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diff --git a/docs/CHANGES2.5 b/docs/CHANGES2.5 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6abb99f --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/CHANGES2.5 @@ -0,0 +1,1696 @@ +--- Rename of Lynx2-4-FM and release as Lynx2-5 (02-May-1996) --- +============================================================================== +05-02-96 ---- Release of Lynx2-5 ---- +* Modified documentation, help, and example files based on feedback for + yesterday's Lynx2-5 pre-release. - FM +* Include ";q=0.001" whenever "iso8859-1" or "us-ascii" are autoappended + to Accept-charset headers. - FM +* Added SITE_LIBS symbol in Makefile for convenient linking to any + site-specific libraries associated with any site-specific patches. - FM +* Fixed an unsigned char typecast in GridText.c - FM +* Eliminated statusline and TRACE warnings about possibly strange formatting + when TABLEs are in a document. - FM +05-01-96 +* Renamed Lynx2-4-FM for pre-release as Lynx2-5 +04-30-96 +* Modified the fatal error messages such that they direct the user to + the local system administrator to confirm a bug before reporting it + to lynx-dev, and started updated the help and about files for the + switch to lynx-dev@sig.net as the primary list server. - FM +04-28-96 +* Made use of ordered versus unordered lists and inclusion of article dates + in listings for news groups compilation and configuration options in + userdefs.h and lynx.cfg. - FM +04-27-96 +* Added -realm switch for restricting URLs to the realm of the startfile. + The bookmark and jumps files are always considered as part of the realm. + Any execution links or form ACTIONs are permitted if obtained from + documents in the realm, but any switches that restrict bookmark operations + will still apply. For example, -book -realm will use the bookmark file + as the startfile, and restrict URLs to files in the user's account. Adding + -restrictions=bookmark_exec will block execution links in the bookmark + file, but not in other files within the realm (i.e., in the user's + account). If the startfile is an http URL, the realm will be equivalent + to that in http authorization procedures. Can be used with -traversal + for restricting the traversal to documents within the starting realm + for an http server. - FM +* Fixed bug in form structure which could cause POST to be treated as + GET. - FM +04-25-96 +* Added code to send Host: headers as described in the 23-Apr-96 HTTP/1.1 + draft. - FM +04-23-96 +* Modified HTMIME.c to pass documents with an ISO-8859-3 through -9, EUC-KR, + or ISO-2022-KR charset specified in the Content-Type header, to set the + flag for not doing 8-bit reverse translations, and to issue a statusline + message about the charset instead of forcing a download offer. Will have + garbage in the displays of 8-bit characters if one doesn't have the + corresponding charset installed for the terminal, but no harm should be + done, and those who do can get the files displayed instead of just being + up the creek without a paddle. Korean escape sequences will still be + trashed, since be have no translation functions as for Japanese, and we + still force a download offer if there is a mismatch for the supported + character sets, so the user can cancel and then modify the terminal setup + and charset choice appropriately. - FM +* Increased the maximum number of attributes for tags (was too small for + OBJECT), updated the DTD for SCRIPT, and added the STYLE attribute for + all tags which presently, or might someday, accept it. - FM +04-21-96 +* Modified the news gateway to use an ordered list with the numbers and + dates of the articles indicated in newsgroup listings. - FM +* Fixed the checking and passing of the mailto argument in LYMainLoop.c + to mailmsg() in LYMail.c. - FM +04-20-96 +* Fixed bugs in parsing of nntp and snews partial HREFs, and in the + parsing of NNTP message headers for creation of mailto and newspost + or newsrepy links. - FM +04-19-96 +* Added OBJECT and BODYTEXT to the DTD, based on the 12-Apr-96 W3C draft. + The code for INSERT is still there, and should be remove if OBJECT + becomes a stable replacement. Code to handle data URLs for OBJECTs + not yet attempted. - FM +* More tweaks for Japanese character handling. - FM +04-18-96 +* If LINKS_ARE_NUMBERED is on, include the list of references in the + outputs of 'p'rint menu options, analogously to the output with + -dump. - FM +04-14-96 +* Mods to report the content of SCRIPT, STYLE and ALIAS blocks in trace + mode. - FM +* Made ¨, ¯ and ™ synonyms for ¨, &hibar; and ®, + respectively. - FM +* Fixed typo in second line link highlighting code for slang. - ES +04-13-96 +* More tweaks of Japanese character handling. - FM +* Reinitialize timeout values after select() calls in LYUtils.c. - ES +04-12-96 +* More tweaks of Japanese character handling. - FM +* Tweak of target line and link setting when toggling to image_links mode + in LYMainLoop.c. - FM +* Tweaks of circular buffer handling based on analyses from Mike Castle + (mcastle@umr.edu) and Bryan T. Vold (btv@ldl.HealthPartners.COM). - FM +* Fixed typo for NeXT in tcp.h, based on feedback from LWV - FM +* Reinitialize timeout values after select() calls in HTTCP.c. - Erik + Sundkvist (ess@lysator.liu.se) +04-11-96 +* More tweaks of Japanese character handling. - FM +* Added code for handling charset mappings for file and ftp URLs. - FM + You can set the mappings via lynx.cfg (or mime.types), e.g.: + SUFFIX:.html8R:text/html; charset=KOI8-R + SUFFIX:.txt8R:text/plain; charset=KOI8-R +* Tweak of charset handling in HTMIME.c - FM +04-09-96 +* Modified news gateway to handle split header lines. - FM +* Tweaks of authorization header handling to make failures due to bad + headers from the http server clear to the Lynx user. - FM +04-08-96 +* Yet more tweaks of memory management. - FM +04-07-96 +* Tweaks for handling Japanese received via gateways. - FM +04-06-96 +* More memory management tweaks. - FM +04-05-96 +* Updated lynx.man, lynx.hlp and the online help files. - FM +* Tweaks of INPUT, TEXTAREA and SELECT popup OPTION handling when + Japanese character translations are on. - FM +04-04-96 +* Created new zip. Yesterday's appears to have been bad. - FM +04-03-96 +* More optimizations and bug fixes based on patches from JED. - FM +* More mods for handling keyboard input via SLANG library functions, + based on patches from JED. Note that the code for IGNORE_CTRL_C + has been bypassed in those mods, as they presently stand. - FM +04-02-96 +* Added "first pass" handling of P end tags. - FM +* Mods of HTCheckForInterrupt() for SLANG, based on patches from JED. + Note that the for-SLANG code is not taking possible SOCKSification of + Lynx into account. - FM +* Use 3 for ^C instead of 7 for ^G as the argument for the slang abort + key in calls to SLang_init_tty(). - JED +* Tweaks of make for clix. - AM +03-31-96 +* More tweaks of memory management. - FM +03-30-96 +* Added support for Japanese translations of text/plain in addition to + text/html documents, and for ALTs and form fields (see 03-26-96 mods). + Needs checking. Also added an LYK_JPN_TOGGLE, mapped to '@' by default, + for toggling JAPANESE mode ON and OFF, and code to indicate the situation + in the 'o'ptions menu. - FM +* Added make for ultrix-slang and decstation-slang, and tweaks of LYCgi.c + for ultrix. - Alvian Tam (atm@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au) +* Found and fixed some typos in yesterday's mods. - FM +03-29-96 +* Added build-slang.com for building Lynx with the SLANG library instead + of curses on VMS. - FM +* Mod to treat an EOF with errno of EINTR when GetChar() is defined as + getchar() in LYgetch() as due to a Ctrl-Z suspend, and invoke another + character fetch instead of exit on error. Based on patch from Gregory + Neil Shapiro (gshapiro@WPI.EDU). - FM +* Numerous optimizations and bug fixes based on patches from JED. - FM +03-28-96 +* More tweaks of SLANG support. - FM +* Yet more tweaks of the HTList functions and macros, and their associated + memory management. - FM +03-27-96 +* Fixed bug which could cause a crash if links are numbered and you + activate a link via a number when there are no links on the currently + displayed page. - FM +* Tweaks of Content-Encoding header handling, and more detailed messages + about it in trace mode. - FM +03-26-96 +* Added code in HTMIME.c for taking into account Content-Encoding headers, + so that compressed text/html or text/plain files are not displayed + inappropriately based on their Content-Type. - FM +* Added "first pass" support for Japanese character translations, based on + patches for Lynx2-4-1 by Takuya Asada (asada@icsd6.tj.chiba-u.ac.jp). Is + to be checked out by Nelson Henry Eric (nelsonhe@ews07.nara.kindai.ac.jp) + because I have no way to check it here. Translations can be made the + default behavior by setting JAPANESE to TRUE in userdefs.h and/or + lynx.cfg. The default can be toggled via a "-jpn" command line switch. + If made TRUE by any means, the value of KANJI_CODE set in userdefs.h + and or lynx.cfg (EUC, SJIS, or NONE) will be applied, and can be changed + via "-euc", "-sjis" or "-ascii" command line switches, for setting Kanji + code translations to EUC, Shift JIS, or disabling it, respectively. Note + that Japanese translations are not yet performed in the line editor + (LYgetstr() of LYStrings.c and form_getstr() of LYForms.c), for form + field values, or for gateways (let's first see if what I've done so far + works right 8-) - FM +* Added "LY" prefix for pop(), pop_num() and push() function names to + avoid possible conflicts with the ncurses library functions, and fixed + continuation line typo in solaris2 make, based on feedback from PN. - FM +03-23-96 +* Tweaks of memory management in the CSO/PH gateway. - FM +* Tweaks of wait() versus waitpid() handling for NeXT, aix4 and mips, + based on feedback from PN. - FM +03-22-96 +* Tweaks of SLANG support for Unix, and finished up code support for it on + VMS (but tested only with OpenVMS/AXP). Haven't yet decided how to add + VMS build support for it in the COM and MMS files. Get the SLANG library + code from ftp://space.mit.edu/pub/davis and then add USE_SLANG in the + DEFINE list and the path to it's headers in the INCLUDE list for the + compilation, and [path]slang.olb/lib in the link list immediately before + the OPT file. We still need the curses library in the OPT file, because + that's not just curses functions on VMS and we're using ones not replaced + by the SLANG library (Try it, you'll like it! 8-). - FM +* Tweaks for NeXT, based on feedback from Paul Nevai + (nevai@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu). - FM +03-20-96 +* Tweaks of code for sorting directory listings by date (take into account + the 6-month-old time versus year rule on Unix). - FM +* Tweaks of memory management for HTList-based buffers (use internal + allocations, instead of the libwww macros). - FM +* Added solaris2-slang to Makefile, and tweaks of the sun4 makes. - LWV +03-19-96 +* Tweak of MAP handling so that the ordered lists are displayed exactly + in the order of the resolved AREA tags. +03-18-96 +* Added SLANG support (for colorized Lynx) based on patches from JED. + The make support is for linux and sun4, but it should be portable to + other Unix flavors. I have it working on VMS, but the SLANG interrupt + and exit handlers are incompatible with the current ones for VMS in + Lynx (and with the VMS debugger), so I haven't yet included SLANG + support in build.com or the MMS files. - FM +03-17-96 +* Tweaks of 'd'ownload menu handling on returns to it from a DOWNLOADER + action. - FM +* Added various