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c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nwApache 2.0 STATUS:
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nwLast modified at [$Date: 2000/08/16 20:42:39 $]
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c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nwRelease:
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw 2.0a6 : ???
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw 2.0a5 : released August 4, 2000
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw 2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nwRELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw * Need to reintroduce the notion of MMAP_SEGMENT_SIZE which was
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw lost with the creation of ap_bucket_mmap_create. Apache's
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw timeout model is a timeout per-write. If we try to mmap
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw an entire file and send it to a slow client, the write
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw will timeout before the send is complete. Ditto for sendfile
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw support.
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw * All of the bucket types must be implemented. The list can be found
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw in src/include/ap_buckets.h. May need to implement a bucket type
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw to mark the end of a subrequest content stream, and one to tell
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw filters to flush any pending content. See http_protocol.c:
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw ap_finalize_sub_req_protocol() and ap_rflush()
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw * Remove Buff and IOL from the code. To do this, a chunking and
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw translation filter must be written. This allows us to remove BUFF.
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw IOLs can be removed as soon as somebody gets to it.
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw * apachectl not being built or installed
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw * Win32: Get mod_auth_digest working under win32
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw - APR_HAS_RANDOM should be defined on windows and there is a
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw lib/apr/misc/win32/rand.c which is basically a copy of what
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw mod_auth_digest used to use.
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw * suEXEC doesn't work
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw Status: Manoj has posted an patch to fix this.
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw <19991103003605.A20612@samosa.mindspring.com>
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw * Win32: Enable the Windows MPM to honor max_requests_per_child
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw Status: Bill will fix this.
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw * Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw (at least) needs to be done:
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw - winnt MPM: Fix 95/98 code paths in the winnt MPM. There is some NT
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw specific code that is still not in NT only code paths
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw - IOL binds to APR sendfile, implemented with TransmitFile, which
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw is not available on 95/98.
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw * Win32: Test access logging with multiple threads. Will the
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw native file I/O calls serialize automagically like the
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw CRT calls or do we need to add region locking each time
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw we access the logs?
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw Status:
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw * Win32: Complete the revamp the service environment and relocation
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw into the WinNT MPM. Changes ServerRoot service registry
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw parameter into ConfigArgs for multiple service startup parameters.
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw Problems to fix in the revamp: -k shutdown/restart are broken,
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw signals are not being acknowledged. Close window and shutdown
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw also seem out of sorts.
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw OtherBill is working on this
c5c4113dfcabb1eed3d4bdf7609de5170027a794nw
* Win32: fix build/run time environment to remove ApacheCore.dll
linkage from ab.exe and htdigest.exe.
* We need a thread-safe resolver, at least on Unix.
Status: The best known candidate would be something from
BIND v9.
Status: Greg asks, "why? doesn't gethostbyname_r() handle this?"
* Modify mod_cgi and mod_cgid to deal with directories. This allows
a lot of directives to be removed from the core.
RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
* Combine log_child and piped_log_spawn. Clean up http_log.c.
Common logging API.
* Create unified scoreboard API and implementation shared across
the MPMs
* Document mod_file_cache.
* OS/2: Get loadable modules working again. Requires shared core support
which doesn't appear to be catered for in the current build system.
* OS/2: Make mod_status work for spmt_os2 MPM.
* Build scripts do not recognise AIX 4.2.1 pthreads, so the
pthread MPMs will not build.
* Win32: Enable the winnt MPM to use the new scoreboard API
* Win32: Implement ap_shm_ functions in APR.
* Win32: Win9x console window still won't play nice with the
close window, logoff and shutdown scenarios.
* 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.
* Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)
Consider introducing HAVE_FORK feature macro. Architect start-up code
that avoids initializing all the modules in the parent process on
platforms that do not support fork.
* Go throught the 1.3 Bug DB and research the bugs marked "suspended".
People were told these would be considered for inclusion in Apache 2.0,
it would be nice to actually do so.
* 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.
Bill says we need a new procattr, APR_CREATE_SUSPENDED (or
something similar) to direct ap_create_process to create the
process suspended. We also need a call to wake up the suspended
process This may not be able to be implemented everywhere though.
* There are still a number of places in the code where we are
loosing error status (i.e. throwing away the error returned by a
system call and replacing it with a generic error code)
* Win32: Implement reliable piped logs on Windows
* The connection status table is not very efficient. Also, very few stats
are exported to the connection status table (easy to fix), and mod_status
is ugly.
* Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.
* Replace tables with a proper opaque ADT that has pluggable
implementations (including something like the existing data type,
plus hash tables for speed, with options for more later).
Status: fanf is working on this.
