0N/AAPACHE 2.0 STATUS: -*-text-*-
2362N/ALast modified at [$Date: 2001/09/07 02:34:56 $]
0N/A 2.0.25 : rolled August 29, 2001
2362N/A 2.0.24 : rolled August 18, 2001
0N/A 2.0.23 : rolled August 9, 2001
2362N/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
0N/A 2.0a8 : released November 20, 2000
0N/A 2.0a7 : released October 8, 2000
2362N/A 2.0a6 : released August 18, 2000
2362N/A 2.0a5 : released August 4, 2000
2362N/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 * 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 * The AddInputFilter and AddOutputFilter directives do not allow the
0N/A administrator to remove or reorder filters. Once a filter is added
0N/A in a container, it is present in any subcontainers. It can only be
0N/A added to the filter chain after any filters specified in enclosing
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 will not serve a request when an early extention
0N/A is understood, but a later extention is not.
e.g. if the request
0N/A ap-mime-exception-list will contain "index" and "bak", and the
0N/A review the ap-mime-exception-list component by component to be
0N/A allow these cases. [This could be part of a patch to allow the
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 * 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 * configure --enable-mods-shared=most option has issues. Example:
0N/A ./configure --enable-mods-shared=most
0N/A This builds mod_headers as a DSO (good) but builds mod_mime
0N/A as a compiled-in module (bad).
0N/ARELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
0N/A * add mod_gz to httpd-2.0
0N/A +1: Greg, Justin, Cliff
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 * 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.
858N/A Resolution: bring forward same ugly hacks from 1.3.13-.20
858N/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 * mod_tls is very specific to OpenSSL. Make the API calls
0N/A more generic to support other encryption libraries.
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, David, et al have discussed using the blocks SMS
0N/A We could then have a thread-private SMS that is pointed
0N/A to by the conn_rec's or something so that all calls to
0N/A the bucket create functions can pass in that SMS. No locks
0N/A required. Should be fast...
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.
1669N/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 * 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 * 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
257N/A * (possibly) port the bug fix for PR 6942 (segv when LoadModule is put
0N/A into a VirtualHost container) to 2.0.
257N/A * APR-ize resolver stuff in mod_unique_id (Jeff volunteers)
0N/A * callers of ap_run_create_request() should check the return value
257N/A for failure (Doug volunteers)
257N/A * when prefork bails out due to an initialization error in the detached
257N/A process (
e.g., mutex init failure), other children (cgid, at least)
1788N/A * Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work
1788N/A (at least) needs to be done:
1788N/A - winnt MPM: Fix 95/98 code paths in the winnt MPM. There is some NT
1788N/A specific code that is still not in NT only code paths
1788N/A - IOL binds to APR sendfile, implemented with TransmitFile, which
257N/A is not available on 95/98.
257N/A - Document warning that OSR2 is required (for Crypt functions, in
257N/A rand.c, at least.) This could be resolved with an SSL library, or
257N/A randomization in APR itself.
257N/A actually works) and add in a splash of Win9x service code.
257N/APRs that have been suspended forever waiting for someone to
257N/Aput them into 'the next release':
257N/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)
1929N/A Request of "Options SymLinksIfGroupMatch"
1929N/A Proxy doesn't do links right for OpenVMS files through ftp:
1929N/A imap should read <MAP><AREA>*</MAP> too!
257N/A RLimitCPU and RLimitMEM don't apply to all children like they should
257N/A Uses cwd before filling it in, doesn't use syslog
257N/A it is useful to allow specifiction that root-owned symlinks
257N/A should always be followed
1248N/A Controlling Access to Remote Proxies would be nice...
1248N/A Adding authentication "on the fly" through the proxy module
257N/A request_config field in request_rec is moderately bogus
257N/A DoS attacks involving memory consumption
257N/A Logging of virtual server to error_log as well
257N/A ProxyRemote make a dead cycle.
257N/A * PR#1117: mod_auth-any
257N/A suexec does not parse arguments to #exec cmd
257N/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
257N/A * PR#1263: mod_autoexec
257N/A Add frame-safe anchor attribute to mod_autoindex links
257N/A CGI scripts running as Apache user: security (suexec etc.)
257N/A Need to know "hit-rate" on proxy cache
257N/A Selective url-encode of log fields (or maybe a pseudo
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
mod_rewrite doesn't pass Proxy Throughput on internal subrequests
HTTP Server Rebuild Line Needs Changing for the better
mod_status always displays 256 possible connection slots
Make online documentation search link back to my installation
Can not POST to ErrorDocument - Apache/1.3b6
Status module averages are for entire uptime
suexec for general access of user content?
Proposal for TimeZone directive
/server-info doesn't check for the virtual host to list the info
problem specifying ndbm library for build ?with autoconfigure
A small addition to
rotatelogs.c to improve program functionality.
AllowOverride FileInfo is too coarse
TimeOut applies to output of CGI scripts
<IfDenied> directive wanted
CGI's for general use still have to be run as another user
Cache file names in Proxy module
mailto tags and bundling bug report script
Support for System Resource Controller
When will Apache support P3P? Any Plans?
Propose that Apache recommend $UNIQUE_ID for all "session id"
suggestion: power up your Include directive :)
cannot limit some HTTP methods
No module specific data hook for per-connection data
* PR#3191: mod_negotiation
no way to set global quality-of-source (qs) coneg values
Accessing URL through proxy server corrupts data.
Some anonymous FTP URLs ask for authentication
New ErrorDocumentMatch directive
Need to be able to override shebang line to make CGI scripts
"Files" and "FilesMatch" regexp does not recognize bang as
Please allow CGI env variables (QUERY_STRING, ...) to be logged
Suggestion for better handling of Last-modified headers
mod_cgi prevents handling of OPTIONS requests
[PATCH] install as win32 service with domain account
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
* What do we do about mod_proxy?
* Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?