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+=======================================================================
+--- Release of Lynx2-6FM as Lynx v2.7 (February 15, 1997) ---
+=======================================================================
+1997-02-15
+* Release of Lynx2-6FM as Lynx v2.7. - FM
+* Included -Ae when compiling the Implementation modules for the snake3
+ target. - FM
+1997-02-14
+* Mods to issue an alert about a BASE tag not having an absolute URL only
+ once per document. - FM
+* Added code for appending LYNX_SIG_FILE to email messages as well as to
+ news posts or followups, and updated the Users Guide accordingly. - FM
+* Updated build-slang.com. - FM
+1997-02-12
+* Fixed some problems in the code for using a hookless Lynx image with
+ snew_proxy, snewspost_proxy, and snewsreply_proxy set to
+ "nntp://host:port/" so that it uses Tom Zerucha's (tz@execpc.com)
+ daemon which handles the SSL communications on behalf of the Lynx
+ image. Also polished up all of the news gateway code, and added
+ comments for the benefit of new developers. - FM
+* Added an ECGOTO command mapped by default to 'G', complementary to the
+ GOTO command (default 'g'), to edit the current document's URL and then
+ go to it. Using case-sensitive letters with different command definitions
+ ensures that both will appear with their brief explanations in the 'k'eymap
+ listing. For ECGOTO, Control-G, failure to modify the URL, or complete
+ deletion of it, all act as a cancel. If the current document has POST
+ content associated with it, a warning will be issued before offering the
+ URL to edit. The POST content is retained if the modification merely
+ involves a change in fragment for the URL. Otherwise, the modified URL
+ (if it has an http scheme) will be submitted with method GET and no POST
+ content. If the ECGOTO command is not cancelled, or not simply a fragment
+ change, the modified URL will be added to the 'g'oto buffer, and can be
+ re-accessed, to edit further, via the GOTO command. See the updated online
+ 'h'elp for more information. - FM
+1997-02-10
+* Amplified the comments concerning deletion of prototypes for MultiNet
+ socket library functions as they get added to MultiNet's own headers
+ in newer versions of it's socket library. - FM
+* Added a missing fclose() in post_article() of HTNews.c, and added code
+ to delete the temporary file there, so it's gone as soon as we're done
+ with it. - FM
+02-09-97
+* Enhanced the Set-Cookie header parser to handle values that contain
+ spaces but were not enclosed in double-quotes, and to use such
+ quoting or not when sending Cookie headers, depending on whether
+ this was done in the Set-Cookie header. Also added anti-crash
+ checks should the parser's efforts to handle both historical (a.k.a.
+ original Netscape) cookies and Version 1 cookies go awry (does deal
+ successfully now with all the cookies which had been reported as
+ problematic). - FM
+* Mods of the screen handling in LYNews.c for cleaning up any screen
+ trash created by the external editor. - FM
+* Tracked down an uninitialized pointer in LYNews.c that probably was
+ behind reports of crashes when posting to newsgroups. - FM
+* Plugged a memory leak in LYMainLoop.c. - TJC
+* Added posting ability to the news gateway, in lieu of the previous,
+ variably reliable, use of a spawned news client for posting. The
+ news, nntp, and snews URLs now all return links for posting new
+ messages or followups (replies) to the server from which a newsgroup
+ listing or news article was retrieved, unless the server indicates
+ that it does not accept posts from the site at which Lynx is running.
+ See the updated INSTALLATION, userdefs.h, and lynx.cfg files, the
+ "USENET News posting" section of the Users Guide, and "Supported URLs"
+ page of the online 'h'elp for more information.
+* Fixed typo for e-dieresis in the KOI8-R charset. - AJF
+* Replaced an inappropriate _user_message() call in HTConfirmCookie()
+ of HTAlert.c with a _statusline() call. The original code could
+ cause crashes with some cookie values. - FM
+02-06-97
+* Added support for both hex escaped and unescaped white characters
+ in lynxexec and lynxprog URLs. Normally, Lynx strips out any white
+ characters that are not hex escaped in attribute values that are
+ to be resolved as URLs, on the assumption that they were derived
+ from wrapping in the markup. Any serial white characters in
+ lynxexec and lynxprog URLs are condensed to one space (' '), and
+ any lead or trailing white characters are trimmed. Note that we
+ still require hex escaping of spaces in mailto URLs, e.g,
+ HREF="mailto:lynx-dev@sig.net%20(I%20found%20a%20bug.)". - FM
+* Removed the 'e' switch from tar commands in LYLocal.c for greater
+ portability across all supported Unix flavors. - FM
+* Expanded the information in the PROBLEMS file on how to deal with
+ DECC and MultiNet header incompatibilites for different combinations
+ of the VMS compiler and socket library versions. - FM
+* Added TRACE message of the edit command created for the system()
+ call in LYEdit.c. - LWV
+* Fixed a typo in the userdefs.h comments. - NHE
+02-04-97
+* Mod in LYMainLoop.c to bypass mailing "not found" messages when
+ MAIL_SYSTEM_ERROR_LOGGING was set TRUE (which it should NOT be,
+ indescriminately) if the document's owner is the lynx-dev list. - FM
+* Added crash protection checks for the actual presence of anchors
+ in all HText structure anchor scans in GridText.c, based on a crash
+ report and suggested fix for one of them from Jonathan Sergent
+ (sergent@hillres55-129.cc.purdue.edu). - FM
+* Eliminated the typecast for ttytype (apparently varies across flavors,
+ and each flavor should know it's own typing; we'll see) in LYCurses.c,
+ and moved VMS system definitions with non-ANSI conformant tokens to a
+ separate header for VMS (LYVMSdef.h). - BL
+* Made the description of HISTORY in the 'k'eymap page more clear that
+ it invokes a list of the "suspended" documents currently held in the
+ history stack. - DC
+* Typo fixes in the help files and lynx.cfg. - LWV
+02-03-97
+* Today's distribution is a pre-release of v2.7. The projected official
+ release date is 02-15-97. All header, help and documentation files,
+ and the top directory name, have been updated for v2.7. - FM
+* Made xli, which is freeware, the default XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND for Unix
+ in userdefs.h (still xv on VMS, since its port is freeware), and
+ expanded the "self-documentation" to indicate where to get this
+ freeware. Added XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND as a configuration symbol in
+ lynx.cfg, so that the compilation default can be overridden on
+ systems which have and prefer xv (all users can override the default
+ mappings for image helper apps via their mailcap files) - FM
+* Added a -base command line switch which can be used with -source or
+ -mime_header to prepend the request URL as a comment, and a BASE tag
+ (which may or may not be the same as the request URL, depending on
+ HTTP/1.1 headers) for text/html documents, equivalent to the prepend
