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[STATUS] (apache-1.3) Wed Dec 30 23:45:18 EST 1998
1.3 STATUS:
Last modified at [$Date: 1998/12/31 01:10:54 $]
Release:
1.3.4-dev: current.
Lars is RM.
Possible release on January 4. (tagged/rolled on January 2.)
Win32 distribution: ??? (any volunteer?)
1.3.3: Tagged and rolled on Oct. 7. Released on 9th, announced on 10th.
1.3.2: Tagged and rolled on Sep. 21. Announced and released on 23rd.
1.3.1: Tagged and rolled on July 19. Announced and released.
1.3.0: Tagged and rolled on June 1. Announced and released on the 6th.
2.0 : In pre-alpha development, see apache-2.0 repository
RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:
* configure breakage
mod_perl build is broken (CFLAGS not picked up from libperl.module)
* Version component misbehaviour
See: <36...@lyra.org>
Status: Ralf mentioned that he knows a solution... (?)
Is this the module placing it's token first? If so, I have
a patch: Jim
* Paul's [PATCH] Win32 device files
Message-ID: <Pi...@ecstasy.localnet>
and <00...@wolfpad.raleigh.ibm.com>
Status: Someone who knows the current status of this thing should
apply it now, since the rest of us can't test it otherwise.
* nmake compilation broken on Win95
Paul Ausbeck says the problem is that the distribution uses
%PARAM% type arguments in nmake invokations.
Message-ID: <36...@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu>
Status: patch needed since we can't test above without it
* long pathnames with many components and no AllowOverride None
Status: Marc is looking at it
RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
* How should an Apache binary release tarball look?
- A proposed solution is available.
See: <XF...@unix-ag.org>
<XF...@unix-ag.org>
1. The "old" way where it is just a source release tarball
plus a pre-compiled src/httpd-<gnutriple>. It is created
via the apache-devsite/binbuild.sh script which
- creates the build tree
- creates the src/Configuration file with standard modules
- runs "make"
- renames src/httpd to src/httpd-<gnutriple>
- runs "make clean"
- packs the build tree stuff together
Already known discussion points:
- should src/httpd be renamed or not because a lot
of PRs say they cannot find the httpd :-(
Status: Ralf -0, Ken +0
2. The way some other projects release binary tarballs, i.e.
a package containing the installed (binary) files.
It can be created by a script which
- creates the build tree
- runs "./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache \
--enable-shared=remain \
--disable-module=auth_db \
--enable-suexec ..."
- runs "make install root=apache-root"
- packs the stuff together from ./apache-root only!!
Already known discussion points:
- should there be a prefix usr/local/apache in
the tarball or not? Some people think
it's useful while others dislike it a lot.
- it doesn't include the source.
- the paths don't match the original Apache style, nor the Win32
paths
- should suexec be prebuilt in a binary tarball?
Status: Ralf +1, Martin +1, Roy -1, Ken +1 (IFF source is included,
there's no usr/local/apache prefix in the tarball, AND the
old-style [common with Win32] paths are used)
3. A source release tarball with three extra directories:
lib: for the shared library object files
bin: for the httpd and support executables
man: for the man files (if desired)
as if the server was installed in those directories.
Status: Roy +1, Jim +1 (still need to define which modules
are built)
Ralf -0 (I dislike mixed source+binary tarballs)
Documentation that needs writing:
* Need a document explaining mod_rewrite/"UseCanonicalName off" based
virtualhosting. (If it exists already I can't find it easily.)
=> It still doesn't exists but I've already assembled the relevant
information and config snippets. We just have to write a
vhost-xxx.html document out of it. -- rse
Available Patches:
* Ken's default sort order for autoindexed listings
First pass for concept; maybe directive should be renamed or
syntax changed?
Message-ID: <36...@Apache.Org>
Status: Ken +1 (concept), Lars +1 (concept)
* Lars' 'binbuild' patch
Message-ID: <XF...@unix-ag.org>
Status: Lars +1
* Jim Patterson's patch to make mod_info work on Win32
Message-ID: PR#1442
Status: Lars +1 (on concept)
* Peter Greis' new '%m' CustomLog option: the time taken to serve the
request, in milli-seconds.
Message-ID: PR#2838
Status:
* Ask Bjoern Hansen's patch to make Apache set Cache-Control and Pragma
headers in addition to the autogenerated Expires
if r->no_cache is set and r->headers_out contains no
Expires header yet.
