Corrections and Updates to 6.1 SP12 Manuals

The following sections describe corrections and updates to Web Server 6.1 SP12 manuals:

• New Information About Case Sensitivity of HTTP Header Names

• Extraneous Information in Setting Access Rights

• Incorrect Information About net_read() Return Value

• Incorrect Information About PathCheck Flow Control

• Incorrect Instructions for Stopping schedulerd Control Daemon

New Information About Case Sensitivity of HTTP Header Names

Section 4.2 of the HTTP/1.1 standard (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt) states that HTTP header names are case-insensitive. When processing header names, Web Server 6.1 converts the names to all-lowercase.

Extraneous Information in Setting Access Rights

The section Setting Access Rights in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP12 Administrator’s Guide contains the following note. This note is inaccurate should be ignored.

Although the following methods are present in the code, they are not included in the document above, revlog, getattribute, getattributename, getproperties, startrev, stoprev, edit, unedit, save, setattribute, revadd, revlabel and destroy.

Incorrect Information About net_read() Return Value

The section net_read in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP12 NSAPI Programmer’s Guide contains incorrect information about the return value for the net_read() function. The correct information is:

Returns

The number of bytes read, which will not exceed the maximum size, sz. A negative value is returned if an error has occurred, in which case errno is set to the constant ETIMEDOUT if the operation did not complete before timeout seconds elapsed.

The number of bytes read, which will not exceed the maximum size, sz. A negative value is returned if an error has occurred, in which case errno is set to one of the following constants:

• ETIMEDOUT if the read operation did not complete before timeout seconds elapsed.

• EAGAIN if non-blocking I/O is enabled on the socket descriptor and the socket was temporarily unavailable.

• EWOULDBLOCK if non-blocking I/O is enabled on the socket descriptor and the read operation would have blocked.

Incorrect Information About PathCheck Flow Control

The section PathCheck in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP12 NSAPI Programmer’s Guide contains incorrect information.

Incorrect:

If the NameTrans directive assigned a name or generated a physical path name that matches the name or ppath attribute of another object, the server first applies the PathCheck directives in the matching object before applying the directives in the default object.

Correct:

If the NameTrans directive assigned a name or generated a physical path name that matches the name or ppath attribute of another object, the server first applies the PathCheck directives in the default object before applying the directives in the matching object.

Incorrect Instructions for Stopping schedulerd Control Daemon

The section Using Schedulerd Control-based Log Rotation (UNIX/Linux) in Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP12 Administrator’s Guide contains incorrect information about stopping the schedulerd control daemon

Incorrect:

export PID_FILE=/opt/SUNWwbsvr/https-admserv/logs/scheduler.pid kill -9 -`cat $PID_FILE` - rm $PID_FILE

Correct:

export PID_FILE=/opt/SUNWwbsvr/https-admserv/logs/scheduler.pid kill -9 `cat $PID_FILE` rm $PID_FILE