+ kludge for 'd'ownloads (see 09-20-96 mods). - FM
+* Added a check for an "ORGANIZATION" environment variable for inclusion
+ as a news post header on Unix (all system logicals intended for news
+ post headers automatically are included on VMS), and a sleep() before
+ restoring curses mode after the post, to allow reading of any error
+ messages from the news software. - FM
+* Fixed bug which yielded a "[LINK]" instead of "[INLINE]" pseduo-ALT
+ for ALT-less IMG tags used as the content for NAME-ed Anchors without
+ an HREF. - FM
+* Portability tweaks for the mini inews utility. - FM
+* Fixed an old and irrelevant typo in HTWriter.c. - JS
+01-29-97
+* Added more REL tokens that are acceptable for banner links. - FM
+* Ifdef'ed the standard foo_PATH definitions for FreeBSD at the bottom of
+ userdefs.h, based on a patch from AAC, and assuming they also apply for
+ NetBSD, BSDI, and Linux (we'll see 8-). - FM
+* Added make freebsd-slang target. - AAC
+01-28-97
+* Mods of LYSetCookie() to ensure setting of 443 as the default port for
+ https URLs, and force the secure flag on for https URLs whether or not
+ the Set-Cookie header had a secure parameter (too many Version 0
+ cookies don't, when they should). - FM
+* Removed -ltermcap from make for all ncurses targets. - FM
+* Tweaks of make for FreeBSD. - AAC
+* Use SLtt_get_screen_size() instead of the apparently less portable
+ code for slang in size_change() of LYUtils.c. - JED
+01-27-97
+* Made ALT a synonym for VALUE in INPUTs with TYPE="image" to cooperate
+ with well-intentioned (though misinformed) providers who use ALT instead
+ of VALUE for the benefit of text clients or GUIs with image handling
+ turned off. - FM
+* Modified the code for submission of form content with TYPE="image" NAME-ed
+ INPUTs that have a VALUE (or ALT) to "fake" a 0,0 coordinate pair, as when
+ a VALUE (or ALT) is absent, instead of sending a single name=value pair.
+ Requests that using a name=value pair in such cases to indicate that the
+ submission was from a text client or GUI with image handling turned off
+ be included in the HTML specifications keep falling on deaf ears, so we
+ may as well "fake" something closer to what the CGI scripts are expecting,
+ and hope that the script interprets 0,0 as an indicator that the user did
+ not see the image and make a conscious choice within it.
+* Added code to offer a link for the SRC of the image in INPUTs with
+ TYPE="image", distinct from the submit button, when clickable images
+ is on. - FM
+* Updated the "HTML Forms" section of the Users Guide. - FM
+* Fixed a typo in the parsing of Cache-Control MIME headers and META
+ directives. - FM
+01-25-97
+* Updated lynx_help_main.html, about_lynx.html and about_lynx-dev.html. - FM
+* Mods to indicate a toolbar by a '#' preceding its first link when the
+ toolbar is being displayed, and to indicate the availability of a toolbar
+ by a '#' in the top, left-hand corner of the screen when the toolbar is
+ not being displayed. Added explanation of this in the online 'h'elp. - FM
+* Indicate the 'allow' setting (always, never, or via prompt) for each
+ domain in the Cookie Jar Page. - AK
+* Don't delete cookie-less domains silently during garbage collections if
+ they have their 'allow' set to always or never. - AK & FM
+* Added ability to change the 'allow' settings for domains via the Cookie
+ Jar Page. - FM
+* Added basic protection against "denial of service attacks" by limiting
+ a domain to 50 cookies, the total number of stored cookies to 500, and
+ the maximum processed size of a cookie to 4096 bytes. - FM
+* SGML escape any ampersands or angle brackets in the cookie names, values,
+ parameters, and comments when creating the HTML stream for the Cookie
+ Jar Page, and only include entries for comments if they were present in
+ the servers' Set-Cookie headers. - FM
+* Updated the online 'h'elp for cookies. - FM
+* Removed -DNO_KEYPAD from all ncurses targets in the Makefile. - FM
+01-23-97
+* Added a "Lynx State Management (Me want cookie!)" section to the Lynx
+ Users Guide, and a cross-linked cookie_help.html file for the Cookie
+ Jar Page. - FM
+* Added prompting for whether to show the body of a 401 status reply or
+ simply return to the current document when an activated link requires
+ authentication via a username and password, and the user has none for
+ that realm, or forgot them. - FM
+01-22-97
+* Added handling of expires attribute values in Version 0 (a.k.a. Netscape)
+ Set-Cookie MIME headers or META tags, and added "Maximum Gobble Date"
+ entries in the Cookie Jar Page which indicate the maximum intended age
+ for each cookie based on the Version 0 expires or Version 1 max-age
+ attribute values. - FM
+* Added an LYmktime() function in LYUtils.c which accepts strings in the
+ format "Day, dd-Mon-yy hh:mm:ss GMT" or "Day, dd Mon yyyy hh:mm:ss GMT",
+ parses and converts them to time_t format (seconds since 00:00:00 Jan 1
+ 1970), and returns the time_t value, or zero if the date is in the
+ past. It is used for handling Expires headers or attribute values. - FM
+* Added parsing of Cache-Control and Expires MIME headers and META tags
+ sufficient to determine whether the no_cache element should be set in
+ the document's structures. - FM
+* Eliminated the "; $Path=foo; $Domain=blah" attr=value pairs when sending
+ Version 0 (a.k.a. Netscape) cookies in request headers, because too may
+ CGI scripts in the real world have brain-dead parsers and fail when they
+ are included. - FM
+* Added handling of Set-Cookie directives in META tags. - AK
+01-20-97
+* Added confirmation prompts for deletions from the Cookie Jar, expanded
+ the garbage collecting for expired cookies, debugged and implemented the
+ code for security checks based on lead and embedded dots in domain values
+ and host prefixes as described in Section 4.3.2 of the -05 State Management
+ draft, added requirement for https URLs (direct, or via proxy) to include
+ cookies which have the secure flag set in request headers, and extensively
+ annotated the cookie support code for ease of further development. - FM
+* Added ability to set SHOW_CURSOR in lynx.cfg, to override the compilation
+ setting in userdefs.h, and made the -show_cursor command line switch a
+ toggle for the compilation or configuration default. - FM
+01-18-97
+* Bug fixes and memory leak plugs for the cookie support. Added ability
+ to delete individual cookies or entire domains via the Cookie Jar Page
+ (Ctrl-K). The domains and cookies are displayed as DL/DT/DD blocks,
+ with links for each domain and cookies name. The deletions are done
+ by activating those links, which can be numbered, so it should be OK
+ for blind users. - FM
+* Tweaks of the news/nntp/snews gateway. - FM
+* Tweaks of paragraphing if ADDRESS, BANNER, BLOCKQUOTE, BQ, FN, MARQUEE
+ or NOTE blocks are nested (note that nesting does not yield progressive
+ indentations of these blocks). - FM
+01-16-97
+* Added "first pass" cookie support based on patches from Andrew Kuchling
+ (amk@magnet.com). Still needs work (see comments at top of LYCookie.c).
