fixing" of relative http and https URLs which start with a
- ../ segment from FM added, but it has to be enabled with the new
- lynx.cfg symbol STRIP_DOTDOT_URLS (default currently set to FALSE).
- See FM's description under 1997-04-23. - KW
- * Changed the test for dot segment fixing in LYLegitimizeHREF() so
- that now (if enabled) it also applies when the http or https base URL
- in effect does have a non-empty path but without any slashes in it
- (beyond the initial one between host and path). The test was too narrow
- before and did not recognize this case, so that an unmodified URL with
- ../ in it would still be sent to the server and without generating a
- statusline message. - KW
- * Tweak of case LYK_REFRESH: in LYMainLoop.c so that the REFRESH command
- still invokes an obligatory, complete refresh of the screen for slang
- on Unix with the new LY_SLclear() function (see 1997-05-09 mods),
- by using scrollok() if USE_SLANG is defined. - FM
- * Changed the local variable name, lines, in follow_link_number() of
- LYGetFile.c to nlines, to deal with the AIX 4.2 bug of treating lines
- as a macro. Also changed the variable name, pages, to npages for
- logical complementarity (they both refer to the total number). - FM
- * Mods in HTML.c, LYCharUtils.c and GridText.c to deal with links for
- positioning, specified via NAME or ID attributes, when they are embedded
- in Anchors which have an HREF, so that they now don't force premature
- closing of those Anchors. Also tweaked the code for creating links for
- the sources of images or other for-GUI embedded objects when clickable
- images ('*') is toggled on, so they use those mods as well, when
- possible. Note, however, that the clickable images feature is creating
- Anchors with HREFs which aren't actually there, and still can create
- technically invalid markup, on occasion, when the non-doctored markup
- actually is valid. The latter mods still need some improvements in the
- formatting, but are OK to use for now, and my brain hurts from trying
- to think through all the possible markup we might encounter. - FM
- * Tweaks of the Lynx Trace Log handling to deal with reloads when the
- HText structure for the log has been dumped. Made the first letter
- of the filename uppercase (Lynx.trace), complementary to Lynx.leaks.
- Eliminated the log from the Visited Links Page so it can't be sought
- there as a forward link. Use the History Page if you want to 'd'ownload
- the log, or use the 'p'rint option while viewing the log. Note that
- suffix maps do tail matching, and thus the so-called suffixes need not
- begin with a dot. If you want to use an external viewer for the log,
- you can put:
- SUFFIX:Lynx.trace:application/x-LynxTrace
- VIEWER:application/x-LynxTrace:most +s %s
- in your lynx.cfg, or their equivalents in your mime.types and mailcap
- files. - FM
- * Tweaks in LYMainLoop.c to set newdoc.title for various special pages
- generated by Lynx (History Page, Info Page, etc.) and when following
- a link. - FM
- * Small change to the heuristics for New_DTD in start_element()
- in SGML.c (try a bit more to close containing element if it's the
- same tag) - KW
- 1997-05-12
- * Added support for proxy authentication. - AJL, FM
- * Updated follow_help.html to indicate that 0 is the universal
- F_LINK_NUM mapping for invoking the "Follow link (or ...) number:"
- prompt. - FM
- 1997-05-11
- * Tweaks in LYMainLoop.c to ensure that the LYforce_HTML_mode flag is
- reset reliably, so it doesn't carry over to requests for text/plain
- documents, as it was doing under some circumstances in the vanilla
- code, e.g., when a bookmark file was used as the startfile via a
- file://localhost/path URL rather than via the -book switch. - FM
- * Very minor change in Lynx_users_guide.html, added two words - KW
- 1997-05-10
- * Fixed a typo in statusline() of LYUtils.c. The check for whether
- the string is zero length before bothering to convert CJK multi-bytes
- was checking a holding buffer instead of the string. - FM
- * Fixed a bug in LYHandleMETA() of LYCharUtils.c. The check for a
- URL following the SECONDS value in REFRESH directives was not
- taking into account that an EOL might follow the digits for the
- SECONDS value. - FM
- * Changed the behavior of boolean_choice() in LYOptions.c so that the
- cursor is positioned immediately at the option display line instead
- of staying at the statusline instructions until an initial entry is
- made, and modified the statusline instructions accordingly. - LE, FM
- * Added a check for a NULL pointer in the LYCookie.c code for blocking
- sharing of SSL encrypted cookies with http servers, based on a patch
- from RT, and added a comment on why code for a block based on the
- scheme is there, despite its being redundant with the current blanket
- restriction based of the ports. - FM
- * Mapped 0 to F_LINK_NUM (as suggested by KW), so that 0 invokes the
- "Follow link (or goto link or page) number:" prompt under all
- circumstances (but with the 0 not treated as the first digit of
- the number entry). That's a better way
- to do it, because then the F_LINK_NUM command and explanation always
- appears in the "Current Key Map" display, and only the mappings of
- numbers to functions drop out when going from NUMBERS_AS_ARROWS to
- LINKS_ARE_NUMBERS mode (as they should, 'cuz the numbers no longer
- are mapped to functions; though maybe they should stay mapped to
- functions now that we have an explicit command key for invoking the
- prompt; something to think about...). - FM
- * Updated the PROBLEMS file to indicate that you should try changing
- -lresolve to -lbind if you have upgraded to the bind-8.1 or later
- library on a Sun system and keep getting the message "Alert!: Unable
- to connect to remote host". - FM
- 1997-05-09
- * Typo fix in follow_help.html. - FM
- * Added an LY_SLclear() function in LYCurses.c as a more efficient
- substitute for slang of the curses clear(), based on a patch from
- JED. - FM
- * Added a USE_TRACE_LOG compilation (userdefs.h) symbol and -tlog command
- line toggle of the compilation default (normally TRUE), for directing
- syserr messages to a lynx.trace file in the user's home directory when
- TRACE mode has been turned on (either via the -trace command line switch,
- or the TOGGLE_TRACE (Control-T) command. Also added a TRACE_LOG command
- (normally ';') for viewing the "Lynx Trace Log" (lynx.trace) at any time,
- if one has been initiated during the current session. The trace log
- feature is disabled automatically in anonymous or validation accounts,
- and should not be used in any account which could have different users
- simultaneously. The mods work well to the extent I've exercised them
- thus far on VMS and for the solaris2 target, but possibly need more
- refinements, depending on the behavior for other Unix flavors of
- freopen(), which is used for redirecting stderr to the log. Updated
- lynx.man, lynx.hlp, and the online 'h'elp to describe these new
- features. - FM
- 1997-05-08
- * Made the handling of hidden links dependent on a new command line
- option. With -hiddenlinks=listonly hidden links are only shown on
- 'l'ist screens and listings generated by -dump or from the 'p'rint
- menu, but appear separately at the end of those lists.
