Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP7 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 5 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 by accessing 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.


When using a shared directory from another Windows machine, ensure that the password of the Administrator account on both the machines is the 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. Go to Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services and make the changes in the Properties dialog box.

6384651 

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

6404983 

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

6316387 

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

6318003 

Web Server returns the actual content with 412 code for requests that contains 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 cannot 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 application 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 application's sun-web.xml.

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

    <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 application causes ownership changes on files.  

6294743 

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

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: Use either of these two workaround:

  • Delete the file .adminpasswd manually.

  • 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, use either of these two option:

  • 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.

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

6333656 

The MIME type file in Web Server binaries must include 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, Web Server 6.0 displays an error: server not avail.

6340799 

During a stress test on S1WS6.1SP5 SSL on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP2, webservd has a 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 with different IP addresses.  

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 10 MB. 

6361485 

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

6350122 

WS6.1SP5 on Windows: Cron-based log rotation fails with garbage characters inside the 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.