NEWS.md

In gaborcsardi/presser: Fake Web Apps for HTTP Testing

webfakes (development version)

webfakes 1.3.2

• New server option: decode_url. If set to FALSE, then the web server will not URL-decode the URL (#106).

webfakes 1.3.1

No changes.

webfakes 1.3.0

• New git_app() app to fake a git HTTP server. See the webfakes test cases for examples.

• New mw_cgi() middleware to call CGI scripts. See the new git_app() for an example.

webfakes 1.2.1

• tmpl_glue() now works correctly on platforms with an issue in readChar(..., useBytes = TRUE), e.g. on macOS 14.x Sonoma: https://bugs.r-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18605.

webfakes 1.2.0

• The httpbin app now implements the /brotli, /deflate, /digest-auth /forms/post, /hidden-basic-auth, /range/:n, /stream/:n, /cache and /cache/:value endpoints. With these, it implements all endpoint of the original Python httpbin app (#3).

• New middleware mw_cookie_parser() to parse a Cookie header. Relatedly, new response$add_cookie() and response$clear_cookie() methods to add a cookie to a response and to add a header that clears a cookie (#2).

• Parsing query parametes without a value now does not fail.

• New utility function http_time_stamp() to format a time stamp for HTTP.

• The httpbin app now implements the endpoints related to cookies (#3).

• The httpbin app now sends the Date header in the correct format.

• The offset parameter is now optional in the /links endpoint of the httpbin app.

• mw_etag() now does not add an ETag header to the response, if there is one already. (The comparision is case sensitive.)

• New middleware: mw_range_parser() to parse Range headers.

webfakes 1.1.7

• No user visible changes.

webfakes 1.1.6

• response$send_file() now handles root = "/" and absolute paths better on Windows.

• new_app_process() and local_app_process() are now faster, because the app object they need to copy to the subprocess is smaller.

webfakes 1.1.5

• mw_etag() now handles the If-None-Match header properly, and sets the status code of the response to 304, and removes the response body.

webfakes 1.1.4

• No user visible changes.

webfakes 1.1.3

• webfakes now compiles on older macOS versions, hopefully really.

webfakes 1.1.2

• webfakes now compiles on older macOS versions (before 10.12).

1.1.1

First release on CRAN

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