+ A SET_COOKIE symbol in userdefs.h and lynx.cfg determines whether cookie
+ support will be on or off by default, and the default can be toggled
+ via a -cookies command line switch. When on, Set-Cookie headers invoke
+ confirmations with possible replies of 'Y'es or 'N'o for that cookie,
+ 'A'lways, to accept all cookies from that domain, or ne'V'er to never
+ accept cookies from that domain. The Cookie Jar can be examined via
+ the COOKIE_JAR keystroke command, mapped by default to Ctrl-K. The
+ Cookie Jar, and any 'A'lways or ne'V'er settings, do not presently
+ outlast the Lynx session. - FM
+01-14-97
+* Added use of DEFAULT_INDEX_FILE or the URL from an -index=URL command
+ line switch as the the HREF for a banner LINK with REL="Index" and no
+ HREF of its own (see the 01-01-97 mods and the HTML Banners section of
+ the Lynx Users Guide). - FM
+01-13-97
+* Tweaks of the news gateway. - FM
+* Added "Negotiate: trans" header for GET and HEAD requests. Shouldn't
+ be necessary to get 300 instead of 406 replies when nothing matches
+ the Accept and Accept-foo request headers, but some HTTP/1.1 servers
+ apparently want it when the UA declares itself as HTTP/1.0, as Lynx
+ still does. - FM
+01-12-97
+* More updates of the online 'h'elp files. - FM
+* Simplified the code for checking whether a startfile is a bookmark file
+ entered as a URL instead of invoked via the -book switch. The previous
+ code was tripping up some versions of the osf and linux compilers. - FM
+01-10-97
+* Replaced the realloc() in split_line() of GridText.c with a calloc(),
+ memcpy(), FREE() sequence for all systems, not just AIX and ultrix,
+ based on analysis of memory wastage by Hans Reiser
+ (dl9rdz@cip.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de). - FM
+* Tweaks of the body= handling in mailto URLs. - FM
+* Tweaks of the ftp gateway. - FM
+* Restored inheritance when resolving versus a base with the same scheme,
+ because the RFC1808 and Fielding Draft behavior of not doing so yields
+ too many failures in the real world (sigh...). - FM
+01-09-97
+* Ugh! The distribution zip still had the Nov 4, 1996 HTTCP.c instead of
+ the one I modified on Christmas. No wonder people were still reporting
+ the wrong messaging with -DNSL_FORK. The right HTTCP.c is in there
+ now. - FM
+* Mods to resolve the HREFs for LINKs with REV="made" or REV="owner"
+ versus the base (a many, many year old bug finally caught 8-). - FM
+* Added HTAlert messages about BASE HREF values, Location header values,
+ and Refresh URL values that were not received as absolute URLs. We
+ still resolve them versus the RequestURI, since that's invariably
+ what is intended, and thus the optimum "error recovery" strategy. - FM
+* Added handling of cc= and body= fields in ?searchpart strings of mailto
+ URLs. They are described in draft-hoffman-mailto-url-00.txt recently
+ posted to the URI-WG list. This draft ignores the objections which have
+ been filed about changing the semantics of mailto and breaking clients
+ which are fully conformant with the mailto specs in RFC1738, instead of
+ using a new scheme name (e.g., smtp:) for URLs with mail headers, and it
+ extends the ill-advised use of '&' as puctuation in URLs instead of
+ honoring the previous IETF effort to seek it's replacement by ';' as the
+ URL name=value separator and, in effect, treating them as parameters
+ without need to worry about confusions with entities when the URLs are
+ attribute values in text/html. However, the chairman of the URI-WG is
+ a co-author of this draft, so, sigh... As far as this Lynx code is
+ concerned, the mods are more "error recovery" to cope with the sad things
+ which have afflicted the Web during the past 2-3 years, and use of a
+ ?searchpart in mailto URLs is still DISadvised. Lynx uses only subject=,
+ cc=, and body= fields from a ?searchpart, using it's own "safe" rules for
+ other mail headers, and ignoring ones other than those three in the
+ ?searchpart as "unsafe". The cc= values in a ?searchpart are added to
+ the primary address as a comma-separated list for the mail agent, and
+ Lynx's own Cc: is that entered, optionally, by the user. Any body= field
+ is passed to the external editor, if one has been defined, for review and
+ possible modification. Otherwise, it is scrolled for review. The mailing
+ can be cancelled at any time (via Ctrl-G), and via a statusline prompt
+ after everything has been reviewed, if the user judges the body and/or
+ addresses to be unsafe or inappropriate. - FM
+* Moved information and prompt strings in LYMail.c to installer-modifiable
+ symbols in LYMessages_en.h. - FM
+01-07-97
+* Eliminated forced exits for keyboard input buffer overruns on VMS.
