STATUS revision 4b9ba3d48754536c6aeae7426a8024dccc98899d
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobsAPACHE 2.0 STATUS: -*-text-*-
eb1d81f3a9f8d0c56b7fca4667287a099fa49cfaLin Guo - Sun MicrosystemsLast modified at [$Date: 2002/05/30 06:02:15 $]
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4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobsRelease:
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4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.37 : in development.
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.36 : released May 6, 2002 as GA.
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.35 : released April 5, 2002 as GA.
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.34 : tagged March 26, 2002.
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.33 : tagged March 6, 2002. not released.
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.32 : released Feburary 16, 2002 as beta.
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.31 : rolled Feburary 1, 2002. not released.
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.30 : tagged January 8, 2002. not rolled.
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.29 : tagged November 27, 2001. not rolled.
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.28 : released November 13, 2001 as beta.
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.27 : rolled November 6, 2001
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.26 : tagged October 16, 2001. not rolled.
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.25 : rolled August 29, 2001
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.24 : rolled August 18, 2001
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.23 : rolled August 9, 2001
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.22 : rolled July 29, 2001
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.21 : rolled July 20, 2001
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.20 : rolled July 8, 2001
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.19 : rolled June 27, 2001
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.18 : rolled May 18, 2001
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.17 : rolled April 17, 2001
eb1d81f3a9f8d0c56b7fca4667287a099fa49cfaLin Guo - Sun Microsystems 2.0.16 : rolled April 4, 2001
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.15 : rolled March 21, 2001
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0.14 : rolled March 7, 2001
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0a9 : released December 12, 2000
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0a8 : released November 20, 2000
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0a7 : released October 8, 2000
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0a6 : released August 18, 2000
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0a5 : released August 4, 2000
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000
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4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobsPlease consult the following STATUS files for information
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobson related projects:
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4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs * srclib/apr/STATUS
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs * srclib/apr-util/STATUS
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs * docs/STATUS
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4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs * 37 status: Cliff tagged JCW_PRE2_2037 on Wednesday. Some
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs showstoppers remain, so there will be a PRE3 as well, probably
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs Friday. Just wanted an intermediate milestone.
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4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobsRELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:
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4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs * HP/UX 10.20: compile breakage in APR. Looks like it should be easy
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs to fix, probably just some extraneous #include's that are fouling
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs things up.
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs PR: 9457
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs * Win32: httpd won't start. There was a command line args problem
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs that got fixed, but now something else is wrong.
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs Status: one problem here might be a "" argument being returned from
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs the rewrite_args hook getting caught by Jeff's patch to check
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs args more strictly.
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020525222410.02a629d0@pop3.rowe-clan.net>
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4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs * CWD issues
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4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs * Find a better name for ap_signal_server()
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs Message-ID: <m37kltilb3.fsf@rdu88-251-253.nc.rr.com>
eb1d81f3a9f8d0c56b7fca4667287a099fa49cfaLin Guo - Sun Microsystems
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs * server pushed CGI's not working. (Is this a showstopper??)
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs PR: 8482
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs Message-ID: <3CE15B85.2FF45121@apache.org>
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4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobsCURRENT VOTES:
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs * apachectl should revert to just being an init script and
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs httpd.sh should be the wrapper for httpd which sources envvars
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs and allows any options to be passed through
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs +1: trawick
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs * Should we always build [support*] binaries statically unless otherwise
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs indicated?
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs Message-ID: <20020129210006.B23512@Lithium.MeepZor.Com>
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs +1: Ken, *wrowe [they are PITAs on OSX]
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs -1: Justin, Ian
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs * If the parent process dies, should the remaining child processes
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs "gracefully" self-terminate. Or maybe we should make it a runtime
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs option, or have a concept of 2 parent processes (one being a
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs "hot spare").
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs See: Message-ID: <3C58232C.FE91F19F@Golux.Com>
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs Self-destruct: Ken, Martin
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs Not self-destruct: BrianP, Ian, Cliff, BillS
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs Make it runtime configurable: Aaron, Jim, Justin
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs Have 2 parents: +1: Jim
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs -1: Justin, wrowe [for 2.0]
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs +0: Martin (while standing by, could it do
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs something useful?)
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs * Make the worker MPM the default MPM for threaded Unix boxes.
