243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williamsAPACHE 2.0 STATUS: -*-text-*-

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williamsLast modified at [$Date: 2002/07/23 17:24:35 $]

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williamsRelease:

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0.40 : in development.

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0.39 : rolled June 17, 2002.

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0.38 : rolled June 16, 2002. not released.

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0.37 : rolled June 11, 2002. not released.

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0.36 : released May 6, 2002 as GA.

3437829f938dbb44527d91fbbc5f430a1243c5a5JnRouvignac 2.0.35 : released April 5, 2002 as GA.

3437829f938dbb44527d91fbbc5f430a1243c5a5JnRouvignac 2.0.34 : tagged March 26, 2002.

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0.33 : tagged March 6, 2002. not released.

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0.32 : released Feburary 16, 2002 as beta.

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0.31 : rolled Feburary 1, 2002. not released.

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0.30 : tagged January 8, 2002. not rolled.

3437829f938dbb44527d91fbbc5f430a1243c5a5JnRouvignac 2.0.29 : tagged November 27, 2001. not rolled.

3437829f938dbb44527d91fbbc5f430a1243c5a5JnRouvignac 2.0.28 : released November 13, 2001 as beta.

3437829f938dbb44527d91fbbc5f430a1243c5a5JnRouvignac 2.0.27 : rolled November 6, 2001

3437829f938dbb44527d91fbbc5f430a1243c5a5JnRouvignac 2.0.26 : tagged October 16, 2001. not rolled.

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0.25 : rolled August 29, 2001

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0.24 : rolled August 18, 2001

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0.23 : rolled August 9, 2001

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0.22 : rolled July 29, 2001

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0.21 : rolled July 20, 2001

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0.20 : rolled July 8, 2001

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0.19 : rolled June 27, 2001

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams 2.0.18 : rolled May 18, 2001

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0.17 : rolled April 17, 2001

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0.16 : rolled April 4, 2001

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0.15 : rolled March 21, 2001

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0.14 : rolled March 7, 2001

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0a9 : released December 12, 2000

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0a8 : released November 20, 2000

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0a7 : released October 8, 2000

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0a6 : released August 18, 2000

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0a5 : released August 4, 2000

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williamsPlease consult the following STATUS files for information

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williamson related projects:

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams * srclib/apr/STATUS

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams * srclib/apr-util/STATUS

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams * docs/STATUS

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williamsCURRENT RELEASE NOTES:

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williamsRELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams * apr_poll() grows the pool (e.g., pchild or the thread's pool) on

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams each call... Apache MPMs don't have logic to work around this

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams issue.

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams * On AIX and Tru64, Apache won't load due to an unresolved

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams reference to iconv.

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williamsCURRENT VOTES:

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams * httpd-std.conf and friends

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams a) httpd-std.conf should be tailored by install (from src or

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams binbuild) even if user has existing httpd.conf

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams +1: trawick, slive, gregames

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams b) tailored httpd-std.conf should be copied by install to

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams sysconfdir/examples

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams +1: trawick

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams c) tailored httpd-std.conf should be installed to

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams sysconfdir/examples or manualdir/exampleconf/

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams +1: slive

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams * apachectl should revert to just being an init script and

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams httpd.sh should be the wrapper for httpd which sources envvars

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams and allows any options to be passed through

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams +1: trawick

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams * Should we always build [support*] binaries statically unless otherwise

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams indicated?

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams Message-ID: <20020129210006.B23512@Lithium.MeepZor.Com>

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams +1: Ken, *wrowe [they are PITAs on OSX]

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams -1: Justin, Ian

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams * If the parent process dies, should the remaining child processes

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams "gracefully" self-terminate. Or maybe we should make it a runtime

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams option, or have a concept of 2 parent processes (one being a

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams "hot spare").

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams See: Message-ID: <3C58232C.FE91F19F@Golux.Com>

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams Self-destruct: Ken, Martin

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams Not self-destruct: BrianP, Ian, Cliff, BillS

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams Make it runtime configurable: Aaron, Jim, Justin

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams Have 2 parents: +1: Jim

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams -1: Justin, wrowe [for 2.0]

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams +0: Martin (while standing by, could it do

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams something useful?)

