STATUS revision bca5b27d271b6e1690134a83963424b9825d93bd
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevelAPACHE 2.0 STATUS: -*-text-*-
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevelLast modified at [$Date: 2002/11/20 21:43:24 $]
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29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevelRelease:
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.44 : in development
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.43 : released October 3, 2002 as GA.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.42 : released September 24, 2002 as GA.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.41 : rolled September 16, 2002. not released.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.40 : released August 9, 2002 as GA.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.39 : released June 17, 2002 as GA.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.38 : rolled June 16, 2002. not released.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.37 : rolled June 11, 2002. not released.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.36 : released May 6, 2002 as GA.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.35 : released April 5, 2002 as GA.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.34 : tagged March 26, 2002.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.33 : tagged March 6, 2002. not released.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.32 : released Feburary 16, 2002 as beta.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.31 : rolled Feburary 1, 2002. not released.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.30 : tagged January 8, 2002. not rolled.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.29 : tagged November 27, 2001. not rolled.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.28 : released November 13, 2001 as beta.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.27 : rolled November 6, 2001
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.26 : tagged October 16, 2001. not rolled.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.25 : rolled August 29, 2001
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.24 : rolled August 18, 2001
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.23 : rolled August 9, 2001
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.22 : rolled July 29, 2001
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.21 : rolled July 20, 2001
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.20 : rolled July 8, 2001
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.19 : rolled June 27, 2001
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.18 : rolled May 18, 2001
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.17 : rolled April 17, 2001
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.16 : rolled April 4, 2001
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.15 : rolled March 21, 2001
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0.14 : rolled March 7, 2001
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0a9 : released December 12, 2000
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0a8 : released November 20, 2000
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0a7 : released October 8, 2000
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0a6 : released August 18, 2000
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0a5 : released August 4, 2000
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevelPlease consult the following STATUS files for information
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevelon related projects:
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29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel * srclib/apr/STATUS
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel * srclib/apr-util/STATUS
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel * docs/STATUS
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29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevelContributors looking for a mission:
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29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel * just do an egrep on "TODO" and see what's there
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29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevelCURRENT RELEASE NOTES:
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29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevelRELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:
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29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevelCURRENT VOTES:
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel * Adopt backwards compatibility for future Apache 2.0 releases
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel such that MMN major number changes and eliminating non-experimental
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel modules are deferred for the next minor version bump (e.g. 2.1, 2.2
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel or 3.0).
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel +1: wrowe, jerenkrantz, aaron, brianp, trawick, stoddard, jwoolley,
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel rbowen, rederpj, jim, striker
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 0:
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel -1:
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel * Defer the Auth module overhaul to the next minor version bump
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel (e.g. 2.1, 2.2, 3.0) on the condition that forward compatibility
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel resolution is adopted.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel +1: wrowe, aaron, trawick, stoddard, jwoolley, rbowen, gregames,
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel rederpj, jim
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 0: jerenkrantz
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel -1: striker
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel * Adopt an even/odd release paradigm (see VERSIONING) such that
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel even numbered releases are stable, and odd numbered releases
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel are development efforts, keeping in the tradition of Linux,
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel Perl, etc. In pratical terms, this implies C-T-R-T-C, where
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel patches are (generally) first applied to the development branch,
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel tested, and then (after vote) applied to the stable branch.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel +1: wrowe, jerenkrantz, aaron, trawick, stoddard, jwoolley, rbowen,
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel gregames, rederpj, jim, striker
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 0:
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel -1:
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel * Branch APACHE_2_0_BRANCH today, changing the version in CVS HEAD
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel to 2.1.0-dev.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel +1 [from APACHE_2_0_43]: wrowe, aaron, trawick, stoddard, jwoolley,
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel gregames, rederpj, jim
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel +1 [from HEAD]: striker
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel 0: jerenkrantz
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel -1:
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel * httpd-std.conf and friends
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel a) httpd-std.conf should be tailored by install (from src or
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel binbuild) even if user has existing httpd.conf
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel +1: trawick, slive, gregames, ianh, Ken, wrowe, jwoolley
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel wrowe - prefer httpd.default.conf to avoid ambiguity with cvs
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel b) tailored httpd-std.conf should be copied by install to
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel sysconfdir/examples
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel -0: striker
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel c) tailored httpd-std.conf should be installed to
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel sysconfdir/examples or manualdir/exampleconf/
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel +1: slive, trawick, Ken
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel d) Installing a set of default config files when upgrading a server
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel doesn't make ANY sense at all.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel +1: ianh - medium/big sites don't use 'standard config' anyway, as it
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel usually needs major customizations
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel -1: Ken, wrowe, jwoolley, jim
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel wrowe - diff is wonderful when comparing old/new default configs,
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel even for customized sites that ianh mentions
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel jim - ... assuming that the default configs have been updated
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel with the required inline docs to explain the
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel changes
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel * If the parent process dies, should the remaining child processes
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel "gracefully" self-terminate. Or maybe we should make it a runtime
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel option, or have a concept of 2 parent processes (one being a
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel "hot spare").
