Received: by taz.hyperreal.com (8.8.4/V2.0) id XAA24460; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 23:57:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com by taz.hyperreal.com (8.8.4/V2.0) with ESMTP id XAA24452; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 23:57:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with UUCP id AAA10528 for new-httpd@hyperreal.com; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 00:57:20 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.znep.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA13239 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 1997 00:57:04 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 00:57:03 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Subject: [STATUS] and the river flows on Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Unless someone brings something up, I think the beta could be rolled as soon as the little getwd change is finished. 1.2b7 status as of Fri Feb 21 00:55:23 MST 1997: Agenda for 1.2b7-dev ==================== Need to be done before 1.2b7 (in the very biased opinion of Marc): (1.2b7 could ship without some of these, but if we want to try to make 1.2b7 close to the last beta before 1.2...) * let's fix the Solaris 2.6 and HPUX getwd junk the right way; just get rid of getwd(). Status: first part committed; getwd() removed. If no problems, just have to remove junk from conf.h Would be good if is done: Patches available: * charset mod_neg iso-8859-1 fixup Status: Paul posted patch * Rob's "DONE" status response check for die() * LIBS in support/Makefile.tmpl * user and server get confused over what should be a virtual host and what is the main server, resulting in access to something other than the name defined in the virtualhost directive (but with the same IP address) failing. Status: should be looked at, may not be a nice way to fix since it is likely not technically a bug. New status: Dean posted patch, Ben +1-but-hasn't tested, may or may not be whole problem, Randy +1. * config/178: Module with server_config but no per-dir config will seggy in set_flag_slot Status: patch given in report, +1 Roy, Dean say no... * PR#157, PR#158, PR#159 Status: Petr Lampa posted patch, +1 Dean, Randy * PR#160 -- invoke_handler() doesn't handle mime arguments Status: Petr posted patch, +1 Dean, Randy * PR#161 -- mod_dir performance with negotiatio Status: Petr posted patch, Dean +1 on part No patches yet: * HPUX 10 select * 3 seconds delay in CGI execution on SunOS 4.x, see PR 122 Status: no patch. Info: Pages containing script output show up with a delay of 3 seconds (there was no such delay in Apache 1.1.1). [rindfuss@medea.wz-berlin.de] tracked the problem down to source file alloc.c, function free_proc_chain. This function contains a conditional call to sleep(3), which causes the delay. for (p = procs; p; p = p->next) { if (p->kill_how == kill_after_timeout) { /* Subprocess may be dead already. Only need the timeout if not. */ if (kill (p->pid, SIGTERM) != -1) need_timeout = 1; } else if (p->kill_how == kill_always) { kill (p->pid, SIGKILL); } } /* Sleep only if we have to... */ if (need_timeout) sleep (3); [RobH: So CGI included as SSI hangs around for longer and needs to be SIGTERM'ed. Why?] [Roy: note also that a call to sleep will blow-out any other timeout] Ain't gonna happen before 1.2b7 unless magic happens: * Marc has changed his mind and 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, Ed +1 on putting in to b7 * wrong response to proxy request without proxy Message-ID: <9702201640.aa07198@paris.ics.uci.edu> * 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?) * multiviews not behaving properly with path info (PR#40) * docs for force-response-1.0? * CGIs don't get PIPE under FreeBSD; under Solaris they get a TERM and then a PIPE in close succession. Hmm. Marc will look when he gets a chance. * Solaris "accept: Too many levels of remote in path" [marc] * 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, but no one can write what I think should be there better than me, if I ever have time. Randy says he thinks Jason is perhaps doing them. * redirect of index file causes SEGV [Marc] Status: have a way to stop the core dump, but that doesn't make it work properly. See also: Message-ID: * 64-bit issues; general cleanup, sizeof(void *) != sizeof(int) * Randy says "seems that the processes on a Unixware machine are eventually all dying off. Mind you, I have not seen this, but that is what is being reported. Sounds like perhaps the server is not respawning new children after