2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manojAPACHE 2.0 STATUS: -*-text-*-

d5defd5a0c5cdbaf74b85939484dc2b6c8317d19manojLast modified at [$Date: 2002/02/03 01:53:59 $]

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2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manojRelease:

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0.32 : in development

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0.31 : rolled Feburary 1, 2002.

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0.30 : tagged January 8, 2002. not rolled.

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0.29 : tagged November 27, 2001. not rolled.

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0.28 : released November 13, 2001

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0.27 : rolled November 6, 2001

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0.26 : tagged October 16, 2001. not rolled.

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0.25 : rolled August 29, 2001

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0.24 : rolled August 18, 2001

d5defd5a0c5cdbaf74b85939484dc2b6c8317d19manoj 2.0.23 : rolled August 9, 2001

d5defd5a0c5cdbaf74b85939484dc2b6c8317d19manoj 2.0.22 : rolled July 29, 2001

d5defd5a0c5cdbaf74b85939484dc2b6c8317d19manoj 2.0.21 : rolled July 20, 2001

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0.20 : rolled July 8, 2001

d5defd5a0c5cdbaf74b85939484dc2b6c8317d19manoj 2.0.19 : rolled June 27, 2001

d5defd5a0c5cdbaf74b85939484dc2b6c8317d19manoj 2.0.18 : rolled May 18, 2001

d5defd5a0c5cdbaf74b85939484dc2b6c8317d19manoj 2.0.17 : rolled April 17, 2001

d5defd5a0c5cdbaf74b85939484dc2b6c8317d19manoj 2.0.16 : rolled April 4, 2001

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0.15 : rolled March 21, 2001

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0.14 : rolled March 7, 2001

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0a9 : released December 12, 2000

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0a8 : released November 20, 2000

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0a7 : released October 8, 2000

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0a6 : released August 18, 2000

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0a5 : released August 4, 2000

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000

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2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manojPlease consult the following STATUS files for information

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2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manojRELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:

302dc1f7b3feee23a91ad8f3cf3cb2edd95a557bmanoj * 31 BETA STATUS:

302dc1f7b3feee23a91ad8f3cf3cb2edd95a557bmanoj running on Daedalus since 02-Feb-2002 7:58 PST (need 3 days)

302dc1f7b3feee23a91ad8f3cf3cb2edd95a557bmanoj Compiles on : AIX, Solaris, FreeBSD 3.5, Win32, Linux 2.4

302dc1f7b3feee23a91ad8f3cf3cb2edd95a557bmanoj for beta

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj +1 : Justin, Ian, Jeff Trawick

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj +0 :

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj -1 :

d5defd5a0c5cdbaf74b85939484dc2b6c8317d19manoj bumps since original tag:

d5defd5a0c5cdbaf74b85939484dc2b6c8317d19manoj * mod-dir patch

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * scoreboard x2 : 1 to fix gracefull restarts

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj 1 to fix netware

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * win32/locks.c : to fix mod_rewrite on win32

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj problems with v31:

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * libtool/binbuild on AIX -- possible addition of patched

d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding binbuild.sh to 31-beta roll

d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding +1: Ian, Justin

d5defd5a0c5cdbaf74b85939484dc2b6c8317d19manoj +0:

fbfdb4a45ff0e32dbfef0d414c8d75fe8aebcbb9manoj -1:

fbfdb4a45ff0e32dbfef0d414c8d75fe8aebcbb9manoj * hasn't run for 3 days on Daedalus

d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding * the release has underscores instead of periods.

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * ap_directory_walk skips some per-dir config merge functions

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj if there is no "<Directory />" block in the configuration

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj Message-ID: <m3itbdiijq.fsf@rdu163-40-092.nc.rr.com>

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * That is very unlikely, merges are additive. Much more likely,

dbf0c7bef06259486cd2748a2d0e82f27e099d6efielding the default SetOutputFilter default or merge is borked.

dbf0c7bef06259486cd2748a2d0e82f27e099d6efielding Unless it's the code that permits 'null' merges, per module.

d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding Still, it's probably in SetOutputFilter's behavior.

d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * Test suite failures:

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj o worker is also failing some of the 'cgi' subtests

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj (see <URL:http://Source-Zone.Org/Apache/regression/>):

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj Justin says: "Worker should be fine and passes httpd-test here."

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * If any request gets to the core handler, without a flag that this

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj r->filename was tested by dir/file_walk, we need to 500 at the very

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj end of the ap_process_request_internal() processing. This provides

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj authors of older modules better compatibility, while still improving

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj the security and robustness of 2.0.

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj Status: still need to decide where this goes, OtherBill comments...

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj Message-ID: <065701c14526$495203b0$96c0b0d0@roweclan.net>

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj we need to look at halting this in the 'default handler' case,

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj and that implies pushing the 'handler election' into the request

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj internal processing phase from the run request phase.

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * There is a bug in how we sort some hooks, at least the pre-config

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj hook. The first time we call the hooks, they are in the correct

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj order, but the second time, we don't sort them correctly. Currently,

d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding the modules/http/config.m4 file has been renamed to

d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding modules/http/config2.m4 to work around this problem, it should moved

d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding back when this is fixed. rbb

d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding Justin says: "Is this really a showstopper? This has been here

d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding forever. What's wrong? Does this have to do with

d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding autoconf or m4?"

