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- --- Rename of Lynx2-5FM and release as Lynx2-6 (02-Sep-1996) ---
- ==============================================================================
- 09-02-96 ---- Release of Lynx2-6 ----
- * More expansions of the online 'h'elp files. - FM
- * Updated the PROBLEMS file. - FM
- 09-01-96
- * More expansions of the online 'h'elp files. - FM
- * Tweaks of list handling. - FM
- * Miscellaneous code cleanups and annotations. - FM
- 08-31-96
- * Further updates and expansions of the online 'h'elp files. - FM
- * Tweaks of alignment handling with bad HTML. - FM
- * Added JIS X 0201 Japanese Kana string support. - TA & FM
- 08-30-96
- * Further updates and expansions of the online 'h'elp files. - FM
- * Typo fixes in the help and doc files. - LWV
- * Tweaks of ENCTYPE handling for FORM submissions. - FM
- 08-29-96
- * Today's distribution is a pre-release of v2.6. The projected official
- release date is 09-02-96.
- * Tweaks of numeric character reference handling. - FM
- * Typo fix in LYShowInfo.c. - IC
- 08-28-96
- * Added handling of ENCTYPE="application/sgml-form-urlencoded" in FORMs
- as a directive to use semi-colons instead of ampersands as name=value
- separators, and to indicate that as the Content-Type for POSTs. - FM
- * Convert ampersands in addresses and link names, and angle-brackets in
- link names, to SGML entities when creating bookmarks and showinfo ('=')
- link 'l'ist, client-side-image-map, and history list text/html streams
- or temporary files. - FM
- * More SGML compliance mods for the handling of attribute values which
- represent URLs or URL components. - FM
- * Tweaks of form INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION handling. - FM
- * Check EAGAIN on socket connect or select attempts for all platforms and
- flavors. - FM
- * Include both <time.h> and <sys/time.h> in tcp.h for AIX.
- * Adding warning and info in the INSTALLATION file and userdefs.h on how
- to cope with telnetd environment variable spamming for anonymous accounts
- running Lynx captively. - FM
- 08-24-96
- * Enhancements of the History List handling. Show each link's actual address
- in addition to the titles, since the actual addresses can't be determined
- via showinfo or the 'l'ist display, and links in the History List derived
- from searches can have the same titles but different searchparts or hidden
- content appended. If a link in the History List is activated, is still
- cached, has POST content, and ALWAYS_RESUBMIT_POSTS was configured off (as
- recommended) and wasn't toggled on via -resubmit_posts, prompt the user
- whether to resubmit the form (versus retrieve the cached rendition from
- the previous submission). We don't bother prompting on PREV_DOC ("back")
- fetches, and still resubmit forms with POST content whenever their submit
- buttons are activated, i.e., regardless of whether ALWAYS_RESUBMIT_POSTS
- has been configured or toggled on. - FM
- * If a user attempts to add a bookmark while viewing a document returned
- via a form submission with POST content, and it contains links, offer
- the current link with it's link name for editing. Otherwise, display
- a statusline message that documents from forms with POST content cannot
- be saved as bookmarks. - FM
- 08-23-96
- * Added UP_HALF and DOWN_HALF commands, mapped by default to '(' and ')',
- for going back or forward half a page in the document. These are
- complementary to UP_TWO and DOWN_TWO, for going back or forward two
- lines (remember to use the 'K'eymap command for a list of all of the
- keystroke command bindings currently in effect, since they may have
- been changed via lynx.cfg from the defaults described in the online
- 'H'elp). - FM
- * Made the Control-A and Control-E keys default synonyms for HOME and END,
- complementary to their use for going to the beginning or end of the line
- when using the line editor. - FM
- * Don't lose track of source versus present mode on returns from temporary
- menu files to documents derived from forms with method POST. - FM
- * Ugh, I had deleted one too many lines from HTTP.c when stripping out my
- SSL hooks for the distribution copy (no wonder the Authorization mods
- worked fine for me but nobody else 8-). - FM
- 08-22-96
- * Added handling of named entities and numeric character references in
- the values of most of the non-URL attributes (we don't waste overhead
- doing that for the values of simple attributes, like ALIGN, which have
- designated strings). - FM
- 08-21-96
- * Safely handle named entities and numeric character references in the values
- of BASE, LINK, HREF, SRC, ACTION, DATA, CODEBASE and CODE attributes, and
- in the URL field for the CONTENT of META with a "Refresh" HTTP-EQUIV or
- NAME. They are converted in relation to the "ISO Latin 1" Character Set
- array regardless of the selected Character Set (except that nbsp and shy
- remain 160 and 173), then 8-bit translations are hex escaped (as they
- should have been in the markup 8-), and ESC is hex escaped or omitted
- depending on whether a CJK character set has been selected. There's no
- way to do it such that the resolved URL always will be valid no matter
- what yoyos or CGI scripts put in document instances, but this strategy
- maximizes the chances while making sure no "dangerous" characters, based
- on the selected Character Set, are ever sent to the screen (it used to be
- HyperText Markup Language, not HyperGraphic Markup Language 8-)- FM
- * Allow Control-G or a zero-length username or password to act as a cancel
- of the request (and restoration of the current document) when an http
- server invokes prompting for Authorization. - FM
- * When using a proxy server, report the target host instead of the proxy
- in prompts for Authorization. - FM
- * Show MIME types of files, if known, whenever a download offer is forced,
- regardless of why it was forced (i.e, not only for mismatches between
- the document's charset and the selected character set). - FM
- 08-20-96
- * Yet more tweaks of MIME header parsing. - FM
- 08-19-96
- * Enhancements of the news gateway. - FM
- * Tweaks of Content-Type and charset handling. - FM
- * Tweaks of MIME header parsing. - FM
- 08-18-96
- * Tweaks of the news gateway and its documentation. - FM
- 08-17-96
- * Added overt (rational 8-) handling of all status codes that might be
- returned (appropriately or inappropriately 8-) from HTTP/1.1 http
- servers, and massively annotated the code in HTTP.c. - FM
- * Added parsing in HTMIME.c, and at least trace mode reporting, for all
- http server reply and entity headers as in the 08-12-96 HTTP/1.1 draft.
