d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen DesaiAPACHE 2.0 STATUS: -*-text-*-

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke SmithLast modified at [$Date: 2002/01/02 08:13:33 $]

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke Smith

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke SmithRelease:

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai 2.0.30 : In development

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai 2.0.29 : tagged November 27, 2001

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke Smith 2.0.28 : released November 13, 2001

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai 2.0.27 : rolled November 6, 2001

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai 2.0.26 : tagged October 16, 2001. not rolled.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai 2.0.25 : rolled August 29, 2001

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai 2.0.24 : rolled August 18, 2001

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke Smith 2.0.23 : rolled August 9, 2001

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai 2.0.22 : rolled July 29, 2001

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai 2.0.21 : rolled July 20, 2001

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai 2.0.20 : rolled July 8, 2001

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke Smith 2.0.19 : rolled June 27, 2001

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai 2.0.18 : rolled May 18, 2001

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai 2.0.17 : rolled April 17, 2001

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai 2.0.16 : rolled April 4, 2001

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke Smith 2.0.15 : rolled March 21, 2001

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai 2.0.14 : rolled March 7, 2001

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai 2.0a9 : released December 12, 2000

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai 2.0a8 : released November 20, 2000

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai 2.0a7 : released October 8, 2000

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai 2.0a6 : released August 18, 2000

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai 2.0a5 : released August 4, 2000

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai 2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke Smith 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke SmithPlease consult the following STATUS files for information

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke Smithon related projects:

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke Smith

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke Smith * srclib/apr/STATUS

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke Smith * srclib/apr-util/STATUS

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke Smith * docs/STATUS

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke SmithRELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke Smith * ap_directory_walk skips some per-dir config merge functions

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai if there is no "<Directory />" block in the configuration

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke Smith Message-ID: <m3itbdiijq.fsf@rdu163-40-092.nc.rr.com>

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * Test suite failures:

98c1ab155c0e2148f69291b1abe1007c9d5a08e8Satyen Desai o perchild doesn't even build

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai o both worker and prefork are failing some of the 'chunked' subtests

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai o worker is also failing some of the 'cgi' subtests

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai (see <URL:http://Source-Zone.Org/Apache/regression/>):

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * If any request gets to the core handler, without a flag that this

98c1ab155c0e2148f69291b1abe1007c9d5a08e8Satyen Desai r->filename was tested by dir/file_walk, we need to 500 at the very

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai end of the ap_process_request_internal() processing. This provides

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai authors of older modules better compatibility, while still improving

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai the security and robustness of 2.0.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai Status: still need to decide where this goes, OtherBill comments...

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai Message-ID: <065701c14526$495203b0$96c0b0d0@roweclan.net>

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai we need to look at halting this in the 'default handler' case,

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai and that implies pushing the 'handler election' into the request

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai internal processing phase from the run request phase.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * There is a bug in how we sort some hooks, at least the pre-config

98c1ab155c0e2148f69291b1abe1007c9d5a08e8Satyen Desai hook. The first time we call the hooks, they are in the correct

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai order, but the second time, we don't sort them correctly. Currently,

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai the modules/http/config.m4 file has been renamed to

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai modules/http/config2.m4 to work around this problem, it should moved

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai back when this is fixed. rbb

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * The Add...Filter and Set...Filter directives do not allow the

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai administrator to order filters, beyond the order of filename (mime)

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai extensions. It isn't clear if Set...Filter(s) should be inserted

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai before or after the Add...Filter(s) which are ordered by sequence of

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai filename extensions. At minimum, some sort of +-[0-10] syntax seems

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai like the quickest fix for a 2.0 gold release.

98c1ab155c0e2148f69291b1abe1007c9d5a08e8Satyen Desai

98c1ab155c0e2148f69291b1abe1007c9d5a08e8Satyen Desai * mod_negotiation needs a new option or directive, something like

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai ForceLanguagePriority, to fall back to the LanguagePriority

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai directive instead of returning a "no acceptable variant" error.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai Status: Bill has some code in his tree that accomplishes

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai this, and will commit it Friday after it's tested.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * Fold mod_auth_db features back into mod_auth_dbm, and depricate it.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai This can't wait until we have a 2.0-gold release, if folks need

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai to move over to auth_dbm, we can't do that to them after 2.0 gold.

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke Smith Status: Ian says.. auth_dbm can now handle multiple DBM types,

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai is this still an issue?

