1 Changes with Apache 2.0b1
2 *) Get "NameVirtualHost *" working in 2.0. [Ryan Bloom]
4 *) Return HTTP_RANGE_NOT_SATISFIABLE if the every range requested starts
5 after the end of the response. [Ryan Bloom]
7 *) Get byterange requests working with responses that do not have a
8 content-length. Because of the way byterange requests work, we have to
9 have all of the data before we can actually do the byterange, so we
10 can compute the content-length in the byterange filter.
13 *) Get exe CGI's working again on Windows.
16 *) Get mod_cgid and mod_rewrite to work as DSOs by changing the way
17 they keep track of whether or not their post config hook has been
18 called before. Instead of a static variable (which is replaced when
19 the DSO is loaded a second time), use userdata in the process pool.
22 Changes with Apache 2.0a9
24 *) Win32 now requires perl to complete the final install step for users
25 to build + install on Win32. Makefile.win now rewrites @@ServerRoot@
26 and installs the conf, htdocs and htdocs/manual directories.
29 *) Make mod_include use a hash table to associate directive tags with
30 functions. This allows modules to implement their own SSI tags easily.
31 The idea is simple enough, a module can insert it's own tag and function
32 combination into a hash table provided by mod_include. While mod_include
33 parses an SSI file, when it encounters a tag in the file, it does a
34 hash lookup to find the function that implements that tag, and passes
35 all of the relevant data to the function. That function is then
36 responsible for processing the tag and handing the remaining data back
37 to mod_include for further processing.
38 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
40 *) Get rid of ap_new_apr_connection(). ap_new_connection() now has
41 fewer parameters: the local and remote socket addresses were removed
42 from the parameter list because all required information is available
43 via the APR socket. [Jeff Trawick]
45 *) Distribution directory structure reorganized to reflect a
46 normal source distribution with external install targets.
49 *) The MPMs that need multiple segments of shared memory now create
50 two apr_shmem_t variables, one for each shared memory allocation.
51 the problem is that we can't determine how much memory will be required
52 for shared memory allocations once we try to allocate more than one
53 variable. The MM code automatically aligns the shared memory allocations,
54 so we end up needing to pad the amount of shared memory we want based
55 on how many variables will be allocated out of the shared memory segment.
56 It is just easier to create a second apr_shmem_t variable, and two
60 *) Cleanup the export list a bit. This creates a single unified list of
61 functions exported by APR. The export list is generated at configure
62 time, and that list is then used to generate the exports.c file.
63 Because of the way the export list is generated, we only export those
64 functions that are valid on the platform we are building on.
67 *) Enable logging the cookie with mod_log_config
68 [Sander van Zoest <sander@covalent.net>]
70 *) Fix a segfault in mod_info when it reaches the end of the configuration.
73 *) Added lib/aputil/ as a placeholder for utility functions which are not
74 specific to the Apache HTTP Server (but do not make sense with APR).
75 The first utility is "apu_dbm": a set of functions to work with DBM
76 files. This first version can be compiled for SDBM or GDBM databases.
79 *) Complete re-write of mod_include. This makes mod_include a filter that
80 uses buckets directly. This has now served the FAQ correctly.
81 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
83 *) Allow modules to specify the first filter in a sub_request when
84 making the sub_request. This keeps modules from having to change the
85 output_filter immediately after creating the sub-request, and therefore
86 skip the sub_req_output_filter. [Ryan Bloom]
88 *) Update ab to accept URLs with IPv6 literal address strings (in the
89 format described in RFC 2732), and to build Host header fields in
90 the same format. This allows IPv6 literal address strings to be
91 used with ab. This support has been tested against Apache 1.3 with
92 the KAME patch, but Apache 2.0 does not yet work with this format
93 of the Host header field. [Jeff Trawick]
95 *) Accomodate an out-of-space condition in the piped logs and the
96 rotatelogs.c code, and no longer churn log processes for this
97 condition. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
99 *) Add support for partial writes with apr_sendfile() to core_output_filter.
102 Changes with Apache 2.0a8
104 *) Add a directive to mod_mime so that filters can be associated with
108 *) Get multi-views working again. We were setting the path_info
109 field incorrectly if we couldn't find the specified file.
112 *) Fix 304 processing. The core should never try to send the headers
113 down the filter stack. Always, just setup the table in the request
114 record, and let the header filter convert it to data that is ready
118 *) More fixes for the proxy. There are still bugs in the proxy code,
119 but this has now proxied www.yahoo.com and www.ntrnet.net (my ISP)
123 *) Fix params for apr_getaddrinfo() call in connect proxy handler.
126 *) APR: Add new apr_getopt_long function to handle long options.
127 [B. W. Fitzpatrick <fitz@red-bean.com>]
129 *) APR: Change apr_connect() to take apr_sockaddr_t instead of hostname.
130 Add generic apr_create_socket(). Add apr_getaddrinfo() for doing
131 hostname resolution/address string parsing and building
132 apr_sockaddr_t. Add apr_get_sockaddr() for getting the address
133 of one of the apr_sockaddr_t structures for a socket. Change
134 apr_bind() to take apr_sockaddr_t. [David Reid and Jeff Trawick]
136 *) Remove the BUFF from the HTTP proxy. This is still a bit ugly, but
137 I have proxied pages with it, cleanup will commence soon.
140 *) Make the proxy work with filters. This isn't perfect, because we
141 aren't dealing with the headers properly. [Ryan Bloom]
143 *) Do not send a content-length iff the C-L is 0 and this is a head
144 request. [Ryan Bloom]
146 *) Make cgi-bin work as a regular directory when using mod_vhost_alias
147 with no VirtualScriptAlias directives. PR#6829 [Tony Finch]
149 *) Remove BUFF from the PROXY connect handling. [Ryan Bloom]
151 *) Get the default_handler to stop trying to deal with HEAD requests.
152 The idea is to let the content-length filter compute the C-L before
153 we try to send the data. If we can get the C-L correctly, then we
154 should send it in the HEAD response.
157 *) The Header filter can now determine if a body should be sent based
158 on r->header_only. The general idea of this is that if we delay
159 deciding to send the body, then we might be able to compute the
160 content-length correctly, which will help caching proxies to cache
161 our data better. Any handler that doesn't want to try to compute
162 the content-length can just send an EOS bucket without data and
163 everything will just work.
166 *) Add the referer to the error log if one is available.
167 [Markus Gyger <mgyger@itr.ch>]
169 *) Mod_info.c has now been ported to Apache 2.0. As a part of this
170 change, the root of the configuration tree has been exposed to modules
172 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
174 *) Get the core_output_filter to use the bucket interface directly.
175 This keeps us from calling the content-length filter multiple times
176 for a simple static request.
179 *) We are sending the content-type correctly now.
180 [Ryan Bloom and Will Rowe]
182 *) APR on FreeBSD: Fix a bug in apr_sendfile() which caused us to report
183 a bogus bytes-sent value when the only thing being sent was trailers
184 and writev() returned an error (or EAGAIN). [Jeff Trawick]
186 *) Get SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT working again. This uses the
187 hints file to determine which platforms define
188 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
191 *) APR: add apr_get_home_directory() [Jeff Trawick]
193 *) Initial import of 1.3-current mod_proxy. [Chuck Murcko]
195 *) Not all platforms have INADDR_NONE defined by default. Apache
196 used to make this check and define INADDR_NONE if appropriate,
197 but APR needs the check too, and I suspect other applications will
198 as well. APR now defines APR_INADDR_NONE, which is always a valid
199 value on all platforms.
200 [Branko Èibej <brane@xbc.nu>]
202 *) Destroy the pthread mutex in lock_intra_cleanup() for PR#6824.
203 [Shuichi Kitaguchi <ki@hh.iij4u.or.jp>]
205 *) Relax the syntax checking of Host: headers in order to support
206 iDNS. PR#6635 [Tony Finch]
208 *) When reading from file buckets we convert to an MMAP if it makes
209 sense. This also simplifies the default handler because the
210 default handler no longer needs to try to create MMAPs.
213 *) BUFF has been removed from the main server. The BUFF code will remain
214 in the code until it has been purged from the proxy module as well.
217 *) Byteranges have been completely re-written to be a filter. This
218 has been tested, and I believe it is working correctly, but it could
219 doesn't work for the Adobe Acrobat plug-in. The output almost matches
220 the output from 1.3, the only difference being that 1.3 includes
221 a content-length in the response, and this does not.
224 *) APR read/write functions and bucket read functions now operate
225 on unsigned integers, instead of signed ones. It doesn't make
226 any sense to use signed ints, because we return the error codes,
227 so if we have an error we should report 0 bytes read or written.
230 *) Always compute the content length, whether it is sent or not.
231 The reason for this, is that it allows us to correctly report
232 the bytes_sent when logging the request. This also simplifies
233 content-length filter a bit, and fixes the actual byte-reporing
234 code in mod_log_config.c
237 *) Remove AP_END_OF_BRIGADE definition. This does not signify what
238 it says, because it was only used by EOS and FLUSH buckets. Since
239 neither of those are required at the end of a brigade, this was
240 really signifying FLUSH_THE_DATA, but that can be determined better
241 by checking AP_BUCKET_IS_EOS() or AP_BUCKET_IS_FLUSH. EOS and FLUSH
242 buckets now return a length of 0, which is actually the amount of data
243 read, so they make more sense.
246 *) Allow the core_output_filter to save some data past the end of a
247 request. If we get an EOS bucket, we only send the data if it
248 makes sense to send it. This allows us to pipeline request
249 responses. As a part of this, we also need to allocate mmap
250 buckets out of the connection pool, not the request pool. This
251 allows the mmap to outlive the request.
254 *) Make blocking and non-blocking bucket reads work correctly for
255 sockets and pipes. These are the only bucket types that should
256 have non-blocking reads, because the other bucket types should
257 ALWAYS be able to return something immediately.
260 *) In the Apache/Win32 console window, accept Ctrl+C to stop the
261 server, but use Ctrl+Break to initiate a graceful restart
262 instead of duplicating behavior. [John Sterling]
264 *) Patch mod_autoindex to set the Last-Modified header based on
265 the directory's mtime, and add the ETag header. [William Rowe]
267 *) Merge the 1.3 patch to add support for logging query string in
268 such a way that "%m %U%q %H" is the same as "%r".
271 *) Port three log methods from mod_log_config 1.3 to 2.0:
272 CLF compliant '-' byte count, method and protocol.
275 *) Add a new LogFormat directive, %c, that will log connection
276 status at the end of the response as follows:
277 'X' - connection aborted before the response completed.
278 '+' - connection may be kept-alive by the server.
279 '-' - connection will be closed by the server.
282 *) Expand APR for WinNT to fully accept and return utf-8 encoded
283 Unicode file names and paths for Win32, and tag the Content-Type
284 from mod_autoindex to reflect that charset if the the feature
285 macro APR_HAS_UNICODE_FS is true. [William Rowe]
287 *) Compute the content length (and add appropriate header field) for
288 the response when no content length is available and we can't use
289 chunked encoding. [Jeff Trawick]
291 *) Changed ap_discard_request_body() to use REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK,
292 so that content input filters get dechunked data when using
293 the default handler. Also removed REQUEST_CHUNKED_PASS.
296 *) Add mod_ext_filter as an experimental module. This module allows
297 the administrator to use external programs as filters. Currently,
298 only filtering of output is supported. [Jeff Trawick]
300 *) Most Apache functions work on EBCDIC machines again, as protocol
301 data is now translated (again). [Jeff Trawick]
303 *) Introduce ap_xlate_proto_{to|from}_ascii() to clean up some of
304 the EBCDIC support. They are noops on ASCII machines, so this
305 type of translation doesn't have to be surrounded by #ifdef
306 CHARSET_EBCDIC. [Jeff Trawick]
308 *) Fix mod_include. tag commands work again, and the server will
309 send the FAQ again. This also allows mod_include to set aside
310 buckets that include partial buckets.
311 [Ryan Bloom and David Reid]
313 *) Add suexec support back. [Manoj Kasichainula]
315 *) Lingering close now uses the socket directly instead of using
316 BUFF. This has been tested, but since all we can tell is that it
317 doesn't fail, this needs to be really hacked on.
320 *) Allow filters to modify headers and have those headers be sent to
321 the client. The idea is that we have an http_header filter that
322 actually sends the headers to the network. This removes the need
323 for the BUFF to send headers.
326 *) Charset translation: mod_charset_lite handles translation of
327 request bodies. Get rid of the xlate version of ap_md5_digest()
328 since we don't compute digests of filtered (e.g., translated)
329 response bodies this way anymore. (Note that we don't do it at
330 all at the present; somebody needs to write a filter to do so.)
333 *) Input filters and ap_get_brigade() now have a input mode parameter
334 (blocking, non-blocking, peek) instead of a length parameter.
337 *) Update the mime.types file to the registered media types as
338 of 2000-10-19. PR#6613 [Carsten Klapp <carsten.klapp@home.net>,
341 *) Namespace protect some macros declared in ap_config.h
344 *) Support HTTP header line folding with input filtering.
347 *) Mod_include works again. This should still be re-written, but at
348 least now we can serve an SHTML page again.
351 *) Begin to remove BUFF from the core. Currently, we keep a pointer
352 to both the BUFF and the socket in the conn_rec. Functions that
353 want to use the BUFF can, functions that want to use the socket,
354 can. They point to the same place.
357 *) apr_psprintf doesn't understand %lld as a format. Make it %ld.
358 [Tomas "Ögren" <stric@ing.umu.se>]
360 *) APR pipes on Unix and Win32 are now cleaned up automatically when the
361 associated pool goes away. (APR pipes on OS/2 were already had this
362 logic.) This resolvs a fatal file descriptor leak with CGIs.
365 *) The final line of the config file was not being read if there was
366 no \n at the end of it. This was caused by apr_fgets returning
367 APR_EOF even though we had read valid data. This is solved by
368 making cfg_getline check the buff that was returned from apr_fgets.
369 If apr_fgets return APR_EOF, but there was data in the buf, then we
370 return the buf, otherwise we return NULL.
373 *) Piped logs work again in the 2.0 series.
376 *) Restore functionality broken by the mod_rewrite security fix:
377 rewrite map lookup keys and default values are now expanded
378 so that the lookup can depend on the requested URI etc.
379 PR #6671 [Tony Finch]
381 *) Tighten up the syntax checking of Host: headers to fix a
382 security bug in some mass virtual hosting configurations
383 that can allow a remote attacker to retrieve some files
384 on the system that should be inaccessible. [Tony Finch]
386 *) Add a pool bucket type. This bucket is used for data allocated out
387 of a pool. If the pool is cleaned before the bucket is destroyed, then
388 the data is converted to a heap bucket, allowing it to survive the
392 *) Add a flush bucket. This allows modules to signal that the filters
393 should all flush whatever data they currently have. There is no way
394 to actually force them to do this, so if a filter ignores this bucket,
395 that's life, but at least we can try with this.
398 *) Add an output filter for sub-requests. This filter just strips the
399 EOS bucket so that we don't confuse the main request's core output
400 filter by sending multiple EOS buckets. This change also makes sub
401 requests start to send EOS buckets when they are finished.
404 *) Make ap_bucket_(read|destroy|split|setaside) into macros. Also
405 makes ap_bucket_destroy a return void, which is okay because it
406 used to always return APR_SUCCESS, and nobody ever checked its
408 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
410 *) Remove the index into the bucket-type table from the buckets
411 structure. This has now been replaced with a pointer to the
412 bucket_type. Also add some macros to test the bucket-type.
415 *) Renamed all MODULE_EXPORT symbols to AP_MODULE_DECLARE and all symbols
416 for CORE_EXPORT to AP_CORE_DECLARE (namespace protecting the wrapper)
417 and retitled API_EXPORT as AP_DECLARE and APR_EXPORT as APR_DECLARE.
418 All _VAR_ flavors changes to _DATA to be absolutely clear.
421 *) Add support for /, //, //servername and //server/sharename
422 parsing of <Directory> blocks under Win32 and OS2.
423 [Tim Costello, William Rowe, Brian Harvard]
425 *) Remove the function pointers from the ap_bucket type. They have been
426 replaced with a global table. Modules are allowed to register bucket
427 types and use then use those buckets.
430 *) mod_cgid: In the handler, shut down the Unix socket (only for write)
431 once we finish writing the request body to the cgi child process;
432 otherwise, the client doesn't hit EOF on stdin. Small request bodies
433 worked without this change (for reasons I don't understand), but large
434 ones didn't. [Jeff Trawick]
436 *) Remove file bucket specific information from the ap_bucket type.
437 This has been moved to a file_bucket specific type that hangs off
438 the data pointer in the ap_bucket type.
441 *) Input filtering now has a third argument. This is the amount of data
442 to read from lower filters. This argument can be -1, 0, or a positive
443 number. -1 means give me all the data you have, I'll deal with it and
444 let you know if I need more. 0 means give me one line and one line
445 only. A positive number means I want no more than this much data.
447 Currently, only 0 and a positive number are implemented. This allows
448 us to remove the remaining field from the conn_rec structure, which
452 *) Big cleanup of the input filtering. The goal is that http_filter
453 understands two conditions, headers and body. It knows where it is
454 based on c->remaining. If c->remaining is 0, then we are in headers,
455 and http_filter returns a line at a time. If it is not 0, then we are
456 in body, and http_filter returns raw data, but only up to c->remaining
457 bytes. It can return less, but never more.
458 [Greg Ames, Ryan Bloom, Jeff Trawick]
460 *) mod_cgi: Write all of the request body to the child, not just what
461 the kernel would accept on the first write. [Jeff Trawick]
463 *) Back out the change that moved the brigade from the core_output_filters
464 ctx to the conn_rec. Since all requests over a given connection
465 go through the same core_output_filter, the ctx pointer has the
469 *) Fix another bug in the send_the_file() read/write loop. A partial
470 send by apr_send would cause unsent data in the read buffer to
471 get clobbered. Complete making send_the_file handle partial
472 writes to the network.
475 *) Fix a couple of type fixes to allow compilation on AIX again
476 [Victor J. Orlikowski <v.j.orlikowski@gte.net>]
478 *) Fix bug in send_the_file() which causes offset to be ignored
479 if there are no headers to send.
482 *) Handle APR_ENOTIMPL returned from apr_sendfile in the core
483 filter. Useful for supporting Windows 9* with a binary
484 compiled on Windows NT.
487 Changes with Apache 2.0a7
489 *) Reimplement core_output_filter to buffer/save bucket brigades
490 across multiple calls to the core_filter. The brigade will be
491 sent when either MIN_BYTES_TO_SEND or MAX_IOVEC_TO_WRITE
492 thresholds are hit or the EOS bucket is received.
495 *) Create experimental filter (buffer_filter) that coalesces bytes
496 into one large buffer before invoking the next filter in the
497 chain. This filter is particularly useful with the current
498 implementation of mod_autoindex when it inserted above the
499 chunk_filter. mod_autoindex generates a lot of brigades that
500 containing buckets holding just a few bytes each. The
501 buffer_filter coalesces these buckets into a single large bucket.
504 *) Add apr_sendfile() support into the core_output_filter.
507 *) Add apr_sendv() support into the core_output_filter.
510 *) Fix mod_log_config so that it compiles cleanly with BUFFERED_LOGS
511 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
513 *) Remove ap_send_fb. This is no longer used in Apache, and it doesn't
514 make much sense, because Apache uses buckets instead of BUFFs now.
517 *) send_the_file now falls back to a read/write loop on platforms that
518 do not have sendfile.
519 [Ryan Bloom and Brian Havard]
521 *) Install apachectl correctly, and substitute the proper values so
522 that it works again. [Ryan Bloom]
524 *) Better(??) handle platforms that lack sendfile().
527 *) APR now has UUID generation/formatting/parsing support.
530 *) Begin the http_filter. This is an input filter that understands
531 the absolute basic amount required to parse an HTTP Request. The
532 goal is to be able to split headers from request body before passing
533 the data back to the other filters.
536 *) Bring forward from 1.3.13 the config directory implementation
539 *) install apxs if it is created
542 *) Added APR_IS_STATUS_condition test macros to eliminate canonical error
543 conversions. [William Rowe]
545 *) Now that we have ap_add_input_filter(), rename ap_add_filter() to
546 ap_add_output_filter(). [Jeff Trawick]
548 *) Multiple build and configuration fixes
551 -add datadir and localstatedir substitutions
553 -fix logfilename misspelling
554 -fix evaluation of installation dir variables and
555 -replace $foobar by $(foobar) to be usefull in the makefile
559 -add rules for cross-compiling in rules.mk. Okay, rule to check for
560 $CC_FOR_BUILD is still missing
561 -use CHECK_TOOL instead of CHECK_PROG for ranlib
562 -add missing "AR=@AR@" to severaly Makefile.in's
563 -cache result for "struct rlimit"
564 -compile all helper programs with native and cross compiler
565 and use the native version to generate header file
566 ["Rüdiger" Kuhlmann <Tadu@gmx.de>]
568 *) Prepare our autoconf setup for autoconf 2.14a and for cross-
570 ["Rüdiger" Kuhlmann <Tadu@gmx.de>]
572 *) Fix a bug where a client which only sends \n to delimit header
573 lines (netcat) gets a strange looking HTTP_NOT_IMPLEMENTED
574 message. Start working on ebcdic co-existance with input
576 [William Rowe, Greg Ames]
578 *) If mod_so is enabled in the server always create libexec, even
579 if there are no modules installed in this directory. This is a
580 requirement for APXS to work correctly.
583 *) Connection oriented output filters are now stored in the
584 conn_rec instead of the request_rec. This allows us to add the
585 output filter in the pre-connection phase instead of the
586 post_read_request phase, which keeps us from trying to write an
587 error page before we have a filter to write to the network.
588 [Ryan Bloom, Jeff Trawick, and Greg Ames]
590 *) Cleaning up an mmap bucket no longer deletes the mmap. An
591 mmap can be used across multiple buckets (default_handler with
592 byte ranges, mod_file_cache, mod_mmap_static), so cleanup of
593 the mmap itself can't be associated with the bucket.
596 *) Add .dll caching directive ISAPICacheFile to mod_isapi.
599 *) Radical surgery to improve mod_isapi support under Win32.
600 Includes a number of newer ServerSupportFunction calls, support
601 for ReadClient (in order to retrieve POSTs greater than 48KB),
602 and general bug fixes to more reliably load ISAPI .dll's and
603 prevent leaking handle resources. Note: There are still
604 discrepancies between IIS's and Apache's ServerVariables, and
605 async calls are still not supported. Additional warnings are
606 logged to facilitate debugging of unsupported ISAPI calls.
609 *) Add input filtering to Apache. The basic idea for the input
610 filters is the same as the ideas for output filters. The biggest
611 difference is that instead of calling ap_pass_brigade, ap_get_brigade
612 should be called, and the order of execution for the filter itself is
613 different. When writing an output filter, a brigade is passed in,
614 and filters operate directly on that brigade, when done, they call
615 ap_pass_brigade. Input filters are the exact opposite. Because input
616 is not a push operation, filters first call ap_get_brigade. When this
617 function returns, the input filter will be left with a valid brigade.
618 The input filter should then operate on the brigade, and return.
621 *) Fix building on BSD/OS using its native make. The build system
622 falls back to the BSD .include directive on that host platform.
625 *) Expand dbmmanage to allow -d -m -s -p options for Crypt, MD5,
626 SHA1 and plaintext password encodings. Make feature tests a
627 bit more flexible. [William Rowe]
629 *) Charset translation: mod_charset_lite handles output content
630 translation in a filter. mod_charset_lite no longer ignores
631 subrequests. A bunch of cruft related to BUFF's support for
632 translating request and response bodies was removed.
635 *) Move the addition of the CORE filter to the post_read_request
636 hook in http_core.c. This removes the need to add the filter in
637 multiple places and allows for an SSL module to be added much
638 simpler. [Ryan Bloom]
640 *) Fix a security problem that affects certain configurations of
641 mod_rewrite. If the result of a RewriteRule is a filename that
642 contains expansion specifiers, especially regexp backreferences
643 $0..$9 and %0..%9, then it may be possible for an attacker to
644 access any file on the web server. [Tony Finch]
646 *) Fix a bug where errors that are detected during early request parsing
647 don't produce visible HTTP error messages at the browser, because
648 the core_filter wasn't present. [Greg Ames]
650 *) Provide apr_socklen_t as a portability aid.
651 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
653 *) Overhaul of dbmmanage to allow a groups arg (as in Apache 1.2)
654 as well as a comment arg to the add, adduser and update cmds.
655 update allows the user to clear or preserve pw/groups/comment.
656 Fixed a bug in dbmmanage that prevented the check option from
657 parsing a password followed by :group... text. Corrected the
658 seed calcualation for Win32 systems, and added -lsdbm support.
661 *) Configured mod_auth_dbm to compile with sdbmlib under Win32.
664 *) Avoid a segfault when parsing .htaccess files. An
665 uninitialized tree pointer was passed to ap_build_config().
668 *) Change the way that inet_addr & inet_network are checked for
669 in APR's configure process to allow BeOS BONE to correctly
670 find them. With this change BeOS BONE now builds from source
671 with no problems. [David Reid]
673 *) Fix a bug in apr_create_process() for Unix. The NULL signifying
674 the end of the parameters to execve() was stored in the wrong
675 location, overlaying the storage beyond the newargs[] array and
676 also passing uninitialized storage to execve(), which would
677 sometimes fail with EFAULT. [Jeff Trawick]
679 *) Fix a bug parsing configuration file containers. With a sequence
680 like this in the config file
682 <IfModule mod_kilroy.c>
685 <IfModule mod_lovejoy.c>
690 the second container would be terminated at the blank line due to
691 sediment in the buffer from reading the prior </IfModule> and an
692 error message would be generated for the real </IfModule> for the
693 second container. Also due to this problem, any two characters
694 could be used for "</" in the close of a container.