- We should not get many of them, unless we declare ourselves as an HTTP/1.1
- client and send the appropriate request headers, but they're all available
- now for use as more HTTP/1.1 features are added. - FM
- 08-16-96
- * Added handling of "Pragma: no-cache" or "Cache-Control: no-cache" headers
- from http servers, and polished up the code for handling them via META
- directives. - FM
- 08-15-96
- * Modified form handling so that Lynx always resubmits forms if their method
- is POST, even if their content was not changed, when their submit buttons
- or submitting text input are activated. Changed the ALWAYS_RESUBMIT_FORMS
- compilation and configuration definitions, and -resubmit_forms command
- line toggle, to ALWAYS_RESUBMIT_POSTS, and -resubmit_posts. When FALSE,
- you still get the previously returned document from a POSTed form if that
- document had links which you activated, and then go back with the PREV_DOC
- command or via the history list. If set TRUE, the form will be resubmitted
- under those circumstances as well. Documents returned by forms with method
- GET still require use of the RESUBMIT command to resubmit if the forms'
- content was not changed, and forms with a mailto action still always mail
- the content on activation of the submit button or submitting text input
- (no document is returned, so the PREV_DOC command and history list behaviors
- are irrelevant). - FM
- * Use space to plus conversions for values of submitted form content (Ugh,
- Lynx has been using %20 all these years! It worked because they are
- unescaped to space, anyway. 8-). - FM
- * Polished up and massively annotated the redirection handling code. If
- a user approves redirection of a form with POST content, it will not be
- freed and the submission will not be converted to a contentless GET request
- unless the status was 303 (See Other). For 300 (Multiple Choices), the
- returned document is offered, which should include links with descriptions
- of their media types. The returned document (if any) is now displayed for
- any redirection status code if no Location: header was present, and for
- unknown 3xx codes (i.e., greater than 305). If Lynx gets an inappropriate
- 304 (Not Modified), it switches to HEAD mode and displays the status line,
- and anything else returned by the server, as text/plain. A 301 (Moved
- Permanently) will be treated as 302 (Moved Temporarily) for form submissions
- with POST content. Otherwise, Lynx will use the new URL for the remainder
- of the current session (users will have to do a 'r'emove and 'a'dd for their
- bookmarks themselves, for now). A 305 (Use Proxy) will not be honored if
- Lynx is already using a proxy, and instead the returned document will be
- displayed. The limit on serial redirections was dropped from the current
- 10 to 5, as recommended in the August 10, 1996 HTTP/1.1 draft. - FM
- 08-13-96
- * Mods to accommodate the HTTP/1.1 300 - 305 Redirection status codes, and
- to require user confirmation for any redirection of POST content. - FM
- * Tweaks of OBJECT handling. - FM
- 08-12-96
- * Implemented all aspects of OBJECT that make sense for a text client.
- Will descend though nested OBJECTs. Can be used for presenting PRE
- formatted character-cell versions of images, and appears to handle
- all likely uses of the SHAPES and USEMAP attributes in OBJECTs. The
- pseudo-ALTs for links to non-script DATA values (i.e, the for-GUI
- sources) when offered as links (e.g., in clickable_images mode), if
- not a markup-specified string (e.g., based on a TITLE attribute),
- are (IMAGE) or (OBJECT), based on whether the nature of the source
- can be inferred from the context, or an explicit TYPE attribute in
- the OBJECT start tag. The use of parens instead of square-brackets
- indicates that the links are for OBJECTs as opposed to IMGs. - FM
- * Tweaks of SELECT and OPTION handling. - FM
- 08-09-96
- * Lots more stuff added to the online help files. - FM
- * Added state code in SGML.c to avoid getting tripped up by any single or
- double quotes in CJK escape sequences that are within single or double
- quoted attribute values. - TA
- * Restrict resetting the Kanji code flag on white space to Japanese
- (i.e., not also Chinese, Taipai, or Korean). - TA
- * Added handling of EPLF lines (with local time) for the FTP gateway. -
- D. J. Bernstein (djb@koobera.math.uic.edu)
- 08-08-96
- * Added code for handling captured OBJECT content with the SHAPES
- attribute equivalently to our handling of FIG, and with USEMAP and/or
- ISMAP content equivalently to our handling of IMG.
- * Added code for capturing potentially nested container elements that
- require pre-processing, e.g., OBJECT, and for passing the processed
- markup back to the SGML parser to be inserted within the ongoing HTML
- stream.