4a5f24116202d9475862e022628fa2919d990842Satyen Desai Vote: Remove mod_auth_db

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai +1: Justin

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * Convert all instances of the old apr_lock_t type to the new

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai types (once they are fully supported in APR).

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai Status: Aaron is working on converting INTRAPROCESS

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai to apr_thread_mutex_t types. Full replacements for

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai LOCKALL and CROSS_PROCESS are not yet complete on all

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai platforms, and should only be used in MPMs like worker

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai with limited OS exposure.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * ap_create_scoreboard() can exit the process, leaving stuff like

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai mod_cgid's daemon process stranded. Either ap_create_scoreboard()

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai needs to be called at a different time or the pre-mpm hook needs

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai to be able to return an error code.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen DesaiRELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * Handling of %2f in URIs. Currently both 1.3 and 2.0

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai completely disallow %2f in the request URI path (see

98c1ab155c0e2148f69291b1abe1007c9d5a08e8Satyen Desai ap_unescape_url() in util.c). It's permitted and passed

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai through in the query string, however. Roy says the

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai original reason for disallowing it, from five years ago,

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai was to protect CGI scripts that applied PATH_INFO to

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai a filesystem location and which might be tricked by

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai ..%2f..%2f(...). We *should* allow path-info of the

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai form 'http://foo.com/index.cgi/path/to/path%2finfo'.

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai Since we've revamped a lot of our processing of path

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai segments, it would be nice to allow this, or at least

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai allow it conditionally with a directive.

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai * FreeBSD, threads, and worker MPM. All seems to work fine

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai if you only have one worker process with many threads. Add

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai a second worker process and the accept lock seems to be

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai lost. This might be an APR issue with how it deals with

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai the child_init hook (i.e. the fcntl lock needs to be resynced).

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai More examination and analysis is required.

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai Status: This has also been reported on Cygwin.

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai Message-ID: <3C2CC514.8EF3BED1@wapme-systems.de> (cygnus)

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai Justin says: So, FreeBSD-CURRENT and Cywin have the same

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai problem. Yum. If another platform has this

81ed0aaa8456bd5c6a54e7797258b1f182eb1f5bSatyen Desai with worker, this becomes a showstopper.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * There is increasing demand from module writers for an API

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai that will allow them to control the server � la apachectl.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai Reasons include sole-function servers that need to die if

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai an external dependency (e.g., a database) fails, et cetera.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai Perhaps something in the (ever more abused) scoreboard?

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai rbb: I don't believe the scoreboard is the correct mechanism

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai for this. We already have a pipe that goes between parent

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai and child for graceful shutdown events, along with an API that

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai can be used to send a message down that pipe. In threaded MPMs,

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai it is easy enough to make that one pipe be used for graceful

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai and graceless events, and it is also easy to open that pipe

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai to both parent and child for writing. Then we just need to figure

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai out how to do graceless on non-threaded MPMs.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * revamp the input filter behavior, per discussions since

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai February (and especially at the hackathon last

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai April). Specifically, ap_get_brigade will return a brigade with

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai *up to* a specific number of bytes, or a "line" of data. The

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai read may be blocking or nonblocking. ap_getline() will be

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai refactored into apr_brigade_getline(), and then DECHUNK can use

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai f->next (ap_getline will always read "top of input stack"). Also

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai fix the bug where request body content will end up closing the

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai connection (buggering up persistent conns).

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai Status: Justin is working on this as fast as he can.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai The core input filters, HTTP-related filters, mod_ssl, and

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai mod_proxy are switched to the new logic.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai However, ap_getline() still needs to be refactored out. But,

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai there's a problem there: ap_getline() peeks ahead for MIME

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai continuation (first character on line is space or \t) and

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai stores unused data in core_request_config which violates the

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai abstraction. That's cheating. So, we may not be able to

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai implement this without setting some data aside (yuck!).

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai I believe this is OtherBill's main complaint with the current

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai filtering.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai AIUI (correct me if I'm wrong!), OtherBill believes we

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai should have a pushback option so that we can return unread

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai data - this would solve this case. However, my question to

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai him is how do we handle stuff like mod_ssl - we can't "unread"

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai data. So, do we have two brigades for each filter? An in

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai brigade and a returned brigade? That seems messy. To

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai everyone else, can we refactor ap_getline() without pushback

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai and how?

