45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsyncAPACHE 2.0 STATUS: -*-text-*-

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsyncLast modified at [$Date: 2002/03/22 00:59:23 $]

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsyncRelease:

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0.34 : in development

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0.33 : tagged March 6, 2002.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0.32 : released Feburary 16, 2002.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0.31 : rolled Feburary 1, 2002. not released.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0.30 : tagged January 8, 2002. not rolled.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0.29 : tagged November 27, 2001. not rolled.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0.28 : released November 13, 2001

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0.27 : rolled November 6, 2001

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0.26 : tagged October 16, 2001. not rolled.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0.25 : rolled August 29, 2001

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0.24 : rolled August 18, 2001

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0.23 : rolled August 9, 2001

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0.22 : rolled July 29, 2001

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0.21 : rolled July 20, 2001

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0.20 : rolled July 8, 2001

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0.19 : rolled June 27, 2001

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0.18 : rolled May 18, 2001

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0.17 : rolled April 17, 2001

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0.16 : rolled April 4, 2001

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0.15 : rolled March 21, 2001

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0.14 : rolled March 7, 2001

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0a9 : released December 12, 2000

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0a8 : released November 20, 2000

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0a7 : released October 8, 2000

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0a6 : released August 18, 2000

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0a5 : released August 4, 2000

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000

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45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsyncPlease consult the following STATUS files for information

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsyncon related projects:

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45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * srclib/apr/STATUS

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * srclib/apr-util/STATUS

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * docs/STATUS

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45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsyncCURRENT RELEASE NOTES:

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * 34 status: Let's get all API changes and showstoppers in this one.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Please.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsyncFINAL RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * If any request gets to the core handler, without a flag that this

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync r->filename was tested by dir/file_walk, we need to 500 at the very

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync end of the ap_process_request_internal() processing. This provides

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync authors of older modules better compatibility, while still improving

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync the security and robustness of 2.0.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Status: still need to decide where this goes, OtherBill comments...

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Message-ID: <065701c14526$495203b0$96c0b0d0@roweclan.net>

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync we need to look at halting this in the 'default handler' case,

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync and that implies pushing the 'handler election' into the request

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync internal processing phase from the run request phase.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Jim asks: would a stopgap be something bogus like adding another

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync flag to request_rec ala eos_sent and before we OK, if not set

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync force 500?

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Jeff says: reviewing the original message and the one

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync follow-up (also from OtherBill) it looks like OtherBill had a

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync good handle on the problem, though I wonder why not just put a

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync simple check in default_handler to see if dir/file_walk has

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync been done (a footprint left by dir/file_walk doesn't have to

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync be in request_rec; a better place is core_request_config)

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * We need to find out the right place to add the AddOutputFilterByType

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync directive. mod_mime? No. core with fixups? That's what it is now.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync ap_pass_brigade() hook? As a filter that runs at HTTP_HEADER stage?

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync This needs to be resolved before the next public release.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Message-ID: <018701c1b99c$f0f24310$0a01230a@KOJ>

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync - First cut of this code has been committed. Needs to be

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync reviewed and documented. Any module that does not use the

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync accessor function will break the server.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * API changes planned for 2.0 that should happen before the

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync GA release:

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * Free lists for bucket allocation

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * We do not properly substitute the prefix-variables in the configuration

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync scripts or generated-configs. (i.e. if sysconfdir is etc,

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync httpd-std.conf points to conf.)

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Aaron says: This is not a showstopper, these problems have existed

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync for as long as I can remember. It would be nice to fix

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync them but they are not new.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * Address popular PRs

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * Win32 doesn't install as service correctly [9863, 9914, 9961]

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsyncCURRENT VOTES:

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * Should we always build binaries statically unless otherwise

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync indicated?

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Message-ID: <20020129210006.B23512@Lithium.MeepZor.Com>

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync +1: Ken

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync -1: Justin, Ian

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * If the parent process dies, should the remaining child processes

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync "gracefully" self-terminate. Or maybe we should make it a runtime

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync option, or have a concept of 2 parent processes (one being a

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync "hot spare").

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync See: Message-ID: <3C58232C.FE91F19F@Golux.Com>

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Self-destruct: Ken, Martin

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Not self-destruct: BrianP, Ian, Cliff, BillS

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Make it runtime configurable: Aaron, Jim, Justin

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Have 2 parents: +1: Jim

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync -1: Justin

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync +0: Martin (while standing by, could it do

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync something useful?)

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * Make the worker MPM the default MPM for threaded Unix boxes.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync +1: Justin, Ian, Cliff

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync -0: Aaron (premature decision, needs more discussion), Lars

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsyncRELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * Convert all instances of the old apr_lock_t type to the new

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync types.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Status: Aaron has converted all but the perchild MPM to

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync use the new lock API. Since perchild has been put

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync on the back burner, this is no longer a showstopper.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Aaron will patch perchild as soon as it becomes

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync buildable again.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * With AP_MODE_EXHAUSTIVE in the core, it is finally clear to me

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync how the Perchild MPM should be re-written. It hasn't worked

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync correctly since filters were added because it wasn't possible to

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync get the content that had already been written and the socket at

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync the same time. This mode lets us do that, so the MPM can be

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync fixed.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * htpasswd blindly processes the file you give it, and does no

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync sanity checking before totally corrupting whatever file it was

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync you thought you had. It should check the input file and bail

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync if it finds non-comment lines that do not contain exactly 1

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync ':' character.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Message-ID: <20020217150457.A31632@clove.org>

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * Can a static httpd be built reliably?

