Mongrel users - Dec 2006 - Mongrel 0.3.19 -- The Gnostic MIME Type Release

Hello All,

I''m putting out a quick half-release because there''s some work
on the MIME types I''ve included that needs to be done by all of you. 
Read at the end to understand your role in what you started.

This release features two major capitulations on Mongrel''s stance of
not being a full web server.  The first is Mongrel now sports a YAML file with
739 MIME types in it that it will use.  The second is Mongrel will now accept
clients who insist on doing their requests with "GET
http://host:3000/index.html HTTP/1.1" even though it''s not
understood by a web server (that''s for *proxies* people).

It also features a patch to allow for multiple listeners on the request chains,
so anyone running *mongrel_upload_progress* should test it heavily.  Finally,
we''re getting close to having a clean build for win32, and my apology
for holding things back on that.

Install with:

 $ gem install fastthread --source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases
 $ gem install mongrel --source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases

If you get an error about the missing mime_types.yml file then uninstall Mongrel
completely and reinstall.


THE MIME TYPES SHALL BE DECIDED BY COMBAT

Now, the MIME types are not finalized because, after looking at several sources
I found out everyone is completely out to lunch.  I gathered together
severalsources and recommended mime types, merged them all together, sorted and
made them unique.

I now have a wiki page entitle The Gnostic MIME Types:

http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/TheGnosticMimeTypes

And I''m going to leave it up for the next 24 hours.  People can edit
the list to
remove what they think are invalid, correct the list, and fight over wiki wars
to make the MIME type list.

Whatever survives after the wars will become the official Mongrel MIME types.
The ones that remain will be labeled "The Gnostic MIME Types" and
simply
documented on the Mongrel site so people know what happened.

Let the battle begin!


WIN32 I STILL LOVE YOU

I''m still working on this last change or two and then I''m
going to chain myself to win32 for the next week until that side is rock solid. 
Luis has been working extra hard making the sweet new service management app, so
this should be a great next release for you folks.

-- 
Zed A. Shaw, MUDCRAP-CE Master Black Belt Sifu
http://www.zedshaw.com/
http://www.awprofessional.com/title/0321483502 -- The Mongrel Book
http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/
http://www.lingr.com/room/3yXhqKbfPy8 -- Come get help.

I just installed this, replacing mongrel 0.3.13.4 and the single
cookie issue I reported earlier is still happening. If I send multiple
cookies out, only the first one is being created. The rails
development log shows that all 3 cookies are being sent.

START DEV LOG
Cookie set: chekusername=user; domain=.website.com; path=/;
expires=Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:07:43 GMT
Cookie set: chekdomain=website.com; domain=.website.com; path=/;
expires=Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:07:43 GMT
Cookie set: cheksession=1234abcd1234abcd; domain=.website.com; path=/;
expires=Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:07:43 GMT
Redirected to http://webmail.website.com/frame.php
Completed in 0.24335 (4 reqs/sec) | DB: 0.02167 (8%) | 302 Found
[http://dev.website.com/myOMC/webmail]
END DEV LOG

Only the chekusername cookie is set in the browser after the request
is rendered.

Thanks.

On 12/15/06, Zed A. Shaw <zedshaw at zedshaw.com>
wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I''m putting out a quick half-release because there''s some
work on the MIME types I''ve included that needs to be done by all of
you.  Read at the end to understand your role in what you started.
>
> This release features two major capitulations on Mongrel''s stance
of not being a full web server.  The first is Mongrel now sports a YAML file
with 739 MIME types in it that it will use.  The second is Mongrel will now
accept clients who insist on doing their requests with "GET
http://host:3000/index.html HTTP/1.1" even though it''s not
understood by a web server (that''s for *proxies* people).
>
> It also features a patch to allow for multiple listeners on the request
chains, so anyone running *mongrel_upload_progress* should test it heavily. 
Finally, we''re getting close to having a clean build for win32, and my
apology for holding things back on that.
>
> Install with:
>
>  $ gem install fastthread --source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases
>  $ gem install mongrel --source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases
>
> If you get an error about the missing mime_types.yml file then uninstall
Mongrel completely and reinstall.
>
>
> THE MIME TYPES SHALL BE DECIDED BY COMBAT
>
> Now, the MIME types are not finalized because, after looking at several
sources I found out everyone is completely out to lunch.  I gathered together
severalsources and recommended mime types, merged them all together, sorted and
made them unique.
>
> I now have a wiki page entitle The Gnostic MIME Types:
>
> http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/TheGnosticMimeTypes
>
> And I''m going to leave it up for the next 24 hours.  People can
edit the list to
> remove what they think are invalid, correct the list, and fight over wiki
wars
> to make the MIME type list.
>
> Whatever survives after the wars will become the official Mongrel MIME
types.
> The ones that remain will be labeled "The Gnostic MIME Types" and
simply
> documented on the Mongrel site so people know what happened.
>
> Let the battle begin!
>
>
> WIN32 I STILL LOVE YOU
>
> I''m still working on this last change or two and then I''m
going to chain myself to win32 for the next week until that side is rock solid. 
Luis has been working extra hard making the sweet new service management app, so
this should be a great next release for you folks.
>
> --
> Zed A. Shaw, MUDCRAP-CE Master Black Belt Sifu
> http://www.zedshaw.com/
> http://www.awprofessional.com/title/0321483502 -- The Mongrel Book
> http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/
> http://www.lingr.com/room/3yXhqKbfPy8 -- Come get help.
> _______________________________________________
> Mongrel-users mailing list
> Mongrel-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
>

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:42:15 -0600
"Joey Geiger" <jgeiger at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just installed this, replacing mongrel 0.3.13.4 and the single
> cookie issue I reported earlier is still happening. If I send multiple
> cookies out, only the first one is being created. The rails
> development log shows that all 3 cookies are being sent.
> 
Yeah, I remembered that I missed this last night.  Next release it''ll
have a whitelist for the cookies that should be allowed to duplicate (and you
can modify it if you need to).

Thanks for catching this.  I''ll be doing another release tonight so try
it then.

-- 
Zed A. Shaw, MUDCRAP-CE Master Black Belt Sifu
http://www.zedshaw.com/
http://www.awprofessional.com/title/0321483502 -- The Mongrel Book
http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/
http://www.lingr.com/room/3yXhqKbfPy8 -- Come get help.