- With -hiddenlinks=ignore they don't appear even in listings.
- With -hiddenlinks=merge hidden links are treated as before,
- i.e., they show up as bracketed numbers if LINKS_ARE_NUMBERED is on,
- and are numbered together with other links in the sequence of their
- occurrence in the document. The default is -hiddenlinks=listonly.
- Changed the new follow_help.html file accordingly.
- This may help obviate an apparent need to call something a bug which
- others regard as a feature... - KW
- * Function HText_AreDifferent() updated as in FM's code, but still
- unused. - KW
- 1997-05-07
- * Added another argument in follow_link_number() of LYGetFile.c for
- returning the number entered at the "Follow link (or page) number:"
- prompt to the mainloop(), and modified the statusline error messages
- that may be issued from the mainloop() in conjunction the with 'g' or
- 'p' suffixes so that they report that number when appropriate. - FM
- * Changed the prompt to "Follow link (or goto link or page) number:" - KW
- * Tweaked case HTML_DD: in HTML.c so that it checks whether a wrap
- has just occurred naturally before imposing a newline for DD start
- tags. Without that check, seemingly random, extra newlines could
- occur in the DL/DT/DD blocks. - FM
- * Created a follow_help.html for the keystroke_commands subdirectory
- of the online 'h'elp, describing the "Follow link (or page) number:"
- features, and added links to it in Lynx_users_guide.html and
- keystroke_help.html. - FM
- * Changed the help description according to what is implemented here - KW
- 1997-05-06
- * Further tweaked KW's mainloop() tweak (see yesterday's entry), so that
- newdoc.link is reinitialized properly when we're going to, but not
- ACTIVATE-ing, a link in the current page due to a 'g' suffix for a
- "Follow link (or page) number:" entry. Otherwise, if the number with
- a 'g' suffix was used to make the last link on the current page the
- current link, and then a NEXT_LINK command was used, one could end
- up on a link beyond the first one in the next page. Also added a
- statusline message if the 'g' suffix is used with a number which
- corresponds to a link that already is current. - FM
- * Tweaked yesterday's LYList.c mods so that an OL with the CONTINUE
- attribute is used when a "Hidden links:" list is appended to a
- "Visible links:" list and NUMBERS_AS_ARROWS mode is on. This allows
- you to see the number to enter at "Follow link (or page) number:"
- prompts, as when LINKS_ARE_NUMBERED mode is on. - FM
- * Mods in HTML.c for LI and LH handling so that a pointless wrap will not
- occur at the spacer following the bullet in UL blocks or the Arabic
- number, Roman numeral, or upper- or lowercase letter in OL blocks if
- the subsequent text has no spaces, itself, up to the right margin.
- In such cases, that text now stays on the initial LI or LH line, and
- wraps at the right margin to the left indentation for a second or
- greater line in the LI or LH. - FM
- * Changes to avoid memory leaks in LYCookie.c - KW
- * Escape '<' and '>' characters (using the LYEntify functions) in URL
- strings written to the temporary files for LIST and INFO screens, to
- avoid invalid HTML and corrupted display as a result of URLs which
- contain these characters (although they shouldn't) and have not been
- escaped earlier. - KW
- * Changed the label for the currently selected link from "Filename:"
- to "URL:", and fixed an alignment glitch for the 9th item on the
- History and Visited Links pages. - KW
- * Changed an "8-bit" occurring in HtInit.c to "8bit", tweaked LYKeymap.c
- comments. - KW
- 1997-05-05
- * Added HText_AddHiddenLink(), HText_HiddenLinkCount(), and
- HText_HiddenLinkAt() functions in GridText.c for keeping track of the
- addresses (URL, plus fragment if present) for links that were converted
- to hidden by HText_endAnchor() due to their having no visible link name,
- and modified showlist() and printlist() in LYList.c so that if any hidden
- links were create during the rendition, the "References in this document:"
- menu for the 'l'ist command or appendix on dumps segregates and clearly
- labels the visible versus hidden links. - FM
- * Plugged a memory leak in LYEntify() of LYCharUtils.c. - FM
- * Modified experimental DTD info to not close anchors when an invalid
- P, H1-H6, or ADDRESS start tag is encountered, and to change error
- recovery for P and MAP. - KW
- * Modified experimental DTD info and HTML.c to not close PRE when
- an invalid FORM start tag is encountered, and to use the appropriate
- handling for preformatted text if PRE is in effect but is not the top
- element on HTML.c's stack. The HTStyle structure's freeFormat (which
- wasn't used anywhere before) is now used as one test whether we are
- within preformatted text, also corrected the style setting of freeFormat
- for PRE in DefaultStyle.c. - KW
- * Changed internal gateways (in HTNews.c, HTFile.c, HTWAIS.c, HTWSRC.c)
- to end LI, DT, and DD elements if they are not declared SGML_EMPTY,
- so that HTML.c's stack won't get overloaded in this case. - KW
- * Tweaks in mainloop() handling of DO_GOTOLINK_STUFF and DO_GOTOPAGE_STUFF.
- Going to a link with the 'g' suffix and then immediately ACTIVATing that
- link could previously show the wrong page of the new document, since
- newdoc.line was not being reset. - KW
- 1997-05-03
- * (chartrans) Now always check for LYlowest_eightbit[current_char_set]
- near the top of HText_appendCharacter(), to prevent writing C1 control
- chars to the terminal if they are not valid as displayable characters
- according to the selected "display character set" Option.