- * Added CHECK_EAGAIN Makefile definition for non-SVR4 Unix flavors which
- might need it for socket connect() and select() calls. - FM
- * Tweaks of keyboard input with slang when LYCursesON is FALSE. - FM
- 08-06-96
- * Terminate and start a new Accept: header line if the current one will
- exceed 1 KB (shouldn't be necessary, but otherwise the long lines cause
- an error for WebSitePro and crash Netscape servers, and perhaps have
- adversed effects on some other http servers with ill designed code for
- content negotiation). - FM
- * Give temporary files suffixes matched to the Content-Type for all flavors
- of Unix and for VMS, not just for NeXT. - FM
- * Tweak of Location: header parsing in HTTP.c (trim all lead spaces). - FM
- 08-05-96
- * More help and documentation updates. - FM
- 08-04-96
- * Updated the online help files. - FM
- 08-03-96
- * Mods of "user (A)gent" 'o'ption handling. Also added a "useragent"
- -restriction, included in the defaults for anonymous accounts. See
- the "Lynx options menu" section of the "Lynx Users Guide" via the
- online 'h'elp for more information. - FM
- * Tweaks of messaging for unsupported URLs. - FM
- * Tweaks of interrupt handling on VMS. - FM
- 08-02-96
- * Added handling of Refresh in META tags. The URL is presented as a link
- pointed to by a "REFRESH(n sec):" label, where "n" is the seconds
- parameter from the META tag, and you must activate it yourself, which
- should enable people using Lynx via a braille interface to examine
- the initial document before it is refreshed. The META format is:
- <META HTTP-EQUIV=refresh CONTENT="n; URL=url"> where "n" can be "0" or
- a positive integer, and the "; URL=url" field is optional, defaulting
- to the document's own address. Netscape's docs say that "url" should
- be a complete URL, but their client doesn't require it, and so it's
- users don't reliably use complete URLs. Lynx therefore resolves "url"
- versus the document's own address if it is not complete. - FM
- 08-01-96
- * Added handling of ENCTYPE="text/plain" for FORMs with a mailto ACTION.
- The name=value pairs are not hex escaped, and physical newlines instead
- of '&' separate the pairs, so that the content is readable directly. - FM
- * Added SUBJECT attribute as synonym for TITLE in FORMs (Some clients
- are using it instead of TITLE for mailto ACTIONs, ugh!). - FM
- * Tweaks of DEL, S, STRIKE, and INS handling. - FM
- * Handle any newline characters in quoted INPUT values. - FM
- * Added news-ncurses and news-slang Makefile targets, and tweaks of headers
- for sony_news. - Makoto MATSUSHITA (matusita@ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp)
- 07-30-96
- * Finished and incorporated lynx_url_support.html in the online help,
- and updated lynx_help_main.html. - FM
- * Tweaks of ID attribute handling. - FM
- * Tweaks of the gopher gateway. - FM
- * Updated IBMPC-charsets.announce. - MB
- 07-26-96
- * Set the default anonymous account restrictions if Lynx is invoked in
- the account pointed to by ANONYMOUS_USER, or with the -anonymous switch,
- before processing any additional command line restrictions, so that any
- greater restrictions will not drop back to the compilation defaults.
- Note that the full set of -validate restrictions always are enforced for
- that switch, i.e., no matter what other switches or compilation options
- are used, and whether or not the account is anonymous. - FM
- * Implemented handling of the ANONYMOUS_USER definition on VMS (equivalently
- to it's implementation on Unix). - FM
- * Tweaks of mailto URL handling and setting of the default subject via
- TITLE attributes. - FM
- * Tweak of the news gateway's handling of the author (From:) field. - FM
- 07-25-96
- * If a server returns redirection without a complete URL indicated, resolve
- it relative to the original request instead of issuing an error message
- (this is incorrect behavior, but that's another trashed standard, and
- Lynx may as well handle the situation as standard-less clients do). - FM
- * Move the NO_JUMPFILE and JUMP_PROMPT definitions to LYMessages_en.h - FM
- * Added code for selective disabling of goto by scheme in anonymous accounts,
- along lines of patch from Doug Lawson (dlawson@epfl2.epflbalto.org). - FM
- * Ignore any viewer mappings for text/html or text/plain in mailcap
- files. - FM
- 07-22-96
- * Updated ptx target and added ptx-slang. - Alan Coopersmith
- (alanc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU)
- * Added all the new elements and attributes from the July 12 HTML 3.2/Cougar
- DTD, and implemented the new IMG TITLE attribute for use with USEMAP.
- * Added a -startfile_ok switch for allowing a non-http startfile or homepage
- with -validate, and restored the behavior of not allowing *any* non-http
- URLs by default.
