af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsyncAPACHE 2.0 STATUS: -*-text-*-

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsyncLast modified at [$Date: 2002/04/08 19:52:26 $]

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsyncRelease:

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 2.0.35 : released April 5, 2002 as GA.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 2.0.34 : tagged March 26, 2002.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 2.0.33 : tagged March 6, 2002. not released.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 2.0.32 : released Feburary 16, 2002 as beta.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 2.0.31 : rolled Feburary 1, 2002. not released.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 2.0.30 : tagged January 8, 2002. not rolled.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 2.0.29 : tagged November 27, 2001. not rolled.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 2.0.28 : released November 13, 2001 as beta.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 2.0.27 : rolled November 6, 2001

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 2.0.26 : tagged October 16, 2001. not rolled.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 2.0.25 : rolled August 29, 2001

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 2.0.24 : rolled August 18, 2001

b955672b950093ff7416d1269dd4d3b69983bd8fvboxsync 2.0.23 : rolled August 9, 2001

b955672b950093ff7416d1269dd4d3b69983bd8fvboxsync 2.0.22 : rolled July 29, 2001

4b9d6701570cb98fd36e209314239d104ec584d3vboxsync 2.0.21 : rolled July 20, 2001

4b9d6701570cb98fd36e209314239d104ec584d3vboxsync 2.0.20 : rolled July 8, 2001

b955672b950093ff7416d1269dd4d3b69983bd8fvboxsync 2.0.19 : rolled June 27, 2001

b955672b950093ff7416d1269dd4d3b69983bd8fvboxsync 2.0.18 : rolled May 18, 2001

b955672b950093ff7416d1269dd4d3b69983bd8fvboxsync 2.0.17 : rolled April 17, 2001

b955672b950093ff7416d1269dd4d3b69983bd8fvboxsync 2.0.16 : rolled April 4, 2001

b955672b950093ff7416d1269dd4d3b69983bd8fvboxsync 2.0.15 : rolled March 21, 2001

ee6bcfc59fe3b0230aad85e2ef63d0402b7719b2vboxsync 2.0.14 : rolled March 7, 2001

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 2.0a9 : released December 12, 2000

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 2.0a8 : released November 20, 2000

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 2.0a7 : released October 8, 2000

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 2.0a6 : released August 18, 2000

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 2.0a5 : released August 4, 2000

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000

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af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsyncPlease consult the following STATUS files for information

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsyncon related projects:

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * srclib/apr/STATUS

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * srclib/apr-util/STATUS

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * docs/STATUS

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af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsyncCURRENT RELEASE NOTES:

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * 36 status:

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsyncRELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * Daedalus segfaults with 2.0.35

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Greg and Cliff are working on this.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * mod_autoindex does not load on AIX because symbol

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync ap_subreq_core_filter_handle is not being properly exported.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Jeff is working on this.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsyncCURRENT VOTES:

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * Should we always build [support*] binaries statically unless otherwise

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync indicated?

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Message-ID: <20020129210006.B23512@Lithium.MeepZor.Com>

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync +1: Ken, *wrowe [they are PITAs on OSX]

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync -1: Justin, Ian

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * If the parent process dies, should the remaining child processes

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync "gracefully" self-terminate. Or maybe we should make it a runtime

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync option, or have a concept of 2 parent processes (one being a

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync "hot spare").

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync See: Message-ID: <3C58232C.FE91F19F@Golux.Com>

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Self-destruct: Ken, Martin

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Not self-destruct: BrianP, Ian, Cliff, BillS

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Make it runtime configurable: Aaron, Jim, Justin

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Have 2 parents: +1: Jim

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync -1: Justin, wrowe [for 2.0]

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync +0: Martin (while standing by, could it do

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync something useful?)

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * Make the worker MPM the default MPM for threaded Unix boxes.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync +1: Justin, Ian, Cliff

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync -0: Aaron (premature decision, needs more discussion), Lars

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsyncRELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * We do not properly substitute the prefix-variables in the configuration

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync scripts or generated-configs. (i.e. if sysconfdir is etc,

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync httpd-std.conf points to conf.)

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * If any request gets through ap_process_request_internal() and is

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync scheduled to be served by the core handler, without a flag that this

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync r->filename was tested by dir/file_walk, we need to 500 at the very

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync end of the ap_process_request_internal() processing so sub_req-esters

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync know this request cannot be run. This provides authors of older

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync modules better compatibility, while still improving the security and

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync robustness of 2.0.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Status: still need to decide where this goes, OtherBill comments...

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Message-ID: <065701c14526$495203b0$96c0b0d0@roweclan.net>

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync [Deleted comments regarding the ap_run_handler phase, as irrelevant

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync as BillS points out that "common case will be caught in

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync default_handler already (with the r->finfo.filetype == 0 check)"

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync and the issue is detecting this -before- we try to run the req.]

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync gregames says: can this happen somehow without a broken module

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync being involved? If not, why waste cycles trying to defend against

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync potential broken modules? It seems futile.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync wrowe counters: no, it shouldn't happen unless the module is broken.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync But the right answer is to fail the request up-front in dir/file

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync walk if the path was entirely invalid; and we can't do that either

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync or we break modules that are unwilling to hook map_to_storage.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * Rewrite core_output_filter. It is nearly impossible to support

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync it with predictable results as it is implemented now.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * Convert all instances of the old apr_lock_t type to the new

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync types.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * With AP_MODE_EXHAUSTIVE in the core, it is finally clear to me

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync how the Perchild MPM should be re-written. It hasn't worked

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync correctly since filters were added because it wasn't possible to

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync get the content that had already been written and the socket at

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync the same time. This mode lets us do that, so the MPM can be

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync fixed.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * htpasswd blindly processes the file you give it, and does no

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync sanity checking before totally corrupting whatever file it was

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync you thought you had. It should check the input file and bail

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync if it finds non-comment lines that do not contain exactly 1

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync ':' character.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Message-ID: <20020217150457.A31632@clove.org>

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * Can a static httpd be built reliably?

