0N/AAPACHE 2.0 STATUS: -*-text-*-
2362N/ALast modified at [$Date: 2001/10/10 19:43:37 $]
0N/A 2.0.25 : rolled August 29, 2001
0N/A 2.0.24 : rolled August 18, 2001
0N/A 2.0.23 : rolled August 9, 2001
0N/A 2.0.22 : rolled July 29, 2001
0N/A 2.0.21 : rolled July 20, 2001
0N/A 2.0.20 : rolled July 8, 2001
0N/A 2.0.19 : rolled June 27, 2001
0N/A 2.0.18 : rolled May 18, 2001
0N/A 2.0.17 : rolled April 17, 2001
0N/A 2.0.16 : rolled April 4, 2001
0N/A 2.0.15 : rolled March 21, 2001
0N/A 2.0.14 : rolled March 7, 2001
0N/A 2.0a9 : released December 12, 2000
2362N/A 2.0a8 : released November 20, 2000
2362N/A 2.0a7 : released October 8, 2000
2362N/A 2.0a6 : released August 18, 2000
0N/A 2.0a5 : released August 4, 2000
0N/A 2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000
0N/A 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000
0N/A 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000
0N/A 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000
0N/APlease consult the following STATUS files for information
0N/ARELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:
0N/A * If any request gets to the core handler, without a flag that this
0N/A end of the ap_process_request_internal() processing. This provides
0N/A authors of older modules better compatibility, while still improving
0N/A the security and robustness of 2.0.
0N/A Status: still need to decide where this goes, OtherBill comments...
0N/A Message-ID: <065701c14526$495203b0$96c0b0d0@roweclan.net>
0N/A we need to look at halting this in the 'default handler' case,
0N/A and that implies pushing the 'handler election' into the request
0N/A internal processing phase from the run request phase.
0N/A * There is a bug in how we sort some hooks, at least the pre-config
0N/A hook. The first time we call the hooks, they are in the correct
0N/A order, but the second time, we don't sort them correctly. Currently,
0N/A back when this is fixed. rbb
0N/A administrator to order filters, beyond the order of filename (mime)
0N/A Some sort of resolution needs to be proposed,
0N/A * mod_dir should normally redirect ALL directory requests which do
0N/A not include a trailing slash on the URI. However, if a "notes"
0N/A flag is set (say, via BrowserMatch), this behavior will be
0N/A disabled for non-GET requests.
0N/A Status: Greg volunteers
0N/A MsgId: <20010227104646.E2297@lyra.org>
0N/A MsgId: <3A9C0097.9C83F07C@Golux.Com>
0N/A * mod_negotiation needs a new option or directive, something like
0N/A ForceLanguagePriority, to fall back to the LanguagePriority
0N/A directive instead of returning a "no acceptable variant" error.
0N/A Status: Bill has some code in his tree that accomplishes
0N/A this, and will commit it Friday after it's tested.
0N/A * Usability: Sanitize the MPM config directives. MaxClients in
0N/A the threaded MPM is totally misleading now as it has little to
0N/A do with limiting the number of clients (it limits the number
0N/A of child processes). Bill proposed nomenclature change to
0N/A something like "StartWorkers, MaxWorkers, etc." that could
0N/A apply to most all the MPMs (with some notable exceptions).
0N/A Bill would be happy with changing MaxClients to MaxServers
0N/A to make it agree with the operation of the StartServers
0N/A * Fix the configure script to add a LoadModule directive to
0N/A * revamp the input filter semantics, per discussions since
0N/A February (and especially at the hackathon last
0N/A April). Specifically, ap_get_brigade will return a brigade with
0N/A *up to* a specific number of bytes, or a "line" of data. The
0N/A read may be blocking or nonblocking. ap_getline() will be
0N/A refactored into apr_brigade_getline(), and then DECHUNK can use
0N/A f->next (ap_getline will always read "top of input stack"). Also
0N/A fix the bug where request body content will end up closing the
0N/A connection (buggering up persistent conns).
0N/A Status: Justin is working on this as fast as he can.
0N/A The core input filters and HTTP-related filters are
0N/A switched to the new logic. At this point, proxy and
0N/A ssl remain broken. Preliminary patches for ssl have been
0N/A posted to dev@httpd. There are lots of places that made
0N/A implementation assumptions about the fact that the core
0N/A filter would return the socket. That code is now broken.