697 *) ap_add_filter prototype changed to remove the ctx pointer. The
698 pointer still remains in the filter structure, but it can not be
699 a part of the ap_add_filter prototype. The reason is that when
700 the core uses AddFilter to add a filter to the stack it doesn't
701 know how to allocate the ctx pointer, or even how much memory should
702 be allocated. The filters will have to be responsible for allocating
703 the ctx memory when they need it.
706 *) Add an AddFilter directive. This directive takes a list of filters
707 that should be activated for the requested resource.
710 *) apr_snprintf(): Get quad format strings working on OS/390 (and perhaps
711 some other platforms). [Jeff Trawick]
713 *) Modify mod_include to be a filter. Currently, it has only been tested
714 on actual files, but it should work for CGI scripts too.
717 *) apr_putc(), apr_puts() for Unix: handle buffered files and interrupted
718 writes. apr_flush() for Unix: handle interrupted writes.
721 *) NameVirtualHost can now take "*" as an argument instead of
722 an IP address. This allows you to create a purely name-based
723 virtual hosting server that does not have any IP addresses in
724 the configuration file and which ignores the local address
725 of any connections. PR #5595, PR #4455 [Tony Finch]
727 *) Fix some compile warnings in mod_mmap_static.c
728 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
730 *) Fix chunking problem with CGI scripts. The general problem was that
731 the CGI modules were adding an EOS bucket and then the core added an
732 EOS bucket. The chunking filter finalizes the chunked response when it
733 encounters an EOS bucket. Because two EOS buckets were sent, we
734 finalized the response twice. The fix is to make sure we only send one
735 EOS, by utilizing a flag in the request_rec.
738 *) apr_put_os_file() now sets up the unget byte appropriately on Unix
739 and Win32. Previously, the first read from an apr_file_t set up via
740 apr_put_os_file() would return a '\0'. [Jeff Trawick]
742 *) Mod_cgid now creates a single element bucket brigade, with a pipe
743 bucket, instead of using BUFF's and ap_r*.
746 *) APRVARS.in no longer overwrites the EXTRA_LIBS variable.
747 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
749 *) Remove ap_bopenf from buff code. This required modifying the file_cache
750 code to use APR file's directly instead of going through BUFFs.
753 *) Fix compile break on some platforms for mod_mime_magic.c
754 [John K. Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
756 *) Fix merging of AddDefaultCharset directive.
757 PR #5872 (1.3) [Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp>]
759 *) Minor revamp of the rlimit sections of code. We now test
760 explicitly for setrlimit and getrlimit. Also, unixd_set_rlimit()
761 is now "available" even if the platform doesn't support
762 the rlimit family (it's just a noop though). [Jim Jagielski]
764 *) Migrate the pre-selection of which MPM to use for specific
765 platforms to hints.m4, which contains (or should contain)
766 all platform specific "hints". [Jim Jagielski]
768 *) Remove IOLs from Apache. With filtering, IOLs are no longer necessary
771 *) Add tables with non-string/binary values to APR.
774 *) Fix some bad calls to ap_log_rerror() in mod_rewrite.
777 *) Update PCRE to version 3.2. [Ryan Bloom]
779 *) Change the way buckets' destroy functions are called so that
780 they can be more directly used when changing the type of a
781 bucket in place. [Tony Finch]
783 *) Add generic support for reference-counting the resources used by
784 buckets, and alter the HEAP and MMAP buckets to use it. Change
785 the way buckets are initialised to support changing the type of
786 buckets in place, and use it when setting aside TRANSIENT buckets.
787 Change the implementation of TRANSIENT buckets so that it can be
788 mostly shared with IMMORTAL buckets, which are now implemented.
791 Changes with Apache 2.0a6
793 *) Add support to Apache and APR for dsos on OS/390. [Greg Ames]
795 *) Add a chunking filter to Apache. This brings us one step closer
796 to removing BUFF. [Ryan Bloom]
798 *) ap_add_filter now adds filters in a LIFO fashion. The first filter
799 added to the stack is the last filter to be called. [Ryan Bloom]
801 *) Apache 2.0 has been completely documented using Scandoc. The
802 docs can be generated by running 'make docs'. [Ryan Bloom]
804 *) Add filtered I/O to Apache. This is based on bucket brigades,
805 Currently the buckets still use BUFF under the covers, but that
806 should change quickly. The only currently written filter is the
807 core filter which just calls ap_bwrite. [The Apache Group]
809 *) APR locks on Unix: Let APR_LOCKALL locks work when APR isn't
810 built with thread support. [Jeff Trawick]
812 *) Abort configuration if --with-layout was specified and there's
813 no layout definition file. [Ken Coar]
815 *) Add support for '--with-port=n' option to configure. [Ken Coar]
817 *) Add support for extension methods for the Allow response header
818 field, and an API routine for accessing r->allowed and the
819 list of extension methods in a unified manner. [Ken Coar]
821 *) mod_cern_meta: fix broken file reading loop in scan_meta_file().
822 [Rob Simonson <simo@us.ibm.com>]
824 *) Get xlate builds working again. The apr renaming in 2.0a5 broke
825 APACHE_XLATE builds. [Jeff Trawick]
827 *) A configuration file parsing problem was fixed. When the
828 configuration file started with an IfModule/IfDefine container,
829 only the last statement in the container would be retained.
832 Changes with Apache 2.0a5
834 *) Perchild is serving pages after passing them to different child
835 processes. There are still a lot of bugs, but this does work. I
836 have made requests against the same installation of Apache, and had
837 different servers use different user IDs to serve the responses.
838 This change moves to using socketpair instead of an AF_UNIX socket.
841 *) Perchild MPM still doesn't work perfectly, but it is serving pages.
842 It can't seem to pass between child processes yet, but I think we
843 are closer now than before. This moves us back to using Unix
844 Domain Sockets. [Ryan Bloom]
846 *) libapr functions and types renamed with apr_ prefix.
847 #include "apr_compat.h" for 1.3.x backwards compat
850 *) Fix problems with APR sockaddr handling on Win32. It didn't always
851 return the right information on the local socket address.
852 [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
854 *) ap_recv() on Win32: Set bytes-read to 0 on error.
855 [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
857 *) Add an option to not detach from the controlling terminal without
858 going into single process mode. This allows for much easier
859 debugging of the process startup code. [Ryan Bloom]
861 *) ab: don't use perror() to report the failure of an APR function.
864 *) Make dexter, mpmt_pthread, and perchild MPMs not destroy the
865 scoreboard on graceful restarts.
868 *) Fix segfault/SIGSEGV when running gzip from mod_mime_magic.c.
869 An invalid ap_proc_t was passed to ap_create_process().
872 *) Allow modules to register filters. Those filters are still
873 never called, but this is a step in the right direction.
874 [Ryan Bloom and Greg Stein]
876 *) Register the mod_cgid daemon process for cleanup so that it is
877 killed at termination if it does not die when the parent gets
878 SIGTERM. This change is to fix occasional problems where the
879 process stays around. Bugs in similar logic in mod_rewrite and
880 mod_include were also fixed. [Jeff Trawick]
882 *) Fix a bug in the time handling. Basically, we were imploding a time
883 in ap_parseHTTPdate, but it had bogus data in the exploded time format.
884 Namely, tm_usec and tm_gmtoff were not filled out. ap_implode_time
885 uses those two fields to adjust the time value. Because of the HTTP
886 spec, both of those values can be zero'ed out safely. This fixes
887 the bug correctly. [Ryan Bloom]
889 *) Fix a couple of place in the Windows code where the wrong error
890 code was being returned. [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
892 *) Fix POOL_DEBUG (at least for prefork mpm). [Dean Gaudet]
894 *) Added the APR_EOL_STR macro for platform dependent differences in
895 logfiles and other raw text (such as all APR files). Fixes logfiles
896 not terminated with cr/lf sequences in Win32. [William Rowe]
898 *) Move all strings functions in APR to src/lib/apr/strings and create
899 apr_strings.h for the prototypes. [Ryan Bloom]
901 *) APR lock fixes: when using SysV sems, flock(), or fcntl(), be sure
902 to repeat the syscall until we stop getting EINTR. I noticed a
903 related problem at termination (SIGTERM) on FreeBSD when using
904 fcntl(). Apache 1.3 had these new loops too. Also, make the flock()
905 implementation work properly with child init. Previously, ap_lock()
906 was essentially a no-op because all children were using different
907 locks and thus nobody ever blocked. [Jeff Trawick]
909 *) The htdocs/ tree has been moved out of the CVS source tree into
910 a separate area for easier development. This has NO EFFECT on
911 end-users or Apache installations. [Ken Coar]
913 *) Integrate the mod_dav module for WebDAV protocol handling. This
914 adds the dav and dav_fs modules, the SDBM library, and additional
915 XML handling utilities. [Greg Stein]
917 *) Clean out obsolete names (from httpd.h) for the HTTP Status Codes
920 *) Update the lib/expat-lite/ library (bring forward changes from
921 the Apache 1.3 repository). [Greg Stein]
923 *) If sizeof(long long) == sizeof(long), then prefer long in APR
924 configure.in. [Dave Hill <ddhill@zk3.dec.com>]
926 *) Add ap_sendfile for Tru64 Unix. Also, add an error message for
927 machines where sendfile is detected, but nobody has written ap_sendfile.
928 [Dave Hill <ddhill@zk3.dec.com>]
930 *) Compile fixes in mod_mmap_static. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
932 *) ab would start up more connections than needed, then quit when the
933 desired number were finished. Also fixed a logic error involving
934 ab keepalives. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
936 *) WinNT: Implement non-blocking pipes with timeouts to communicate
937 with CGIs. Apache 2.0a4 had non-blocking pipes but without
938 timeouts (i.e, if a timeout was specified, the pipe reverted to
939 a full blocking pipe). Now the behaviour is more in line with
940 Unix non-blocking pipes.
943 *) WinNT: Implement accept socket reuse. Using mod_file_cache to
944 cache open file handles along with accept socket reuse enables
945 Apache 2.0 to serve non-keepalive requests for static files at
946 3x the rate of Apache 1.3.(e.g, Apache 1.3 will serve 400 rps
947 and Apache 2.0 will serve almost 1200 rps on my system).
950 *) Merge mod_mmap_static function into mod_file_cache. mod_file_cache
951 supports two config directives, mmapfile (same behavious as
952 mod_mmap_static) and cachefile. Use the cachefile directive
953 to cache open file handles. This directive only works on systems
954 that have implemented the ap_sendfile API. cachefile works today
955 on Windows NT, but has not been tested on any flavors of Unix.
958 *) Cleanup the configuration. With the last few changes the
959 configuration process automatically:
960 inherits information about how to build from APR. Allowing
961 APR to inform Apache that it should or should not use -ldl
963 Detects which mod_cgi should be used mod_cgi or mod_cgid,
964 based on the threading model
966 Apache calls APR's configure process before finishing it's
967 configuration processing, allowing for more information flow
972 *) Change Unix and Win32 ap_setsockopt() so that APR_SO_NONBLOCK
973 with non-zero argument makes the socket non-blocking. BeOS and
974 OS/2 already worked this way. [Jeff Trawick]
976 *) ap_close() now calls ap_flush() for buffered files, so write
977 operations work a whole lot better on buffered files.
980 *) Fix error messages issued from MPMs which explain where to change
981 compiled-in limits (e.g., ThreadsPerChild, MaxClients, StartTreads).
984 *) ap_create_pipe() now leaves pipes in blocking state. (This helps
985 reduce the number of syscalls on Unix.) ap_set_pipe_timeout() is
986 now the way that the blocking state of a pipe is manipulated.
987 ap_block_pipe() is gone. [Jeff Trawick]
989 *) Correct the problem where the only local host name that the IP stack
990 can discover are 'undotted' private names. If no fully qualified
991 domain name can be identified, the default ServerName will be set to
992 the machine's IP address string. A warning is always provided if the
993 ServerName not specified, but assumed. Solves PR6215 [William Rowe]
995 *) Repair problems with config file processing which caused segfault
996 at init when virtual hosts were defined and which caused ServerName to
997 be ignored when there was no valid DNS setup. [Jeff Trawick]
999 *) Removed pointless ap_is_aborted macro function. [Roy Fielding]
1001 *) Add ap_sendfile implementation for AIX
1002 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
1004 *) Repair C++ compatibility in ap_config.h, apr_file_io.h,
1005 apr_network_io.h, and apr_thread_proc.h.
1006 [Tyler J. Brooks <tylerjbrooks@home.com>, Jeff Trawick]
1008 *) Bring the allocation and pool debugging code back into a working
1009 state. This will need to be tested as so far it's only been used on
1012 *) Change configuration command setup to be properly typesafe when in
1013 maintainer mode. Note that this requires a compiler that can initialise
1014 unions. [Ben Laurie]
1016 *) Turn on buffering for config file reads. Part of this was to
1017 repair buffered I/O support in Unix and implement buffered
1018 ap_fgets() for all platforms. [Brian Havard, Jeff Trawick]
1020 *) Win32: Fix problem where UTC offset was not being set correctly
1021 in the access log. Problem reported on news group by Jerry Baker.
1024 *) Fix segfault when reporting this type of syntax error:
1025 "</container> without matching <container> section", where
1026 container is VirtualHost or Directory or whatever.
1029 *) Prevent the source code for CGIs from being revealed when using
1030 mod_vhost_alias and the CGI directory is under the document root
1031 and a user makes a request like http://www.example.com//cgi-bin/cgi
1032 as reported in <news:960999105.344321@ernani.logica.co.uk>
1035 *) Add support for the new Beos NetwOrking Environment (BONE)
1038 *) xlate: ap_xlate_conv_buffer() now tells the caller when the
1039 final input char is incomplete; ap_bwrite_xlate() now handles
1040 incomplete final input chars. [Jeff Trawick]
1042 *) Yet another update to saferead/halfduplex stuff -- need to ensure
1043 that a bhalfduplex call occurs before logging or else DNS and
1044 such can delay the last packet of the response. [Dean Gaudet]
1046 *) Some syscall reduction in APR on unix -- don't seek when setting
1047 up an mmap; and don't fcntl() more than once per socket.
1050 *) When mod_cgid is started as root, the cgi daemon now switches
1051 to the configured User/Group (like other httpd processes)
1052 instead of continuing as root. [Jeff Trawick]
1054 *) The prefork MPM now uses an APR lock for the accept() mutex.
1055 It has not been getting a lock at all recently. httpd -V now
1056 displays APR's selection of the lock mechanism instead of the
1057 symbols previously respected by prefork. [Jeff Trawick]
1059 *) Change the mmap() feature test to check only for existence.
1060 The previous check required features not used by Apache.
1063 *) Fix a couple of bugs in mod_cgid: The cgi arguments were
1064 sometimes mangled. The len parm to accept() was not
1065 initialized, leading sometimes to an endless loop of failed
1066 accept() calls on OS/390 and anywhere else that failed the call
1067 if the len was negative. Use <sys/un.h> for struct sockaddr_un
1068 instead of declaring it ourselves to fix a compilation problem
1069 on Solaris. [Jeff Trawick]
1071 *) Add Resource limiting code back into Apache 2.0. [Ryan Bloom]
1073 *) Fix zombie process problem with mod_cgi. [Jeff Trawick]
1075 *) Port mod_mmap_static to 2.0. Make it go faster. [Greg Ames]
1077 *) Fix storage overlay when loading dsos. Symptom: Apache dies at
1078 initialization if ALLOC_DEBUG is defined; no known symptom
1079 otherwise. [Jeff Trawick]
1081 *) Fix typo in configure script when checking for mod_so. bash
1082 doesn't seem to have a problem but /bin/sh on Solaris does.
1083 Symptom: "./configure: test: unknown operator =="
1086 *) Rebind the Win32 NT and 9x services control into the MPM.
1087 All console, WinNT SCM and Win9x pseudo-service control code is
1088 now wrapped within the WinNT MPM.
1091 *) Make a copy of getenv("PATH") before storing for later use. Some
1092 getenv() implementations use the same storage for successive calls.
1093 CGIs on OS/390 had a bad PATH due to this. [Jeff Trawick]
1095 *) Server Tokens work in 2.0 again. This also propogates the change
1096 to allow just the product name in the server string using
1100 Changes with Apache 2.0a4
1102 *) EBCDIC: Rearrange calls to ap_checkconv() so that most handlers
1103 won't need to call it. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
1105 *) Move pre_config hook call to between configuration read and config
1106 tree walk. This allows all modules to implement pre_config hooks
1107 and know that they will be called at an appropriate time.
1110 *) mod_cgi, mod_cgid: Make ScriptLog directive work again.
1113 *) Add pre-config hooks back to all modules.
1116 *) Fix a SIGSEGV in ap_md5digest(), which is used when you have
1117 ContentDigest enabled and we can't/don't mmap the file.
1120 *) We now report the correct line number for syntax errors in config
1121 files. [Ryan Bloom, Greg Stein, Jeff Trawick]
1123 *) Brought mod_auth_digest up to synch with 1.3, fixed ap_time_t-
1124 related bugs, and changed shmem/locking to use apr API. Shared-mem
1125 is currently disabled, however, because of problems with graceful
1126 restarts. [Ronald Tschalär]
1128 *) Fix corruption of IFS variable in --with-module= handling.
1129 Depending on the user's shell or customization thereof, there
1130 would be errors generating ap_config_auto.h later in the configure
1131 procedure. [Jeff Trawick]
1133 *) mod_cgi: Restore logging of stderr from child process when ScriptLog
1134 isn't used (as in 1.3), except that on Unix it is now logged via
1135 ap_log_rerror() instead of by the child having STDERR_FILENO refer
1136 to the error log. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
1138 *) Add '-D' argument processing for run time configuration defines.
1141 *) Organize http_main.c as independent code, such that no code or
1142 global data is exported from it. WIN32 will dynamically link it
1143 to the server core, so this will prevent mutual dependency.
1146 *) Add separate dynamic linkage tags APR_EXPORT(), APR_EXPORT_NONSTD()
1147 and APR_VAR_EXPORT to correctly resolve apr functions and globals.
1150 *) Add Win9x service execution and Ctrl+C/Ctrl+Break/Shutdown handlers.
1151 [William Rowe, Jan Just Keijser <KEIJSERJJ@logica.com>]
1153 *) Add mod_charset_lite for configuring character set translation.
1156 *) Add '-n' option to htpasswd to make it print its user:pw record
1157 on stdout rather than having to frob a text file. [Ken Coar]
1159 *) Fix saferead. Basically, we flush the output buffer if a read on the
1163 *) APR: Add ap_xlate_get_sb() so that an app can find out whether or not
1164 a conversion is single-byte only. [Jeff Trawick]
1166 *) BEOS: ap_shutdown should return APR_SUCCESS or errno. Note that
1167 the BeOS 5.0 documentation says that shutdown doesn't work yet.
1170 *) Fix some minor errors where pid was being manipulated as an int
1171 instead of the portable pid_t. [Roy Fielding]
1173 *) Fix some error log prints that were printing the pointer to a
1174 structure rather than the pid within the structure.
1175 [Jeff Trawick, Roy Fielding]
1177 *) ab: Fix a command-line processing bug; track bad headers in
1178 err_response; support reading headers up to 2K.
1179 [Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask@valueclick.com>]
1181 *) Fix ap_resolve_env() so that it handles new function added in a prior
1182 alpha (see "Added the capability to do ${ENVVAR} constructs in the
1183 config file.") as well as the constructs used by mod_rewrite.
1184 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1186 *) Apache 2.0 builds and runs on OS/390. [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
1188 *) Change the EBCDIC support in functions for MD5, SHA1, and base 64 to use
1189 APR to perform translation, instead of accessing the hard-coded tables
1190 in 1.3's ebcdic.c. [Jeff Trawick]
1192 *) Fix some bugs (mostly lost 1.3 code) in ab's command-line processing.
1195 *) Add the ability to hook into the config file reading phase. Basically
1196 if a directive is specified EXEC_ON_READ, then when that directive is
1197 read from the config file, the assocaited function is executed. This
1198 should only be used for those directives that must muck with HOW the
1199 server INTERPRETS the config. This should not be used for directives
1200 that re-order or replace items in the config tree. Those changes should
1201 be made in the pre-config step.
1204 *) Add mod_example to the build system.
1207 *) APR: Add ap_xlate_conv_byte() to convert one char between single-
1208 byte character sets. [Jeff Trawick]
1210 *) Pick up various EBCDIC fixes from 1.3 (from Martin
1211 Kraemer and Oliver Reh originally according to the change log).
1214 *) Fix a couple of problems in RFC1413 support (controlled by the
1215 IdentityCheck directive). Apache did not build the request string
1216 properly and more importantly Apache would loop forever if the
1217 would-be ident server dropped the connection before sending a
1218 properly terminated response. [Jeff Trawick]
1220 *) apxs works in 2.0.
1223 *) Reliable piped logs work in 2.0.
1226 *) Introduce a hash table implementation into APR to be used for
1227 replacing tables and other random data structures in Apache.
1230 *) Add some more error reporting to htpasswd in the case of problems
1231 generating or accessing the temporary file. Also, pass in a
1232 buffer if the implementation knows how to use it (i.e., if L_tmpnam
1233 is defined). [Ken Coar]
1235 *) Configure creates config.nice now containing your configure
1236 options. Syntax: ./config.nice [--more-options]
1239 *) Fix various return code problems in APR on Win32. For most of
1240 these, APR was returning APR_EEXIST instead of GetLastError()/
1241 WSAGetLastError(). [Jeff Trawick]
1243 *) Make piped logs work again in version 2.0
1246 *) Add VPATH support to UNIX build system of Apache and APR.
1249 *) Fix ap_tokenize_to_argv to respect the const arguments that are
1253 *) Fix mm's memcpy/memset macros, pointer arithmetic was broken.
1254 Patch submitted to author.
1257 *) Fix mm configuration on Solaris 8 x86 and OS/390. Don't require
1258 /sbin in PATH on FreeBSD (all submitted to rse previously)
1261 *) Fix building Pthread-based MPMs on OpenBSD
1262 [Sascha Schumann] PR#26
1264 *) Fix ap_readdir() problem on systems where d_name[] field in
1265 struct dirent is declared with only one byte. (This problem only
1266 affected multithreaded builds.) This caused a segfault during
1267 pool cleanup with mod_autoindex on Solaris (Solaris 8 x86, at
1268 least). [Jeff Trawick]
1270 *) Fix some make-portability problems on at least Tru64, Irix
1272 [Sascha Schumann] PR#18, PR#39
1274 *) Add ap_sigwait() to support old-style sigwait() on systems
1275 like OS/390 and UnixWare.
1278 *) Add POSIX-thread flags for more platforms.
1281 *) Fix some minor bugs in ap_strerror(). Teach ap_strerror()
1282 (on Unix, at least) to handle resolver errors. Fix a bug in
1283 the definition of APR_ENOMEM so that ap_strerror() can spit
1284 out the correct error message for it.
1287 Changes with Apache 2.0a3
1289 *) mod_so reports ap_os_dso_error() if ap_dso_load() fails
1292 *) API: *HOOK* macros now have an AP_ prefix
1295 *) Win32: Eliminate redundant calls to initialize winsock.
1296 [Tim Costello <timcostello@ozemail.com.au>]
1298 *) Fix bugs initializing ungetchar for pipes.
1299 [Chia-liang Kao <clkao@CirX.ORG>]
1301 *) The ab program in the src/support directory is now portable using
1305 *) Support directory is being compiled when the server is built
1308 *) The configure option --with-program-name has been added to allow
1309 developers to rename the executable at configure time. This also
1310 changes the name of the config files to match the executable's name.
1313 *) mod_autoindex: Add `IndexOptions +VersionSort', to nicely sort filenames
1314 containing version numbers. [Martin Pool]
1316 *) ap_open(..,APR_OS_DEFAULT,..) uses perms 0666 instead of 0777 on
1317 Unix; access_log and error_log now created with these perms; non-
1318 Unix is unaffected [Jeff Trawick]
1320 *) Finished move of ap_md5 routines to apr_md5. Removed ap_md5.h.
1321 Replaced more magic numbers with MD5_DIGESTSIZE.
1322 [William Rowe, Roy Fielding]
1324 *) Win32: Get mod_auth_digest compiling and added to the Windows
1325 build environment. Not tested and I'd be suprised if it
1326 actually works. [Bill Stoddard]
1328 *) Revamp the Win32 make environment. Makefiles have been removed and
1329 Apache.dsw created to bring together all the pieces. Create new file
1330 os/win32/BaseAddr.ref to define module base addresses (to prevent
1331 dll relocation at start-up).
1332 [William Rowe, Greg Marr, Tim Costello, Bill Stoddard]
1334 *) [EBCDIC] Port Paul Gilmartin's CRLF patch from 1.3. This replaces most
1335 of the \015, \012, and \015\012 constants with macros.
1336 [Greg Ames <gregames@us.ibm.com>]
1338 *) Add ap_xlate_open() et al for translation of text between different
1339 character sets. The initial implementation requires iconv().
1342 *) More FAQs and answers from comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix.
1343 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>]
1345 *) CGI output is being timed out now.
1348 *) Fix the problem with dieing quietly. dupfile now takes a pool which
1349 is used by the new apr file. There is no reason to create a new file
1350 with the same lifetime as the original file.
1353 *) Win32: Attempt to eliminate dll relocation at start-up by specifying
1354 module base addresses. This will help shooting seg faults
1355 in the field. [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
1357 *) Update Apache on Windows documentation. Add new document
1358 describing how to compile Apache on Windows.