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams * Make the worker MPM the default MPM for threaded Unix boxes.

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams +1: Justin, Ian, Cliff, BillS

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams +0: BrianP, Aaron (mutex contention is looking better with the

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams latest code, let's continue tuning and testing)

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams -0: Lars

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williamsRELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams * All handlers should always send content down even if r->header_only

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams is set. If not, it means that the HEAD requests don't generate the

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams same headers as a GET which is wrong.

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams Is this a showstopper?

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams +1: Justin

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams -1: Aaron

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams * server pushed CGI's not working. (Is this a showstopper??)

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams PR: 8482

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams Message-ID: <3CE15B85.2FF45121@apache.org>

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams * HP/UX 10.20: compile breakage in APR. Looks like it should be easy

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams to fix, probably just some extraneous #include's that are fouling

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams things up.

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams PR: 9457

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams Jeff: See my reply and patch in the PR (and previous commit to

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams stop using "pipe" as a field name). If patch is committed, we

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams should be okay. I'll wait to see if the user tests the patch.

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams Update by Jeff 20020722: I got an account on HP 10.20. It looks

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams like some of the APR thread detection is screwed up. If we find

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams pthread.h but we can't compile the pthread test program we still

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams think we can use threads. For that reason, the patch I posted

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams to the PR won't work as-is since a failed compile of the test

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams program means nothing.

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams * exec cmd and suexec arg-passing enhancements

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams Status: Patches proposed

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams Message-ID: <20020526041748.A29148@prodigy.Redbrick.DCU.IE>

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams (see the "proc.patch" and "suexec-shell.patch" links in this message)

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams * Get mod_cache/mod_mem_cache out of experimental (still some

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams work items left to complete)

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams * The 2.0.36 worker MPM graceless shutdown changes work but are

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams a bit clunky on some platforms; eg, on Linux, the loop to

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams join each worker thread seems to hang, and the parent ends up

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams killing off the child with SIGKILL. But at least it shuts down.

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams * --enable-mods-shared="foo1 foo2" is busted on Darwin. Pier

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams posted a patch (Message-ID: <B8DBBE8D.575A%pier@betaversion.org>).

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams * We do not properly substitute the prefix-variables in the configuration

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams scripts or generated-configs. (i.e. if sysconfdir is etc,

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams httpd-std.conf points to conf.)

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams * If any request gets through ap_process_request_internal() and is

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams scheduled to be served by the core handler, without a flag that this

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams r->filename was tested by dir/file_walk, we need to 500 at the very

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams end of the ap_process_request_internal() processing so sub_req-esters

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams know this request cannot be run. This provides authors of older

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams modules better compatibility, while still improving the security and

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams robustness of 2.0.

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams Status: still need to decide where this goes, OtherBill comments...

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams Message-ID: <065701c14526$495203b0$96c0b0d0@roweclan.net>

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams [Deleted comments regarding the ap_run_handler phase, as irrelevant

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams as BillS points out that "common case will be caught in

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams default_handler already (with the r->finfo.filetype == 0 check)"

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams and the issue is detecting this -before- we try to run the req.]

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams gregames says: can this happen somehow without a broken module

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams being involved? If not, why waste cycles trying to defend against

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams potential broken modules? It seems futile.

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams wrowe counters: no, it shouldn't happen unless the module is broken.

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams But the right answer is to fail the request up-front in dir/file

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams walk if the path was entirely invalid; and we can't do that either

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams or we break modules that are unwilling to hook map_to_storage.

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams * Rewrite core_output_filter. It is nearly impossible to support

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams it with predictable results as it is implemented now.

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams * With AP_MODE_EXHAUSTIVE in the core, it is finally clear to me

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams how the Perchild MPM should be re-written. It hasn't worked

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams correctly since filters were added because it wasn't possible to

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams get the content that had already been written and the socket at

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams the same time. This mode lets us do that, so the MPM can be

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams fixed.

