Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 2006Q2 SP6 Release Notes

Issues Resolved in 6.1 SP6

The following table lists the issues resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP6.

Table 4 Issues Resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP6

Problem ID 

Description 

5027774 

WW_umask in the configuration is NULL in Solaris.

6334248 

6397340 

Windows 2003 mapped network drive not readable as a document root directory. 

Additional Information:To use a document root in a shared network resource, a UNC path has to be used, for example, //<machine-name>/<shared-folder-name>. A mapped drive letter like X: will not work as document root. You can specify the document root either manually in server.xml or through the Administration GUI: Virtual Server Class->Content Management->Primary Content Directory.

For using a shared directory on UNIX, do the following: 

  1. Install SFU (Windows Services for UNIX) on the Windows machine where Web Server is installed.

  2. Map the Windows users and groups to UNIX users and groups through the SFU user interface shortcut under the Start menu.


    Note –

    While running Web Server, User Name Mapping Service (which is part of SFU) has to run.


For using a shared directory from another Windows machine, ensure that the password of Administrator account on both the machines is same, otherwise the service will not be able to access the network resource. 

Whether the shared directory is on UNIX or Windows, the service representing the instance server has to run as a particular user of Administrators group like ./Administrator rather than running it on the default local system account. To do this, go to Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services and make the changes in the Properties dialog box.

6384651 

For HP-UX: Web Server sometimes return wrong last-modified header and date header. 

6404983 

Searching of Users and Groups through LDAP server using the Administration GUI fails. 

6316387 

Web Server uses incorrect logic when processing the if-unmodified-since header.

6318003 

Web Server sends back the actual content with 412 code for request with if-unmodified-since and range.

6312702 

HttpServletResponse.reset() does not work as expected.

6360180 

Crash in webapps/qa_app/jsp/encodedurlforwarder.

6316881 

Multibyte characters in headers can't be retrieved by req.getHeader().

Workaround:

By default, request headers are encoded using UTF-8 enc. You can customize request header encoding at the web-app level by following these steps:

  1. Set the value of the configuration parameter use-requestenc-for-headers to any value such as yes, true, or on, in the web-app's sun-web.xml.

    In the following example, request header encoding is enabled for the web-app:

    <sun-web-app>
     <parameter-encoding form-hint-field="j_encoding">
     <property name="use-requestenc-for-headers" value="true" >
     <session-config>
       <session-manager>
     </session-config>
     <jsp-config>
    </sun-web-app>
  2. Set the name of the character encoding in the application (JSP/Servlet) using request.setCharacterEncoding().

6318406 

Redeploying the web-app causes ownership changes on files.  

6294743 

Updating JSP search collection creates new tmp files in the converted directory and fills up disk space.

6197731 

Internal error on accessing Administration Server.  

6316262 

Administration GUI does not reflect the changes made to the access log path. 

6378521 

makefiles need a cleanup in 6.1 SPx.

6318200 

Buffer overflows when formatting installer error messages. 

6343584 

Deadlock in keepalive subsystem caused by NSS blocking.

6326965 

Administration password in plain text in a file readable by anyone. 

Workaround: There are two workarounds;

  1. Delete the file .adminpasswd manually.

  2. Change the permissions of the .adminpasswd file to 400.

4991884 

6246214 

Search indexing hangs on large .doc files.

Workaround:

  1. Add the following property within the SEARCH element.

    <SEARCH>
      <PROPERTY name="conversionExtensions" Value="pdf,doc">
      :
      :
    </SEARCH>
  2. Restart the server.

  3. Add .doc files to the collection.

6356179 

The Administration Server of Web Server 6.1 does not change the id attribute in the USERDB tag.

Additional Information: To change the `id' attribute in the USERDB tag, do the following:

  • Create one virtual server class file. Use this class file as template to create multiple virtual servers. In this case, most of the configuration defined by VS Class will be inherited by all virtual servers.

    or

  • Create multiple virtual server class files within a server instance (https-localhost) and each of these virtual server class files can contain one or more virtual servers.

6333656 

MIME type file in Web Server binaries must have the StarOffice/OpenOffice MIME types.  

6342394 

Cron log rotation on Windows can create invalid archive logs with a specific instance name. 

6358851 

SNMP Master and Sub Agent startup fails. 

6336309 

Problem with rewriting the special character in server.xml.

6335483 

Create symbol enabled builds for HP-UX (non-stripped). 

6332442 

Web Server crashes on Linux when Init fn="stats-init" is present in magnus.conf.