anti-crash protections and cleaner code from John E. Davis + (davis@space.mit.edu) for trimming trailing white space and finding + unescaped colons in LYReadCFG.c, and cleaned up and more fully commented + the functions and subfunctions in that and the LYMainLoop.c modules. - FM +03-16-96 +* Fixed routine which sorts directory listings by date (based on 'o'ptions + menu setting) to do it accurately and in reverse chronological order. - FM +03-15-96 +* Added code to create links for likely URLs in results returned by + the CSO/PH and finger gateways. Try: + gopher://ns.bradley.edu:105/2 or: + cso://ns.bradley.edu/ and search for David Henderson. + Also try: + gopher://cegt201.bradley.edu:79/0/w%20davidh or: + finger://cegt201.bradley.edu/w/davidh as URL.s - FM +* Added LYK_INTERRUPT handling for the CSO/PH and finger gateways, and + made their memory management more efficient. - FM +* Made the my_spawn() function in LYLocal.c more portable by using + waitpid() instead of wait(). - FM +* Restored the Lynx2-3 behavior of seeking the current position and link + on return from 'e'dit. May be wrong if the file was modified, but it + might be in the right ball park, and nothing really bad will happen if + it's far off. - FM +03-14-96 +* Added -reload switch for instructing Lynx to send "Pragma: no-cache" and + "Cache-Control: no-cache" headers when requesting the startfile from an + http server (doesn't apply to subsequent fetches, or to non-http startfile + URLs). - Peter Ekberg (peda@lysator.liu.se) +* Put the correct LYMain.c, which declares no_change_exec_perms, in the zip + (second try, hope I really did 8-). - FM +03-13-96 +* Yet more tweaks of the CSO/PH gateway. - FM +* Yet more tweaks of the finger gateway. - FM +03-12-96 +* Made the URL and command buffering in the finger gateway secure from stack + modifications, beautified the HTLoadFinger() and response() functions, and + added support for the following URL formats for sending a "", "/w", + "username", or "/w username" command to the finger server: + finger://host finger://@host + finger://host/ finger://@host/ + finger://host/%2fw finger://@host/w + finger://host/w finger://host/w/ + finger://host/username[@host] finger://username@host + finger://host/username[@host]/ finger://username@host/ + finger://host/w/username[@host] finger://username@host/w + finger://host/%2fw%20username[@host] finger://host/username[@host]/w +* Replaced the _tolower macro in the CSO/PH gateway with TOLOWER. - FM +* Tweaks of DIRED_SUPPORT. Added NO_CHANGE_EXECUTE_PERMS compilation + symbol and change_exec_perms restrictions switch for restricting + changes of the eXecute permissions to directories, and not files, + when OK_PERMIT has been set. - Earl Fogel (fogel@duke.usask.ca) & FM +* Added make support for Intergraph CLIX (note that some online help files + must be edited and renamed to meet this Unix flavor's 14 character file + name limit). - Alex Matulich (matuli_a@marlin.navsea.navy.mil) +03-11-96 +* Added support for using finger://host/w/username to send "/w username" + to finger (port 79) servers. - FM +* Tweaks of alignment handling to deal with (illegally) embedded CENTER + containers (typically due to omission of an end tag for the first + CENTER of the pair; ugh!). - FM +03-10-96 +* Added form-based CSO/PH (port 105) gateway. Can be invoked via a + cso://host[:port]/ or gopher://host[:port]/2 URL. If the gopher + format is used and a query token is appended (?[query]), the old + ISINDEX-based gateway will be used. - FM +03-07-96 +* Added NO_FROM_HEADER configuration symbol in lynx.cfg, and -nofrom + command line switch, for blocking all transmissions of From headers + by Lynx. - FM +* Added NO_REFERER_HEADER configuration symbol in lynx.cfg, and -noreferer + command line switch, for blocking all transmissions of Referer headers + by Lynx. - FM +* Enhancements of the 'o'ptions menu. - FM +03-06-96 +* Restored the Lynx2-3 behavior of seeking the current document position + and link on (^R)eloads. Will be wrong if the document is actually a + changing script output, or SSI with changes in the sizes of inserts, + and any form entries will be lost with no warning about that if no + form links are in the currently displayed page (and there may be other + glitches I don't remember any more). However, it's correct, and more + convenient, most of the time, and nothing really bad will happen if + it's wrong. - FM +03-05-96 +* Added SAVE_SPACE configuration symbol in lynx.cfg, and LYNX_SAVE_SPACE + environment variable (Unix) or logical (VMS) for setting a default path + prefix in suggested filenames in Save to Disk operations of the 'p'rint + and 'd'ownload menus. If not set, only a filename will be suggested, + for saving in the current default directory. See the INSTALLATION file + and lynx.cfg for more information. - FM +03-02-96 +* If an IMG tag has both ISMAP and USEMAP attributes, create links for + both, and use the ALT string, if present, for the USEMAP link. The + server-side script might have a content-rich default set up for non-GUI + clients, so we may as well be able to try it, and still have our own + USEMAP listing available if it's a site unconcerned about text and + braille clients, or GUI clients with image loading turned off. - FM +* Tweaks of MAP code to maximize efficiency of fetching and processing + MAPs from a different document. - FM +* Make sure the traversal code doesn't get tripped up by any HREFs + which contain newline characters due to misparsing (e.g., because a + close-double-quote wasn't present where required, and soft_dquotes + wasn't toggled ON, or invalid comments were present, and minimal or + historical comment parsing weren't toggled ON). - FM +* Renamed LYK_RESUBMIT ('x' or 'X') to LYK_NOCACHE and modified it's code + so that it applies to normal links as well as form submit buttons. If + used instead of LYK_ACTIVATE, any HText cache from a previous submission + or request will be dumped, and the submission or request will be made + with the "Pragma: no-cache" and "Cache-Control: no-cache" headers + included, to ensure that a proxy/cache server also will not return a + cached copy (assuming it respects either of those headers). - FM +03-01-96 +* Converted the client-side image MAP code to a protocol which returns + a stream, rather than using a temporary file. This allows saving + the link as a bookmark, for fetching the MAP and creating a listing + without need to fetch and render the original document. Also enabled + direct downloading of the MAP listing. - FM +02-29-96 +* Added handling of client-side image MAPs. If both USEMAP and ISMAP + attributes are present, the client-side MAP is used instead of the + the server-side script. The MAPs can be in the same or different + documents. The HREFs of the AREA tags are presented as a list, + with their ALTs (if present, otherwise their HREFs) as the link names + in the list. Added a TITLE attribute for MAPs, which will be ignored + by GUI clients, but if present will be used by Lynx as an H1 for the + list (MAP NAME="welcomemap" TITLE="Welcome Map"). Otherwise, the + IMG's ALT (if present, otherwise "[USEMAP]") will be used as an H1 + in the list. The MAP's resolved URL also is shown in the list, since + the URL for the list is a temporary file. - FM +02-25-96 +* Added a MINIMAL_COMMENTS configuration symbol, which if set TRUE in + lynx.cfg will emulate the Netscape v2.0 comment parsing bug of seeking + only a '-->' terminator, and not interpreting '--' pairs as serial + comments within the overall comment element. The compilation default + is FALSE, but we'll set it TRUE in lynx.cfg until Netscape gets its + comment parsing right, and "decorative" dashes in comment elements + cease to be so common in "Enhance for Netscape" pages. Also added + a '-minimal' command line switch for toggling the Minimal or Valid + configuration setting, and an LYK_MINIMAL command key toggle (mapped + by default to backquote). Note that setting Historical comments on + will override the Minimal or Valid setting (i.e., any '>' will be + treated as the terminator of a comment element). A statusline + message indicates whether Historical, Minimal or Valid comment + parsing has gone into effect when the LYK_MINIMAL or LYK_HISTORICAL + command key toggles are used (i.e., those two toggles in effect are + a "troggle"). - FM +02-22-96 +* Tweak of HTList manipulations. - FM +* Additions to the online help. - FM +* Unescape any hex escaped username and/or password in ftp URLs. - FM +02-20-96 +* Handle timeout disconnects of cached NNTP connections. - FM +* Allow head or tail match specifications (e.g., comp.infosystems.* + or *.unix) in news, nntp and snews URLs (That's illegal, so don't + use it in public documents.). - FM +* Tweak of bookmark handling. - Ismael Cordeiro (ismael@CAM.ORG) +02-16-96 +* Tweak of the new code for setting a default CHECKED radio button. - FM +02-15-96 +* Issue a sensible exit message if a non-http URL is used as the startfile + with -traversal. - FM +* Tweaks of bookmark handling. - FM +* Tweaks of Home_Dir() type casting. - FM +02-14-96 Happy Valentine's Day!!! +* Tweaks of charset conversions. - FM +02-12-96 +* Made inclusion of Unix DIRED_SUPPORT the compilation default, and + its refinement easier to understand and set in the Makefile. - Will + Mengarini (seldon@eskimo.com) & FM +* Changed (X) and ( ) to [X] and [ ] for indicating checked or unchecked + checkboxes. For radio buttons, we still use (*) and ( ). - FM +02-11-96 +* Distinguish checkboxes from radio buttons in the Lynx display by using + (X) versus (*), respectively, when they are checked or selected. - FM +* Make the first radio button in a series with the same NAME checked by + default if none of them had CHECKED specified. - FM +02-09-96 +* Added LYK_HISTORICAL and LYK_SOFT_DQUOTES, mapped by default to the + the single- and double-quote keys, respectively, for toggling valid + versus "historical" comment parsing, and valid versus "old Mosaic- + and Netscape-like" double-quote parsing. - FM +* Added SCRIPT to the DTD and code to ensure that bad comments in its + content don't generate garbage in the display. - FM +* Added -DSVR4 to the make for solaris2. - KH +* Use copy instead of rename in descrip.mms for putting lynx.exe in the + top directory, as in build.com. - FM +* Added TITLE attribute to FORM, and code to use it for the Subject in + mailto ACTIONs. It's not in the spec, but better to offer it than + to settle into Netscape's ?subject=foo tack-on kludge which breaks + mailto for clients which haven't added code to cope with it. - FM +02-08-96 +* Added -book switch for using the bookmark page as the startfile. The + default or command line startfile will still be set for the 'm'ain screen + command, and be used as the startfile if the bookmark page is unavailable + or blank. - FM +* Fixed glitch for Unix in yesterday's LYMail.c mods. - FM +* Try graceful alternatives if getenv("HOME") returns NULL. - Kenneth Herron + (kherron@campus.mci.net) & FM +02-07-96 +* Added support for the ?subject=foo tack-on kludge to specify the Subject + in mailto ACTIONs and HREFs. - FM +* Convert Explorer's semi-colon Internet address separators to commas + before acting on mailto address lists on Unix or VMS. - FM +* Made EMBED empty again (the W3C container version has been replaced + by INSERT, and Netscape still has it empty). - FM +02-06-96 +* Tweaks of descrip.mms files for VMS. - FM +02-04-96 +* Fixed caching of news/nntp connections so that we access the correct host + when more than one has been specified. - FM +02-03-96 +* Added ndash and mdash to the entities conversion tables. The W3C's + DTD specifies those, whereas the text descriptions say endash