- All this should be handled earlier in processing, and this check may
- disappear again for testing, but somebody asked for it... - KW
- * (chartrans) Small changes to README files. - KW
- * In the section of HTUtils.h for non-autoconf builds, don't set
- HAVE_KEYPAD or HAVE_TTYTYPE if USE_SLANG is defined. - KW
- * Modified HText_LinksInLines() to not count hidden form fields. - KW
- * Added support for setting an anchor's no_cache element based on a
- comparison between Expires and Date headers if both were received
- and we didn't set it based on a Cache-Control directive. Also
- added equivalent support for a comparison between an Expires value
- from a META tag and a Date header. We still compare Expires header
- or META values versus the system time if no Date header was received,
- and still do not accept Date values from META tags because they are
- unlikely to be reliable. - FM
- 1997-05-02
- * Fixed a bug in LYAddImageMap() of LYMap.c which could cause multiple
- insertions of the same MAP into the LynxMaps structure, and crashes
- on some systems due to the consequent multiple FREE()'s at exit. - FM
- 1997-05-01
- * More mods in HTML.c, LYCharUtils.c and GridText.c for rational handling
- of potentially wrapped form fields in PRE blocks. We now artificially
- wrap the line if the form field would start within 6 columns from the
- right margin. This makes sure that editing windows and the highlighted
- segments of submit or reset buttons will not ever be ridiculously short,
- and is homologous to our use of a collapsible space before input fields
- and buttons when not in PRE blocks to promote a wrap there instead of
- within the fields or buttons. - FM
- * Expanded the WHEREIS query support so that it also locates the values
- of form fields within the current document and repositions or pages
- accordingly, as for normal (Anchor) links and for text strings. Note
- that if the hit was for an OPTION value in a retracted SELECT popup,
- you are positioned on the retracted window, and must pop it up and
- search again to be positioned on the OPTION value with the hit, unless
- it already is the selected OPTION. The mods are hairy enough without
- trying to do the latter automatically, at least for now. - FM
- 1997-04-30
- * Quote the URL for external command (not for VMS or DOS or Windows)
- to avoid dangerous chars and shell spoofing. - KW
- * Escape characters properly when constructing URLs from filenames
- in LYConvertToURL. If a string given for startfile, home page, or
- a goto command which does not already have the form of an absolute
- URL starting with an URL scheme and which does not start with '~'
- (but may start with '/') specifies an existing file or directory in
- valid Unix-like format for the native filesystem, i.e., without using
- escaping, it gets URL-escaped, otherwise it is assumed to already
- be URL-escaped. - KW
- 1997-04-29
- * Updated RP Styles 0.2 code, don't allow comma as separator between
- fg and bg colors after all, fix the LYNX_VERSION string generation
- in userdefs.h to have `-Styles' appended *within* the quoted string. - KW
- * Added support for a 'p' suffix, like the 'g' suffix for making a link
- number the current link rather than ACTIVATE-ing it,
- but for displaying the page indicated by the number preceding the
- 'p' suffix entered at the "follow link (or goto link or page) number:"
- prompt. [...] If the number
- entered at the prompt is '1' or less followed by the 'p' suffix, or only
- 'p' is entered, you get the same behavior as for the HOME command. If
- the number is equal to or greater than the number of pages, you get the
- last page displayed as you would if you had used successive PAGE_DOWN
- commands from the HOME position to reach it. This differs from the END
- command, which fills the screen with lines from the end of the document
- if you are not already displaying the end of the document. Note that if
- you enter a number without a suffix (to ACTIVATE the link with that number)
- or with the 'g' suffix (to make the link with that number the current link)
- it must correspond to a valid link number or an error statusline message
- will be issued, in contrast to the 'p' suffix for which an out of range
- number is treated as a request to display the first or last actual page in
- the current document. - FM
- * Fixed some typos in lynx.man. - LV
- * More modifications of the anchor counting code for HTGetLinkInfo() in
- GridText.c so that it properly skips hidden form fields and anchors
- without selectable text. - KW
- * More modifications in GridText.c and HTML.c so that it deals rationally
- with submit or reset button values, and the underscore placeholders for
- other form fields, when in versus not in PRE blocks. The entire submit
- or reset button values are now always displayed, whether or not a portion
- of it was wrapped, but we still can only highlight the portion before the
- wrap to indicate a link for submission of the form or for resetting the
- form field values. - FM
- * Undid some mysterious changes in SIGHUP setting (SIG_IGN vs. SIG_DFL)
- which had sneaked in in connection with adding the NOSIGHUP
- conditional. - KW
- * Tweaks to New DTD's extra info for CENTER and H1..H6 - KW
- * New function HText_AreDifferent() from FM added to GridText.c, but
- not used yet. - KW
- * Tweaks to WB's additions for external command: use strncasecomp, add
- LYExtern.o to src/makefile.in, changed test for empty command. - KW
- * Changed LYKeymap.h and LYKeymap.c so they agree about the symbols
- assigned to the new keys (SWITCH_DTD, EXTERN). - KW
- * correct minor syntax err that caused SCO 3.x to fail make-include
- autoconf test. also, eliminate whitespace before '#' that causes
- compile-fail on K&R compilers. - TD
- 1997-04-28
- * Updated lynx_url_support.html so as to make clear that the offer to
- include the currently displayed document with right-angle-bracket
- prefixing for mailto, newsreply, and snewsreply URLs is made only if
- the user has defined an external editor via the Options Menu, and that
- the user is expected to edit this inclusion so that it retains only
- those passages relevant to the email or followup message which the
- user will add. - FM
- * Tweak of INPUT handling in HTML.c so that we use nbsp instead of any
- spaces when loading a submit or reset button's actual value instead
- of a series of underscores into the HText structure, so that we
- still promote a wrap, if needed, at the space we ensured would be
- present before each INPUT. - FM
- * Made first_option a structure member rather than a static variable
- in HTML.c - KW
- 1997-04-27
- * Tweak of Control-C and Control-G handling for popup_options() in
- LYForms.c. They were being sought improperly as command keys rather
- than as raw keyboard entries. Note that only Control-G should be
- used as "cancel" within popup windows on Unix, because Control-C
- is not being trapped to a handler as on VMS. - LE, FM
- * Tweak of the anchor counting code for HTGetLinkInfo() in GridText.c
- so that it takes form fields into account when making a link current
- based on a "Follow link number" entry with the 'g' suffix.
- Also added comments to that code. - KW
- 1997-04-25
- * Added information in the "Lynx bookmarks" section of the Users Guide
- about appropriate versus unsupported modifications when editing the
- bookmark files. - FM
- * RP Styles 0.2 fixed a bit and brought up to current experimental code
- level (no autoconfig or simple-curses, only older version of Wayne's
- mods, maybe something else is missing, too). No documentation, no
- detailed checking, no real cleanup. Makefile slightly adapted,
- but still needs changing for new systems - see comments there. - KW
- 1997-04-24
- * Tweaks for enhanced mouse support in Win32 and hooks for 386 which
- doesn't have mouse support yet. - WB
- * External command added. See LYExtern.* in src and lynx.cfg.
- You need to define USE_EXTERNALS to compile this in. - WB
- 1997-04-23
- * Modified LYCharUtils.c, HTML.c and LYMessages_en.h so that if a
- partial reference (HREF or SRC value) would be resolved to an http
- or https URL which has only two dots as the first symbolic element in
- the path (e.g., http://host/../foo.html), such that the server would
- reject the request, that element is excluded from the resultant URL,
- but a statusline message is issued (once per document) about a bad
- partial reference, as immediate feedback which might lead to the
- document provider correcting the bad partial reference(s). We still
- retain that first symbolic element, in compliance with the IETF RFCs
- and IDs for resolving URLs, with other URL schemes (e.g., ftp). - FM
- * Added a skip_stack int to the HTML.h struct _HTStructured, to use
- for flagging that the next call to HTML_start_element or
- HTML_end_element is an internal shortcut and should skip pushing
- or popping the HTML.c paragraph style stack even for elements
- that are not declared SGML_EMPTY. Added a SET_SKIP_STACK macro
- to HTML.c to set the flag, use it. - KW
- * Changes to HTML.c to better deal with a number of elements which may
- or may not have been declared SGML_EMPTY in HTMLDTD.c:
- if the last stacked element is HTML_OPTION, treat text as for
- HTML_SELECT in HTML_put_character and HTML_put_character and
- HTML_put_string. Added handling code for </P> to HTML_end_element
- (similar but not identical to that for P in HTML_start_element).
