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[STATUS] (httpd-2.0) Wed Jun 29 23:46:02 2005
APACHE 2.0 STATUS: -*-text-*-
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The current version of this file can be found at:
* http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/STATUS
Documentation status is maintained seperately and can be found at:
* docs/STATUS in this source tree, or
* http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/docs/STATUS
Consult the following STATUS files for information on related projects:
* http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr/branches/0.9.x/STATUS
* http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr-util/branches/0.9.x/STATUS
Consult the trunk/ for all new development and documentation efforts:
* http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/STATUS
* http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/STATUS
Release history:
2.0.55 : in development
2.0.54 : released April 17, 2005 as GA.
2.0.53 : released February 7, 2005 as GA.
2.0.52 : released September 28, 2004 as GA.
2.0.51 : released September 15, 2004 as GA.
2.0.50 : released June 30, 2004 as GA.
2.0.49 : released March 19, 2004 as GA.
2.0.48 : released October 29, 2003 as GA.
2.0.47 : released July 09, 2003 as GA.
2.0.46 : released May 28, 2003 as GA.
2.0.45 : released April 1, 2003 as GA.
2.0.44 : released January 20, 2003 as GA.
2.0.43 : released October 3, 2002 as GA.
2.0.42 : released September 24, 2002 as GA.
2.0.41 : rolled September 16, 2002. not released.
2.0.40 : released August 9, 2002 as GA.
2.0.39 : released June 17, 2002 as GA.
2.0.38 : rolled June 16, 2002. not released.
2.0.37 : rolled June 11, 2002. not released.
2.0.36 : released May 6, 2002 as GA.
2.0.35 : released April 5, 2002 as GA.
2.0.34 : tagged March 26, 2002.
2.0.33 : tagged March 6, 2002. not released.
2.0.32 : released Feburary 16, 2002 as beta.
2.0.31 : rolled Feburary 1, 2002. not released.
2.0.30 : tagged January 8, 2002. not rolled.
2.0.29 : tagged November 27, 2001. not rolled.
2.0.28 : released November 13, 2001 as beta.
2.0.27 : rolled November 6, 2001
2.0.26 : tagged October 16, 2001. not rolled.
2.0.25 : rolled August 29, 2001
2.0.24 : rolled August 18, 2001
2.0.23 : rolled August 9, 2001
2.0.22 : rolled July 29, 2001
2.0.21 : rolled July 20, 2001
2.0.20 : rolled July 8, 2001
2.0.19 : rolled June 27, 2001
2.0.18 : rolled May 18, 2001
2.0.17 : rolled April 17, 2001
2.0.16 : rolled April 4, 2001
2.0.15 : rolled March 21, 2001
2.0.14 : rolled March 7, 2001
2.0a9 : released December 12, 2000
2.0a8 : released November 20, 2000
2.0a7 : released October 8, 2000
2.0a6 : released August 18, 2000
2.0a5 : released August 4, 2000
2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000
2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000
2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000
2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000
Contributors looking for a mission:
* Just do an egrep on "TODO" or "XXX" in the source.
* Review the bug database at: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/
* Review the "PatchAvailable" bugs in the bug database:
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&product=Apache+httpd-2.0&keywords=PatchAvailable
After testing, you can append a comment saying "Reviewed and tested".
* Open bugs in the bug database.
CURRENT RELEASE NOTES:
* Forward binary compatibility is expected of Apache 2.0.x releases, such
that no MMN major number changes will occur. Such changes can only be
made in the trunk.
* All commits to branches/2.0.x must be reflected in SVN trunk,
as well, if they apply. Logical progression is commit to trunk,
get feedback and votes in STATUS, and then merge into branches/2.0.x.
RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:
* Watchfire identified an obscure behavior of modules/proxy/proxy_http.c
where C-L would be stripped from a HEAD response but the HEAD result
would have neither the T-E or C-L to reflect what GET should do, in
violation of RFC2616.
* Various fixes to T-E and C-L processing from trunk
+ proxy HTTP - ignore C-L and disable keepalive to origin server
http://people.apache.org/~trawick/20.te-cl.txt
+1: trawick
* proxy_http.c accepts TRACE with a body, violating RFC2616
PATCHES ACCEPTED TO BACKPORT FROM TRUNK:
[ please append new backports at the end of this list not the top. ]
*) ap_proxy_canonenc() is over-eager in handling '%' for reverse
proxies (PR: 29554).
