WebKit 1.0.2 Release Notes

WebKit version 1.0.2 released on 06/07/09

New Features

• HTTPResponse and HTTPContent have got new methods allowing different kinds of redirect, besides the default redirect with status code 302. The sendRedirectSeeOtherAndEnd() method is particularly interesting, since it is the proper way to implement the Post/Redirect/Get pattern.
• The file extensions of the files that shall be parsed as PSP files or Kid templates can now be configured using the settings ExtensionsForPSP and ExtensionsForKid. By default (as before), only files with the extension .psp are regarded as PSP files, and only files with the extension .kid are regarded as Kid templates.

Improvements and Refinements

• The session cookie has been set in every response until now. As Fionn Behrens pointed out, this is bad practice, since the browser may be configured to ask the user whenever a cookie is set, and some browsers may even do this if the cookie value does not change. So starting with this WebKit version, the session cookie will not be set in the response anymore when it was already present in the request.

Bugfixes

• When using the psp-handler of mod_webkit, request methods like servletPath() and others returned values which were different from what you get when using the ordinary webkit-handler. This could cause various problems, for instance because the default cookie path is set to the servlet path (reported by Fionn Behrens). To avoid such problems, requests made via the psp-handler now will look much more similar to a request made via the ordinary webkit-handler.