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Message-ID: <20020207142751.T31582@clove.org>

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * [Ken] Test suite failures:

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync o worker is also failing some of the 'cgi' subtests

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync (see <URL:http://Source-Zone.Org/Apache/regression/>):

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Justin says: "Worker should be fine and passes httpd-test here.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync If you can provide evidence that it can be reproduced

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync outside of httpd-test, then it's a showstopper. I

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync think it's a perl or a httpd-test problem."

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Not a showstopper: Justin

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * Usage of APR_BRIGADE_NORMALIZE in core_input_filter should be

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync removed if possible.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201202232430.318-100000@deepthought.cs.virginia.edu>

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * There is a bug in how we sort some hooks, at least the pre-config

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync hook. The first time we call the hooks, they are in the correct

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync order, but the second time, we don't sort them correctly. Currently,

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync the modules/http/config.m4 file has been renamed to

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync modules/http/config2.m4 to work around this problem, it should moved

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync back when this is fixed. rbb

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Justin says: "Is this really a showstopper? This has been here

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync forever. What's wrong? Does this have to do with

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync autoconf or m4?"

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Not a showstopper: Justin, BrianP, trawick, gregames

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * The Add...Filter and Set...Filter directives do not allow the

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync administrator to order filters, beyond the order of filename (mime)

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync extensions. It isn't clear if Set...Filter(s) should be inserted

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync before or after the Add...Filter(s) which are ordered by sequence of

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync filename extensions. At minimum, some sort of +-[0-10] syntax seems

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync like the quickest fix for a 2.0 gold release.

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Justin says: "Could we delay this for a point release or 2.1?"

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Not a showstopper: justin, wrowe, trawick, stoddard, Jim, Ian, Aaron,

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync gregames

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync * Get perchild to work on platforms other than Linux. This

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync will require a portable mechanism to pass data and file/socket

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync descriptors between vhost child groups. An API was proposed

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync on dev@apr:

45e9809aff7304721fddb95654901b32195c9c7avboxsync Message-ID: <20020111115006.K1529@clove.org>

* 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.

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

January that you were going to commit within a few

days.

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

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

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

through in the query string, however. Roy says the

original reason for disallowing it, from five years ago,

was to protect CGI scripts that applied PATH_INFO to

a filesystem location and which might be tricked by

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

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

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

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

allow it conditionally with a directive.

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

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

a second worker process and the accept lock seems to be

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

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

More examination and analysis is required.

Status: This has also been reported on Cygwin.

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

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

problem. Yum. If another platform has this

with worker, this becomes a showstopper.

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

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

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

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

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

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

processes will send it into an infinite loop as well.

- Even though the parent is spinning out of control,

at first the child or children will appear to work

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

however, where a request will hang until another concurrent

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

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

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

possible that it is in APR.

Justin adds: Oh, FreeBSD threads are implemented entirely with

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

So, that means a ktrace output also has the thread

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

the kernel). Which makes it hard to distinguish between

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

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

files have a DBG_MSG #define. This is moderately helpful

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

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

those decrementing select calls have to do with the

scheduler. Time to brush up on our OS fundamentals.

* There is increasing demand from module writers for an API

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

Reasons include sole-function servers that need to die if

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

Perhaps something in the (ever more abused) scoreboard?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

server-info or server-status.

This proposed change would _not_ depricate Alias.

* Win32: Rotatelogs sometimes is not terminated when Apache

goes down hard. FirstBill was looking at possibly tracking the

child's-child processes in the parent process.

OtherBill asks, wasn't this fixed?

stoddard: Not fixed. Shared scoreboard might offer a good

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

and whack them if the child goes down.

* 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 SSL extentions

(3) 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.

* 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

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

Common logging API.

* Document mod_file_cache.

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

Architect start-up code that avoids initializing all the modules

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

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

would eliminate some code in the Win32 branch that essentially

duplicates what is in APR.

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

losing error status (i.e. throwing away the error returned by a

system call and replacing it with a generic error code)

* Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.

* All DBMs suffer from confusion in support/dbmmanage (perl script) since

the dbmmanage employs the first-matched dbm format. This is not

necessarily the library that Apache was built with. Aught to

rewrite dbmmanage upon installation to bin/ with the proper library

for predictable mod_auth_dbm administration.

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

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

do we address the issue above?

* Integrate mod_dav.

Some additional items remaining:

- case_preserved_filename stuff

(use the new canonical name stuff?)

- find a new home for ap_text(_header)

- is it possible to remove the DAV: namespace stuff from util_xml?

* ap_core_translate() and its use by mod_mmap_static and mod_file_cache

are a bit wonky. The function should probably be exposed as a utility

function (such as ap_translate_url2fs() or ap_validate_fs_url() or

something). Another approach would be a new hook phase after

"translate" which would allow the module to munge what the

translation has decided to do.

Status: Greg +1 (volunteers), Ryan +1

* Explore use of a post-config hook for the code in http_main.c which

calls ap_fixup_virutal_hosts(), ap_fini_vhost_config(), and

ap_sort_hooks() [to reduce the logic in main()]

* read the config tree just once, and process N times (as necessary)

* (possibly) use UUIDs in mod_unique_id and/or mod_usertrack

* (possibly) port the bug fix for PR 6942 (segv when LoadModule is put

into a VirtualHost container) to 2.0.

* shift stuff to mod_core.h

* callers of ap_run_create_request() should check the return value

for failure (Doug volunteers)

* Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work

(at least) needs to be done:

- Document warning that OSR2 is required (for Crypt functions, in

rand.c, at least.) This could be resolved with an SSL library, or

randomization in APR itself.

- Bring the Win9xConHook.dll from 1.3 into 2.0 (no sense till it

actually works) and add in a splash of Win9x service code.

* 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.

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

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

* 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

* 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>

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?