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai - socket bucket and core input filter changes. see end of

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai message ID (Feb 27): <20010227075326.S2297@lyra.org>

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai - fix up ap_get_brigade() semantics, fix bug in DECHUNK /

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai ap_getline. many messages (plus their threads) (Apr/May):

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai Message-ID: <20010402101207.J27539@lyra.org>

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai Message-ID: <3AF7F921.D2EEC41A@algroup.co.uk>

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai Message-ID: <20010508190029.E18404@lyra.org>

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai - further work with combining/tweaking the builtin filters:

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai Message-ID: <20010509115445.D1374@lyra.org>

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai - thoughts on filter modes:

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai Message-ID: <021b01c14dee$09782af0$93c0b0d0@roweclan.net>

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * Allow the DocumentRoot directive within <Location > scopes? This

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai allows the beloved (crusty) Alias /foo/ /somepath/foo/ followed

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai by a <Directory /somepath/foo> to become simply

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai <Location /foo/> DocumentRoot /somefile/foo (IMHO a bit more legible

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai and in-your-face.) DocumentRoot unset would be accepted [and would

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai not permit content to be served, only virtual resources such as

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai server-info or server-status.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai This proposed change would _not_ depricate Alias.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * Win32: Rotatelogs sometimes is not terminated when Apache

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai goes down hard. FirstBill was looking at possibly tracking the

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai child's-child processes in the parent process.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai OtherBill asks, wasn't this fixed?

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * Win32: Add a simple hold console open patch (wait for close or

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai the ESC key, with a nice message) if the server died a bad

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai death (non-zero exit code) in console mode.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai Resolution: bring forward same ugly hacks from 1.3.13-.20

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * Port of mod_ssl to Apache 2.0:

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai The current porting state is summarized in modules/ssl/README. The

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai remaining work includes:

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai (1) stablizing/optimizing the SSL filter logic

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai (2) Enabling the various SSL caching mechanisms (shmcb, shmht)

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai (3) Enabling SSL extentions

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai (4) Trying to seperate the https filter logic from mod_ssl -

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai This is to facilitate other modules that wish to use the https

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai filter or the mod_ssl logic or both as required.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai Justin: mod_ssl filter logic is redone, so that should be fine.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai Madhu has submitted a patch for SSL caching - however, I

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai am -0 on that patch as I *think* we could implement the

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai shared memory another way that is much cleaner (i.e.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai treat shmem directly as a dbm via APR routines). Justin

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai also thinks that the https filter logic may be sufficiently

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai decoupled now, but isn't really sure.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * Performance: Get the SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai optimization working in worker. prefork's new design for how

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai to notice data on the pod should be sufficient.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * Performance & Debug: Eliminate most (and perhaps all) of the

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai malloc/free calls in the bucket brigade code. Need some

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai light weight memory management functions that allow freeing

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai memory (putting it back into a memory pool) when it is no

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai longer needed. Enabling simple debugging features like guard

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai bands, double free detection, etc. would be cool but certainly

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai not a hard requirement.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai Status: Cliff started to implement this using SMS as has

0b9b9d3bda11c4468e6ebac4df222fdb89c9a7b8Satyen Desai been discussed at length for months, but since

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai SMS is not being used anywhere else in the server,

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai several people expressed the opinion that we should

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai get rid of it entirely, meaning that the buckets

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai need their own memory management (free list) functions.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai Cliff will implement that this weekend so we at least

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai have something to look at/compare with.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * Eliminate unnecessary creation of pipes in mod_cgid

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * the autoconf setup should be fixed to default to using the

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai "Apache" layout from config.layout, and each variable settable

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai in a layout should be overridable on the command line. Plus,

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai what we do right now just doesn't seem to fully fit into how autoconf

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai works, eg. AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT issues.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0104031557420.20876-100000@alive.znep.com>

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * Combine log_child and piped_log_spawn. Clean up http_log.c.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai Common logging API.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * Document mod_file_cache.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * OS/2: Make mod_status work for spmt_os2 MPM.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

4a5f24116202d9475862e022628fa2919d990842Satyen Desai * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke Smith Architect start-up code that avoids initializing all the modules

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai in the parent process on platforms that do not support fork.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai * Win32: Migrate the MPM over to use APR thread/process calls. This

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke Smith would eliminate some code in the Win32 branch that essentially

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke Smith duplicates what is in APR.

d3c5729464159cab52ada7ff4b6c26b91bd4dcb4Satyen Desai

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke Smith * There are still a number of places in the code where we are

00cf03a1ca1624dac1fecc85f43fc34f8806aff9Luke Smith losing error status (i.e. throwing away the error returned by a

system call and replacing it with a generic error code)

* Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.