+ There's no perfect way to deal with it, but Lynx should recover
+ gracefully most of the time now, and do nothing bad if ungraceful. - FM
+* Added handling of Content-Base and Content-Location MIME headers when
+ 'd'ownloading, 'p'rinting, or mailing HTML source. For this, as
+ for rendered HTML streams (see 01-06-97 mods) the base is determined
+ according to HTTP/1.1 rules: If a Content-Base header was received,
+ that's the base. Otherwise, if a Content-Location header was received
+ and it's an absolute URL, that's the base. Otherwise, the URL used
+ to retrieve the document is the base. When actually rendering, any
+ BASE tag in the document overrides the base derived from headers.
+ When 'd'ownloading, or outputting HTML source for a 'p'rint option,
+ an X-URL comment with the URL used to retrieve the document and a
+ BASE tag with the header or URL-derived base are inserted at the top
+ of the document. These should be moved down into the actual HEAD
+ section to make the HTML fully legal, but will work as is if the
+ output is used in conjunction with automatic invocation of Lynx or
+ Netscape as a text/html helper application. When mailing with an
+ SMTP-conformant mailer, the actual URL used to retrieve the document
+ is indicated via an X-URL header, and for HTML source, a Content-Base
+ and a Content-Location header are included, set to what was actually
+ received by Lynx via MIME headers, or to the retrieval URL. - FM
+01-06-97
+* More updates of the online 'h'elp. The Visited Links Page ('V'),
+ multi-bookmark file support, REL/REV and META enhancements, and new
+ switches are now all fully documented in the 'h'elp. - FM
+* Added handling of Content-Base and Content-Location MIME headers for
+ rendered HTML streams (still using the document's URL in the 'd'ownload
+ and 'p'rint (and mailing) BASE prepending kludge). - FM
+* Added code to avoid getting tripped up by double-quoted header values
+ in HTMIME.c. We still need more sophisticated parsing of possibly
+ compound HTTP/1.1 headers, but we don't yet use any of those. - FM
+* Tweak of the efficiency mods for command line parsing in LYMain.c. - FM
+* Simplified some code in LYMainLoop.c that was tripping up the AIX32
+ compiler. - FM
+01-04-97
+* More updates of the online 'h'elp. - FM
+* Added DIRED_MENU support for .tgz files as for .tar.gz files. - FM
+01-03-97
+* Made the command line parsing in LYMain.c more efficient. - FM
+* Added -nopause switch for setting InfoSecs, MessageSecs, and AlertSecs
+ to zero. Can be used to eliminate forced statusline pauses during
+ traversals. - FM
+* Mods to allow absolute zero quality values for Accept headers, so that
+ in mailcap files users can do things like map image/* to a helper app
+ but exclude particular image subtypes which the app can't handle by
+ assigning q=0 for that subtype. HTTP/1.1 still specifies 4 significant
+ figures for quality values, so if the value is non-zero, Lynx still
+ forces a minimum of q=0.001. - FM
+* Typo fixes in lynx.cfg. - LWV
+01-02-97
+* Updates of the online 'h'elp files. - FM
+* Made the parsing of lynx.cfg in LYReadCFG.c more efficient. - FM
+01-01-97 -- Happy New Year!
+* More partial/relative HREF resolving enhancements. Everything is now
+ handled as recommended in Larry Masinter's -03 revision of Roy Fielding's
+ -02 URL ID, except file and ftp URLs (which Lynx handles as described
+ in the online 'h'elp ). Note, though, that Lynx handles known schemes
+ on a scheme-by-scheme basis, and for schemes that involve substitutions
+ of "/" for a NULL/zero-length path, Lynx inserts the "/" at the resolving
+ stage, so those slashes are present where the Fielding test suite doesn't
+ indicate them, but the actual requests sent to servers (or bad URL message
+ if it's a scheme that requires a host field and doesn't have a default)
+ will be the same. Note, also, that Lynx sends only the path<?searchpart>
+ ("absolute path") in it's direct http requests and indicates the host of
+ the URL in the Host: header, i.e., sends the absolute URL only to proxies.
+ Note, as well, that Lynx treats a zero-length attribute value for an HREF,
+ SRC, etc. as a reference to the currently displayed document, but still
+ uses the base (which might not be the current document's address) as the
+ default for FORMs without an ACTION specified, or ISINDEX tags without
+ an HREF or ACTION specified. - FM
+* Expanded REL/REV handling. All of the REL values in the (expired) Maloney
+ and Quin draft-ietf-relrev-00.txt ID which make sense for banner links in
+ Lynx have been added. For REL="Help" without an HREF in the LINK, Lynx
+ uses its helpfile URL. For REL="Home" without an HREF in the LINK, it
+ uses the configuration startfile or WWW_HOME URL (i.e., not a startfile
+ specified on the command line), or the command line homepage, if it was
+ specified. - FM
+* Added handling of fragments in conjunction with URL expansion guessing for
+ startfile, homepage and 'g'oto strings. Note that any '#' that is not a
+ fragment delimiter should be hex escaped (%23), and ideally all reserved
+ or unsafe characters will be hex escaped in the user-entered string, though
+ you can get away with not using the hex codes for most others, depending on
+ their positions in the string. Also note that on VMS if you include the
+ version for local files it must precede the fragment (e.g., foo.html;3#frag)
+ as for parameters. - FM
+12-26-96
+* Mods of HREF resolving to be more consistent with the latest IETF draft
+ (http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/uri/draft-fielding-url-syntax-02.txt).
+ Most importantly, lone fragments (HREF="#fragment") are resolved versus
+ the current document's URL, and no longer versus the BASE, if present.