- Added check whether a SELECT is still open to FORM handling in
- HTML_end_element. Added check whether a FORM is open to SELECT
- handling in HTML_end_element. Added cases for end tags of
- TABLE-related elements (TR, THEAD, TFOOT, TBODY, COLGROUP, TH, TD)
- and of DT, DD, LH, LI, FONT, OVERLAY to the switch in
- HTML_end_element, currently just break from the switch. - KW
- * Some tweaks and corrections to the additional element info and
- to the content types used with New_DTD, in HTMLDTD.c. Made
- OPTION non-empty. - KW
- * Now changed the tags_old[] in HTMLDTD.c, which is used with the
- switchable "old" SGML parsing, to follow the changes for A, B,
- BLINK, CITE, EM, FONT, I, STRONG, and U mentioned in the entry
- of 1997-04-15. These, together with FORM and P, are all declared
- as SGML_EMPTY now when the "old" SGML parsing is in effect, but
- not with new parsing. - KW
- * Changes to LYMail.c and LYPrint.c to send Content-Transfer-Encoding
- headers and/or a charset parameter when mailing, based on idea from
- Hynek Med. Don't use charset if we only have 7-bit characters
- anyway. If compiled with EXP_CHARTRANS, use MIME name corresponding
- to display character set if it looks valid (not "x-"), otherwise
- only an explicitly given document charset. In the chartrans case,
- don't send charset parameter for CJK since it may be wrong... - KW
- * Added TRACE output to UCAuto.c - HM
- 1997-04-22
- * refined check for slang libraries/headers by checking if $CFLAGS has been
- set so that slang.h is in the search path - TD
- * add check to allow use of broken ncurses 1.9.9e's color - TD
- * add check for NGROUPS, TRUE, FALSE macro definitions - TD
- * remove top-level makefile.in targets that can be combined with the generic
- target (more work required on the remaining ones) - TD
- * Plugged memory leak in deleteLinks() of HTAnchor.c. - KW
- * When dumping or outputting a rendered document via the 'p'rint menu,
- Lynx would use the underscore placeholders for submit/image/reset
- buttons as for other INPUT fields. We now load the values of
- submit/image/reset buttons instead of placeholders into the HText
- structure, so the values will be seen when dumping or outputting
- via the 'p'rint menu. See the comments under case HTML_INPUT: in
- HTML.c for the still less than optimal things that happen if a
- wrap occurs within the INPUT value or placeholder strings, as might
- happen in PRE blocks, or for strings wider than the screen. - LE, FM
- * SGML_abort() did not free memory used by the SGML.c parser stack.
- Now it does, but still doesn't call HTML_end_element() for the
- stacked elements (it's an abort after all...) - KW
- 1997-04-21
- * Tweaks of the 1997-04-11 and 1997-04-09 mods in HText_endAnchor() of
- GridText.c so as to take possible wrapping of Anchor content into
- account when deciding whether or not to implement the Anchor as an
- ACTIVATE-able link. - FM
- * New SGML.c parser, and new HTMLDTD.c with additional element info.
- Extra content information for each tag is now included in the
- HTTag structure, and given in an extended tags_new[] table in
- HTMLDTD.c. Modified start_element() and end_element() in SGML.c
- to perform some heuristic wind-downs of the parsing stack, based
- on the extra element info. - KW
- * Revert treatment of some tags which were treated as SGML_EMPTY
- before to their "natural" content model. No changes made to
- HTML.c to accommodate this change, so results may differ where
- HTML.c relies on previous hacks or has now handling code for
- end tags of elements which were previously SGML_EMPTY. - KW
- * Made SGML parsing switchable between old and new HTMLDTD info
- and SGML.c code, controlled by a New_DTD global variable and
- LYK_SWITCH_DTD toggle key. Use (temporarily?) ^V for the toggle key.
- This is not yet changeable via command line, lynx.cfg, etc., and the
- default is New_DTD==YES (so that it gets tested :-) ). - KW
- * Made some of the error messages before exit in LYMainLoop.c and
- LYMain.c go to stderr instead of stdout, but only for UNIX and,
- in the case of the LYMainLoop.c messages, only if
- dump_output_immediately was in effect. - KW
- 1997-04-20
- * Tweaks in LYCharUtils.c to bind META CONTENT to a header value only
- via an HTTP-EQUIV attribute (i.e., not via a NAME attribute). - FM
- * Mod in HTAccess.c to ignore the anchor's no_cache element if we're
- seeking a position in the currently loaded document. - FM
- * Commented out the above change in HTAccess.c. There's a more complete
- mechanism for it already in this code... - KW
- * Fixed a typo in the bookmark file lead text. - DK (Doug Kaufman
- <dkaufman@rahul.net>)
- 1997-04-19
- * Changed the inappropriate StrAllocCat() to StrAllocCopy() for
- loading the XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND in LYReadCFG.c. - PC
- 1997-04-18
- * Based on recent discussions in www-html@w3.org, added HY and SHY
- to the DTD (treated as synonyms; one or the other is most likely
- to be used in future HTML specs, so for now, we support both), as
- markup equivalent to the named entity ­ and numeric character
- reference ­ (soft hyphen). Note that Lynx implements soft
- hyphens as specified in IETF RFC 2070 (link "HTML i18n" in the
- Users Guide). Use of a tag instead of entity is preferable for
- a soft hyphen because browsers which do not support soft hyphen
- will ignore it as an "unknown tag" instead of inappropriately
- inserting a hyphen or displaying the raw entity. Also added WBR,
- which is handled like soft hyphen (indicating a permissible wrap
- point), but does not insert a hyphen at the wrap. - FM
- 1997-04-17
- * Mods in HTML.c, HTML.h, and LYMessages_en.h to issue an HTML stack
- overrun message only once per document, and as a statusline message
- if not in TRACE mode, and to check in HTML_end_element() for
- correspondence between the SGML and HTML stacks if an overrun should
- occur. - FM
- * Corrections in HTML.c for the bounds checks associated with DIV and
- CENTER nesting levels, and for an HTML stack underrun. - KW
- * Plugged a memory leak under case HTML_IMG: of HTML_start_element() in
- HTML.c, and removed an inappropriate if(){} in HText_endAnchor() of
- GridText.c. - FM, KW
- * Modified the lead text created for bookmark files in LYBookmark.c so
- that it indicates that an editor can be used to delete or reorder
- the links, but that the format within lines should not be changed,
- nor other HTML markup added. Note that the new lead text will be
- used only when new bookmark files are created via the 'a'dd bookmark
- link command. A new bookmark file is not created if the one being
- sought already exists, so existing ones will still have the old
- lead text. - FM
- 1997-04-16
- * Extensive changes to try to keep track of whether a document (or
- a location within it) was reached by an internal (fragment-only)
- URL reference or not. The basic idea is to be serious about I-D
- (currently) draft-fielding-url-syntax-04.txt.