1359 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
1361 *) ap_set_pipe_timeout(), ap_poll(), and APR_SO_TIMEOUT now take
1362 microseconds instead of seconds. Some storage leaks and other
1363 minor bugs in related code were fixed. [Jeff Trawick]
1365 *) Win32: First cut at getting mod_isapi working under 2.0
1366 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
1368 *) First stab at getting mod_auth_digest working under 2.0
1369 quick change summary:
1370 - moved the random byte generation (ap_generate_random_bytes) into APR
1371 - now uses ap_time_t
1372 - compiles and runs on linux
1374 [Brian Martin <bmartin@penguincomputing.com>]
1376 *) Win32: Move the space stripping of physical service names
1377 fix up from Apache 1.3. #include'ing "ap_mpm.h" fixes up an
1378 unresolved symbol. Add dependency checking to the
1379 CreateService call to ensure TCPIP and AFP (winsock) is started
1381 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
1383 *) Win32: Add code to perform latebinding on functions that may
1384 not exist on all levels of Windows where Apache runs. This
1385 is needed to allow Apache to start-up on Win95/98. All calls
1386 to non portable functions should be protected with
1387 ap_oslevel checks to prevent runtime segfaults.
1388 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
1390 *) Fix fallback default values for SHM_R and SHM_W [Martin Kraemer]
1392 *) Get lingering_close() working again. [Dean Gaudet, Jeff Trawick]
1394 *) Win32: Get non-blocking CGI pipe reads working under Windows NT.
1395 This addresses PR 1623. Still need to address timing out runaway
1396 CGI scripts. [Bill Stoddard]
1398 *) Win32: Make ap_stat Windows 95/98 friendly
1399 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
1401 *) Win32: Fix a bug in ap_get_oslevel which causes GetVersionEx() to
1402 always fail. Need to initialise the dwOSVersionInfoSize member of the
1403 OSVERSIONINFO struct before calling GetVersionEx, so GetVersionEx
1406 The patch also enhances ap_get_oslevel (and the associated enum) to
1407 handle selected service packs for NT4, and adds recognition for
1408 Windows 2000. This is useful, eg. if we can recognise NT4 SP2 then
1409 we can use ReadFileScatter and WriteFileGather in readwrite.c.
1410 [Tim Costello <Tim.Costello@BTFinancialgroup.com>]
1412 *) Get mod_rewrite building and running, and mod_status building for Win NT
1413 [Allan Edwards <ake@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1415 *) Patch to port mod_auth_db to the 2.0 api and also to support
1416 Berlekey DB 3.0. It works for me with both Berkeley DB 3.0.55 and
1417 2.7.7. It should work with version 1 as well but I haven't tested it.
1418 [Brian Martin <bmartin@penguincomputing.com>]
1420 *) Get APR DSO code working under Windows. Includes cross platform
1422 [Tim.Costello@BTFinancialgroup.com]
1424 *) Fix some of the Windows APR time functions.
1427 *) FAQ changes related to tidying up historical documents on the web site.
1428 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>]
1430 *) Move Windows DSO code into APR.
1433 *) Eliminate apr_win.h and apr_winconfig.h (and the ugly #ifdefs they cause).
1434 Now, apr.h and apr_config.h are generated from apr.hw and apr_config.hw
1435 at build time. At this point, the server will not compile on Windows because
1436 of the recent DSO commits. Fixing those next.
1437 [Bill Rowe & Bill Stoddard]
1439 *) Added error checking for file I/O APR routines.
1440 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
1442 *) APR: Don't use the values of resolver error codes for the
1443 corresponding APR error codes. On Unix and Win32, return the
1444 proper APR error code after a resolver error. [Jeff Trawick]
1446 Changes with Apache 2.0a2
1448 *) Renamed the executable back to httpd on all platforms other
1452 *) Allow BeOS to survive restarts, log properly and a few
1453 small things it had problems with due to the way it setup
1454 users and groups. [David Reid]
1456 *) Get mod_rewrite working with APR locks
1457 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1459 *) Actually remove the sempahore when the lock cleanup routine
1460 is called on BeOS. [David Reid]
1462 *) Clear hook registrations between reads of the config file.
1463 When DSOs are unloaded and re-loaded the old hook pointers may
1464 no longer be valid. This fix eliminates potential segfaults.
1465 [Allan Edwards <ake@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1467 *) Fix a problem with Sigfunc not being defined or bypassed
1468 if sigaction() wasn't found. [Jim Jagielski]
1470 *) Fix the locking mechanism on BSD variants. They now use fcntl
1471 locks. This allows the server to start and serve pages.
1474 *) First cut at getting the Win32 installer to work
1475 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
1477 *) Get htpasswd compiling under Windows
1478 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
1480 *) Change the log message for a bind() failure to show the
1481 interface and port number. [Jeff Trawick]
1483 *) Import the documentation from 1.3.12 and bring parts of it
1484 up-to-date with respect to the changes that have occurred
1488 *) BeOS MPM updated. CGI bug on BeOS fixed. IP addresses
1489 now logged correctly on BeOS.
1492 *) Create one makefile for all Win32 distributions (NT/2000/95/98).
1493 Makefile.win includes the same user interface as the old
1495 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>, Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
1497 *) Win32 exec now uses COMSPEC environment string for command
1498 shell path resolution.
1499 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>] PR#3715
1501 *) Win32: ap_connect() was not returning correct error condition
1503 [Allen Prescott <allen@clanprescott.com>]
1505 *) Win32: ap_open() was broken on Win9x because an NT-specific
1506 flag was passed to CreateFile. ap_puts() added an unnecessary
1508 [Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
1510 *) Put in Korean and Norwegian index.html pages (2.0 and 1.3)
1511 which where donated by Lee Kuk Hyun and Lorant Czaran. 'Fixed'
1512 confusing ee/et name and made all extensions language/dialect
1513 rather than country reflecting. Changed example files to
1514 explicit reflect the ISO charset and added a few common
1515 ones to the example config [dirkx]
1517 *) Extend external module capability. To use this, you call
1518 configure with --with-module=path/to/mod1,path/to/mod2,etc.
1521 *) Backported the various "default charset" fixes from 1.3.12,
1522 including the AddDefaultCharset directive. [Jim Jagielski]
1524 *) Added the capability to do ${ENVVAR} constructs in the
1525 config file. E.g. 'ServerAdmin ${POSTMASTER}'. As commited
1526 it does this on a line by line basis; i.e. if the envvar
1527 expands to something with spaces you have to protect it
1528 by adding quotes around it (Unless of course you expect it
1529 to contains more than one argument. Alternatively you
1530 can compile it on a per token basis; which is what people
1531 usually expect by setting RESOLVE_ENV_PER_TOKEN. But this
1532 hampers fancier hacks.
1533 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
1535 *) Changed the 'ErrorDocument' syntax in that it NO longer
1536 supports the asymetric
1538 ErrorDocument 301 "Some message
1540 Note the opening " quote, without a closing quote. It now
1541 has either the following syntaxes
1543 ErrorDocument XXX /local/uri
1544 ErrorDocument XXX http://valid/url
1545 ErrorDocument XXX "Some Message"
1547 The recognition heuristic is: if it has a space it
1548 is a message. If it has no spaces and starts with a /
1549 or is a valid URL then treat it that way. Otherwise it
1550 is assumed to be a message.
1552 This breaks backward compatibility but makes live a hell
1553 of a lot easier for GUI's and config file parsers.
1554 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
1556 *) Changed 'CacheNegotiatedDocs' from its present/not-present
1557 syntax into a 'on' or 'off' syntax. As it currently is the
1558 only non nesting token which uses NO_ARGS and thus is an
1559 absolute pain for any config interface automation. This
1560 breaks backward compatibility. [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
1562 *) Add ability to add external modules to the build process. This is
1563 done with --with-module=/path/to/module. Modules can only be added
1564 as static modules at this point.
1567 Changes with Apache 2.0a1
1569 *) Fix FreeBSD 3.3 core dump.
1570 Basically, ap_initialize() needs to get called before
1571 create_process(), since create_process() passes op_on structure
1572 to semop() to get a lock, but op_on isn't initialized until
1573 ap_initialize() calls setup_lock(). Here is a slight
1574 rearrangement to main() which calls ap_initialize() earlier...
1575 [Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
1577 *) Enable Apache to use sendfile/TransmitFile API
1578 [Bill Stoddard, David Reid, Paul Reder]
1580 *) Re-Implement Win32 APR network I/O APIs and most of the file I/O
1584 *) Make file I/O and network I/O writev/sendv APIs consistent.
1585 Eliminate use of ap_iovec_t and use Posix struct iovec.
1586 Use seperate variable on ap_writev to set the number of iovecs
1587 passed in and number of bytes written.
1590 *) Adapt file iol to use APR functions. Replaced ap_open_file()
1591 with ap_create_file_iol(). ap_create_file_iol() requires that
1592 the file be opened prior to the call using ap_open().
1595 *) Port mod_include and mod_cgi to 2.0
1596 [Paul Reder, Bill Stoddard]
1598 *) ap_send{,v}, ap_recv, ap_sendfile API clarification --
1599 bytes_read/bytes_written is always valid (never -1). Plus
1600 some fixes to buff.c to correct problems introduced by the
1601 errno => ap_status_t changes a while back. Plus a fix to
1602 chunked encoding introduced right at the beginning of 2.0.
1605 *) Revamped UNIX build system to use autoconf and libtool.
1606 [Manoj Kasichainula, Sascha Schumann]
1608 *) port mod_rewrite to 2.0. [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1610 *) More rigorous checking of Host: headers to fix security problems
1611 with mass name-based virtual hosting (whether using mod_rewrite
1612 or mod_vhost_alias).
1613 [Ben Hyde, Tony Finch]
1615 *) Add back support for UseCanonicalName in <Directory> containers.
1616 [Manoj Kasichainula]
1618 *) Added APLOG_STARTUP log type. This allows us to write an error
1619 message without any of the date and time information. As a part
1620 of this change, I also removed all of the calls to fprintf(stderr
1621 and replaced them with calls to ap_log_error using APLOG_STARTUP
1622 writing to stderr is no longer portable, because we don't direct
1623 stderr to the error log on all platforms.
1626 *) Convert error logging functions to take errno as an argument.
1627 This makes our error logs more portable, because some Windows API's
1628 don't set errno. This change allows us to still output a valid
1629 message on all of our platforms.
1632 *) mod_mime_magic runs in 2.0-dev now.
1633 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1635 *) sendfile has been added to APR.
1636 [John Zedlewski <zedlwski@Princeton.EDU>]
1638 *) buff.c has been converted to no longer use errno.
1639 [Manoj Kasichainula]
1641 *) mod_speling runs in 2.0-dev now: a bug in readdir_r handling and
1642 interface adaption to APR functions did it. [Martin Kraemer]
1644 *) Support DSOs properly on 32-bit HP-UX 11.0
1645 [Dilip Khandekar <dilip@cup.hp.com>]
1647 *) Updated MM in APR source tree from version 1.0.8 to 1.0.11
1648 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
1650 *) Cleaned APR build environment integration and bootstrap APR
1651 automatically for developers from src/Configure.
1652 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
1654 *) Fixed building of src/support/htpasswd.c
1655 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
1657 *) When generating the Location: header, mod_speling forgot
1658 to escape the spelling-fixed uri. (Forw-Port from 1.3)
1661 *) Moved mod_auth_digest.c from experimental to standard. [Roy Fielding]
1663 *) Change all pools to APR contexts. This is the first step to
1664 incorporating APR into Apache. [Ryan Bloom]
1666 *) Move "handler not found" warning message to below the check
1667 for a wildcard handler. [Dirk <dirkm@teleport.com>, Roy Fielding]
1668 PR#2584, PR#2751, PR#3349, PR#3436, PR#3548, PR#4384, PR#4795, PR#4807
1670 *) Support line-continuation feature in config.option file and
1671 allow the loading of multiple option sections at once via
1672 ``--with-option=<section1>,<section2>,...''
1673 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
1675 *) Rebuilt CVS repository with Apache 1.3.9 as basis. [Roy Fielding]
1677 Changes with Apache MPM
1679 *) Use asynchronous AcceptEx() and a completion port to accept and
1680 dispatch connections to threads in Windows NT/2000.
1683 *) Implement WINNT Win32 MPM from original Win32 code in http_main.c
1686 *) Implement the APACI --with-option facility
1687 (per default used the config.option file).
1688 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
1690 *) MPM BEOS port. [David Reid <abb37@dial.pipex.com>]
1692 *) Start to implement module-defined hooks that are a) fast and b) typesafe.
1693 Replace pre_connection module call with a register_hook call and
1694 implement pre_connection as a hook. The intent is that these hooks will
1695 be extended to allow Apache to be multi-protocol, and also to allow the
1696 calling order to be specified on a per-hook/per-module basis.
1699 *) Implement mpm_* methods as "modules". Each method gets its own
1700 subdir in src/modules (eg: src/modules/prefork). Selection
1701 of method uses Rule MPM_METHOD. [Jim Jagielski]
1703 *) Port the hybrid server from the apache-apr repository as
1704 mpm_mpmt_pthread. [Manoj Kasichainula]
1706 *) os/unix/unixd.[ch]: detach, setuid, setgid, stuff which will be common
1707 amongst the unix MPMs.
1709 *) mpm_prefork: throw away all the alarm/timeout crud; and clean up the
1710 signal handling for the new world order. [Dean Gaudet]
1712 *) Crude ap_thread_mutex abstraction so that we get the pthread stuff out
1713 of alloc.c for now. [Dean Gaudet]
1715 *) Handle partial large writes correctly. [Ben Laurie]
1717 *) Eliminate conn_rec's pointer to server. All it knows is the base server
1718 based on IP/port. [Ben Laurie]
1720 *) Port a bunch of modules to the new module structure.
1721 ["Michael H. Voase" <mvoase@midcoast.com.au>]
1723 *) I/O layering and BUFF revamp. See docs/buff.txt. [Dean Gaudet]
1725 *) Basic restructuring to introduce the MPM concept; includes various
1726 changes to the module API... better described by
1727 docs/initial_blurb.txt. [Dean Gaudet]
1729 Changes with Apache pthreads
1731 *) New buff option added: BO_TIMEOUT. It describes the timeout for
1732 buff operations (generally over a network).
1733 [Dean Gaudet, Ryan Bloom, Manoj Kasichainula]
1735 *) Created http_accept abstraction. Added 4 new functions (not exported):
1736 init_accept(), begin_accepting_requests(), get_request(),
1737 stop_accepting_requests() [Bill Stoddard]
1739 *) Fix to ap_rprintf call that allows mod_info to work properly.
1740 [James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>]
1742 *) user and ap_auth_type fields were moved from connection_rec to
1743 request_rec. [Ryan Bloom]
1745 *) Removed the ap_block_alarms and ap_unblock_alarm calls. These aren't
1746 needed in a threaded server.
1748 *) Initial pthread implementation from from Dean's apache-nspr code.
1749 [Bill Stoddard, Ryan Bloom]
1752 Changes with Apache 1.3.9
1754 *) Remove bogus error message when a redirect doesn't set Location.
1755 Instead, use an empty string to avoid coredump if the error message
1756 was supposed to include a location. [Roy Fielding]
1758 *) Don't allow configure to include mod_auth_digest unless it is
1759 explicitly requested, even if the user asked for all modules.
1762 *) Translate module names to dll names for OS/2 so that they are no more
1763 than 8 characters long and have an extension of "dll" instead of "so".
1766 *) Print out pointer to Rule DEV_RANDOM when truerand lib not found.
1767 Fix test-compile check to check for randbyte instead of trand32.
1768 Use ap_base64encode_binary/decode instead of copy in mod_auth_digest.c
1769 and tweak to make Amaya happier. [Ronald Tschalär]
1771 *) Ensure that the installed expat include files are world readable,
1772 just like the other header files. [Martin Kraemer]
1774 *) Fixed generated AddModule adjustments in APACI's `configure' script
1775 in order to allow (new) modules like mod_vhost_alias to be handled
1776 correctly (which was touched by the adjustments for mod_alias).
1777 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
1779 *) For binary builds, add -R flag to apachectl to work around the lack of
1780 an absolute path to the ./libexec directory where the libhttp.ep file
1781 is needed for SHARED_CORE architectures. [Randy Terbush]
1783 *) WIN32: Create the CGI script process as DETACHED. This may solve the
1784 problem observed by some Win95/98 users where they get CGI script
1785 output sent to the console. [Bill Stoddard]
1787 *) Fix (re)naming in the uuencode/decode section. The ap/ap_
1788 routines are now called ap_base64* and are 'plain' (i.e., no
1789 pool access or anything clever). Inside util.c the routines acting
1790 like pstrdup are called ap_pbase64encode() and ap_pbase64decode().
1791 The oddly named ap_uuencode(), ap_uudecode() are kept around for
1792 now but deprecated. [dirkx]
1794 *) Clean up the base64 and SHA1 additions and make sure they are
1795 represented in the ApacheCore.def, ApacheCoreOS2.def, and httpd.exp
1796 files. [Roy Fielding]
1798 *) WIN32: Migrate to InstallShield 5.5 and provide a bit more error
1799 checking. Allow compiling on VS 6.0. [Randy Terbush]
1801 *) Fixed assumption of absolute paths in binbuild.sh. [Tony Finch]
1803 *) Use TestCompile to search for the truerand library (rather than blindly
1804 assuming its existence). If it is not found, complain (but do not
1805 exit - yet). [Martin Kraemer]
1807 *) We forgot to add the new exported function names to
1808 src/support/httpd.exp. [Bill Stoddard, Randy Terbush]
1810 *) Add description of -T command-line option to usage().
1811 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
1813 *) For "some" platforms (notably, EBCDIC based ones), libos needs to be
1814 searched only AFTER libap has been searched, because libap needs
1815 some symbols from libos. [Martin Kraemer]
1817 *) Fix conflict with original mod_digest related to the symbol of the
1818 module dispatch list (which has to be unique for DSO and follow the
1819 usual conventions for the installation procedure).
1820 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
1822 *) Add a dbm-library check for the "usual places" (-ldbm, -lndbm, -ldb)
1823 for other platforms as well. [Martin Kraemer]
1825 *) Make ap_sha1.c compile for EBCDIC platforms: replace remaining LONG
1826 types by AP_LONG and replace reference to renamed variable 'ubuf'
1827 by 'buffer'. [Martin Kraemer]
1829 Changes with Apache 1.3.8 [not released]
1831 *) Flush the output buffer immediately after sending an error or redirect
1832 response, since the result may be needed by the client to abort a
1833 long data transfer or restart a series of pipelined requests.
1834 [Tom Vaughan <tvaughan@aventail.com>, Roy Fielding]
1836 *) PORT: Improved compilation and DSO support on Sequent DYNIX/ptx.
1837 [Ian Turner <iant@sequent.com>] PR#4735
1839 *) Local struct mmap in http_core.c conflicted with system structure
1840 name on DYNIX -- changed to mmap_rec. [Roy Fielding] PR#4735
1842 *) Added updated mod_digest as modules/experimental/mod_auth_digest.
1843 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>]
1845 *) Fix a memory leak where the module counts were getting messed
1846 up across restarts. [David Harris <dharris@drh.net>]
1848 *) CIDR addresses such as a.b.c.d/24 where d != 0 weren't handled
1849 properly in mod_access.
1850 ["Paul J. Reder" <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#4770
1852 *) RewriteLock/RewriteMap didn't work properly with virtual hosts.
1853 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>] PR#3874
1855 *) PORT: Support for compaq/tandem/com.
1856 [Michael Ottati <michael.ottati@compaq.com>, dirkx]
1858 *) Added SHA1 password encryption support to easy migration from
1859 Netscape servers. See support/SHA1 for more information.
1860 Caused the separation of ap_md5.c into md5, sha1 and a general
1861 ap_checkpass.c with just a validate_passwd routine. Added a
1862 couple of flags to support/htpasswd. Some reuse of the to64()
1863 function; hence renamed to ap_to64().
1864 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Clinton Wong <clintdw@netcom.com>]
1866 *) Change for EBCDIC platforms (TPF and BS2000) to correctly deal
1867 with ASCII/EBCDIC conversions in "ident" query.
1868 [David McCreedy <McCreedy@us.ibm.com>]
1870 *) Get rid of redefinition warning on MAC_OS_X_SERVER platform.
1871 Change "Power Macintosh" to Power* so if uname prints "Power Book"
1872 we're still happy on Rhapsody platforms. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
1874 *) Fix SIGSEGV on some systems because the Vary fix below included
1875 a call to table_do with a variable argument list that was not
1876 NULL terminated. Replaced with better implementation. [Roy Fielding]
1878 Changes with Apache 1.3.7 [not released]
1880 *) The "Vary" response header field is now sanitised right before
1881 the header is sent back to the client. Multiple "Vary" fields
1882 are combined, and duplicate tokens (e.g., "Vary: host, host" or
1883 "Vary: host, negotiate, host, accept-language") are reduced to
1884 single instances. This is a better solution than the force-no-vary
1885 one (which is still valid for clients that can't cope with Vary
1886 at all). PR#3118 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Ken Coar]
1888 *) Portability changes for BeOS. [David Reid abb37@dial.pipex.com]
1890 *) Link DSO's with "gcc -shared" instead of "ld -Bshareable" at
1891 least on Linux and FreeBSD for now.
1894 *) Win32: More apache -k restart work. Restarts are now honored
1895 immediately and connections in the listen queue are -not- lost.
1896 This is made possible by the use of the WSADuplicateSocket()
1897 call. The listeners are opened in the parent, duplicated, then
1898 the duplicates are passed to the child. The original listen sockets
1899 are not closed by the parent across a restart, thus the listen queue
1901 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1903 *) Fix handling of case when a client has sent "Expect: 100-continue"
1904 and we are going to respond with an error, but get stuck waiting to
1905 discard the body in the pointless hope of preserving the connection.
1906 [Roy Fielding, Joe Orton <jeo101@york.ac.uk>] PR#4499, PR#3806
1908 *) Fix 'configure' to work correctly with SysV-based versions of
1909 'tr' (consistent with Configure's use as well). [Jim Jagielski]
1911 *) apxs: Add "-S var=val" option which allows for override of CFG_*
1912 built-in values. Add "-e" option which works like -i but doesn't
1913 install the DSO; useful for editing httpd.conf with apxs. Fix
1914 editing code so that multiple invocations of apxs -a will not
1915 create duplicate LoadModule/AddModule entries; apxs can now be
1916 used to re- enable/disable a module. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
1918 *) Win32: Update the server to use Winsock 2. Specifically, link with
1919 ws2_32.lib rather than wsock32.lib. This gives us access to
1920 WSADuplcateSocket() in addition to some other enhanced comm APIs.
1921 Win 95 users may need to update their TCP/IP stack to pick up
1922 Winsock 2. (See http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/)
1923 [Bill Stoddard stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com]
1925 *) Win32: Redirect CGI script stderr (script debug info) into the
1926 error.log when CGI scripts fail. This makes Apache on Win32
1927 behave more like Unix.
1928 [Bill Stoddard stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com]
1930 *) Fixed `httpd' usage display: -D was missing.
1931 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4614
1933 *) Fix `make r' test procedure in src/regex/: ap_isprint was not found.
1934 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4561, PR#4562
1936 *) OS/2: Fix problem with accept lock semaphores where server would die with
1937 "OS2SEM: Error 105 getting accept lock. Exiting!"
1938 [Brian Havard] PR#4505
1940 *) Add DSO support for DGUX 4.x using gcc. Tested on x86 platforms.
1941 [Randy Terbush <randy@covalent.net>]
1943 *) Add the new mass-vhost module (mod_vhost_alias.c) developed and
1944 used by Demon Internet, Ltd. [Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>]
1946 *) Better GCC detection for DSO flags under Solaris 2 where the `cc'
1947 command potentially _is_ GCC. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
1949 *) Fix apxs build issues on AIX
1950 [Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1952 *) DocumentRoot Checking: Under previous versions, when Apache
1953 first started up, it used to do a stat of each DocumentRoot to
1954 see if it existed and was a directory. If not, then an error
1955 message was printed. THIS HAS BEEN DISABLED. If DocumentRoot
1956 does not exist, you will get error messages in error_log. If
1957 the '-t' command line option is used (to check the configuration)
1958 the check of DocumentRoot IS performed. An additional command
1959 line option, '-T', has been added if you want to avoid the
1960 DocumentRoot check even when checking the configuration.
1963 *) Win32: The query switch "apache -S" didn't exit after showing the
1964 vhost settings. That was inconsistent with the other query functions.
1965 [Bill Stoddard - Fixed by Martin on Unix in 1.3.4]
1967 *) Win32: Changed behaviour of apache -k restart.
1968 Previously, the server would drain all connections in the stack's
1969 listen queue before honoring the restart. On a busy server, this
1970 could take hours. Now, a restart is honored almost immediately.
1971 All connections in Apache's queues are handled but connections in
1972 the stack's listen queue are discarded. Restart triggered by
1973 MaxRequestPerChild is unchanged.
1974 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1976 *) Win32: Eliminated unnecessary call to wait_for_multiple_objects in
1977 the accept loop. Good for a 5% performance boost. Cleaned up
1978 parent/child process management code.
1979 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1981 *) Added ceiling on file size for memory mapped files.
1982 [John Giannandrea <jg@meer.net>] PR#4122
1984 *) Fix ndbm.h include problems with brain-dead glibc >= 2.1 which
1985 has ndbm.h in a non-standard db1/ subdir. PR#4431, PR#4528
1986 [Henri Gomez <gomez@slib.fr>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
1988 *) Determine AP_BYTE_ORDER for ap_config_auto.h and already
1989 use this at least for Expat. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
1991 *) Allow .module files to specify libraries with Lib:.
1994 *) Allow SetEnvIf[NoCase] to test environment variables as well
1995 as header fields and request attributes. [Ken Coar]
1997 *) Fix mod_autoindex's handling of ScanHTMLTitles when file
1998 content-types are "text/html;parameters". PR#4524 [Ken Coar]
2000 *) Remove "mxb" support from mod_negotiation -- it was a draft feature
2001 never accepted into any standard, and it opens up certain DoS
2002 attacks. [Koen Holtman <Koen.Holtman@cern.ch>]
2004 *) TestCompile updated. We can now run programs and output the
2005 results during the Configure process. [ Jim Jagielski]
2007 *) The source is now quad (long long) aware as needed. Specifically,
2008 the Configure process determines the correct size of off_t and
2009 *void. When the OS/platform/compiler supports quads, ap_snprintf()
2010 provides for the 'q' format qualifier (if quads are not available,
2011 'q' is silently "demoted" to long). [Jim Jagielski]
2013 *) When the username or password fed to htpasswd is too long, include the
2014 size limit in the error message. Also report illegal characters
2015 (currently only ':') in the username. Add the size restrictions
2016 to the man page. [Ken Coar]
2018 *) Fixed the configure --without-support option so it doesn't result in
2019 an infinite loop. [Marc Slemko]
2021 *) Piped error logs could cause a segfault if an error occured
2022 during configuration after a restart.