* All DBMs suffer from confusion in support/dbmmanage (perl script) since

the dbmmanage employs the first-matched dbm format. This is not

necessarily the library that Apache was built with. Aught to

rewrite dbmmanage upon installation to bin/ with the proper library

for predictable mod_auth_db/dbm administration.

Status: Mladen Turk has posted several patches and ideas.

Key question, part of htpasswd, or a seperate utility?

prefer htpasswd:

prefer seperate: OtherBill

* use apu_dbm in mod_auth_dbm

Status: Greg +1 (low-priority volunteer)

Justin says: "Seems like this is already there, so should we just

remove the other DBM code in that file? If you want

to use gdbm, or dbm, etc, you should tell apr-util."

Will says: "bs - I may choose the fastest - most efficient native

dbm implementation, for shared proc caches, ssl session

caching, etc, but that has nothing to do with maintaining

a userlist via dbm, which has to remain readable between

builds/machines, etc. The use-multiple database schema

for apr-util would let us do this with just apr, though."

Ian says: "multi-dbm is in, but it still has ndbm support hardcoded

is this still required? isn't ndbm supported via gdbm?"

* Integrate mod_dav.

Some additional items remaining:

- case_preserved_filename stuff

(use the new canonical name stuff?)

- find a new home for ap_text(_header)

- is it possible to remove the DAV: namespace stuff from util_xml?

* ap_core_translate() and its use by mod_mmap_static and mod_file_cache

are a bit wonky. The function should probably be exposed as a utility

function (such as ap_translate_url2fs() or ap_validate_fs_url() or

something). Another approach would be a new hook phase after

"translate" which would allow the module to munge what the

translation has decided to do.

Status: Greg +1 (volunteers), Ryan +1

* Explore use of a post-config hook for the code in http_main.c which

calls ap_fixup_virutal_hosts(), ap_fini_vhost_config(), and

ap_sort_hooks() [to reduce the logic in main()]

* read the config tree just once, and process N times (as necessary)

* (possibly) use UUIDs in mod_unique_id and/or mod_usertrack

* (possibly) port the bug fix for PR 6942 (segv when LoadModule is put

into a VirtualHost container) to 2.0.

* shift stuff to mod_core.h

* callers of ap_run_create_request() should check the return value

for failure (Doug volunteers)

* Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work

(at least) needs to be done:

- winnt MPM: Fix 95/98 code paths in the winnt MPM. There is some NT

specific code that is still not in NT only code paths

- IOL binds to APR sendfile, implemented with TransmitFile, which

is not available on 95/98.

- Document warning that OSR2 is required (for Crypt functions, in

rand.c, at least.) This could be resolved with an SSL library, or

randomization in APR itself.

- Bring the Win9xConHook.dll from 1.3 into 2.0 (no sense till it

actually works) and add in a splash of Win9x service code.

* In order to use a DSO version of mod_ssl we have to link with

-lssl and -lcrypto. A workaround is in place right now where the

entire EXTRA_LIBS macro is being appended to the objects list, but

this is a hack. We should either revamp the APACHE_CHECK_SSL_TOOLKIT

autoconf function or come up with some other autoconf checks to

search for libssl and libcrypto and properly add them to mod_ssl's

link flags.

* Make the worker MPM the default MPM for threaded Unix boxes.

+1: Justin, Jeff, Ian

-0: Aaron (premature decision, needs more discussion)

-0: Cliff (I think the default config should be the safest possible)

* Fix the worker MPM to use POD to kill child processes instead

of ap_os_killpg, regardless of how they should die. (Ryan Bloom)

PRs that have been suspended forever waiting for someone to

put them into 'the next release':

* PR#76: general

missing call to "setlocale();"

Status:

* PR#78: mod_include

Additional status for XBitHack directive

Status:

* PR#362: mod_proxy

Mod_proxy doesn't allow change of error pages

Status:

* PR#370: mod_env

Modified PATH environemnt variable is not passed, instead

system's is used

Status:

* PR#440: mod_proxy

Proxy doesn't deliver documents if not connected

Status:

* PR#534: mod_proxy

proxy converts ~name to %7Ename when name starts with a dot (.)

