The list of known bugs are in reverse chronological order. Please report bugs or bug fixes to libwww@w3.org noting the version of robot and the Library and what
caused the bug to appear.
./w3c -version
The provided patches are relative to the WWW directory in the distribution tree. In
order to apply a patch, do the following in the WWW directory:
Download the patch, for example robot-1.fix
Invoke the patch command by typing
patch < robot-1.fix
Rebuild the code by typing
make clobber
./BUILD robot
You should only apply patches under the section with same version number as your current
version. You can see the current version of this software by looking into the version file. Please also make sure that this version
is the same as for the version of the W3C
Reference Library
Robot 4.0C
The current implementation of the Robot has a problem with requests that timeout. That is, if the
remote server is not capable of generating a response within the amount of time the Robot is willing
to wait. The Robot is not capable of finding which request object timed out so it has to stop the
search completely. This is a limitatation of the current implementation of the internal Event loop in the Library. It is not a design
limitation, but the event loop is currently optimized for use by user active applications and not so
much "non-user" application.