and + emdash, so we'll cover all the bases by supporting all four. - FM +* Reduced the "en" metric for TAB to 2 per column. Was 12, to be + compatible with UdiWWW, but that's pixels. You can change the enval + initialization in HTML.c from 2 to 12 if you want the old behavior. - FM +* Force use of DECC in build.com if that compiler is installed on VMS, + and make sure external logicals don't defeat a choice of DECC via + descrip.mms. - FM +02-02-96 +* Mods to handle lone CRs as newlines when displaying text/plain files + from MAC servers. Note that they'll stay CRs when downloading, or + fetching with -source, but be handled as newlines when the '\' source + toggle is used for text/html files and their source is displayed as + text/plain. - FM +01-31-96 +* Added dummy initializers in LYCharSets.c and LYEditmap.c to ensure the + modules are linked if the external model is common block and they are + placed in a library. - FM +01-30-96 +* For submissions of forms with a mailto ACTION, allow the user to edit + the default Subject string (the TITLE of the document containing the + form) via a statusline prompt, or to cancel the submission via Ctrl-G + at the prompt, analogously to 'c'omments or for anchors with a mailto + HREF. - FM +01-29-96 +* Typo fixes in HTML.c, LYJump.c and LYGetFile.c. - PM +01-28-96 +* Tweaks of redirection handling. - FM +01-27-96 +* Support use of the TITLE attribute for setting the Subject in LINKs with + REV="made" or REV="owner" and a mailto HREF, equivalently to its use + with anchors in the BODY. - FM +* Always use the parent document's URL for X-URL in mailto anchors, but + still use mailto:address if it was entered as a 'g'oto. - FM +* Improvements of the code in LYMainLoop.c for checking the types of + links (first make sure that there are links to check 8-). - FM +01-26-96 +* Made LYCharSets.c an object module instead of header for HTML.c, and + created LYCharUtils.c with character-related functions from HTML.c, + to reduce the size of HTML.c (got a report of memory exhaustion when + trying to compile HTML.c). - FM +* Added BGSOUND to the DTD and code for creating a link to the source + when clickable_images is set. - FM +01-24-96 +* Tweak of URL resolving when http servers return the obsolete file URL + format for what are actually ftp URLs (as DEC's servers are doing). - FM +* Added LYE_LOWER and LYE_UPPER for lower or upper casing lines with the + line editor. Default bindings are Ctrl-K and Ctrl-T, respectively (not + "intuitive" but they're the only "safe" non-printing keys left 8-). - FM +01-23-96 +* Yet more tweaks aimed at getting Lynx to compile across versions of + MultiNet through v3.5A and DECC through v5.2 or VAXC. Pat Rankin + is trying to cope with this mess for compilations with MultiNet and + his VMS port of GNUC (cross your fingers 8-). - FM +* Updates of the help and about files. - FM +* Tweak of sendmail path for BSDI. - Bennett Todd (bet@ritz.mordor.com) +01-22-96 +* More tweaks for dealing with header conflicts in MultiNet v3.5A with + DECC v5.2. - FM +* Tweak of our kludge to append a 0,0 coordinate pair for ISMAP URLs. - FM +* Tweaks of base handling in HTML.c. - FM +01-20-96 +* Mods for builds with NetBSD, or MultiNet v3.5A with DECC v5.2 (they + have conficting headers). FM & PR +01-18-96 +* Improved and corrected the fatal error messages. - FM +01-17-96 +* Added ability to set the NNTPSERVER environment variable via lynx.cfg if + it has not been set externally (analogously to the proxy variables). - FM +* Tweaks of proxy handling. - FM +* Modified the "Accept-Language: " header handling so that it uses the + "preferred document lang(G)uage" string without any modifications. + This allows the user to specify a comma-separated string with quality + values included, exactly to his/her requirements. - FM +01-16-96 +* Modified the traversal code so that it always outputs to an error file if + requests fail or unknown statuses are received from the http server. - FM +* Added target "sun4-ncurses" to the Makefile. - Bennett E. Todd + (bet@nyc.fcmc.com) +* Tweaks of "preferred document lan(G)uage" and "preferred document c(H)arset" + 'o'ptions handling. Send only the preference or comma-separated list of + preferences in the "Accept-Language: " and "Accept-Charset: " headers. + Append ", en" if "en" isn't present, and ", ISO-8859-1" and/or ", US-ASCII" + if those aren't present, rather than relying on servers to honor defaults, + but still don't send an "Accept-Charset: " header at all if no preference + has been specified by the user. - FM +* Fixed typos in the about and help files. - FM +01-15-96 +* Tweaks of bold and underline setting in split_line() of GritText.c. - FM +* Fixed handling of FORM start tags with no ACTION specified. - FM +* Tweaks of "IBM PC character set" and added "IBM PC codepage 850" + (ISO8859-1, see IBMPC-charsets.announce). - Mike Brown (mike@hyperreal.com) +* Check in userdefs.h whether LYNX_CGF_FILE has been defined via the + Makefile, build.com or descrip.mms. - PG +* Created CHANGES2-3 with changes through release of Lynx2-3 on 04-19-94, + and CHANGES2-4 with subsequent changes through the rename of lynx2-3-FM + to Lynx2-4 and its release on 06-18-95, and deleted those sections from + this file. - FM +* Added the new Copyright and links to it in about_lynx.html. - FM +01-11-96 +* Tweaks of HTWAIS.c for compatibility across versions of FreeWAIS. - FM +* Unescape any hex escaped percents in mailto URLs and ACTIONs. - FM +01-10-96 +* Added an LYCheckForProxyURL() function, and a PROXY_URL_TYPE return value + for is_url(), so that Lynx can proxy URLs with an unknown scheme if a + proxy for the scheme has been set, e.g., if "foo_proxy" has been set + to "http://host/", then "foo:blah", where "blah" may or may not begin + with a slash, will be handled as "http://host/foo:blah". Components of + "blah" will be checked versus "no_proxy", if set, but since we don't + know the default port for scheme "foo", the checks for any ports + associated with the no_proxy values may not be reliable (but if we + don't proxy, nor know the scheme, nor find "foo:blah" as a local file, + the URL would fail, anyway) - FM +* Fixed typo in VMSPrint.com. - Paul Farnham (farnham@pasco.wednet.edu) +01-06-96 +* Tweak of traversal code. - FM +01-04-96 +* Tweak of dynamic SOCKS mods. - TZ +01-03-96 +* Added circular recall buffers for JUMP shortcuts. If multiple jumps + files are installed, each has it's own recall buffer. If Lynx was built + with PERMIT_GOTO_FROM_JUMP defined, any random URLs accessed via the JUMP + command are placed in the goto circular buffer, not that for shortcuts, + and a JUMP entry of the single character ':' for the target is treated + as a command to invoke the circular buffer of previously resolved goto + URLs (as if 'g'oto followed by Up-Arrow were used). - FM +* Added GOTOBUFFER, homologous to JUMPBUFFER, for specifying via userdefs.h + and/or lynx.cfg whether to offer the previous goto URL, if any, for + reuse or editing whenever the 'g'oto command is entered, or simply rely + on invoking the circular buffer via the Up-Arrow and Down-Arrow keys for + accessing previously resolved goto URLs. - FM +* Tweak of 'g'oto recall buffering loop in LYMainLoop.c. - AH +01-02-96 +* Added circular recall buffering for 'g'oto URLs. Is invoked (if previous + URLs have been entered) via Up-Arrow or Down-Arrow after entering the + 'g'oto command. - FM +* Added circular recall buffering for WHEREIS queries. Buffer is shared with + that for ISINDEX queries, and invoked via Up-Arrow or Down-Arrow following + the WHEREIS ('/') command. The 'n'ext command still uses the last WHEREIS + query, not necessarily the last entry in the recall buffer, which might + have been entered via a 's'earch command for an ISINDEX document. - FM +* Extended treatment of FORMs which have only one INPUT (TYPE="text") field + for user entries as SUBMITting on press of RETURN in that field, so that + this behavior is retained if INPUT TYPE="hidden" fields are present. - FM +* Tweaks of bookmark deletion sanity checks. - DT +01-01-96 (Happy New Year!!!!) +* Added circular recall buffer for ISINDEX queries. Up-Arrow will cylce + you from the most current query in the list to previous ones, and roll + from the oldest to the most current. Down-Arrow will cycle from the + oldest query to subsequent ones, and roll from the most current to the + oldest. If a previous query is reused, it is removed from the recall + buffer and reinserted as the most current.- FM +* Plugged memory leaks in LYUtils.c and LYJump.c. - FM +12-30-95 +* Added LOCALHOST_ALIAS symbols for lynx.cfg which can be set to local + host aliases or to trusted hosts at other sites which will be accepted + as "local" when the -localhost switch is set. - FM +* Added the endash and emdash entities. - FM +12-29-95 +* Use exit(0) versus exit(-1) more consistently for normal versus abnormal + exits, respectively. - FM +12-26-95 +* Tweak of RELOAD handling for lynxcgi URLs. - FM +* More anti-crash protections for bad HTML. - FM +* Tweak of dynamic SOCKS mods. - TZ +12-23-95 +* Tweaks of directory building on VMS. - FM +* Tweaks of log file declarations for direct wais builds. - FM +* Tweak of DIRED_SUPPORT mods so that non-TAG entries don't show up when + there are tagged files. - DT +12-22-95 +* Added HTMake_VMS_name() to HTFTP.c for use by Unix as well as VMS with + VMS ftp servers. - FM +* Added INSERT and ALIAS to the DTD, updated PARAM and OVERLAY, and made + FIG a paragraphing block, all as described in the 12-21-95 W3C working + draft for INSERT. In contrast to FIG, the INSERT and "heritage" EMBED + and APPLET elements invoke paragraphing only if their content displayed + by Lynx dictates it. The rules for resolving the sources for INSERTs or + for handling its ISMAP attribute are extremely complicated, and are not + implemented. Let's wait to see how people in the "real world" try to + make sense of them and actually use INSERT (if they do 8-). We still + create source links in "clickable_image" mode for the "heritage" versions + of FIG, OVERLAY, EMBED and APPLET markup, and send a 0,0 cooridinate pair + for IMG with the ISMAP attribute. See comments in HTML.c - FM +12-21-95 +* Fixed bug in yesterday's ftp password-handling mods that could cause a + crash, and handle ftp://user:@host/path as specified in RFC 1738. - FM +* Added protection against crashes for SELECT tags without the (required) + NAME attribute. - FM +* Added code in HTFTP.c for recognizing MS Windows (Chameleon NEWT) servers + and parsing their LIST output (tested on ftp://emoryi.jpl.nasa.gov/) - FM +* Another typo fix for VMS GNUC in HTFinger.c. - FM +* Modified HTFTP.c to use personal_mail_address, if available, for the + password with anonymous FTP. It will still use "user@" (trim off the + host) if the host does not contain a dot and thus could not be a fully + qualified domain name, so it will work with Unix servers such as + ftp.uu.net (see get_connection() in HTFTP.c), but this will cause it + to fail with MS Windows servers. - FM +* Added lots more info to the trace output for the ftp gateway. - FM +12-20-95 +* Modified HTFTP.c to handle a hex escaped slash (%2F) following the + "punctuation" slash according to the strict provisions of RFC 1738 + when connected to VMS ftp servers, so that a device can be in the + path and not be mishandled as a subdirectory, e.g., the URL + ftp://user:password@host/%2Fsys$common/syshlp + will create a directory listing for sys$common:[syshlp]. - FM +* Fixed typo for VMS GNUC in HTFinger.c. - FM +12-19-95 +* Enhancements of Unix DIRED_SUPPORT (see header of LYLocal.c). - DT +12-18-95 +* Tweaks of element and entity structure alignments. - FM +12-17-95 +* Tweaks of APPLET CODEBASE attribute resolving. - FM +* Added support for a -nosocks command line switch to turn off SOCKS proxy + usage if Lynx was SOCKSified. - Thomas Zerucha (tz@execpc.com) +12-16-95 +* Added the APPLET element and attributes to the DTD, and code for + creating links to the Applet code via image_links - FM +* Added code to handle password fields in telnet URLs. - FM +* Expanded EMBED as an "attribute soup" (for compatibility with + old versions of Netscape). - FM +12-15-95 +* Added PARAM, and its attributes in the W3C draft for EMBED, to the DTD, + and code in HTML.c to minimize the possibility of an INPUT belonging to + an EMBED being misassociated with a standard FORM container. - FM +* Added "first pass" EMBED handling. Should be OK with both the W3C + container version and the Netscape "attribute soup" version (we'll + see 8-). The clickable_image switch and toggle ('*') are now misnomers. + They will cause creation of links to the EMBED SRCs whether they are + images or not. - FM +* Enhancements of Unix uploading (see header of LYUpload.c). - GL +12-14-95 +* Modified LYUnEscapeEntities() and LYExpandString() in HTML.c to make + it more likely that they'll be handled correctly across flavors of + compilers. - FM +* Changed NETSCAPE_QUOTES and -netscape_quotes to SOFT_DQUOTES and + -soft_dquotes. - FM +* Added '&' to the exclusion list for VMS suggested file names. - FM +12-13-95 +* Added CAN_ANONYMOUS_GOTO_TELNET_PORT symbol which if set TRUE in + userdefs.h will allow anonymous users to specify a port in 'g'oto + commands for telnet URLs. - FM +* Added NETSCAPE_QUOTES symbol which if set TRUE in lynx.cfg will cause + Lynx to emulate the Netscape bug of treating '>' as a co-terminator + of a double-quoted attribute value and the tag which contains it. - FM +* Forgot to define FORM_LINK_RESUBMIT_MESSAGE in the distribution's + userdefs.h for yesterday's mods. - FM +* Forgot to put the HTFile.c with the LIST_FORMAT mods into the + distribution (maybe I should just concentrate on Christmas 8-). - FM +12-12-95 +* Changed handling of the no-cache META directive so that it applies to + the document which contains the META tag, rather than to any form submit + buttons within it. The form's CGI script should return a stream which + contains the directive to force resubmissions, and any (e.g., ISINDEX) + script or (e.g., foo.shtml) document can include the directive to + force reloading by Lynx. - FM +* Added ALWAYS_RESUBMIT_FORMS symbol in userdefs.h and lynx.cfg for setting + forced resubmissions of forms, and a -resubmit_forms command line switch + for toggling the default. - FM +12-11-95 +* Moved values of LYStrings.h function key definitions from 0x80 - 0x8D to + 0x100 - 0x10D and modified all the structures and functions in LYKeymap.c + and LYEditmap.c accordingly. - FM +* Added the KOI8-R (Russian) character set. - Andrey A. Chernov + (ache@astral.msk.su). +* Replace gets() with fgets() for the Unix setup() in LYCurses.c - AAC +* Tweaks for building with FreeBSD. - AAC & FM +* Added handling of META directives for ISO-8859-2 and KOI8-R if the + document is text/html and a server header didn't already set the + charset. - AAC & FM +12-10-95 +* Tweaks of memory management. - FM +* Made the LONG_LIST parameters for Unix local directory listings + configurable via userdefs.h and lynx.cfg - DT +12-09-95 +* Added code for re-computing and retaining the current link if it is still + on the page when using the LYK_UP_TWO and LYK_DOWN_TWO commands. - FM +* Added support for nested emphasis tags (they're all still displayed as + HT_UNDERLINE, but no longer terminated prematurely). - FM +12-08-95 +* Added more suffix maps in HTInit.c. - FM +* Tweak of META attribute definitions. - FM +12-06-95 +* Don't reject LYNXKEYMAP and lynxcgi URLs with the -localhost switch. - FM +12-05-95 +* Made the loaded_texts list in GridText.c functionally "circular", so + that returning to a cached document causes it to be treated as the most + current, and dumps of cache, when necessary to load a new document, are + done for the least recently viewed rather than least recently fetched + document. - FM +* Show the METHOD and ACTION in showinfo() of LYShowInfo.c if invoked when + the cursor is positioned on a submit button. - FM +* If the user mode is advanced, keep showing the URL in the statusline + when Lynx is in forms mode but the link is not a form field. - FM +12-03-95 +* Tweaks of code for submissions of forms with only a single INPUT + (TYPE="text") field. - FM +12-02-95 +* Treat any META directives with a NAME or HTTP-EQUIV value of "Pragma" + or "Cache-Control" and a CONTROL value of "no-cache" as an instruction + always to resubmit any form(s) in the document. - FM +* Added parsing of META directives. Functions can be added where indicated + in HTML.c. - FM +* Include the HTTP/1.1 "Cache-Control: no-cache" header together with the + HTTP/1.0 "Pragma: no-cache" header for reload or resubmit requests. - FM +* Fixed bug in the check for an all-space ALT in IMG when creating a + link for its SRC. - FM +* Fixed parsing of square-bracketted DOCTYPE fields. - FM +12-01-95 +* Improvements of logic for indentations within lists. - FM +11-30-95 +* For resiliency, treat upper case letters as equivalent to lower case in + scheme names (e.g., allow "HTTP" as well as "http"), by converting them + to the appropriate case before entering them into the anchor hash table + or otherwise acting on them. - FM +* Added ability to change the default reply to the "really quit" prompt + from "[Y]" to "[N]" via a compilation symbol in userdefs.h. - DT +11-29-95 +* Added ALIGN attribute for HR (default is "center"). - FM +11-28-95 +* If a form has a single field, and it's INPUT TYPE="text", treat + RETURN as a submit command for it. - FM +* Added START as a synonym for the SEQNUM attribute in OL. - FM +11-27-95 +* Enhancements of the wais gateway. - FM +11-26-95 +* Fixed up HREF, ACTION and SRC resolving to be conformant with RFC 1808 + (except that we don't yet support a ";params" field). - FM +11-25-95 +* Tweaks of yesterday's jumps file mods. - FM +11-24-95 +* Enhancements of 'J'umps file handling, including ability to install + multiple jumps files mapped to different keys and associated with + different statusline prompts and recall buffers. - DT & FM +* Deal with ALTs that have only spaces when in clickable_image mode. - FM +* Worked in WM's mods to make the REVERSE_CLEAR_SCREEN_PROBLEM workaround + a configuration option via ENABLE_SCROLLBACK in lynx.cfg and a command + line toggle (-enable_scrollback), for use with comm programs which have + screen display buffers that can be accessed for review independently + of the Lynx commands (see comments in lynx.cfg). - FM +11-23-95 +* Use the BASE, if present, instead of the original document URL, as the + default ACTION for forms. - FM +* Tweaks of paragraph alignment handling. - FM +* Make sure we don't realloc() a NULL env pointer in LYCgi.c. - DT +* Cancel bookmark deletion if the line does not have a complete link or if + there is more than one link on the line. - DT +11-21-95 +* Fixed bad logic in the setting of bold and/or underline starting points + in new lines created via split_line() of GridText.c. - FM +* Added case KEY_BACKSPACE in LYgetch() of LYStrings.c. - GL +11-19-95 +* Fixed problem of SELECT causing all immediately following white space + to be ignored. - FM +* More tweaks of paragraphing, and handling of labeled blocks within + PRE blocks. - FM +11-18-95 +* Added INFOSECS, MESSAGESECS and ALERTSECS symbols in userdefs.h and + lynx.cfg for setting the durations of statusline pauses (important when + using Lynx with a braille-based access). See comments in userdefs.h and + lynx.cfg for more information. - FM +* More tweaks of paragraph handling. - FM +* Include the Reference lists is crawl output files if the -number_links + switch was included and the -nolist switch wasn't. - FM +11-17-95 +* Tweaks of finger and telnet gateways. - FM +* Added handling of MARQUEE equivalently to BANNER. - FM +* Various tweaks of 8-bit character and related HTML handling (OLs + or ULs without attributes or some wrong combinations were crashing + Lynx). - FM +11-16-95 +* Implemented the ID attribute for TAB, and the TO and INDENT attributes + when its ALIGN attribute is "left" (the default) and the style's + alignment is HT_LEFT (the default). If these conditions don't apply, + or if the TAB target is outside the current margins or would overlap + prior text, a collapsible space is inserted instead of TABing. The + INDENT values are in "en" units, treated as 12 per column. Added + tabtest.html in the test subdirectory to illustrate TABing. - FM +11-15-95 +* Added the HTML 3.0 DTD structures and definitions for SPOT, and fully + implemented it (use SPOT ID="foo" as SGML_EMPTY instead of named anchors + with no content). - FM +* Added the HTML 3.0 DTD structures and definitions for TAB. For now, it + simply puts a collapsible space in the text stream if the TO attribute + is present. - FM +* Added the top-level HTML 3.0 DTD structures and definitions for MATH, and + implemented it's ID attribute. The markup is captured as HTML_LITTERAL, + and until we have a processor, is output as is, in brackets to alert the + user about the situation. - FM +11-14-95 +* Tweaks of LYK_UP_LINK and LYK_DOWN_LINK handling, and added them to the + default mapping as '<' and '>'. - FM +* Tweaks of LYK_TOOLBAR handling. - FM +11-13-95 +* Added LYK_TOOLBAR (mapped by default to '#') for jumping up to the pseudo + Toolbar or Banner if present in the current document. Using '#' instead + of Home to jump there allows you to Left-Arrow back to where you were in + the current document. Set up a BANNER in about_lynx-dev.html to serve + as an example of this feature. - FM +* Added the HTML 3.0 DTD structures and definitions for BANNER, implemented + its ID attribute, and set it up to act as a pseudo Toolbar if one hasn't + been set up already via REL attributes of LINKs. - FM +* Tweaks of paragraphing for CAPTION, CREDIT, FOOTNOTE, and NOTE. - FM +11-12-95 +* Handle (i.e., ignore) any P that immediately follows an LI, DT or DD. - FM +* Cancel any file fetch and viewer spawn or launch during traverals. - FM +11-11-95 +* Added finger gateway (finger://host[/request]) based on patches from + Martin Hamilton (martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk). - FM +* Added LYE_TAB for mapping keys to act as LYE_ENTER, but return '\t' so + that the behavior of TAB is emulated in TEXTAREAs, and mapped Do to + LYE_TAB in the default binding. - FM +* Fixed glitch in handling of DEC extended characters which contain two + digits (affected Do and Find). - FM +* Better documented that disabling access to hidden (dot) files also + disables ability to create such files via Lynx. - FM +11-10-95 +* Added handling of mailto as a form ACTION. See http://www.q-d.com/swc.htm + for software to extract and unescape the mailed content. - FM +* Added lynxprog URL handling, which is identical to lynxexec URL handling + except that the user is not prompted to enter RETURN before returning + to Lynx. Use lynxprog for scripts or programs such as mail which do not + need an enforced pause to let the user read the screen output. - FM +* Removed code in HTFile.c for treating ',' as a synonym of '.' for + hidden files (nobody seems to know why that was being done 8-). - FM +* Moved inclusions from LYBookmark to tcp.h. - FM +11-08-95 +* Extend optional hidden (dot) file/directory support to Unix, and embellished + it on VMS and Unix with regulation via a command line switch and 'o'ptions + menu setting. See userdefs.h and lynx.cfg for more information. - GL & FM +* Added support on Unix for straight tar files and a compile time option that + disables the ability to extract files from an archive file (since there is + no control over the files extracted). - GL +11-07-95 +* More tweaks of 8-bit character handling. - FM +* Added "Macintosh (8 bit)" character set. - Neil K. Guy + (nkg@freenet.vancouver.bc.ca) +* Added "Example Lynx Optimized User Home Page" to the online 'h'elp. - FM +11-05-95 +* Fixed Cc: header handling for email on Unix. - FM +11-04-95 +* Reference the current character set for any raw 8-bit characters in + text/plain streams (but don't translate named or decimal escaped + entities, since that's specific for text/html). - FM +* Block any illegal control or escape characters in text/plain streams, + to avoid problems if a binary ftp or local file was mistyped and sent + to the screen as that Content-type. - FM +* Eliminated mod in SGML.c which emulated Netscape's bug of treating '>' + as both a close-double-quote and close-tag (Netscape v2.0 fixed its + bug, so hopefully the bad HTML with it will go away. 8-). - FM +11-02-95 +* Assume an ISO-8859-1 character set for all local files. If it's + actually ISO-8859-2 and the terminal is using that, set the Lynx + CharSet option to "ISO Latin 1" so that 8-bit characters will be + sent raw to the terminal. - FM +* Added Martin Ramsch's iso8859-1.html to the test subdirectory. + Use it to complete the conversion tables in LYCharSets.c. - FM +* Don't block insertion of a lead space for INPUTs in PRE blocks, so + alignments will be compatible with those of graphic clients. - FM +* Don't block all access to the 'p'rint menu for the print restriction + (should still offer printer options which have the TRUE flag set; + all access is still blocked for -validate). - FM +* Replaced the STDfoo_FILENO symbols in LYCgi.c with the more portable + fileno(stdfoo). - WM +* Added NCURSESINCDIR compilation symbol for setting the path to the + NCURSES header file in LYCurses.h to that of the latest version. - GL +* Tweaks of interrupt handling on VMS. +10-31-95 +* Added more suffix maps in HTInit.c. - FM +* Mods in LYCgi.c which hopefully makes the code more portable across + Unix flavors. - FM +10-28-95 +* Tweaks of global flag initializations and resets in HTML.c. - FM +* Added RESOLVLIB symbol in the top Makefile for including -lresolv + in the LIBS= list, if needed, for SUN 3 or 4 OS, and comments about + that in the Makefile, and INSTALLATION and PROBLEMS files based on an + explanation from Will Mengarini (seldon@eskimo.com). - FM +10-27-95 +* Mods of top level Makefile: Added NOPORT compilation symbol for forcing + use of PASV in ftp URLs. Added NO_S_IFSOCK compilation symbol for Unix + flavors which lack an S_IFSOCK definition for lstat(). - FM +* Reload the current document whenever the character set is changed. - FM +* Don't reference entities for raw (or decimal escaped) 8-bit characters + if the document is not text/html, or for any local files if the charset + is Latin. - FM +* Made Ctrl-H a synonym for DELETE instead of Left-Arrow in the line + editor. - FM +10-25-95 +* Handle all characters in strings for the new line editor as unsigned + so they don't go negative if 8-bit. - DW +* Restored proper handling of the MAXLENGTH attribute in INPUTs for + strings entered with the new line editor. - FM +10-24-95 +* Deal with all non-printing characters when setting up the SELECT + pop-up window strings. - FM +* Handle raw 8-bit characters via reference to the ISO-LATIN1 named + entities so they in turn can be referenced to the currently selected + character set. - FM +* Yet more tweaks of non-breaking space handling. - FM +10-22-95 +* Improved treatment of the startpage URL with -traversal so that it only + blocks traversals of links on other servers. Any links on the same + http server which shouldn't be traversed may be blocked via explicit + and/or wildcarded entries in REJECT.DAT. Updated CRAWL.announce to + make this more clear. - FM +* Typo fixes in top-level Makefile. - Steve Jeske (jeske@pa.dec.com) +10-21-95 +* Handle decimal escaped entities via reference to the ISO-LATIN1 named + entities so they in turn can be referenced to the currently selected + character set. - FM +10-20-95 +* Tweaks of formatting for LONG_LIST directory lists and README file + inclusions in HTFile.c and HTVMSUtils.c. - FM +* Tweaks of decimal escaped non-breaking space handling in HTML.c. - FM +* Force unescaping of hidden VALUEs for INPUTs as ISO-LATIN1. - FM +* Added ".shtml" and ".htmlx" as text/html extensions in HTInit.c. - FM +10-18-95 +* Made parsing of the name and address out of the NNTP From: header more + reliable in HTNews.c. - FM +* Added "LYNX_TEMP_SPACE" environment variable (Unix) or VMS logical, + which if present at run time will be used instead of the the TEMP_SPACE + definition in userdefs.h as the path prefix for temporary files. - FM +10-17-95 +* Added TYPE attritute for OL, and coordinated it with the SEQNUM and + CONTINUE attributes. The default TYPE is "1" (Arabic numbers), and + SEQNUM values for it can range from -29997 to the system's maximum + integer. The Alphabetic TYPEs are "A" (upper case) and "a" (lower + case), and can range from 1 (" A." or " a.") to 18278 ("ZZZ." or + "zzz."). The Roman TYPES are "I" (upper case) and "i" (lower case), + and can range from 1 (" I." or " i.") to 3000 ("MMM." or "mmm."). + SEQNUM values should always be Arabic, and will be converted to + other types (e.g., SEQNUM="27" TYPE="a" will yield "aa." for the + next LI). The CONTINUE attribute will cause the sequence and TYPE + of the preceding OL to be continued for LIs in the current OL. - FM +10-16-95 +* Treat a value of "*" for "no_proxy" as a global override of any + existing proxy variables. - FM +10-15-95 +* Deal with raw or decimal escaped non-breaking space characters in + SGML_character() of SGML.c and LYUnEscapeEntities() of HTML.c. - FM +10-14-95 +* Updated info about lynx-dev in lynx.man and lynx.hlp. - FM +* Don't force LINKS_ARE_NUMBERED in dumps if -nolist was included. - FM +* Output the References list for dumps with OL-style numbering. - FM +* More tweaks of "anti-spoof" handling for telnet URLs. - FM +10-13-95 +* Block direct access to the telnet prompt for telnet URLs entered without + a host field. - FM +* Include the TRUSTED flag in spawns for OpenVMS/AXP v6.1 or greater. - FM +10-12-95 +* Convert any strings in news articles that look like URLs into links. - FM +* Use the Followup header in news articles, if present, for followups. + Otherwise, use the Newsgroups header. - FM +* Ignore any invalid ISO 646 7-bit control characters or ISO 8859 8-bit + control characters in SGML_character() of SGML.c. - FM +10-11-95 +* Typo fix in HTTCP.c for non-MULTINET VMS builds. - Gary Chow (garyc@mrs.com) +10-09-95 +* Assume the root as path in HTParse() of HTParse.c if the access and host + but no path are given, and the access is http, https, or ftp. - FM +10-05-95 +* Make sure the FREE(x) macro gets defined for HTTCP.c. - FM +10-04-95 +* Mods in HTTCP.c to prevent string buffer overruns. - FM +* Prevent possible string buffer underrun for terminal white space trims + in GridText.c. - Renato Buda (renato@peoplebank.co.uk) +10-01-95 +* Updated the listserv and archive addresses in the about and help files. - FM +09-30-95 +* Added support for Windows_NT FTP servers. - FM +* Added ability to send a self copy of mail via a Cc: header on Unix + (sending of self copies is set via the mail software itself on VMS). - FM +* Tweaks of SOCKET_ERRNO handling in HTTCP.C. - FM +* Include unistd.h more consistently on Unix (via tcp.h) if NO_UNISTD_H + is not defined. - FM +* Modified the FreeBSD and NetBSD libwww Makefiles to use the + CommonMakefile. - FM +* Makefile addition (snake3) for the HP-UX purchased compiler. - Andy + Finkenstadt (genie@panix.com) +09-29-95 +* Deal with HTAlert.c function calls to LYgetstr(), e.g., for a password, + when doing a -dump or -source non-interactive fetch. - FM +* Output HTAlert() messages to both stderr and stdout in TRACE mode. - FM +09-28-95 +* Added a description of the line editor's default key bindings to the + help file set. - FM +* Tweaks of the line editor. - FM +* Declare DCLspawn_exception() in LYCurses.c as unsigned int only for + DECC (otherwise as int, for VAXC and GNUC). - FM +09-27-95 +* Added common line editor for forms and prompted queries, with configurable + line editor key bindings. See LYStrings.h and LYEditmap.c for the default + configuration. - DW & FM +* Tweaks of build.com's symbol assignments when in batch mode. - MM +09-22-95 +* Added ISO-8859-2 CharSet, and mods for Accept-Charsets handling based + on patches from Mark Martinec (Mark.Martinec@nsc.ijs.si). - FM +09-19-95 +* Tweaks of OL attribute handling. Allow negative SEQNUM values. Keep + better track of CONTINUE versus non-CONTINUE OL sequences within nests. + Allow CONTINUE in the first OL of a new nest, set to the last LI count + of the previous nest (at any depth in that previous nest). - FM +09-17-95 +* Tweak of LYUnEscapeEntities() in HTML.c. - DW & FM +* Another tweak of groupid handling in LYShowInfo.c. - DW +* More fixes of 7-bit character approximations. - DW +* More help and about file tweaks. - DSL +09-16-95 +* Added the HTML 3.0 DTD structures and definitions for DIV, and implemented + its ALIGN and ID attributes. I think I have it behaving rationally if it + is used together with CENTER, LEFT and/or RIGHT (Though they're all treated + as DIVs by Lynx, and shouldn't be embedded in each other, somebody will do + that anyway!. 8-). - FM +* Added the HTML 3.0 DTD structures and definitions for FN (Footnote). It + should be handled as a popup window, but for now, it's implemented as a + labelled block and has the same style and behavior as a NOTE with an ID + attribute. - FM +* Some compilers can't handle the continuation line in yesterday's + LYCurses.h. Made it one long line. - FM +09-16-95 +* Further enhanced the online help and about files. - FM +* Added -DNO_FILIO_H to Makefile for SCO. - FM +* Worked in stuff from 14-Sep-95 lynx2-4-2 upgrade. - FM: +-------------------------------------------------------- + 09-06-95 + * Added patch to compile Lynx on BSDI with Ncurses package. -RK + 09-06-95 + * Ported Lynx to DG-UX. - RK +-------------------------------------------------------- +09-12-95 +* Further modified HTNews.c so that it returns unmodified news messages + when the display is toggled to source ('\') or when downloading them, + so uuencoded messages always can be saved without corruption, and so + I also changed the SCAN_FOR_BURIED_NEWS_REFS compilation default to + TRUE. - FM +* Simplified a compound if() in HTParse.c which may have been giving the + AIX v4.1 compiler a headache. - FM +09-11-95 +* Eliminated distinct style sheets for CAPTION and CREDIT so their content + will inherit the current style, and added HTML_EnsureDoubleSpace() and + HTML_ResetParagraphAlignment() in HTML.c for coping with the absence of + distinct style sheets for those elements, and for FIG. +09-10-95 +* Added SCAN_FOR_BURIED_NEWS_REFS configuration symbol in lynx.cfg, with + a compilation default of FALSE, and a -buried_news switch for toggling + the default. When TRUE, Lynx scans the bodies of news articles for + references and converts them to news links, but creates false news + links if any email addresses are enclosed in angle brackets, and can + trash uuencoded messages. - FM +* Eliminated distinct style sheet for FIG so its content will inherit the + current style and display appropriately within lists. Should be OK if + people use valid HTML 3.0 in it's content for non-graphic clients. - FM +* Added links for the W3C HTML 2.0 