Message-ID: PR#3023
Status: Martin +1, Roy -1 (see PR for reason)
* Ronald Tschal�r's ap_uuencode() bugfix
Message-ID: PR#3411
Status: Lars +1 (on concept)
* PR#2575 problem with ap_assert macro
Message-ID: <36...@jrc.it>
Status:
* Michael van Elst's patch [PR#3160] to improve mod_rewrite's
in-core cache handling by using a hash table.
Message-ID: <XF...@unix-ag.org>
Status: Lars +1, Jim +1, Ralf +1 (on concept, but because the code
change is not trivial I want to
first walk though it line by line
the next days before we commit it).
* Marc's [PATCH] PR#3323: recursive includes
Message-ID: <Pi...@alive.znep.com>
Status: Marc +1, Jim +1 (concept)
* Needs more in-depth review *
* Juan Gallego's patch to add CSH-style modifiers (:h, :r, :t, :e)
to mod_include's variable processing.
Mesage-ID: PR#3246, also available at
<http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~juan/mod_include.patch>
Status: Ken -0 for 1.3/+0 for 2.0, Lars -0 for 1.3
* Eric Prud'hommeaux's mod_dir mods for file-level access control.
Message-ID: <Pi...@tux.w3.org>
Status: Jim -0 (The current behavior seems logical to me. If there
was more universal interest in changing it, then that would be
a different matter).
* Eric Prud'hommeaux's mods for practical negotiation with
file level access control.
Message-ID: <Pi...@tux.w3.org>
Status:
* Ronald Tschal�r's major update of mod_digest
Message-ID: <19...@chill.innovation.ch>
Status:
In progress:
* Ralf's take 2 for "MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE field for module structure"
Message-ID: <19...@engelschall.com>
Status:
* Mark Bixby's freshening up the MPE/iX port (mostly APACI)
Message-ID: <19...@spock.dis.cccd.edu>
Status: Mark says: "...currently waiting for HP to fix two OS bugs.
A fix for siglongjmp() is available and has been tested
successfully by me, but has yet to be included in a
public patch. The likely cause of the "EINTR from
fopen()" bug has been identified, but analysis on how
to fix it continues."
Needs patch:
* get_path_info bug; ap_get_remote_host should be ap_vformatter instead.
See: <Pi...@twinlark.arctic.org>
* uri issues
- RFC2068 requires a server to recognize its own IP addr(s) in dot
notation, we do this fine if the user follows the dns-caveats
documentation... we should handle it in the case the user doesn't ever
supply a dot-notation address.
* Problems dealing with .-rooted domain names such as "twinlark." versus
"twinlark.arctic.org.". See the thread containing
Message-ID: <19...@deejai.mch.sni.de> for more details.
In particular this affects the correctness of the proxy and the
vhost mechanism.
* proxy_*_canon routines use r->proxyreq incorrectly. See
<Pi...@twinlark.arctic.org>
* work around a Navigator/Mozilla bug when mod_proxy is used
(broken images).
Message-ID: <XF...@unix-ag.org>
Status: Lars' patch was vetoed. Roy and Dean think that it is
probably another buffer magic number error and should be
tested to find out and, if so, fixed like it was in core.
* ap_escape_html() always duplicates the string, even when there is
no change and the caller would be happy to use the original.
What is needed is a separate interface for "don't need a dup"
situations, like just about everywhere we use it in bvputs and
bputs calls.
Open issues:
* Underscores on symbols in DSO situation is broken for NetBSD:
Here is a private conversation between me (rse) and Charles Hannum of
the NetBSD project:
From: "Charles M. Hannum" <my...@netbsd.org>
> We have a bug report at the Apache BugDB (see
> http://bugs.apache.org/private/index/full/2462) where a user says
> under a particular NetBSD platform (NetBSD/pmax 1.3.2) the symbols on
> dlsym() don't need an underscore. In FreeBSD world we always had the
> underscore,
> [...]
This is less an issue of OS, and more an issue of a.out vs. ELF. The
underscores are always used for a.out, and are never used for ELF.
Therefore, on any platform where we use ELF (that would be Alpha, MIPS,
PowerPC and UltraSPARC currently, although there are plans to eventually
switch on other platforms), the underscores should not be added, and on
all other platforms they should be.
You can differentiate by comparing the output of `uname -m' with any
of: alpha bebox macppc newsmips ofppc pica pmax sparc64.
