d6fa26d0adaec6c910115be34fe7a5a5f402c14fMark AndrewsAPACHE 2.0 STATUS: -*-text-*-

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark AndrewsLast modified at [$Date: 2002/05/31 05:23:26 $]

5347c0fcb04eaea19d9f39795646239f487c6207Tinderbox User

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark AndrewsRelease:

5347c0fcb04eaea19d9f39795646239f487c6207Tinderbox User

5347c0fcb04eaea19d9f39795646239f487c6207Tinderbox User 2.0.37 : in development.

5347c0fcb04eaea19d9f39795646239f487c6207Tinderbox User 2.0.36 : released May 6, 2002 as GA.

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2.0.35 : released April 5, 2002 as GA.

d6fa26d0adaec6c910115be34fe7a5a5f402c14fMark Andrews 2.0.34 : tagged March 26, 2002.

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2.0.33 : tagged March 6, 2002. not released.

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2.0.32 : released Feburary 16, 2002 as beta.

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2.0.31 : rolled Feburary 1, 2002. not released.

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User 2.0.30 : tagged January 8, 2002. not rolled.

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt 2.0.29 : tagged November 27, 2001. not rolled.

cd32f419a8a5432fbb139f56ee73cbf68b9350ccTinderbox User 2.0.28 : released November 13, 2001 as beta.

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2.0.27 : rolled November 6, 2001

9b469e3c59015b1a4899c9d8395168126fe094fdAutomatic Updater 2.0.26 : tagged October 16, 2001. not rolled.

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2.0.25 : rolled August 29, 2001

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2.0.24 : rolled August 18, 2001

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2.0.23 : rolled August 9, 2001

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2.0.22 : rolled July 29, 2001

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2.0.21 : rolled July 20, 2001

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2.0.20 : rolled July 8, 2001

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2.0.19 : rolled June 27, 2001

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2.0.18 : rolled May 18, 2001

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2.0.17 : rolled April 17, 2001

9b469e3c59015b1a4899c9d8395168126fe094fdAutomatic Updater 2.0.16 : rolled April 4, 2001

9b469e3c59015b1a4899c9d8395168126fe094fdAutomatic Updater 2.0.15 : rolled March 21, 2001

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2.0.14 : rolled March 7, 2001

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2.0a9 : released December 12, 2000

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2.0a8 : released November 20, 2000

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2.0a7 : released October 8, 2000

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User 2.0a6 : released August 18, 2000

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2.0a5 : released August 4, 2000

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User 2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark AndrewsPlease consult the following STATUS files for information

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox Useron related projects:

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User * srclib/apr/STATUS

7e71f05d8643aca84914437c900cb716444507e4Tinderbox User * srclib/apr-util/STATUS

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User * docs/STATUS

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark AndrewsCURRENT RELEASE NOTES:

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt * 37 status: Cliff tagged JCW_PRE2_2037 on Wednesday. Some

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt showstoppers remain, so there will be a PRE3 as well, probably

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews Friday. Just wanted an intermediate milestone.

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark AndrewsRELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt * HP/UX 10.20: compile breakage in APR. Looks like it should be easy

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews to fix, probably just some extraneous #include's that are fouling

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User things up.

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User PR: 9457

7e71f05d8643aca84914437c900cb716444507e4Tinderbox User

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User * Win32: httpd won't start. There was a command line args problem

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews that got fixed, but now something else is wrong.

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews Status: one problem here might be a "" argument being returned from

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User the rewrite_args hook getting caught by Jeff's patch to check

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt args more strictly.

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020525222410.02a629d0@pop3.rowe-clan.net>

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews <00ca01c2033e$f1c54c10$a6271b09@sashimi>

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews <5.1.0.14.2.20020524115533.02785e28@pop3.rowe-clan.net>

71c66a876ecca77923638d3f94cc0783152b2f03Mark Andrews

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews * CWD issues

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020524115533.02785e28@pop3.rowe-clan.net>

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt <COEELENBBCHBFEPPGDOPCEPPGPAA.ake@meepzor.com>

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews * Find a better name for ap_signal_server()

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt Message-ID: <m37kltilb3.fsf@rdu88-251-253.nc.rr.com>

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews * server pushed CGI's not working. (Is this a showstopper??)

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews PR: 8482

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User Message-ID: <3CE15B85.2FF45121@apache.org>

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan HuntCURRENT VOTES:

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt * apachectl should revert to just being an init script and

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews httpd.sh should be the wrapper for httpd which sources envvars

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews and allows any options to be passed through

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User +1: trawick

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt * Should we always build [support*] binaries statically unless otherwise

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews indicated?