2023 [Aidan Cully <aidan@panix.com>] PR#4456
2025 *) If a "Location" field was stored in r->err_headers_out rather
2026 than r->headers_out, redirect processing wouldn't find it and
2027 the server would core dump on ap_escape_html(NULL). Check both
2028 tables and raise HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR with a log message
2029 if Location isn't set. [Doug MacEachern, Ken Coar]
2031 *) Add RULE_EXPAT, the src/lib/ directory structure, and a modified copy
2032 of the Expat 1.0.2 distribution. [Greg Stein]
2034 *) Replace regexec() calls with calls to a new API stub function
2035 ap_regexec(). This solves problems with DSO modules which use the regex
2036 library. [Jens-Uwe Mager <jum@helios.de>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
2038 *) Add 'Request_Protocol' special keyword to mod_setenvif so that
2039 environment variables can be set according to the protocol version
2040 (e.g., HTTP/0.9 or HTTP/1.1) of the request. [Ken Coar]
2042 *) Add DSO support for OpenStep (Mach 4.2) platform.
2043 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>] PR#3997
2045 *) Fix sed regex for generating ap_config_auto.h in src/Configure.
2046 [Jan Gallo <gallo@pvt.sk>] PR#3690, PR#4373
2048 *) Switch to /bin/sh5 in APACI on Ultrix and friends to avoid problems with
2049 their brain-dead /bin/sh. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4372
2051 *) Better DSO flags recognition on NetBSD platforms using ELF.
2052 [Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>] PR#4310
2054 *) Always log months in english format for %t in mod_log_config.
2055 [Petr Lampa <lampa@fee.vutbr.cz>] PR#4366, 679
2057 *) Support for server-parsed and multiview-determined ReadmeName and
2058 HeaderName files in mod_autoindex. Removed the restriction on
2059 "/"s in ReadmeName and HeaderName directives since the *sub_req*
2060 routines will deal with the access issues. (It's now possible to
2061 have {site|group|project|customer|...} wide readmes and headers.)
2062 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>, Ken Coar] PR#1574, 3026, 3529,
2065 *) When stat() fails, don't assume anything about the contents of
2066 the struct stat. [Ed Korthof <ed@bitmechanic.com>]
2068 *) It's OK for a semop to return EINTR, just loop around and try
2069 again. [Dean Gaudet]
2071 *) Fix configuration engine re-entrant hangups, which solve a
2072 handful of problems seen with mod_perl <Perl> configuration sections
2073 [Salvador Ortiz Garcia <sog@msg.com.mx>]
2075 *) Mac OS and Mac OS X Server now use the appropriate custom layout
2076 by default when building with APACI; allow for platform-specific
2077 variable defaults in configure. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
2079 *) Do setgid() before initgroups() in http_main; some platforms
2080 zap the grouplist when setgid() is called. This was fixed in
2081 suexec earlier, but the main httpd code missed the change.
2082 [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2579
2084 *) Add recognition of .tgz as a gzipped tarchive.
2085 [Bertrand de Singly <bertrand.de-singly@polytechnique.fr>] PR#2364
2087 *) mod_include's fsize/flastmod should allow only relative paths, just
2088 like "include file". [Jaroslav Benkovsky <benkovsk@pha.pvt.cz>]
2090 *) OS/2: Add support for building loadable modules using DLLs.
2093 *) Add iconsdir, htdocsdir, and cgidir to config.layout.
2096 *) Fix minor but annoying bug with the test for Configuration.tmpl
2097 being newer than Configuration so that it is less likely to fail
2098 when using APACI and shadow sources. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
2100 *) PORT: Add initial support for Mac OS (versions 10.0 and
2101 greater). Use Mac OS X Server layout for now. Clean up dyld code
2102 in unix/os.c, and don't install the dyld error handlers, which
2103 are no longer needed in Mac OS. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
2105 *) Rename Rhapsody layout to "Mac OS X Server". Change install
2106 locations to appropriate ones for user-built (as opposed to
2107 system) installs. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
2109 *) Modify mod_autoindex's handling of AddDescription so that the
2110 behaviour matches the documentation. [Ken Coar] PR#1898, 3072.
2112 *) Add functionality to the install-bindist.sh script created by
2113 binbuild.sh to use tar when copying distribution files to the
2114 serverroot. This allows upgrading an existing installation
2115 without nesting the new distribution in the old.
2117 install-bindist.sh now detects the local perl5 path to install
2118 apxs and dbmmanage with proper path to perl interpreter.
2120 Add an install-binsupport target which copies the source files
2121 for apxs and dbmmanage to bindist to allow these scripts to
2122 be properly installed relative to the destination serverroot.
2123 [Randy Terbush, Covalent Technologies, randy@covalent.net]
2125 *) Fix intermittent SEGV in ap_proxy_cache_error() in
2126 src/modules/proxy_util.c where a NULL filepointer and
2127 temporary filename were closed and unlinked.
2128 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>,
2129 Tim Costello <tjcostel@socs.uts.edu.au>] PR#3178
2131 *) Fix inconsistent error messages reported by mod_proxy.
2132 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>]
2134 *) OS/2: Fix terminating CGIs that aren't compiled by EMX GCC when a
2135 connection is aborted. [Brian Havard]
2137 *) Force the LANG envariable to the known state of "C" so that we
2138 have assurance about how string manipulators (e.g., tr) will
2139 function. [Ken Coar] PR#1630
2141 *) Add a directive to allow customising of the tracking cookie name.
2142 [Ken Coar] PR#2921, 4303
2144 *) Add "force-no-vary" envariable to allow servers to work around
2145 clients that choke on "Vary" fields in the response header.
2146 [Ken Coar, Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@zippy.machaon.ru>] PR#4118
2148 *) Fixed a bug in mod_dir that causes a child process will infinitely
2149 recurse when it attemps to handle a request for a directory wnd the
2150 value of the DirectoryIndex directive is a single dot. Also likely
2151 to happen for anyother values of DirectoryIndex that will map back
2152 to the same directory. The handler now only considers regular files
2153 as being index candidates. No PR#s found.
2154 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>]
2156 *) Ease configuration debugging by making TestCompile fall back to
2157 using "make" if the $MAKE variable is unset [Martin Kraemer]
2159 *) Fixed the ServerSignature directive to work as documented.
2160 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>] PR#4248
2162 *) Add "opt" (SysV-style) layout to config.layout. [Raymond S Brand
2165 *) Add APACI --without-execstrip option which can be used to disable the
2166 stripping of executables on installation. This is very important for DSO
2167 and debugging situations. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2169 *) Add support for OS/2 (case insenstive filesystem, .exe suffix, etc)
2170 to APACI files and related scripts.
2171 [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4269
2173 *) Add support for standalone mode in TPF
2174 [Joe Moenich <moenich@us.ibm.com>]
2176 *) Fix number of bytes copied by read_connection() in src/support/ab.c
2177 [Jim Cox <jc@superlink.net>] PR#4271
2179 *) Fix special RewriteCond "-s" pattern matching.
2180 [Bob Finch <bob@nas.com>]
2182 *) Fix value quoting in src/Configure script for ap_config_auto.h
2183 [Paul Sutton <paul@awe.com>]
2185 *) Make sure RewriteLock can be used only in the global context, (i.e.
2186 outside of any <VirtualHost> sections) because it's a global facility of
2187 the rewrite engine. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2189 *) Fix the ownership delegation for proxy directory under `make install'.
2190 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2192 *) APACI would not correctly build suexec. [Maria Verina
2193 <mariav@icgeb.trieste.it>] PR#4260
2195 *) mod_mime_magic passed only the first 4k of a file to
2196 uncompress/gzip, but those tools sometimes do not produce
2197 any output unless a sufficient portion of the compressed
2198 file is input. Change to pass the entire file -- but
2199 only read 4k of output.
2200 [Marcin Cieslak <saper@system.pl>] PR#4097
2202 *) "IndexOptions None" generated extra spaces at the end of each
2203 line. [inkling@firstnethou.com] PR#3770
2205 *) The "100 Continue" response wasn't being sent after internal
2206 redirects. [Jose KAHAN <kahan@w3.org>] PR#3910, 3806, 3575
2208 *) When padding the name with spaces for display, mod_autoindex would
2209 count &, <, and > in their escaped width, messing up the display.
2210 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4075, 3758
2212 *) PORT: fixed a compilation problem on NEXT.
2213 [Jacques Distler <distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu>] PR#4130
2215 *) r->request_time wasn't being set properly in certain error conditions.
2216 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4156
2218 *) PORT: deal with UTS compiler error in http_protocol.c
2219 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#4189
2221 *) Add ap_vrprintf() function. [John Tobey <jtobey@banta-im.com>] PR#4246
2223 *) Fix the mod_mime hash table to work properly with locales other
2224 than C. [Dean Gaudet] PR#3427
2226 *) Fix a memory leak which is exacerbated by certain configurations.
2227 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4225
2229 *) Prevent clobbering saved IFS values in APACI. [Jim Jagielski]
2231 *) Fix buffer overflows in ap_uuencode and ap_uudecode pointed out
2232 by "Peter 'Luna' Altberg <peter@altberg.nu>" and PR#3422
2233 [Peter 'Luna' Altberg <peter@altberg.nu>, Ronald Tschalär]
2235 *) Make {Set,Unset,Pass}Env per-directory instead of per-server.
2238 *) Correct an apparent typo: on the Windows and MPE platforms, the
2239 htpasswd utility was limiting passwords to only 8 characters.
2242 *) EBCDIC platforms: David submitted patches for two bugs in the
2243 MD5 digest port for EBCDIC machines:
2244 a) the htdigest utility overwrote the old contents of the digest file
2245 b) the Content-MD5 header value (ContentDigest directive) was wrong
2246 when the returned file was not converted from EBCDIC, but was a
2247 binary (e.g., image file) in the first place.
2248 [David McCreedy <mccreedy@us.ibm.com>]
2250 *) support/htpasswd now permits the password to be specified on the
2251 command line with the '-b' switch. This is useful when passwords
2252 need to be maintained by scripts -- particularly in the Win32
2253 environment. [Ken Coar]
2255 *) Win32: Win32 multiple services patch. Added capability to install and
2256 run multiple copies of apache as individual services.
2259 apache -n apache1 -i -f c:/httpd.conf
2260 Installs apache as service 'apache1' and associates c:/httpd.conf
2263 Starts apache1 service.
2265 Stops apache1 service
2268 apache -n apache2 -i
2269 Installs apache as service 'apache2'. httpd.conf is located under
2270 the default server root (/apache/conf/httpd.conf).
2272 Starts apache2 service.
2275 apache -n apache3 -i -d c:/program files/apache
2276 Install apache as service 'apache3' and sets server root to
2277 c:/program files/apache.
2280 apache -n apache2 -k restart
2281 Restart apache2 service
2283 [Keith Wannamaker, Ken Parzygnat, Bill Stoddard]
2285 *) Correct the signed/unsigned character handling for the MD5 routines;
2286 mismatches were causing compilation problems with gcc -pedantic and
2287 in the TPF cross-compilation. [Ken Coar]
2289 *) OS/2: Rework CGI handling to use spawn*() instead of fork/exec, achieving
2290 a roughly 5 fold speed up. [Brian Havard]
2292 *) proxy ftp: instead of using the hardwired string "text/plain" as
2293 a fallback type for files served by the ftp proxy, use the
2294 ap_default_type() function to determine the configured type.
2295 This allows for special configurations like
2296 <Directory proxy:ftp://some.host>
2297 DefaultType gargle/blurb
2299 Additionally, add the Content-Encoding: header to FTP proxy replies
2300 when the encoding is defined (by the AddEncoding directive).
2301 Because it was missing, it was almost impossible to browse compressed
2302 files using the FTP proxy (works now perfectly in Communicator).
2303 The ftp proxy now also returns the Date: and Server: header lines (if not
2304 much else... This code is "somewhat" broken) like normal requests do.
2307 *) Be more smart in APACI's configure script when determining the UID/GID
2308 for User/Group directives and use the determined UID/GID to initialize
2309 the permissions on the proxycachedir.
2310 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Ralf S. Engelschall]
2312 *) Changed the forking-prior-to-cleanup in the proxy module to first
2313 check wether it actually needs to collect garbage. This reduces
2314 the number of fork()s from one/request to just the odd one an hour.
2315 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
2317 *) Added proxy, auth and header support to src/support/ab.c. Added a
2318 README file to src/support/
2319 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
2321 *) Don't hard-code the path to AWK in --shadow bootstrapping Makefile.
2322 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4050
2324 *) Add support for DSO module compilation on BSD/OS 3.x.
2325 [Randy Terbush, Covalent Technologies]
2327 *) Fix sed-substitutions in `make install': path elements like `httpd/conf'
2328 (for instance from an APACI configure --sysconfdir=/etc/httpd/conf
2329 option) were substituted with $(TARGET).conf, etc. Same for other strings
2330 with dots where the dot wasn't matched as plain text.
2331 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2333 *) PORT: Add support for FreeBSD 4.x [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2335 *) Fix verbose output of APACI configure (option -v)
2336 [Martin Kraemer, Ralf S. Engelschall]
2338 Changes with Apache 1.3.6
2340 *) Removed new PassAllEnv code due to DSO problems. [Lars Eilebrecht]
2342 Changes with Apache 1.3.5 [not released]
2344 *) M_INVALID needed a value within the scope of METHODS so that unknown
2345 methods can be access controlled. [Roy Fielding] PR#3821
2347 *) Added PassAllEnv; makes server's entire environment available
2348 to CGIs and SSIs executed within directive's scope. [Ken Coar]
2350 *) ap_uuencode() always added two trailing '='s and encoding of
2351 8 bit characters on a machine with signed char may produced
2352 incorrect results. Additionally ap_uuencode() should now
2353 work correctly on EBCDIC platforms.
2354 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>] PR#3411
2356 *) WIN32: Binary installer now runs the configuration DLL before
2357 the reboot prompt (which is only given if MSVCRT.DLL system
2358 DLL is new or updated). This should avoid the configuration
2359 directory being empty after installation. [Paul Sutton]
2360 PR#3767, 3800, 3827, 3850, 3900, 3953, 3988
2362 *) WIN32: Binary installer now creates Start menu options to start
2363 and stop Apache as a console application and to uninstall
2364 the Apache service on NT. [Paul Sutton] PR#3741
2366 *) WIN32: Apache.exe now contains an icon. [Paul Sutton]
2368 *) PORT: Switch back to using fcntl() locking on Linux -- instabilities
2369 have been reported with flock() locking (probably related to kernel
2370 version). [Dean Gaudet] PR#2723, 3531
2372 *) Using APACI, the main config file (usually httpd.conf) was
2373 not being adjusted as $(TARGET).conf. [Wilfredo Sanchez
2374 <wsanchez@apple.com>]
2376 *) PORT: AIX does not require the SHARED_CODE "hack"
2377 [Ryan Bloom <rbb@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2379 *) Set-Cookie headers were being doubled up for some CGIs by the O(n^2)
2380 avoidance code added in 1.3.3.
2381 [Dean Gaudet, Jeff Lewis <lewis@stanford.edu>] PR#3872
2383 *) ap_isxdigit was somehow neglected when adding the ap_isfoo() macros
2384 for 8-bit safeness. [Dean Gaudet]
2386 *) PORT: Use -fPIC instead of -fpic on Solaris and SunOS for compiling DSOs
2387 because SPARCs have a small machine-specific maximum size for the Global
2388 Offset Table which is often exceeded when compiling one of the larger
2389 third-party modules with Apache. [Peter Urban <Peter.Urban@epfl.ch>] PR#3977
2391 *) Move the directive `ExtendedStatus' in httpd.conf-dist-win _after_ the
2392 DSO/DLL section because it's a directive from mod_status and isn't
2393 available before the DLL of mod_status is loaded.
2394 [Martin POESCHL <mpoeschl@gmx.net>] PR#3936
2396 *) SECURITY: Fix a bug in the calculation of the buffer size for the line
2397 continuation facility in Apache's configuration files which could
2398 lead to a buffer overflow situation.
2399 [Thomas Devanneaux <Thomas.Devanneaux@enst.fr>] PR#3617
2401 *) Make documentation and error messages of APACI's --activate-module=FILE
2402 option more clear. [Jan Wolter <janc@wwnet.net>] PR#3995
2404 *) Fix the gcc version check (for enabling the `inline' facility) to
2405 really support all future gcc versions >= 2.7 until we know more.
2406 [John Tobey <jtobey@banta-im.com>] PR#3983
2408 *) Let APACI's configure script correctly complain for unknown --enable-XXX
2409 and --disable-XXX options. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3958
2411 *) Link the shared core bootstrap program (``Rule SHARED_CORE=yes'') also
2412 against libap.a and use its ap_snprintf() instead of sprintf() to avoid
2413 possible buffer overflows. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2415 *) Remove no longer used non-API function ap_single_module_init().
2416 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2418 *) Add Apple's Mac OS X Server Layout "Rhapsody" to config.layout.
2421 *) Add cgidir, htdocsdir, iconsdir variables to Makefile.tmpl in order
2422 to make platform installations easier. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
2424 *) In configure, do not append the target name to the directory path if
2425 the path already contains "apache". [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2427 *) SIGPIPE is now ignored by the server core. The request write routines
2428 (ap_rputc, ap_rputs, ap_rvputs, ap_rwrite, ap_rprintf, ap_rflush) now
2429 correctly check for output errors and mark the connection as aborted.
2430 Replaced many direct (unchecked) calls to ap_b* routines with the
2431 analogous ap_r* calls. [Roy Fielding]
2433 *) Enhanced mod_rewrite's mapfile handling: The in-core cache for text and
2434 DBM format mapfiles now uses a 4-way hash table with LRU functionality.
2435 Furthermore map lookups for non-existent keys are now cached as well.
2436 Additionally "txt" maps are now parsed with simple string functions
2437 instead of using ap_pregcomp(). As a side effect a bug that prevented
2438 the usage of keys containing the "," character was fixed.
2439 The changes drastically improve the performance when large rewrite maps
2441 [Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.swb.de>, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3160
2443 *) Added ap_sub_req_method_uri() for doing a subrequest with a method
2444 other than GET, and const'd the definition of method in request_rec.
2447 *) Use proper pid_t type for saving PIDs in alloc.c. [John Bley]
2449 *) Replaced use of WIN32 define with HAVE_DRIVE_LETTERS to indicate
2450 when the OS allows a DOS drive letter within pathnames. [Brian Havard]
2452 *) Add %V to mod_log_config, this logs the hostname according to the
2453 UseCanonicalName setting (this is the pre-1.3.4 behaviour of
2454 %v). Useful for mass vhosting. [Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>]
2456 *) Add support for \n and \t to mod_log_config, can be used to produce
2457 more reliable logs with multiline entries. [Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>]
2459 *) Fixed a few compiler nits. [John Bley <jbb6@acpub.duke.edu>]
2461 *) Added informative error messages for failed munmap() and fseek() calls
2462 in http_core.c. [John Bley, Roy Fielding]
2464 *) Added some informative error messages for some failed malloc()
2465 calls. [John Bley <jbb6@acpub.duke.edu>, Jim Jagielski]
2467 *) OS/2 ap_os_canonical_filename()'s behaviour is improved: ap_assert()
2468 is removed. This allows <Directory proxy:*> directives to work and
2469 prevents invalid requests from killing the process.
2470 [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
2472 *) Reorganised FAQ document.
2473 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>] PR#2497
2475 *) src/support/: The ApacheBench benchmark program was overhauled by
2476 David N. Welton: you can now have it generate an HTML TABLE, presumably
2477 for integration into other HTML sources. David updated the ab man page
2478 as well and added some missing descriptions. Thanks!
2479 [David N. Welton <davidw@prosa.it>]
2481 *) Win32: The filename validity checker now allows filenames containing
2482 characters in the range 0x80 to 0xff (for example accented characters).
2483 [Paul Sutton] PR#3890
2485 *) Added conditional logging based upon environment variables to
2486 mod_log_config. mod_log_referer and mod_log_agent
2487 are now deprecated. [Ken Coar]
2489 *) Allow apache acting as a proxy server to relay the real
2490 reason of a failure to a client rather than the "internal
2491 server error" it does currently. The general exposure mechanism
2492 can be triggered by any module by setting the "verbose-error-to"
2493 note to "*"; this allows more than just proxy errors to be exposed.
2494 [Cliff Skolnick, Roy Fielding, Martin Kraemer] Related to PR#3455, 4086
2496 *) Moved man pages for ab and apachectrl to section 8.
2497 [Wilfredo Sanchez, Roy Fielding]
2499 *) Added -S option to install.sh so that options can be passed to
2500 strip on some platforms. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Wilfredo Sanchez]
2502 *) Tweak modules Makefile generated by Configure so that it handles
2503 the test case of no modules being selected. [chaz@reliant.com]
2505 *) Added a <LimitExcept method ...> sectioning directive that allows
2506 the user to assign authentication control to any HTTP method that
2507 is *not* given in the argument list; i.e., the logical negation
2508 of the <Limit> directive. This is particularly useful for controlling
2509 access on methods unknown to the Apache core, but perhaps known by
2510 some module or CGI script. [Roy Fielding, Tony Finch]
2512 *) Prevent apachectl from complaining if the PIDFILE exists but
2513 does not contain a process id, as might occur if the server is
2514 being rapidly restarted. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
2516 *) Win32: Add global symbols missing from ApacheCore.def. [Carl Olsen]
2518 *) Entity tag comparisons for If-Match and If-None-Match were not being
2519 performed correctly -- weak tags might cause false positives. Also,
2520 strong comparison wasn't properly enforced in all cases.
2521 [Roy Fielding, Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet] PR#2065, 3657
2523 *) OS/2: Supply OS/2 error code instead of errno on semaphore errors.
2526 *) Work around a bug in Lynx regarding its sending "Negotiate: trans"
2527 even though it doesn't understand TCN. [Koen Holtman, Roy Fielding]
2529 *) Added ap_size_list_item(), ap_get_list_item(), and ap_find_list_item()
2530 to util.c for parsing an HTTP header field value to extract the next
2531 list item, taking into account the possible presence of nested comments,
2532 quoted-pairs, and quoted-strings. ap_get_list_item() also removes
2533 insignificant whitespace and lowercases non-quoted tokens.
2534 [Roy Fielding] PR#2065
2536 *) proxy: The various calls to ap_proxyerror() can return HTTP/1.1 status
2537 code different from 500. This allows the proxy to, e.g., return
2538 "403 Forbidden" for ProxyBlock'ed URL's. [Martin Kraemer] Related to PR#3455
2540 *) Fix ordering of language variants for the case where the traditional
2541 negotiation algorithm is being used with multiple language variants
2542 and no Accept-Language. [James Treacy <treacy@debian.org>] PR#3299, 3688
2544 *) Do not round the TCN quality calculation to 5 decimal places,
2545 unlike RFC 2296, because the calculation might need 12 decimal places
2546 to get the right result. [Roy Fielding]
2548 *) Remove unused code to disable transparent negotiation when
2549 negotiating on encoding only, as we now handle encoding too
2550 (though this is nonstandard for TCN), remove charset=ISO-8859-1
2551 fiddle from the fiddle-averse RVSA comparison, and fix bugs in
2552 some debugging statements within mod_negotiation. [Koen Holtman]
2554 *) Fixed a rare memory corruption possibility in mod_dir if the index
2555 file is negotiable and no acceptable variant can be found.
2556 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Martin Kraemer]
2558 *) Win32: Add new config directive, ScriptInterpreterSource, to enable
2559 searching the Win32 registry for script interpreters.
2562 *) Win32: The compiled-in default filename for the error log is now
2563 error.log, which matches the default in the distributed httpd.conf.
2566 *) Win32: Any error messages from -i or -u command line options are now
2567 displayed on the console output rather than sent to the error log.
2568 Also the "Running Apache..." message is not output unless Apache is
2569 going to serve requests. [Paul Sutton]
2571 *) Rework the MD5 authentication scheme to use FreeBSD's algorithm,
2572 and use a private significator ('$apr1$') to mark passwords as
2573 being smashed with our own algorithm. Also abstract the password
2574 checking into a new ap_validate_password() routine. [Ken Coar]
2576 *) Win32: The filename validity checker now allows "COM" but refuses
2577 access to "COM1" through "COM4". This allows filenames such
2578 as "com.name" to be served. [Paul Sutton] PR#3769.
2580 *) BS2000: Adapt to the new ufork() system call interface which will
2581 make subtasking easier on the OSD/POSIX mainframe environment.
2584 *) Add a compatibility define for escape_uri() -> ap_escape_uri() to
2585 ap_compat.h. [David White <david@persimmon.com>] PR#3725
2587 *) Make NDBM file suffix determination for mod_rewrite more accurate, i.e.
2588 use `.db' instead of `.pag' not only for FreeBSD, but also when
2589 the NDBM library looks like Berkeley-DB based.
2590 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3773
2592 *) Add ability to handle DES or MD5 authentication passwords.
2593 [Ryan Bloom <rbb@Raleigh.IBM.Com>]
2595 *) Fix O(n^2) memory consumption in mod_speling. [Dean Gaudet]
2597 *) SECURITY: Avoid some buffer overflow problems when escaping
2598 quoted strings. (This overflow was on the heap and we believe
2599 impossible to exploit.) [Rick Perry <perry@ece.vill.edu>]
2601 *) Let src/Configure be aware of CFLAGS options starting with plus
2602 signs as it's the case for the HP/UX compiler.
