Team Eiffel

There's a new eposix beta available for download. This should be the final beta before the next release.

Main new things in this beta are HTTP Server enhancements: support for persistent connections and chunked transfer encoding support. The list of changes:

New in 2.3.2 beta - 2006-04-14
* ./configure changes
  - Gobo Eiffel Compiler support added. Use --with-compiler=gec.
  - multi-threading support: Use --enable-threads.
* EPX_HTTP_SERVER
  - now supports persistent connections.
  - make: does not start listening anymore! Call listen_locally or
    listen_globally.
  - send_file: when serving a file it now includes an ETag
  - add_file_expires_date: new feature that adds an Expires header for
   image files in order to improve performance with IE. Without this
   IE will retrieve reused images on a page multiple times.
* EPX_MIME_PARSER
  - support for chunked Transfer-Encoding.
  - parse_body: does not take an argument anymore. Determining length
    of message body is now entirely based on the previously parsed
    header.
* ABSTRACT_FILE_DESCRIPTOR:
  - seek_XXXX features didn't reset eof, should always be False after
    a seek.
* EPX_EXTENSION_FILTER:
  - now accepts all directories and will recursive to any
    depth. Filenames must still match the filter though.
* ABSTRACT_DIRECTORY:
  - forth: when an extension filter was set, and recursive browsing
   was specified, directories were not recursived because they did
   not match the extension filter. Introduced the option
   validate_directory in ABSTRACT_PATH_FILTER to give a filter the
   option to accept directories, and not include them in the filter.
* EPX_FILE_SYSTEM
  - browse_directory: now returns an EPX_DIRECTORY.
* EPX_DIRECTORY:
  - class equal to ABSTRACT_DIRECTORY. Use this instead of
    ABSTRACT_DIRECTORY as ABSTRACT_XXXX classes should not be used
    directly by the client.
* EPX_CHARACTER_HELPER
  - class has become obsolete.