* configuration option to use *DBM
Status: Greg +1 (volunteers)
* add SDBM into src/lib/sdbm/ as a default/fallback DBM implementation.
SDBM is used by Perl, mod_dav, mod_sssl, others for basic DBM support.
Status: Greg +1 (volunteers)
* Integrate mod_dav.
Message-id: <20000625173247.M29590@lyra.org>
Status: works. passes initial regression testing. Joe Orton
reports success with his "cadaver" tool.
Some additional items remaining:
- case_preserved_filename stuff
- fix and re-enable sdbm_lock.c
- 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 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 mod_mmap_static to munge what the translation has
decided to do.
Status: Greg +1 (volunteers), Ryan +1
* Go through ap_config.h and namespace-protect the symbols (e.g. USE_*).
Some symbols can/should move to mpm_common.h where possible.
* 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)
* add a version number to ap_initialize() as an extra failsafe against
(APR) library version skew.
MsgID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005231712380.31927-100000@nebula.lyra.org>
Status: Greg +1 (volunteers), Jeff +1, Ryan +1, Tony -0(?)
* mod_info to use the configuration tree
PRs that have been suspended forever waiting for someone to
put them into 'the next release':
* PR#73: mod_log-any
reporting of referer in error_log
Status:
* PR#76: general
missing call to "setlocale();"
Status:
* PR#78: mod_include
Additional status for XBitHack directive
Status:
* PR#161: mod_dir
Questionable performace of mod_dir() with negotiation
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#573: mod_log-any
More LogFormat directives
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#697: mod_include
A security tweak I've been using for a few years for SSI
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#1156: config
insufficent AllowOverrides granularity for autoindexing
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_dir
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#1574: mod_autoindex
ReadmeName and HeaderName don't allow for server-parsed html.
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#1855: mod_autoindex
More Control over autoindex layout
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#2772: mod_log-any
more % escapes
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#3026: mod_autoindex
No way to change ReadmeName/HeaderName suffixes.
Status:
* PR#3143: apache-api
No module specific data hook for per-connection data
Status:
* PR#3181: config
Configuration file in Japanese
Status:
* PR#3191: mod_negotiation
no way to set global quality-of-source (qs) coneg values
with multiviews
Status:
* PR#3430: mod_negotiation
Enhancement: MultiViews, Multi-Language Documents
Status:
* PR#3568: mod_proxy
Accessing URL through proxy server corrupts data.
Status:
* PR#3594: os-windows
Please add an Apache icon to the systray instead of a DOS window
Status:
* PR#3605: mod_proxy
Some anonymous FTP URLs ask for authentication
Status:
* PR#3654: mod_autoindex
BORDER=0 makes Icons look nicer (FancyIndexing)
Status:
* PR#3677: general
New ErrorDocumentMatch directive
Status:
* PR#4180: os-windows
Alternative for win95 users
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#4455: config
apache provides no way to do a wildcard/global NameVirtualHost
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#4520: mod_autoindex
mod_autoindex does not generate Last-Modified response headers
Status:
* PR#4658: os-windows
The output of CGI scripts appears in the window that apache
is running in
Status:
* PR#4816: general
SSI in CGI
Status:
* PR#5079: config
Apache header files should have a private name, e.g.
#include "apache/httpd.h"
Status:
* PR#5713: os-windows
[PATCH] install as service with domain account
Status:
* PR#5993: general
AllowOverride should have a 'CheckNone' and 'AllowNone' argument
instead of only 'None'
Status:
* PR#6347: mod_mime
MIME types for MNG and JNG files need adding to mime.types and
the mime.types and magic files
Status: Waiting for IANA types to be defined
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.
* The MM library is built as static and shared library. This should
be set up to build only the required version.
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
Documentation that needs writing:
* Mod_status docs are needed.
* The concept of MPMs, especially if we ship more than one MPM for a
given platform
* New directives in the various MPMs and appropriate links from
obsolete directives in core.html to the MPM documentation.
* Revise manual/stopping.html and the last part of
manual/misc/perf-tuning.html to take account of the MPMs.
* API documentation
Status: Ben Laurie has written some hooks documentation
(apache-2.0/htdocs/hooks.html)
* Changes since 1.3.9 can be more easily seen in the commitlog file
dev.apache.org:/home/cvs/CVSROOT/commitlogs/apache-2.0
which includes some of Roy's comments when the changes were
committed in rough change-sets by purpose. Note that the commitlog
does not show the contents of new files until later.
Available Patches:
* 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:
* What do we do about mod_proxy?
* Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?
* Is conf/highperformance.conf-dist obsolete? It looks obsolete.