Index: modules/proxy/proxy_util.c
- if (isenc && ch == '%') {
+ if (isenc && (isenc != PROXYREQ_REVERSE) && ch == '%') {
+1: jim, pquerna, wrowe
*) Fix fd leak in piped logging code, fix error handling, and remove
dead errno handling.
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=170441&view=rev
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=170537&view=rev
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=170719&view=rev
all-in-one patch incremental to the PR 26467 fix:
http://people.apache.org/~jorton/ap_pipedlog2.diff
+1: jorton, trawick, wrowe
[yes, I will write a CHANGES entry too]
*) several changes to improve logging of connection-oriented errors, including
ap_log_cerror() API (needs minor bump in addition to changes below)
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/httpd-2.0/server/core.c?r1=1.289&r2=1.291
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/httpd-2.0/server/log.c?r1=1.150&r2=1.151
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/httpd-2.0/include/http_log.h?r1=1.46&r2=1.48
+1: trawick, stoddard, wrowe
[wrowe notes that his previous objection is moot, based on security fixes
applied between .44 and .54 - but -please- doxygen the version of Apache
required in the API header note, for users who adopt this alternative.]
*) mod_cgi: Added API call and overload of detached field in
cgi_exec_info_t structure to support loading in current or new address
space for CGIs. The patch change how NetWare use cmdtype for
processes. It was made necessary by changes done to log.c r1.145.
The HTTP and the APR patches are available at:
<http://www.apache.org/~clar/detach-addrspace_HTTP_2_0.patch>
<http://www.apache.org/~clar/detach-addrspace_APR_0_9.patch>
+1: jjclar, bnicholes, trawick
jerenkrantz: I'm confused as to the status of this backport.
trawick: Somebody commits the APR 0.9 patch, then:
do we have to wait for later APR 0.x release before putting
calls to apr_procattr_addrspace_set() into httpd-2.0.x, or
do we go ahead and introduce the prerequisite?
clar replies: I am ready to commit the apr 0.9.x patch, but then will need
the changes in the httpd-2.0.x to be done in order for NetWare to work
as expected when calling apr_proc_create. Should I do both, APR and Http,
at the same time?
wrowe: commit to APR. Use an APR version test to determine if the
old or new behavior should be used in httpd. In future versions
you could remove the test altogether.
*) mod_actions: Regression from 1.3: the file referred to must exist.
Solve this by introducing the "virtual" modifier to the Action
directive. PR 28553.
modules/mappers/mod_actions.c: r1.32, r1.34
jerenkrantz: Icky side-effect of the *t == '0' check.
+1: nd, jerenkrantz, wrowe, jim
-0: by rbb (inconsistent to 1.3, discussion on dev@)
nd: I'm going to reverse the default
jerenkrantz, striker: I'm confused as to the status of this backport.
* support/check_forensic: Fix tempfile usage
svn rev 125495, 126224
jerenkrantz says: r126224 fixes brokenness with r125495 on Solaris.
+1: thommay, jerenkrantz, trawick
trawick: "which" isn't portable; I've suggested a work-around on dev@
(not standing in way of backport)
jorton said: NetBSD's which isn't sufficient either.
jerenkrantz: Since it's not in the critical path (and depends on
mod_log_forensic), I think it's still worth it to backport
it as-is. For the one or two platforms that don't like
which, they can write their own version of the script.
* Win32: Move call to mpm_service_install to the rewrite_args hook
from the post_config hook.
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?view=rev&rev=154319
+1: stoddard, striker, wrowe (as corrected in subsequent patches)
* mod_version: New Module, Backport from trunk. Requires Minor MMN Bump.