2603 [Doug Yatcilla <yatcilda@umdnj.edu>] PR#3681
2605 *) Remove the hard-wire of TAR=tar (we now check for gtar and gnutar first)
2606 and check to see if the tar we wind up with supports '-h'.
2607 [Jim Jagielski] PR#3671
2609 *) A consistent and conservative style for all shell scripts has been
2610 implemented. Basically, all shell string tests use the traditional
2611 hack of 'if [ "x$var" != "x" ]' or 'if [ "x$var" = "xstring" ]'
2612 to protect against bare null variable strings (ie: wrapping both
2613 sides with double quotes and prepending 'x'). 'x' was chosen
2614 because it's more universal and hopefully easier for old shell
2615 prgrammers, as well as being easier to search for in 'vi' (/x\$) :)
2618 *) The status module now prints out both the main server generation as
2619 well as the generation of each process. Also, the vhost info is
2620 printed with '?notable'. [Jim Jagielski]
2622 *) Move src/main/md5c.c to src/ap/ap_md5c.c; it's httpd-neutral
2623 and this makes its functions available to things in src/support.
2626 Changes with Apache 1.3.4
2628 *) Renamed macros status_drops_connection to ap_status_drops_connection
2629 and vestigial scan_script_header to ap_scan_script_header_err,
2630 mostly for aesthetic reasons. [Roy Fielding]
2632 *) The query switch "httpd -S" didn't exit after showing the
2633 vhost settings. That was inconsistent with the other query functions.
2636 *) Moved the MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE from before the versions and
2637 filename to the end of the STANDARD_MODULE_STUFF. Its
2638 presence at the beginning prevented reporting of the filename
2639 for modules compiled before 1 January 1999. [Ken Coar]
2641 *) SECURITY: ap_os_is_filename_valid() has been added to Win32
2642 to detect and prevent access to special DOS device file names.
2643 [Paul Sutton, Ken Parzygnat]
2645 *) WIN32: Created new makefiles Makefile_win32.txt (normal build)
2646 and Makefile_win32_debug.txt (debug build) that work on Win95.
2647 Run each of the following from the src directory:
2648 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt # compiles normal build
2649 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt install # compiles and installs
2650 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt clean # removes compiled junk
2651 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt # compiles debug build
2652 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt install
2653 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt clean
2656 *) Added binbuild.sh and findprg.sh helpers to make it easier for us
2657 to build binary distributions. [Lars Eilebrecht]
2659 *) IndexOptions SuppressColumnSorting only turned off making
2660 the column headers anchors; you could still change the display
2661 order by manually adding a '?N=A' or similar query string to the
2662 URL. Now SuppressColumnSorting locks in the sort order so
2663 it can't be overridden this way. [Ken Coar]
2665 *) Added IndexOrderDefault directive to supply a default sort order
2666 for FancyIndexed directory listings. [Ken Coar] PR#1699
2668 *) Change the ap_assert macro to a variant that works on all platforms.
2669 [Richard Prinz <richard.prinz@cso.net>] PR#2575
2671 *) Make sure under ELF-based NetBSD (now) and OpenBSD (future) we don't
2672 search for an underscore on dlsym() (as it's already the case
2673 for FreeBSD 3.0). [Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>] PR#2462
2675 *) Small fix for mod_env.html: The module was documented as to be _not_
2676 compiled into Apache per default, although it _IS_ compiled into
2677 Apache per default. [Sim Harbert <sim@mindspring.com>] PR#3572
2679 *) Instead of fixing a bug in the generation procedure for config.status (a
2680 backslash was missing) we remove the bug together with it's complete
2681 context because the special cases of the past can now no longer occur
2682 because of the recent magic for the --with-layout default.
2683 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3590
2685 *) Make top-level Makefile aware of a parallel build procedures (make -j) by
2686 making sure the src/support/ tools are _forced_ to be build last (they
2687 depend on other libraries).
2688 [Markus Theissinger <markus.theissinger@gmx.de>]
2690 *) Fix installation procedure: Now that os-inline.c is actually used (a
2691 recently fixed bug prevented this) we need to also install os-include.c
2692 in addition to os.h into the PREFIX/include/ location or building of
2693 module DSOs with APXS fails. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3527
2695 *) Added MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE as the first field in a module structure to
2696 allow us to distinguish between a garbled DSO (or even a file which isn't
2697 an Apache module DSO at all) and a DSO which doesn't match the current
2698 Apache API. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3152
2700 *) Two minor enhancements to mod_rewrite: First RewriteRule now also
2701 supports the ``nocase|NC'' flag (as RewriteCond already does for ages) to
2702 match case insensitive (this especially avoids nasty patterns like
2703 `[tT][eE][sS][tT]'). Second two additional internal map functions
2704 `escape' and `unescape' were added which can be used to escape/unescape
2705 to/from hex-encodings in URLs parts (this is especially useful in
2706 combination with map lookups).
2707 [Magnus Bodin, Ian Kallen, Ralf S. Engelschall]
2709 *) Renamed the macro escape_uri() to ap_escape_uri() which was
2710 forgotten (because it was a macro) in the symbol renaming process.
2711 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2713 *) Fix some inconsistencies related to the scopes of directives. The only
2714 user visible change is that the directives `UseCanonicalName' and
2715 `ContentDigest' now use the (more correct) `Options' scope instead of
2716 (less correct) `AuthConfig' scope. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2718 *) Using DSO, the Server token was being mangled. Specifically, the
2719 module's token was being added first before the Apache token. This
2720 has been fixed. [Jim Jagielski]
2722 *) Major overhaul of mod_negotiation.c, part 2.
2723 - properly handle "identity" within Accept-Encoding.
2724 - allow encoded variants in RVSA negotiation and let them appear in
2725 the Alternates field using the non-standard "encoding" tag-list.
2726 - fixed both negotiation algorithms so that an explicitly accepted
2727 encoding is preferred over no encoding if "identity" is not
2728 included within Accept-Encoding.
2729 - added ap_array_pstrcat() to alloc.c for efficient concatenation
2730 of large substring sequences.
2731 - replaced O(n^2) memory hogs in mod_negotiation with ap_array_pstrcat.
2734 *) Major overhaul of mod_negotiation.c, part 1.
2735 - cleanups to mod_negotiation comments and code structure
2736 - made compliant with HTTP/1.1 proposed standard (rfc2068) and added
2737 support for everything in the upcoming HTTP/1.1
2738 revision (draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-06.txt).
2739 - language tag matching also handles tags with more than 2
2741 - empty Accept, Accept-Language, Accept-Charset headers are
2742 processed correctly; previously an empty header would make all
2743 values acceptable instead of unacceptable.
2744 - allowed for q values in Accept-Encoding
2745 - added support for transparent content negotiation (rfc2295 and
2746 rfc2296) (though we do not implement all features in these drafts,
2747 e.g. no feature negotiation). Removed old experimental version.
2748 - implemented 'structured entity tags' for better cache correctness
2749 (structured entity tags ensure that caches which can deal with Vary
2750 will (eventually) be updated if the set of variants on the server
2752 - this involved adding a vlist_validator element to request_rec
2753 - this involved adding the ap_make_etag() function to the global API
2754 - modified guessing of charsets used by Apache negotiation algorithm
2755 to guess 'no charset' if the variant is not a text/* type
2756 - added code to sort multiviews variants into a canonical order so that
2757 negotiation results are consistent across backup/restores and mirrors
2758 - removed possibility of a type map file resolving to another type map
2759 file as its best variant
2760 [Koen Holtman, Roy Fielding, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3451, 3299, 1987
2762 *) RFC2396 allows the syntax http://host:/path (with no port number)
2763 but the proxy disallowed it (ap_proxy_canon_netloc()).
2764 [David Kristol <dmk@bell-labs.com>] PR#3530
2766 *) When modules update/modify the file name in the configfile_t structure,
2767 syntax errors will report the updated name, not the original one.
2768 [Fabien Coelho <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>] PR#3573
2770 *) Correct some filename case assumptions from WIN32 to
2771 CASE_BLIND_FILESYSTEM. [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
2773 *) For %v log ServerName regardless of the UseCanonicalName
2774 setting (similarly for %p). [Dean Gaudet]
2776 *) Configure was initializing the variables $OSDIR, $INCDIR and $SHELL
2777 rather late (too late for some invocations of TestCompile).
2778 This improves the make environment available to TestCompile and
2779 the *.module scripts. [Martin Kraemer]
2781 *) The hashbang emulation code in ap_execve.c would interpret
2782 #!/hashbang/scripts correctly, but failed to fall back to a
2783 standard shell for scripts which did NOT start with #!
2784 Now SHELL_PATH is started in these cases. [Martin Kraemer]
2786 *) PORT: Added the Cyberguard V2 port [Richard Stagg <stagg@lentil.org>]
2789 *) Update APXS manual page: some -q option arguments were missing
2790 and another was incorrect. [Mark Anderson <mda@discerning.com>] PR#3553
2792 *) Cleanup the command line options: `-?' was documented to show
2793 the usage list but does it with an error because `?' is not a valid
2794 command. OTOH a lot of users expect `-h' to print such a usage list and
2795 instead are annoyed for ages by our huge unreadable list of directives.
2796 So we now changed the command line options this way:
2798 Intent: we need `-L' to be free, and `-R' for the DSO run-time path is
2799 very similar to the popular linker option.
2801 Intent: while -l gives the small list of modules, -L now gives the
2802 large list of directives implemented by these modules. This is also
2803 consistent with -v (short version info) and -V (large version info).
2805 Intent: it's now the expected option ;-)
2806 The manual page was adjusted accordingly.
2807 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2714
2809 *) Fixed problem of fclose() on an unopened file in suexec if LOG_EXEC
2810 wasn't defined. [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>]
2812 *) Removed recently introduced bugs and disfigurements in APACI:
2813 o fixed argument line processing: using $args was broken: It was not
2814 initialized and using args="$args $apc_option" and even args="$args
2815 \"$apc_option\"" fails in the second processing round for any arguments
2816 containing whitespaces. The only correct way is to use the construct
2817 "$@" (but not possible here) or iterate _both_ times over the implicit
2818 argument line (no argument to for-loop) which is what we now use.
2819 o make --with-layout=Apache the default without creating
2820 redundancy (copying the --with-layout block in the argument parsing
2821 loop). We achieve this by using the "$@" construct together with the
2822 `set' command to prepend --with-layout=Apache to the command line in
2823 case --with-layout is not used.
2824 o fixed auto-suffix handling now that config.layout exists.
2825 Paths which are auto-suffixed are marked with a trailing plus sign in
2826 config.layout and every path now can be marked this way (not only the
2827 four paths for which we do it currently). Additionally the suffix is
2828 no longer a static one. Instead it's now `/<target>' where <target> is
2829 the argument of the --target option or per default `httpd'.
2830 o allow also tabs (and only spaces) where we match whitespaces
2831 o various fixes and cleanups related to used shell coding style
2832 o made Jim happy by replacing `Written by' with `Initially written by' ;-)
2833 o trimmed output of --help to fit into 80 columns
2834 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2836 *) Added two new core API functions, ap_single_module_configure() and
2837 ap_single_module_init(), which are now used by mod_so to configure a module
2838 after loading. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2840 *) PORT: Add defines for USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT and
2841 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT to NetBSD/OpenBSD section
2842 of ap_config.h to allow serialized accept for multiport listens.
2843 [Roy Fielding, Curt Sampson] PR#3120
2845 *) PORT: Fixed a misplaced #endif for NetBSD/OpenBSD section
2846 of ap_config.h that would skip several defines if DEFAULT_GROUP
2847 was overridden. [Roy Fielding]
2849 *) PORT: The I86 version of DGUX has support for strncasecmp and
2850 strcasecmp, so allow it in ap_config.h. [Amiel Lee Yee] PR#3247
2852 *) Fix ordering of definitions in ap_config.h so that ap_inline is
2853 defined before it might be used. [Victor Khimenko]
2855 *) PORT: Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for BSDI (v4.0).
2856 [Tom Serkowski <tks@bsdi.com>] PR#3453
2858 *) Make generation of src/Configuration.apaci more robust: It failed to
2859 differenciate between modules when one module name was a postfix of
2860 another (e.g. cgi vs. fastcgi). We now check for mod_XXX, libXXX and even
2861 just XXX (think about totally non-standard names like "apache_ssl", too).
2862 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3380
2864 *) In src/Configure remove the SERVER_SUBVERSION support (already deprecated
2865 since 1.3b7) and make whitespace handling more robust (it failed horrible
2866 when whitespaces were present in the arguments of -D options).
2867 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3240
2869 *) Add APACI --shadow=DIR variant (in addition to --shadow). This now first
2870 creates an external package shadow tree in DIR before the local build
2871 shadow tree is generated under DIR. This way one can have the extracted
2872 Apache distribution tree read-only on NFS or CDROM and still build Apache
2873 from these sources. An automatically triggered VPATH-like mechanism is
2874 provided through the TOP variable, too.
2875 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
2877 *) Fix negotiation so that a Vary response header is correctly
2878 generated when, for a particular dimension, variants only vary
2879 in having or not having a value for that dimension. [Paul Sutton]
2881 *) Fix negotiation so that we prefer an encoded variant over an
2882 unencoded variant if the user-agent explicitly says it can
2883 accept that encoding. Previously we always preferred the unencoded
2885 [Paul Ausbeck <paula@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu>, Paul Sutton] PR#3447
2887 *) Fix APXS tool: query variables LIBS_SHLIB and TARGET were not recognized
2888 and the usage page was inconsistent with the functionality and manpage.
2889 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2891 *) Allow special options -Wc,xxx and -Wl,xxx on APXS compile/link command.
2892 They can occur multiple times and their arguments (`xxx') are passed AS
2893 IS to the compiler/linker command. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2895 *) Fixed possible (but harmless in practice) bug in the DBM lookup
2896 procedure of mod_rewrite: very long keys were truncated.
2897 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2899 *) Added a generic --with-layout=[FILE:]ID option. ID here is a layout
2900 identifier, currently "Apache" and "GNU" are pre-defined in the file
2901 config.layout. Custom layouts are possible by using FILE:ID as the
2902 argument where the layout ID is taken from FILE.
2904 The config.layout file consists of <Layout ID>..</Layout> sections
2905 where inside those sections "path_variable: path_value" pairs can be
2906 specified. These lines are converted to path_variable='path_value'.
2908 *) Add a DefaultLanguage directive so that files missing a language
2909 extension (e.g., .fr, .de) can be labelled as being some other
2910 default language. DefaultLanguage can appear in <Directory> and
2911 <Files> containers as well as .htaccess files. [Paul Sutton]
2914 *) Fix TARGET configuration when configuring and installing using
2915 APACI configure. TARGET now defines the basename of the configuration
2916 file, startup script, manual page, etc. log_error_core() now reports
2917 the server binary name given by argv[0]. TARGET can now also be defined
2918 with --target=TARGET parameter passed to APACI configure.
2919 [Ralf Engelschall, Randy Terbush]
2921 *) mod_include.c:handle_perl() now properly tests for OPT_INCNOEXEC
2922 rather than OPT_INCLUDES [Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>]
2924 *) ap_md5_binary() was using sprintf() rather than a table lookup
2925 to convert binary bytes to hex digits.
2926 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>] PR#3409
2928 *) Fix SEGV in TCN negotiation if no variants are acceptable.
2929 [Martin Plechsmid <plechsmi@karlin.mff.cuni.cz>] PR#1987
2931 *) API: ap_exists_config_define() function is now "public" [Doug MacEachern]
2933 *) Fix documentation of `Action' directive: It can activate a CGI script
2934 when either a handler or a MIME content type is triggered by the request.
2935 [Andrew Pimlott <pimlott@math.harvard.edu>] PR#3340
2937 *) Document the `add' command of `dbmmanage' in `dbmmanage.1' manpage.
2938 [David MacKenzie <djm@uu.net>] PR#3394
2940 *) Ignore a "ErrorDocument 401" directive with a full URL and write a
2941 notice to the error log. It is not possible to send a 401 response
2942 and a redirect at the same time. [Lars Eilebrecht]
2944 *) Fallback to native compilers for IRIX-32 platform. It seems that
2945 a gcc 2.8.1 compiled apache is logging client addresses with all
2946 bits set (255.255.255.255). This is the second such problem caused
2947 by gcc 2.8.1 compiler. The first being broken semaphore locking.
2950 *) Updated mime.types to reflect current Internet media types
2951 and include a URL to the registry.
2952 [Manoj Kasichainula, Roy Fielding] PR#2380, 2286, 2246
2954 *) SECURITY: Do a more complete check in mod_include to avoid
2955 an infinite loop of recursive SSI includes. [Marc Slemko] PR#3323
2957 *) Add APACI --suexec-docroot and --suexec-logfile options which can be
2958 used to set the document root directory (DOC_ROOT) and the suexec
2959 logfile (LOG_EXEC), respectively. Additionally the --layout option
2960 was changed to show more information about the suEXEC setup.
2961 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3316, 3357, 3361
2963 *) Added the last two WebDAV status codes of 424 (Failed Dependency)
2964 and 507 (Insufficient Storage) for use by third-party modules.
2967 *) Enabled all of the WebDAV method names for use by third-party
2968 modules, Limit, and Script directives. That includes PATCH,
2969 PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, MKCOL, COPY, MOVE, LOCK, and UNLOCK.
2970 Improved mod_actions.c so that it can use any of the methods
2971 defined in httpd.h. Added ap_method_number_of(method) for
2972 getting the internal method number. [Roy Fielding]
2974 *) PORT: Add a port to the TPF OS. [Joe Moenich <moenich@us.ibm.com> and
2977 *) Fix problems with handling of UNC names (e.g., \\host\path)
2978 on Win32. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
2980 *) Rework os_canonical_*() on Win32 so it's simpler, more
2981 robust, and works. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
2982 PR#2555, 2915, 3064, 3232
2984 *) Work around incomplete implementation of strftime on Win32.
2985 [Manoj Kasichainula, Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
2987 *) Move a typedef to fix compile problems on Linux with 1.x kernels.
2988 [Manoj Kasichainula] PR#3177
2990 *) PORT: Add a port to the Concurrent PowerMAX OS. [Tom Horsley
2991 <Tom.Horsley@mail.ccur.com>]
2993 *) WIN32: Log more explicit error messages if spawning an interpreted
2994 script failed, including the command line used to attempt to execute
2995 the interpreter and the Win32 error code returned. [Marc Slemko]
2997 *) Disable sending of error-notes on a 500 (Internal Server Error) response
2998 since it often includes file path info. Enable sending of error-notes
2999 on a 501 (Method Not Implemented). [Roy Fielding] PR#3173
3001 *) http_config.c would respond with 501 (Method Not Implemented) if a
3002 content type handler was specified but could not be found, which
3003 should have been a 500 response. Likewise, mod_proxy.c would responsd
3004 with a 501 if the URI scheme is unrecognized instead of the correct
3005 response of 403 (Forbidden). [Roy Fielding]
3007 *) SECURITY: Eliminate DoS attack when a bad URI path contains what
3008 looks like a printf format escape. [Marc Slemko, Studenten Net Twente]
3010 *) Fix in mod_autoindex: for files where the last modified time stamp was
3011 unavailable, an empty string was printed which was 2 bytes short.
3012 The size and description columns were therefore not aligned correctly.
3013 [Martin Kraemer] (no PR#)
3015 *) Update BS2000 OS code to work with recent versions. Starting with
3016 release A17, the child fork() must be replaced by a _rfork().
3017 (BS2000 only) [Martin Kraemer]
3019 *) Add the actual server_rec structure of the specific Vhost to the
3020 scoreboard file and avoid a string copy (as well as allow some
3021 further future enhancements). [Harrie Hazewinkel
3022 <harrie.hazewinkel@jrc.it>]
3024 *) Add APACI --permute-module=foo:bar option which can be used to
3025 on-the-fly/batch permute the order of two modules (mod_foo and mod_bar)
3026 in the Configuration[.apaci] file. Two special and important variants are
3027 supported for the option argument: first BEGIN:foo which permutes module
3028 mod_foo with the begin of the module list, i.e. it `moves' the module to
3029 the begin of the list (gives it lowest priority). And second foo:END
3030 which permutes mod_foo with the end of the module list, i.e. it `moves'
3031 the module to the end of the list (gives it highest priority).
3032 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3034 *) Fix problem with 'apache -k shutdown' and startup event
3035 synchronisation (Win32). [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3038 *) The config parser wasn't correctly noticing a missing '>'
3039 on container start lines (e.g., it wouldn't spot
3040 "<Directory /" as a syntax error). [Ryan Bloom <rbbloom@us.ibm.com>]
3043 *) Add a 'RemoveHandler' directive which will selectively remove
3044 all handler associations for the specified file extensions.
3045 [Ryan Bloom <rbbloom@us.ibm.com>] PR#1799.
3047 *) Properly handle & allow "nul" and ".*/null" in AccessConfig and
3048 ResourceConfig directives on Win32. Also add a note to the effect
3049 of 'useless User directive ignored on Win32' to the errorlog if
3050 a User directive is encountered on Win32.
3051 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2078, 2303.
3053 *) Fix multiple whitespace handling in imagemaps for mod_imap which was
3054 broken since Apache 1.3.1 where we took out compressing of multiple
3055 spaces in ap_cfg_getline().
3056 [Ivan Richwalski <ivan@seppuku.net>] PR#3249
3058 *) Fix Berkeley-DB/2.x support in mod_auth_db: The data structures were not
3059 initialized correctly and the db_open() call used an invalid mode
3060 parameter. [Ron Klatchko <ron@ckm.ucsf.edu>] PR#3171
3062 *) PORT: DSO support for UnixWare 7
3063 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Ron Record <rr@sco.com>]
3065 *) Merge the contents of the {srm,access}.conf-dist* files into the
3066 httpd.conf-dist* files. The srm and access files now contain
3067 only comments, and httpd.conf has all the combined contents in
3068 a rational order. [Ken Coar]
3070 *) PORT: DSO/ELF support for FreeBSD 3.0.
3071 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Dirk Froemberg <ibex@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>]
3073 *) Add a "default-handler" handler that calls the default_hander()
3074 function which is normally called for static content. This allows
3075 you to override a specific handler. [Marc Slemko]
3077 *) Further simplify checking for absolute paths by replacing an
3078 hard-coded syntax check with a call to a routine we already created to
3079 do this. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2976, 3074
3081 *) Log an error if we encounter a malformed "require" directive
3082 in mod_auth if we know that we know that no other module can
3083 deal with it. [Marc Slemko]
3085 *) Remove ap_private_extern method of hiding conflicting symbols
3086 on the NEXT platform because it is not correct for all versions,
3087 and the versions for which it is correct are unknown.
3088 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
3090 *) Fix inheritance of IndexOptions NameWidth and remove unintended
3091 restriction on +NameWidth, +IconHeight, and +IconWidth. [Ken Coar]
3093 *) Fix per-directory config merging for cases in which a 500 error
3094 is encountered in an .htaccess file somewhere down the tree.
3097 *) Minor performance improvement to ap_escape_html(). [Roy Fielding]
3099 *) Fixed a segmentation violation in mod_proxy when a response is
3100 non-cachable. [Roy Fielding, traced by Doug Bloebaum]. PR#2950, 3056
3102 Changes with Apache 1.3.3
3104 *) Added a complete implementation of the Expect header field as
3105 specified in rev-05 of HTTP/1.1. Disabled the 100 Continue
3106 response when we already know the final status, which is mighty
3107 useful for PUT responses that result in 302 or 401. [Roy Fielding]
3109 *) Remove extra trailing whitespace from the getline results as part
3110 of the protocol processing, which is extra nice because it works
3111 between continuation lines, is almost no cost in the normal case
3112 of no extra whitespace, and saves memory. [Roy Fielding]
3114 *) Added new HTTP status codes and default response bodies from the
3115 revised HTTP/1.1 (307, 416, 417), WebDAV (102, 207, 422, 423), and
3116 HTTP Extension Framework (510) specifications. Did not add the
3117 WebDAV 424 and 425 codes because they are bogus. We don't use any
3118 of these codes yet, but they are now available to 3rd-party modules.
3121 *) Fix a possible race condition between timed-out requests and the
3122 ap_bhalfduplex select that might result in an infinite loop on
3123 platforms that do not validate the descriptor. [Roy Fielding]
3125 *) WIN32: Add "-k shutdown" and "-k restart" options to signal a
3126 running Apache server [Paul Sutton]
3128 *) Fix mod_autoindex bug where directories got a size of "0k" instead
3129 of "-". [Martin Plechsmid <plechsmi@karlin.mff.cuni.cz>, Marc Slemko]
3132 *) PORT: DRS 6000 machine. [Paul Debleecker <pdebleecker@jetair.be>]
3134 *) Add the server signature text (from the core ServerSignature directive)
3135 to the list of envariables available to scripts, SSI, and the like.
3138 *) PORT: Fix sys/resource.h handling for SCO 3.x platform.
3139 [M. Laak <maert@proinv.ee>] PR#3108
3141 *) Fallback from sysconf-based to plain HZ-based `ticks per second'
3142 calculation in mod_status for all systems which don't have POSIX
3143 sysconf() (like UTS 2.1) and not only for the NEXT platform.
3144 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#3055
3146 *) Fix `require ...' directive parsing in mod_auth, mod_auth_dbm and
3147 mod_auth_db by using ap_getword_white() (which uses ap_isspace())
3148 instead of ap_getword(..., ' ') (which parses only according to spaces
3149 but not tabs). [James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>,
3150 Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3105
3152 *) Fix the SERVER_NAME variable under sub-request situations (where
3153 `UseCanonicalName off' is used) like CGI's called from SSI pages or
3154 RewriteCond variables by adopting r->hostname to sub-requests.
3155 [James Grinter <jrg@blodwen.demon.co.uk>] PR#3111
3157 *) Fix stderr redirection under syslog-based error logging situation.