+ There are a few things in the draft which are at odds with what virtually
+ all currently deployed browsers do, and so I stuck with the "deployed"
+ behavior. Try the tests in http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/url/ to
+ see where Lynx still differs from the draft. - FM
+* Tweaks of 'z'ap handling. - FM
+12-24-96
+* Tweaks of DIRED_SUPPORT and make for osf. - FM
+12-23-96
+* Added code to check if the startfile has BOOKMARK_TITLE as its title,
+ and if so, and it's in the bookmark file list, add the bookmark element
+ and reload to have it treated as if it were invoked with -book. - FM
+12-21-96
+* Added code for the DIRED_MENU command ('f' and 'F' by default) to invoke
+ CSwing on VMS if CSWING_PATH is defined, as explained in userdefs.h and
+ lynx.cfg . - FM
+12-20-96
+* More improvements in the fatal error and memory exhaustion handling, and
+ plugging of memory leaks. - FM
+* Changed "newline" to "Newline" in LYMainLoop.c to deal with another
+ reported, ill-advised, macro in the AIX 4.2 curses.h. - FM
+* More tweaks of lynx.cfg. - FM
+12-19-96
+* Improvements in the messaging and cleanups for aborts on fatal errors
+ and exits on memory exhaustion. - FM
+* Worked v2.1 of lpansi.c into the distribution. - FM
+* Modified lynx.cfg to reflect the compilation defaults consistently, and
+ changed the compilation default for SUBSTITUTE_UNDERSCORES to FALSE. - FM
+* Changed the "lines" element to "Lines" in the HText structure and the
+ "tab" structure name to "Tab" to cope with some unwise employee reportedly
+ using all lower case "lines" and "tab" strings as macros in the AIX 4.2
+ curses.h. - FM
+12-17-96
+* Restored use of the -l format in the parent links of local Unix directory
+ listings if LONG_LIST is defined, without the v2.6 bug of creating strange,
+ trailing relative or escaped strings. As far as I can tell from exercising
+ them, the DIRED_SUPPORT and LONG_LIST handling are now fully debugged
+ (famous last words... 8-). - FM
+12-16-96
+* Don't reiterate parent links in local directory listings. They are
+ offered only in the top, up to parent link if NO_PARENT_DIR_REFERENCE
+ is not defined. - FM
+* Moved more HTML.c functions to LYCharUtils.c. - FM
+* Tweak of META handling, which was causing crashes (due to freeing an
+ anchor structure prematurely in the 12-13-96 mods for moving HTML.c
+ code to LYCharUtils.c). - FM
+* Block Unix relative path strings in lynxexec and lynxprog URLs. - DT
+12-14-96
+* Added a COLLAPSE_BR_TAGS compilation and configuration symbol for
+ determining whether Lynx collapses serial BR tags. Note that the
+ valid way to create extra blank lines in HTML is with PRE blocks that
+ contain only newlines. - FM
+* Fixed a longstanding glitch in the alignment handling which could
+ cause a Paragraph's ALIGN value to cross embedded blocks, rather than
+ restoring the appropriate alignment for the outer division or block
+ on close of the embedded block. - FM
+* Modified HR handling so that it inserts the same before and after
+ spacing regardless of whether P end and/or start tags are present
+ before and/or after the HR. - FM
+* Don't insert the bookmark file description and filepath if multiple
+ bookmark file support has been turned off, and this is the default
+ bookmark file (but they will still be inserted if it's not the default,
+ e.g., if it's another bookmark file viewed before the support was
+ turned off, and retrieved as a previous document). - FM
+12-13-96
+* Added parsing of Content-Disposition in META tags and setting the
+ suggested file name if file; filename=name.suffix is in the value
+ of the Content attribute and we don't already have that via a server
+ header. - FM
+* Incorporated almost all globals related to stream parsing and page
+ display in HTML.c and GridText.c into the HTML object structure and
+ HText structure to make the parsing and display functions more nearly
+ re-entrant, and moved several functions from HTML.c to LYCharUtils.c
+ to reduce the size of HTML.c. - FM
+* Added -cckr to the libwww Makefile compiler options for SGI. - Carl
+ Buxbaum (crb@world.std.com)
+* Fixed typo in LYMainLoop.c that affected the 'd'ownload command when
+ DIRED_SUPPORT is enabled. - FM
+12-10-96
+* Implemented Safe header handling and prompting about resubmissions of
+ forms with method POST along the lines described in the 24-Nov-96 IETF
+ ID: http://gewis.win.tue.nl/~koen/draft-holtman-http-safe-01.txt
+ Lynx prompts for confirmation whenever it detects that a resubmission
+ would occur, unless the previous reply included "Safe: yes". Prompts
+ always will occur if the -resubmit_post toggle is on (since resubmission
+ always would occur; not advised). If not toggled on, resubmissions
+ would occur when no_cache is set or the previous reply has been dumped
+ from the cache. When using the PREV_DOC command or History Page, if
+ confirmation is not obtained, Lynx will skip to the yet earlier document,
+ or cancel, as appropriate. - FM
+* Added parsing of the Safe header in HTMIME.c, and added a safe element
+ to the anchor and document structures. Will be FALSE unless a Safe
+ header is received that specifies "YES" or "TRUE" (case-insensitive,
+ only "YES" is in the specs), and applies only to replies from form
+ submissions with the POST method. - FM
+* Cleanup of code in HTAccess.c. May correct problem of crashes for
+ ISINDEX searches on some systems, though I couldn't reproduce that
+ problem here. - FM
+12-09-96
+* Added an HTSetPresentation() for image/x-xbitmap in HTInit.c when DISPLAY
+ is set. - FM
+* Added an LYOutOfMemory boolean that is set by the outofmem() macro, and
+ code in the Unix FatalProblem() and VMS exit handler for reporting the
+ memory exhaustion instead of the misleading "bug" message when they are
+ invoked due to memory exhaustion. May not be reported reliably for
+ linux, because for some reason I don't understand, the SIGBUS trapping
+ is ifdef'ed out for linux in LYMain.c. - FM
+* Fixed typo in the new LYAddVisitedLink() in LYHistory.c of yesterday's
+ mods. - KW
+12-08-96
+* Added a VLINKS command, mapped by default to upper case 'V', and code
+ for creating a list of all links 'V'isited during the current Lynx session
+ in order of recency (most recent highest in the list). Lower case 'v' is
+ still mapped to VIEW_BOOKMARKS. The VLINKS listing is complementary to
+ the History Page listing, and formatted similarly. It excludes POST
+ replies, and bookmark, menu and list files (use the History Page or
+ direct keystroke commands for those). It includes any links that were
+ downloaded, or passed to a helper app (except mailto and newsreply or
+ newsfollowup links, since those require activation in the original
+ document for proper inclusion of it in the email message or news
+ post). You can print the Visited Links Page, or 'd'ownload it via
+ the History Page. - FM
+* Added reporting of the Charset parameter, if present in a server reply
+ header, META tag, or by virtue of a suffix map, to the showinfo ('=')
+ display. - FM
+12-07-96
+* Added 'p'rint menu support for the History Page. - FM
+* Added a content_length element to the anchor structure and use that,
+ if a Content-Length header has been received, to indicate the total
+ bytes in the statusline when receiving the stream. - FM
+* Include HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE in the lynxcgi environment. - David Trueman
+ (david@cs.dal.ca).