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/mod_version_for_2.0.x
+1: pquerna, nd
Votes from before the integration branch:
+1: jerenkrantz, wrowe (trivial, would even be cool in 1.3)
PATCHES PROPOSED TO BACKPORT FROM TRUNK:
[ please place SVN revisions from trunk here, so it is easy to
identify exactly what the proposed changes are! ]
*) mod_headers: Support {...}s tag for SSL variable lookup.
http://www.apache.org/~jorton/mod_headers-2.0-ssl.diff
+1: jorton, trawick
nd: two comments:
(1) is the use of APR_ASCII_* ebcdic-safe? I.e. shouldn't we use the
native chars here and it will be converted later? (I'm not sure)
jorton: I have no idea, let an EBCDIC-er complain if it breaks?
trawick: seems that '\r' and '\n' are the better chars to check
for; this is not raw data read from the network (or directly
from SSL) but instead it is either protocol data that has
already been converted to the native charset or it is other
data which was created inside the server in the native charset
(2) I'd put out (null) only if val is NULL, not if it's empty.
jorton: ssl_var_lookup() returns "" in place of NULL, that was really
a deliberate choice... but maybe you're right.
*) mod_log_config: Cleanup log_header_out function to allow multiple headers
like Set-Cookie to be logged properly. PR 27787 (2.0 + 1.3)
modules/loggers/mod_log_config.c: r1.116
jerenkrantz asks: Isn't this what apr_table_merge is for?
nd replies: yep. But cookies won't be merged, because browsers don't
support it.
jerenkrantz: Couldn't we copy the table and merge the values somehow?
This just seems like a lot of code to duplicate what we
have already. *shrug* Regardless, patch looks okay...
+1: nd, jerenkrantz
*) Provide TLS/SSL upgrade functionality in mod_ssl allowing an unsecure
connection to be upgraded to a secure connection upon request by the
client. The full patch file is available at http://www.apache.org/~bnicholes/
as well as a test client tlsupgrade.c. This functionality is mainly used by
IPP clients today.
modules/ssl/mod_ssl.c: r1.75, r1.97, r1.100
modules/ssl/mod_ssl.h: r1.123
modules/ssl/ssl_engine_config.c: r1.71, r1.90
modules/ssl/ssl_engine_init.c: r1.107, r1.126
modules/ssl/ssl_engine_io.c: r1.102, r1.124
modules/ssl/ssl_engine_kernel.c: r1.83, r1.105, r1.108
modules/ssl/ssl_util.c: r1.36
modules/ssl/ssl_private.h: r1.2
+1: bnicholes, wrowe
-0: jerenkrantz (should wait for 2.2)
-0: pquerna (2.2)
-0: jorton (msgid <20...@redhat.com>)
*) mod_ssl: Fix issues picking up ssl-unclean-shutdown setting
for e.g. a reverse proxy config, breaking interop with MSIE
in some cases.
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?view=rev&rev=161958
rediffed for 2.0.x as:
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=14804
PR: 34452
+1: jorton
*) EBCDIC: Handle chunked input from client or, with proxy, origin
server.
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=178262&view=rev
(With 2.0.x it is the same code in the same function, but in
a different source file.)
+1: trawick
*) Support the suppress-error-charset setting, as with Apache 1.3.x.
PR 31274. (current docs say it works with Apache from 2.0.40 ;) )
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=170354&view=rev
+1: trawick, jorton
*) proxy FTP: Fix confusion about globbing characters which could lead
to getting a directory listing when a file was requested. PR 34512.
2.1 patch was http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=179704&view=rev
2.0 version: http://people.apache.org/~trawick/179704-20.txt
+1: trawick, jorton
*) mod_mime_magic: Handle CRLF-format magic files so that it works with
the default installation on Windows.
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=179622&view=rev
+1: trawick
*) mod_cache: Fix handling of 'Vary: *". PR 16125.
Trunk: r180341
2.0.x Patch: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=15297
+1: pquerna
*) mod_ssl: Fix buffering in SSL output filter.
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=189971&view=rev
PR: 35279
+1: jorton
*) mod_include: Fix possible variable corruption with nested
includes.
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=179763&view=rev
2.0.x patch: http://people.apache.org/~jorton/ap_pr12655.patch
PR: 12655
+1: jorton
*) mod_auth_digest: Fix hostinfo validation for CONNECT requests.
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=193127&view=rev
+1: jorton
PATCHES TO BACKPORT THAT ARE ON HOLD OR NOT GOING ANYWHERE SOON:
*) Remove LDAP toolkit specific code from util_ldap and mod_auth_ldap.
modules/experimental/mod_auth_ldap.c: 1.28
modules/experimental/util_ldap.c: 1.36
+0: minfrin (this requires the apr-util LDAP overhaul to be ported to
apr-util v0.9 first)
-0: jerenkrantz
jerenkrantz: I don't think we can change the APR 0.9 interfaces.