Status:

* PR#537: mod_access

mod_access syntax allows hosts that should be restricted

Status:

* PR#557: mod_auth-any

~UserHome directories are not honored in absolute pathname

requests (.htaccess)

Status:

* PR#612: mod_proxy

Proxy FTP Authentication Fails

Status:

* PR#623: mod_include

A smarter "Last Modified" value for SSI documents (see PR number 600)

Status:

* PR#628: config

Request of "Options SymLinksIfGroupMatch"

Status:

* PR#700: mod_proxy

Proxy doesn't do links right for OpenVMS files through ftp:

Status:

* PR#759: mod_imap

imap should read <MAP><AREA>*</MAP> too!

Status:

* PR#793: general

RLimitCPU and RLimitMEM don't apply to all children like they should

Status:

* PR#921: suexec

Uses cwd before filling it in, doesn't use syslog

Status:

* PR#922: config

it is useful to allow specifiction that root-owned symlinks

should always be followed

Status:

* PR#980: mod_proxy

Controlling Access to Remote Proxies would be nice...

Status:

* PR#994: mod_proxy

Adding authentication "on the fly" through the proxy module

Status:

* PR#1004: apache-api

request_config field in request_rec is moderately bogus

Status:

* PR#1028: other

DoS attacks involving memory consumption

Status:

* PR#1050: mod_log-any

Logging of virtual server to error_log as well

Status:

* PR#1085: mod_proxy

ProxyRemote make a dead cycle.

Status:

* PR#1117: mod_auth-any

Using NIS passwd.byname dbm files with AuthDBMUserFile

Status:

* PR#1120: suexec

suexec does not parse arguments to #exec cmd

Status:

* PR#1145: mod_include

Allow for Last-Modified: without resorting to XBitHack

Status:

* PR#1158: apache-api

improvements to child spawning API

Status:

* PR#1166: mod_proxy

``nph-'' not honored (no buffering) for ProxyRemote mapping

Status:

* PR#1176: mod_cgi

Apache cannot handle continuation line in headers

Status:

* PR#1191: general

setlogin() is not called, causing problems with e.g. identd

Status:

* PR#1204: general

regerror() exists, use it

Status:

* PR#1233: apache-api

there is no way to keep per-connection per-module state

Status:

* PR#1263: mod_autoexec

Add frame-safe anchor attribute to mod_autoindex links

Status:

* PR#1268: suexec

CGI scripts running as Apache user: security (suexec etc.)

Status:

* PR#1285: suexec

Error messages could be easier to spot in cgi.log file for suexec.c

Status:

* PR#1287: mod_access

add allow,deny/deny,allow warning to mod_access

Status:

* PR#1290: mod_proxy

Need to know "hit-rate" on proxy cache

Status:

* PR#1358: mod_log-any

Selective url-encode of log fields (or maybe a pseudo

log_rewrite module?)

Status:

* PR#1383: mod_headers

I make mod_headers to modify request headers as well as

response ones.

Status:

* PR#1532: mod_proxy

Proxy transfer logging

Status:

* PR#1547: mod_proxy

No HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR set...

Status:

* PR#1567: mod_proxy

ProxyRemote proxy requests fail authentication by firewall

Status:

* PR#1582: mod_rewrite

mod_rewrite forms REQUEST_URI different than mod_cgi does

Status:

* PR#1677: mod_headers

mod_headers should allow mod_log_config-style formats in

header values

Status:

* PR#1702: mod_proxy

mod_proxy to support persistent conns?

Status:

* PR#1803: mod_include

patches to mod_include to allow for file tests

Status:

* PR#1809: mod_auth-any

Suggestion for improving authentication modules and core source

code, problem with 401 and ErrorDocument

Status:

* PR#1878: mod_proxy

listing of proxy cache content

Status:

* PR#1905: suexec

Allow modules to set user:group for execution.

Status:

* PR#2024: apache-api

adding auth_why to conn_rec

Status:

* PR#2073: mod_log-any

pipelined connections are not logged correctly

Status:

* PR#2074: mod_rewrite

mod_rewrite doesn't pass Proxy Throughput on internal subrequests

Status:

* PR#2113: config

HTTP Server Rebuild Line Needs Changing for the better

Status:

* PR#2138: mod_status

mod_status always displays 256 possible connection slots

Status:

* PR#2221: documentation

Make online documentation search link back to my installation

Status:

* PR#2284: general

Can not POST to ErrorDocument - Apache/1.3b6

Status:

* PR#2314: mod_proxy

patterns in ProxyRemote

Status:

* PR#2343: mod_status

Status module averages are for entire uptime

Status:

* PR#2360: suexec

suexec for general access of user content?