- 07-19-96
- * Treat PLAIN and TYPE="plain" as equivalent in UL tags. - FM
- * Fixed the mispositioning of thinsp in HTMLDTD.c. - FM
- 07-18-96
- * Moved the statusline prompt, message, and warning string definitions
- out of userdefs.h into an LYMessages_en.h header. See the comments
- in userdefs.h and LYMessages_en.h for more information. - FM
- * Removed the -lc from the LIBS= list of the snake3 and snake3-slang
- targets, added a description of the HP/UX 10.10 select() problems
- and reported (but not yet satisfactory) workarounds in the PROBLEMS
- file, and a note in the Makefile to read the PROBLEMS file. - FM
- 07-17-96
- * Numerous typecasts added for optimized compilations. - FM
- * Tweaks for ISC. - WS
- * Changed make to $(MAKE) and -g to -O for Unix targets (may need
- tweaking for some flavors 8-). - FM
- * Added news target for SONY NEWS-OS 4.2.1R based on patch from
- Kazuya 'Sharl' Masuda (masuda@sp.hudson.co.jp) and TA. - FM
- * Fixed typo in LYList.c from yesterday's mods. - FM
- 07-16-96
- * Plugged memory leaks associated with temporary file names. - FM
- * Finally figured out what was creating orphan child anchors, and plugged
- that memory leak in HTAnchor_delete(). - FM
- * Replace <sys/select.h> with <sys/timeb.h> for SCO in tcp.h. - BL
- * Mods to avoid warning about redefinition of signal when building on
- VMS with old versions of SOCKETSHR (irrelevant, but might worry
- people who don't know that the warning can be ignored). - FM
- 07-15-96
- * Plugged various memory leaks in FORM handling code. - FM
- 07-13-96
- * Add the startfile, and homepage if different, to the 'g'oto recall
- buffer so that they are available for editing in addition to any
- overtly entered 'g'oto URLs. - FM
- * Changed TRUSTED_URL to ALWAYS_TRUSTED_EXEC for clarity, and plugged
- memory leaks and some security holes in that code. - FM
- * Fixed typo in code for handling Z compressed files. - FM
- 07-12-96
- * Added handling of   ( ), and handling of   as  ,
-   as  , – as – or &endash;, — as — or
- &emdash;, and ™ as ™ (treated as ® ®), based on the
- Cougar DTD. - FM
- * Increased the line buffer size in HTLoadHTTP() and limited the deflt string
- length in HTPrompt() to avoid possibilities of buffer overruns. - FM
- 07-11-96
- * Block access to file: URLs via network served files or bookmarks in
- addition to 'g'oto entries when -restrictions=file_url is set (one of
- the default restrictions for -anonymous). - FM
- * Extended compressed file handling to the ftp gateway and local files.
- If you ACTIVATE the link instead of overtly invoking a 'd'ownload, and
- the path with the gz or Z stripped maps to a displayable Content-Type or
- one for which you have a viewer or helper app, the file will be treated
- as if it had a Content-Encoding: header indicating the compression (i.e.,
- uncompressed and displayed or passed to the viewer or helper app). - FM
- * Mods to send http servers an Accept-Encoding: header indicating gzip and
- compress, and to block inclusion of our new, internal www/compressed MIME
- type in the Accept: header list. - FM
- * Changed the names of the lex_buffer and lex_lines globals to HTlex_buffer
- and HTlex_lines in case name conflicts are causing segmentation faults on
- linux for long usernames in authorization requests, and changed all
- malloc()'s to calloc()'s in that code in case there's an initialization
- glitch I don't yet see. - FM
- 07-09-96
- * Use the username and password of an -auth= command line argument only
- for the first realm that requests authorization, so they don't preclude
- access to other realms later in any interactive session that might have
- a different username and/or password, and handle inclusion of only a
- username or only a password in the -auth= argument. - FM
- * Tweaks of memory leak plugs in authorization handling functions (hopefully
- now avoiding segmentation faults on linux 8-). - FM
- * Include -lc in the first position of the LIBS= list for snake3 targets.
- - Donald S. Teiser <dsteis01@homer.louisville.edu)
- * Enhancements of Makefile. - LWV
- 07-07-96
- * Tweaks of code for uncompressing on the fly. Will now force a download
- offer without uncompressing if there is no presentation mapping for the
- Content-Type. - FM
- * Retain blank lines within TEXTAREA content (but not trailing blanks). - DT
- 07-07-96
- * Added functions for uncompressing and handling documents which have
- Content-Encoding headers that indicate "x-gzip", "gzip", "x-compress",
- or "compress" (instead of forcing a download offer). The files are
- not uncompressed if they were fetched via the 'd'ownload command.