and 3.0 specifications and for the + HAL HTML validation service to the Lynx help file set. +* Made the BOLD_NAME_ANCHORS compilation symbols FALSE by default. Most + documents now include emphasis tags for NAME (ID) anchors if it's desired, + because the most common graphic clients don't emphasize them by default, + so we should adjust to that in Lynx as well (IMHO 8-). Added emphasis + tags for the NAME anchors in the Lynx help files. - FM +* Eliminated forced uppercasing of H1 headers. Most documents have mixed + casing and we should preserve it (IMHO 8-). Added a BOLD_H1 configuration + symbol, set FALSE by default, for making H1 headers bold even if BOLD_HEADERS + is FALSE. Modify the two configuration symbols in lynx.cfg for the pattern + or header emphasis which pleases you. - FM +* Tweak of list paragraphing. Added HText_PeviousLineSize() in GridText.c + for determining if the previous line had only non-printing characters. - FM +09-09-95 +* Impelemented true paragraphing and the P ALIGN attribute within lists (UL, + OL and DL blocks) and within ADDRESS blocks. Paragraphs within lists have + one blank line inserted. Within ADDRESS blocks, a newline will be created + if needed, but no blank lines are inserted. Use BR, not P, to force extra + newlines within blocks. Do not place a P immediately following the LI or + DD tags. Alignments of P blocks are done with respect to the "second line" + margins of LI or DD elements. - FM +09-08-95 +* Convert '~' to getenv("HOME") in file URLs whether or not DIRED_SUPPORT + is defined. - FM +* Tweak of TR and more tweaks of HR handling. Added HText_LastLineSize() + and HText_TrueLineSize() functions in GridText.c for determining if + lines have only non-printing characters in decisions on whether to + insert additional newlines. - FM +09-07-95 +* Act on Page-Up, Page-Down, Home, End, Find and Select in the form_getstr() + editor (hoping they have their default mappings 8-). Also act on Remove + and Control-D as delete keys in that line editor (as in the LYgetstr() + line editor). - FM +* Tweak of HR handling. - FM +* Mods to prevent creating multiple copies of temporary printer files. - FM +* More fixes for NeXT. Temporary files for VIEWER, DOWNLOADER or PRINTER + commands on NeXT all have the ".html" default suffix replaced with ones + indicative of the Content-type. - FM +09-06-95 +* Mods to prevent creating multiple copies of temporary viewer or downloader + files. - FM +* Fixes for NeXT. - FM +09-05-95 +* Enabled the -help switch when no configuration file is available and + Lynx would otherwise exit (i.e., it now outputs the help message before + it exits). - FM +* Documented the -child switch. - FM +* Fixed and documented the -nolog switch. - FM +* Changed the -linknums switch to -number_links, fixed the code to work, + and documented the switch. - FM +* Made handling of escaped colons (\:) in VIEWER commands reliable. - FM +09-04-95 +* Implemented the PLAIN attribute for UL, and the SEQNUM and CONTINUE + attributes for OL. - FM +* Updated the DTD structures and definitions for DD, DL, DT, LI, OL and UL + to HTML 3.0, added LH, and implemented full HTML 3.0 ID handling for those, + and B, BLINK, BR, CENTER, CITE, CODE, DFN, DIR, EM, FORM, KBD, I, LEFT, + LISTING, MENU, PLAINTEXT, PRE, RIGHT, SAMP, STRONG, TT, U, VAR and XMP + (some of which are obsoleted in HTML 3.0, but what the heck 8-). - FM +09-03-95 +* Made bolding of NAME (ID) anchor contents configurable in lynx.cfg. - FM +09-02-95 +* Tweaks of FIG and OVERLAY handling: Only put up [FIGURE] (and +[OVERLAY]) + links if clickable_images is set. Assume P ALIGN="left" if contained + text does not begin with an explicit tag that sets an alignment. - FM +* Implemented full HTML 3.0 ID handling for IMG. - FM +* Tweaks for FreeBSD. - Masafumi NAKANE (t94303mn@sfc.keio.ac.jp) +08-31-95 +* Added support for using a TITLE attribute as the subject in anchors with a + mailto HREF (A HREF="mailto:address" TITLE="RE: subject"). - FM +08-30-95 +* Implemented full HTML 3.0 ID handling for A, ADDRESS, BLOCKQUOTE, BQ, + CAPTION, CREDIT, FIG, H1 - H6, HR, INPUT, NOTE, OPTION, P, SELECT, TABLE, + TD, TEXTAREA, TH and TR. - FM +* Updated the DTD structures and definitions for ADDRESS to HTML 3.0. - FM +* Block insertion of any escape sequence characters or substitutes when + editing form INPUTs or TEXTAREAs. - FM +08-29-95 +* Tweak of ALIGN attribute handling in paragraphs. - FM +* Protect against hanging on escape sequences if received (illegally) in + documents typed as text/plain or text/html. - FM +08-28-95 +* Declared DCLspawn_exception() as an unsigned int to keep DECC happy. - FM +08-27-95 +* Give LYUpload() a return value (because LYLocal.c has been testing for + one all these years 8-). - FM +* Force reload on return from 'o'ptions menu if HTfileSortMethod or + keypad_mode are changed. - FM +* Force no cache of keymap display whenever vi_keys or emacs_keys are + changed. - FM +* Added Remove and Control-D as Delete synonyms for removing characters to + the left of the cursor in the LYgetstr() line editor, and Control-F as + Right-arrow synonym for moving the cursor to the right. - FM +08-24-95 +* Modified prompted string editing via LYgetstr() along lines in patch + from PM (editing of form INPUT and TEXTAREA strings is unchanged). + Here's how the prompted string editing works: Left-arrow and Backspace + (Control-H) move the cursor to the left, and Right-arrow to the right, + within the string. Characters are INSERTed at the cursor position. + Delete removes characters to the left of the cursor. Home, Find and + Control-A move the cursor to the beginning of the string. End, Select + and Control-E move the cursor to the end. Control-U erases the string. + Control-G cancels at any time. Return accepts if a string is present, + or cancels if it was fully erased or never entered. A right-curley + brace appears in the right-most column when the string has segment(s) + scrolled off screen, and if left scrolled, the cursor sits on it for + further editing with the above command keys (or acceptance via Return). + Long strings scroll both left and right between the prompt string and + right-curley brace. Had to modify 17 files to make this line editor + crash safe (I hope people like it! 8-). - FM +08-22-95 +* Use a macro in parse_arg() of LYMain.c to ensure proper handling of + switches which take a value and might have a space instead of an '=' + between the name and value. - DW +* Insulate any system RTL's getline() from the one in HTInit.c. - DW +* Enabled editing of titles when adding bookmarks. - FM +08-21-95 +* Fixed the IBM PC character set in LYCharSets.c (Note: The PC-set has the + currency symbol but it is a control character - ^O - so there is a chance + that curses or the user's terminal may discard it. Did not fix the + Icelandic characters). - DW +* Check whether getpwuid() and getgrid() have returned NULL pointers in + LYShowInfo.c. - DW +* Break up the too elaborate, compound assignment statements in LYList.c + so no compilers get tripped up by evaluation order effects. - DW +* Worked in mods from DW to cope with CR, CRLF or LF all as EOL in HTML.c + and GridText.c (not sure if they take into account all of the consequences + of Lou's "big cheat" in GridText.c, but they appear to, so far). - FM +* Explicitly preserve the Lynx bookmark file mode on Unix. - DSL +08-20-95 +* More documentation and help updates. - FM +08-19-95 +* Updated INSTALLATION and comments in userdefs.h and lynx.cfg. - FM +* If save to disk was done via the download menu, and a VMS rename() attempt + succeeded so we don't spawn a COPY, we no longer can access the file via + the download menu, so pop in that situation. - FM +* Worked in stuff from 16-Aug-95 lynx2-4-2 upgrade. Most had already been + added to lynx2-4-FM. This is the new stuff. - FM: +--------------------------------------------------- + 08-16-95 + * Applied patch from Peter van Heusden (pch@ucthpx.uct.ac.za) to fix + a bug when lynx encounters an OPTION tag before the style is + ever updated. - CL + 08-09-95 + * Added some tweaks to Makefile and LYCurses.h to get lynx to properly + compile on ISC. Thanks to Robert Salter (salter1@master.nsbf.nasa.gov). +--------------------------------------------------- +08-18-95 +* Added a -validate switch for turning off everything except http URLs, + helpfiles, and secure menus in Lynx. Can be used with -dump in CGI + scripts, but is intended for use with anonymous telnet logins. In the + latter case, the user can start with his/her server's or userdir homepage, + and validate everything, while able to manipulate the display features + (e.g., whether or not links are numbered) and turn on trace (Control-T, + then Control-R to reload) when a "Bad HTML" document is encountered. The + telnet approach is particularly useful when used with the 'l'ist feature. + When used with -dump, compare it with versus without -nolist. - FM +* Added a missing curley brace in EF's (08-16-95) patches. - FM +08-17-95 +* Added HISTORICAL_COMMENTS symbol which if set TRUE in lynx.cfg will cause + Lynx to revert to the "historical" behavior of treating any '>' as a + comment terminator instead of (a valid) '-->', and a -historical switch + for toggling the default behavior. - FM +* Added a -nolist switch for turning off the link list feature in dumps. - FM +* Modified SGML.c so that it still substitutes the expected end tag if a + different one is encountered (e.g, due to a document having interdigitated + instead of validly embedded tags), but doesn't do a wind down of the + element stack. This gives it a better chance of recovering from bad + HTML, and the sanity checks I've added thus far in HTML.c appear to still + be adequate for avoiding crashes (we'll see 8-). - FM +08-16-95 +* Mods to support within-document anchors in documents returned via + lynxcgi scripts. - FM +* Worked in EF's patches to handle changes of keymaps under DIRED_SUPPORT + with OK_OVERRIDE, and to give the user some feedback during an Install + command. - FM +08-15-95 +* Don't include a Referer header for 'g'oto URLs. - FM +* Added patches from PR for compilations with VMS port of GNUC: Modified + several prototypes to avoid GNUC warnings about conflicts with ones in + lib$routines.h, and added code in HTVMS_WaisUI.c to deal with an obscure + glitch for GNUC v2.6.