- URL references starting with '#' are always to the current
- document (from which the reference is made). This leads to a
- lot of hackery in HTML.c, LYMainLoop.c, LYHistory.c, etc. etc...
- to distinguish a doc that was reached by an "internal" reference
- from others. But it seems necessary to keep track of how the
- reference to a fragment was specified, whether with a non-empty
- "real" URL (possibly relative) preceding the '#' or without it,
- all the way way from the HTML parsing to the mainloop. Only then
- can the mainloop decide to not start a new retrieval for an internal
- reference without skipping a new retrieval if a full URL reference
- with fragment is made to a location in the same document (which
- may be non-cachable or the result of a POST)...
- This code prevents unnecessary/inappropriate POST form resubmissions
- on following an internal link in a POST response, as they are
- present for example in WebTechs validation results. - KW
- * A "Goto numbered link" feature. The user interface could be improved...
- Start typing the link number, then add 'g' before hitting enter - KW
- * Some improvements to WHEREIS search. Will not always position
- found string on first line (details depend on whether anchors are
- present, usually will position in top third of screen), and avoid
- some unnecessary screen updates. - KW
- 1997-04-15
- * Miscellaneous additional tweaks in HTML.c for more robust error recovery
- from bad HTML involving emphasis or style elements (B, BLINK, CITE, EM,
- FONT, I, STRONG, and U), or HREF-less NAME-ed Anchors without matching
- end tags. - FM
- * Modified the declarations in HTMLDTD.c and code in SGML.C, HTML.c, and
- GridText.c to handle A, B, BLINK, CITE, EM, FONT, I, STRONG, and U
- container elements homologously to the modified handling of FORM (see
- 1997-04-05 mods) so that if they are invalidly interdigitated or have
- spurious end tags in the markup, substitutions of the "expected" end
- tags by the SGML.c stack-based parser will not be made, and without
- messing up the HTML.c stack-based parser. Appears to work reliably
- for all of the elements, and to be reasonably crash safe (hopefully
- as safe as the vanilla v2.7.1), but there are no guarantees. - FM
- * Only *some* (most?) of the changes described in the above two
- entries are used, as far as they change HTML.c. Not yet using the
- changes to HTMLDTD.c and SGML.c. - KW
- * refined logic of SVr4 curses color support to test the no_color_video
- attribute - TD
- * ifdef'd NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION logic to allow build with ncurses 1.9.4 - TD
- * ifdef'd wgetbkgd misspelling to allow build with ncurses prior to 1.9.9g - TD
- * document USE_MOUSE configuration-option - TD
- * modify configure script and makefile.in templates to make BSDI_Makefile
- obsolete - TD
- * rename config.h to lynx_cfg.h to minimize conflict when configuring against
- ncurses or slang in nonstandard locations - TD
- * new autoconf macro CF_HEADER_PATH is used to make header-search for slang
- the same as ncurses - TD
- * modify CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_NCURSES_LIBS and CF_SLANG_LIBS to accommodate
- predefinition of $LIBS variable - TD
- * corrected autoconf'd compiler flags for Ultrix - TD
- * add config.guess & config.sub to allow specialized host-type checks - TD
- * guard against redefinition of NO_FILIO_H - TD
- * use new autoconf macro CF_SYSTEM_MAIL_FLAGS -JES
- 1997-04-14
- * Tweaked LYAddImageMap() in LYMap.c so that it removes all pre-existing
- AREA element entries when updating MAP element content, and set the
- no_cache anchor element in LYLoadIMGmap() so that the updated MAPs
- always will be used when rendering. - FM
- * Not using the no_cache change from last entry, until further
- investigation. - KW
- * Removed two spurious lines under case LYK_PRINT: in LYMainLoop.c
- (from an old cut and paste from case LYK_HISTORY: done too late
- at night 8-). - FM
- 1997-04-13
- * Modified the handling of BASE for resolving HREFs in relation to MAP
- and AREA elements, and USEMAPs in IMG and OBJECT elements. The
- formally released code was treating such links equivalently to the
- handling of fragments for positioning the display to ID-ed elements
- or NAME-ed Anchors, and assuming they're in the same document if the
- associated HREF value begins with a '#', rather than resolving versus
- the BASE, and was always resolving versus the BASE for MAP ID or NAME
- attributes, and for the AREA HREFs in MAP content. We now always
- resolve the MAP ID or NAME attributes versus the current stream's
- address (since the MAP must be in it or we wouldn't be handling it)
- [...] According to the
- original draft and the current HTML 3.2 Proposed Standard,
- MAPs need not be in the same document as the IMG or OBJECT elements
- which specify links to the MAPs. Because MAPs are "deferred objects",
- they logically should be placed above any IMG or OBJECT elements which
- reference them in the same document (as is done for SCRIPTs), but this
- isn't stated in the specs, nor always done in practice. [...]
- ([A]uthors who place the MAPs further down in the same document should be
- informed about "deferred objects" and encouraged to move them up 8-). - FM
- * Use logical extension of the rules for HREF references also for
- USEMAP references to MAPs: relative URL references are resolved with
- respect to a BASE element if one is present in the document where they
- occur, unless they are URL references without a URL, i.e., only a
- fragment starting with '#'. In the latter case they are taken as
- internal references referring to a MAP in the same document where
- the USEMAP occurs, whether the MAP occurs before the USEMAP (as it
- should, according to previous entry) or after the USEMAP.
