Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-new-httpd-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 96677 invoked by uid 500); 9 Aug 2001 03:45:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact new-httpd-help@apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list new-httpd@apache.org Received: (qmail 96644 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2001 03:45:14 -0000 Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 23:45:10 -0400 Message-Id: <200108090345.XAA20919@Mail.MeepZor.Com> From: Rodent of Unusual Size To: Apache HTTP server developers Subject: [STATUS] (apache-1.3) Wed Aug 8 23:45:09 EDT 2001 X-Note: This is an automated message. X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 312 APACHE 1.3 STATUS: -*-text-*- Last modified at [$Date: 2001/07/12 15:53:18 $] Release: 1.3.21: In development 1.3.20: Tagged and rolled May 15, 2001. Announced May 21, 2001. 1.3.19: Tagged and rolled Feb 26, 2001. Announced Mar 01, 2001. 1.3.18: Not released. (Pulled because of an incorrect unescaping fix. t/r Feb 19, 2001) 1.3.17: Tagged and rolled Jan 26, 2001. Announced Jan 29, 2001. 1.3.16: Not released. (Pulled because of vhosting bug. t/r Jan 20, 2001) 1.3.15: Not released. (Pulled due to CVS dumping core during the tagging when it reached src/os/win32/) 1.3.14: Tagged and Rolled Oct 10, 2000. Released/announced on the 13th. 1.3.13: Not released. (Pulled in the "first minutes" due to a Netware build bug) 1.3.12: Tagged and rolled Feb. 23, 2000. Released/announced on the 25th. 1.3.11: Tagged and rolled Jan. 19, 2000. Released/announced on the 21st. 1.3.10: Not released. (Pulled at "last minute" due to a build bug in the MPE port) 1.3.9: Tagged and rolled on Aug. 16. Released and announced on 19th. 1.3.8: Not released. 1.3.7: Not released. 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 alpha development, see httpd-2.0 repository RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS: ab is broken on many platforms. Dirk has offered patch, it does not apply cleanly, he has offered to clean this up. RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP: * htpasswd.c and htdigest.c use tmpnam()... consider using mkstemp() when available. Message-ID: Status: * Dean's "unescaping hell" (unescaping the various URI components at the right time and place, esp. unescaping the host name). Message-ID: Status: * Martin observed a core dump because a ipaddr_chain struct contains a NULL-"server" pointer when being dereferenced by invoking "httpd -S". Message-ID: <20010213231854.A20932@deejai2.mch.fsc.net> Status: Workaround enabled. Clean solution can come after 1.3.19 * 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. * Ronald Tschal�r's patch to mod_proxy to allow other modules to set headers too (needed by mod_auth_digest) Message-ID: <199907080712.JAA28269@chill.innovation.ch> Status: Documentation that needs writing: Available Patches (Most likely, these will not be added to the official 1.3 tree, but instead should be ported to 2.0): * A rewrite of ap_unparse_uri_components() by Jeffrey W. Baker to more fully close some segfault potential. Message-ID: Status: Jim +1 (for 1.3.19), Martin +0 * Patch from "C. Bottelier" to run Apache without daemonizing the parent process. PR#7040 Status: fanf +1 (except it needs docs) * Andrew Ford's patch (1999/12/05) to add absolute times to mod_expires Message-ID: Status: Martin +1, Jim +1, Ken +1 (on concept) * Raymond S Brand's path to mod_autoindex to fix the header/readme include processing so the envariables are correct for the included documents. (Actually, there are two variants in the patch message, for two different ways of doing it.) Message-ID: <384AA242.B93F8B5@rsbx.net> Status: Martin +1(concept) * Jayaram's patch (10/27/99) for changes to mod_autoindex Problem 1: ------------------------ AddIcon (,) ^^DIRECTORY^^ and AddIcon (,) ^^BLANKICON^^ should be able to set the alternate text and icon file for any directory/blankicon in a directory listing. This was not happening because the alternate text for ^^DIRECTORY^^ and ^^BLANKICON^^ were hardcoded to "DIR" and " " respectively. Problem 2: ------------------------- IndexIgnore should hide the files with this file- extension in directory listings. This was NOT happening because the total