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams * htpasswd blindly processes the file you give it, and does no

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams sanity checking before totally corrupting whatever file it was

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams you thought you had. It should check the input file and bail

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams if it finds non-comment lines that do not contain exactly 1

c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams ':' character.

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c96a3340237c0d3df3acbce05d555fe642de96edgary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams * Can a static httpd be built reliably?

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams Message-ID: <20020207142751.T31582@clove.org>

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams * [Ken] Test suite failures:

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams o worker is also failing some of the 'cgi' subtests

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams (see <URL:http://Source-Zone.Org/Apache/regression/>):

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams Justin says: "Worker should be fine and passes httpd-test here.

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams If you can provide evidence that it can be reproduced

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams outside of httpd-test, then it's a showstopper. I

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams think it's a perl or a httpd-test problem."

243bc0335a6920d1e13470ec5ed3d4a7c867a64agary_williams Not a showstopper: Justin

* Usage of APR_BRIGADE_NORMALIZE in core_input_filter should be

removed if possible.

Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201202232430.318-100000@deepthought.cs.virginia.edu>

Jeff wonders if we still care about this. It is no longer an

API issue but simply an extra trip through the brigade.

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

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

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

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

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

back when this is fixed. rbb

Justin says: "Is this really a showstopper? This has been here

forever. What's wrong? Does this have to do with

autoconf or m4?"

Not a showstopper: Justin, BrianP, trawick, gregames

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

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

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

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

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

like the quickest fix for a 2.0 gold release.

Justin says: "Could we delay this for a point release or 2.1?"

Not a showstopper: justin, wrowe, trawick, stoddard, Jim, Ian, Aaron,

gregames

* Get perchild to work on platforms other than Linux. This

will require a portable mechanism to pass data and file/socket

descriptors between vhost child groups. An API was proposed

on dev@apr:

Message-ID: <20020111115006.K1529@clove.org>

* Try to get libtool inter-library dependency code working on AIX.

Message-ID: <cm3n10lx555.fsf@rdu163-40-092.nc.rr.com>

Justin says: If we get it working on AIX, we can enable this

on all platforms and clean up our build system

somewhat.

Jeff says: I thought I tested a patch for you sometime in

January that you were going to commit within a few

days.

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

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

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

through in the query string, however. Roy says the

original reason for disallowing it, from five years ago,

was to protect CGI scripts that applied PATH_INFO to

a filesystem location and which might be tricked by

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

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

Since we've revamped a lot of our processing of path

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

allow it conditionally with a directive.

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

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

a second worker process and the accept lock seems to be

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

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

More examination and analysis is required.

Status: This has also been reported on Cygwin.

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

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

problem. Yum. If another platform has this

with worker, this becomes a showstopper.

Aaron says: I spent some time disecting this and have come to

the conclusion that it is not a problem in the worker MPM

(or at least, it is not isolated to a problem in worker).

I'll list some of the problems I'm seeing in case someone

else wants to pick up where I've left off:

- Delivery of just about any signal to one of the child

processes will send it into an infinite loop as well.

- Even though the parent is spinning out of control,

at first the child or children will appear to work

properly. At times it is possible to get it into a state,

however, where a request will hang until another concurrent

request "kicks" the first, at which point the second will

hang. My theory is that this has to do with the

pthread_cond_*() implementation in FreeBSD, but it's still

possible that it is in APR.

Justin adds: Oh, FreeBSD threads are implemented entirely with

select()/poll()/longjmp(). Welcome to the nightmare.

So, that means a ktrace output also has the thread

scheduling internals in it (since it is all the same to

the kernel). Which makes it hard to distinguish between

our select() calls and their select() calls.

*bangs head on wall repeatedly* But, some of the libc_r

files have a DBG_MSG #define. This is moderately helpful

when used with -DNO_DETACH. The kernel scheduler isn't

waking up the threads on a select(). Yum. And, I bet

those decrementing select calls have to do with the

scheduler. Time to brush up on our OS fundamentals.