4718466 

After importing the 6th key to crypto, iplanet WS 6.0 displays an error: server not avail.

6340799 

During stress test on S1WS6.1SP5 SSL on SUSE Linux Ent. Server 9 SP2, webservd has memory leak.

6353988 

Cannot set client trust or server trust on some built-in Certificate Authorities (CAs) for Web Server 6.1SP4/SP5. 

6329109 

Web Server 6.1: Lock file conflict for multiple installations running on the same port but different IP address.  

6378545 

While updating a JSP search collection, updating a JSP file fails re-indexing. 

6280778 

PDF files unable to be indexed with Web Server 6.1 search. This error occurs on HP-UX with OS patch PHSS_28871 installed. 

6302377 

Servlet container UTF-8 URI mapping vulnerability. 

6370089 

Integrate NSS 3.11.1 with Web Server 6.1 SP6. 

6285129 

Using % in the jsp:param value fails in some circumstances.

6324034 

Web Server has default limit for upload file size as 10MB. 

6361485 

htaccess not working in Web Server 6.1 SP5 for User Document Directories.

6350122 

WS6.1SP5 on Windows Cron based log rotation failed with garbage inside scheduler.conf file.

6388243 

Installing a CRL on Web Server 6.1SP4 (Windows) adds it to the CKLs section in the Administration GUI. 

6377343 

With NSS 3.11.1, certificates with new critical extensions like PolicyConstraints mentioned in RFC3280 can be imported into the certificate database.

6376634 

The SSL session was not timing out as expected when SSL3SessionTimeout or SSLSessionTimeout was configured to the user defined value in magnus.conf. NSS 3.11.1 fixed the magnus.conf directives SSL3SessionTimeout and SSLSessionTimeout.

Issues Resolved in 6.1 SP6 Documentation

The following table lists the issues resolved in the English language version of Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP6 documentation.


Note –

The following issues exists in the localized version of Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP6 documentation.


Table 5 Issues Resolved in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 Documentation

Problem ID 

Description 

6378473 

Release Notes for Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 Add-Ons Reverse Proxy Plugin has incorrect default value for the validate-server-cert SAF.

6391505 

Installation and Migration Guide should document configuration file writability, root security risks, and Solaris net_privaddr privilege.

6359385 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference should document the magnus.conf variable MaxKeepAliveConnections value range for 64–bit server.

6358849 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference should document the MaxOpenFiles attribute in the nsfc.conf configuration file.

5065188 

6173274 

Administrator's Guide incorrectly describes a Find menu Passage Search option in the Advanced Search section. This menu option is not available.

6155266 

Administrator's Guide describes the configuration log level incorrectly.

6206074 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference describes an incorrect default value for the ChildRestartCallback directive.

6170766 

Installation and Migration Guide describes an incorrect method of upgrading a new version of Web Server in the Before You Install Sun ONE Web Server section.

6170769 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference has incorrect information about the AdminLanguage directive.

6173273 

Administrator's Guide has a typo error under section Choosing MIME Types.

6173133 

NSAPI Programmer's Guide describes an incorrect example of a NSAPI Function Reference.

6173272 

Administrator's Guide incorrectly documents the supported version of Java as `1.4.1_03'.

5029460 

Administrator's Guide documents an incorrect certmap.conf configuration.

4975161 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference does not document the optional parameter `block-size' for pool-init.

5002190 

Administrator's Guide doesn't contain information about the htpasswd command utility.

5002192 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference has incorrect information about the loglevel attribute.

5038534 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference has incorrect default value for the LogFlushInterval directive.

4781137 

Administrator's Guide has the following incorrect information:

4823362 

Administrator's Guide needs to be updated with additional information regarding ACL.

5046588 

Installation and Migration Guide incorrectly documents the supported version of Sun accelerator hardware.

5052605 

NSAPI Programmer's Guide does not clearly specify that content-type needs to be in lower case.

5062560 

Installation and Migration Guide does not document the method of disabling the start-on-boot option.

6285234 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference incorrectly describes the default value of the StrictHttpHeaders directive as on.

6067318 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference has insufficient information about the set-variable error parameter.

6230379 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference incorrectly describes a remove-file() SAF.

6208955 

NSAPI Programmer's Guide incorrectly documents the description of SERVER_SOFTWARE as MAGNUS_VERSION_STRING.

6320016 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference doesn't clearly define the default value of listenQ on Windows.

6354681 

Administrator's Configuration File Reference needs more information about DNS.