0N/A - socket bucket and core input filter changes. see end of
0N/A message ID (Feb 27): <20010227075326.S2297@lyra.org>
0N/A - fix up ap_get_brigade() semantics, fix bug in DECHUNK /
0N/A ap_getline. many messages (plus their threads) (
Apr/May):
0N/A Message-ID: <20010402101207.J27539@lyra.org>
0N/A Message-ID: <3AF7F921.D2EEC41A@algroup.co.uk>
0N/A Message-ID: <20010508190029.E18404@lyra.org>
0N/A Message-ID: <20010509115445.D1374@lyra.org>
0N/A - thoughts on filter modes:
0N/A Message-ID: <021b01c14dee$09782af0$93c0b0d0@roweclan.net>
0N/A * Fold mod_auth_db features back into mod_auth_dbm, and depricate it.
0N/A This can't wait until we have a 2.0-gold release, if folks need
0N/A to move over to auth_dbm, we can't do that to them after 2.0 gold.
0N/ARELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
0N/A * Allow the DocumentRoot directive within <Location > scopes? This
0N/A and in-your-face.) DocumentRoot unset would be accepted [and would
0N/A not permit content to be served, only virtual resources such as
0N/A server-info or server-status.
0N/A This proposed change would _not_ depricate Alias.
0N/A +1: Greg, Justin, ben, Ken, Jeff, Bill
0N/A 0: Cliff (there's now another candidate to be evaluated)
0N/A 0: Jim (premature decision at present, IMO)
0N/A non-binding: Ian (+1)
0N/A * daedalus: mod_cgid and suexec have a problem co-existing. suexec
0N/A sees a null command string sometimes. The problem happens when
0N/A * Win32: Rotatelogs sometimes is not terminated when Apache
0N/A goes down hard. FirstBill was looking at possibly tracking the
0N/A child's-child processes in the parent process.
0N/A OtherBill asks, wasn't this fixed?
0N/A * Win32: Add a simple hold console open patch (wait for close or
0N/A the ESC key, with a nice message) if the server died a bad
0N/A death (non-zero exit code) in console mode.
0N/A Resolution: bring forward same ugly hacks from 1.3.13-.20
0N/A * Port of mod_ssl to Apache 2.0:
0N/A remaining work includes:
0N/A (2) Enabling the various SSL caching mechanisms (shmcb, shmht)
0N/A (3) Enabling SSL extentions
0N/A (4) Trying to seperate the https filter logic from mod_ssl -
0N/A This is to facilitate other modules that wish to use the https
0N/A filter or the mod_ssl logic or both as required.
0N/A * Performance: Get the SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
0N/A optimization working in threaded. prefork's new design for how
0N/A to notice data on the pod should be sufficient.
0N/A * Performance & Debug: Eliminate most (and perhaps all) of the
0N/A light weight memory management functions that allow freeing
0N/A memory (putting it back into a memory pool) when it is no
0N/A longer needed. Enabling simple debugging features like guard
0N/A bands, double free detection, etc. would be cool but certainly
0N/A not a hard requirement.
0N/A Status: Cliff started to implement this using SMS as has
0N/A been discussed at length for months, but since
0N/A SMS is not being used anywhere else in the server,
0N/A several people expressed the opinion that we should
0N/A get rid of it entirely, meaning that the buckets
0N/A need their own memory management (free list) functions.
0N/A Cliff will implement that this weekend so we at least
0N/A * Eliminate unnecessary creation of pipes in mod_cgid
0N/A * the autoconf setup should be fixed to default to using the
0N/A in a layout should be overridable on the command line. Plus,
0N/A what we do right now just doesn't seem to fully fit into how autoconf
0N/A works, eg. AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT issues.
0N/A Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0104031557420.20876-100000@alive.znep.com>
0N/A * Document mod_file_cache.
0N/A * OS/2: Make mod_status work for spmt_os2 MPM.
0N/A * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)
0N/A Architect start-up code that avoids initializing all the modules
0N/A in the parent process on platforms that do not support fork.
0N/A would eliminate some code in the Win32 branch that essentially
0N/A duplicates what is in APR.
0N/A * There are still a number of places in the code where we are
0N/A losing error status (
i.e. throwing away the error returned by a
0N/A system call and replacing it with a generic error code)
0N/A * Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.
0N/A the dbmmanage employs the first-matched dbm format. This is not
0N/A necessarily the library that Apache was built with. Aught to
0N/A rewrite dbmmanage upon installation to bin/ with the proper library
0N/A Status: Mladen Turk has posted several patches and ideas.
0N/A Key question, part of htpasswd, or a seperate utility?
0N/A prefer seperate: OtherBill
0N/A * use apu_dbm in mod_auth_dbm
0N/A Status: Greg +1 (low-priority volunteer)
0N/A Justin says: "Seems like this is already there, so should we just
0N/A remove the other DBM code in that file? If you want
0N/A to use gdbm, or dbm, etc, you should tell apr-util."