+12-06-96
+* Many more cleanups and commenting of the code for the benefit of new
+ developers. - FM
+* Tweaks of URL parsing and path simplifications. Added simplification
+ of the file://localhost paths from startup and 'g'oto guesses. - FM
+* More anti-crash protections for bad HTML in SELECT blocks. - FM
+* Usability enhancement for DIRED's 'F' menu: list number and names of
+ (some of) the tagged items, and provide a way to untag all items. - KW
+* Force screen refresh after a DIRED system command has failed. - KW
+* Modified HTFile.c to handle relative and "Up to parent" links more
+ effectively. - KW
+* Added KEYGEN to the DTD (but no code to do anything with it yet). - FM
+12-05-96
+* Fixed typo in the for-Unix section of LYAddPathToHome() that was added
+ yesterday in LYUtils.c. - James Troup (J.J.Troup@comp.brad.ac.uk)
+12-04-96
+* Numerous cleanups and commenting of the LYfoo.c and LYfoo.h modules,
+ for the benefit of new Lynx developers. - FM
+* More security-related enhancements and polishing up of the multiple
+ bookmark file support. - FM
+* Increased the sizes of MAXHIST and MAXLINKS, added statusline messages
+ should they ever be exceeded (not likely now 8-), and code for freeing
+ all excess pointers on each page draw instead of letting them grow and
+ freeing them on exit (should help for memory-limited systems 8-). - FM
+* Tweaks of DIRED_SUPPORT. - KW
+12-02-96
+* Show nntp server status messages in group listings when not 221 (normal
+ reply to HEAD request), so the user will know that the articles are
+ not available from the server, rather than a bug in Lynx. - FM
+* Tweaks of BASE resolving. - FM
+* Added "trick" to send hostname guesses to stdout when the startfile or
+ homepage are not URLs, as we send to the statusline for 'g'oto guesses
+ (but don't use stdout if we are not interactive and the desired output
+ is going to stdout). If the DNS lookup stalls, one thus can Control-C
+ out, instead of wondering why Lynx is taking so long to start up. - FM
+* Cleaned up the read_rc() and save_rc() functions in LYrcFile.c. - FM
+* Eliminated all printw() calls to avoid problems with non-ASCII and/or
+ multibyte/CJK characters. - FM
+* Numerous additional bug fixes and enhancements of the multiple bookmark
+ file support. - FM
+* Got rid of the ADVANCED_MULTI_BOOKMARKS symbol now that the choice can
+ be made in the 'o'ptions menu and saved in the .lynxrc file. - FM
+11-30-96
+* Added the ability to set the advanced mode for multiple bookmarks from
+ the options menu and save the defaults in the .lynxrc file - HL
+* Various typo corrections including one which kept LYMainLoop.c from
+ compiling under Unix when DIRED_SUPPORT was defined. - HL
+11-29-96
+* Numerous additional refinements and enhancements of the multiple bookmark
+ support. Added support for REFRESH and PREV_DOC in the options and bookmark
+ menus, and NEXT_PAGE, PREV_PAGE, and ACTIVATE in the bookmark menus or
+ prompts. Expanded the anchor and document structures to keep track of
+ different bookmark files in conjunction with VIEW_BOOKMARK, ADD_BOOKMARK,
+ and DEL_BOOKMARK commands, to restore the proper bookmark files on reloads
+ (overt, or because the cache was dumped for subsequent documents accessed
+ via bookmark links), and in conjunction with security-related restrictions.
+ Multiple bookmark support can be regulated via MULTI_BOOKMARK_SUPPORT,
+ BLOCK_MULTI_BOOKMARKS and ADVANCED_MULTI_BOOKMARKS symbols in userdefs.h
+ (or as SITE_DEFS in the Makefile) and lynx.cfg. The multiple bookmark
+ support can be blocked via a -restrictions=multibook command line switch,
+ which is also set for -anonymous and -validate. Prompting or display of
+ the bookmark file selection menu occurs only if bookmark files in addition
+ to the startup default have been defined (via the B)ookmark command in the
+ 'o'ptions menu, if mu(L)ti bookmarks has been turned on; the setting and
+ definitions can be saved in the .lynxrc file). Plugged memory leaks in
+ the previous implementation of multiple bookmark support. Added code for
+ inserting the current description and filepath for each bookmark file
+ dynamically during rendering. - FM
+* Another tweak of attribute order in HTMLDTD.c. - KW
+11-28-96
+* Tweaked multiple bookmark support to fix an error which was causing a
+ crash on some systems and incorrect behavior on others - HL
+* Tweaked editing of multiple bookmark filenames to correct shifting of
+ screen between multiple pages - HL
+11-26-96
+* Added support for setting the rendering of SELECT OPTIONs as popup menus
+ versus radio button lists via the 'o'ptions menu, and saving the default
+ in the RC file. Changed NO_SELECT_POPUPS to USE_SELECT_POPUPS in lynx.cfg
+ and userdefs.h. The -popup switch still overrides everything. - FM
+* Added multiple bookmark support along the lines of the patch from Filip M.