* Redefine APACHE_RELEASE. Add another 'bit' to signify whether
it's a beta or final release. Maybe 'MMNNFFRBB' which means:
MM: Major release #
NN: Minor release #
FF: "fix" level
R: 0 if beta, 1 if final release
BB: beta number
See: <19...@devsys.jaguNET.com>
Status: Jim +1, Ben +1, Martin +1, Ralf +1
* Someone other than Dean has to do a security/correctness review on
psprintf(), bprintf(), and ap_snprintf(). In particular these routines
do lots of fun pointer manipulations and such and possibly have overflow
errors. The respective flush_funcs also need to be exercised.
o Jim's looked over the ap_snprintf() stuff (the changes that Dean
did to make thread-safe) and they look fine.
o Laura La Gassa's looked over ap_vformatter & other related code
o Martin did a "source review" as well.
o Could still use 1 or 2 more sets of eyeballs.
Status: Is this still valid??
* Paul would like to see a 'gdbm' option because he uses
it a lot.
* Maybe a http_paths.h file? See
<Pi...@valis.worldgate.com>
+1: Brian, Paul, Ralf, Martin
+0: Jim (not for 1.3.0)
* Release builds: Should we provide Configuration or not?
Should we 'make all suexec' in src/support?
+1: Brian, Jim, Ken +1 (possible suexec path issue, though)
* root's environment is inherited by the Apache server. Jim & Ken
think we should recommend using 'env' to build the
appropriate environment. Marc and Alexei don't see any
big deal. Martin says that not every "env" has a -u flag.
* Marc's socket options like source routing (kill them?)
Marc, Martin say Yes
* Ken's PR#1053: an error when accessing a negotiated document
explicitly names the variant selected. Should it do so, or should
the original URI be referenced?
* Proposed API Changes:
- r->content_language is for backwards compatibility... with modules
that may not link any longer without some minor editing. The new
field is r->content_languages. Heck it's not even mentioned in
apache-devsite/mmn.txt when we got content_languages (note the s!).
The proposal is to remove r->content_language:
Status: Paul +1, Ralf +1, Ken +1, Martin +1
- child_exit() is redundant, it can be implemented via cleanups. It is
not "symmetric" in the sense that there is no exit API method to go
along with the init() API method. There is no need for an exit
method, there are already modules using cleanups to perform this (see
mod_mmap_static, and mod_php3 for example). The proposal is to
remove the child_exit() method and document cleanups as the method of
handling this need.
Status: Rasmus +1, Paul +1, Jim +1,
Martin +1, Ralf +1, Ken +1
* Should we re-enable nagle now that we're non-buffering CGIs? See
various messages from Marc in March 98.
* TZ should not be dealt with specially any longer now that we have
"PassEnv". See
<Pi...@twinlark.arctic.org>
Jim: IMO it's too late in the game for this... I'm
sure this would cause some strange bug reports as
people's cgi-scripts no longer work correctly
("It worked just fine before I upgraded to 1.3.0")
unless we warn people in big nasty letters to add
PassEnv TZ to their config files "just in case"
and hope they do it :)
* In ap_bclose() there's no test that (fb->fd != -1) -- so it's
possible that it'll do something completely bogus when it's
used for read-only things. - Dean Gaudet
* Okay, so our negotiation strategy needs a bit of refinement. See
<Pi...@twinlark.arctic.org>.
In general, we need to go through and clean up the negotiation
module to make it compliant with the final HTTP/1.1 draft, and at the
very least we should make it more copacetic to the idea of transferring
gzipped variants of files when both variants exist on the server.
* Roy's HTTP/1.1 Wishlist items:
1) byte range error handling
2) update the Accept-Encoding parser to allow q-values
* use of spawnvp in uncompress_child in mod_mime_magic - doesn't
use the new child_info structure, is this still safe? Needs to be
looked at.
* suexec doesn't understand argv parameters; e.g.
<!--#exec cmd="./ls -l" -->
fails even when "ls" is in the same directory because suexec is trying
to stat a file called "ls -l". A patch for this is available at
http://www.xnet.com/~emarshal/suexec.diff
and it's not bad except that it doesn't handle programs with spaces in
the filename (think win32, or samba-mounted filesystems). There are
several PR's to this and I don't see for security reasons why we can't
accomodate it, though it does add complexity to suexec.c.
PR #1120
Brian: +1
Win32 specific issues:
Important
* fix O(n^2) attack in mod_isapi.c ... i.e. recopy the code from
scan_script_headers_err_core.
In progress:
* Ben's ASP work... All agree it sounds cool.
* DDA's adding a tray application to the Windoze version for ease of
status/management.