- Note, however, that if you activate a link for a compressed image or
- other binary file, and don't have a viewer or helper app mapped for it,
- it will already have been uncompressed before a D)ownload or C)ancel
- offer can be made, so use the 'd'ownload command directly if it is
- your intention to download such files. Note also that on VMS "gzip -d"
- is used for both gz and Z uncompression. See the INSTALLATION file for
- info on getting the VMS port of gzip. - FM
- 07-06-96
- * Allow any startfile and homepage in -validate mode even if they are not
- http URLs. - FM
- * Made all the 'o'ptions menu statusline prompts and informational messages
- strings that can be defined in userdefs.h for different languages. - FM
- * Mods to send one Accept header as a comma-separated list instead of a
- series of individual Accept header statements. - FM
- 07-05-96
- * Added NO_FILE_REFERER configuration symbol and -nofilereferer switch
- for disabling transmissions of Referer headers for any file URLs (is
- a subset of what NO_REFERER_HEADER and -noreferer disable). - FM
- * Tweaks to facilitate additions of security-related patches. - FM
- 07-04-96
- * Added NEWS_CHUNK_SIZE and NEWS_MAX_CHUNK configuration symbols and
- -newschunksize and -newsmaxchunk switches for regulating the chunking
- of news article listings. See comments in lynx.cfg for explanation. - FM
- 07-02-96
- * Tweaks of URL_DOMAIN_PREFIXES and URL_DOMAIN_SUFFIXES handling (was
- doing double scheme prefixing under some circumstances). - FM
- * Fixed problem of potential crashes with bad HTML which lacks any
- OPTION tags in SELECT containers (Yes, HTML that bad is really out
- there! 8-). - FM
- * Fixed problem of potential infinite loop in HText_endAppend() for documents
- that contain nothing but SCRIPTs and empty OBJECT containers (as in the
- Microsoft ActiveX demos). -FM
- 07-01-96
- * Added circular recall buffer for paths used as the second argument in
- 'd'ownload and 'p'rint menu commands. Use the up- and down-arrow keys
- to access then at the statusline prompt, equivalently to the recalls for
- previous 'g'oto URLs, 'j'ump shortcuts, and ISINDEX or WHEREIS search
- queries. - FM
- * Modified the LYMail.c functions to work as intended with both curses
- and slang (through v0.9-33) on both Unix and VMS. - FM
- 06-30-96
- * Changed yesterday's symbols to URL_DOMAIN_PREFIXES and URL_DOMAIN_SUFFIXES
- and added code to guess the scheme based on the first field of the domain
- name (e.g., gopher.wfbr.edu will become gopher://gopher.wfbr.edu instead
- an http://host URL). Note also that a partial host string can contain a
- dot within it and still be tested with prefixes and suffixes if the DNS
- lookup fails with the host string as entered (e.g., cc.ukans will become
- http://www.cc.ukans.edu), and only dots at the end or beginning of the
- partial host string will block prepending or appending, respectively, of
- items from the prefix or suffix lists (e.g., ftp.foo. will block use of
- items from the prefix list, but permit tests from the suffix list, and
- will become ftp://ftp.foo.dom if the ftp.foo.dom lookup succeeds). - FM
- 06-29-96
- * Added HTTP_DOMAIN_PREFIXES and HTTP_DOMAIN_SUFFIXES in userdefs.h and
- lynx.cfg for defining lists and setting the order of domain name prefixes
- and suffixes to use when creating http:// URLs from command line and
- 'g'oto arguments which are not already URLs and cannot be opened via a
- file://localhost URL (see 05-30-96 entry). - FM
- 06-28-96
- * Tweaks of MIME header handling. - FM
- 06-27-96
- * Do not send a referer header for links obtained from the history list,
- bookmark file, or jumps file. - FM
- * Made sorts by name case-sensitive in ftp and file listings. - FM
- * Added osf-slang make target. - FM
- * Enable ^C (SIGINT) interrupts during spawns on Unix (^C and ^Y interrupts
- were already being enabled for VMS ). - FM
- * Fixed glitch in WHEREIS search handling. - Michael Barabanov
- (baraban@luz.cs.nmt.edu)
- 06-26-96
- * Tweaks of ftp gateway for VM/CMS servers based on feedback from PG. - FM
- * More tweaks of 'o'ptions menu and DISPLAY handling. - FM
- * Tweaks for builds with WIN_TCP on VMS. - FM
- 06-24-96
- * Modified 'o'ptions menu handling to allow NULLing of strings which were
- set at startup. Note that if you NULL (or set) the DISPLAY variable,
- Lynx configured itself for X/Motif or not based on whether it was set
- (or NULL) at startup, and you need to restart Lynx to really change the
- configuration for 'd'ownload forces versus X/Motif viewer spawns. - FM
- * More tweaks of language code, to make the HTCJK enum checks more
- portable. - FM
- 06-23-96
- * Set up handling of nested DIV tags with ALIGN attributes (and CENTER,
- which is treated as DIV ALIGN="center"). - FM
- * Removed INSERT, ALIAS and MH from the DTD, and their associated code
- from HTML.c and GridText.c. - FM
- 06-22-96
- * Tweaks of character set handling. - FM
- * Added function for graphic boxing of popups with curses on VMS. - FM
- 06-21-96
- * Mods to translate CJK escape sequences and take Kanji into account when
- handling statusline() messages. That's in effect if a CJK character set
- is selected, and regardless of the raw or CJK mode setting, because the
- strings are coming from definitions in userdefs.h, not the document that
- is being rendered or displayed. - FM
- * Added more statusline() string definitions in userdefs.h. - FM
- * Ignore a server's Content-Encoding header if it inappropriately indicates
- "8bit" or "7bit" (should be indicated a compression scheme). - FM