[123] and v2.7.0 (not present in v2.6.0 or earlier, + and fixed in v2.7.1). - FM +* Worked in code from PR as LYVMS_FixedLengthRecords() in HTFWriter.c to + change attributes of binary files on VMS from Stream_LF to FIXED 512, + no implied carriage control, best try contiguous. Replaces the spawn + to execute FIXED512.COM. - FM +08-14-95 +* Modified TEXTAREA handling to succeed or fail on bad HTML equivalently + to Netscape. - FM +08-12-95 +* Mods to avoid crashes and to do something reasonable with OPTION strings + that are wider than the available popup window width. Truncation is + indicated by omission of a terminating ']' in the window link, and the + window, when popped up, is made equal to the screen width (but we can't + wrap the strings within the window, so they're truncated if they still + don't fit). - FM +* Mods to handle INPUT fields that are packaged in PRE and would extend past + the wrap column. No way to make that perfect without a major redesign, + but it's better now. - FM +08-10-95 +* Handle 'g'oto entries equivalently to STARTFILE and HOMEPAGE, i.e., if + the user's entry isn't a URL, convert it to a file URL if it's a file + or directory on the local system, otherwise convert it to an http URL. + For example, "~/" will be converted to a file URL for listing the HOME + directory (on both Unix and VMS), and "www.netscape.com" will become + "http://www.netscape.com". - FM +* Fix LYCurses.h to deal with definitions of TRUE and FALSE in cursesX.h + on ultrix. - Brian Exelbierd (bex@ncsu.edu) +* Made SYSTEM_MAIL, and MAIL_ADRS on VMS, configurable in lynx.cfg. - FM +08-08-95 +* Fixed two initialization problems that could account for reports of + inappropriate HEAD requests in pops of cached documents. - FM +* More tweaks for coping with bad HTML. - FM +* Fixed bug in code for bypassing bad SUFFIX: or VIEWER: entries. - FM +08-06-95 +* Added code in GridText.c to deal with syntactically OK but symantically + nonsensical uses of ALT="" in IMG tags (i.e., when the IMG is structured + to provide the anchor for a link, and so the anchor ends up with nothing + but nonprinting characters for bolding), and removed the forcing of an + "[ISMAP]" pseudo-ALT in HTML.c. The show_anchor element in TextAnchor + structures is now set to NO whenever an anchor does not have any + printing characters. - FM +* Modified HTML.c to issue only one "Bad HTML" statusline message per + document (unless it's one of those unbelievably bad CGI script outputs + that are functionally multiple, concatenated documents 8-), and similarly + for "Table in Form" and "Form in Table" informational messages. - FM +* Don't bother prompting whether to send a HEAD request for the current + document if there are no links on the page (but still prompt if the user + makes a HEAD request when positioned on an inappropriate form link). - FM +08-05-95 +* Added code in SGML.c for storing Identfiers (e.g., !DOCTYPE) and Comments + (i.e., tags beginning with !--) and for reporting them in trace mode. + Serves as a model for actually using them someday (i.e, functions for + analyzing them could be called where we presently just invoke a trace + output to stderr). - FM +08-03-95 +* Modified SGML.c to handle comments as in the current specs, and put + Paul Gilmartin's (pg@sweng.stortek.com) TestComment.html in the + test subdirectory. - FM +* Added binary extensions in HTInit.c that were giving people problems + on FTP servers. - FM +08-02-95 +* Added explicit check for CMU in telnet support with SOCKETSHR-built + images. - SB +* Added -link switch for setting the count in lnk#.dat files with -crawl + (needed if you interrupt a traversal and want to pick up again where + you left off). - DM +* More tweaks of -traversal code and Makefile. All known bugs appear to + have been dealt with at this point. Updated lynx.man, lynx.hlp and + help files to include the -traversal and -crawl switches. - FM +08-01-95 +* Changed the SEQUENT compilation sympbol to PTX2 and added a ptx2 procedure + to the Makefile for Sequent Symmetry DYNIX/ptx v2, because more current + versions reportedly have solved the problems which the conditional + compilation attempted to address. - FM +* Force in the "[ISMAP]" pseudo-ALT if someone uses ALT="" for an IMG tag + that has ISMAP specified. - FM +* Tweaks of the -traversal code (still experimental). - DM & FM +07-31-95 +* Worked in code from David Mathog (mathog@seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu) for + implementing the TRAVERSAL function from old versions of Lynx, but via + a command line switch (-traversal) instead of in a separately compiled + executable, and for a CRAWL function, invoked via a command line switch + (-crawl), which allows Lynx to be used as the front end for a Web Crawler. + See CRAWL.announce for more information. - FM +* More tweaks of LYCurses.c and LYCgi.c for GNUC on VMS. - SB +* More tweaks of src/Makefile. - DSL +07-30-95 +* Tweaks of yesterday's Makefile and descrip.mms files. - FM +07-29-95 +* Tweak in HTFTP.c to ensure that Lynx doesn't sit around waiting for an + FTP server's good-bye message if the server closes the connection itself + and doesn't send one. - FM +* Added GNUC support to the VMS descrip.mms files. - FM +* Tweaks of HTWAIS.c socket handling on VMS (I can't reproduce a reported + problem with SOCKETSHR/NetLIB, but these tweaks might help). - FM +* Added my guesses at code for HTTelnet.c to implement telnet, tn3270 and + rlogin support, if available, when building with SOCKETSHR/NetLIB on + VMS. - FM +07-28-95 +* Mods for Sequent Symmetry DYNIX/ptx - Mark Kolmar (mkolmar@ccs.nslsilus.org) +* Added GL's lynxcgi patches posted to lynx-dev, plus some tweaks. - FM +* Worked in GL's lynxcgi mods as in Lynx2-4-2: + -------------------------------------------- + Added George Lindholm's LYNXCGI feature. This allows lynx to bypass + http daemons to run local CGI scripts using a URL of the form + "lynxcgi:/path/cgi-script". To implement in Lynx, LYNXCGI_LINKS + must be uncommented in userdefs.h and TRUSTED_LYNXCGI must be fixed + in lynx.cfg. It doesn't handle redirection or mime-types and + scripts should probably generate partial URLs when referring back to + itself. If the file you're going after isn't an executable then it + will be loaded as regular file. This makes it possible to go back + and forth between cgi-scripts and .html files. + I changed the way TRUSTED_LYNXCGIs are recorded because they don't + work quite the same as TRUSTED_EXECs do. Also, George says it works + fine on SunOS and Solaris, and it seems to work fine on Linux. - CL + -------------------------------------------- +* Don't block access to the download menu when both no_download and + no_disk_save are set if any of the download commands have always_enabled + set (ie. present a reduced menu, with those still available). - FM +* More tweaks of help and html files. - DSL +07-26-95 +* Added support for GNUC in the VMS .com files. Should now compile and link + automatically for GNUC via build.com, but that needs testing. - FM +* Reorganized VMS option files into ones for the transport and ones for the + compiler, with corresponding updates of the .com and .mms files. - FM +* Tweaks of mods for GNUC on VMS, based on further discussions with + SB. - FM +* Tweaks of -help output. - Daniel S. Lewart (d-lewart@uiuc.edu) +07-25-95 +* Ugh!! Blew it for Unix when setting up the GLOBALDEF/GLOBALREF definitions + in tcp.h for VAXC vs. DECC vs. GNUC on VMS this morning (I'm a night + person 8-). - FM +* Worked in code for compiling with the VMS port of GNUC, based on patches + from Sterling Bjorndahl (bjorndahl@augustana.ab.ca) and advice from + Pat Rankin (rankin@eql.caltech.edu). Needs testing, and the linking + procedure still needs to be addressed explicitly. - FM +* Prevent possibility of a null pointer dereference if an ISMAP anchor + fetch fails. - David Trueman (david@cs.dal.ca) +07-21-95 +* Added LYK_HEAD (mapped by default to ']') to send HEAD requests for the + current document or link (always sent with LYforce_no_cache). - FM +* More lynx.man, lynx.hlp, help file and documentation updates. - FM +07-19-95 +* Put back "-mime_headers" with mods like those in lynx2-4-2, i.e., so that + a source dump is forced. Both "-mine_headers" and "-head" show the status + line as well as the MIME headers. - FM +* Modified "-error_file" to show the complete status line, as well as the + URL and METHOD, and to concatenate entries instead of creating separate + files for each request. - FM +* Updated the lynx.man, lynx.hlp and lynx_help files. - FM +07-18-95 +* Changed "-mime_headers" to "-head" and implemented it as a HEAD request + for fetching the MIME headers as text/plain. - FM +07-17-95 +* Removed 00DIFFERENT from this distribution. - FM +* Made use of _underline_ format in dumps optional via SUBSTITUTE_UNDERSCORES + definitions in userdefs.h and/or lynx.cfg, and added a "-underscore" + command line switch for toggling the default on or off. - FM +* Use system("exec $SHELL") for spawning the default shell on Unix. - Paul + Gilmartin (pg@sweng.stortek.com) +* Fixed typo in check for news vs. nntp URLs in HTNews.c. - Wilson Cheung + (wcheung@netcom.com) +* Added code to the VMS setup() for dealing with curses conflicts if someone + used -post_data or -get_data without specifying -dump under conditions + which require it, so it's not forced in LYMain.c as on Unix. If fact, + -get_data and -post_data are very useful in interactive invocations. - FM +* Fixed memory leak in the -post_data and -get_data handling. - FM +* Added LYNX_HOST_NAME in userdefs.h and lynx.cfg for defining an alias + which will be treated equivalently to "localhost" and HTHostName (the + fully qualified domain name of the system running Lynx) in checks for + URLs on the local host (e.g., when the -localhost switch is set). - FM +* Added in or improved descriptions for the new switches in the Lynx + command line help and Lynx_users_guide.html. - FM +07-16-95 +* Tweaks of yesterday's startfile and -homepage mods, and added treatment + of '~' as SYS$LOGIN when used as the lead character on VMS (e.g., on + VMS as on Unix, lynx ~/ will create a listing of the login directory + for the account running lynx). - FM +* Worked in stuff from 13-Jul-95 lynx2-4-1 upgrade. Most had already been + added to lynx2-4-FM. This is the new stuff. - FM: +--------------------------------------------------- + 07-13-95 +* Added some command line patches from Peter Brooks - CL: + (pbrooks@micromind.com). The new command lines are: + -post_data, -get_data = send form data from stdin and dumps results. + -auth=ID:PASSWD = sets authorization stuff at startup. + -mime_header = prints mime header with -source. + -noredir = prevents automatic redirection + -error_file=file = prints HTTP status code to file. (Not sure of + his motivation on this one, something to do with SlipKnot, + I think.) + (Replaced Peter's strdup()'s with more portable code. - FM) + 07-11-95 +* Added Erik Olson's (olson@phys.washngton.edu) patch to use the + _underline_ format when using the -dump option. - CL + (Kept the old code, #ifdef'ed out, to make this optional someday. - FM) + 07-07-95 +* Fixed a bug in local_dired. Specifically, a pointer to a fixed array + was being fed into StrAllocCopy as the destination. Linux was choking + on this although OSF/1 and AIX seemed to handle it better. - CL +--------------------------------------------------- +07-15-95 +* If a command line "startfile" and/or -homepage is not a URL, and can't + be located as a file or directory on the local system, treat it as an + http URL, e.g., www.wfeb.edu will be treated as http://www.wfeb.edu - FM +07-13-95 +* Added nntp URL handling (nntp://news_host[:port]/path). Made it read + access only (use news URLs for both read and post access). - FM +07-12-95 +* Added code for proxying https and snews URLs. The Netsite proxy server + can proxy them without need for SSL code in the clients themselves, i.e., + for Lynx as publicly distributed (need client-resident SSL code and + tunneling for the CERN proxy server, sorry). - FM +* Added the CONNECT protocol to our local code, so that SSL URLs can be + tunneled through proxy servers, and reorganized some code so that patches + for the SSL hooks can be applied easily if NSA regulations are relaxed. - FM +07-11-95 +* More tweaks of alignment code. - FM +* Fixed bad code for removing trailing white space in GridText.c, LYrcFile.c, + LYReadCFG.c and LYUtils.c. - FM +* Added snews and nttp protocols, which simply inform the user that they + aren't implemented. - FM +* The claim is that even mere hooks to the RSA and SSL libraries are + objectionable to the NSA, so I removed then from the public distribution, + but left in the https protocol, which simply informs the user that it + isn't implemented. - FM +07-08-95 +* Worked in Lou Montulli's (montulli@netscape.com) code for https URL + handling into the Common Library. To actually use it, you have to + get the RSA and SSL libraries, which are restricted to US citizens + (it works if you are and do 8-). I can't include those in this + distribution, because by US law that would in turn restrict it to + US citizens. - FM +* Tweaks of paragraph alignment code. - FM +07-07-95 +* If we are not allowed to change the status of the "lynxexec + execution of links" from the option screen then we shouldn't be + allowed to change it from the .lynxrc file either. - GL +* Added George Lindholm's patch to add uudecode support to Lynx's file + manager. Unfortunately, uudecode puts the uudecoded file in the + current working directory, namely the directory where lynx is started. + I haven't thought of a workaround yet, so I made lynx print a + statusline message informing the user. - CL +07-06-95 +* Modified redirection-handling code in HTTP.c to ensure that we get all of + the headers before trying to track down the Location: header. - FM +* For move's or rename's in the local DIRED code, don't write the new file + name into the same buffer as the old. - Earl Fogel (fogel@duke.usask.ca) +07-05-95 +* Added GL's mods to use a stream-based procedure for displaying the + current Lynx keymap. Faster and more efficient than the temporary + file-based procedure. - FM +07-04-95 (Enjoy the fireworks!!! 