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Mon Oct 13 21:06:39 2008 UTC (4 years, 8 months ago) by phihag-guest
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Fix buffer overflow in http.c (Closes: #311178)
1 phihag-guest 54 Version 2.2:
2    
3     - Fix a buffer overflow in http.c:http_encode.
4    
5 appaji-guest 43 Version 2.1:
6    
7     - Fix version string. 2.0 still reported 1.1, thanks Ajay R Ramjatan
8     - Fix new MB/s display (was showing B/s). Thanks Philipp Hagemeister
9    
10 appaji-guest 25 Version 2.0:
11    
12 appaji-guest 40 - Large file support thanks thanks David Turnbull
13     - Custom Header Support thanks Eli Yukelzon
14     - New russian translation thanks newhren
15     - Fix segfault in -H option thanks Philipp Hagemeister
16     - Honour http_proxy and prefer it over HTTP_PROXY
17     - Add new RPM spec file thanks bbbush
18 appaji-guest 25
19 appaji-guest 40 Finished Sep 12 2008
20 appaji-guest 25
21 appaji-guest 19 Version 1.1:
22    
23     - Compilation for GNU/kFreeBSD, thanks to Cyril Brulebois
24     - Use simple pop-ups for Help and Bug Report buttons
25     - Use strncpy instead of strcpy for length sensitive copies
26     - Always compile with -g, disable -O3
27     - Translation updates: de.po thanks Hermann J. Beckers
28     - Update manpages axel.1 and axel-kapt.1
29     - Prevent crash and raise error if FTP CWD fails
30     - Prevent crash on long URLs and increase max length of URL to 1024
31     - Fix segfaults on HTTP404 and HTTP401 responses
32    
33 appaji-guest 22 Finished Jan 18 2008
34    
35 appaji-guest 4 Version 1.0b:
36     - Removed spaces between -S[x] in man-pages, etc. They mess things up.
37     - Fixed configure for OpenBSD.
38     - Fixed configuration bug: s/alternate_interface/alternate_output/ in
39     axelrc.example, thanks to CLOTILDE Guy Daniel for the bug report!
40     - Fixed weird behaviour when downloading from an unsupported server.
41     - Fixed buffer overflow in conn.c. (CAN-2005-0390)
42    
43     Finished Apr 06 2005
44    
45    
46 appaji-guest 2 Version 1.0a:
47     - gstrip on Solaris/SPARC breaks the binary, so stripping is made optional
48     (but enabled by default!) and /usr/ccs/bin/strip is used instead of
49     gstrip.
50     - Fixed a small (not harmful) errorcode interpretation bug in the ftp_size
51     code.
52     - Downloading from unsupported sites works better now.
53     - Added support for downloading using more than one local network interface.
54     - Fixed a potential SIGSEGV bug. Would only happen with about more than 64
55     connections usually. Still strange things can happen with too many
56     connections when using Linux..
57     - Hopefully fixed the problem with downloading from forwarding URL's.
58     - HTTP %-escapes are handled now.
59     - Alternate progress indicator with estimation of remaining download time
60     - Changed the return-code a bit, see man-page for details.
61    
62     Finished Feb 19 2002
63    
64    
65     Version 1.0:
66     - Fixed a reconnect problem: Check for stalled connections was skipped by
67     previous versions if there is no active connection.
68     - Solaris does not have www in /etc/services which confused Axel. Fixed.
69     - Created a new build system.
70     - install utility not used anymore: Solaris' install does weird things.
71     - Added support for Cygwin and Solaris.
72     - Corrected a little problem in de.po.
73     - Thrown out the packaging stuff.
74    
75     Finished Dec 6 2001
76    
77    
78     Version 0.99b brings you:
79     - Debian package bugfix.
80     - Restored i18n support.
81    
82     Finished Nov 16 2001
83    
84    
85     Version 0.99a brings you:
86     - Small bugfix for dumb HTTP bug.