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt Message-ID: <20020129210006.B23512@Lithium.MeepZor.Com>

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt +1: Ken, *wrowe [they are PITAs on OSX]

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews -1: Justin, Ian

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews * If the parent process dies, should the remaining child processes

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews "gracefully" self-terminate. Or maybe we should make it a runtime

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User option, or have a concept of 2 parent processes (one being a

b2f07642fd712c8fda81a116bcdde229ab291f33Tinderbox User "hot spare").

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User See: Message-ID: <3C58232C.FE91F19F@Golux.Com>

b2f07642fd712c8fda81a116bcdde229ab291f33Tinderbox User

b2f07642fd712c8fda81a116bcdde229ab291f33Tinderbox User Self-destruct: Ken, Martin

281ed127e3ed6c7e07792c19c3bc4562f71cfa90Tinderbox User Not self-destruct: BrianP, Ian, Cliff, BillS

281ed127e3ed6c7e07792c19c3bc4562f71cfa90Tinderbox User Make it runtime configurable: Aaron, Jim, Justin

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User Have 2 parents: +1: Jim

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews -1: Justin, wrowe [for 2.0]

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User +0: Martin (while standing by, could it do

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews something useful?)

b2f07642fd712c8fda81a116bcdde229ab291f33Tinderbox User

b2f07642fd712c8fda81a116bcdde229ab291f33Tinderbox User * Make the worker MPM the default MPM for threaded Unix boxes.

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User +1: Justin, Ian, Cliff, BillS

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews +0: BrianP, Aaron (mutex contention is looking better with the

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User latest code, let's continue tuning and testing)

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt -0: Lars

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox UserRELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User * "apxs -g" support is broken in a binbuild (tested 2.0.36 on

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews Solaris). At least the following is necessary to make the

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt generated Makefile work:

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 1) copy more of the .mk files to the build directory (only

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User config_vars.mk was copied initially); rules.mk and special.mk

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews are definitely needed

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 2) edit the path to LIBTOOL in config_vars.mk to reflect the

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews place where it was actually installed

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews * exec cmd and suexec arg-passing enhancements

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User Status: Patches proposed

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt Message-ID: <20020526041748.A29148@prodigy.Redbrick.DCU.IE>

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt (see the "proc.patch" and "suexec-shell.patch" links in this message)

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User * Get mod_cache/mod_mem_cache out of experimental (still some

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews work items left to complete)

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews * The 2.0.36 worker MPM graceless shutdown changes work but are

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews a bit clunky on some platforms; eg, on Linux, the loop to

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews join each worker thread seems to hang, and the parent ends up

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews killing off the child with SIGKILL. But at least it shuts down.

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews * --enable-mods-shared="foo1 foo2" is busted on Darwin. Pier

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews posted a patch (Message-ID: <B8DBBE8D.575A%pier@betaversion.org>).

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews * We do not properly substitute the prefix-variables in the configuration

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews scripts or generated-configs. (i.e. if sysconfdir is etc,

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User httpd-std.conf points to conf.)

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User * If any request gets through ap_process_request_internal() and is

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt scheduled to be served by the core handler, without a flag that this

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews r->filename was tested by dir/file_walk, we need to 500 at the very

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt end of the ap_process_request_internal() processing so sub_req-esters

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews know this request cannot be run. This provides authors of older

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User modules better compatibility, while still improving the security and

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews robustness of 2.0.

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt Status: still need to decide where this goes, OtherBill comments...

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt Message-ID: <065701c14526$495203b0$96c0b0d0@roweclan.net>

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews [Deleted comments regarding the ap_run_handler phase, as irrelevant

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews as BillS points out that "common case will be caught in

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt default_handler already (with the r->finfo.filetype == 0 check)"

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User and the issue is detecting this -before- we try to run the req.]

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User gregames says: can this happen somehow without a broken module

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt being involved? If not, why waste cycles trying to defend against

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews potential broken modules? It seems futile.

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews wrowe counters: no, it shouldn't happen unless the module is broken.

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews But the right answer is to fail the request up-front in dir/file

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt walk if the path was entirely invalid; and we can't do that either

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews or we break modules that are unwilling to hook map_to_storage.

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User * Rewrite core_output_filter. It is nearly impossible to support

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews it with predictable results as it is implemented now.

