Announcing the release of AOLserver 4.5.0. AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled, massively-scalable and extensible web server tuned for large scale, dynamic web sites. AOLserver also includes complete database integration and a dynamic page scripting language.

The source is freely available from the sourceforge.net site at:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3152

For more information on the changes in this version please refer to the release notes and ChangeLog in the source distribution.

Announcing the release of AOLserver 4.0.10. AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled, massively-scalable and extensible web server tuned for large scale, dynamic web sites. AOLserver also includes complete database integration and a dynamic page scripting language.

The source is freely available from the sourceforge.net site at:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3152

For more information on the changes in this version please refer to the ChangeLog in the source distribution. A high level summary of the changes follows:

This release adds two enhancements and one API change. The major enhancement is the adding of configurable transparent gzip compression of HTTP responses from ADP pages. The minor enhancement is the addition of a numeric version #define to aid conditional compilation of modules that require specific AOLserver versions or must be compiled differently depending on the version. Ns_Compress() has been renamed to Ns_CompressGzip() in anticipation of other algorithms which will be supported.

Announcing the release of AOLserver 4.0.9. AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled, massively-scalable and extensible web server tuned for large scale, dynamic web sites. AOLserver also includes complete database integration and a dynamic page scripting language.

The source is freely available from the sourceforge.net site at:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3152

For more information on the changes in this version please refer to the ChangeLog in the source distribution. A high level summary of the changes follows:

Bugfixes: a shutdown crash fix; a memory leak when using getaddrinfo; a server hang fix for ns_http; bad invocations of ns_schedule_{proc,daily,weekly} proc can crash the server; omit Content-Length header if ADP streaming is on; Ns_ConnSend() now does what the docs say it does.

Enhancements: a new Ns_Compress() to gzip data; a new Ns_SockCancelCallbackEx() to correctly cancel callbacks; enable writing of corefiles on Linux after setuid by setting PR_SET_DUMPABLE.

Announcing the release of AOLserver 4.0.8. AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled, massively-scalable and extensible web server tuned for large scale, dynamic web sites. AOLserver also includes complete database integration and a dynamic page scripting language.

The source is freely available from the sourceforge.net site at:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3152.

For more information on the changes in this version please refer to the ChangeLog in the source distribution.

AOLserver 4.0.7 Released
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On behalf of the AOLserver Team, I have the honor of announcing the
latest point release of AOLserver: 4.0.7.

This version is primarily a bug fix release following version 4.0.6.
A summary of changes is provided at the end of this document.

NOTE: This release corrects a serious flaw in 4.0.6 where a
non-compliant HTTP/1.1 request can crash the server, resulting in
a Denial of Service. Everyone is urged to skip the 4.0.6 release
and either remain on 4.0.5 or upgrade to 4.0.7 immediately.

WHAT IS AOLSERVER?

AOLserver is America Online’s Open-Source web server. AOLserver is
the backbone of the largest and busiest production environments in
the world. AOLserver is a multithreaded, Tcl-enabled web server
used for large scale, dynamic web sites.

Visit the project’s website:

http://aolserver.com/

HOW CAN I GET AOLSERVER?

Download the source code from SourceForge:

http://aolserver.com/downloads/aolserver-4.0.7-src.tar.gz

I FOUND A BUG! WHAT DO I DO?

File it in the Bug Tracker at SourceForge:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=3152&atid=103152

IS THERE A MAILING LIST? WHERE’S THE USER COMMUNITY?

Yes! There’s an announcements-only and a general discussion mailing
list. Instructions on how to subscribe are here:

http://aolserver.com/lists.php

There is also a wiki-web set up for AOLserver:

http://aolserver.com/wiki/

CHANGES SINCE LAST RELEASE?

Fix bug where internal redirect for 401 omitted including the HTTP
auth. “WWW-Authenticate:” header. Fixes bug #674033.

Ns_GetAddrByHost() reports errors via Ns_Log(), so calls to it
should be done after Ns_Log has been initialized, otherwise very
unhelpful error messages are produced. In particular, this happens
when the server is started and the hostname as returned by
gethostname() cannot be resolved, because the network interface is
down AND no entry exists in /etc/hosts. Closes SF Bug #868362.

Setting request->method to static storage, which later gets
ns_free()’d in Ns_FreeRequest(), causes the server to crash.