A Features and Enhancements in Previous Proxy Server 4.0 Releases

The features and enhancements in Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server 4.0 releases prior to 4.0.14 are described in the individual Release Notes documents specific to those releases, which are available at:

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19438-01/

This appendix lists the following important features and enhancements provided in Oracle iPlanet Web Proxy Server releases 4.0.14 and 4.0.15:

A.1 Features and Enhancements in 4.0.15

• Date and time parameters have been added to the <Client> tag to enable use of time intervals to limit execution of directives on requests received from specific clients. For more information, see Section 3.2.8, "Date and Time Parameters of the <Client> Tag."

• The disable-javascript-rewrite parameter has been added to the um-define-junction SAF to suppress JavaScript variable rewriting for specific JavaScript variables. For more information, see Section 3.2.4, "New Parameters of the um-define-junction SAF."

• The <Include> tag has been added to the obj.conf file syntax to support the inclusion of other files in obj.conf. For more information, see Section 3.2.10, "<Include> Tag in the obj.conf File."

• The lookup-ipv6-first parameter has been added to the dns-config SAF to control whether IPv6 or IPv4 addresses are looked up first. For more information, see Section 3.2.11, "lookup-ipv6-first Parameter of the dns-config SAF."

• The status-code and status-desc parameters have been added to the send-error SAF . For more information, see Section 3.2.13, "status-code and status-desc Parameters of the send-error SAF."

• The RouteOfflineCheckInterval directive has been added to the magnus.conf file to configure the frequency at which Proxy Server checks the health of gateways marked as offline. For more information, see Section 3.2.14, "New Directives in the magnus.conf File."

• The NSS version supported by Proxy Server has been updated to 3.12.6, and the NSPR version has been updated to 4.8.4.

• The "Enter ACL List Cache Size" field has been added to the Admin GUI to support specification of this value interactively.

• The "Reset Status" button has been added to the Admin GUI Proxy-instance⇒ Server Status⇒ Monitor Current Activity page to reset the monitored values without restarting Proxy Server.

• This release addresses the following documentation issues:

  Issue ID	Description
  6294290	Proxy 4: admin.conf has no documentation. See Section 3.2.7, "Information About the admin.conf File."
  6962675	Proxy 4 doc RFE - need some descriptions for regexp-redirect function in WPS docs/manual. See Section 3.2.12, "regexp-redirect Function of the NameTrans Directive."
  6965246	DOCS: WPS4.0.14 introduces new parameter to the http-client-config function. See Section 3.2.9, "forward-unread-request-body Parameter of the http-client-config SAF."

  
  

A.2 Features and Enhancements in Proxy Server 4.0.14

• 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.