* There is increasing demand from module writers for an API

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

Reasons include sole-function servers that need to die if

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

Perhaps something in the (ever more abused) scoreboard?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

figure out how to do graceless on non-threaded MPMs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

server-info or server-status.

This proposed change would _not_ depricate Alias.

* Win32: Rotatelogs sometimes is not terminated when Apache

goes down hard. FirstBill was looking at possibly tracking the

child's-child processes in the parent process.

OtherBill asks, wasn't this fixed?

stoddard: Not fixed. Shared scoreboard might offer a good

way for the parent to keep track of 'other child' processes

and whack them if the child goes down.

Other thoughts on walking the process chain using the NT kernel

have also been proposed on APR.

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

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

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

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

This is not so simple. Any exit() from APR or other libraries

can't be caught unless we add some sort of apr_exit(rv) with

registered apr_atexit() fn's that have the return code as an

argument to the registered fn.

* Eliminate unnecessary creation of pipes in mod_cgid

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

Common logging API.

* Document mod_file_cache.

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

Architect start-up code that avoids initializing all the modules

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

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

would eliminate some code in the Win32 branch that essentially

duplicates what is in APR.

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

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_dbm administration.

Questions; htdbm exists, time to kill dbmmanage, or does it remain

useful as a perl dbm management example? If we keep it,

do we address the issue above?

* 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:

- 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.

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

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

* Scoreboard structures could be changed in the future such that

proper alignment is not maintained, leading to segfaults on

some systems. Cliff posted a patch to deal with this issue but

later recanted. See this message to dev@apr.apache.org:

Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203011354090.16457-200000@deepthought

.cs.virginia.edu>

TODO ISSUES REMAINING IN MOD_SSL:

* 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.

* SSL renegotiations in combination with POST request

* Port or dispose all code inside #if 0...#endif blocks that remain

from the porting effort.

* Do we need SSL_set_read_ahead()?

* the ssl_expr api is NOT THREAD SAFE. race conditions exist:

-in ssl_expr_comp() if SSLRequire is used in .htaccess

(ssl_expr_info is global)

-is ssl_expr_eval() if there is an error

(ssl_expr_error is global)

* SSLRequire directive (parsing of) leaks memory

* Diffie-Hellman-Parameters for temporary keys are hardcoded in

ssl_engine_dh.c, while the comment in ssl_engine_kernel.c says:

"it is suggested that keys be changed daily or every 500

transactions, and more often if possible."

* ssl_var_lookup could be rewritten to be MUCH faster

* CRL callback should be pluggable

* session cache store should be pluggable

* init functions should return status code rather than ssl_die()

* ssl_engine_pphrase.c needs to be reworked so it is generic enough

to also decrypt proxy keys

* the shmcb code should just align its memory segment rather than

jumping through all the "safe" memcpy and memset hoops

EXPERIMENTAL MODULES:

Experimental modules should eventually be be promoted to fully supported

status or removed from the repository entirely (ie, the

'experiment' failed). This section tracks what needs to happen to

get the modules promoted to fully supported status.

mod_cache/mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache:

* mod_cache: handle cache_control: no_cache "field_name" to enable

cacheing the response w/o header "field_name"

See RFC2616 section 14.9.1

* mod_cache: CacheEnable/CacheDisable should accept regular expressions.

* mod_cache: Fix dependency on ATOMIC operators. Need

APR_HAS_ATOMIC_* feature macros.

* mod_disk_cache: Implement garbage collection

* mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache: Need to be able to query cache

status (num of entries, cache object properties, etc.).

mod_status could be extended to query optional hooks defined

by modules for the purpose of reporting module status.

mod_cache (et. al.) could define optional hooks that are called

to collect status. Status should be queryable by

HTTP or SNMP?

* mod_mem_cache: garbage collection. One strategy is to simply

remove stale entries as we attempt to serve them. Another

strategy is to kick off a GC thread that traverses the cache

and preemptively remove stale entries. How to manage a

cache that is full? Do LRU GC? Other? Bueller?

* mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache: Complete implementing config

directives.

* Sample config for mod_cache/mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache for

inclusion into httpd.conf.

* mod_cache/mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache: Documentation.

