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75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akdApache 2.0 STATUS:
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akdLast modified at [$Date: 2000/11/14 02:42:51 $]
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75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akdRelease:
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd 2.0a8 : ???
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd 2.0a7 : released October 8, 2000
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd 2.0a6 : released August 18, 2000
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd 2.0a5 : released August 4, 2000
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd 2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akdRELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd * Root all file systems with <Directory /> for WIN32/OS2/NW permissions
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd Status: patch brought forward from 1.3.14
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd WIN32 and OS2 need review [William Rowe, Brian Harvard]
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd * Remove Buff from the code.
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd Status: Buff has been removed from the core completely, but the
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd proxy module is still using it. As soon as the new proxy
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd patches are committed, Buff should be removed from the proxy
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd as well.
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd * Error messages are filtered according to the needs of the original
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd URI. Nothing ensures that they are translated on EBCDIC machines
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd and *not* translated on ASCII machines.
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd * Win32: Enable the Windows MPM to honor max_requests_per_child
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd Status: Bill will fix this.
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd * Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd (at least) needs to be done:
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd - winnt MPM: Fix 95/98 code paths in the winnt MPM. There is some NT
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd specific code that is still not in NT only code paths
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd - IOL binds to APR sendfile, implemented with TransmitFile, which
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd is not available on 95/98.
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd - Document warning that OSR2 is required (for Crypt functions, in
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd rand.c, at least.)
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd * Win32: Test access logging with multiple threads. Will the
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd native file I/O calls serialize automagically like the
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd CRT calls or do we need to add region locking each time
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd we access the logs?
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd Status:
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd * Win32: Complete the revamp the service environment and relocation
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd into the WinNT MPM. Changes ServerRoot service registry
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd parameter into ConfigArgs for multiple service startup parameters.
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd Problems to fix in the revamp: -k shutdown/restart are broken,
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd signals are not being acknowledged. Close window and shutdown
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd also seem out of sorts.
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd OtherBill is working on this
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd * We need a thread-safe resolver, at least on Unix.
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd Status: The best known candidate would be something from
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd BIND v9.
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd Status: Greg asks, "why? doesn't gethostbyname_r() handle this?"
940d71d237794874e18a0eb72f6564821a823517eschrock
940d71d237794874e18a0eb72f6564821a823517eschrock * Modify mod_cgi and mod_cgid to deal with directories. This allows
940d71d237794874e18a0eb72f6564821a823517eschrock a lot of directives to be removed from the core.
75569c1406d28e015f0c66ad03b5369377ca8e0akd
* The AddInputFilter and AddOutputFilter directives do not allow the
administrator to remove or reorder filters. Once a filter is added
in a container, it is present in any subcontainers. It can only be
added to the filter chain after any filters specified in enclosing
containers.
RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
* Combine log_child and piped_log_spawn. Clean up http_log.c.
Common logging API.
* Create unified scoreboard API and implementation shared across
the MPMs
* Document mod_file_cache.
* OS/2: Get loadable modules working again. Requires shared core support
which doesn't appear to be catered for in the current build system.
* OS/2: Make mod_status work for spmt_os2 MPM.
* Build scripts do not recognise AIX 4.2.1 pthreads, so the
pthread MPMs will not build.
* Win32: Enable the winnt MPM to use the new scoreboard API
* Win32: Implement ap_shm_ functions in APR.
* Win32: Win9x console window still won't play nice with the
close window, logoff and shutdown scenarios.
* 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.
* Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)
Consider introducing HAVE_FORK feature macro. 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.
Bill says we need a new procattr, APR_CREATE_SUSPENDED (or
something similar) to direct ap_create_process to create the
process suspended. We also need a call to wake up the suspended
process This may not be able to be implemented everywhere though.
* 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)
* Win32: Implement reliable piped logs on Windows
* The connection status table is not very efficient. Also, very few stats
are exported to the connection status table (easy to fix), and mod_status
is ugly.
* Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.