- * Mods to use charset strings as in the 07-Jun-1996 HTTP/1.1 draft, and to
- check for those as well as their common synonyms. - FM
- * Mods to revive clearok() functionality with the slang 0.99-33 library
- (need it for Kanji handling and for VMS), and to deal with the definition
- conflicts for the (poorly added) TRUE and FALSE definitions in the new
- slang library's SLcurses.h. - FM
- 06-20-96
- * Added handling of the SFS file system on VM ftp servers, tested on
- ftp://ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu/ (be sure to escape the colons if you use SFS
- paths, e.g., ftp://ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu/vmsysu%3alistserv.webshare) - FM
- * More memory management enhancements and leak plugs. - FM
- * Added -DUNIX and -DSCO to the sco and sco5 libwww targets. - BL
- 06-17-96
- * Added handling of ­, ­, and 8-bit 173 for ISO-Latin-1 documents,
- as a soft hyphen for all of the character sets. - FM
- * Polished up and massively annotated the new character set handling
- code. - FM
- * Made all the dummy libwww headers in WWW/Library/Implementation
- compatible with the new, actually used, headers in /src. - FM
- * Fixed some bad ifdef-ing for statusline string definitions which
- were added to userdefs.h. - FM
- 06-15-96
- * Added many more userdefs.h definitions for statusline() and HTAlert()
- messages. - FM
- * Tweaks of ALT string handling when they are used as forced link names
- for USEMAP, AREA, IMG, EMBED or APPLET sources. - FM
- * Oops, hadn't put the new HTML.h in the zip. - FM
- * Fixed casing typo for HTCJK.h inclusion in HTMIME.c. - LWV
- 06-14-96
- * Updated the help files, lynx.man and lynx.hlp concerning the character
- set handling. - FM
- * Changed the -jpn switch to a generic -raw switch, and the LYK_JPN_TOGGLE
- ('@') to a generic LYK_RAW_TOGGLE. The toggling also can be done via
- the 'o'ptions menu, in conjunction with selecting character sets. See
- the comments about CHARACTER_SET in userdefs.h and lynx.cfg for more
- information. The toggle determines whether raw 8-bit characters in the
- document are assumed to be ISO-8859-1, and therefore translated for the
- non-"ISO Latin 1" character sets based on their LYCharSets.c arrays, or
- are assumed to match the character set (e.g, 8-bit ISO-8859-2 when the
- "ISO Latin 2" set is selected, or Kanji when a CJK set is selected) and
- therefore processed raw. Use raw or CJK mode when you know the charset
- of the document is a match to your selected character set, but no header
- or suffix has indicated that the charset is not ISO-8859-1. Be careful
- about this when "Other ISO Latin" is selected, since the document could
- be, e.g., ISO-8859-3, but you are using, e.g., ISO-8859-5. - FM
- * Added "Other ISO Latin", "Chinese", "Japanese (EUC)", "Japanese (SJIS)",
- "Korean", and "Taipei (Big5)", character sets, which presently translate
- 8-bit ISO-8859-1 named and numeric entities to 7-bit approximations, and
- added a default "CHARACTER_SET" definition in userdefs.h, complementary
- to that in lynx.cfg. - FM
- * Worked in the expanded CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) escape sequence and
- Kanji handling from Takuya ASADA's June 11, 1996 Lynx2-5CJK (available in
- ftp://ftp.three-a.co.jp/pub/www/lynx). - FM
- 06-11-96
- * Tweak of the ftp gateway to handle Reflection Unix emulation servers. - FM
- * Made lynx_version_putenv_command a global so we can free it at exit
- via free_lynx_globals() in LYMain.c. - FM
- 06-10-96
- * Convert a 0xFFFF value from slang in LYgetch() to 7 (^G) to cancel
- whatever called it, instead of exiting on error. - FM
- * Tweaks of Makefile to use symbolic, $(include) and $(lib) paths with
- ncurses for convex, NeXT and sun4, and for SOCKSLIB. - LWV
- * Tweaks of mail editor handling based on patch from Arne Riiber
- (riiber@systek.no). - FM
- 06-09-96
- * Had overdone it plugging memory leaks and was freeing the proxy, news
- server, and lynx version variables too soon. - FM
- 06-07-96
- * Moved the Kanji handling variables into HText structure elements to make
- the GridText.c functions reentrant for them, and added code for regulating
- them via charset parameters in server headers or META tags. The recognized
- parameters are EUC-JP, Shift-JIS, ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-JP-2, and EUC-KR.
- E.g., a META with:
- HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=Shift-JIS"
- will set up handling of the document as Shift-JIS. - FM
- * Made handling of Kanji more reliable when SJIS is the default, based
- on the strategy in Takuya ASADA's Japanized Lynx2-4-2. - FM
- * K&Rized the Ichikawa ISO-2022-JP MIME header handling functions and added
- them to HTMIME.c, together with Takuya ASADA's (asada@three-a.co.jp)
- function for guessing whether an escape has been lost and filling it in,
- and use them for checking news headers. - FM
- * Retry DCL spawns without the TRUSTED flag if it was included and we
- got back an INVARG status. - Robert C. Gray (gray@cyberodyssey.com)
- 06-06-96
- * Plugged lots of memory leaks. - FM
- * Handle colons in code for expanding host names and prepending http://
- (e.g., wfbr:8002 will become http://www.wfbr.edu:8002/). - FM
- * More tweaks of character conversions. - FM
- * Block crashes if illegal markup such as Anchors are present in the
- OPTION strings for SELECT. - FM
- 06-04-96
- * Mods of entity and end tag handling in SGML.c and LYCharUtils.c. - FM
- * Tweaks of make target for sun4-slang. - NHE
- 06-03-96
- * More tweaks of the ftp gateway. - FM
- * More anti-crash protections for bad HTML. - FM