MaxRequestsPerChild has been reached." * 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. * Marc says Apache won't compile with HAVE_SNPRINTF defined as things are now because not everything includes conf.h. Status: Fix it when we have a platform which has snprintf. Jim will look at; perhaps just include conf.h everywhere * new header_parse API hook is called too often Status: RobH posted patch, had second thoughts. He suggests that mod_browser be optimised by detecting if it has been called already and returning early if it has. Roy says see also the suggestion by Doug MacEachern regarding addition of is_main_request() test so that any module can avoid this. Planning/design items: * don't forget to yell at Lycos guys about their client that barfs on HTTP/1.1 headers. (PR#180) * should the bug report page be in CVS? Should it be in the htdocs tree or a seperate place? Should it be distributed with Apache? The same holds for everything on the Apache web site. Marc would like to see it all in CVS, but not necessarily distributed with Apache. Roy says: It would be nice if all of the non-archive parts of the project tree were in a separate cvs module -- it would sure make updating Hyperreal a lot easier (and safer). * should perhaps start to think about exactly how we want to handle contrib patches/programs in 1.2. Directory on the web site? Include in distribution? Contrib stuff / future: * Chris Adams patch to mod_log_config to add %m and %c. * "Large groups cause authentication errors" on FreeBSD [salari@cs.ubc.ca]; problem looks to be MAX_STRING_LEN buffer in groups_for_user. * 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 is still slow. * Some mirrors are out-of-date, Brian will investigate * add some setlocale stuff? * update bug report page to not have email form Status: +1 Roy, Dean, Marc (but some changes suggested), patch reposted with changes. Needs input from people handling current bug reports. New status: reposted, still need input from people handling bug reports via mail right now. * 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... Message-ID: ================= * Committed since 1.2b6: * FIN_WAIT_2 page to documentation * mod_info corruption bug * mod_rewrite sizeof() bug * allow keepalive on 304 responses * full headers on 2xx or 3xx status * fix extra CRLF -> buffers not flushed problem * output all HTTP/1.1 header fields on responses * mod_info bug fix for if sizeof(char) != 1, not that that can happen. * fix for Rlimit* giving a SEGV when given only one argument * mod_rewrite update * suexec free()ing memory while still needed * httpd_monitor now understands current scoreboard format * tweak byteserving code to work around Netscape bug (PDF plugin) * autocreate Makefile in support directory * be sure to kill timeout in util_script * Bad handling of lang_index == -1 in is_variant_better() * handle_multi() doesn't return content_language of negotiated file (breaks old code). * directory redirect now returns 302 instead of 301 * fix util_snprintf and unsigned ints on Alpha * fix conflicting definitions for is_proxy_available * fix problem with mod_cgi generated internal redirects trying to read the request message-body twice. * reduce timeout on lingering close and remove blocked read possibility * add content-length header to multipart/byterange responses * HI-UX patch * chunked encoding performance improvements * Dean's other perf improvements * suexec fixes (NFS, portability, array overrun) * fix mod_status display * log errors from call_exec * fix core dump when documentroot is CGI * use pfopen/pfclose in mod_asis and http_core * fix SEGV if r->per_dir_config not initialized * A/UX and SCO3 timeval cleanups * fix CGI outputting Location * remove unused pcalloc in call_exec * don't disable Nagle if no TCP_NODELAY * core dump in sub_req_lookup_file() if invalid directive in .htaccess * stop vbprintf dereferencing null pointers * reduce default timeout to 300 seconds. * add strerr prototype * infinite loop in mod_imap due to parsing bug * Roy's fixes to main loop & lingering_close * output buffering for mod_include * regex -Wall cleanup * Dean's rfc2068 fixes * satisfy fix * escaping '{' in SSI * IRIX -Wall warnings * avoid null dereference in mod_cgi * remove unused functions * fix server generated html * off-by-one bug in dbmmanage.new * * server can hang on HUP * MSIE + byteranges * Chuck got over his odd preoccupation with something called a "job" that is rumored to make this stuff called "money" and the proxy stuff is now fixed. * suexec string fixup (PR#179) * trace fixes