New news for the 1.5.0 release.

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There are a few problems with this version of tinyproxy, but I'm hoping
the benefits outweigh the negative. For some reason tinyproxy is not
able to handle requests to *.x10.com sites. (As someone mentioned: "maybe
this is a feature?" :) There also seem to be a few other random sites
where tinyproxy is not communicating with the server correctly. If you
find any such sites, let me know so I can add it to the list of domains
where tinyproxy is failing. I'll need this information for the regression
tests I plan on performing on the next release.
It's been a few months since I release the 1.4.3 version. That's
a bit longer than I want to take with this release (which I originally
thought would be released a week after the 1.4.3 release in November
21, 2001 :), but my real life kind of intruded on the project.
Anyway, this release doesn't add any new features or functions; it's
basically a bug fix and standard compliance release. A few
portability bugs have been fixed, and I've rewritten a few request
processing functions to make them more compliant with the HTTP
standard.
As for the next release (1.5.0), I will not be adding new features.
tinyproxy doesn't currently conform correctly to either the HTTP/1.0
or the HTTP/1.1 standards. The goal of the 1.5 release therefore is
to achieve standards compliance with at least HTTP/1.0. If you have
looked at the tinyproxy code you will have noticed that all the real
work of the proxy is performed in the reqs.c file. Therefore, other
than bug fixes in the other files, only reqs.c should be changed in
the 1.5.0 release. Basically, I'm hoping to just gut and replace the
reqs.c file with a standards compliant version and release a new version.
Now, I've tested the request related code personally with all the
configurations I can think of, but I can't claim that it will work
perfectly with _every_ configuration and _every_ site. So, please
give these pre-releases a thorough testing and let me know if there
any problems you've noticed.
Depending on my schedule I should have the new version ready for
pre-testing sometime next week. If you have any suggestions for improving
tinyproxy please let me know, but I will not be incorporating them until
1.6 (which _hopefully_ should come out fairly quickly after 1.5 has
stabilised.)
"Thank you" go out to all who have helped find bugs in the 1.4.3
candidates. You know who you are, and if you don't look in the ChangeLog
for your name. :)
Robert James Kaes
November 21, 2001
Robert James Kaes
April 8, 2002