- HREF's in AREA elements follow the same rules. - KW
- * Fixed bug in HTML_free() for the case when LYMapsOnly is set. We
- didn't create an HText structure for the stream (just scanned it for
- MAPs and processed them into LYMap.c's LynxMaps structure), nor do
- we want to create a blank one (as was being done) since we didn't
- render the stream, nor would we have a me->target set. So we just
- free any me elements that might still be allocated (though they
- should have been freed already), and return rather than continuing
- through the rest of the HTML_free() code. - FM
- 1997-04-11
- * Fixed bugs in Gridtext.c and HTML.c which could cause mishandling
- of anchors in LINKS_ARE_NUMBERS mode if a line wrap occurred in
- the numbered bracket or the anchor content following the bracket,
- and failures to suppress the numbered bracket if the anchor content
- was empty due to ALT="" in an IMG tag, or if Lynx was configured or
- toggled to suppress the link for the server-side image map if both
- ISMAP and USEMAP attibutes were present in the IMG tag. - FM
- * Only using the number-removing code under additional conditions:
- ISMAPs which appear together with USEMAPs and which are suppressed
- with LYNoISMAPifUSEMAP in LINKS_ARE_NUMBERS mode. - KW
- * Extended the disk_save restriction to the print menu as well as
- the download menu, and accordingly updated lynx.hlp, lynx.man, and
- Lynx_users_guide.html. - HN, FM
- 1997-04-09
- * Many changes to further the Win32 and 386 ports. An emulation of
- the HTVMS_ calls was used to try and cover all the DOS'izms.
- A specialized ifdef for pdcurses color mapping added. Some keypad
- tweaks. More generalized process spawning. .lynxrc is lynx.rc for 386 - WB
- * Tweak to ensure that a newline isn't inserted by virtue of a
- FORM start tag if it's in the first line of a list element and
- no text precedes it other than a UL's bullet or OL's number
- on that line. - FM
- * Added pauses for the "Bad HTML" statusline messages under cases
- HTML_HTML and HTML_BODY in HTML_end_element(), and eliminated
- their checks for an unclosed FORM because we no longer expect
- that to cause a serious problem. - LE, FM
- * Added a NO_ISMAP_IF_USEMAP configuration symbol and -ismap
- command line toggle for suppressing inclusion of a link for the
- server-side-image-map if an IMG or OBJECT element has both ISMAP
- and USEMAP attributes such that a client-side-image-map link is
- created. Updated lynx.man, lynx.hlp and Lynx_users_guide.html
- accordingly. - FM
- * Fixed a glitch in HText_endAnchor() of Gridtext.c which could
- cause dangling Anchors in LINKS_ARE_NUMBERED mode if the Anchor's
- content was handled in a manner which caused it to become zero
- length. - FM
- * Moved handling for NEWS_POSTING in LYReadCFG.c to the right place,
- so that it can actually have an effect. - LV
- * Typo fixes for the comment concerning NO_ANONYMOUS_EMAIL in
- userdefs.h - HN, FM
- 1997-04-08
- * New translation table koi8r_uni for KOI8-R charset. Lynx can now
- translate between iso-8859-5 and KOI8-R, at least for the Cyrillic
- characters present in both. - KW
- * New translation table def7_uni with default 7-bit mappings
- (replacement representation). Based on RFC1345 and mnemonic,ds
- from ftp://dkuug.dk/i18n/ and previous Lynx replacements
- in LYCharSets.c and IPA FAQ convention and stuff for Ethiopic and
- KOI8-R. It maps many of the accented Latin characters present in
- Unicode to their unaccented counterparts. This table is now
- used for the "7 bit approximations" display "character set". - KW
- * Entities for Latin2 characters added to HTMLDTD.c These also
- include many entity names for ASCII characters, and characters
- which are in both iso-8859-1 and iso-8859-2. - Hynek Med
- * Changes to the non-chartrans translation tables in LYCharSets.c
- for Đ, Ð, and ð. Treat Đ more like
- an entity for the (Latin-2) Unicode character U+0110, since
- that seems to be SGML standard usage. - KW
- * Added mappings for some "smart quote" characters to several
- translation tables. - KW
- * Make makeuctb slightly more flexible (accept unicode range for
- mapping to single code point). - KW
- 1997-04-07
- * Took out special-case handling in the curses-color code for underlining
- when lynx is running under Linux using the linux console with color.
- The code was introduced on 1997-03-12 and would ignore "smul" capability
- info from terminfo or termcap under those circumstances, always using
- bold instead of underline. - KW
- * Slightly modified the FORM handling patch of 1997-04-05, as follows:
- Use a generic test for a non-SGML_EMPTY element for bypassing the
- stack pop in HTML_end_element() of HTML.c instead of an explicit
- test for HTML_FORM. - KW
- 1997-04-06
- * Patch for IMG elements which have both ISMAP and USEMAP in effect.
- In HTML_start_element() don't generate the "[ISMAP]-" string for
- output in this case, unless clickable_images is set TRUE. - KW
- 1997-04-05
- * Patch for Lynx v2.7.1 to handle invalidly interdigitated container
- elements or spurious container end tags without substitutions of
- "expected" FORM end tags by the SGML.c stack-based parser, and
- without messing up the HTML.c stack-based parser. Reliably succeeds
- in not closing FORMs before all of the FORM elements, including
- submit buttons, have been processed. Should be reasonably crash
- safe (hopefully as safe as the vanilla v2.7.1), but there are no
- guarantees. - FM
- 1997-04-04
- ============================================================================
- --- Release of Lynx2-7 + BUGFIXES as Lynx v2.7.1 (April 4, 1997) by FM ---
- ============================================================================
- * Note that 2.7.1 was not a release from this code set, but all 2.7 -> 2.7.1
- bugfixes and other changes are also included in this code set, in either
- identical or equivalent form. Therefore the entries below this point
- comprise the 2.7 -> 2.7.1 changes, and additionally other changes made to
- the development code set during that time. - KW
- 1997-04-02
- * add Andrew Kuchling's patch to support mouse-clicks with ncurses. - TD
- * refine tests that address porting problems to SCO (detecting struct winsize,
- workaround for misdefinition of 'remove') - TD
- * refine CF_COLOR_CURSES test to avoid ncurses 1.9.9e bugs. - TD
- * refine CF_PATH_PROG to allow for machines that haven't the given programs,
- by using only the program name and added configure option
- --disable-full-paths to enforce this behavior. - TD
- * fixes for some gcc compiler warnings (missing prototypes, unused variables,
- uninitialized variables, shadowed variables). - TD
- * Fixed typos in LYHistory.c, LYMail.c and LYMain.c which caused
- failures of flag setting in the distributed code. - TD
- * correct cast in HTFWriter.c that may break if atoi() is not prototyped. - TD
- * add top-level makefile target 'maintainer-clean', use this to remove
- Lynx.prj - TD
- 1997-03-31
- * Added a missing check for whether the fragment token is NULL in
- LYConvertToURL() of LYUtils.c. Without the check, the for-Unix code
- could crash if a local file spec was entered as a startfile or goto
- with escaped characters. - KW
- * Mod in HTML.c to retain "[INLINE]" as the default ALT string if an
- IMG element has an ISMAP attribute but is not in Anchor content such
- that it could not in fact function as a server-side image map. - FM
- 1997-03-27
- * In mainloop(), after the call to HText_pageDisplay() following a change
- of the document view, ensure that curdoc.link does not remain set to -1
- if there are any links on the screen. This would otherwise happen if
- a document is pushed to the history stack while there are no links, and
- later popped (and refreshed) after one or more links have been created.