* Replace tables with a proper opaque ADT that has pluggable
implementations (including something like the existing data type,
plus hash tables for speed, with options for more later).
Status: fanf is working on this.
* 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_db/dbm administration.
* configuration option to use *DBM
Status: Greg +1 (volunteers)
employ same dbm for mod_auth_dbm? [Win32 is using our own sdbm]
* Integrate mod_dav.
Message-id: <20000625173247.M29590@lyra.org>
Status: works. passes initial regression testing. Joe Orton
reports success with his "cadaver" tool.
Some additional items remaining:
- case_preserved_filename stuff
- fix and re-enable sdbm_lock.c
- 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)
* add a version number to ap_initialize() as an extra failsafe against
(APR) library version skew.
MsgID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005231712380.31927-100000@nebula.lyra.org>
Status: Greg +1 (volunteers), Jeff +1, Ryan +1, Tony -0(?)
* mod_info to use the configuration tree
* make apr_get_uuid() thread-safe
* (possibly) use UUIDs in mod_unique_id and/or mod_usertrack
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#161: mod_dir
Questionable performace of mod_dir() with negotiation
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#573: mod_log-any
More LogFormat directives
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#697: mod_include
A security tweak I've been using for a few years for SSI
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#1156: config
insufficent AllowOverrides granularity for autoindexing
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_dir
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#1574: mod_autoindex
ReadmeName and HeaderName don't allow for server-parsed html.
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#1855: mod_autoindex
More Control over autoindex layout
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#2772: mod_log-any
more % escapes
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#3026: mod_autoindex
No way to change ReadmeName/HeaderName suffixes.
Status:
* PR#3143: apache-api
No module specific data hook for per-connection data
Status:
* PR#3181: config
Configuration file in Japanese
Status:
* PR#3191: mod_negotiation
no way to set global quality-of-source (qs) coneg values
with multiviews
Status:
* PR#3430: mod_negotiation
Enhancement: MultiViews, Multi-Language Documents
Status:
* PR#3568: mod_proxy
Accessing URL through proxy server corrupts data.
Status:
* PR#3594: os-windows
Please add an Apache icon to the systray instead of a DOS window
Status:
* PR#3605: mod_proxy
Some anonymous FTP URLs ask for authentication
Status:
* PR#3654: mod_autoindex
BORDER=0 makes Icons look nicer (FancyIndexing)
Status:
* PR#3677: general
New ErrorDocumentMatch directive
Status:
* PR#4180: os-windows
Alternative for win95 users
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#4520: mod_autoindex
mod_autoindex does not generate Last-Modified response headers
Status:
* PR#4658: os-windows
The output of CGI scripts appears in the window that apache
is running in
Status:
* PR#5713: os-windows
[PATCH] install as service with domain account
Status:
* PR#5993: general
AllowOverride should have a 'CheckNone' and 'AllowNone' argument
instead of only 'None'
Status:
* PR#6347: mod_mime
MIME types for MNG and JNG files need adding to mime.types and
the mime.types and magic files
Status: Waiting for IANA types to be defined
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.
* 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.
* The MM library is built as static and shared library. This should
be set up to build only the required version.
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
Documentation that needs writing:
* Mod_status docs are needed.
* The concept of MPMs, especially if we ship more than one MPM for a
given platform
* New directives in the various MPMs and appropriate links from
obsolete directives in core.html to the MPM documentation.
* Revise manual/stopping.html and the last part of
manual/misc/perf-tuning.html to take account of the MPMs.
* API documentation
Status: Ben Laurie has written some hooks documentation
(apache-2.0/htdocs/hooks.html)
* Changes since 1.3.9 can be more easily seen in the commitlog file
dev.apache.org:/home/cvs/CVSROOT/commitlogs/apache-2.0
which includes some of Roy's comments when the changes were
committed in rough change-sets by purpose. Note that the commitlog
does not show the contents of new files until later.
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:
* What do we do about mod_proxy?
* Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?
* Is conf/highperformance.conf-dist obsolete? It looks obsolete.