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel See: Message-ID: <3C58232C.FE91F19F@Golux.Com>
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel Self-destruct: Ken, Martin
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel Not self-destruct: BrianP, Ian, Cliff, BillS
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel Make it runtime configurable: Aaron, jim, Justin, wrowe, rederpj
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel /* The below was a concept on *how* to handle the problem */
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel Have 2 parents: +1: jim
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel -1: Justin, wrowe, rederpj
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel +0: Martin (while standing by, could it do
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel something useful?)
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel * Make the worker MPM the default MPM for threaded Unix boxes.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel +1: Justin, Ian, Cliff, BillS, striker, wrowe
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel +0: BrianP, Aaron (mutex contention is looking better with the
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel latest code, let's continue tuning and testing), rederpj, jim
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel -0: Lars
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevelRELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel * There is a bug in how we sort some hooks, at least the pre-config
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel hook. The first time we call the hooks, they are in the correct
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel order, but the second time, we don't sort them correctly. Currently,
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel the modules/http/config.m4 file has been renamed to
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel modules/http/config2.m4 to work around this problem, it should moved
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel back when this is fixed.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel OtherBill offers that this is a SERIOUS problem. We do not sort
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel correctly by the ordering arguments passed to the register hook
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel functions. This was proven when I reordered the open_logs hook
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel to attempt to open the error logs prior to the access logs. Possibly
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel the entire sorting code needs to be refactored.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel * pipes deadlock on all platforms with limited pipe buffers (e.g. both
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel Linux and Win32, as opposed to only Win32 on 1.3). The right solution
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel is either GStein's proposal for a "CGI Brigade", or OtherBill's proposal
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel for "Poll Buckets" for "Polling Filter Chains".
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel * All handlers should always send content down even if r->header_only
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel is set. If not, it means that the HEAD requests don't generate the
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel same headers as a GET which is wrong.
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel * HP/UX 10.20: compile breakage in APR. Looks like it should be easy
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel to fix, probably just some extraneous #include's that are fouling
29949e866e40b95795203f3ee46f44a197c946e4stevel things up.
PR: 9457
Jeff: See my reply and patch in the PR (and previous commit to
stop using "pipe" as a field name). If patch is committed, we
should be okay. I'll wait to see if the user tests the patch.
Update by Jeff 20020722: I got an account on HP 10.20. It looks
like some of the APR thread detection is screwed up. If we find
pthread.h but we can't compile the pthread test program we still
think we can use threads. For that reason, the patch I posted
to the PR won't work as-is since a failed compile of the test
program means nothing.
* exec cmd and suexec arg-passing enhancements
Status: Patches proposed
Message-ID: <20020526041748.A29148@prodigy.Redbrick.DCU.IE>
(see the "proc.patch" and "suexec-shell.patch" links in this message)
* The 2.0.36 worker MPM graceless shutdown changes work but are
a bit clunky on some platforms; eg, on Linux, the loop to
join each worker thread seems to hang, and the parent ends up
killing off the child with SIGKILL. But at least it shuts down.
* --enable-mods-shared="foo1 foo2" is busted on Darwin. Pier
posted a patch (Message-ID: <B8DBBE8D.575A%pier@betaversion.org>).