filename was being compared with the file-extension. Status: Martin +1(untested), Ken +1(untested) * Salvador Ortiz Garcia ' patch to allow DirectoryIndex to refer to URIs for non-static resources. MID: Status: Ken +1 (on concept), Lars +1 (on concept) * 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), Martin +1(untested) * 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 In progress: * 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://perl.apache.org/dist/ (look for the latest libapr-* file) * David Harris' note of odd size memory allocations. Dean notes that this is due to BLOCK_MIN_ALLOC. Should we reduce it to 1024? Discussion in thread following message-ID below. Message-ID: <00a001bedc00$fbc5af60$0500a8c0@delf> Status: 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. Status: Will be fixed in 2.0 * 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 * 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. * All DBMs suffer from confusion in dbmmanage (perl script) since the dbmmanage creates in the first-matched dbm format. This is not necessarily the library that Apache was built with. Aught to rewrite dbmmanage with the proper library for clean administration. * SDBM is now distributed in src/lib, as distributed with perl, but is only incorporated into the Win32 build. Extra cleanup and build mechanics are still needed for other platforms. * 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. Also: TZ should not be dealt with specially any longer now that we "have PassEnv". See Status: To be handled in 2.0 * Marc's socket options like source routing (kill them?) Marc, Martin say Yes * 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. * 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. Accepting quoted executable names solves that issue, except that the exec cmd="" parsing needs to accept escaped quotes. PR #1120 Brian: +1 Win32 specific issues: * Adding a tray application to the Windoze version for ease of status/management. (PR3594, PR4873) No one has implemented a pure C language WinAPI (no MFC) multiple-services aware taskbar app for both WinNT and Win95, since multiple-services are recent and Win9x is even more recent. Open to anyone proposing something complete. If it comes between releases, add it to contrib right away! See src/os/win32/monitoring-services.txt for details. Status: both Brian Moon and William Rowe are experimenting. * 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 * handle bugs that make it pop up errors on console, ie. segv equiv? Can we do this? Need to make it robust. This is done for mod_isapi by the ap_load_dso code on win32, look there for an example ... probably not appropriate everywhere, but only where the client is affecting the state of the machine. What the operator does is a different matter. * 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 * performance * modules that need to be made to work on win32 - mod_example isn't multithreadreded - mod_unique_id (needs mt changes, use win32 com UUID's) - 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 ... Will asks "Which warnings?" * rfc1413.c has static storage which won't work multithreaded * apparently either "BrowserMatch" or the "nokeepalive" variable cause instability - see PR#1729. Binaries (1.3.20): Platform Avail. Volunteer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ alpha-dec-osf3.0 no Sameer Parekh alpha-dec-osf4.0 no Lars Eilebrecht, Ken Coar, Randy Terbush alpha-whatever-linux2 no Randy Terbush armv4l-whatever-linux2 no Rasmus Lerdorf hppa1.1-hp-hpux-10.x no Rob Hartill, Randy Terbush i386-be-beos no David Reid i686-whatever-cygwin yes Stipe Tolj i386-slackware-linux(a.out) no Sameer Parekh i386-sun-solaris2.5 no Sameer Parekh i386-sun-solaris2.6 no Randy Terbush i386-sun-solaris2.7 no Cliff Skolnick i386-unixware-svr4 no Sameer Parekh, Randy Terbush i386-unknown-freebsd2.1 no Andrew Wilson, Brian Tao i386-unknown-freebsd2.2.8 no Jim Jagielski i386-whatever-bsdi no David Reid i386-whatever-freebsd3.0 no Ken Coar i386-whatever-freebsd3.0 no Dirk-Willem van Gulik i386-whatever-freebsd3.3 no Ask Bjoern Hansen i386-whatever-freebsd4.0 no Ask Bjoern Hansen i686-pc-freebsd3.1 no Ralf S. Engelschall i586-unknown-linux2 no Ralf S. 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