3158 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#3095
3160 *) Document `ErrorLog syslog:facility' variant of error logging.
3161 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#3096
3163 *) Fix http://localhost/ hints in top-level INSTALL document.
3164 [Rob Jenson <robjen@spotch.com>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3088
3166 *) Quote paths in default configuration files. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
3168 *) PORT: Remove extra HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H define for RHAPSODY since
3169 it is now taken care of properly by the header file tests.
3170 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
3172 *) Fix problem with scripts and filehandle inheritance on Win32.
3173 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2884, 2910
3175 *) Win32 name canonicalisation could end up using the server's
3176 working directory to fill in some blanks. [Ken Parzygnat
3177 <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#3001
3179 *) Correct invalid assumption by ap_sub_req_lookup_file() that all
3180 absolute paths begin with "/" -- because they don't on Win32.
3181 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2976, 3074
3183 *) Add [REDIRECT_]VARIANTS environment variable to mod_speling
3184 so that ErrorDocument 300 processors can reformat the list
3185 if desired. [Ken Coar] PR#2859
3187 *) Add +/- incremental prefixes to IndexOptions keywords, and
3188 enable merging of multiple IndexOptions directives. [Ken Coar]
3190 *) PORT: Allow GuessOS to recognize Unixware 7.0.1 [Steve Cameron
3191 <steve.cameron@compaq.com>]
3193 *) Reconstructed the loop through multiple htaccess file names so
3194 that missing files are not confused with unreadable files.
3197 *) The ap_pfopen and ap_pfdopen routines were failing to protect the
3198 errno on an error, which leads to one error being mistaken for
3199 another when reading non-existent .htaccess files.
3202 *) OS/2: The new header tests get things right, need to update
3203 ap_config.h. [Brian Havard]
3205 *) The Perl %ENV hash will now be setup by default when using the
3206 mod_include `perl' command [Doug MacEachern]
3208 *) PORT: Add Pyramid DC/OSx support to configuration mechanism.
3209 [Earle Ake <akee@wpdiss1.wpafb.af.mil>]
3211 *) PORT: Fix sys/resource.h handling for Amdahl's UTS 2.1
3212 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#3054
3214 *) Correct comment in mod_log_config.c about its internals.
3215 [Elf Sternberg <elf@halcyon.com>]
3217 *) Avoid possible line overflow in Configure: Use an awkfile to
3218 handle the creation of modules.c [Jim Jagielski]
3220 Changes with Apache 1.3.2
3222 *) Fix bug in ap_remove_module(), which caused problems for dso's
3223 who were the top_module. [Doug MacEachern]
3225 *) Add support for Berkeley-DB/2.x (in addition to Berkeley-DB/1.x) to
3226 mod_auth_db to both be friendly to users who wants to use this version
3227 and to avoid problems under platforms where only version 2.x is present.
3228 [Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
3230 *) When using ap_log_rerror(), make the error message available to the
3231 *ERROR_NOTES envariables by default. [Ken Coar]
3233 *) BS2000 platform only: get rid of the nasty BS2000AuthFile.
3234 You now must define a BS2000Account name for the server User.
3235 This has fewer security implications than the old approach.
3238 *) Fix SHARED_CORE feature for HPUX platform: We now use extension `.sl'
3239 instead of `.so' and `SHLIB_PATH' instead of `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' on this
3240 platform to make the braindead HPUX linker happy. Notice, for the module
3241 DSOs we don't have to use this, because these are loaded manually (and
3242 not via HPUX' dld). [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2905, PR#2968
3244 *) Remove 64 thread limit on Win32.
3245 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3247 *) Remove redundant substitutions in top-level Makefile.tmpl.
3248 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3250 *) Fix APACI's `Group' configuration adjustment - especially for Linux
3251 platforms where `nogroup' exists in /etc/group. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3253 *) Make PrintPath work generically instead of having one version
3254 strictly for OS/2. [Jim Jagielski, Brian Havard]
3256 *) Fix the recently introduced C header file checking: We now use the C
3257 pre-processor pass only (and no longer the complete compiler pass) to
3258 determine whether a C header file exists or not. Because only this way
3259 we're safe against inter-header dependencies (which caused horrible
3260 portability problems). The only drawback is that we now have a CPP
3261 configuration variable which has to be determined first (we do a similar
3262 approach as GNU Autoconf does here). When all fails the user still has
3263 the possibility to override it manually via APACI or src/Configuration.
3264 As a fallback for the header check itself we can directly check the
3265 existance of the file under /usr/include, too.
3266 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2777
3268 *) PORT: Added RHAPSODY (Mac OS X Server) support. MAP_TMPFILE defined
3269 as an alternate mechanism for mmap'd shared memory for RHAPSODY.
3270 ap_private_extern defined to hide symbols that conflict with loaded
3271 dynamic libraries on the NEXT and RHAPSODY platforms.
3272 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
3274 *) Delete PID file on clean shutdowns.
3275 [Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com>] PR#2947
3277 *) Fix mod_auth_*.html documents: NSCA -> NCSA
3278 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#2991
3280 *) Fix INSTALL document: www.gnu.ai.mit.edu -> www.gnu.org
3281 [Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>] PR#2994
3283 *) Fix dbmmanage.1 manual page.
3284 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#2992
3286 *) Fix possible buffer overflow situation in suexec.c.
3287 [Jeff Stewart <jws@purdue.edu>] PR#2790
3289 *) Add some more LIBS for the SCO5 platform which are needed for the already
3290 used -lprot. It's actually a bug in SCO5, of course.
3291 [Ronald Record <rr@sco.com>] PR#2533
3293 *) Fix documentation of ProxyPass/ProxyPassReverse according to the
3294 trailing slash problem. [Jon Drukman <jsd@gamespot.com>] PR#2933
3296 *) Remove `-msym' option from LDFLAGS_SHLIB for the Digital UNIX (OSF/1)
3297 platform, because it's only supported under version 4.0 and higher. But
3298 because our GuessOS is still unaware of Digital UNIX versions and the
3299 -msym is just to optimize the DSO statup time a little bit it's safe and
3300 best when we leave it out now. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2969
3302 *) Fix the ap_log_error_old(), ap_log_unixerr() and ap_log_printf()
3303 functions: First all three functions no longer fail on strings containing
3304 "%" chars and second ap_log_printf() no longer does a double-formatting
3305 (instead it directly passes through the message to be formatted to the
3306 real internal formatting function). [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2941
3308 *) Allow "Include" directives anywhere in the server config
3309 files (but not .htaccess files). [Ken Coar] PR#2727
3311 *) The proxy was refusing to serve CONNECT requests except to
3312 port 443 (https://) and 563 (snews://). The new AllowCONNECT
3313 directive allows the configuration of the ports to which a
3314 CONNECT is allowed. [Sameer Parekh, Martin Kraemer]
3316 *) mod_expires will now act on content that is not sent from a file
3317 on disk. Previously it would never add an Expires: header to
3318 any response that did not come from a file on disk; the only
3319 case where it still doesn't (and can't) add one for that type of
3320 content is if you are using a modification date based setting.
3321 [Marc Slemko, Paul Phillips <paulp@go2net.com>]
3323 *) Problems encountered during .htaccess parsing or CGI execution
3324 that lead to a "500 Server Error" condition now provide explanatory
3325 text (in the *ERROR_NOTES envariable) to ErrorDocument 500 scripts.
3328 *) Add NameWidth keyword to IndexOptions directive so that the
3329 width of the filename column is customisable. [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
3332 *) Recognize lowercase _and_ uppercase `uname' results under
3333 SCO OpenServer. [David Coelho <drc@ppt.com>]
3335 *) As duplicate "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" lines within the header seem to be
3336 a common problem of (mis-administrated?) IIS servers, make the apache
3337 proxy immune to these errors (and ignore the duplicates, but log
3338 the fact to error_log). [Martin Kraemer], after the proposal in PR#2914
3340 *) The <IfModule and <IfDefine block starting directives now only
3341 allow exactly one argument. Previously, the optional negation
3342 character '!' could be separated by whitespace without a syntax
3343 error being reported, albeit defeating the IfModule functionality
3344 (enclosed directives would ALWAYS be executed). By using the
3345 stricter syntax, these hard-to-track errors can be avoided.
3348 *) Simplify handling of IndexOptions in mod_autoindex -- and BTW
3349 cause the standalone FancyIndexing directive to logically OR
3350 into any existing IndexOptions settings rather than wiping
3351 them out. [Ken Coar]
3353 *) Changes in ftp proxy: make URL parsing simpler by using the
3355 + Add display of the "current directory" in cases where it's
3356 different from the supplied path (e.g., ftp://user@host/ lives
3357 in /home/user, not in /, therefore clicking on "../" in the
3358 starting directory might send us to /home/).
3359 + When ftp login fails, (esp. when a user name was part of the
3360 URL already), we now return [401 Unauthorized ] to allow the
3361 browser to pop up an authorization dialog. This makes passwords
3362 slightly less visible (they don't appear in the regular log files)
3363 and implements a functionality that other www proxy servers
3367 *) Triggered by the recent "Via:" header changes, the proxy module would
3368 dump core for replies with invalid headers (e.g., duplicate
3369 "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" lines). These errors are now logged and the
3370 core dump is avoided. Also, broken replies are not cached.
3371 [Martin Kraemer] PR#2914
3373 *) new `GprofDir' directive when compiled with -DGPROF, where gprof can
3374 plop gmon.out profile data for each child [Doug MacEachern]
3376 *) Use the construct ``"$@"'' instead of ``$*'' in the generated
3377 config.status script to be immune against arguments with whitespaces.
3378 [Yves Arrouye <yves@apple.com>] PR#2866
3380 *) Replace the inlined information grabbing stuff for the configuration
3381 adjustment feature (no --without-confadjust) with calls to a new helper
3382 script `buildinfo.sh' which is both more flexible and already proofed to
3383 be more robust against platform differences. This mainly fixes the
3384 recently occured ``sed: command garbled: ...'' problems.
3385 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2776, PR#2848
3387 *) Make ab.c again pass ``gcc -Wall -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
3388 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Winline''
3389 without complains after we recently added the POST feature.
3390 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3392 *) Renamed is_HTTP_xxx() macros to ap_is_HTTP_xxx() name. They are used inside
3393 modules as API functions and we forgot them at the big symbol renaming.
3394 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3396 *) Remove bad reference to non-existing SERVER_VERSION in mod_rewrite.html
3397 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.ORG>] PR#2895
3399 *) Dynamically size the filename column of mod_autoindex output.
3402 *) Add the ability to do POST requests to the ab benchmarking tool.
3403 [Kurt Sussman <kls@best.com>] PR#2871
3405 *) Bump up MAX_ENV_FLAGS in mod_rewrite.h from the too conservatice limit of
3406 5 to 10 because there are some users out there who always have 5 to 8
3407 variables in one RewriteRule and had to patch mod_rewrite.h for every
3408 release. So 15 should be now more than enough, even for them. (I never
3409 needed more than 4 in my RewriteRules ;-)
3410 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3412 *) Make the proxy generate and understand Via: headers
3415 *) Change the proxy to use tables instead of array_headers for
3416 the header lines. [Martin Kraemer]
3418 *) Make sure the config.status file is not overridden when just
3419 ``configure --help'' is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2844
3421 *) Split MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER into _MAJOR/_MINOR numbers. This should
3422 provide a way to trace API changes that add functionality but do
3423 not create a compatibility issue for precompiled modules, etc.
3424 See include/ap_mmn.h for more details. [Randy Terbush]
3426 *) Fix suexec installation under `make install root=xxx' situation.
3427 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3429 *) Extend the output of the -V switch to include the paths of all
3430 compiled-in configuration files, if they were overridden at
3431 compile time, for least astonishment of the user.
3434 *) When READing a request in ExtendedStatus mode, the "old"
3435 vhost, request and client information is not displayed.
3438 *) STATUS is no longer available. Full status information now
3439 run-time configurable using the ExtendedStatus directive.
3442 *) SECURITY: Eliminate O(n^2) space DoS attacks (and other O(n^2)
3443 cpu time attacks) in header parsing. Add ap_overlap_tables(),
3444 a function which can be used to perform bulk update operations
3445 on tables in a more efficient manner. [Dean Gaudet]
3447 *) SECURITY: Added compile-time and configurable limits for
3448 various aspects of reading a client request to avoid some simple
3449 denial of service attacks, including limits on maximum request-line
3450 size (LimitRequestLine), number of header fields (LimitRequestFields),
3451 and size of any one header field (LimitRequestFieldsize). Also added
3452 a configurable directive LimitRequestBody for limiting the size of the
3453 request message body. [Roy Fielding]
3455 *) Make status module aware of DNS and logging states, even if
3456 STATUS not defined. [Jim Jagielski]
3458 *) Fix a problem with the new OS/2 mutexes. [Brian Havard]
3460 *) Enhance mod_speling so that CheckSpelling can be used in
3461 <Directory> containers and .htaccess files. [Ken Coar]
3463 *) API: new ap_custom_response() function for hooking into the
3464 ErrorDocument mechanism at runtime [Doug MacEachern]
3466 *) API: new ap_uuencode() function [Doug MacEachern]
3468 *) API: scan_script_header_err_core() now "public" and renamed
3469 ap_scan_script_header_err_core() [Doug MacEachern]
3471 *) The 'status' module will now show the process pid's and their
3472 state even without full STATUS accounting. [Jim Jagielski]
3474 *) Restore the client IP address to the error log messages, this
3475 was lost during the transition from 1.2 to 1.3. Add a new
3476 function ap_log_rerror() which takes a request_rec * and
3477 formats it appropriately. [Dean Gaudet] PR#2661
3479 *) Cure ap_cfg_getline() of its nasty habit of compressing internal
3480 whitespace in input lines -- including within quoted strings.
3482 but leading and trailing whitespace should continue to be
3483 stripped [Martin Kraemer]
3485 *) Cleanup of the PrintPath/PrintPathOS2 helper functions. Avoid
3486 the ugly use of an env. variable and use command-line args for
3487 alternate $PATH. Make more like advanced 'type's as well.
3490 *) The IRIXN32 Rule was being ignored. Configure now correctly adds
3491 -n32 only if IRIXN32 says to. [Jim Jagielski, Alain St-Denis
3492 <alain.st-denis@ec.gc.ca>] PR#2736
3494 *) Clean up a warning in mod_proxy. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3496 *) Renamed __EMX__ (internal define of the gcc port under OS/2) to OS2
3497 following the same idea as "MSVC vs WIN32". Additionally the src/os/emx/
3498 directory was renamed to src/os/os2/ for consistency.
3499 [Brian Havard, Ralf S. Engelschall]
3501 *) Add new Rule SHARED_CHAIN which can be used to enable linking of DSO
3502 files (here modules) against other DSO files (here shared libraries).
3503 This is done by determining a subset of LIBS which can be safely used for
3504 linking the DSOs, i.e. PIC libs and shared libs. Currently the rule is
3505 disabled for all platforms to avoid problems with this (experimental)
3506 rule. But we provide it now for those people how ran into problems and
3507 want to came out by forcing linking against DSOs.
3508 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2587
3510 *) Fix suEXEC start message: Has to be of `notice' level to really get
3511 printed together with the standard startup message because the `notice'
3512 level is handled special inside ap_log_error() for startup messages.
3513 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2761 PR#2761 PR#2765
3515 *) Add correct `model' MIME types from RFC2077 to mime.types file.
3516 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2732
3518 *) Fixed examples in mod_rewrite.html document.
3519 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2756
3521 *) Allow ap_read_request errors to propagate through the normal request
3522 handling loop so that the connection can be properly closed with
3523 lingering_close, thus avoiding a potential TCP reset that would
3524 cause the client to miss the HTTP error response. [Roy Fielding]
3526 *) One more portability fix for APACI shadow tree support: Swap order of awk
3527 and sed in top-level configure script to avoid sed fails on some
3528 platforms (for instance SunOS 4.1.3 and NCR SysV) because of the
3529 non-newline-termined output of Awk. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2729
3531 *) PORT: NEC EWS4800 support.
3532 [MATSUURA Takanori <t-matsuu@protein.osaka-u.ac.jp>]
3534 *) Fix a segfault in the proxy on OS/2. [Brian Havard]
3536 *) Fix Win32 part of ap_spawn_child() by providing a reasonable child_info
3537 structure instead of just NULL. This fixes at least the RewriteMap
3538 programs under Win32. [Marco De Michele <mdemichele@tin.it>] PR#2483
3540 *) Add workaround to top-level `configure' script for brain dead
3541 `echo' commands which interpet escape sequences per default.
3542 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2654
3544 *) Make sure that the path to the Perl interpreter is correctly
3545 adjusted under `make install' also for the printenv CGI script.
3546 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2595
3548 *) Update the mod_rewrite.html document to correctly reflect the situation
3549 of the `proxy' (`[P]') feature. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2679
3551 *) Fix `install-includes' sub-target of `install' target in top-level
3552 Makefile.tmpl: The umask+cp approach didn't work as expected (especially
3553 for users which extracted the distribution under 'umask 077'), so replace
3554 it by an explicit cp+chmod approach.
3555 [Richard Lloyd, Curt Sampson, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2656 PR#2626
3557 *) Fix `distclean' and `clean' targets in src/Makefile.tmpl to have same
3558 behavior and to cleanup correctly even under enabled SHARED_CORE rule.
3559 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3561 *) Use a more straight forward and thus less problematic Sed command in
3562 src/helper/mkdir.sh script. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3564 *) Make sure the `configure' scripts doesn't fail when trying to guess the
3565 domainname of the machine and there are multiple `domainname' and
3566 `search' entries in /etc/resolv.conf.
3567 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2710
3569 *) Add note about the SHARED_CORE requirement on some platforms also to the
3570 INSTALL file because a lot of users don't read htdocs/manual/dso.html
3571 first. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2701
3573 *) Fix document "hyperlink" for dso.html in src/Configuration.tmpl
3574 [Knut A.Syed <Knut.Syed@nhh.no>] PR#2674
3576 *) Modify mod_rewrite to update the Vary response field if the URL rewriting
3577 engine does any manipulations or decisions based upon request fields.
3580 *) Document the special APACI behavior for installation paths where
3581 ``/apache'' is appended to paths under some (well defined, of course)
3582 situations to prevent pollution of system locations with Apache files.
3583 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2660
3585 *) Fixed problem with buffered response message not being sent for
3586 the read_request error conditions of URI-too-long (414) and
3587 malformed header fields (400). [Roy Fielding] PR#2646
3589 *) Add support for the Max-Forwards: header line required by RFC2068 for
3590 the TRACE method. This allows apache to TRACE along a chain of proxies
3591 up to a predetermined depth. [Martin Kraemer]
3593 *) Fix SHARED_CORE rule: The CFLAGS_SHLIB variable is no longer doubled
3594 (compilers complained) and the .so.V.R.P filename extension was adjusted
3595 to correctly reflect the 1.3.2 version.
3596 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2644
3598 *) SECURITY: Plug "..." and other canonicalization holes under OS/2.
3601 *) PORT: implement serialized accepts for OS/2. [Brian Havard]
3603 *) mod_include had problems with the fsize and flastmod directives
3604 under WIN32. Fix also avoids the minor security hole of using
3605 ".." paths for fsize and flastmod.
3606 [Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2355
3608 *) Fixed some Makefile dependency problems. [Dean Gaudet]
3610 Changes with Apache 1.3.1
3612 *) Disable the incorrect entry for application/msword in the
3613 mod_mime_magic "magic" file because it also matches other Office
3614 documents. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2608
3616 *) Fix broken RANLIB handling in src/Configure (the entry from
3617 src/Configuration.tmpl was ignored) and additionally force RANLIB to
3618 /bin/true under HP/UX where ranlib exists but is deprecated.
3619 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2627
3621 *) 'apachectl status' failed on some systems.
3622 [Steve VanDevender <stevev@darkwing.uoregon.edu>, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#2613
3624 *) Add new flags for ap_unparse_uri_components() to make it generate
3625 the scheme://sitepart string only, or to omit the query string.
3628 *) WIN32: Canonicalize ServerRoot before checking to see if it
3629 is a valid directory. The failure to do this caused certain
3630 ServerRoot settings (eg. "ServerRoot /apache") to be improperly
3631 rejected. [Marc Slemko]
3633 *) Global renaming of C header files to both get rid of conflicts with third
3634 party packages and to again reach consistency:
3635 1. conf.h -> ap_config.h
3636 2. conf_auto.h -> ap_config_auto.h \ these are now merged
3637 3. ap_config.h -> ap_config_auto.h / in the config process
3638 4. compat.h -> ap_compat.h
3639 5. apctype.h -> ap_ctype.h
3640 Backward compatibility files for conf.h and compat.h were created.
3642 *) mod_mmap_static will no longer take action on requests unless at
3643 least one "mmapfile" directive is present in the configuration.
3644 This experimental module has to do some black magic to operate
3645 inside the current API and thus creates side-effects for other
3646 modules under some circumstances.
3647 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3649 *) Add conservative ticks around more egrep arguments in top-level configure
3650 to avoid problems under brain-dead platforms like Digital UNIX (OSF1).
3651 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2596
3653 *) mod_rewrite created RewriteLock files under the UID of the parent
3654 process, thus the child processes had no write access to the files.
3655 Now a chown() is done on the file to the uid of the children,
3656 if applicable. [Lars Eilebrecht, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2341
3658 *) Autogenerate some HAVE_XXXXX_H defines in conf_auto.h (determined via
3659 TestCompile) instead of defining them manually in conf.h based on less
3660 accurate platform definitions. This way we no longer have to fiddle with
3661 OS-type and/or OS-version identifiers to discover whether a system header
3662 file exists or not. Instead we now directly check for the existence of
3663 those esoteric ones.
3664 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2093, PR#2361, PR#2377, PR#2434,
3665 PR#2524, PR#2525, PR#2533, PR#2569
3667 *) mod_setenvif (BrowserMatch* and friends) will now match a missing
3668 field with "^$". [Ken Coar]
3670 *) Set the RTLD_GLOBAL dlopen mode parameter to allow dynamically loaded
3671 modules to load their own modules dynamically. This improves mod_perl
3672 and mod_php3 when these modules are loaded dynamically into Apache.
3675 *) Cache a proxied request in the event that the client cancels the
3676 transfer, provided that the configured percentage of the file has
3677 already been transfered. It works for HTTP transfers only. The
3678 new configuration directive is called CacheForceCompletion.
3679 [Glen Parker <glenebob@nwlink.com>] PR#2277
3681 *) Add the "<!DOCTYPE HTML" magic cookie used by modern documents (and
3682 required by HTML 3.2 and later) to mod_mime_magic's conf/magic.
3683 [Anna Shergold <anna@inext.co.uk>]
3685 *) Fix yet another signal-based race condition involving nested timers.
3686 Signals suck. [Dean Gaudet]
3688 *) suexec's error messages have been clarified a little bit. [Ken Coar]
3690 *) Clean up some, but perhaps not all, 8-bit character set problems
3691 with config file parsing, and URL parsing. We now define
3692 ap_isdigit(), ap_isupper(), ... which cast to an (unsigned char).
3693 This should work on most modern unixes.
3694 [Dean Gaudet] PR#800, 2282, 2553 (and others)
3696 *) The "handler not found" error was issued in cases where the handler
3697 really did exist, but was just declining to serve the request.
3698 [John Van Essen <jve@gamers.org>] PR#2529
3700 *) Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for SCO5 (OpenServer 5.0.x).
3701 [Ronald Record <rr@sco.com>] PR#2533
3703 *) The APACI libexecdir was not extended with an "apache/" subdir
3704 if the installation prefix didn't already contain "apache", but
3705 it should be because the DSO files are Apache-specific. Now
3706 libexecdir is treated the same way sysconfdir, datadir, localstatedir
3707 and includedir are already treated.
3708 [Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>] PR#2551
3710 *) The <Limit> parsing routine was incorrectly treating methods as
3711 case-insensitive. [Ken Coar]
3713 *) The ap_bprintf() code neglected to test if there was an error on
3714 the connection. ap_bflush() misdiagnosed a failure as a success.
3717 *) add support for #perl arg interpolation in mod_include
3720 *) API: Name changes of table_elts to ap_table_elts, is_table_empty
3721 to ap_is_table_empty and bgetflag to ap_bgetflag. [Ben Laurie]
3723 *) PORT: Add UnixWare 7 support
3724 [Vadim Kostoglodoff <vadim@olly.ru>] PR#2463
3726 *) Fix the Guess-DSO-flags-from-Perl stuff in src/Configure: "perl" was
3727 used instead of "$PERL" which contains the correctly determined Perl
3728 interpreter (important for instance on systems where "perl" and "perl5"
3729 exists, like BSDI or FreeBSD, etc).
3730 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2505
3732 *) Move the initial suEXEC-related startup message from plain
3733 fprintf()/stderr to a delayed ap_log_error()-based one to avoid problems
3734 when Apache is started from inetd (instead of standalone). Under this
3735 situation startup messages on stderr lead to problems (the line is sent
3736 to the client in front of the requested document).
3737 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#871, PR#1318
3739 *) Add a flag so ap_fnmatch() can be used for case-blind pattern matching.
3740 [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
3742 *) WIN32: Don't collapse multiple slashes in PATH_INFO.
3743 [Ben Laurie, Bill Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#2274
3745 *) WIN32 SECURITY: Eliminate trailing "."s in path components. These are
3746 ignored by the Windows filesystem, and so can be used to bypass security.
3747 [Ben Laurie, Alexei Kosut].
3749 *) We now attempt to dump core when we get SIGILL. [Jim Jagielski]
3751 *) PORT: remove broken test for MAP_FILE in http_main.c.
3752 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
3754 *) PORT: Change support/apachectl to use "kill -0 $pid" to test if the
3755 httpd is running. This should be more portable than figuring out
3756 which of three dozen different versions of "ps" are installed.