PRs that have been suspended forever waiting for someone to

put them into 'the next release':

* documentation and Q&A

PR#2221: Make online documentation search link back to my installation

Status:

PR#2906: Propose that Apache recommend $UNIQUE_ID for all "session id"

algorithms

Status:

PR#2793: When will Apache support P3P? Any Plans?

Status:

* build

PR#2113: HTTP Server Rebuild Line Needs Changing for the better

Status:

PR#2421: problem specifying ndbm library for build ?with autoconfigure

Status:

* config

PR#76: missing call to "setlocale();"

Status:

PR#628: Request of "Options SymLinksIfGroupMatch"

Status:

PR#793: RLimitCPU and RLimitMEM don't apply to all children like they should

Status:

PR#922: it is useful to allow specifiction that root-owned symlinks

should always be followed

Status:

PR#1028: DoS attacks involving memory consumption

Status:

PR#1191: setlogin() is not called, causing problems with e.g. identd

Status:

PR#1204: regerror() exists, use it

Status:

PR#2284: Can not POST to ErrorDocument - Apache/1.3b6

Status:

PR#2396: Proposal for TimeZone directive

Status:

PR#2446: AllowOverride FileInfo is too coarse

Status:

PR#2760: [PATCH] User/Group for <Directory> and <Location> i.e. not only

in global and <Virtual>.

Status:

PR#2907: suggestion: power up your Include directive :)

Status:

PR#3018: cannot limit some HTTP methods

Status:

PR#3677: New ErrorDocumentMatch directive

Status:

PR#4244: "Files" and "FilesMatch" regexp does not recognize bang as

negation operator

Status:

PR#5993: AllowOverride should have a 'CheckNone' and 'AllowNone' argument

instead of only 'None'

Status:

* mod_access

PR#537: mod_access syntax allows hosts that should be restricted

Status:

PR#1287: add allow,deny/deny,allow warning to mod_access

Status:

PR#2512: <IfDenied> directive wanted

Status:

* mod_auth-any

PR#557: ~UserHome directories are not honored in absolute pathname

requests (.htaccess)

Status:

PR#1117: Using NIS passwd.byname dbm files with AuthDBMUserFile

Status:

PR#1809: Suggestion for improving authentication modules and core source

code, problem with 401 and ErrorDocument

Status:

* mod_autoindex

PR#1263: Add frame-safe anchor attribute to mod_autoindex links

Status:

* mod_cgi (and suexec)

PR#921: suexec Uses cwd before filling it in, doesn't use syslog

Status:

PR#1176: Apache cannot handle continuation line in headers

Status:

PR#1120: suexec does not parse arguments to #exec cmd

Status:

PR#1268: CGI scripts running as Apache user: security (suexec etc.)

Status:

PR#1285: Error messages could be easier to spot in cgi.log file for suexec.c

Status:

PR#1905: suexec - Allow modules to set user:group for execution.

Status:

PR#2360: suexec for general access of user content?

Status:

PR#2460: TimeOut applies to output of CGI scripts

Status:

PR#2573: CGI's for general use still have to be run as another user

with suExec

Status:

PR#4241: Need to be able to override shebang line to make CGI scripts

more portable.

Status:

PR#4490: mod_cgi prevents handling of OPTIONS requests

Status:

* mod_env

PR#370: Modified PATH environemnt variable is not passed, instead

system's is used

Status:

* mod_headers

PR#1383: I make mod_headers to modify request headers as well as

response ones.

Status:

PR#1677: mod_headers should allow mod_log_config-style formats in

header values

Status:

* mod_imap

PR#759: imap should read <MAP><AREA>*</MAP> too!

Status:

* mod_include

PR#78: Additional status for XBitHack directive

Status:

PR#623: A smarter "Last Modified" value for SSI documents (see PR number 600)

Status:

PR#1145: mod_include

Allow for Last-Modified: without resorting to XBitHack

Status:

PR#1803: patches to mod_include to allow for file tests

Status:

PR#4459: Suggestion for better handling of Last-modified headers

Status:

* mod_info

PR#2415: /server-info doesn't check for the virtual host to list the info

Status:

* mod_log-any

PR#1050: Logging of virtual server to error_log as well

Status:

PR#1358: Selective url-encode of log fields (or maybe a pseudo

log_rewrite module?)