0N/A Will says: "bs - I may choose the fastest - most efficient native
0N/A dbm implementation, for shared proc caches, ssl session
0N/A caching, etc, but that has nothing to do with maintaining
0N/A a userlist via dbm, which has to remain readable between
0N/A for apr-util would let us do this with just apr, though."
0N/A * Integrate mod_dav.
0N/A Some additional items remaining:
0N/A - case_preserved_filename stuff
0N/A (use the new canonical name stuff?)
0N/A - find a new home for ap_text(_header)
0N/A - is it possible to remove the DAV: namespace stuff from util_xml?
0N/A * ap_core_translate() and its use by mod_mmap_static and mod_file_cache
0N/A are a bit wonky. The function should probably be exposed as a utility
0N/A function (such as ap_translate_url2fs() or ap_validate_fs_url() or
0N/A something). Another approach would be a new hook phase after
0N/A "translate" which would allow the module to munge what the
0N/A translation has decided to do.
0N/A Status: Greg +1 (volunteers), Ryan +1
0N/A calls ap_fixup_virutal_hosts(), ap_fini_vhost_config(), and
0N/A ap_sort_hooks() [to reduce the logic in main()]
0N/A * read the config tree just once, and process N times (as necessary)
0N/A * (possibly) use UUIDs in mod_unique_id
and/or mod_usertrack
0N/A * (possibly) port the bug fix for PR 6942 (segv when LoadModule is put
0N/A into a VirtualHost container) to 2.0.
0N/A * APR-ize resolver stuff in mod_unique_id (Jeff volunteers)
0N/A * callers of ap_run_create_request() should check the return value
0N/A for failure (Doug volunteers)
0N/A * when prefork bails out due to an initialization error in the detached
0N/A process (
e.g., mutex init failure), other children (cgid, at least)
0N/A are left hanging around
0N/A * Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work
0N/A (at least) needs to be done:
0N/A - winnt MPM: Fix 95/98 code paths in the winnt MPM. There is some NT
0N/A specific code that is still not in NT only code paths
0N/A - IOL binds to APR sendfile, implemented with TransmitFile, which
0N/A is not available on 95/98.
0N/A - Document warning that OSR2 is required (for Crypt functions, in
0N/A rand.c, at least.) This could be resolved with an SSL library, or
0N/A randomization in APR itself.
0N/A actually works) and add in a splash of Win9x service code.
0N/APRs that have been suspended forever waiting for someone to
0N/Aput them into 'the next release':
0N/A missing call to "setlocale();"
0N/A * PR#78: mod_include
0N/A Additional status for XBitHack directive
0N/A Mod_proxy doesn't allow change of error pages
0N/A Modified PATH environemnt variable is not passed, instead
0N/A Proxy doesn't deliver documents if not connected
0N/A proxy converts ~name to %7Ename when name starts with a dot (.)
0N/A * PR#537: mod_access
0N/A mod_access syntax allows hosts that should be restricted
0N/A * PR#557: mod_auth-any
0N/A ~UserHome directories are not honored in absolute pathname
0N/A requests (.htaccess)
0N/A Proxy FTP Authentication Fails
0N/A * PR#623: mod_include
0N/A A smarter "Last Modified" value for SSI documents (see PR number 600)
0N/A Request of "Options SymLinksIfGroupMatch"
0N/A Proxy doesn't do links right for OpenVMS files through ftp:
0N/A imap should read <MAP><AREA>*</MAP> too!
0N/A RLimitCPU and RLimitMEM don't apply to all children like they should
0N/A Uses cwd before filling it in, doesn't use syslog
0N/A it is useful to allow specifiction that root-owned symlinks
0N/A should always be followed
0N/A Controlling Access to Remote Proxies would be nice...
0N/A Adding authentication "on the fly" through the proxy module
0N/A * PR#1004: apache-api
0N/A request_config field in request_rec is moderately bogus
0N/A DoS attacks involving memory consumption
0N/A * PR#1050: mod_log-any
0N/A Logging of virtual server to error_log as well
0N/A * PR#1085: mod_proxy
0N/A ProxyRemote make a dead cycle.
0N/A * PR#1117: mod_auth-any
0N/A suexec does not parse arguments to #exec cmd
0N/A * PR#1145: mod_include
0N/A Allow for Last-Modified: without resorting to XBitHack
0N/A * PR#1158: apache-api
0N/A improvements to child spawning API
0N/A * PR#1166: mod_proxy
0N/A ``nph-'' not honored (no buffering) for ProxyRemote mapping
0N/A Apache cannot handle continuation line in headers
0N/A setlogin() is not called, causing problems with
e.g. identd
0N/A regerror() exists, use it
0N/A * PR#1233: apache-api
0N/A there is no way to keep per-connection per-module state
0N/A * PR#1263: mod_autoexec
0N/A Add frame-safe anchor attribute to mod_autoindex links
0N/A CGI scripts running as Apache user: security (suexec etc.)