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs +1: Justin, Ian, Cliff, BillS
eb1d81f3a9f8d0c56b7fca4667287a099fa49cfaLin Guo - Sun Microsystems +0: BrianP, Aaron (mutex contention is looking better with the
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs latest code, let's continue tuning and testing)
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs -0: Lars
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobsRELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs * exec cmd and suexec arg-passing enhancements
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs Status: Patches proposed
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs Message-ID: <20020526041748.A29148@prodigy.Redbrick.DCU.IE>
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs (see the "proc.patch" and "suexec-shell.patch" links in this message)
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs * Get mod_cache/mod_mem_cache out of experimental (still some
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs work items left to complete)
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs * The 2.0.36 worker MPM graceless shutdown changes work but are
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs a bit clunky on some platforms; eg, on Linux, the loop to
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs join each worker thread seems to hang, and the parent ends up
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs killing off the child with SIGKILL. But at least it shuts down.
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs
4e9cfc9a015e8ca7d41f7d018c74dc8a692305b3jacobs * --enable-mods-shared="foo1 foo2" is busted on Darwin. Pier
posted a patch (Message-ID: <B8DBBE8D.575A%pier@betaversion.org>).
* We do not properly substitute the prefix-variables in the configuration
scripts or generated-configs. (i.e. if sysconfdir is etc,
httpd-std.conf points to conf.)
* If any request gets through ap_process_request_internal() and is
scheduled to be served by the core handler, without a flag that this
r->filename was tested by dir/file_walk, we need to 500 at the very
end of the ap_process_request_internal() processing so sub_req-esters
know this request cannot be run. This provides authors of older
modules better compatibility, while still improving the security and
robustness of 2.0.
Status: still need to decide where this goes, OtherBill comments...
Message-ID: <065701c14526$495203b0$96c0b0d0@roweclan.net>
[Deleted comments regarding the ap_run_handler phase, as irrelevant
as BillS points out that "common case will be caught in
default_handler already (with the r->finfo.filetype == 0 check)"
and the issue is detecting this -before- we try to run the req.]
gregames says: can this happen somehow without a broken module
being involved? If not, why waste cycles trying to defend against
potential broken modules? It seems futile.
wrowe counters: no, it shouldn't happen unless the module is broken.
But the right answer is to fail the request up-front in dir/file
walk if the path was entirely invalid; and we can't do that either
or we break modules that are unwilling to hook map_to_storage.
* Rewrite core_output_filter. It is nearly impossible to support
it with predictable results as it is implemented now.
* With AP_MODE_EXHAUSTIVE in the core, it is finally clear to me
how the Perchild MPM should be re-written. It hasn't worked
correctly since filters were added because it wasn't possible to
get the content that had already been written and the socket at
the same time. This mode lets us do that, so the MPM can be
fixed.
* htpasswd blindly processes the file you give it, and does no
sanity checking before totally corrupting whatever file it was
you thought you had. It should check the input file and bail
if it finds non-comment lines that do not contain exactly 1
':' character.
Message-ID: <20020217150457.A31632@clove.org>
* Can a static httpd be built reliably?
Message-ID: <20020207142751.T31582@clove.org>
* [Ken] Test suite failures:
o worker is also failing some of the 'cgi' subtests
(see <URL:http://Source-Zone.Org/Apache/regression/>):
Justin says: "Worker should be fine and passes httpd-test here.
If you can provide evidence that it can be reproduced
outside of httpd-test, then it's a showstopper. I
think it's a perl or a httpd-test problem."
Not a showstopper: Justin
* Usage of APR_BRIGADE_NORMALIZE in core_input_filter should be
removed if possible.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201202232430.318-100000@deepthought.cs.virginia.edu>
* There is a bug in how we sort some hooks, at least the pre-config
hook. The first time we call the hooks, they are in the correct
order, but the second time, we don't sort them correctly. Currently,
the modules/http/config.m4 file has been renamed to
modules/http/config2.m4 to work around this problem, it should moved
back when this is fixed. rbb
Justin says: "Is this really a showstopper? This has been here
forever. What's wrong? Does this have to do with
autoconf or m4?"
Not a showstopper: Justin, BrianP, trawick, gregames
* The Add...Filter and Set...Filter directives do not allow the
administrator to order filters, beyond the order of filename (mime)
extensions. It isn't clear if Set...Filter(s) should be inserted
before or after the Add...Filter(s) which are ordered by sequence of
filename extensions. At minimum, some sort of +-[0-10] syntax seems
like the quickest fix for a 2.0 gold release.