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Message-ID: <20020207142751.T31582@clove.org>

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * [Ken] Test suite failures:

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync o worker is also failing some of the 'cgi' subtests

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync (see <URL:http://Source-Zone.Org/Apache/regression/>):

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Justin says: "Worker should be fine and passes httpd-test here.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync If you can provide evidence that it can be reproduced

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync outside of httpd-test, then it's a showstopper. I

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync think it's a perl or a httpd-test problem."

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Not a showstopper: Justin

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * Usage of APR_BRIGADE_NORMALIZE in core_input_filter should be

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync removed if possible.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201202232430.318-100000@deepthought.cs.virginia.edu>

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * There is a bug in how we sort some hooks, at least the pre-config

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync hook. The first time we call the hooks, they are in the correct

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync order, but the second time, we don't sort them correctly. Currently,

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync the modules/http/config.m4 file has been renamed to

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync modules/http/config2.m4 to work around this problem, it should moved

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync back when this is fixed. rbb

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Justin says: "Is this really a showstopper? This has been here

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync forever. What's wrong? Does this have to do with

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync autoconf or m4?"

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Not a showstopper: Justin, BrianP, trawick, gregames

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * The Add...Filter and Set...Filter directives do not allow the

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync administrator to order filters, beyond the order of filename (mime)

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync extensions. It isn't clear if Set...Filter(s) should be inserted

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync before or after the Add...Filter(s) which are ordered by sequence of

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync filename extensions. At minimum, some sort of +-[0-10] syntax seems

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync like the quickest fix for a 2.0 gold release.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Justin says: "Could we delay this for a point release or 2.1?"

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Not a showstopper: justin, wrowe, trawick, stoddard, Jim, Ian, Aaron,

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync gregames

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * Get perchild to work on platforms other than Linux. This

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync will require a portable mechanism to pass data and file/socket

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync descriptors between vhost child groups. An API was proposed

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync on dev@apr:

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Message-ID: <20020111115006.K1529@clove.org>

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

554f00fe75489f3f3ce7fbb6d126ce1d2c5c922cvboxsync * Try to get libtool inter-library dependency code working on AIX.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Message-ID: <cm3n10lx555.fsf@rdu163-40-092.nc.rr.com>

554f00fe75489f3f3ce7fbb6d126ce1d2c5c922cvboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Justin says: If we get it working on AIX, we can enable this

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync on all platforms and clean up our build system

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync somewhat.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Jeff says: I thought I tested a patch for you sometime in

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync January that you were going to commit within a few

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync days.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * Handling of %2f in URIs. Currently both 1.3 and 2.0

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync completely disallow %2f in the request URI path (see

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync ap_unescape_url() in util.c). It's permitted and passed

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync through in the query string, however. Roy says the

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync original reason for disallowing it, from five years ago,

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync was to protect CGI scripts that applied PATH_INFO to

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync a filesystem location and which might be tricked by

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync ..%2f..%2f(...). We *should* allow path-info of the

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync form 'http://foo.com/index.cgi/path/to/path%2finfo'.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Since we've revamped a lot of our processing of path

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync segments, it would be nice to allow this, or at least

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync allow it conditionally with a directive.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync * FreeBSD, threads, and worker MPM. All seems to work fine

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync if you only have one worker process with many threads. Add

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync a second worker process and the accept lock seems to be

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync lost. This might be an APR issue with how it deals with

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync the child_init hook (i.e. the fcntl lock needs to be resynced).

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync More examination and analysis is required.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Status: This has also been reported on Cygwin.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Message-ID: <3C2CC514.8EF3BED1@wapme-systems.de> (cygnus)

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Justin says: So, FreeBSD-CURRENT and Cywin have the same

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync problem. Yum. If another platform has this

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync with worker, this becomes a showstopper.

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync Aaron says: I spent some time disecting this and have come to

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync the conclusion that it is not a problem in the worker MPM

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync (or at least, it is not isolated to a problem in worker).

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync I'll list some of the problems I'm seeing in case someone

af062818b47340eef15700d2f0211576ba3506eevboxsync 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.

Other thoughts on walking the process chain using the NT kernel

have also been proposed on APR.

* 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.

* 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 :-)

Binaries (2.0.35):

Platform Avail. Volunteer

------------------------------------------------------------------

AIX 4.3.3 Bill Stoddard

Mandrake 8.1 no Ryan Bloom

FreeBSD 4.1 yes Ryan Bloom

i386-unknown-freebsd4.5 yes Aaron Bannert

OS X 10.1.3/Darwin 5.3 yes Jim Jagielski

Solaris 8.x/sparc yes Jim Jagielski

i686-pc-linux-gnu-rh70 yes Aaron Bannert

i686-pc-linux-gnu-rh72 yes Aaron Bannert

i386-pc-solaris2.8 yes Aaron Bannert

powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu no Graham Leggett

NetWare no Brad Nicholes

Win32-x86 no William Rowe

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:

* 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?