APACHE 2.0 STATUS:
-*-text-*-
Last modified at [$Date: 2006-03-27 04:31:07 -0500 (Mon, 27
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nches/2.0.x/STATUS
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d/branches/2.0.x/docs/STATUS
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9.x/STATUS
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efforts:
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* http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/d
ocs/STATUS
Release history:
2.0.56 : in development
2.0.55 : released October 16, 2005 as GA.
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.apac
he.org/bugzilla/
* Review the "PatchAvailable" bugs in the
bug database:
http://
issues.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bu
g_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 on list or in STATUS, then
merge into
branches/2.2.x, and finally merge into branches/2.0.x,
as applicable.
RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:
* Awaiting next apr-util release to address licensing
concerns.
PATCHES ACCEPTED TO BACKPORT FROM TRUNK:
[ start all new proposals below, under PATCHES PROPOSED. ]
*) mod_speling: Don't crash if r->filename is unset.
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=385580&view=r
ev
+1: trawick, niq, colm
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! Add all
new
proposals to the end of this list. ]
*) Reverse Proxy fixes: <Location> bug and Cookie
support
Patch is at
http://people.apache.org/~colm/httpd-2.0-reve
rse-proxy-cookie.patch
and is in production with Clients.
+1: niq
*) mod_cgid: Fix PR 36410. Invoke the
set_suexec_identity hook from
the non-cgid side of the handler, where the full
per-server/dir/etc
configuration is available instead of using two
mod_suexec and
mod_userdir specific hacks. See mod_vhost_ldap for an
example
third-party get_suexec_identity implementation.
http://people.apache.org/~colm/2.0.x-suexec-cgid.patch
+1: colm
*) Backport 102870; PR 17217; stop linking OpenSSL to
support/*
binaries (especially when compiled
--with-static-support (!))
and fix mod_ssl.so when compiled against .a openssl
archives.
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=102870&view=r
ev
+1: wrowe, colm
*) mod_isapi: Trivial compiler emit fixes for
const'ness - noticed on OS/X
Correct lvalue assignments (lvalue casts not allowed)
- noticed on Sol.
Resolve use of SetLastError with apr_set_os_error()
and axe MAKEFILE
for a literal value. Permits mod_isapi to load and
run on Unix.
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=384731&view=rev
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=386790&view=rev
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=386821&view=rev
+1: wrowe
*) mod_ldap: Brad's pool fixes to fix a race condition
during
first request as well as thread-safety issues between
threads
handling different vhosts at steady state
trunk revision:
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&rev=3864
77
(there's some server config merge logic which does
not apply
to 2.0)
2.0 patch is at
http://people.apache.org/~trawick/20_ldap_pool.patch
+1: trawick
*) Make sure we write a reasonable status line (e.g., if
byterange
filter modifies status and custom status line is left
unmodified).
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi?rev=385581&view=r
ev
2.0 patch is at
http://people.apache.org/~trawick/20_validate_sta
tus_line.patch
+1: trawick, niq
-0: colm
colm: Wouldn't it be a whole lot less cycles to use
ISDIGIT?
PATCHES TO BACKPORT THAT ARE ON HOLD OR NOT GOING ANYWHERE
SOON:
*) 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.
*) 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 is available at http://www.apache.o
rg/~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 <20040305083540.GA24529 redhat.com>)
*) 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.
h
ttp://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, wrowe (provided this is applied to ALL
subreq types!)
-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: addressed jerenkrantz' objection in
rev 160573
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.
wrowe: I've reconsidered - the simple fact is
that subrequests
don't have a good mechanism to 'share' the
input body with the
main request, and it's gotta be up to the main
request to handle
the input body. If the module wants to use
apreq-provided data,
then it's going to have to ask apreq for the
data instead of
looking at the headers. For that matter, why
are subreq's even
propogating POST or other non-GET types? It
seems that almost
any subreq should be handled as a GET in 2.0.
CURRENT VOTES:
*) 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.)
c) tailored httpd-std.conf should be installed to
sysconfdir/examples or manualdir/exampleconf/
+1: slive, trawick, Ken, nd (prefer the latter),
erikabele
*) 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: <3C58232C.FE91F19FGolux.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: <20020526041748.A29148prodigy.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:
<B8DBBE8D.575A%pierbetaversion.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: <065701c14526$495203b0$96c0b0d0roweclan.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: <20020217150457.A31632clove.org>
* Can a static httpd be built reliably?
Message-ID: <20020207142751.T31582clove.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:
<Pine.LNX.4.33.0201202232430.318-100000deepthought.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 devapr:
Message-ID: <20020111115006.K1529clove.org>
* Try to get libtool inter-library dependency code
working on AIX.
Message-ID: <cm3n10lx555.fsfrdu163-40-092.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://f
oo.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 à 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 devapr.apache.org:
Message-ID:
<Pine.LNX.4.44.0203011354090.16457-200000deepthought
.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
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