8-) +* More mods of SGML/HTML parsing to help recover from bad HTML. - FM +* Fixed some cryptic initialization problems in the Common Library's + centering and right alignment code, that we're now using, by changing + the malloc's in HTChunk.c to calloc's. - FM +* Secured some unsafe code in the LYstrncpy() function. - FM +* Increased the connect() and select() while()-looping limit in HTTCP.c + to 30,000 tries. - FM +* Tweak of HR WIDTH attribute handling. - FM +07-03-95 +* Updated the DTD structures and definitions for HR to HTML 3.0, plus + its Netscape WIDTH and SIZE attributes, and implemented WIDTH, e.g., + HR WIDTH="50%" yields a centered horizontal rule half the width + between the current left and right margins. - FM +* Fixed problem of header end tags not yielding line breaks when embedded + in CENTER, LEFT or RIGHT tags. - FM +07-02-95 +* Added MAKE_PSEUDO_ALTS_FOR_INLINES in userdefs.h and lynx.cfg which can + be defined FALSE to treat inlines without an ALT string as having ALT="" + instead of inserting the pseudo-ALT string "[INLINE]" into the document. + The configuration file default can be toggled via a -pseudo_inlines + command line switch, and the user can toggle the inclusion of pseudo-ALT + strings on or off at run time via LYK_INLINE_TOGGLE (mapped by default + to '['). - FM +* Made the -image_links command line switch a toggle for the configuration + file default setting. - FM +* Enabled processing of forms that use TABLE for formatting. I don't see any + risk of crashes, and they might end up usable. Messages warn the user that + the display of the form may be strange. - FM +* Relaxed anti-crash protections for forms with bad HTML (usually due + to interdigitated instead of embedded tags, written by providers with + Netscape or Mosaic clients, which are insensitive to such fundamentally + bad HTML). I got the code to still work with several bad forms on the + Net, and if a crash should occur, the user has been tipped off via the + statusline or trace message about the nature of the problem. - FM +07-01-95 +* Restored the meaning of the P element to be the beginning of a paragraph, + updated its structures and definitions in the DTD to HTML 3.0, and + implemented its ALIGN attribute (left, center, right). Note that it + no longer forces double spacing (you'll get the spacing defined in + the stylesheet for the current element, which may or may not be + double) and empty paragraphs (serial Ps) will not yield additional + newlines (use serial BRs for that). - FM +* If both download options and disk saves are restricted, don't fetch + binary files with a download offer when their links are activated + (just issue a statusline message that the file can't be displayed), + and issue a "disabled" statusline message for any overt 'd'ownload + attempts. - FM +* For disk saves in LYDownload.c, on VMS attempt a rename() first, and then + a spawned DCL copy if that fails. - FM +* Added memory exhaustion checks for all mallocs, reallocs and callocs in + the LYfoo modules. - FM +* Added CL's realloc() substitute for AIX and ultrix in GridText.c. - FM +* Map extensions .html3 and .ht3 to text/html in HTInit.c. - FM +06-29-95 +* Added code to enable creation of links for all images. Can be made the + default by setting MAKE_LINKS_FOR_ALL_IMAGES to TRUE in userdefs.h and/or + lynx.cfg (not advised). Can be implemented for the session via a command + line switch, -image_links, e.g., use lynx -dump -image_links to get links + for all images, as well as standard links, listed in the output. Can be + toggled on and off at run time via LYK_IMAGE_TOGGLE (mapped by default to + '*'). Use that in conjunction with the LYK_LIST command to get a list of + links that includes all images, e.g., for adding them as bookmarks. The + toggle also invokes a reload, so that the change will be implemented for + the current and any future documents, but if you return to cached + documents, those will need to be reloaded explicitly. See comments in + userdefs.h and lynx.cfg for more information. - FM +* Don't restrict use of Control-T for toggling trace mode to advanced + usermode (i.e., make it available in all usermodes, so people might + follow the instructions in "BAD HTML" statusline messages to check + the document in trace mode). - FM +* Modified LYList.c to indicate the anchor NAME/ID, if present, following + the TITLE, if known, in interactive 'l'ists. +* Modified SGML.c to treat '>' as both a close-double-quote and close-tag. + Now Lynx acts like Netscape, in that respect, so all that bad HTML + Netscape users are generating will not bother Lynx. - FM +06-28-95 +* Oops, missed an initialization in this morning's centering and right + alignment mods. - FM +* Fixed up HTML.c to bypass HTML 3.0 attribute checks for start tags generated + by the Common Library's non-http access types (gopher, ftp, news, wais) + Could crash, otherwise. - FM +* Fixed up GridText.c code to take non-printing control characters properly + into account when formatting centered or right-aligned text. - FM +* Mods to improve appropriate carryover or cancelling of alignment attributes + across successive elements. - FM +* Implemented Netscape LEFT and RIGHT extensions, homologously to CENTER. - FM +* Implemented Netscape BLINK extension as HT_UNDERLINE. - FM +06-26-95 +* Updated the DTD structures and definitions for H1 - H6 to HTML 3.0 and + implemented their ALIGN attribute (left, right and center). - FM +* Implemented the Netscape CENTER extension. - FM +06-25-95 +* Updated the DTD structures and definitions for FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, + SELECT and OPTION to HTML 3.0. - FM +* Implemented the HTML 3.0 DISABLED attribute for FORM elements. - FM +* INPUT type "scribble" implemented as "text" according to the HTML 3.0 + recommendation for non-GUI clients. - FM +* Added protections against problems with INPUT types "range" and "file" + until they're implemented (will be tricky, but do-able 8-). - FM +06-23-95 +* Added all ISO8859-1 entities to the DTD. - FM +06-22-95 +* Updated the DTD structures and definitions for A and IMG to HTML 3.0, and + implemented their ID attribute. - FM +* Tweaks of FIG handling. - FM +* It is somehow inappropriate to teach our users to write correct HTML and + to tell them to always check it before publishing, when Lynx's on-line + help gives such a bad example :-} (not to mention versions from a couple + of months back). Better now. - Mark Martinec (Mark.Martinec@nsc.ijs.si) +06-20-95 +* Made the DTD structures and definitions for the HTML 3.0 elements + BQ, CAPTION, CREDIT, FIG, NOTE and OVERLAY complete, and added + those for STYLE, TABLE, TD, TH and TR. +* Tweaks of yesterday's HTML 3.0 additions (still just "first pass"). - FM +* Added code for avoiding potential problems with stylesheets and tables + in HTML 3.0 documents. - FM +06-19-95 +* Added "first pass" handling of HTML 3.0 elements BQ, CAPTION, CREDIT, + FIG, NOTE and OVERLAY. - FM +06-17-95 +* Close the configuration file on completion of the big while() in + LYReadCFG.c. - PM +* Added 00DIFFERENT to keep track of files in this code set which + presently differ from those in the latest development code set + at UKans (currently, lynx2-4-1.zip of 15-Jun-95). - FM +* Tweak of the pseudo-toolbar code. The 'l'ist command now displays the + TITLE (or RelValue, if TITLE is defaulted) of those links if they have + never been accessed, or their actual HTML titles if accessed, at the + top of the links list, so you can use that command instead of LYK_HOME + to reach the toolbar links at any time, and then left-arrow to where + you were in the current document instead of having to page back down + to that location. - FM +06-16-95 +* Added LINK REL="RelValue" HREF="foo" TITLE="TitleValue" HTML 3.0 + handling (as in http://www.hpl.hp.co.uk/people/dsr/html3/dochead.html + of 28-Mar-95). The HREF and REL values are required (the LINK will be + ignored if either is missing or has a zero-length value). TITLE is + optional, i.e., the RelValue will be used as the link name if TITLE + is omitted. Currently registered toolbar RelValues are: Home, ToC, + Index, Glossary, Copyright, Up, Next, Previous, Help, and Bookmark. + The Bookmark links are intended to have TITLEs (e.g., "Order Form"). + The others have RelValues that yield self-evident link names. The LINKs + should be placed in the HEAD section, so they'll be displayed in a manner + simulating a toolbar (but not a real one, since we don't have Windows and + mouse support; use your LYK_HOME command to access it at any time 8-). + The BODY should have a line-breaking element (e.g, H1) to set them off. + For now, the Banner RelValue is treated like another toolbar element. + The StyleSheet RelValue is ignored, since we don't yet have loadable + stylesheet handling. - FM +* Fixed up the 06-13-95 NO_ANONYMOUS_EMAIL patch to be appropriate for + VMS - FM. +06-14-95 +* Added LYK_LIST command ('l' or 'L'; must be uppercase if VI keys are on) + for creating an ACTIVATEable list of references (links) in the current + document. If LINKS_ARE_NUMBERED is on, it's a UL, otherwise it's an + OL. Visited links have the TITLE displayed, otherwise the HREF is + displayed. - FM +* Added code to append a list of references (links), if present in the + document, when -dump is used. Dumps are done with LINKS_ARE_NUMBERED + turned on. The reference list is numbered, and always shows the HREFs, + so that they can be referenced to the links in the document. - FM +* Updated help files. - FM +--- lynx2-4-1 on ftp2.cc.ukans.edu (added to lynx2-4-FM on 06-16-95) +06-13-95 +* Added George Lindholm's patch to add -r (recurse) to the zip call in DIRED. + - JP +06-12-95 +* Added George Lindholm's new file permission patch. Here's his description: + "Here is a rewamped version of my earlier file permission patch. This version + uses a html page to prompt for user input (rather than having the user + enter a obscure unix chmod string) using checkboxes." - JP +* Added George Lindholm's addition of a compiler flag (NO_ANONYMOUS_EMAIL). + If NO_ANONYMOUS_EMAIL is set the user will not be able to add their own + from header. This will only work if the mail package being used will + add this information. - JP +--- lynx2-4-1 on ftp2.cc.ukans.edu +06-09-95 +* Replaced info.cern.ch with www.w3.org in html and make files. Designated + this code as 2.4-FM, for local use. - FM +--- STARTING 2.4-FM --- +--- Rename of Lynx2-3-FM and release as Lynx2-4 (08-June-1995) --- + (see CHANGES2-4 and CHANGES2-3) |