3759 *) WIN32: If we can't figure out how to execute a file in a script
3760 directory, bail out of the request with an error message. [W G Stoddard]
3762 *) WIN32 SECURITY: Eliminate directories consisting of three or more dots;
3763 these are treated by Win32 as if they are ".." but are not detected by
3764 other machinery within Apache. This is something of a kludge but
3765 eliminates a security hole. [Manoj Kasichainula, Ben Laurie]
3767 *) Move ap_escape_quotes() from src/ap to src/main/util.c; it uses
3768 pools and thus pollutes libap (until the pool stuff is moved there).
3771 *) IndexIgnore should be case-blind on Win32 (and any other case-aware
3772 but case-insensitive platforms). New #define for this added to conf.h
3773 (CASE_BLIND_FILESYSTEM). [Ken Coar] PR#2455
3775 *) Enable DSO support for OpenBSD in general, not only for 2.x, because it
3776 also works for OpenBSD 1.x. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3778 *) PORT: Fix compilation problem on ARM Linux.
3779 [Sam Kington <sam@illuminated.co.uk>] PR#2443
3781 *) Let APACI's configure script determine some configuration parameters
3782 (Group, Port, ServerAdmin, ServerName) via some intelligent tests to
3783 remove some of the classical hurdles for new users when setting up
3784 Apache. This is done per default because it is useful for the average
3785 user. Package authors can use the --without-confadjust option to disable
3786 these configuration adjustments.
3787 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3789 *) Added an EXTRA_DEPS configuration parameter which can be used
3790 to add an extra Makefile dependency for the httpd target, for instance
3791 to external third-party libraries, etc.
3792 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3794 *) Add <IfDefine>..</IfDefine> sections to the core module (with same spirit
3795 as <IfModule>..</IfModule> sections) which can be used to skip or process
3796 contained commands dependend of ``-D PARAMETER'' options on the command
3797 line. This can be used to achieve logical conditions like <IfDefine
3798 ReverseProxy> instead of physically ones (e.g. <IfModule mod_proxy.c>)
3799 and thus especially can be used for conditionally loading DSO-based
3800 modules via LoadModule, etc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3802 *) PORT: clean up a warning in mod_status for OS/2. [Brian Havard]
3804 *) Make table elements const. This may prevent obscure errors. [Ben Laurie]
3806 *) Fix parsing of FTP `SIZE' responses in proxy module: The newline was not
3807 truncated which forced following HTTP headers to be data in the HTTP
3808 reponse. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Charles Fu <ccwf@bacchus.com>]
3811 *) Portability fix for APACI shadow tree support: Swap order of awk and sed
3812 in top-level configure script to avoid sed fails on some platforms (for
3813 instance SunOS 4.1.3 and NCR SysV) because of the non-newline-termined
3814 output of Awk. [Bill Houle <bhoule@sandiegoca.ncr.com>] PR#2435
3816 *) Improve performance of directory listings (mod_autoindex) by comparing
3817 integer keys (last-modified and size) as integers rather than converting
3818 them to strings first. Also use a set of explicit byte tests rather
3819 than strcmp() to check for parent directory-ness of an entry. Oh, and
3820 make sure the parent directory (if displayed) is *always* listed first
3821 regardless of the sort key. Overall performance winnage should be good
3822 in CPU time, instruction cache, and memory usage, particularly for large
3823 directories. [Ken Coar]
3825 *) Add a tiny but useful goody to APACI's configure script: The generation
3826 of a config.status script (as GNU Autoconf does) which remembers the used
3827 configure command and hence can be used to restore the configuration by
3828 just re-running this script or for remembering the configuration between
3830 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3832 *) Add httpd -t (test) option for running configuration syntax tests only.
3833 If something is broken it complains and exits with a return code
3834 non-equal to 0. This can be used manually by the user to check the Apache
3835 configuration after editing and is also automatically used by apachectl
3836 on (graceful) restart command to make sure Apache doesn't die on restarts
3837 because of a configuration which is now broken since the last (re)start.
3838 This way `apachectl restart' can be used inside cronjobs without having
3839 to expect Apache to be falling down. Additionally the httpd -t can be run
3840 via `apachectl configtest'.
3841 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2393
3843 *) Minor display fix for "install" target of top-level Makefile:
3844 the displayed installation command was incorrect although the
3845 executed command was correct. Now they are in sync.
3846 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2402
3848 *) Correct initialization of variable `allowed_globals' in http_main.c
3849 [Justin Bradford <justin@ukans.edu>] PR#2400
3851 *) Apache would incorrectly downcase the entire Content-Type passed from
3852 CGIs. This affected server-push scripts and such which use
3853 multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=ThisRandomString.
3854 [Dean Gaudet] PR#2394
3856 *) PORT: QNX update to properly guess 32-bit systems.
3857 [Sean Boudreau <seanb@qnx.com>] PR#2390
3859 *) Make sure the DSO emulation code for HPUX finds the proprietary shl_xxx()
3860 functions which are in libdld under HPUX 9/10.
3861 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2378
3863 *) Make sure the "install" target of the top-level Makefile doesn't break
3864 because of a return code of 1 from an "if" (for instance under braindead
3865 Ultrix the result code of an "if" construct is 1 if the "then" clause
3866 didn't match). [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3868 *) Add an additional "dummy" target to the "$(LIB)" target in generated
3869 modules/xxx/Makefile's to avoid problems with SVR4 Make under "full-DSO"
3870 situation (no libxxx.a built, only mod_xxx.so's) where LIB and OBJS are
3871 empty. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Dean Gaudet, Martin Kraemer]
3873 *) Replace two bad sprintf() calls with ap_snprintf() variants in
3874 mod_rewrite. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3876 *) Fix missing usage description for MetaFiles directive.
3877 [David MacKenzie <djm@va.pubnix.com>] PR#2384
3879 *) mod_log_config wouldn't let vhosts use log formats defined in the
3880 main server. [Christof Damian <damian@mediaconsult.com>] PR#2090
3882 *) mod_usertrack was corrupting the client hostname. As part of the
3883 fix, the cookie values were slightly extended to include the
3884 fully qualified hostname of the client.
3885 [Dean Gaudet] PR#2190, 2229, 2366
3887 *) Fix a typo in pool debugging code. [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
3889 *) mod_unique_id did not work on alpha linux (in general on any
3890 architecture that has 64-bit time_t).
3891 [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
3893 *) PORT: Make SCO 5 (and probably 3) compile again. [Ben Laurie]
3895 *) PORT: NCR MPRAS systems have the same bug with SIGHUP restart that
3896 Solaris systems experience. So define WORKAROUND_SOLARIS_BUG.
3897 [Klaus Weber <kweber@chephren.germany.ncr.com>] PR#1973
3899 *) Change "Options None" to "Options FollowSymLinks" in the
3900 <Directory /> section of the default access.conf-dist
3901 (and -win even though it doesn't matter there). This has better
3902 performance, and more intuitive semantics. [Dean Gaudet]
3904 *) PORT: Updated support for UTS 2.1.2.
3905 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#2320
3907 *) Fix symbol export list (src/support/httpd.exp) after recent
3908 API changes in the child spawning area.
3909 [Jens-Uwe Mager <jum@helios.de>]
3911 *) Workaround for configure script and old `test' commands which do not
3912 support the -x flag (for instance under platforms like Ultrix). This is
3913 solved by another helper script findprg.sh which searches for Perl and
3914 Awk like PrintPath but _via different names_.
3915 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3917 *) Remove the system() call from htpasswd.c, which eliminates a system
3918 dependancy. ["M.D.Parker" <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#2332
3920 *) PORT: Fix compilation failures on NEXTSTEP.
3921 [Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>] PR#2293, 2316
3923 *) PORT: F_NDELAY is a typo, should have been FNDELAY. There's also
3924 O_NDELAY on various systems. [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#2313
3926 *) PORT: helpers/GuessOS updates for various versions for NCR SVR4.
3927 [juerg schreiner <j.schreiner@zh.ch>,
3928 Bill Houle <Bill.Houle@SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM>] PR#2310
3930 *) Fix recently introduced Win32 child spawning code in mod_rewrite.c which
3931 was broken because of invalid ap_pstrcat() -> strcat() transformation.
3932 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3934 *) Proxy Cache Fixes: account for directory sizes, fork off garbage collection
3935 to continue in background, use predefined types (off_t, size_t, time_t),
3936 log the current cache usage percentage at LogLevel debug
3937 [Martin Kraemer, based on discussion between Dean Gaudet & Dirk vanGulik]
3939 Changes with Apache 1.3.0
3941 *) Using a type map file as a custom error document was not possible.
3942 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#1031
3944 *) Avoid problems with braindead Awks by additionally searching for gawk
3945 and nawk in APACI's configure script.
3946 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2319
3948 *) Rename md5.h to ap_md5.h to avoid conflicts with native MD5 on
3949 some systems. [Randy Terbush]
3951 *) Change usage of perror()+fprintf(stderr,...) in mod_rewrite to
3952 more proper ap_log_error() variants.
3953 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3955 *) Make sure the argument for the --add-module option to APACI's configure
3956 script is of type [path/to/]mod_xxx.c because all calculations inside
3957 configure and src/Configure depend on this.
3958 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2307
3960 *) Changes usage of perror/fprintf to stderr to more proper ap_log_error
3961 in mod_mime, mod_log_referer, mod_log_agent, and mod_log_config.
3964 *) Various OS/2 cleanups ["Brian Havard" <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
3966 *) PORT: QNX needed a #include <sys/mman.h>; and now it uses flock
3967 serialized accept to handle multiple sockets.
3968 [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2295, 2296
3970 *) Have NT properly set the directory for CGI scripts
3971 (& other spawned children)
3972 [W G Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>]
3974 *) Propagate environment to CGI scripts correctly in Win32.
3975 [W G Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#2294
3977 *) Some symbol renaming:
3978 ap_spawn_child_err became ap_spawn_child
3979 ap_spawn_child_err_buff became ap_bspawn_child
3980 spawn_child was obsoleted and moved to compat.h
3983 *) Upgrade the child spawning code in mod_rewrite for the RewriteMap
3984 programs: ap_spawn_child_err() is used and the Win32 case now uses
3985 CreateProcess() instead of a low-level execl() (which caused problems in
3986 the past under Win32).
3987 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3989 *) A few cosmetics and trivial enhancements to APXS to make the
3990 generated Makefile more user friendly. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3992 *) Proxy Fix: The proxy special failure routine ap_proxyerror()
3993 was updated to use the normal apache error processing, thereby allowing
3994 proxy errors to be treated by ErrorDocument's as well. For this
3995 purpose, a new module-to-core communication variable "error-notes"
3996 was introduced; the proxy (and possibly other modules) communicates
3997 its error text using this variable. Its content is copied to a new
3998 cgi-env-var REDIRECT_ERROR_NOTES for use by ErrorDocuments.
3999 The old proxy special error routine ap_proxy_log_uerror()
4000 was replaced by regular ap_log_error() calls, many messages were made
4002 [Martin Kraemer] PR#494, 1259
4004 *) SECURITY: A possible buffer overflow in the ftp proxy was fixed.
4007 *) Transform the configure message "You need root privileges for suEXEC"
4008 from a fatal error into a (more friendly) warning because the building
4009 ("make") of Apache we can allow, of course. Root privileges are needed
4010 only for the installation step ("make install"). So make sure the
4011 user is aware of this fact but let him proceed as long as he can.
4012 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2288
4014 *) Renamed three more functions to common ap_ prefix which we missed at the
4015 Big Symbol Renaming because they're #defines and not real C functions:
4016 is_default_port(), default_port(), http_method().
4017 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4019 *) A zero-length name after a $ in an SSI document should cause
4020 just the $ to be in the expansion. This was broken during the
4021 security fixes in 1.2.5. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1921, 2249
4023 *) Call ap_destroy_sub_req() in ap_add_cgi_vars() to reclaim some
4024 memory. [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2252
4026 *) Fix src/support/httpd.exp (DSO export file which is currently only
4027 used under AIX) because of recent changes to function names.
4028 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4030 Changes with Apache 1.3b7
4032 *) Make sure a MIME-type can be forced via a RewriteRule even when no
4033 substitution takes place, for instance via the following rule:
4034 ``RewriteRule ^myscript$ - [T=application/x-httpd-cgi]'' This was often
4035 requested by users in the past to force a single script without a .cgi
4036 extension and outside any cgi-bin dirs to be executed as a CGI program.
4037 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2254
4039 *) A fix for protocol issues surrounding 400, 408, and
4040 414 responses. [Ed Korthof]
4042 *) Ignore MaxRequestsPerChild on WIN32. [Brian Behlendorf]
4044 *) Fix discrepancy in proxy_ftp.c which was causing failures when
4045 trying to connect to certain ftpd's, such as anonftpd.
4046 [Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>]
4048 *) Make mod_rewrite use ap_open_piped_log() for RewriteLog directive's
4049 logfile instead of fiddling around itself with child spawning stuff.
4050 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4052 *) Made RefererIgnore case-insensitive.
4054 *) Mod_log_agent, mod_log_referer now use ap_open_piped_log for piped logs.
4057 *) Replace use of spawn_child with ap_spawn_child_err_buff, to make everything
4058 "safe" under Win32. In: mod_include.c, mod_mime_magic.c
4061 *) Improve RFC1413 support. [Bob Beck <beck@bofh.ucs.ualberta.ca>]
4063 *) Fix support script `dbmmanage': It was unable to handle some sort
4064 of passwords, especially passwords with "0" chars.
4065 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2242
4067 *) WIN32: Clicking on "Last Modified" in a fancy index caused a crash. Fixed.
4068 [Ben Laurie] PR#2238
4070 *) WIN32: CGIs could cause a hang (because of a deadlock in the standard C
4071 library), so CGI handling has been changed to use Win32 native handles
4072 instead of C file descriptors.
4073 [Ben Laurie and Bill Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#1129, 1607
4075 *) The proxy cache would store an incorrect content-length in the cached
4076 file copy after a cache update. That resulted in repeated fetching
4077 of the original copy instead of using the cached copy.
4078 [Ernst Kloppenburg <kloppen@isr.uni-stuttgart.de>] PR#2094
4080 *) The Makefiles assumed that DSO files are build via $(LD). This
4081 is broken for two reasons: First we never defined at least LD=ld
4082 somewhere to make sure this works (it was silently assumed that most Make
4083 provide a built-in LD definition - ARGL!) and second using the generic LD
4084 variable is not the truth. Instead a special variable named LD_SHLIB is
4085 reasonable because although "ld" is usually the default, the command for
4086 building DSO files can be "libtool" or even "cc" on some systems.
4087 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4089 *) Replace the AddVersionPlatform directive with ServerTokens which
4090 provides for more control over the format of the Server:
4091 header line. SERVER_SUBVERSION is no longer supported;
4092 all module should use the ap_add_version_component()
4093 API function instead. [Jim Jagielski]
4095 *) Support for the NCR MP/RAS 3.0
4096 [John Withers <withers@semi.kcsc.mwr.irs.gov>]
4098 *) The LDFLAGS_SHLIB_EXPORT variable of src/Configuration[.tmpl] was
4099 not retrieved in src/Configure and thus was not useable.
4100 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4102 *) Various Makefile consistency cleanups:
4103 - make OSDIR also automatically be relative to src/ like INCDIR
4104 - SUBDIRS is now generated in src/Makefile only and not in
4105 Makefile.config because it is a local define for this location.
4106 - remove BROKEN_BPRINTF_FLAGS because is it no longer used inside
4107 any Makefile but make sure that at least the "-K inline" is kept in
4109 - update the "depend" targets in Makefile.tmpl files to use $(OSDIR), too.
4110 - updated the dependencies theirself
4111 - removed not existing SHLIB variable from "clean" targets
4112 - replaced SHLIB_OBJS/SHLIBS_OBJ consistently with OBJS_PIC because OBJS
4113 already exists and OBJS_PIC are also just plain objects and have not
4114 directly to do with "shared" things. The only difference is that they
4115 contain PIC. So OBJS_PIC is the more canonical name.
4116 - Updated the Makefile-dependency lines for OBJS_PIC
4117 - Removed the Makefile-dependency line in Configure to avoid double
4119 - replaced ugly xx-so.o/xx.so-o hack with a clean and consistent usage
4120 of xxx.lo as GNU libtool does with its PIC objects
4121 - reduce local complexity in modules Makefile.tmpl by moving the last
4122 existing target "depend" to the generation section in Configure, too.
4123 - removed the historical $(SPACER) which was used in the past together
4124 with BROKEN_BPRINTF_FLAGS to avoid zig-zags in the build process. This
4125 is no longer needed.
4126 - force the build and run of the gen_xxx programs under main/ as the
4127 first step before building the objects because it looks cleaner
4128 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4130 *) WIN32: Make Win32 work again after the /dev/null DoS fix.
4133 *) WIN32: Check for buffer overflows in ap_os_canonical_filename.
4136 *) WIN32: Don't force ISAPI headers to finish with \n.
4137 [Jim Patterson <Jim.Patterson@Cognos.COM>, Ben Laurie] PR#2060
4139 *) When opening "configuration" files (like httpd.conf, htaccess
4140 and htpasswd), Apache will not allow them to be non-/dev/null
4141 device files. This closes a DoS hole. At the same time,
4142 we use ap_pfopen to open these files to handle timeouts.
4143 [Jim Jagielski, Martin Kraemer]
4145 *) Apache will now log the reason its httpd children exit if they exit
4146 due to an unexpected signal. (It requires a new porting define,
4147 SYS_SIGLIST, which if defined should point to a list of text
4148 descriptions of the signals available. See PORTING.) [Dean Gaudet]
4150 *) WIN32: chdir() doesn't make sense in a multithreaded environment
4151 like WIN32. Before, Win32 CGI's could have had sporadic failures
4152 if a chdir call from one thread was made between another chdir call
4153 and a spawn in another thread. So, for now don't chdir for CGI scripts
4154 in WIN32. The current CGI "spec" is unclear as to whether it's
4155 necessary. Long-term fix is to either serialize the chdir/spawn combo
4156 or use WIN32 native calls to spawn a process. This temp fix was
4157 necessary to remove this as a showstopper for 1.3's release.
4160 *) Cleanup the suEXEC support in APACI and make it more safe:
4161 1. Add big fat hint in INSTALL about risks and to read the
4162 htdocs/manual/suexec.html document before using the suexec-related
4164 2. Make sure the user has at least provided one --suexec-xxxx option
4165 (specifies suEXEC parameters) in addition to --enable-suexec option.
4166 If only --enable-suexec is given APACI stops with a hint to INSTALL
4167 and htdocs/manual/suexec.html documents.
4168 3. Provide two additional --suexec-xxxx options to make the suEXEC
4169 configuration complete (especially for package maintainers who else
4170 had to patch the source tree) by providing ways to configure minimal
4171 UID/GID and safe PATH, too.
4172 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4174 *) Cleanup of the `configure --shadow' process:
4175 - make sure the configure script creates its temporary files in the
4176 shadow tree to avoid conflicts with parallel configure runs
4177 - removed unnecessary option "-r" from "rm" call for Makefiles
4178 - make sure the configure scripts creates the shadow-wrapper Makefile
4179 only when no shadow trees already exists
4180 - make sure "make distclean" removes the shadow-wrapper Makefile but only
4181 when no more shadow trees exists
4182 - overhauled mkshadow.sh script: now its more IFS-safe and approx. twice
4183 as fast (in the past it needed 70sec, now it runs just 38sec)
4184 - make sure CVS does not complain about the created files
4185 Makefille.<gnutriple> and directories src.<gnutriple>
4186 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4188 *) Added the ap_add_version_component() API routine and the
4189 AddVersionPlatform core directive. The first allows modules to
4190 declare themselves in the Server response header field value,
4191 augmenting the SERVER_SUBVERSION define in the Configuration file
4192 with run-time settings (more useful in a loadable-module environment).
4193 AddVersionPlatform inserts a comment such as "(UNIX)" or "(Win32)"
4194 into the server version string. [Ken Coar] PR#2056
4196 *) Minor stability tweaks to avoid core dumps in ap_snprintf.
4199 *) Emit the "Accept-Range" header for the default handler.
4200 [Brian Behlendorf] PR#1464
4202 *) Add a note to httpd.conf-dist that apache will on some systems fail
4203 to start when the Group # is set to a negative or large positive value.
4206 *) Make sure the module execution order is correct even when some modules
4207 are loaded under runtime (`LoadModule') via the DSO mechanism:
4208 1. The list of loaded modules is now a dynamically allocated one
4209 and not the original statically list from modules.c
4210 2. The loaded modules are now correctly setup by LoadModule for
4211 later use by the AddModule command.
4212 3. When the DSO mechanism for modules is used APACI's `install'
4213 target now enables all created `LoadModule' lines per default because
4214 this is both already expected by the user _and_ needed to avoid
4215 confusion with the next point and reduces the Makefile.tmpl complexity
4216 4. When the DSO mechanism for modules is used, APACI's `install'
4217 target now additionally makes sure the module list is reconstructed
4218 via a complete `ClearModuleList+AddModule...' entry.
4219 5. The support tool `apxs' now also makes sure an AddModule command
4220 is added in addition to the LoadModule command.
4221 6. The modules.c generation was extended to now contain two
4222 comments to make sure no one is confused by the confusing terminology
4223 of loading/linking (we use load=link+load & link=activate instead of
4224 the obvious load=activate & link=link :-( )
4225 This way now there is no longer a difference under execution time between
4226 statically and dynamically linked modules.
4227 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4229 *) Fix the generated mod_xxx.c from "apxs -g -f xxx" after the
4230 Big Symbol Renaming. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4232 *) Add a comment to mod_example.c showing the format of a FLAG command
4235 *) Standardized the time format in mod_status to match that of other
4236 places in the code (e.g. DATE_GMT). PR#1551
4238 *) Fix handling of %Z in timefmt strings for those platforms with no time
4239 zone information in their tm struct. [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>]
4242 *) Makes mod_rewrite, mod_log_config, mod_status and the ServerSignature
4243 feature compatible with 'UseCanonicalName off' by changing
4244 r->server->server_hostname to ap_get_server_name(). And I changed some
4245 functions which use r->server->port to use ap_get_server_port() instead,
4246 because if there's no Port directive in the config r->server->port is 0.
4249 *) get/set_module_config are trivial enough to be better off inline. Worth
4250 1.5% performance boost. [Dean Gaudet]
4252 *) Fix off-by-one error in ap_proxy_date_canon() in proxy_util.c
4253 when ensuring 'x' is at least 30-chars big. [Jim Jagielski,
4256 *) [BS2000 security] BS2000 needs an extra authentication to initialize
4257 the task environment to the unprivileged User id. Otherwise CGI scripts
4258 would have a way to gain super user access. [Martin Kraemer]
4260 *) Fix debug log messages for BS2000/OSD: instead of logging the whole
4261 absolute path, only log base name of logging source as is done
4262 in unix. [Martin Kraemer]
4264 *) Ronald Tschalaer's Accept-Encoding patch - preserve the "x-" in
4265 the encoding type from the Accept-Encoding header (if it's there)
4266 and use it in the response, as that's probably what it'll be expecting.
4267 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch]
4269 *) Fix to mod_alias: translate_alias_redir is dealing with
4270 a URI, not a filename, so the check for drive letters for win32
4271 and emx is not necessary. [Dean Gaudet]
4273 *) WIN32: Allow .cmd as an executable extension.
4274 [Kari Likovuori <Kari.Likovuori@mol.fi>] PR#2146
4276 *) Make Apache header files, and some variables, C++ friendly.
4277 [Michael Anderson's <mka@redes.int.com.mx>]
4279 *) Child processes can now "signal" (by exiting with a status
4280 of APEXIT_CHILDFATAL) the parent process to abort and
4281 shutdown the server if the error in the child process was
4282 fatal enough. [Jim Jagielski]
4284 *) mod_autoindex's find_itme() was sensitive to MIME type case.
4285 [Jim Jagielski] PR#2112
4287 *) Make sure the referer_log and agent_log entries in the default httpd.conf
4288 file are also adjusted for the actual relative installation paths.
4289 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2175
4291 *) WIN32: Extensive overhaul of the way UNCs are handled. [Ben Laurie]
4293 *) WIN32: Make roots of filesystems (e.g. c:/) work. [Ben Laurie]
4296 *) PORT: Various porting changes to support AIX 3.2, 4.1.5, 4.2 and 4.3.
4297 Additionally the checks for finding the vendor DSO library were moved
4298 from mod_so.c to Configure because first it needs $PLAT etc. and second
4299 mod_so already uses an abstraction layer and does not fiddle with the
4300 vendor functions itself.
4301 [Jens-Uwe Mager, Ralf S. Engelschall]
4303 *) PORT: Some optimization defines for NetBSD
4304 [Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>] PR#2165
4306 *) PORT: Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for NetBSD.
4307 [Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2158
4309 *) Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for AIX (at least 4.2 but older
4310 AIX variants should work fine, too. Even AIX 3.x should work). This is
4311 accomplished by using the free DSO emulation code from Jens-Uwe Mager
4312 which we put into a os/unix/os-dso-aix.c file.
4313 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4315 *) PORT: Fix compiler warnings under AIX >= 4.2 where the manual pages imply
4316 that we should use NET_SIZE_T == int but the include files force size_t.
4317 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4319 *) Fix two bugs in select() handling in http_main.c.
4322 *) Suppress "error(0)" messages for ap_log_error() when the APLOG_NOERRNO
4323 is unset (as it is in situations like timeouts) where it is unclear
4324 whether errno is set or not. [Martin Kraemer]
4326 *) Just having APACI's localstatedir is too general and not enough for most
4327 of the systems. 1.3b6 again required manual APACI patches by package
4328 maintainers from RedHat and FreeBSD because for their filesystem layout a
4329 little bit more flexibility in configuring the paths is needed. Hence we
4330 provide three additional configure options (--runtimedir, --logfiledir,
4331 --proxycachedir) which now can be used for more granular adjustments if
4332 --localstatedir is not enough to fit the particular needs. As a nice
4333 side-effect this reduces some subdir fiddling in configure+Makefile.tmpl.