They are supposed to be set in stone.
-1: wrowe: agrees with jerenkrantz, further realized that this major
change in APR 1.0 caused -every- apr-util linked app to have
the ldap sdk (openldap etc) linked in, and our --static-support
stuff is horribly broken by this change. Not that it's wrong,
we need to look at making it slightly more dynamic for those
apps that don't touch ldap.
*) Add load balancer support to the scoreboard in preparation for
load balancing support in mod_proxy.
include/scoreboard.h: 1.52
server/scoreboard.c: 1.75
+0: minfrin: it makes sense for v2.1 or v2.2
-0: nd, jerenkrantz
nd: -0 as in "it should be considered as a 2.1 feature".
If the modified structures are public (are they?), I'm just -1.
jerenkrantz: Sounds like a good 2.1 feature...
-1: wrowe (make this a private score to the module and you would be fine;
we don't need to keep overloading a single scoreboard.)
*) mod_ssl: Remove some unused functions (after CAN-2004-0488 fix is applied)
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/httpd-2.0/modules/ssl/ssl_util.c?r1=1.46&r2=1.47
+1: jorton
trawick: need changes to mod_ssl.h to remove prototypes for those removed functions
0: nd: IMHO that's a public API change then and not applicable for
2.0, just let 'em in
-1: wrowe (as nd suggests, leave the dead horse in peace.)
* Replace some of the mutex locking in the worker MPM with
atomic operations for higher concurrency.
server/mpm/worker/fdqueue.c 1.24, 1.25
+1: brianp, ianh, jjclar
trawick: Doesn't this make Apache 2.0.next slower except
when the right atomic operations are available/
implemented? (Due to under-the-covers mutex
operations when the dummy atomics are used?)
pquerna: Has anyone tested the performance differences
for different platforms? At this point I would
favour waiting for 2.2.
-0: stoddard (at least until the performance implications are clarified)
* Allow mod_dav to do weak entity comparison functions.
modules/dav/main/util.c: r1.45
[ This one is under review. Don't merge. ]
+1:
* mod_negotiation: parse quality values independent from
the current locale and level values as integers. PR 17564.
(essentially: get a rid of atof()) (2.0 + 1.3)
modules/mappers/mod_negotiation.c: r1.114
+1: nd
We need to decide what happens with unparsable qvalues. RFC 2616
states that q defaults to 1. (see 14.1 - 14.4). So should wrong
qvalues be returned as 1.0 or 0.0 (as atof() did)?
1.0: nd
0.0: jim (a default != an "errored" value)
* Keep the same SSLMutex for the lifetime of the parent process
(instead of having children using different mutexes and failing
to lock the session cache across restarts.)
New patch forthcoming - JimJag's changes make the merge ugly.
+1: wrowe
+1 (concept): jim (final vote when the patch is available)
* Fix the SSLMutex config parser so that all 'mechanisms' can take
a filename, even if ignored, and they are rooted to the full path
to the server (except for posixsem locks). This allows a very
cross-platform default:logs/ssl_mutex to be used everywhere. Also
eliminates the '.pid' suffix so that the name given is the name.
Allows Win32 and other non-unicies to use named locks.
New patch forthcoming - JimJag's changes make the merge ugly.
+1: wrowe
+1 (concept): jim (final vote when the patch is available)
* mod_ssl: Drop SSL_EXPERIMENTAL_ENGINE test in favor of testing for the
ENGINE_init() function in config.m4, and use HAVE_ENGINE_INIT instead.
wrowe notes that this feature is a noop until configured with SSLEngine.
http://www.apache.org/~wrowe/have_engine_init.patch for a clean 2.0 patch.
modules/ssl/README 1.40
modules/ssl/config.m4 1.14
modules/ssl/mod_ssl.c 1.79
modules/ssl/mod_ssl.h 1.135
modules/ssl/ssl_engine_config.c 1.78
modules/ssl/ssl_engine_init.c 1.113
modules/ssl/ssl_toolkit_compat.c 1.33
+0: wrowe {Pending research into how to get AC to use -lsockets et. al.,
shows breakage on Solaris which can't -lcrypto -lssl without
the extra pkgconfig/openssl.pc Libs: * foo }
* mod_ssl: fix a link failure when the openssl-engine libraries are
present but the engine headers are missing.