Justin says: "Could we delay this for a point release or 2.1?"
Not a showstopper: justin, wrowe, trawick, stoddard, Jim, Ian, Aaron,
gregames
* Get perchild to work on platforms other than Linux. This
will require a portable mechanism to pass data and file/socket
descriptors between vhost child groups. An API was proposed
on dev@apr:
Message-ID: <20020111115006.K1529@clove.org>
* Try to get libtool inter-library dependency code working on AIX.
Message-ID: <cm3n10lx555.fsf@rdu163-40-092.nc.rr.com>
Justin says: If we get it working on AIX, we can enable this
on all platforms and clean up our build system
somewhat.
Jeff says: I thought I tested a patch for you sometime in
January that you were going to commit within a few
days.
* Handling of %2f in URIs. Currently both 1.3 and 2.0
completely disallow %2f in the request URI path (see
ap_unescape_url() in util.c). It's permitted and passed
through in the query string, however. Roy says the
original reason for disallowing it, from five years ago,
was to protect CGI scripts that applied PATH_INFO to
a filesystem location and which might be tricked by
..%2f..%2f(...). We *should* allow path-info of the
form 'http://foo.com/index.cgi/path/to/path%2finfo'.
Since we've revamped a lot of our processing of path
segments, it would be nice to allow this, or at least
allow it conditionally with a directive.
* 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.
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
This is not so simple. Any exit() from APR or other libraries
can't be caught unless we add some sort of apr_exit(rv) with
registered apr_atexit() fn's that have the return code as an
argument to the registered fn.
* 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)
* 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>
EXPERIMENTAL MODULES:
Experimental modules should eventually be be promoted to fully supported
status or removed from the repository entirely (ie, the
'experiment' failed). This section tracks what needs to happen to
get the modules promoted to fully supported status.
mod_cache/mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache:
* mod_cache: handle cache_control: no_cache "field_name" to enable
cacheing the response w/o header "field_name"
See RFC2616 section 14.9.1
* mod_cache: CacheEnable/CacheDisable should accept regular expressions.
* mod_cache: Fix dependency on ATOMIC operators. Need
APR_HAS_ATOMIC_* feature macros.
* mod_disk_cache: Implement garbage collection
* mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache: Need to be able to query cache
status (num of entries, cache object properties, etc.).
mod_status could be extended to query optional hooks defined
by modules for the purpose of reporting module status.
mod_cache (et. al.) could define optional hooks that are called
to collect status. Status should be queryable by
HTTP or SNMP?
* mod_mem_cache: garbage collection. One strategy is to simply
remove stale entries as we attempt to serve them. Another
strategy is to kick off a GC thread that traverses the cache
and preemptively remove stale entries. How to manage a
cache that is full? Do LRU GC? Other? Bueller?
* mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache: Complete implementing config
directives.
* Sample config for mod_cache/mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache for
inclusion into httpd.conf.
* mod_cache/mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache: Documentation.
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:
* ap_discard_request should be converted to use the bucket API
directly rather than waste cycles copying buffers with the old API.
* MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests.
Until someone has a better way, we'll probably just rename it
"MaxConnectionsPerChild".
* Regex containers don't work in an intutive way
Status: No one has come up with an efficient way to fix this
behavior. Dean has suggested getting rid of regex containers
completely.
OtherBill suggests: We at least seem to agree on eliminating
the <Container ~ foo> forms, and using only
<ContainerMatch foo> semantics.
* SIGSEGV on Linux (glibc 2.1.2) isn't caught properly by a
sigwaiting thread. We need to work around this, perhaps unless
there is hope soon for a fixed glibc.
* orig_ct in the byterange/multipart handling may not be
needed. Apache 1.3 just never stashed "multipart" into
r->content_type. We should probably follow suit since the
byterange stuff doesn't want the rest of the code to see the
multipart content-type; the other code should still think it is
dealing with the <orig_ct> stuff.
Status: Greg volunteers to investigate (esp. since he was most
likely the one to break it :-)
Binaries (2.0.35):
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 yes Graham Leggett
NetWare yes Brad Nicholes
Win32-x86 yes 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