- This change prevents segmentation faults which occurred after creation
- of a new file in a previously empty directory via the DIRED menu. The
- access to invalid memory only occurred if the screen showing the empty
- directory did not have a parent dir reference link (which is always the
- case if NO_PARENT_DIR_REFERENCE was specified at compilation time). - KW
- * In LYLocal.c, modified the code handling DIRED_MENU to do more careful
- checking of the selected file. In addition to "TAG", "FILE", and "DIR",
- DIRED_MENU definitions in lynx.cfg now also recognize LINK as a type.
- DIRED_MENU definitions with a type field of "LINK" are only used if the
- current selection is a symbolic link ("FILE" and "DIR" definitions are
- not used in that case). The default menu definitions have been updated
- to reflect this change, and to avoid the showing of menu items whose
- action would always fail - KW
- * Some cleanup to eliminate compiler warnings, remove some unused
- variables - KW
- * Fixed a typo and added comments for the code in LYMainLoop.c which
- decides whether to load the URLs for homepage and/or startfile into
- the goto buffer at startup. The typo in the distributed code caused
- the startfile URL always to be added to the goto buffer, even if
- it had POST content such that it could be resent inappropriately
- as a GET request via the goto buffer. - FM
- * Added a bsdi-slang target to the Makefile. - Laura Eaves
- 1997-03-26
- * Changed highlighting of strings found by a WHEREIS ('/') search.
- Now uses Christmas tree attribute combination ("all bits are on"),
- which with color support translates to COLOR:7. - KW
- * Modified the HTStream structure and associated code in src/HTFWriter.c
- so that we save and use the relevant content of the associated
- HTPresentation structure as two HTFormat elements rather than via a
- pointer to the HTPresentation structure itself, because the latter
- structure might not be valid under some circumstances when
- HTFWriter_free() is called. The distributed code might indirectly
- result in segmentation faults during downloading on Linux and some
- other flavors of Unix (though they don't occur for most flavors, or
- on VMS). - KW
- 1997-03-23
- * Further reduction of top-level makefile.in by moving definitions out of
- WWW/Implementation/*/Makefile, so only one is needed for autoconfigured
- build (i.e., WWW/Implementation/unix/Makefile). This highlights the
- remaining differences between the top-level targets - TD
- * Make configure script generate Unix makefiles in subdirectories, a step
- toward being able to run make from any directory, for development - TD
- * Add autoconf tests for paths of programs, including sendmail vs mmdf - TD
- * Add configure script options for development (--disable-echo, --enable-debug,
- --enable-find-leaks, --enable-warnings) - TD
- * Allow user to override search path for ncurses header by setting $CFLAGS or
- $CPPFLAGS - TD
- * Correct array limit in LYCurses.c for SVr4 color support - TD
- * Use addstr rather than printw in popup-forms to address concern about 8-bit
- characters - TD
- 1997-03-21
- * Changes in auto config handling of ncurses header location, function
- used for reading terminal input, some other system dependent tweaks
- (including SCO broken remove, time.h) - TD
- * Fix for popup handling with late ncurses versions (uses wprintw
- instead of waddstr in LYForms.c) - TD
- * Mods in LYPrint.c to use ".txt" as the output file extension for
- all rendered text/html files regardless of their original extension.
- The distributed code was doing this only for ones with an extension
- of ".html". The original extension still is retained if the file
- is being output as source. - FM
- * Added protection against passing a NULL pointer for path_url to
- render_item() from dired_options() in LYLocal.c. - GN
- 1997-03-20
- * Tweaked the protection against URLs directed to port 19 or port 25 so
- that it can't be circumvented via lead zeros in the port numbers. - FM
- * Changed the compilation default so as not to send From MIME headers to
- http or https servers. The default can still be changed via lynx.cfg.
- Replaced the -nofrom disabling switch to a -from switch for toggling
- the compilation or configuration default. Sending the From header
- has become widely regarded as an invasion of privacy risk, particularly
- in conjunction with cookie support. - FM
- * Corrected a typo in the lynx.cfg comments concerning TRUSTED_LYNXCGI
- rules. - KW
- 1997-03-17
- * Mods of LYNews.c and LYMail.c to prepend a "-- " separator before
- appending the LYNX_SIG_FILE signature file to news and email
- messages. - FM
- * Made the installation mode 755 in the top-level Makefile. The
- distributed code used 555, and some install commands were unable
- to do the strip. - LV
- 1997-03-14
- * Corrected typos and expanded the comments concerning lynxcgi symbols
- in userdefs.h and lynx.cfg. - FM
- * Modified SGML.c to handle the numeric character reference ™ as
- the named entity ™ also in the non-chartrans case. The
- trademark character (given by ™ or ™) will be shown as
- "(TM)" as the ASCII substitution unless the current display character
- has a code point for the trademark character or unless overridden by a
- chartrans translation table. The code of 1997-02-25 prevented showing
- the trademark sign as "(R)" but did not work in all non-chartrans
- cases. - KW
- * Include time.h via tcp.h for SVR4 systems. The tcp.h header does include
- sys/time.h for Unix systems, but this apparently doesn't get struct tm
- and extern char * ctime() declared for SVR4. - FM
- 1997-03-13
- * Added protection in LYGetFile.c against connections to the port 25
- ESMTP service. - FM
- 1997-03-12
- * (chartrans) Make compilation in src/chrtrans less verbose, no more
- generating automatic *.h_old backup copies. - KW
- * Refinement to the SVr4 (ncurses) color support, allowing it
- to more closely model the slang support. - TD
- 1997-03-11
- * Tweak for command line parsing of files with no URL in LYUtils.c.