* We do not properly substitute the prefix-variables in the configuration
scripts or generated-configs. (i.e. if sysconfdir is etc,
httpd-std.conf points to conf.)
* If any request gets through ap_process_request_internal() and is
scheduled to be served by the core handler, without a flag that this
r->filename was tested by dir/file_walk, we need to 500 at the very
end of the ap_process_request_internal() processing so sub_req-esters
know this request cannot be run. This provides authors of older
modules better compatibility, while still improving the security and
robustness of 2.0.
Status: still need to decide where this goes, OtherBill comments...
Message-ID: <065701c14526$495203b0$96c0b0d0@roweclan.net>
[Deleted comments regarding the ap_run_handler phase, as irrelevant
as BillS points out that "common case will be caught in
default_handler already (with the r->finfo.filetype == 0 check)"
and the issue is detecting this -before- we try to run the req.]
gregames says: can this happen somehow without a broken module
being involved? If not, why waste cycles trying to defend against
potential broken modules? It seems futile.
wrowe counters: no, it shouldn't happen unless the module is broken.
But the right answer is to fail the request up-front in dir/file
walk if the path was entirely invalid; and we can't do that either
UNTIL 2.1 or we break modules that haven't hooked map_to_storage.
* With AP_MODE_EXHAUSTIVE in the core, it is finally clear to me
how the Perchild MPM should be re-written. It hasn't worked
correctly since filters were added because it wasn't possible to
get the content that had already been written and the socket at
the same time. This mode lets us do that, so the MPM can be
fixed.
* htpasswd blindly processes the file you give it, and does no
sanity checking before totally corrupting whatever file it was
you thought you had. It should check the input file and bail
if it finds non-comment lines that do not contain exactly 1
':' character.
Message-ID: <20020217150457.A31632@clove.org>
* Can a static httpd be built reliably?
Message-ID: <20020207142751.T31582@clove.org>
* [Ken] Test suite failures:
o worker is also failing some of the 'cgi' subtests
(see <URL:http://Source-Zone.Org/Apache/regression/>):
Justin says: "Worker should be fine and passes httpd-test here.
I think it's a perl or a httpd-test problem."
* 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.
* 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 a nice solution. See ROADMAP.
* 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.
OtherBill adds that %2f as the SECOND character of a multibyte
sequence causes the request to fail! This happens notably in
the ja-jis encoding.
* 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.
FreeBSD 4.7 was reputed to have 'fixed' threads. Not.
Message-ID: <3C2CC514.8EF3BED1@wapme-systems.de> (cygnus)
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?
On the other hand, 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.
striker: See the thread starting with Message-ID:
JLEGKKNELMHCJPNMOKHOGEEJFBAA.striker@apache.org.
* 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.
stoddard: 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.
* 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)
* 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.
* 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?
* Enable mod_cache/mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache to handle
multiviews
* mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache: Complete implementing config
directives (mod_disk_cache: CacheExpiryCheck and GC directives
including CacheGc*, CacheSize, and, CacheTimeMargin)
(mod_mem_cache: MCacheMaxObjectCount) and
(mod_cache: CacheForceCompletion).
mod_auth_ldap/util_ldap:
* implement cross-platform/cross-library TLS support
* General stabilization and testing
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 (2.0.43):
Platform Avail. Volunteer
------------------------------------------------------------------
AIX 4.3.3 no Bill Stoddard
Mandrake 8.1 no open
FreeBSD 4.1 no open
hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.00 no Cliff Woolley
i386-pc-solaris2.8 no Aaron Bannert
i386-unknown-freebsd4.5 no
i386-unknown-freebsd4.6 no Cliff Woolley
i686-pc-linux-gnu-slackware81 no Cliff Woolley
i686-pc-linux-gnu-rh70 no Aaron Bannert
i686-pc-linux-gnu-rh73 no Cliff Woolley
ia64-hp-hpux11.20 no
powerpc-apple-darwin5.5 no Aaron Bannert
powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu no Graham Leggett
s390-ibm-linux no Greg Ames
sparc-sun-solaris2.8 no Jim Jagielski
NetWare no Brad Nicholes
OS/2 no Brian Havard
OS/390 no Greg Ames
Win32-x86 yes William Rowe