Status:

* PR#2396: general

Proposal for TimeZone directive

Status:

* PR#2415: mod_info

/server-info doesn't check for the virtual host to list the info

Status:

* PR#2421: config

problem specifying ndbm library for build ?with autoconfigure

Status:

* PR#2431: general

A small addition to rotatelogs.c to improve program functionality.

Status:

* PR#2446: config

AllowOverride FileInfo is too coarse

Status:

* PR#2460: mod_cgi

TimeOut applies to output of CGI scripts

Status:

* PR#2512: mod_access

&lt;IfDenied&gt; directive wanted

Status:

* PR#2573: suexec

CGI's for general use still have to be run as another user

with suExec

Status:

* PR#2648: general

Cache file names in Proxy module

Status:

* PR#2760: config

[PATCH] User/Group for <Directory> and <Location> i.e. not only

in global and <Virtual>.

Status:

* PR#2763: general

mailto tags and bundling bug report script

Status:

* PR#2785: os-aix

Support for System Resource Controller

Status:

* PR#2793: protocol

When will Apache support P3P? Any Plans?

Status:

* PR#2873: config

Feedback/Comment on APACI

Status:

* PR#2889: general

Inclusion of RPM spec file in CVS/distributions

Status:

* PR#2906: general

Propose that Apache recommend $UNIQUE_ID for all "session id"

algorithms

Status:

* PR#2907: config

suggestion: power up your Include directive :)

Status:

* PR#3018: general

cannot limit some HTTP methods

Status:

* PR#3143: apache-api

No module specific data hook for per-connection data

Status:

* PR#3191: mod_negotiation

no way to set global quality-of-source (qs) coneg values

with multiviews

Status:

* PR#3568: mod_proxy

Accessing URL through proxy server corrupts data.

Status:

* PR#3605: mod_proxy

Some anonymous FTP URLs ask for authentication

Status:

* PR#3677: general

New ErrorDocumentMatch directive

Status:

* PR#4241: config

Need to be able to override shebang line to make CGI scripts

more portable.

Status:

* PR#4244: config

"Files" and "FilesMatch" regexp does not recognize bang as

negation operator

Status:

* PR#4448: mod_log-any

Please allow CGI env variables (QUERY_STRING, ...) to be logged

with %{}e

Status:

* PR#4459: mod_include

Suggestion for better handling of Last-modified headers

Status:

* PR#4490: mod_cgi

mod_cgi prevents handling of OPTIONS requests

Status:

* PR#5713: os-windows

[PATCH] install as win32 service with domain account

Status:

* PR#5993: general

AllowOverride should have a 'CheckNone' and 'AllowNone' argument

instead of only 'None'

Status:

Other bugs that need fixing:

* MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests.

Until someone has a better way, we'll probably just rename it

"MaxConnectionsPerChild".

* Regex containers don't work in an intutive way

Status: No one has come up with an efficient way to fix this

behavior. Dean has suggested getting rid of regex containers

completely.

* SIGSEGV on Linux (glibc 2.1.2) isn't caught properly by a

sigwaiting thread. We need to work around this, perhaps unless

there is hope soon for a fixed glibc.

* orig_ct in the byterange/multipart handling may not be

needed. Apache 1.3 just never stashed "multipart" into

r->content_type. We should probably follow suit since the

byterange stuff doesn't want the rest of the code to see the

multipart content-type; the other code should still think it is

dealing with the <orig_ct> stuff.

Status: Greg volunteers to investigate (esp. since he was most

likely the one to break it :-)

Other features that need writing:

* Finish infrastructure in core for async MPMs

Status: post 2.0

* TODO in source -- just do an egrep on "TODO" and see what's there

Available Patches:

* Jon Travis's <jtravis@covalent.net> patch to deal with thread-safe

issues with inet_ntoa. See message <20001201163220.A12827@covalent.net>

Status: This is being set aside until the IPv6 work is finished

so that we know exactly what is required.

* Martin Sojka <msojka@gmx.de>'s patch to add error reporting for failed

htpasswd actions due to a full /tmp volume (other programs may have

similar problems?)

PR: 6475

Status:

* Mike Abbott's <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com> patches to improve

performance

Status: These were written for 1.3, and are awaiting a port to

2.0

* Jim Winstead's <jimw@trainedmonkey.com> patch to add CookieDomain and

other small mod_usertrack features

* Dan Rench's <drench@xnet.com> patch to add allow the errmsg and timefmt

of SSI's to be modified in the config file. Patch is available in

PR6193

Open issues:

* Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?