- * Tweaks of LYCharUtils.c and SGML.c. - KW
- * Enclose the username for rlogin URLs in double-quotes on VMS to preserve
- mixed casing if present. - Robert C. Gray (gray@cyberodyssey.com)
- 06-02-96
- * Made DEFAULT_CACHE_SIZE and DEFAULT_VIRTUAL_MEMORY_SIZE configurable via
- lynx.cfg. - FM
- * Added comments in HTFTP.c to make more clear some of the counterintuitive
- things being done, and why. - FM
- * Oops, had left my ISSPACE() debugging macro in HTFTP.c yesterday. Is
- now back to isspace(). - FM
- 06-01-96
- * Added support for ;type=I (or A or D) to specify Image or ASCII transfer
- modes, or a Directory, in ftp URLs. - FM
- * Added support for VM/CMS ftp servers. Note that 'd'ownloaded text files
- will have CRLF as line terminators, due to their use of ASCII records
- (tested on ftp://pucc.princeton.edu/anonymou.376). - FM
- * Added support for use of a tilde on Unix ftp servers to indicate that you
- want a listing of the user's login directory instead of the root (i.e.,
- ftp://user@host/~ or ftp://user@host/~username will cause Lynx to attempt
- a listing of the translated ~ or ~username). Paths can be appended (e.g.,
- ftp://user@host/~/subdirectory). This should not be used with anonymous
- ftp, or in public documents. It yields the behavior on Unix or Unix-like
- ftp servers which should occur without the tilde, based on RFC 1738. Note
- that the valid behavior involving use of %2f is implemented for VMS (see
- the 12-20-95 entry, below), but the behavior for Unix and Unix-like ftp
- servers emulates Lynx's Unix DIRED_SUPPORT. - FM
- * Mods of CSO/PH gateway to deal with discontinuous field name tokens
- (e.g., "NYU fax" instead of "NYU_fax"). - FM
- * More fixes for the putenv_command pointer in LYMain.c. - CC
- * Add curly braces to the current hack for mininizing reversals of
- trace messages with slang. - KW
- 05-30-96
- * Modified the http:// prepending code to try expanded host names if the
- the first (or only) element does not contain a dot and is not a known
- host name. Will first try it as www.host.com, then www.host.edu, then
- www.host.net, then www.host.org, e.g., wfbr/dir/lynx will become an
- http://www.wfbr.edu/dir/lynx URL. - FM
- * Added handling of MSDOS_SERVER ftp server type (tested on ftp.hayes.com)
- and corrected WINDOWS_NT_SERVER handling (tested on ftp.boca.org). - FM
- * Reset any modified, non-HT-LEFT styles in HTML_free() if they were not
- reset in HTML_end_element() due to missing end tags. - FM
- * Initialize the putenv_command pointer in LYMain.c. - Christophe Colle
- (colle@krtkg1.rug.ac.be)
- * Include LYLocal.h in LYCgi.c. - Carl Hansen (hansen@best.com)
- 05-28-96
- * Made all mainloop() statusline() message strings definitions in userdefs.h
- for easier modification to other languages (we'll move them to a catalog
- someday 8-). - FM
- * Added string definitions in userdefs.h for statusline messages identifying
- active or DISABLED radio buttons. - FM
- * More tweaks of character conversions. Note that numeric entities with
- values greater than 255 are displayed as text, until we are able to
- handle them as Unicode. - FM
- * Implemented ID handling for BDO. - FM
- 05-27-96
- * Added nested handling of Q, so that it alternates between double-quotes
- and single-quotes, with directionality of start and end single-quotes
- (should someday check the LANG and DIR attributes, and character set,
- to use other quoting conventions if appropriate). - FM
- * Use [DEL: ... :DEL] labeling to indicate DEL content, and [INS: ... :INS]
- labeling to indicate INS, S, and STRIKE content. - FM
- * Added ID handling for ABBREV, ACRONYM, AU, AUTHOR, BIG, DEL, INS, Q, S,
- SMALL, SUB, SUP and SPAN. - FM
- * Added code to clear the screen of any trace messages directed to the
- screen, once the full page has been created. - FM
- * Added code to minimize slang's casting of trace messages as reverse when
- directed to the screen instead of a file. - FM
- 05-26-96
- * More tweaks of character conversions. - FM
- * Added submit_enctype elements to the forms structures as will be needed to
- implement INPUTS with TYPE="file" (someday 8-), and set disabled for FORM
- fields if the ENCTYPE is multipart/form-data, until we can handle that
- (someday 8-), so the user won't fill out the FORM pointlessly. - FM
- * Made the third argument of SLang_init_tty() 1 so that '\n' will be treated
- as CRLF when trace messages are sent to the screen instead of to a file.
- Might cause problems with the slang screen management functions, but
- doesn't seem to according to KW. - FM
- 05-25-96
- * Mods to pass 8-bit control characters entered via the line editor. They
- should be assumed to be valid if the user entered them, and could indeed
- be valid for Japanese and Russian. - FM
- * Check for a NULL return value from initscr() on Unix. - Geert Jan de Groot
- (GeertJan.deGroot@ripe.net)
- * Tweaks of character conversions, and of 8-bit character handling with
- slang. - Klaus Weide (kweide@tezcat.com)
- * Added TRUSTED_URL for specifying lynxexec and lynxprog URLs which always
- are permitted, based on patches from David Drum (david@more.net). - FM
- 05-21-96
- * Made the LOCAL_DOMAIN symbol configurable via lynx.cfg. - FM
- * Added descriptions of the quality (q=) and maxbytes (mxb=) parameters
- in the sample mailcap file. - FM
- * Added a maxbytes element to the libwww presentation and converter
- structures, and code for specifying a maximum for mailcap entries via
- a semi-colon-separated mxb=value field, where "value" is a positive
- integer (e.g., ; mxb=1000000). The default is 0, meaning no maximum.
