Inets Release Notes

Inets 2.3

Fixed errors and malfunctions

• ftp:open crashed if connection was closed before a complete welcome message was received, this is now fixed.
  Own Id: OTP-2723
  Aux Id: HA98434, seq 1151

Improvements and new features

• The authentication modules have been rewritten with support for dets, plain and mnesia authentication databases. There is also a new module called 'mod_secrity', which implements security event logging and notification. Both the mod_auth and mod_security modules have an API for the programmer that implements functions they will require to have full control over access restricted parts of a site. NOTE: The mod_auth_mnesia module does not implement the API previously found there, please see the mod_auth documentation.
  Own Id: OTP-2281
  Aux Id: seq 740,OTP-2273
• Support for the sockets application has been removed from INETS, use SocketType ssl or ip_comm instead.
  Own Id: OTP-2848
• The HTTP server has got improved efficiency through recognition of the 'If-Modified-Since' header field.
  Own Id: OTP-2870
• CGI scripts are now supported on Windows aswell as UNIX platforms.
  Own Id: OTP-2915
• mod_auth now supports the 'deny from' directive.
  Own Id: OTP-2982
• The HTTP server now experimentaly supports persistent connections (as defined in RFC2068). This is the first step towards HTTP/1.1 support. Enabling this feature may greatly improve performance, as the server then uses the same TCP connection for more than one HTTP request. Two new configuration directives are defined for httpd_core: KeepAlive max-requests KeepAliveTimeout seconds
  Own Id: OTP-3032