July 14, 1996
o release 0.70b1
o applied patches from Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de> to fix
Makefile.tmpl bug, NeXT define troubles, typos and documentation clean-up
o Added Apache::SSI module for server side includes
o Added 'PerlModule' directive for loading modules in srm.conf
o fixed read_client_block bug that was causing trailing garbage to show up
on the client for some people.
Thanks to Alan Beale <agb@openplus.co.uk> for the fix.
June 25, 1996
o release 0.60a5
o fixed bug in mod_perl_fast that was causing bizarre problems for some people
June 18, 1996
o release 0.60a4
o dropped content and args methods from Apache.xs, moved to Apache.pm
The xs implementation was causing problems for some people
o added Apache::unescape_url function
o added $r->header_in method
June 17, 1996
o release 0.60a3
o Added read() alias for read_client_block
o Updated Makefile.tmpl to use the renamed ExtUtils::embed
o Fixed various small bugs that were causing big problems
o pid $$ now set in mod_perl_fast, thanks to Alan Beale <agb@openplus.co.uk>
o Added basic_http_header() method
May 21, 1996
o release 0.60a2
o fixed bug in mod_perl_fast.c the caused problems with $r->content and $r->args
o Added Apache::CGI module for those who use CGI.pm
o There's now a Makefile.PL (currently for installing perl-only modules).
May 18, 1996
o release 0.60a1 - first public release
o Started getting ready for optional Safe wrapper around scripts
o Added $r->get_remote_host() method, putting $r->connection->remote_host back to normal
May 9, 1996
o release 0.50a2
o new (faster) approach with mod_perl_fast
o we now use an Apache.pm file
o moved more code from mod_perl to Apache.xs so mod_perl_fast could share it
o organized Apache.xs
o fixed $r->connection->remote_host
o hiding of 'Authorization' header is optional now
o added 'print' alias to 'write_client'
o dropped set_ prefix for several methods
May 1, 1996
o release 0.50a1
o xs_init now gets linked with us, as generated by Devel::embed
so we can bootstrap static extensions (including Apache)
o stomped out *main:: variables, moved to Apache.xs as methods
o added method 'request' to return the request pointer object
And did a typedef request_rec * Apache
so we don't need to say @request_recPtr::ISA = 'Apache'; anymore
o added method 'write_client' for sending a @list of data to the client
o added methods that simply access members of request_rec
-method
-uri
-protocol
-path_info
-filename
o added method 'args'
when called in a scalar context, it returns the query string
when called in a list context, it splits the query_string into key => vairs
o moved parsing code to Apache.xs, and now data is only read when the user
asks for it with the content() method.
o added method 'content'
when called in a scalar context, it reads data from the client
when called in a list context, it splits the content into key => vairs
o added method 'headers_in' to return a %hash of request headers
the 'Authentication' header is not returned
o added perl_call_argv to Apache->bootstrap ourselves
o we now flush the script's %ENV
o users can set-up a standard CGI %ENV via method $r->cgi_vars
o the script's STDERR in now redirected to the error_log
o added client_to_stdout and client_to_stdin methods to
hookup the script's STDOUT and STDIN
** This is broken right now **
o added method 'connection' and Apache::Connection class
returns a object reference to the request_rec's conn_rec
methods availible include:
- remote_host
- remote_ip
- remote_logname
- remote_user
- auth_type
o added method 'server' and Apache::Server class
returns a object reference to the request_rec's server_rec
methods availible include:
- server_admin
- server_host
- port
o Changes for Apache 1.1x
-rprintf to bputs, etc.
March ?? 1996
Initial version by Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>