0N/A * PR#1287: mod_access
0N/A * PR#1290: mod_proxy
0N/A Need to know "hit-rate" on proxy cache
0N/A * PR#1358: mod_log-any
0N/A Selective url-encode of log fields (or maybe a pseudo
0N/A log_rewrite module?)
0N/A * PR#1383: mod_headers
0N/A I make mod_headers to modify request headers as well as
0N/A * PR#1532: mod_proxy
0N/A Proxy transfer logging
0N/A * PR#1547: mod_proxy
0N/A No HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR set...
0N/A * PR#1567: mod_proxy
0N/A ProxyRemote proxy requests fail authentication by firewall
0N/A * PR#1582: mod_rewrite
0N/A mod_rewrite forms REQUEST_URI different than mod_cgi does
0N/A * PR#1677: mod_headers
0N/A mod_headers should allow mod_log_config-style formats in
0N/A * PR#1702: mod_proxy
0N/A mod_proxy to support persistent conns?
0N/A * PR#1803: mod_include
0N/A patches to mod_include to allow for file tests
0N/A * PR#1809: mod_auth-any
0N/A Suggestion for improving authentication modules and core source
0N/A code, problem with 401 and ErrorDocument
0N/A * PR#1878: mod_proxy
0N/A listing of proxy cache content
0N/A Allow modules to set user:group for execution.
0N/A * PR#2024: apache-api
0N/A adding auth_why to conn_rec
0N/A * PR#2073: mod_log-any
0N/A pipelined connections are not logged correctly
0N/A * PR#2074: mod_rewrite
0N/A mod_rewrite doesn't pass Proxy Throughput on internal subrequests
0N/A HTTP Server Rebuild Line Needs Changing for the better
0N/A * PR#2138: mod_status
0N/A mod_status always displays 256 possible connection slots
0N/A * PR#2221: documentation
0N/A Make online documentation search link back to my installation
0N/A Can not POST to ErrorDocument - Apache/1.3b6
0N/A * PR#2314: mod_proxy
0N/A patterns in ProxyRemote
0N/A * PR#2343: mod_status
0N/A Status module averages are for entire uptime
0N/A suexec for general access of user content?
0N/A Proposal for TimeZone directive
0N/A /server-info doesn't check for the virtual host to list the info
0N/A problem specifying ndbm library for build ?with autoconfigure
0N/A AllowOverride FileInfo is too coarse
0N/A TimeOut applies to output of CGI scripts
0N/A * PR#2512: mod_access
0N/A <IfDenied> directive wanted
0N/A CGI's for general use still have to be run as another user
0N/A Cache file names in Proxy module
0N/A in global and <Virtual>.
0N/A mailto tags and bundling bug report script
0N/A Support for System Resource Controller
0N/A When will Apache support P3P? Any Plans?
0N/A Propose that Apache recommend $UNIQUE_ID for all "session id"
0N/A suggestion: power up your Include directive :)
0N/A cannot limit some HTTP methods
0N/A * PR#3143: apache-api
0N/A No module specific data hook for per-connection data
0N/A * PR#3191: mod_negotiation
0N/A no way to set global quality-of-source (qs) coneg values
0N/A * PR#3568: mod_proxy
0N/A Accessing URL through proxy server corrupts data.
0N/A * PR#3605: mod_proxy
0N/A Some anonymous FTP URLs ask for authentication
0N/A New ErrorDocumentMatch directive
0N/A Need to be able to override shebang line to make CGI scripts
0N/A "Files" and "FilesMatch" regexp does not recognize bang as
0N/A * PR#4448: mod_log-any
0N/A Please allow CGI env variables (QUERY_STRING, ...) to be logged
0N/A * PR#4459: mod_include
0N/A Suggestion for better handling of Last-modified headers
0N/A mod_cgi prevents handling of OPTIONS requests
0N/A * PR#5713: os-windows
0N/A [PATCH] install as win32 service with domain account
0N/A AllowOverride should have a 'CheckNone' and 'AllowNone' argument
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
* 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.
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
* TODO in source -- just do an egrep on "TODO" and see what's there
* 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
* Mike Abbott's <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com> patches to improve
Status: These were written for 1.3, and are awaiting a port to
* 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
* Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?