Sun Java System Web Proxy Server 4.0.6 Release Notes

Issues resolved in 4.0.4

The following table lists the issues resolved in Sun Java System Web Proxy Server 4.0.4

Table 5 Issues Resolved in Sun Java System Web Proxy Server 4.0.4

ID 

Summary 

4973509 

Cache-Control directive for private/no-cache headers is not supported for multiple values.

4973523 

HEAD requests are not cached. 

4973652 

Proxy server does not support 65536–byte long URIs. 

4999184 

When proxy server is configured in reverse proxy mode pointing to a web server, the error message displayed when the web server is down should not mention that it is a proxy sever. 

5093104 

Proxy server administration interface allows trailing white space for a HTTP header in client IP forwarding. 

6208895 

An FTP request through the proxy server to a Microsoft IIS FTP server does not work. 

6214329 

Error in error log for HTTP4352:zlib internal error. 

6233086 

For client credentials forwarding with multi-byte user name, validation check needs to be added. 

6243358 

A deleted user still appears as part of a group. 

6245972 

User's permission set through the Administer Access Control page does not get implemented. 

6246562 

Controlling a set of servers installed on different locales and platforms through clusters fails when stopping the set of servers. 

6253844 

There is no support for “zh-cn” for proxy server online help. 

6255761 

There is no content at the Installer Help page.  

6255838 

When a proxy server instance is removed without stopping the SOCKS server and a new instance is created, you will not be able to start the SOCKS server on the new instance as the port would be in use.  

6256442 

The installer displays the error message "Password should be at least 8 characters" only in English.  

6266497 

Administration interface allows duplicate port numbers in the Add Server page. 

6268356 

On Windows, SNMP service does not work if libnspr4.dll is not present in the system32 directory.

6274424 

On Windows, the value for defaultInstallDirectory in the state file is wrong. The default installation directory in the installer is c:\sun\ProxyServer40, but the state file generated when you use the command setup --savestate does not have c:\sun\ProxyServer40 as the default installation directory. The state file displays the UNIX template value as the default installation directory.

6304981 

Proxy server installation fails on Linux if ksh is not installed on the machine. 

6310283 

In the proxy server administration interface, sometimes the tabs display incorrect page content.  

6312087 

Localized online help is not context sensitive. 

6313904 

The administration server does not allow you to set a listen socket with a port number that is used for another IP address. 

6321797 

Proxy Server 4.0.3 Configuration File Reference is updated with information for the flex-init parameter no-format-str.access.

6331035 

Load balancing feature works only for regular expressions.  

6333355 

When the ACL caching is enabled, the user/group definition in the ACL has to exactly match the case of the LDAP entry for the ACL caching to happen. 

6337657 

Proxy server displaying Internal Server Error message when the configuration of Distributed Administration is attempted.  

6369549 

Proxy patch installation on JavaES 5 results in some errors on Linux. 

6371618 

Can not change Compression Level to NONE. Documentation should state what to select as the compression level.

6380736 

Control does not transfer to Schedule GC page when Explicit GC is selected in the Set GC Preferences page. 

6382393 

Proxy server is unable to perform FTP uploads. 

6382692 

During migration, the format string Req->vars.pauth-user in the 3.6 obj.conf should be changed to Req->vars.auth-user .

6383320 

Cannot remove cache file when contents file name has space or Japanese characters. 

6383435 

sockd process uses high memory on Linux .

6387166 

View Server Settings page in the proxy server administration interface does not display MaxProcs value.

6388818 

The SOCKS server requires the Directory Service ID to be default.  

6390034 

libnspr4.dll should be referred first on the directory <install-dir>\bin\proxy\bin instead of the directory system32.

6390054 

Copyright year should be changed in the version window of the administration interface.  

6399395 

The Select Directory Services page does not reflect the directory service selection. 

6402589 

The function http-client-config does not take the setting from the most specific object.

6411505 

The Redirect URLs page in the administration interface does not function as expected. 

6412129 

Proxy server 4.0 migration tool must add the line fn=“block-ip” if the setting is not found in the proxy server 3.6 instance.

6414355 

Executing the command batchupdate with an invalid bu.conf file results in segmentation fault on Linux.

6415125 

Change the compiler from Sun Studio 8 to Sun Studio 10.  

6416272 

Proxy server fails to start properly after the server user is changed.  

6417755 

Links like Previous, Main and Next not localized in the proxy server online help. 

6419925 

More cache-related statistics required in proxy server. 

6423487 

Detailed description on how to enable DNS statistics has been added to the online help. 

6425025 

The directive host-map does not work unless a url-prefix parameter is explicitly provided.

6425026 

Proxy server needs to distinguish cache objects based on Accept-Encoding headers. 

6425038 

Proxy server does not consider query-maxlen when acting as reverse proxy with cache-local value set to 1.

6425601 

The automatic garbage collection does not work in certain conditions. 

6425752 

There are duplicate headers in a 304 response from the cache. 

6426543 

Cache iterator leaks memory. 

6427137 

Proxy server transmits micro version number in responses. 