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User * With AP_MODE_EXHAUSTIVE in the core, it is finally clear to me

7e71f05d8643aca84914437c900cb716444507e4Tinderbox User how the Perchild MPM should be re-written. It hasn't worked

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User correctly since filters were added because it wasn't possible to

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt get the content that had already been written and the socket at

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews the same time. This mode lets us do that, so the MPM can be

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews fixed.

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews * htpasswd blindly processes the file you give it, and does no

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User sanity checking before totally corrupting whatever file it was

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews you thought you had. It should check the input file and bail

14a656f94b1fd0ababd84a772228dfa52276ba15Evan Hunt if it finds non-comment lines that do not contain exactly 1

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews ':' character.

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews Message-ID: <20020217150457.A31632@clove.org>

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User * Can a static httpd be built reliably?

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews Message-ID: <20020207142751.T31582@clove.org>

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User * [Ken] Test suite failures:

7e71f05d8643aca84914437c900cb716444507e4Tinderbox User o worker is also failing some of the 'cgi' subtests

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User (see <URL:http://Source-Zone.Org/Apache/regression/>):

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User Justin says: "Worker should be fine and passes httpd-test here.

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User If you can provide evidence that it can be reproduced

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews outside of httpd-test, then it's a showstopper. I

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews think it's a perl or a httpd-test problem."

fd2597f75693a2279fdf588bd40dfe2407c42028Tinderbox User Not a showstopper: Justin

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews * Usage of APR_BRIGADE_NORMALIZE in core_input_filter should be

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews removed if possible.

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201202232430.318-100000@deepthought.cs.virginia.edu>

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews * There is a bug in how we sort some hooks, at least the pre-config

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews hook. The first time we call the hooks, they are in the correct

cd32f419a8a5432fbb139f56ee73cbf68b9350ccTinderbox User order, but the second time, we don't sort them correctly. Currently,

9b469e3c59015b1a4899c9d8395168126fe094fdAutomatic Updater the modules/http/config.m4 file has been renamed to

9b469e3c59015b1a4899c9d8395168126fe094fdAutomatic Updater modules/http/config2.m4 to work around this problem, it should moved

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews back when this is fixed. rbb

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews Justin says: "Is this really a showstopper? This has been here

4abdfc917e6635a7c81d1f931a0c79227e72d025Mark Andrews forever. What's wrong? Does this have to do with

4abdfc917e6635a7c81d1f931a0c79227e72d025Mark Andrews autoconf or m4?"

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews Not a showstopper: Justin, BrianP, trawick, gregames

9b469e3c59015b1a4899c9d8395168126fe094fdAutomatic Updater

9b469e3c59015b1a4899c9d8395168126fe094fdAutomatic Updater * The Add...Filter and Set...Filter directives do not allow the

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews administrator to order filters, beyond the order of filename (mime)

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews extensions. It isn't clear if Set...Filter(s) should be inserted

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews before or after the Add...Filter(s) which are ordered by sequence of

c2258eedf2d9d0207b45b90014f8fde5413b41a3Tinderbox User filename extensions. At minimum, some sort of +-[0-10] syntax seems

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews like the quickest fix for a 2.0 gold release.

5a4557e8de2951a2796676b5ec4b6a90caa5be14Mark Andrews 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.

* 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>

TODO ISSUES REMAINING IN MOD_SSL:

* 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.

* SSL renegotiations in combination with POST request

* Port or dispose all code inside #if 0...#endif blocks that remain

from the porting effort.

* Do we need SSL_set_read_ahead()?

* the ssl_expr api is NOT THREAD SAFE. race conditions exist:

-in ssl_expr_comp() if SSLRequire is used in .htaccess

(ssl_expr_info is global)

-is ssl_expr_eval() if there is an error

(ssl_expr_error is global)

* SSLRequire directive (parsing of) leaks memory

* Diffie-Hellman-Parameters for temporary keys are hardcoded in

ssl_engine_dh.c, while the comment in ssl_engine_kernel.c says:

"it is suggested that keys be changed daily or every 500

transactions, and more often if possible."

* ssl_var_lookup could be rewritten to be MUCH faster

* CRL callback should be pluggable

* session cache store should be pluggable

* init functions should return status code rather than ssl_die()

* ssl_engine_pphrase.c needs to be reworked so it is generic enough

to also decrypt proxy keys

* the shmcb code should just align its memory segment rather than

jumping through all the "safe" memcpy and memset hoops

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