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * Convert all instances of the old apr_lock_t type to the new

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj types (once they are fully supported in APR).

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj Status: Aaron is working on converting INTRAPROCESS

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj to apr_thread_mutex_t types. Full replacements for

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj LOCKALL and CROSS_PROCESS are not yet complete on all

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj platforms, and should only be used in MPMs like worker

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj with limited OS exposure.

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj * A binbuild installation picks up the right libraries when

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj running apachectl because we set the appropriate environment

2a6c49cfaef5979a5a06098f3ce987cd76769409manoj variable, but ab, htpasswd, etc. don't know how to pick up apr,

d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding apr-util, etc.

d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding Message-ID: <20020116000226.GA15991@ebuilt.com>

d6b3cb141f0667101c1bca883ad15b383402c93bfielding Justin says: "You could always build all of the binaries

statically if you don't want to let libtool

handle it. At most, I don't consider this a

a release showstopper as it is a packaging issue."

Ken sez: "Showstopper because, until it's the default, it

violates the P of LA. Binaries will give strange

errors and not run if moved."

Status: Aaron volunteers: I'll commit a patch to allow all

the support binaries to be built statically against

libapr/libaprutil/etc and then enable it in binbuild.

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

* Runtime startup failures don't reliably set the exit status.

For instance, try listening to port 80 and starting as non-root;

server fails with make_sock and 'no listening sockets' errors

but exits with 0 status. Even with -DONE_PROCESS -DNO_DETACH.

Justin says: "Is this really a showstopper? Most people won't

be using -DNO_DETACH and will look at the error

logs anyway."

Ken says: "Yes, it's a showstopper -- because it exits with

a 0 status on startup failure, whether it spawns

or not, before doing any work. A script will

incorrectly think it successfully daemonised."

Showstopper: Ken

Not a showstopper: trawick, stoddard, Jim, Justin, Aaron

* 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

* Should we always build binaries statically unless otherwise

indicated?

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

+1:

-1: Justin, Ian

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

"gracefully" self-terminate.

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

+1: Jim, Justin, Ken

0: Aaron says "Some admins want it, some don't. Let's just make

it an option. Not 'SuicidalParentlessChildren'. ;)"

-1: BrianP, Ian

* Make some modifications to the scoreboard creation routines,

prefer anonymous shared memory, and allow a configuration

directive to override the defaults.

Message-ID: <20020130080804.C16977@clove.org>

Status: Aaron volunteers

* 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>

Vote: Is a non-portable perchild going to hold up a GA release?

Yes: Ken

No: Aaron, Justin, trawick, stoddard, Jim, Ian

* Recent changes to ap_rgetline may have broken EBCDIC boxes.

Message-ID: <20020122072605.GF28051@ebuilt.com>

Justin says: "I don't have an EBCDIC box to test on. A potential

solution is to split out ap_rgetline into two

functions as described in this message."

* Modify the worker MPM so that it doesn't need to create and

destroy a pool for each request--possibly by adopting a

leader/follower model in which each worker owns a persistent

ptrans pool (like the prefork MPM) and the workers take

turns acting as listeners...this approach might also help

reduce context-switching

* CGI single-byte reads

BrianP suggests that this is caused by the ap_scan_script_header_err()

routine, which will do single-byte reads until it finds the end

of the header, at which point it constructs a pipe-bucket (buffered)

to read from.

Proposed solution in:

Message-ID: <3C36ADAF.60601@cnet.com>

* 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.

* 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.

* revamp the input filter behavior, per discussions since

February (and especially at the hackathon last

April). Specifically, ap_get_brigade will return a brigade with

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

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

refactored into apr_brigade_getline(), and then DECHUNK can use

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

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

connection (buggering up persistent conns).

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

The core input filters, HTTP-related filters, mod_ssl,

mod_proxy, and ap_[r]getline are switched to the new logic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- further work with combining/tweaking the builtin filters:

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

- thoughts on filter modes:

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

- proposal for getline rewrite:

Message-ID: <20011231104019.GD3904@ebuilt.com>

- patch for getline rewrite:

Message-ID: <20020122072605.GF28051@ebuilt.com>

- Change ap_get_brigade prototype:

Message-ID: <20020120115136.GI17601@ebuilt.com>

* 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.

* 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

* Port of mod_ssl to Apache 2.0:

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

remaining work includes:

(1) stablizing/optimizing the SSL filter logic

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

(3) Enabling SSL extentions

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

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

filter or the mod_ssl logic or both as required.

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

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

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

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

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

also thinks that the https filter logic may be sufficiently

decoupled now, but isn't really sure.

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

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

light weight memory management functions that allow freeing

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

longer needed. Enabling simple debugging features like guard

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

not a hard requirement.

Status: Cliff started to implement this using SMS as has

been discussed at length for months, but since

SMS is not being used anywhere else in the server,

several people expressed the opinion that we should

get rid of it entirely, meaning that the buckets

need their own memory management (free list) functions.

Cliff will implement that this weekend so we at least

have something to look at/compare with.

* Eliminate unnecessary creation of pipes in mod_cgid

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

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

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

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

works, eg. AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT issues.

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

* 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?

* 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), Lars

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

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

* 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.

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 :-)

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?