Status:

PR#2073: pipelined connections are not logged correctly

Status:

PR#4448: Please allow CGI env variables (QUERY_STRING, ...) to be logged

with %{}e

Status:

* mod_negotiation

PR#3191: no way to set global quality-of-source (qs) coneg values

with multiviews

Status:

* mod_proxy

PR#362: Mod_proxy doesn't allow change of error pages

Status:

PR#440: Proxy doesn't deliver documents if not connected

Status:

PR#534: proxy converts ~name to %7Ename when name starts with a dot (.)

Status:

PR#612: Proxy FTP Authentication Fails

Status:

PR#700: Proxy doesn't do links right for OpenVMS files through ftp:

Status:

PR#980: Controlling Access to Remote Proxies would be nice...

Status:

PR#994: Adding authentication "on the fly" through the proxy module

Status:

PR#1085: ProxyRemote make a dead cycle.

Status:

PR#1166: ``nph-'' not honored (no buffering) for ProxyRemote mapping

Status:

PR#1290: Need to know "hit-rate" on proxy cache

Status:

PR#1532: Proxy transfer logging

Status:

PR#1547: No HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR set...

Status:

PR#1567: ProxyRemote proxy requests fail authentication by firewall

Status:

PR#1702: mod_proxy to support persistent conns?

Status:

PR#1878: listing of proxy cache content

Status:

PR#2314: patterns in ProxyRemote

Status:

PR#2648: Cache file names in Proxy module

Status:

PR#3568: Accessing URL through proxy server corrupts data.

Status:

PR#3605: Some anonymous FTP URLs ask for authentication

Status:

* mod_rewrite

PR#1582: mod_rewrite forms REQUEST_URI different than mod_cgi does

Status:

PR#2074: mod_rewrite doesn't pass Proxy Throughput on internal subrequests

Status:

* mod_status

PR#2138: mod_status always displays 256 possible connection slots

Status:

PR#2343: Status module averages are for entire uptime

Status:

* apache-api

PR#1004: request_config field in request_rec is moderately bogus

Status:

PR#1158: improvements to child spawning API

Status:

PR#1233: there is no way to keep per-connection per-module state

Status:

PR#2024: adding auth_why to conn_rec

Status:

PR#2873: Feedback/Comment on APACI

Status:

PR#3143: No module specific data hook for per-connection data

Status:

* generally odds and ends

PR#2431: A small addition to rotatelogs.c to improve program functionality.

Status:

PR#2763: mailto tags and bundling bug report script

Status:

PR#2785: os-aix Support for System Resource Controller

Status:

PR#2889: Inclusion of RPM spec file in CVS/distributions

Status:

PR#5713: os-windows [PATCH] install as win32 service with domain account

Status: Cannot accept password-as-arg, we should prompt the

user when -k install/-k config with a user argument.

Other bugs that need fixing:

* ap_discard_request should be converted to use the bucket API

directly rather than waste cycles copying buffers with the old API.

* 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.

OtherBill suggests: We at least seem to agree on eliminating

the <Container ~ foo> forms, and using only

<ContainerMatch foo> semantics.

* 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 :-)

Binaries (2.0.39):

Platform Avail. Volunteer

------------------------------------------------------------------

AIX 4.3.3 no Bill Stoddard

Mandrake 8.1 no Ryan Bloom

FreeBSD 4.1 no Ryan Bloom

hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.00 yes Cliff Woolley

i386-pc-solaris2.8 yes Aaron Bannert

i386-unknown-freebsd4.5 no

i386-unknown-freebsd4.6 yes Aaron Bannert

i686-pc-linux-gnu yes Aaron Bannert

i686-pc-linux-gnu-rh70 yes Aaron Bannert

ia64-hp-hpux11.20 yes Cliff Woolley

powerpc-apple-darwin5.5 yes Aaron Bannert

powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu yes Graham Leggett

sparc-sun-solaris2.8 yes Jim Jagielski

NetWare yes Brad Nicholes

OS/2 yes Brian Havard

Win32-x86 yes William Rowe

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:

* 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