modules/ssl/mod_ssl.c: r1.87
modules/ssl/mod_ssl.h: r1.139
modules/ssl/ssl_engine_config.c: r1.82
PREREQ: Blow away of SSL_EXPERIMENTAL_ENGINE (see above)
+1: jwoolley, trawick, jim, jerenkrantz
* When UseCanonicalName is set to OFF, allow ap_get_server_port to
check r->connection->local_addr->port before defaulting to
server->port or ap_default_port()
server/core.c r1.247
+1: bnicholes, jim, wrowe
0: nd, jerenkrantz
nd: can the local_addr->port ever be 0?
bnicholes response: I couldn't tell you for sure if local_addr->port
could be 0. But it makes sense that if it were then Apache
wouldn't be listening on any port so it wouldn't matter anyway.
nd replies: But if it can't be 0 the alternatives thereafter make no
sense anymore, right?
jim proposes: UseCanonicalName Client directive
which implements this, keeping UseCanonicalName Off
"as is".
* ThreadStackSize for Win32 and threaded MPMs
trawick will eventually put together a patch for httpd 2.0.next
+1 concept: trawick, nd, stoddard, wrowe
* don't propagate input headers describing a body to a GET subrequest
with no body
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?view=rev&rev=158798
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?view=rev&rev=159410
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?view=rev&rev=160573
+1: gregames
-1: jerenkrantz (read_length isn't a sufficient check to see if a body
is present in the request; presence of T-E and C-L in
the headers is the correct flag.)
gregames: done in rev 160573
�0: wrowe (this has a negative impact on modules who wish to 'inspect'
the headers, e.g. an xml transformation affected by the query
string or request POST args. The right solution is adopt apreq,
providing an API for filters to participate in POST bodies.)
gregames: this does not affect POSTs. the affected function helps
create a GET subrequest with no body and is unprepared to deal with
subrequest bodies. any modules or applications wishing to
inspect headers will in fact work better because the headers will
reflect reality.
CURRENT VOTES:
* Reverse proxy cookie patch from PR#10722 (c.f. comment 16)
+1: niq
* Promote mod_ldap and mod_auth_ldap from experimental to
non experimental status.
+1: bnicholes, wrowe
+0: minfrin (wait till the last cache bugs are ironed out)
-1: jerenkrantz
* httpd-std.conf and friends;
a) httpd-std.conf should be tailored by install (from src or
binbuild) even if user has existing httpd.conf
+1: trawick, slive, gregames, ianh, Ken, wrowe, jwoolley, jim, nd,
erikabele
wrowe - prefer httpd.default.conf to avoid ambiguity with cvs,
note that win32 installer creates just that file
(.default.conf rather than .conf.default so that win32
can recognize .conf files as text configuration files.)
b) tailored httpd-std.conf should be copied by install to
sysconfdir/examples
-0: striker
c) tailored httpd-std.conf should be installed to
sysconfdir/examples or manualdir/exampleconf/
+1: slive, trawick, Ken, nd (prefer the latter), erikabele
d) tailored httpd-std.conf should be installed as httpd-std-<version>.conf.
+1: striker
e) Installing a set of default config files when upgrading a server
doesn't make ANY sense at all.
+1: ianh - medium/big sites don't use 'standard config' anyway, as it
usually needs major customizations
-1: Ken, wrowe, jwoolley, jim, nd, erikabele
wrowe - diff is wonderful when comparing old/new default configs,
even for customized sites that ianh mentions
jim - it makes sense assuming that the default configs
include the updated directives and inline comments
that explain the changes and make the 'diff' more useful.
* If the parent process dies, should the remaining child processes
"gracefully" self-terminate. Or maybe we should make it a runtime
option, or have a concept of 2 parent processes (one being a
"hot spare").
See: Message-ID: <3C...@Golux.Com>
Self-destruct: Ken, Martin
Not self-destruct: BrianP, Ian, Cliff, BillS
Make it runtime configurable: Aaron, Justin, wrowe, rederpj, jim, nd
/* The below was a concept on *how* to handle the problem */
Have 2 parents: +1: jim
-1: Justin, wrowe, rederpj, nd
+0: Martin (while standing by, could it do
something useful?)
