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webfakes (development version)

webfakes 1.5.0

CRAN release: 2026-05-16

  • New keep_alive_timeout_ms option in server_opts() to configure the idle timeout of keep-alive connections. The default is 5000 ms, up from the underlying CivetWeb default of 500 ms (#114).

  • Handler functions may now declare a locals argument, in which case webfakes passes app$locals to it directly, without having to access it through req$app$locals (#112).

  • webfakes now builds on platforms where ar does not writes a symbol index by default (@barracuda156, #121).

  • webfakes now parses HTTP date headers (e.g. Date, Last-Modified, Expires) correctly regardless of the user’s LC_TIME setting (@lbm364dl, #124).

  • Route matching now ignores trailing slashes. Use regular expressions (new_regexp()) if you need exact trailing slash matching (#120).

  • httpbin_app()’s /post, /put, /patch, /delete and /anything* endpoints now return the request body in the data field for any Content-Type, matching httpbin.org (#115).

webfakes 1.4.1

CRAN release: 2026-04-08

No changes.

webfakes 1.4.0

CRAN release: 2025-06-24

  • webfakes now supports HTTPS (#110).

  • The cleanup of a new_app_process() (and thus local_app_process()) is now faster. Instead of sending an interrupt first and waiting for the subprocess to quite, it is killed instantly.

webfakes 1.3.2

CRAN release: 2025-01-11

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

webfakes 1.3.1

CRAN release: 2024-04-25

No changes.

webfakes 1.3.0

CRAN release: 2023-12-11

  • 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

CRAN release: 2023-10-01

webfakes 1.2.0

CRAN release: 2023-05-16

  • 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

CRAN release: 2023-02-08

  • No user visible changes.

webfakes 1.1.6

CRAN release: 2022-11-08

  • 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

CRAN release: 2022-10-25

  • 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

CRAN release: 2022-09-08

  • No user visible changes.

webfakes 1.1.3

CRAN release: 2021-04-30

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

webfakes 1.1.2

CRAN release: 2021-04-05

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