File Release Notes and Changelog
Release Name: 0.21
Notes:
Changes:
0.21 6.6.2004
Fixed NPE when HTTP server closes connection without sending anything
0.20 9.4.2004
Updated FSP stack to 1.0rc3 -- important bugfix
0.19 22.11.2003
Download machine now supports FSP protocol!
FSP protocol is lighweight UDP-based transfer protocol.
URL for FSP protocol is fsp://server[:portnumber]/filename.ext
See http://fsp.sourceforge.net for more information about FSP
new configuration keywords for delay between packets in FSP protocol:
fsp_delay and fsp_maxdelay (millis)
Avoids tabs on stdout.
0.18 8.10.2003
FTP protocol do not works due to changes in class access flags. Fixed.
Queue builded from drop/ directory can be optionally persistent now.
0.17 29.9.2003 most users wish item release
use boolean keywords in configuration file
report [skip] when skipping data in file because server do not support
resume
when moving to special download directory fails fallback to normal directory
code cleaned procedures marked as private or protected for avoiding confusion
FTP factory now closes also data connection
support for detecting real filesize should help with server which do
not reports content-length when resuming http download
support for large files > 2GB
new configuration statement remove_downloads_from_queue_file yes/no
and keep_empty_queue_file yes/no
dm can now remove downloaded items from queue files
do not throw exception if configuration file is not found
add default queue file 'queue' only when there is no config. file
0.16.1 21.7.2003 ibiblio release
tar can be build from makefile
DM prints when idle how any seconds will wait before exiting.
0.16 13.7.2003
fixed bug when checking for downloaded files in more directories
0.15 4.9.2002
changed some cosmetic things in progress messages
first ETA guess is printed after 10 sec of downloading
0.14 02.01.2002
default referer changed to http://server/index.html for fooling some
scripts
changed order of request headers, now Host: is first
send_referer 0/1 - for sending default referer header, (can cause 403 errors
sometimes)
send_user_agent 0/1 - send User-Agent header?
fixed user_agent (now spaces in string works)
0.13 9.12.2001
total file size was reported wrong, when continuing download
save_to & check_also now supports whole URLs as well
0.12 25.11.2001
alive_flag support
changed default referer to host not URL
error_log support
fix: do not send full URLs when using direct connection,
removes many 403 Errors from remote servers
drop_directory support
auth support for http_proxy and ftp_proxy
when resuming a file, total size is displayed
attic directory is created only when needed
save_to support
check_also support
0.11 12.08.2001
Support for custom cookies
FTP error handling improved and fixed some FTP problems
0.10 30.08.2001
if exitonempty queue > 1 then this is number of seconds, how long
must be dmachine inactive before exiting.
0.9 30.06.2001
HTTP Error code 502 is a temporary download error now, because squid
cache uses it in this way.
new configuration keyword 'user_agent' for sending fake browser's IDs.
Internal support for FTP downloads
Exit on empty queue
ok_log feature
attic_directory /like CVS/ feature
removed # from redirects (patch from someone else)
more modularized design, support for new protocols can be added.
ftp_nopasv for turn on/off passive FTP
0.6 20.4.2000
network code moved to downloadfactory
0.5 17.2.1999
better generation of localfilename
0.0 3.2.1999 Download machine project started