87    
88     Finished Nov 10 2001
89    
90    
91     Version 0.99 brings you:
92     - Improved speed limiter. (For low speeds a smaller buffer works better,
93     so the buffer is resized automatically for low speeds.)
94     - Some FTP servers don't ask for a password which confused ftp.c. Fixed.
95     - Some HTTP servers send chunked data when using HTTP/1.1. So I went back
96     to HTTP/1.0.. (This also fixes the occasional filesearching.com problem)
97     - Even more problems with FTP server reply codes, but they must be fixed
98     now, Axel's RFC compliant.
99     - For HTTP downloads a Range: header is not sent when downloading starting
100     at byte 0. This is just a work-around for a problem with a weird webserver
101     which sends corrupted data when a Range: header is sent. It's just a
102     work-around for a rare problem, it does not really fix anything.
103     - RPM package for axel-kapt added.
104    
105     Finished Nov 9 2001
106    
107    
108     Version 0.98 brings you:
109     - Fixed the weird percentage indicator bug. (Was buggy for large files,
110     did not affect the downloaded data.)
111     - For single connection downloads from Apache: Apache returns a 200 result
112     code when the specified file range is the complete file. Axel handles
113     this correctly now.
114     - Roxen FTP servers return the address and port number without brackets
115     after a passive command. This is RFC-compliant but quite unique. But now
116     handled correctly.
117     - Fixed some things to make it work on Darwin again.
118     - 'Upgraded' HTTP requests to HTTP/1.1. Tried this to fix a download
119     corruption bug for downloads from archive.progeny.com, but it did not
120     work. wget's resume has exactly the same problem. But using HTTP/1.1 is
121     more compliant (because in fact HTTP/1.0 does not support Ranges) so I'll
122     keep it this way..
123     - Previous version used to delete the statefile in some cases. Fixed.
124    
125     Finished Nov 3 2001
126    
127    
128     Version 0.97 (Bitcrusher) brings you:
129     - Major redesign: Moved a lot of code from main() to separate functions,
130     it should make it easier to create different interfaces for the program.
131     - All those ifdefs were a mess, they don't exist anymore. Separate threads
132     for setting up connections are used by default now. Version 0.96 will not
133     disappear, by the way.
134     - HTTP HEAD request not used anymore: Squid's headers are incorrect when
135     using the HEAD request.
136     - conn_disconnect did not work for FTP connections through HTTP proxies.
137     - Documentation fix, sort of: The example configuration file still said
138     proxies are unsupported. But they are supported for quite some time
139     already.
140     - Wrote a small (Small? Larger than any other doc.. :-) description of the
141     Axel API.
142     - Added finish_time code. (Credits to sjoerd@huiswerkservice.nl)
143     - Calling conn_setup without calling conn_init first also works when using
144     a proxy now.
145     - A client for filesearching.com. You can use it to search for mirrors and
146     download from more than mirror at once.
147     - Fixed another segfault bug which did not show up on my own system...
148     Also fixed by 0.96a.
149     - Global error string is gone. Unusable in threaded programs.
150     - The -V switch stopped working some time ago because I forgot to put it
151     in the getopt string. Now it's back, alive and kickin'...
152     - TYPE I should be done quite early. Some servers return weird file sizes
153     when still in ASCII mode.
154     - ftp.c (ftp_wait) sometimes resized conn->message to below MAX_STRING
155     which is Not Good(tm).
156     - I18N support is a bit broken at this time, it'll be fixed later.
157     - Tidied up the man-page a bit.
158     - Removed config.h file, -D flags used again.
159     - Added axel-kapt interface.
160     - Changed syntax: Local file must be specified using the -o option now.
161     This allows the user to specify more than one URL and all of them will
162     be used for the download. A local directory can be passed as well, the
163     program will append the correct filename.
164     - Fixed a bug which caused the program not to be able to download files
165     for which only one byte has to be downloaded for one of the connections.
