Known Bugs and Patches

The list of known bugs are in reverse chronological order. Please report bugs or bug-fixes to libwww@w3.org noting the version of the Library and what caused the bug to appear.

The provided patches are relative to the WWW directory in the distribution tree. In order to apply a patch, do the following in the WWW directory:

Download the patch, for example lib-1.fix
Invoke the patch command by typing
```
	patch < lib-1.fix
```
Rebuild the code by typing
```
	make clobber
	./BUILD library
```

Library 4.0

HTML Machinary is still missing a great deal. However this part is now isolated into the SGML-HTML-HText stream pipe and will be replaced by a new parser as soon as possible in connection with the development of Arena.
Directory listings do not work completely on Windows NT
How do we get rid of the BUILD script?
TRACE macro conflicts with macro on NT. Replace it with WWWTRACE

Library 3.1

Bug in time stamp on files in FTP directory listings

The Library supports "long" directory listings for FTP Unix, VMS and Windows NT servers with file type, size, time and date etc. However, the time stamp is wrong by one hour for files created when dayligt savingtime is enabled. The reason is that the FTP module in the Library doesn't know the timezone of the remote FTP server and hence doesn't know when DSR is enabled or disabled. This is fixed in the next version

Problem with nested HTML tags in the HTML parser

A bug which makes the HTML parser crash if is gets more than 20 nested HTML tags. Thanks to Robert M. Fleischman for pointing this out!

Library 3.0

Problems with redicection

Until now all HTTP servers have sent back a small HTML document with a redirection message going:

	If you can see this message then your browser
	does not support automatic redirection.

However, new severs like Netscape and other servers don't send this and hence no stream should be set up. This confuses the Library and it dumps core.

Henrik Frystyk, libwww@w3.org, July 1995