* Make the worker MPM the default MPM for threaded Unix boxes.
+1: Justin, Ian, Cliff, BillS, striker
+0: BrianP, Aaron (mutex contention is looking better with the
latest code, let's continue tuning and testing), rederpj, jim
-0: Lars, wrowe (let's make this defacto for the 2.2 release.),
nd (for 2.0)
RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
* 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.
OtherBill offers that this is a SERIOUS problem. We do not sort
correctly by the ordering arguments passed to the register hook
functions. This was proven when I reordered the open_logs hook
to attempt to open the error logs prior to the access logs. Possibly
the entire sorting code needs to be refactored.
* pipes deadlock on all platforms with limited pipe buffers (e.g. both
Linux and Win32, as opposed to only Win32 on 1.3). The right solution
is either GStein's proposal for a "CGI Brigade", or OtherBill's proposal
for "Poll Buckets" for "Polling Filter Chains". Or perhaps both :-)
* All handlers should always send content down even if r->header_only
is set. If not, it means that the HEAD requests don't generate the
same headers as a GET which is wrong.
* HP/UX 10.20: compile breakage in APR. Looks like it should be easy
to fix, probably just some extraneous #include's that are fouling
things up.
PR: 9457
Jeff: See my reply and patch in the PR (and previous commit to
stop using "pipe" as a field name). If patch is committed, we
should be okay. I'll wait to see if the user tests the patch.
Update by Jeff 20020722: I got an account on HP 10.20. It looks
like some of the APR thread detection is screwed up. If we find
pthread.h but we can't compile the pthread test program we still
think we can use threads. For that reason, the patch I posted
to the PR won't work as-is since a failed compile of the test
program means nothing.
* exec cmd and suexec arg-passing enhancements
Status: Patches proposed
Message-ID: <20...@prodigy.Redbrick.DCU.IE>
(see the "proc.patch" and "suexec-shell.patch" links in this message)
* The 2.0.36 worker MPM graceless shutdown changes work but are
a bit clunky on some platforms; eg, on Linux, the loop to
join each worker thread seems to hang, and the parent ends up
killing off the child with SIGKILL. But at least it shuts down.
* --enable-mods-shared="foo1 foo2" is busted on Darwin. Pier
posted a patch (Message-ID: <B8...@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: <06...@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
UNTIL 2.1 or we break modules that haven't hooked map_to_storage.
* 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: <20...@clove.org>
* Can a static httpd be built reliably?
Message-ID: <20...@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.
I think it's a perl or a httpd-test problem."
* Usage of APR_BRIGADE_NORMALIZE in core_input_filter should be
removed if possible.
Message-ID: <Pi...@deepthought.cs.virginia.edu>
Jeff wonders if we still care about this. It is no longer an
API issue but simply an extra trip through the brigade.
* 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 a nice solution. See ROADMAP.
* 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: <20...@clove.org>
* Try to get libtool inter-library dependency code working on AIX.
Message-ID: <cm...@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.
OtherBill adds that %2f as the SECOND character of a multibyte
sequence causes the request to fail! This happens notably in
the ja-jis encoding.
OtherBill is -0.5 for even considering this until 2.2 because
it removes some protection we provided to third party modules
that would mysteriously 'evaporate', exposing potential holes
in security. Putting this change into 2.1 development now (with
strong warnings!) will give authors a chance to vet their code.
* 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?
On the other hand, 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.
* 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.
stoddard: 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.
* Eliminate unnecessary creation of pipes in mod_cgid
* Combine log_child and piped_log_spawn. Clean up http_log.c.
Common logging API.
* 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?
March discussion summary; we are missing group support. With that
added to trunk, this script will go away. It will remain
in 2.0 based on our versioning approach.
* 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)
* 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)
OtherBill adds that the 'good' solution of three passes against the
config tree within one read is the better solution, but breaks many
modules. Best left for 2.2?
-0.5: OtherBill
* (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.
* 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>
* ap_discard_request should be converted to use the bucket API
directly rather than waste cycles copying buffers with the old API.
* 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.
EXPERIMENTAL MODULES:
mod_auth_ldap/util_ldap:
* General stabilization and testing
* Fix the shared memory cache