<01...@caravan.individual.com>
<01...@caravan.individual.com>
Status: Ken +1, Sameer +1, Martin +1, Ben +1 (as long as
we get a single executable)
Paul: No like Win95 specific stuff
Ken: What's W95-specific about it?
Help:
* should trap ^C when running not-as-service and do proper shutdown
* should have a pretty little icon for Apache on Win32
* proxy module doesn't load on Win95. Why? Good question. PR#1462.
* Proxy cache garbage collection doesn't work. PR#1891
* "Directory /", "Directory C:/" both fail to do anything,
while "Directory *" SEGVs.
* chdir() for CGI scripts and mod_include #exec needs to be
re-implemented now that CreateProcess is being used.
* process/thread model
- need dynamic thread creation/destruction, similar to
Unix process model
- can't use WaitForMultipleObjects in the same way we
do now, since that has a limit of 64(!) objects. Grr.
PR#1665
* some errors printed by CGIs to stderr don't end up making it
to the server log unless an extra debugging message is added
after they run? (PR#1725 indicates this may not be just Win32)
* handle bugs that make it pop up errors on console, ie. segv
equiv? Can we do this? Need to make it robust.
* install
- make installshield work
- config in cvs tree?
- install docs, etc.?
- location for install
* the mutex should be critical-regions, since the current design
is creating a mess of SO calls that are unnecessary
* we don't mmap on NT. Use TransmitFile?
* CGIs
- docs on how they work w/scripts
- use registry to find interpreter?
- WTF is the buffering coming from?
- we don't have a way to make non-blocking files on NT!
* performance
* documentation:
- running the server without admin
- how CGIs work
- update README.NT
- short/long name handling
- better status page on current state of NT for users
* http_main.c hell
- split into two files?
* who should run the service? Who exactly is the "system account"?
docs say:
Localsystem is a very privileged account locally, so you shouldn't run
any shareware applications there. However, it has no network privileges
and cannot leave the machine via any NT-secured mechanism, including
file system, named pipes, DCOM, or secure RPC.
and:
A service that runs in the context of the LocalSystem account
inherits the security context of the SCM. It is not associated with
any logged-on user account and does not have credentials (domain
name, user name, and password) to be used for verification. This
has several implications: [... removed ...]
That _really_ sucks. Can we recommend running Apache as some
other user?
* need a crypt() of some sort.
- sources are easy; problem is export restrictions on DES
- if we don't do DES, can do md5
* modules that need to be made to work on win32
- mod_example isn't multithreadreded
- mod_unique_id (needs mt changes)
- mod_auth_db.c (do we want to even try this? We should have some
db of some sort... what else can we pick from under win32?)
- mod_auth_dbm.c
- mod_info.c (PR#1442 re exporting symbols for it...)
- mod_log_agent.c
- mod_log_referer.c
- mod_mime_magic.c (needs access to mod_mime API stage...)
* do something to disable bogus warnings
* rfc1413.c has static storage which won't work multithreaded
* mod_include --> exec cgi, exec cmd, etc. don't work right.
Looks like a code path that isn't run anywhere else that has
something not quite right... A PR or two on it.
* signal type handling
- how to rotate logs from command line?
(Point people to Andrew Ford's cronolog because it's "better"
than ours?)
* Currently if you double click on the conf files or the
log files you get a useless dialog offering the set of all
executables, usually after a very long pause. Ought
to stuff .conf in the registry mapping it to text.
* apparently either "BrowserMatch" or the "nokeepalive" variable
cause instability - see PR#1729.
Binaries
The goal here is to have two columns of all-Y (where applicable)
for the two stable release versions, and nothing under Old unless
the new version just doesn't work on that platform.
1.2.6 1.3.4 Old
aix_4.1 N N 1.2.5, 1.3.1
alphalinux N N 1.3.0
aux_3.1 N N 1.3.0
decalphaNT N N 1.3b6
dunix_4.0 N N 1.2.4, 1.3.0, 1.3.1
freebsd_2.1 N N 1.2.4
freebsd_2.2 N N 1.2.5
hpux_10.20 N N 1.2.5
hpux_11 N N 1.3.2
irix_6.2 N N 1.2.5
linux_2.x N N 1.2.4, 1.3.0
netbsd_1.2 N N 1.2.4
os2 N N 1.3.2
reliantunix_5.4 Y N 1.3.1
solaris N N 1.2.5, 1.3.0, 1.3.1
sparclinux N N 1.3.0, 1.3.1
sunos_4.1.x N N 1.2.5
ultrix_4.4 N N 1.2.4
win32 - N 1.3.2 (is symlink okay?)