+ Gieszczykiewicz (filipg@paranoia.com), plus numerous enhancements of the
+ 'o'ptions menu and bookmark handling. - FM
+* Tweaks of attribute orders in HTMLDTD.h and HTMLDTD.c. - KW
+11-25-96
+* Updated the "Lynx Enhanced Pages" links to the new "Lynx links"
+ (http://www.crl.com/~subir/lynx.html) throughout the help, docs,
+ and code. - FM
+11-24-96
+* Modified the ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" handling to indicate the
+ Content-Type with charset parameter, when known, within each part
+ rather than in the main Content-Type header. - FM
+* Corrected typo in HTNews.c. - FM
+* Added support for setting the suggested filename in 'd'ownload and
+ 'p'rint options based on the Content-Disposition header if it included
+ the string file; filename=name.suffix in its value. Can be used by
+ CGI scripts to set the suggested filename for saves to disk, downloads
+ or mailings of the script's reply body, so it won't be the last symbolic
+ element in the path field of the form's ACTION (which is normally the
+ the script, itself, or a PATH_INFO element, and thus misleading). - FM
+* Tweaks of change_sug_filename() in LYUtils.c for better handling of
+ gzipped files on VMS. - FM
+11-23-96
+* Added reporting of the Server, Date and Last-Modified headers, if present
+ in server replies, to the showinfo ('=') display. - FM
+* Added the ability to store the NO_SELECT_POPUPS in the .lynxrc, but the
+ .lynxrc must be edited manually until the options handling is converted
+ to a form-like interface that accommodates more options. For now, select
+ 'O'ptions and write out the options with '>' to create a block in .lynxrc
+ with an explanation of the switch. The switch is "select_popups" and
+ can have the values of "on", "off", or nothing. If nothing, the default
+ set in userdefs.h or lynx.cfg will persist. Otherwise, "on" will set use
+ of popups and "off" will set use of radio buttons as the default. The
+ startup default always can be toggled via the -popup switch. - HL & FM
+* Corrected a couple of typos in the help files. - HL
+11-22-96
+* Added support for WHEREIS ('/') and 'n'ext searches within SELECT popups.
+ The buffering for 'n'ext is separate from that in the main loop (i.e.,
+ for non-form field document searches), but all previously entered search
+ strings are still combined into a circular buffer and can be accessed via
+ the up-arrow or down-arrow keys at the prompt for a search string. The
+ searches within popup menus do not yield highlighting of the search string,
+ but simply positioning of the cursor on successive options which contain
+ the search string. - FM
+* Added support for all of the navigation commands within SELECT popup
+ windows, including HOME, END, UP_TWO, DOWN_TWO, UP_HALF and DOWN_HALF,
+ in addition to the single line and paging navigation commands. - FM
+* Added support for the REFRESH command within SELECT popup windows. - FM
+* Tweak of hookless snews handling. - FM
+11-21-96
+* Added handling of forms with ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data". Note that
+ we still don't support INPUTs with TYPE="file" or TYPE="range", and
+ thus still set the DISABLED attribute for all fields in the form if
+ either of those two TYPEs are present in it. - FM
+* Tweak of -mime_header handling. - FM
+* Typo fixes of comments in HTML.c. - Albert S Woodhull
+ (aswNS@hamp.hampshire.edu)
+11-20-96
+* Added a NO_SELECT_POPUPS compilation (userdefs.h) and configuration
+ (lynx.cfg) definition, normally set FALSE. If set TRUE, single-choice
+ SELECT blocks (i.e., ones without the MULTIPLE attribute) will be handled
+ as a list of radio buttons instead of via a popup window. Also added a
+ -popup command line switch for toggling the compilation or configuration
+ setting. - FM
+11-18-96
+* Tweak of LYFindEndOfComment() in LYCharUtils.c. - Brian Borowski
+ (brianb@braille.uwo.ca)
+11-17-96
+* Added links to the lynx-dev hypertext archive at FLORA in the online
+ 'h'elp. - FM
+* Tweaks of my_spawn() in LYLocal.c. - KW
+11-16-96
+* Added support for use of the 'd'ownload command on TYPE="submit" and
+ TYPE="image" submit buttons. You still must use the History Page for
+ TYPE="text" INPUT fields that also act as submit buttons by virtue of
+ being the only non-hidden field, because the 'd'ownload command key
+ could be a text entry into the field, and thus must be treated as
+ such. - FM
+11-15-96
+* Mods of HTFormat.c and HTTP.c for better handling of unexpected server
+ disconnects. - FM
+11-13-96
+* Wind down the element stack on EOF if any unclosed tags were received. - FM
+* Fixed typos in the HTMLDTD.c BODYTEXT definitions. - FM
+11-10-96
+* More tweaks of hook-less snews handling. - FM
+* Changed the default STARTFILE to http://lynx.browser.org/ and the default
+ HELPFILE to the v2.6 set at NYU in userdefs.h and lynx.cfg. - FM
+* New function HTUnEscapeSome() in HTParse.c for unescaping selected
+ characters in a string.. - KW
+* Numerous changes to make DIRED_SUPPORT work as intended, to use the
+ library's HTList functions and macros for managing the list of tagged
+ file URLs, and to keep track of proper levels of URL escaping so that
+ unusual filenames which contain #% etc. are handled properly. Can now
+ edit, move, etc. Abc%25252525def.html, #xy#~, etc. - KW
+11-09-96
+* Treat 301 or 302 redirection of a POST as 303 when the Lynx process is
+ non-interactive, rather than rejecting the redirection, since 303 is
+ still most likely what the CGI script actually intends (will still
+ prompt if the process is interactive). - FM
+* Added parsing and trace mode reporting of Content-Disposition headers
+ in HTMIME.c (should be used, someday, to set the suggested file name
+ for disk saves and downloads based on any filename=foo.blah field). - FM
+* Further mods of HTNews.c to facilitate use of Lynx without SSL-hooks
+ in conjunction with an SSL-capable daemon/proxy for snews URLs that
+ returns NNTP streams for Lynx itself to convert into HTML, instead
