Features and Enhancements in Previous Proxy Server 4.0 Releases

The features and enhancements in Proxy Server 4.0 releases prior to Proxy Server 4.0.14 are described in the individual Release Notes documents specific to those releases, available on docs.sun.com at http://docs.sun.com/prod/webproxys4.0#hic. This section lists the important features and enhancements provided in Proxy Server 4.0 releases between 4.0.13 and the current release:

Features and Enhancements in 4.0.14

In addition to fixing quite a number of bugs, as listed in Table 11, the 4.0.14 release of iPlanet Web Proxy Server provides a number of enhancements to address customer requests:

• The ChannelPoolValidate directive has been added to the magnus.conf file. It controls whether the channel pool is actively checked for stale or closed connections.

• The ChannelPoolMonitorInterval directive has been added to the magnus.conf file. It specifies how frequently the channel pool is to be checked for stale or closed connections.

• The ChannelReuseValidate directive has been added to the magnus.conf file. It controls whether persistent connections are validated before they are reused.

• The always-retry-stale-keep-alive parameter has been added to the http-client-config SAF. It controls whether the HTTP client retries a failed request even when the number of retries is set to zero, provided that the request failure was due to a stale persistent connection.