166     - Why bitcrusher? Just because I liked to have a code name for this
167     release... Bit crusher is a name of a musical group here in the
168     Netherlands, and it's a nice name for a downloader as well, I hope...
169    
170     Finished Oct 25 2001
171    
172    
173     Version 0.96 brings you:
174     - Fixed a terrible bug which caused any FTP download to corrupt. I promise
175     I will test the program before any next release. :-(( HTTP did work in
176     0.95.
177    
178     Finished Aug 14 2001 (Why is this fix so late? Because the actual release
179     of version 0.95 was only last Friday/Saturday...)
180    
181     And yes, I tested it now. It works now. HTTP and FTP.
182    
183    
184     Version 0.95 brings you:
185     - An important bugfix: When bringing up the connection failed, the program
186     used to be unable to reconnect. :(
187     - Small changes to make the program compile on FreeBSD and Darwin.
188     - Support check for FTP servers is done only once now.
189     - SIZE command is really used now.
190     - Fixed a SIGINT-does-not-abort problem. Btw: Ctrl-\ (SIGQUIT) always works!
191     - Connection status messages are not displayed by default. You can enable
192     them with the verbose-option.
193    
194     Finished Aug 7 2001
195    
196    
197     Version 0.94 brings you:
198     - 'make install' uses install instead of mkdir/cp now.
199     - Added 'make uninstall' option.
200     - Added more explanations to axelrc.example.
201     - It uses the HTTP HEAD request now. Didn't know that one before. :)
202     - Debian packaging stuff and RPM .spec file included by default.
203     - select() problem now really understood... The real point was, that
204     sometimes select() was called with an empty fd set. Now I solved the
205     problem in a more 'useful' way.
206    
207     Finished Jun 26 2001
208    
209    
210     Version 0.93 brings you:
211     - A compile-time option to remove all the multi-connection stuff. Program
212     works without state files then, and it's a bit smaller, just in case you
213     need a very small program and if you don't believe in acceleration. :)
214     - The SIZE command is now used as long as the URL does not contain wildcards.
215     Because FTP servers are just too different. :(
216     - You can do FTP downloads through HTTP proxies now.
217     - The weird initial 1-second delay which happened sometimes does not exist
218     anymore: It was because of select(), which does not return immediately
219     if there's data on a socket before the call starts. My first solution
220     is using a lower timeout, I hope there's a better solution available...
221     - Local file existence check.
222     - Small bug fixed in conf.c.
223    
224     Finished May 22 2001
225    
226    
227     Version 0.92 brings you:
228     - A credits file!! ;)
229     - A German translation. Herrman J. Beckers: Thanks a lot!
230     - ftp.c should understand weird Macintosh FTP servers too, now.
231     - Connections are initialized in a different thread because then the program
232     can go on downloading data from other connections while setting up. Quick
233     hack, but it works.
234     - config.h contains the configuration definitions now.
235     - A URL - can be specified. The program will read a URL from stdin. Might
236     be useful if you don't want other people to see the URL in the 'ps aux'
237     output. (Think about passwords in URLs...)
238    
239     Finished May 11 2001
240    
241    
242     Version 0.91 brings you:
243     - A man page.
244     - A quiet mode.
245     - A Debian package. (0.9 .deb exists too, but that was after the 'official'
246     0.9 release..)
247     - Made the sizes/times displayed after downloading more human-readable.
248     - Corrected some stupid things in the nl.po file.
249     - No bug in ftp_wait anymore, (or at least one bug less ;) the program was a
250     bit too late with the realloc() sometimes. I just hate those multi-line
251     replies.. :(
252     - HTTP proxy support. no_proxy configuration flag also in use.
253     - Support for empty configuration strings.
254     - URL parser understands wrongly formatted URLs like slashdot.org. (instead
255     of the correct http://slashdot.org/)
256    
257     Finished Apr 30 2001
258    
259    
260     Version 0.9 brings you:
261     - See the README for all the old features.
262     - Internationalization support.
263     - Clearer error messages.
264     - Probably some bug fixes too.
265     - A highly sophisticated Makefile.. ;)
266    
267     Finished Apr 22 2001

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