+ of already converted streams as from a standard proxy. - TZ & FM
+11-08-96
+* Changed information returned by "-version" in LYMain.c to point to
+ lynx.browser.org and added a date to the copyright info. - HL
+11-07-96
+* Mods of HTNews.c to facilitate use of Lynx without SSL-hooks in
+ conjunction with an SSL-capable daemon/proxy for snews URLs. - TZ
+11-05-96
+* Typo fixes in HTMIME.c. - KW
+* Tweak of NSL_FORK mods. - FM
+11-04-96
+* Tweaks of host parsing when a password and/or username is present
+ in override_proxy() of HTAccess.c. - FM
+* Tweaks of the UNDERSCORES and STARS macro setup and usage to avoid
+ possible crashes for FORMs with long values. - FM
+* Worked in Tom Zerucha's (tz@execpc.com) code for fork-based name
+ server lookups that can be 'z'apped. May not yet be portable to
+ all flavors of Unix. Add -DNSL_FORK to your SITE_LYDEFS to try
+ it. - FM
+11-02-96
+* Fixed typo in HTAlert.h. - FM
+* Cleaned up HTTCP.c code, simplified some of its spaghetti
+ ifdef'ing, and worked in mods to bypass connection confirmations
+ when Lynx is SOCKSified and the socks_flag is set. - FM
+* Added recognition and acceptance of text/x-sgml and text/sgml
+ MIME types (all that I've encountered thus far work fine with
+ Lynx, though it doesn't yet interpret marked sections). - FM
+* Added socket function prototypes for MultiNet in tcp.h. - FM
+* Mods to facilitate application of the SSL patches (after some
+ corrections in the patches to keep HTLoadHTTP re-entrant, make
+ CONNECT work as intended again, and eliminate memory leaks in
+ the SSLeay adaption) - FM
+* Adding info about -DNO_TTYTYPE in top level Makefile. - FM
+* Use clrtoeol() in LYOptions.c to ensure that no terminals which use
+ reverse video for standout() will have trailing reverse fields on
+ edits of option values. - DK
+* Offer user@host instead of WebMaster@host for the 'c'omment command
+ if the path for the URL begins with a tilde and there is no
+ LINK REV="made" present. - FM
+* Tweaks of inews Makefile and clientlib.c. - Christopher R. Maden
+ (crm@ebt.com)
+* Check nhist before attempting a DIRED_SUPPORT directory listing in
+ LYShowInfo.c. - KW
+10-21-96
+* Offer WebMaster@host for the 'c'omment command if no LINK REV="made"
+ was present in a text/html document, and save a known owner URL when
+ toggling to source ('\') so that the 'c'omment command can still be
+ used with that owner's (mailto or homepage) URL, but the source can
+ be included in the comment, as would be desirable (instead of a bad
+ rendering) when sending a comment about bad HTML in the document. - FM
+10-20-96
+* Added code for traversing the pseudo-documents created for client-side
+ image MAPs. See the updated CRAWL.announce for more information. - FM
+10-19-96
+* Added definitions in LYCurses.h relating curses function calls to slang
+ functions or emulations for compatibility with new versions of slang,
+ based on patch from John E. Davis (davis@space.mit.edu). - FM
+* Added unescaping of the full address fields in mailto URLs or ACTIONs,
+ and improved the reliability of the parsing of the subject header from
+ the ?searchpart Netscapism when present. - FM
+* Give user option to use 303-like conversion of POST to GET in confirmation
+ requests for redirection of POSTs, base on patches from Drazen Kacar
+ (dave@fly.cc.fer.hr). - FM
+* Tweaks of POST content submissions in HTTP.c, based on patch from
+ KW. - FM
+* Fixed EOF checks in HTAAFile.c, HTGroup.c and HTPasswd.c, and improved
+ host address parsing in HTTCP.c, based on patches from Larry Schwimmer
+ (schwim@cyclone.stanford.edu) and Klaus Weide (kweide@tezcat.com). - FM
+* Added targets for umaxv and umaxv-slang for Encore's UMAXV - Thanh Ma
+ (tma@encore.com)
+10-16-96
+* Send the rendering of decompressed files to stdout with -dump, don't
+ spawn a viewer under any circumstances if -dump was used instead of
+ -source for Content-Types that are not text/html, and remove the
+ temporary decompressed files before exiting with -dump or -source. - FM
+* Properly handle TYPE="radio" versus TYPE="checkbox" INPUTs with NULL
+ or zero-length VALUEs. - FM
+* Added a continuation line token for the netbsd-ncurses target - HL
+* Fixed a typo in HTMIME.c in the trace output - HL
+* Block predictable buffer overrun in GridText.c if a page has more
+ than MAXLINKS links in it. - FM
+10-01-96
+* Add a Mime-Version header to the other headers in LYPrint.c so that the
+ 09-20-96 mods for mailing source do what they were intended to do. :) -
+ Hamish MacEwan (macewanh@diatp.dia.govt.nz)
+09-20-96
+* Add a BASE tag to the tops of HTML source files, a la Netscape, when
+ mailing or downloading, and don't worry, for now, if that creates
+ technically invalid HTML (since Lynx copes with it as of the 09-15-96
+ mods 8-). - FM
+* Include Content-Type, Content-Location and Content-Base headers when
+ mailing HTML source on Unix. - FM
+* Use .txt versus .html suffixes when submitting rendered versus HTML source
+ temporary files to VMS MAIL, so that transports such as PMDF will indicate
+ the appropriate Content-Type. - FM
+09-17-96
+* Handle illegally positioned BASE tags. - FM
+* Tweak of Q nesting level checks. - Pawel Wiecek
+ (coven@i17linuxb.ists.pwr.wroc.pl)
+* Fixed typo in HTMIME.c for parsing of Pragma header. - Wilson Cheung
+ (wcheung@netcom.com)
+* Added parsing of Set-Cookie header in HTMIME.c (see IETF ID
+ http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/draft-ietf-http-state-mgmt-03.txt
+ for info on how to implement it's use). - FM
+* Fixed typo in LYMainLoop.c for display of error message when up arrow is
+ pressed at the top of a document. - Hiram Lester, Jr. (hwlester@pobox.com)
+09-16-96
+* Use standard ls -l parsing of LIST output for Windows_NT ftp servers in
+ Lynx v2.6 as in v2.5. - FM
+
+--- Rename of Lynx2-5FM and release as Lynx2-6 (02-Sep-1996) ---
+ (see CHANGES2-6, CHANGES2-5, CHANGES2-4 and CHANGES2-3)
+==============================================================================