- Also added ability to pass partial domain names in the DJGPP version. - WB
- * Added the closing function for Win32 TCP in LYExit.c (did anyone see a
- difference?!). - WB
- * Altered LYCurses.c so that the DJGPP version could spawn other programs
- without certain death. - WB
- * Ignoring the whole ~/lynx.cfg problem (expanding '~') entirely for the
- Win32 version for now. - WB
- * Some other tweaks for Win32 and DJGPP - WB
- * Added protection in LYGetFile.c against denial of service attacks via
- the port 19 CHARGEN service. The distributed code left Lynx or proxies
- vulnerable to such attacks via direct or redirection URLs. - FM
- 1997-03-10
- * Fixed error in the handling of numeric character references with values
- greater than 255 in SGML.c. The distributed code was breaking after
- substitutions instead of falling through to reset the string chunk and
- recycle the terminator if not a semi-colon. - FM
- 1997-03-09
- * Integrated (simple) color, auto-configure patches with 2.7 following
- chrtrans patch - TD (T.Dickey), JES (J.Spath)
- 1997-03-08
- * Fixed error in the switch positioning of checks for XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND
- and wais_proxy in LYReadCFG.c. The distributed code had them reversed
- under case 'W' versus case 'X'. - PDS
- * Expanded the copyright and licensing statements in the -version
- output. - FM
- 1997-03-04
- * Corrected the offset computation in textsearch() of LYSearch.c so that
- WHEREIS searches repeated on a page with no links seek the target
- starting at the line immediately following the last displayed. The
- distributed code was setting a greater offset. - JES
- 1997-03-02
- * Don't entify post content for the showinfo display, now that we are
- making it an XMP block in that display to handle all of the supported
- enctypes. - FM
- * Patches to fix mail and FTP for Win32 (LYMail.c, HTFile.c). - WB
- * Makefiles to compile chartrans code for Win32. - WB
- * (chartrans) Minor cleanups (makeuctb.c, chrtrans/Makefile, HTPlain.c)
- to enable successful compilation on Win32. - KW
- 1997-02-28
- * Changed all references to "image/*" to just "image" in the userdefs.h
- and lynx.cfg comments about XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND. The "/*" within the
- userdefs.h comments was generating warnings from some compilers. - FM
- * Added a snake-slang target to the Makefile, and added -DUNIX to the
- LYFLAGS for the snake3 and snake3-slang targets (HP-UX apparently does
- not define "unix" itself with the -Ae switch, and thus needs to have
- that definition forced via -DUNIX). - HL
- * Merged with patches and makefiles from Wayne Buttles
- (buttles@wsb.champlain.edu) to enable compilation in two new environments:
- Win32 (95/NT) with Borland C++ 4.52 compiler, and 386 DOS with DJGPP
- compiler. To add ports for Win32 (95/NT) and 386 DOS computers with a
- packet driver, four new defines were created: _WINDOWS (Defined for Win32
- specific code - Mostly TCP related), DJGPP (Defined for 386 specific code -
- Mostly TCP related), DOSPATH (Defined for any DOS'ish computer), and
- NOSIGHUP (Defined for computers not supporting sighup signal calls).
- Separate utility programs needed for compiling and running Lynx on those
- platforms are available from Wayne at
- <http://www.fdisk.com/doslynx/wlynx/>. - WB, KW
- * Fixed Telnet for Win32 - WB
- * (chartrans) Small correction in SGML.c (set_chartrans_handling) - KW
- 1997-02-26
- * Close both descriptors of the pipe() for the NSL_FORK enabled code
- in HTTCP.c. The distributed code was closing only one of them on
- completed gethostbyname() calls, and neither on 'z'aps. - FM
- * Changed the HREF for the "Lynx FAQ" link in the online 'h'elp to
- its new URL (http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/faq.html). - FM
- 1997-02-25
- * More reverse engineering to cope with Netscape's bogus cookie header
- parsing. The parser must not require an '=' between the expires
- attribute name and value, because Set-Cookie headers are being
- transmitted without it (e.g., by http://law.agps.gov.au). So Lynx
- now treats that as another special case. - FM
- * Cope with invalid use of expires attributes in Version 1 cookies.
- An -06 State Management draft recommends that for "backward
- compatibility", and has been severely criticized in the HTTP-WG,
- but it would be foolish not to assume Netscape will do that. See the
- expanded comments in LYSetCookie() of LYCookie.c for more information.
- Note that "expires" thus cannot be used as a Version 1 cookie name, but
- a provider would be foolish to use that, anyway. Note also that the
- possibility of using different header names for Version 1 versus
- Version 0 (a.k.a., "Netscape") cookies is being discussed in the
- HTTP-WG, which might have been better to do in the first place, but
- the -05 draft has been approved as RFC 2109:
- http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc2109.txt
- so it would be a while before that were done, if ever. - FM
- * chartrans code for translation of character sets, handling of Unicode,
- and i18n updated for Lynx 2.7. Support for CHARSET attribute on A
- tags. New directory src/chrtrans with table files. Compilation flags
- -DEXP_CHARTRANS, -DEXP_CHARTRANS_AUTOSWITCH (for Linux),
- -DSLANG_MBCS_HACK (for raw unicode console).
- New command line options when compiled with -DEXP_CHARTRANS, i.e.,
- "-assume_charset", "-assume_local_charset", "-assume_unrec_charset".
- See README.chartrans and README files in src/chrtrans for more info.
- INFO screen shows of effective charset even if not given explicitly.
- Translation routines in LYCharUtils.c not chartrans-ified at this point - KW
- * No showing of ™ or ™ as (R) any more, use (TM) instead. - KW
- * Prefer HTTP-EQUIV over NAME in META tags. - KW
- 1997-02-22
- * Fixed a memory management glitch which could cause a crash if the
- MIME type of a reply to a FORM submission with METHOD=POST caused a
- download offer to be invoked. - FM
- * Don't simplify ftp URLs by trimming trailing slashes if the URL is
- being proxied. The Netscape proxy server for some unknown reason
- can return redirection for ftp URLs with the slash appended, and
- trimming it can result in a redirection loop. Based on a posted
- patch from KW. - FM
- * Fixed two typos in the checks for HTPassHighCtrlRaw in LYExpandString()
- of LYCharUtils.c. - KW
- * Fixed typo in the equality check on line 1553 in HTGopher.c. - FM
- 1997-02-19
- * Reset the host string after an '@', if present, when trimming default
- ":port" fields in the new code aimed at compliance with the Masinter
- and Fielding URL drafts, expected to replace RFCs 1738 and 1808. The
- distributed code neglected to do that, and was ending up on a ":password"
- field, if present, instead of on the ":port" field, causing the username
- to be treated as the host name. - FM
- * Expand the default port trimming so as to include all of the registered
- URL schemes which support a port field in the v2.7 release. - FM
- * Correctly uncache the current directory listing when invoking an 'u'pload,
- so that it will be updated to include the uploaded file if placed in the
- current directory. The released code attempted to do this in a manner
- which prevented a pop, so that the directory listing couldn't be restored
- on return from the uploader menu. - FM
- * Recognize a bookmark file used as the startfile, whether it resides in the
- home directory or in a subdirectory off home. The released code failed if
- the file was in home, and not in a subdirectory, unless the -book switch
- was used instead of a startfile entry or WWW_HOME variable. - FM
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