[STATUS] Thu May 8 08:31:41 PDT 1997

["Roy T. Fielding" <fi...@kiwi.ICS.UCI.EDU>]

1.2b11 status as of Thu May  8 08:31:41 PDT 1997

  * Committed since 1.2b10:

    * ErrorDocument CGI responding to error from another CGI fixed
    * PR#512: signal redefinition problem on QNX
    * CGIWrap Problems (restore old PATH_INFO definition)
    * I hate messed up initializers (in USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT)
    * PR#501: escape html in server-status
    * PR#506: no DefaultType means no Content-Type
    * error responses have wrong headers (part 1)

Agenda for 1.2b11-dev
====================

Patches available:

  * Roy's [PATCH] error responses have wrong headers (part 2)
    <97...@paris.ics.uci.edu>
    Status: Roy +1

  * Petr's [PATCH] mod_dir HTTP_NOT_ACCEPTABLE fixup
    <19...@boco.fee.vutbr.cz>
    Status: Petr +1, Dean +1
    Roy notes that a general solution is required as this one does not
    handle all cases.

  * Dean's [PATCH] PR#502: timeout problems
    <Pi...@twinlark.arctic.org>
    Status: Dean +0
    User reported it didn't help with IdentityCheck on.  Ugh.

  * Jim's [PATCH] Configure fixes for HP-UX and Module whitespace
    <19...@devsys.jaguNET.com>
    Status: Jim +1

  * Randy's [PATCH] SEGV in unescape_url()
    <19...@sierra.zyzzyva.com>
    Status: Randy +1
            Roy +0 -- doesn't think it needs fixing.

  * Marc's suexec and UserDir (only improves a comment in suexec.h)
    <Pi...@alive.znep.com>
    Status: Marc +1, Roy +1

  * Dean's solaris 256 FILE * problem
    <Pi...@twinlark.arctic.org>
    Status: Dean seeing if it works for user, maybe add to FAQ

No patches yet, showstoppers:

  * PR#503: rewrite worked with 1.2b{6,7,8} but fail with 1.2b10
    Note that it's not related to the Configuration.tmpl rearrangement,
    I asked the user to verify that.
    [Roy says that the user probably screwed up the verify, since the problem
     described is exactly what you would expect from the ordering change.]

  * PR#522: timeouts look to be interrupting transfers at the wrong time.

Documentation Changes that should make 1.2:

  * some better suexec docs would be really nice, detailing some of the
    security risks and compromises discussed
	Status: I think Randy said something about doing it at one point.
		Randy says he thinks Jason is perhaps doing them.
                [And Roy says: either somebody needs to document how it
                 works (I don't know), or I'll go through and remove the
                 documentation about how "good" it is to use it.]
	New Status: not really worth holding 1.2 on

  * Document problems with mismatch on FD_SETSIZE=1024?

  * Deal with Martin Kraemer's documentation notes:
	<19...@deejai.mch.sni.de>
	<19...@deejai.mch.sni.de>

Post 1.2:

  * Various minor tweaks to port to different platforms:
    PR#383, PR#388, PR#399, PR#333, PR#327, PR#445, PR#511

  * Fix mod_negotiation to follow latest TCN draft
    Petr Lampa wants to work on this.

  * Doug MacEachern's [PATCH] merge dbm auth configs
        Status: The question is, should we be merging auth configs?
                Ken says not by default and not unless it's configurable.

  * redo lingering_close to check for old sockets to close out before
    accept() in child.
	Status: doesn't look to be overly clean to do in the current
	framework.  Will not have time to do implementation for this
	beta in any case.  If it turns out to be a big issue,
	could go in later.  (1.2.1?)

  * Marc wants to have a check to be sure
    log directory(ies) isn't writable by anyone except the user starting
    the server.  The posting in bugtraq only highlites the problem.
    Needs override.  See NCSA code for sample implem.
	Status: Marc busy writing

  * error compiling on NeXT:
	In file included from http_main.c:108:
	/NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/netinet/tcp.h:57: duplicate member `th_off'
	/NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/netinet/tcp.h:58: duplicate member `th_x2'

	Status: got a login in a NeXT OpenStep 4.x machine to test,
	looks like an interaction between gcc and the header
	files.  It is trying to include definitions for both big and
	little endian platforms, and that no work.

  * Type map can't find appropriate document for language on Solaris
    2.x.  (I can't gistify this one; full details in message ID
    <Pi...@localhost.imdb.com>.)
    Reporter has provided tar.gz file of config info.
    (no PR#, 1.2b7, 24/2/1997, <ej...@cise.ufl.edu>)
        Status: Dean might have fixed this one (the table overlay bug)
	[Dean has mailed the submitter to ask them to test 1.2b8 or b9]

  * SONY NEWS port.  See both:
    <Pi...@taz.hyperreal.com>
    <Pi...@taz.hyperreal.com>
    Jim working on a patch, but not until after 1.2b8

Should be added to the bugdb:

  * "Large groups cause authentication errors" on FreeBSD
      [salari@cs.ubc.ca]; problem looks to be MAX_STRING_LEN buffer
      in groups_for_user.

Contrib stuff / future:
  
  * Start digital signing the distributions.

  * Chris Adams <ca...@ro.com> patch to mod_log_config to add %m and %c.

  * mod_log_config patch for conditional logging
	Status: contrib, not in server

  * Jim has patch for time taken to handle a request in status module

  * Ed has an updated patch for limiting connections per IP

  * mod_include could use boyer-moore searching for <!--# and/or it could
    mmap the file.

  * add some setlocale stuff?

  * status module available from .htaccess files; Ken posted patch

  * status report shows PIDs in empty slots, user supplied some sort
     of patch; behavior now is correct, but perhaps some cleanup of
     how the results are displayed could be done after 1.2...
     <Pi...@localhost.imdb.com>

  * Rob's "DONE" status response check for die()
	<Pi...@localhost.imdb.com>
	Roy says it's a feature... Dean agrees, thinks we should slate
	something for 2.0 that can handle this cleanly.

  * tem@global2000.net provided a patch for mod_imap to make it more
    friendly with MS FrontPage map files.  Available in
    <Pi...@twinlark.arctic.org>

  * Dean's gif89 and expires hack
    <Pi...@twinlark.arctic.org>

  * mod_userdir needs a DisallowUserDir directive, a la ftp.deny, to
    restrict user names that can be accessed.  Ken says maybe
    "UserDir disabled [user [...]]".

  * get_local_host and NIS patch fo SunOS 4
    <Pi...@localhost>

  * internationalized documentation

  * pagecounter extension to mod_include
    <Pi...@taz.hyperreal.com>

  * mod_expires improvements from "Miguel A.L. Paraz" <ma...@iphil.net>
    at <http://www.iphil.net/~map/apache/>

  * add is_initial_req() function

  * mod_dir: send HEIGHT/WIDTH tags to improve performance for user see
    PR#393 for a patch that provides this

  * A CIDRized access list patch such as the one supplied in
    <Pi...@taz.hyperreal.com>

  * PR#344: 64-bit cleanups