Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 14506 invoked by uid 6000); 29 Jul 1999 03:40:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 14462 invoked from network); 29 Jul 1999 03:40:08 -0000 Received: from i.meepzor.com (HELO Mail.MeepZor.Com) (cvs@204.146.167.214) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 29 Jul 1999 03:40:08 -0000 Received: (from cvs@localhost) by Mail.MeepZor.Com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA14632; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:45:07 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 23:45:07 -0400 Message-Id: <199907290345.XAA14632@Mail.MeepZor.Com> From: Rodent of Unusual Size To: Apache HTTP developers Subject: [STATUS] (apache-1.3) Wed Jul 28 23:45:07 EDT 1999 X-Note: This is an automated message. Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org 1.3 STATUS: Last modified at [$Date: 1999/07/28 17:37:05 $] Release: 1.3.7-dev: current. Ken volunteers to be release manager. Proposed dates: roll on Thu, 29 July 1999, test, and release on Mon, 2 August 1999. 1.3.6. Tagged and rolled on Mar. 22. Released and announced on 24th. 1.3.5: Not released. 1.3.4: Tagged and rolled on Jan. 9. Released on 11th, announced on 12th. 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 and apache-apr repository Binaries (1.3.6): Platform Avail. Volunteer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ alpha-dec-osf3.0 no Sameer Parekh alpha-dec-osf4.0 yes Lars Eilebrecht, Ken Coar armv4l-whatever-linux2 yes Rasmus Lerdorf hppa1.1-hp-hpux no Rob Hartill i386-slackware-linux(a.out) no Sameer Parekh i386-sun-solaris2.5 no Sameer Parekh i386-sun-solaris2.7 yes Cliff Skolnick i386-unixware-svr4 no Sameer Parekh i386-unknown-freebsd2.1 no Andrew Wilson, Brian Tao i386-unknown-freebsd2.2.8 yes Jim Jagielski i386-whatever-freebsd3.0 yes Ken Coar i386-whatever-freebsd3.0 yes Dirk-Willem van Gulik i686-pc-freebsd3.1 no Ralf S. Engelschall i586-unknown-linux2 yes Ralf S. Engelschall, Lars Eilebrecht i686-unknown-linux2 yes Lars Eilebrecht i686-whatever-linux2 yes Ken Coar i386-unknown-linux(ELF) no Aram Mirzadeh, Michael Douglass i386-unknown-netBSD-1.2.1 N/A Lars Eilebrecht i386-unknown-netBSD-1.3.2 yes Lars Eilebrecht i386-unknown-sco3 no Ben Laurie i386-unknown-sco5 no Ben Laurie i386-sni-svr4 yes Martin Kraemer m68k-apple-aux3.1.1 no Jim Jagielski m88k-dg-dgux5.4R2.01 no Sameer parekh m88k-next-next no Rob Hartill mips-sgi-irix5.3 no Mark Imbrianco mips-sgi-irix6.2 yes Lars Eilebrecht mips-sgi-irix6.4 no Lars Eilebrecht mips-sni-svr4 yes Martin Kraemer OS/2 yes Brian Havard rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5 no Sameer Parekh rs6000-ibm-aix4.1 yes Lars Eilebrecht rs6000-ibm-aix4.2 no Bill Stoddard rs6000-ibm-aix4.3.2 no Bill Stoddard sparc-sun-solaris2.5 yes Lars Eilebrecht sparc-sun-solaris2.6 yes Lars Eilebrecht sparc-sun-solaris2.7 yes Cliff Skolnick sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4 yes Lars Eilebrecht, Michael Douglass sparc-sun-sunos4.1.3_U1 no Sameer Parekh sparc-unknown-linux yes Lars Eilebrecht mips-dec-ultrix4.4 no Sameer Parekh mips-unknown-linux yes Lars Eilebrecht RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS: RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP: * Graham Legget has found that if he uses the 1.3.7-dev core, and the 1.3.6 proxy code (plus a small patch of his) he doesn't get the hangs he was reporting. The situation is better as of 18 July 1999; still an occasional problem, but no longer a showstopper. * mod_rewrite/3874: RewriteLock doesn't work for virtual hosts Status: (Ralf): When I find time, I can look at this. But I would appreciate when someone other already can dive into this. My opinion is already appended to the PR. It should be not too hard to fix. But one has to carefully look at the whole context again. -rse * long pathnames with many components and no AllowOverride None Workaround is to define with AllowOverride None, which is something all sites should do in any case. Status: Marc was looking at it. Documentation that needs writing: Available Patches: * Stipe Tolj's Cygwin32 port PR#: 2936 Status: Lars +1 (on concept), Martin +1 (on concept) * Salvador Ortiz Garcia ' patch to allow DirectoryIndex to refer to URIs for non-static resources. Message-ID: Status: Ken +1 (on concept), Lars +1 (on concept) * Ralf's [PATCH] to add EAPI (ctx, hook, mm, etc.) to the base package Message-ID: <19990414134729.A93825@engelschall.com> Status: Jim +1, Mark +1, Dean +1, BenH +1, Randy +1 (please choose name other than "hook") Doug +1 on concept (untested), Lars +1 on concept, Martin +1 (untested), Ken -1 for 1.3.7 (too controversial, esp. w/KEAPI offered as well) * Brian Havard's patch to remove dependency of mod_auth_dbm on mod_auth. (PR#2598) Message-ID: <199905170830.SAA31549@silk.apana.org.au> Status: Lars +1 (on concept), Ken +1 (on concept) * Aidan Cully's patch to allow assignment of 'ownership' of resources to either the server UID or the file's owner. Message-ID: <37306CB4.8EA9D76C@Golux.Com> Status: Ken +1, Dean +1, Randy +1, Lars +0, Jim +1 (On hold until Aidan submits an update) * Keith Wannamaker's NT multiple services patch Message-ID: <85256730.0073D841.00@d54mta06.raleigh.ibm.com> Status: Bill +1 (on concept), Lars +1 (on concept) * Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino's [PATCH] IPv6 enable patch ftp://ftp.kame.net/pub/kame/misc/apache-134-v6-19990118.diff.gz Message-ID: <18586.916662926@coconut.itojun.org> Status: Lars +1 (on concept), Dirkx +1 (tested), Martin +1 (on concept; the patch may need a little cleanup) * 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: Jim +0 (as is, the patch requires rework since it needs to be aware of NO_GETTIMEOFDAY and NO_TIMES as well as implement a times() alternative. Not only that, but with extended_status, we calculate this anyway). * 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 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: 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: Status: * Ronald Tschal�r's major update of mod_digest Message-ID: <199901050917.KAA10860@chill.innovation.ch> Status: Big change -- needs review. * Greg's XML Handling patch Message-ID: <3764E070.381B1B8E@lyra.org> Message-ID: <3760EC9C.1CB6398E@lyra.org> Status: Greg +1, Martin +1 (on concept) In progress: * Mark Bixby's freshening up the MPE/iX port (mostly APACI) Message-ID: <199811162227.OAA18137@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." * Doug MacEachern's libapr - Generic Apache Request Library (Alpha) This package contains modules for manipulating client request data via the Apache API with Perl and C. Status: http://www.pobox.com/~dougm/libapr-0.20_01.tar.gz Needs patch: * MaxRequestsPerChild doesn't count requests, only the number of connections processed. We can either 'fix' it by renaming the directive to MaxConnectionsPerChild or really fix it to actually count the number of requests. Lars: I think we should really fix. Ken: Definitely fix this, otherwise a massive series of requests on the same connection is possible, which defeats the purpose. Jim: The main idea behind this is to avoid problems with memory leaks. So it really doesn't matter which we do, as long as there's a match between the directive and what it does. Since it's easier, I'd say just rename to MaxConnectionsPerChild but keep MaxRequestsPerChild as an "alias" to that (maybe print a short "MaxRequestsPerChild is depreciated" message when Apache starts). * get_path_info bug; ap_get_remote_host should be ap_vformatter instead. See: * 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: <19980203211817.06723@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 * work around a Navigator/Mozilla bug when mod_proxy is used (broken images). Message-ID: 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. Dirkx: cannot reproduce this at all. * 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. dirkx: -1 (as some of the modules from modules.apache.org seem (rightly?) to assume that they can modify the returned escaped string whilst relying on the passed string not to be damaged. Martin: +1 (a "separate interface" is like in the case of ap_table_setn() complementing ap_table_set(). It would not interfere with any existing code). * Should we disallow requests with bogus characters in the method? See Open issues: * Should we provide a way to force CustomError responses past IE's 'prettify-if-less-than-N-bytes' bogosity? * there are still some PRs about inetd mode Should we deprecate "ServerType inetd" if the next release is 1.4.0? +1: Lars -0: Martin (ISTR someone volunteered to "keep it working". I fear some exotic platforms may require it) * general/3787: SERVER_PORT is always 80 if client comes to any port => needs review by the protocol guys, I think. * Paul would like to see a 'gdbm' option because he uses it a lot. +1: Greg (volunteers), Martin * Many people have asked for a DBM to be distributed with Apache to isolate it from platform inconsistencies. SDBM (used by mod_ssl, mod_dav, Perl, and others) should fit the bill and is public domain. +1: Greg (volunteers), Martin * Maybe a http_paths.h file? See +1: Brian, Paul, Ralf, Martin, Dirkx +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, Dirkx, 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? Martin: keep as is (helps identifying errors. IMO no privacy issue.) * 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, Dirkx +1 (I could not find ANY module which uses it and which (still) compiles after the config change.) - 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, Dirkx +1 (with doc change) * 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 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 :) Dirkx: Is not this the same issue about maintaining your 'env' ? * 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 * Roy's HTTP/1.1 Wishlist items: 1) byte range error handling * 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. 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. <01BCDB29.2C04DEB0@caravan.individual.com> <01BCDB2A.F8C09010@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 (Resolved?! there's a tiny feather icon now!?!) * proxy module doesn't load on Win95. Why? Good question. PR#1462. David Whitmarsh says it's because you can't dynamically load a DLL that uses declspec(thread). He supplied a patch. MID: <36f6e9bb.16134842@smtp.dial.pipex.com> * Proxy cache garbage collection doesn't work. PR#1891 * 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 - 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? * 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.