- If the value exceeds 0, a maxbytes parameter will be appended in the
- Accept: header for the Content-Type. - FM
- 05-20-96
- * Added code for specifying a quality parameter for mailcap entries via
- a semi-colon-separated q=value field, where "value" is a floating point
- number (e.g., ; q=0.002), and for appending the quality parameters in
- Accept: headers if the values are less than 1.0. - FM
- * Treat screen width as 80 for the startup page when doing traversals with
- a slang-build Lynx to prevent a crash. - FM
- 05-19-96
- * Mods in HTML.c to make resolving of local file URLs more efficient. - FM
- * Tweaks of Makefile for slang. - Ed Doolittle (dolittle@math.toronto.edu)
- 05-18-96
- * Added FRAME elements and attributes to the DTD, and code for creating
- links to the SRCs. - FM
- * Added numerous sanity checks for valid but inappropriate combinations
- of attributes based on the HTML 3.2 DTD.
- 05-17-96
- * Added support for TYPE and VALUE attributes of LIs in OLs. TYPEs
- are equivalent to those for OL, and VALUE is equivalent to START
- or SEQNUM for OL. See the 11-28-95, 10-17-95, 09-19-95 and 09-04-95
- entries in this file. If a TYPE is changed via an LI, the change
- persists for subsequent LIs of that OL. The VALUE set for an LI
- similarly increments for subsequent LIs in that OL. - FM
- 05-16-96
- * Made SGML_character() in SGML.c fully reentrant. - FM
- * Set up capturing of marked sections, and DOCTYPE, ELEMENT, ATTLIST and
- ENTITY declarations in SGML.c. Lynx doesn't do anything with them yet,
- besides reporting them in trace mode, but they at least won't create
- garbage in the display if they start being used for the "next generation"
- of clients. - FM
- * Set up base code for CSIs (Client Side Includes, homologous to SSIs).
- See the comments for LYDoCSI() in LYUtils.c. It should be moved to a
- separate module if someone wants to work on CSIs seriously. LYDoCSI()
- is called from SGML.c if the document was obtained via a file URL on
- the local host and has comments that begin with "!--#". - FM
- 05-15-96
- * Add a MIME charset parameter to POST Content-Type headers if it's not
- ISO-8859-1 or US-ASCII and the server included the parameter when it
- sent the form (but don't do it simply on the basis of the user's current
- character set, because if the server didn't include the parameter, it's
- CGI script probably won't parse the client header either, and will return
- an error instead of processing the form submission). - FM
- 05-14-96
- * Tweaks for Unixware and addition of a unixware-slang Makefile target based
- on patches from Thanh Ma (tma@encore.com). - FM
- * Tweaks for SCO and addition of an sco5 Makefile target based on patches
- from Bela Lubkin (filbo@armory.com). - FM
- * Include ;q=0.001 for the wildcard (*/*) Accept header. - FM
- 05-13-96
- * Added support for a host field in news URLs, analogous to that for nntp
- URLs. Though illegal according to the current RFCs, discussions with a
- W3C member about this Netscapism indicate that Lynx may as well support
- it now, rather than continue failing when it is encountered. - FM
- 05-12-96
- * Added an explicit GetYX definition for slang in LYForms.c. - FM
- 05-11-96
- * Eliminated the NCURSESINCDIR compilation symbol and added NCURSESHEADER,
- so the default now is to seek ncurses/curses.h and -DNCURSESHEADER invokes
- a seek for the (now obsolete 8-) ncurses.h. - FM
- * Added an explicit GetYX definition for slang in LYStrings.c (now avoids
- reference to stdscr). - FM
- * Mods in tcp.h for TCPWARE builds on VMS with DECC. - FM
- 05-08-96
- * Fixed typo in Makefile entry for linux. - LWV
- 05-07-96
- * Added LYPassHighCTRL boolean for passing normally illegal 8-bit control
- characters, and set it TRUE when the KOI8-R character set is selected
- (note that they also are passed when Japanese character support is
- toggled ON). - FM
- 05-06-96
- * Mods in SGML.c to handle "<URL:" as text instead of an unknown tag. - FM
- 05-05-96
- * Added typecasts of the third arguments for the getsockname() and
- accept() calls in HTFTP.c to void pointers, to avoid conflicts with
- their declarations as int versus unsigned int across platforms and
- flavors. - FM
- * Renamed the for-VMS opendir(), readdir() and closedir() to HTVMSopendir(),
- HTVMSreaddir() and HTVMSclosedir(), and the for-UCX ioctl() to HTioctl(),
- to avoid possible conflicts with their additions to newer versions of
- VMS and UCX. - FM
- 05-04-96
- * Fixed typo which was placing a space instead of a slash between the
- User-Agent name and version. - Tim Rowley (tor@cs.brown.edu)
- --- STARTING 2.5FM ---
- --- Rename of Lynx2-4-FM and release as Lynx2-5 (02-May-1996) ---
- (see CHANGES2-5, CHANGES2-4 and CHANGES2-3)
- ==============================================================================
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