WebKit 1.1.1 Release Notes

WebKit version 1.1.1 released on 01/18/13

Improvements and Refinements

• The conversion from the cgi.FieldStorage elements to the plain WebKit.request().fields() had a quadratic running time and could seriously slow down requests sending many different fields. This conversion is now done much faster and in linear time.
• When the socket connection fails, the mod_webkit2 adapter now logs a proper error message.
• As recommended by W3C in section B.2.2 of the HTML 4.01 specification, the FieldStorage class now also supports use of ';' in place of '&' as separator in query strings.

Minor API Changes

• We changed the behavior of the filenamesForBaseName() method in the URLParser class. If the filename matches exactly, then we return only that filename. Earlier, if you had test.js and test.js.bak, and requested test.js, then you got a 404 "ambiguous filename" error. This is not really what you would expect in that situation.

Bugfixes

• Aborting threads did not work properly on 64bit platforms.
• Fixed possible problems when stopping the application server by pressing Ctrl-C under Windows.
• Fixed possible problems when shutting down the AutoReloadingAppServer.
• HTTPRequest.serverPath() did not work properly when SCRIPT_URL was not set by the webserver and the request had been forwarded (bug reported by Adam Smith).
• Fixed possible race condition in SessionDynamicStore when manipulating the sessions in a different thread.