6433285 

Some of the proxy core error messages are not localized. 

6433776 

.sects files are not created when the command cbuild is executed.

6433807 

On Windows, proxy server and administration server display wrong version number in the start up message. 

6434137 

Proxy server displays wrong error message on timeout. 

6435491 

In the Proxy Server 4.0.4 Configuration File Reference, in chapter 5, the reference to type parameter is removed in the section on Service derivative.

6441601 

In the Proxy Server 4.0.4 Administration Guide, in chapter 5, notes have been added to clarify the need to load the root keys of Certification Authority or the self-signing application.

6442054 

In the Proxy Server 4.0.4 Administration Guide, in chapter 5, the section Using SSL to Communicate with LDAP has been updated with information about importing LDAP root CA certificates to the proxy server.

6442071 

In the Proxy Server 4.0.4 Administration Guide, in chapter 5, a new section is added to clarify about securing access to administration server.

6442090 

In the Proxy Server 4.0.4 Installation and Migration Guide, clarification has been added to clarify that:

- Web Proxy Server can be installed as a non-root user  

- Web Proxy Server can run as a non-root user 

6442091 

Cache must correctly compute the value of current_age with the request delay added to the age.

6442641 

Proxy server 4.0 does not work well with CONNECT requests that specify a content-length. 

6443160 

On HP-UX, zlib library needs to be packaged with the product for JavaES 5. 

6443720 

Log Analyzer can have issues when the access log file has no log information. 

6443731 

On Windows 2000 SP4, the system requires restart after configuration in JavaES environment. 

6444332 

On HP-UX, executing batchupdate with invalid bu.conf results in segmentation fault.

6444363 

On HP-UX, proxy instance does not get created with non-root user. 

6444942 

Executing the command cachegc on a nonexistent instance fails.

6445440 

Error messages are incompletely localized. 

6446098 

On HP-UX, there is an internal error in View URL Database page. 

6446349 

On HP-UX, stress test results in mmap() failure. 

6446933 

In the Proxy Server 4.0.4 Configuration File Reference, references to docs directory are removed.

6447423 

Proxy server 4.0 leaks memory because the daemon structures are not freed properly. 

6447427 

Proxy server 4.0 leaks memory while acquiring channel in common client. 

6447476 

The proxy server administration interface always displays the cache partition size as 0. 

6450886 

The new maximum value of 360 minutes for the socks5.conf parameter SOCKS5_TIMEOUT has been documented in the Proxy Server 4.0.4 Configuration File Reference.

6454032 

Proxy server binds to the same port each time the Address directive is set. 

6455411 

On Windows, proxy server needs to support coexistence of JavaES 4 and JavaES 5. 

6459839 

Migrating proxy server 3.6 to 4.0.3 with the cache disabled results in unusable server instance. 

6461889 

HTML filter corrupts the transformed data. 

6461896 

HTML tag filter does not update the content length when it transforms the source document. 

6461991 

Typographic errors in the English source of proxyResources.properties file.

6462366 

On HP-UX, proxy server fails to restart after configuring SOCKS name server. 

6463404 

Distributed administration does not work correctly when a user is given access to all programs. 

6463927 

The template file WPSProp.properties has entries for Windows platform.

6465608 

On Windows, the shortcut for Stop Admin Server is not created for the administration server when the proxy server is installed. 

6465984 

The file proxyResources.properties contains duplicate keys.

6466452 

Proxy server should update the installer registry key from Entsys to Entsys5. 

6467644 

On Windows Server 2003 Enterprise platform, running reconfig.bat fails.

6470294 

On Windows, running cbuild.exe to decrease the cache sections does not remove the sections properly.

6473677 

On JavaES 4 system, proxy server does not start after applying the patch 120981–08/120982–08. 

6478407 

In the Proxy Server 4.0.4 Administration Guide, in chapter 7, the section Starting SSL-Enabled Servers is modified to remove the suggestion for start script modification.

6480637 

Proxy server crashes every hour. 

6484781 

After enabling distributing administration, even unauthentic users can log in to administration server. 

6485988 

In the Proxy Server 4.0.4 Configuration File Reference, the section on Send-Error in chapter 5 is updated to add a note stating that send-error does not work for Web Server HTTP response.

6505480 

In a standalone installation of proxy server on HP-UX, installation fails on HP-UX 11.11. 

6519072 

In the installer for a standalone installation of proxy server 4.0.4, the JRE version compatible with the US DST changes 2007 needs to be shipped. The compatible JRE version is 1.4.2_13 on Solaris, Windows, and Linux. On HP-UX, the compatible JRE version is 1.4.2.12.  

6519113 

In the Proxy Server 4.0.4 Configuration File Reference, the section on Error in chapter 5 is updated to remove references to error response codes 404 and 500.

6511549 

In a standalone installation of proxy server on HP-UX, installation fails in CLI mode. 

6520577 

In the Proxy Server 4.0.4 Administration Guide, the section on Virtual Multihosting is updated to add a note to indicate that the reverse mapping should be specified before the other mappings.