4334 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4336 *) Make the install root for "make install" in APACI's Makefile overrideable
4337 by package authors. This way we are even more friendly to package
4338 maintainers (especially Debian and RedHat) who build for the real prefix
4339 via "configure --prefix=/<real>" but use a different local prefix via
4340 "make root=/tmp/apache install" for rolling the package without bristling
4341 the target location on their system.
4342 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4344 *) Workaround sed limitations in APACI's configure script by now
4345 substituting in chunks of 50 commands (because for instance HPUX's vendor
4346 sed has a limit of max. 98 commands)
4347 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2136
4349 *) Adding SOCKS5 support and fixing existing SOCKS4 support.
4350 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2140
4352 *) Manually fix some symbols which were not renamed to prefix ap_ in the BIG
4353 RENAMING process because they are defined as pre-processor macros instead
4354 of real functions: bputc, bgetc, piped_log_write_fd, piped_log_read_fd
4355 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4357 *) Workaround braindead AWK's when generating ap_config.h: The split() and
4358 substr() functions cannot be nested under vendor AWK from Solaris 2.6.
4359 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2139
4361 *) Various bugfixes and cleanups for the APACI configure script:
4362 o fix IFS handling for _nested_ situation
4363 o fix Perl interpreter search: take first one found instead of last one
4364 o fix DSO consistency check
4365 o print error messages to stderr instead of stdout
4366 o add install-quiet for --shadow situation to Makefile stub
4367 o reduce complexity by avoiding sed-hacks for rule and module list loops
4368 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4370 *) Fix DEBUG_CGI situation in mod_cgi.c [David MacKenzie] PR#2114
4372 *) Make sure the input field separator (IFS) shell variable is explicitly
4373 initialized correctly before _every_ `for' loop and also restored after
4374 the loops. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4376 *) Make sure that "make install" doesn't overwrite the `mime.types' and
4377 `magic' files from an existing Apache installation. Because people often
4378 customize these for own MIME and content types.
4379 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4381 *) PORT: Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for OpenBSD 2.x
4382 [Peter Galbavy, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2109
4384 *) Fix the path to the ScoreBoardFile in the install-config target, too.
4385 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2105
4387 *) Let "configure" clear out the users parameters (provided as shell
4388 variables) to avoid side-effects in "src/Configure" when the user
4389 exported them (which is not needed, but some users do it).
4390 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2101
4392 *) Provide backward compatibility from some old src/Configuration.tmpl
4393 parameter names to the canonical Autoconf-style shell variable names. For
4394 instance CFLAGS vs. EXTRA_CFLAGS. The EXTRA_xxx variants are accepted now
4395 but a hint message is displayed. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4397 *) Make sure that "make install" doesn't overwrite the DocumentRoot and
4398 CGI scripts from an existing Apache installation.
4399 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Jim Jagielski] PR#2084
4401 *) Make `configure --compat' more "compatible" by first
4402 let the libexecdir default to EPREFIX/libexec instead of EPREFIX/bin and
4403 second by making sure the "avoid-bristling-suffix" /apache is not
4404 appended to sysconfdir, datadir, localstatedir and includedir when
4405 --compat is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Lars Eilebrecht]
4407 *) NeXT required strdup() in support/logresolve.c
4408 [Francisco Tomei <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>] PR#2082
4410 *) AIX required sys/select.h in support/ab.c
4411 [Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@dlr.de>] PR#2081
4413 *) Fix the path to the MimeMagicFile in the install-config target, too.
4414 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2089
4416 *) PORT: Added HP-UX 11 patches [Jeff Earickson <jaearick@colby.edu>]
4418 *) If you start apache with the -S command line option it will dump
4419 out the parsed vhost settings. This is useful for folks trying
4420 to figure out what is wrong with their vhost configuration.
4421 (Other dumps may be added in the future.) [Dean Gaudet]
4423 *) Add %pA, %pI, and %pp codes to ap_vformatter (and hence ap_bprintf,
4424 ap_snprintf, and ap_psprintf). See include/ap.h for docs.
4427 *) Because /usr/local/apache is the default prefix the ``configure
4428 --compat'' option no longer has to set prefix, again. This way the
4429 --compat option honors a leading --prefix option. [Lars Eilebrecht]
4431 *) PORT: Cast the first argument of dlopen() in ap_os_dso_load()
4432 to `char *' under OSF1 and FreeBSD 2.x where it is defined this way
4433 to avoid "discard const" warnings. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4435 *) If a specific handler is set for a file yet the request still
4436 ends up being handled by the default handler, log an error
4437 message before handling it. This catches things such as trying
4438 to use SSIs without mod_include enabled. [Marc Slemko]
4440 *) Fix error logging for the startup case where ap_log_error() still uses
4441 stderr as the target. Now the default log level is honored here, too.
4442 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4444 *) PORT: Make sure some AWK's don't fail in src/Configure with "string too
4445 long" errors when generating the MODULES entry for src/Makefile
4446 [Ben Hyde, Ralf S. Engelschall]
4448 *) Make sure src/Configure doesn't complain about the old directory
4449 /usr/local/etc/httpd/ when APACI is used. [Lars Eilebrecht]
4451 Changes with Apache 1.3b6
4453 *) PORT: Clean up warnings on Ultrix and HPUX. [Ben Hyde]
4455 *) Adding DSO support for the HP/UX platform by emulating the dlopen-style
4456 interface via the similar but proprietary HP/UX shl_xxx-style system
4457 calls. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4459 *) PORT: Updated UnixWare 2.0.x and 2.1.x entries for DSO support and made
4460 APACI Makefile.tmpl "install" target more robust for sensible UnixWare
4461 Make. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4463 *) ++++ THE BIG SYMBOL RENAMING ++++
4464 To avoid symbol clashes with third-party code compiled into the server,
4465 we globally applied the prefix "ap_" to the following classes of
4467 - Apache provided general functions (e.g., ap_cpystrn)
4468 - Public API functions (e.g., palloc, bgets)
4469 - Private functions which we can't make static (because of
4470 cross-object usage) but should be (e.g., new_connection)
4471 For backward source compatibility a new header file named compat.h was
4472 created which provides defines for the old symbol names and can be used
4473 by third-party module authors.
4476 *) Added dynamic shared object (DSO) support for SVR4-derivates: The
4477 problem under SVR4 is that there is no command flag to force the linker
4478 to export the global symbols of the httpd executable therewith they are
4479 available to the DSO's. Instead of problematic hacks like creating a
4480 dummy.so file (containing dummy references to all global symbols) the
4481 httpd binary is linked against, we use a clean trick stolen from Perl 5:
4482 Placing the Apache core code itself into a DSO library named libhttpd.so.
4483 This way the global symbols _HAVE_ to be exported and thus are available
4484 to any manually loaded DSO's under runtime. To reduce the impact to the
4485 user to null we go even further and create a stub httpd executable which
4486 automatically keeps track of the DSO library loading itself and thus
4487 hides the complete mechanism from the user. Although the generation of
4488 this DSO library is automatically triggered for platforms which
4489 essentially need it (mostly all SVR4-derivates) it can be also enabled
4490 manually via the Rule SHARED_CORE. This can be interesting in the future
4491 where we perhaps exploit this libhttpd.so mechanism for providing nifty
4492 features like graceful upgrades, or whatever.
4493 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Martin Kraemer]
4495 *) Build the libraries before building the rest of the tools. [Ben Hyde]
4497 *) Add "distclean" target to src/-Makefiles to provide "make distclean" also
4498 inside the src subtree (i.e. for non-APACI users). Following GNU Makefile
4499 conventions while "clean" removes only stuff created by "all" targets,
4500 "distclean" additionally removes the stuff from the configuration
4501 process. This way "make distclean" (hence the name) provides a fresh
4502 source tree as it was for distribution.
4503 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4505 *) Allow top-level (APACI) Makefile to break on build errors
4506 the same way the src/ subtree Makefiles breaks on them by replacing the
4507 initial APACI sed-subdir-display-kludge with a more clean
4508 variable-passing-solution: variable SDP can optionally hold the subdir
4509 prefix which is consistently used for displaying the subdir movement.
4510 This way even the top-level Makefile can stop correctly on errors as the
4511 user expects. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4513 *) Fixed ordering of argument checks for RewriteBase directive.
4514 [Todd Eigenschink <eigenstr@mixi.net>] PR#2045
4516 *) Change Win32 IS_MODULE to SHARED_MODULE to match Unix' method of
4517 indicating that a module is being compiled for dynamic loading. Also
4518 remove #define IS_MODULE from modules and add SHARED_MODULE define
4519 to the mak/dsp files. [Alexei Kosut]
4521 *) Reduce logging level of "normal" warning messages to APLOG_INFO,
4522 since we are now logging APLOG_WARNING by default. [Roy Fielding]
4524 *) PORT: OS/2 tweak to deal with multiple .exe targets. [Brian Havard]
4526 *) Add documentation file and src/Configuration.tmpl entry for the
4527 experimental mod_mmap_static module. Because although it is and marked as
4528 an experimental one it is distributed and thus should be documented and
4529 prepared for configuration the same way as all others modules.
4530 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4532 *) Add query (-q) option to apxs support tool to be able to manually query
4533 specific settings from apxs. This is needed for instance when you
4534 manually want to access Apache's header files and you need to assemble
4535 the -I option. Now you can do -I`apxs -q INCLUDEDIR`.
4536 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4538 *) Now src/Configure uses a fallback strategy for the shared object support
4539 on platforms where no explicit information is available: If a Perl
4540 installation exists we ask it about its shared object support and if it's
4541 the dlopen-style one we shamelessly guess the compiler and linker flags
4542 for creating shared objects from Perls knowledge. Of course, the user is
4543 warning about what we are doing and informed that he should send us
4544 the guessed flags when they work. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4546 *) Provide APACI --without-support option to be able to disable the build
4547 and installation of the support tools from the src/support/ area.
4548 Although its useful to have these installed per default we should provide
4549 a way to compile and install without them for backward-compatibility.
4550 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4552 *) Add of the new APache eXtenSion (apxs) support tool for building and
4553 installing modules into an _already installed_ Apache package through the
4554 dynamic shared object (DSO) mechanism [mod_so.c]. The trick here is that
4555 this approach actually doesn't need the Apache source tree. The
4556 (APACI-installed) server package is enough, because this now includes the
4557 Apache C header files (PREFIX/include) and the new APXS tool
4558 (SBINDIR/apxs). The intend is to provide a handy tool for third-party
4559 module authors to build their Apache modules _OUTSIDE_ the Apache source
4560 tree while avoiding them to fiddle around with the totally platform
4561 dependend way of compiling DSO files. The tool supports all ranges of
4562 modules, from trivial ones (single mod_foo.c) to complex ones (like PHP3
4563 which has a mod_php3.c plus a pre-built libmodphp3-so.a) and even can
4564 on-the-fly generate a minimalistic Makefile and sample module for the
4565 first step to provide both a quick success event and to demonstrate the
4566 APXS mechanism to module authors. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4568 *) Fix core dumps in use of CONNECT in proxy.
4569 [Rainer.Scherg@rexroth.de] PR#1326, #1573, #1942
4571 *) Modify the log directives in httpd.conf-dist files to use CustomLog
4572 so that users have examples of how CustomLog can be used.
4575 *) Add the new Apache Autoconf-style Interface (APACI) for the top-level of
4576 the Apache distribution tree. Until Apache 1.3 there was no real
4577 out-of-the-box batch-capable build and installation procedure for the
4578 complete Apache package. This is now provided by a top-level "configure"
4579 script and a corresponding top-level "Makefile.tmpl" file. The goal is
4580 to provide a GNU Autoconf-style frontend which is capable to both drive
4581 the old src/Configure stuff in batch and additionally installs the
4582 package with a GNU-conforming directory layout. Any options from the old
4583 configuration scheme are available plus a lot of new options for flexibly
4584 customizing Apache. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4586 *) The floating point ap_snprintf code wasn't threadsafe.
4587 Had to remove the HAVE_CVT macro in order to do threadsafe
4588 calling of the ?cvt() floating point routines. [Dean Gaudet]
4590 *) PORT: Add the SCO_SV port. [Jim Jagielski] PR#1962
4592 *) PORT: IRIX needs the -n32 flag iff using the 'cc' compiler
4593 [Jim Jagielski] PR#1901
4595 *) BUG: Configure was using TCC and CC inconsistently. Make sure
4596 Configure knows which CC we are using. [Jim Jagielski]
4598 *) "Options +Includes" wasn't correctly merged if "+IncludesNoExec"
4599 was defined in a parent directory. [Lars Eilebrecht]
4601 *) API: ap_snprintf() code mutated into ap_vformatter(), which is
4602 a generic printf-style routine that can call arbitrary output
4603 routines. Use this to replace http_bprintf.c. Add new routines
4604 psprintf(), pvsprintf() which allocate the exact amount of memory
4605 required for a string from a pool. Use psprintf() to clean up
4606 various bits of code which used ap_snprintf()/pstrdup().
4609 *) PORT: HAVE_SNPRINTF doesn't do anything any longer. This is because
4610 ap_snprintf() has different semantics and formatting codes than
4611 snprintf(). [Dean Gaudet]
4613 *) SIGXCPU and SIGXFSZ are now reset to SIG_DFL at boot-time. This
4614 is necessary on at least Solaris where the /etc/rc?.d scripts
4615 are run with these signals ignored, and "SIG_IGN" settings are
4616 maintained across exec().
4617 [Rein Tollevik <reint@sys.sol.no>] PR#2009
4619 *) Fix the check for symbolic links in ``RewriteCond ... -l'': stat() was
4620 used instead of lstat() and thus this flag didn't work as expected.
4621 [Rein Tollevik <reint@sys.sol.no>] PR#2010
4623 *) Fix the proxy pass-through feature of mod_rewrite for the case of
4624 existing QUERY_STRING now that mod_proxy was recently changed because of
4625 the new URL parsing stuff. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4627 *) A few changes to scoreboard definitions which helps gcc generate
4628 better code. [Dean Gaudet]
4630 *) ANSI C doesn't guarantee that "int foo : 2" in a structure will
4631 be a signed bitfield. So mark a few bitfields as signed to
4632 ensure correct code. [Dean Gaudet]
4634 *) The default for HostnameLookups was changed to Off, but there
4635 was a problem and it wasn't taking effect. [Dean Gaudet]
4637 *) PORT: Clean up undefined signals on some platforms (SCO, BeOS).
4640 *) After a SIGHUP the listening sockets in the parent weren't
4641 properly marked for closure on fork().
4642 [Jürgen Keil <jk@tools.de>] PR#2000
4644 *) Allow %2F in two situations: 1) it is in the query part of the URI,
4645 therefore not exposed to %2F -> '/' translations and 2) the request
4646 is a proxy request, so we're not dealing with a local resource anyway.
4647 Without this, the proxy would fail to work for any URL's with
4648 %2f in them (occurs quite often in
4649 http://.../cgi-bin/...?http%3A%2F%2F... references) [Martin Kraemer]
4651 *) Protect against FD_SETSIZE mismatches. [Dean Gaudet]
4653 *) Make the shared object compilation command more portable by avoiding
4654 the direct combination of `-c' & `-o' which is not honored by some
4655 compilers like UnixWare's cc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4657 *) WIN32: the proxy was creating filenames missing the last four
4658 characters. While this normally doesn't stop anything from
4659 working, it can result in extra collisions.
4660 [Tim Costello <tjcostel@socs.uts.edu.au>] PR#1890
4662 *) Now mod_proxy uses the response string (in addition to the response status
4663 code) from the already used FTP SIZE command to setup the Content-Length
4664 header if available. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1183
4666 *) Reanimated the (still undocumented) proxy receive buffer size directive:
4667 Renamed from ReceiveBufferSize to ProxyReceiveBufferSize because the old
4668 name was really too generic, added documentation for this directive to
4669 the mod_proxy.html and corrected the hyperlink to it in the
4670 new_features_1.3.html document. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1348
4672 *) Fix a bug in the src/helpers/fp2rp script and make it a little bit
4673 faster [Martin Kraemer]
4675 *) Make Configure die when you give it an unknown command switch.
4678 *) Add five new and fresh manpages for the support programs: dbmmanage.1,
4679 suexec.8, htdigest.1, rotatelogs.8 and logresolve.8. Now all up-to-date
4680 and per default compiled support programs have manual pages - just to
4681 document our stuff a little bit more and to be able to do really
4682 Unix-like installations ;-) [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4684 *) Major cleanups to the Configure script to make it and its generated
4685 Makefiles again readable and maintainable: add SRCDIR option, removed
4686 INCLUDES_DEPTH[0-2] kludge, cleanup of TARGET option, cleanup of
4687 generated sections, consequently added Makefile headers with inheritance
4688 information, added subdir movement messages for easier following where
4689 the build process currently stays (more verbose then standard Make, less
4690 verbose than GNU make), same style to comments in the Configure script,
4691 added Apache license header, fixed a few bugs, etc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4693 *) Add the new ApacheBench program "ab" to src/support/: This is derived
4694 from the ZeusBench benchmarking program and can be used to determine the
4695 response performance of an Apache installation. This version is
4696 officially licensed with Zeus Technology, Ltd. See the license agreement
4697 statements in <199803171224.NAA24547@en1.engelschall.com> in apache-core.
4698 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4700 *) API: Various core functions that are definately not part of the API
4701 have been made static, and a few have been marked API_EXPORT. Still
4702 more have been marked CORE_EXPORT and are not intended for general
4703 use by modules. [Doug MacEachern, Dean Gaudet]
4705 *) mod_proxy was not clearing the Proxy-Connection header from
4706 requests; now it does. This did not violate any spec, however
4707 causes poor interactions when you are talking to remote proxies.
4708 [Marc Slemko] PR#1741
4710 *) Various cleanups to the command line interface and manual pages.
4711 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4713 *) cfg_getline() was not properly handling lines that did not end
4714 with a line termination character. [Marc Slemko] PR#1869, 1909
4716 *) Performance tweak to mod_log_config. [Dmitry Khrustalev]
4718 *) Clean up some undocumented behavior of mod_setenvif related to
4719 "merging" two SetEnvIf directives when they match the same header
4720 and regex. Document that mod_setenvif will perform comparisons in
4721 the order they appear in the config file. Optimize mod_setenvif by
4722 doing more work at config time rather than at runtime.
4725 *) src/include/ap_config.h now wraps it's #define's with #ifndef/#endif's
4726 to allow for modules to overrule them and to reduce redefinition
4727 warnings [Jim Jagielski]
4729 *) [PORT] For A/UX change the OS-#define for -DAUX to -DAUX3.
4732 *) Making the hard-coded cross-module function call mime_find_ct() (from
4733 mod_proxy to mod_mime) obsolete by making sure the API hook for MIME type
4734 checking is really called even for proxy requests except for URLs with
4735 HTTP schemes (because there we can optimize by not running the type
4736 checking hooks due to the fact that the proxy gets the MIME Content-type
4737 from the remote host later). This change cleans up mod_mime by removing
4738 the ugly export kludge, makes the one-liner file mod_mime.h obsolete, and
4739 especially unbundles mod_proxy and mod_mime. This way they both now can
4740 be compiled as shared objects and are no longer tied together.
4741 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4743 *) util.c cleanup and speedup. [Dean Gaudet]
4745 *) API: Clarification, pstrndup() will always copy n bytes of the source
4746 and NUL terminate at the (n+1)st byte. [Dean Gaudet]
4748 *) Mark module command_rec and handler_rec structures const so that they
4749 end up in the read-only data section (and are friendlier to systems
4750 that don't do optimistic memory allocation on fork()). [Dean Gaudet]
4752 *) Add check to the "Port" directive to make sure the specified
4753 port is in the appropriate range. [Ben Hyde]
4755 *) Performance improvements to invoke_handler().
4756 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>]
4758 *) Added support for building shared objects even for library-style modules
4759 (which are built from more than one object file). This now provides the
4760 ability to build mod_proxy as a shared object module. Additionally
4761 modules like mod_example are now also supported for shared object
4762 building because the generated Makefiles now no longer assume there is at
4763 least one statically linked module. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4765 *) API: Clarify usage of content_type, handler, content_encoding,
4766 content_language and content_languages fields in request_rec. They
4767 must always be lowercased; and the strings pointed to shouldn't
4768 be modified (you must copy them to modify them). Fix a few bugs
4769 related to this. [Dean Gaudet]
4771 *) API: Clarification: except for RAW_ARGS, all command handlers can
4772 treat the char * parameters as permanent, and modifiable. There
4773 is no need to pstrdup() them. Clean up some needless pstrdup().
4776 *) Now mod_so keeps track of which module shared objects with which names
4777 are loaded and thus avoids multiple loading and unloading and irritating
4778 error_log messages. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4780 *) Prior to the existence of mod_setenv it was necessary to tweak the TZ
4781 environment variable in the apache core. But that tweaking interferes
4782 with mod_setenv. So don't tweak if the user has specified an explicit
4783 TZ variable. [Jay Soffian <jay@cimedia.com>] PR#1888
4785 *) rputs() did not calculate r->sent_bodyct properly.
4786 [Siegmund Stirnweiss <siegst@kat.ina.de>] PR#1900
4788 *) The CGI spec says that REMOTE_HOST should be set to the remote hosts's
4789 name, or left unset if this value is unavailable. Apache was setting
4790 it to the IP address when unavailable.
4791 [Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>] PR#1925
4793 *) Various improvements to the configuration and build support for compiling
4794 modules as shared objects. Especially Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.1, IRIX and
4795 OSF1 support with GCC and vendor compilers was added. This way shared
4796 object support is now provided out-of-the-box for FreeBSD, Linux,
4797 Solaris, SunOS, IRIX and OSF1. In short: On all major platforms!
4798 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4800 *) Minor cleanup in http_main -- split QNX and OS2 specific "mmap"
4801 scoreboard code into separate #defines -- USE_POSIX_SCOREBOARD
4802 and USE_OS2_SCOREBOARD. [Dean Gaudet]
4804 *) Fix one more special locking problem for RewriteMap programs in
4805 mod_rewrite: According to the documentation of flock(), "Locks are on
4806 files, not file descriptors. That is, file descriptors duplicated
4807 through dup(2) or fork(2) do not result in multiple instances of a lock,
4808 but rather multiple references to a single lock. If a process holding a
4809 lock on a file forks and the child explicitly unlocks the file, the
4810 parent will lose its lock.". To overcome this we have to make sure the
4811 RewriteLock file is opened _AFTER_ the childs were spawned which is now
4812 the case by opening it in the child_init instead of the module_init API
4813 hook. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1029
4815 *) Change to Location and LocationMatch semantics. LocationMatch no
4816 longer lets a single slash match multiple adjacent slashes in the
4817 URL. This change is for consistency with RewriteRule and
4818 AliasMatch. Multiple slashes have meaning in URLs that they do
4819 not have in (some) filesystems. Location on the other hand can
4820 be considered a shorthand for a more complicated regex, and it
4821 does match multiple slashes with a single slash -- which is
4822 also consistent with the Alias directive.
4823 [Dean Gaudet] related PR#1440
4825 *) Fix bug with mod_mime_magic causing certain files, including files
4826 of length 0, to result in no response from the server.
4829 *) The Configure script now generates src/include/ap_config.h which
4830 contains the set of defines used when Apache is compiled on a platform.
4831 This file can then be included by external modules before including
4832 any Apache header files in case they are being built separately from
4833 Apache. Along with this change, a couple of minor changes were
4834 made to make Apache's #defines coexist peacefully with any autoconf
4835 defines an external module might have. [Rasmus Lerdorf]
4837 *) Fix mod_rewrite for the ugly API case where <VirtualHost> sections exist
4838 but without any RewriteXXXXX directives. Here mod_rewrite is given no
4839 chance by the API to initialize its per-server configuration and thus
4840 receives the wrong one from the main server. This is now avoided by
4841 remembering the server together with the config structure while
4842 configuring and later assuming there is no config when we see a
4843 difference between the remembered server and the one calling us.
4844 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1790
4846 *) Fixed the DBM RewriteMap support for mod_rewrite: First the support now
4847 is automatically disabled under configure time when the dbm_xxx functions
4848 are not available. Second, two heavy source code errors in the DBM
4849 support code were fixed. This makes DBM RewriteMap's usable again after
4850 a long time of brokenness. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1696
4852 *) Now all configuration files support Unix-style line-continuation via
4853 the trailing backslash ("\") character. This enables us to write down
4854 complex or just very long directives in a more readable way. The
4855 backslash character has to be really the last character before the
4856 newline and it has not been prefixed by another (escaping) backslash.
4857 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4859 *) When using ProxyPass the ?querystring was not passed correctly.
4860 [Joel Truher <truher@wired.com>]
4862 *) To deal with modules being compiled and [dynamically] linked
4863 at a different time from the core, the SERVER_VERSION and
4864 SERVER_BUILT symbols have been abstracted through the new
4865 API routines apapi_get_server_version() and apapi_get_server_built().
4868 *) WIN32: Preserve trailing slash in canonical path (and hence
4869 in PATH_INFO). [Paul Sutton, Ben Laurie]
4871 *) PORT: USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT has proven unreliable
4872 depending on the rev of Solaris and what mixture of modules
4873 are in use. So it has been disabled, and Solaris is back to
4874 using USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT. Users may experiment with
4875 USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT at their own risk, it may speed
4876 up static content only servers. Or it may fail unpredictably.
4877 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1779, 1854, 1904
4879 *) mod_test_util_uri.c created which tests the logic in util_uri.c.
4882 *) API: Rewrite of absoluteURI handling, and in particular how
4883 absoluteURIs match vhosts. Unless a request is a proxy request, a
4884 "http://host" url is treated as if a similar "Host:" header had been
4885 supplied. This change was made to support future HTTP/1.x protocols
4886 which may require clients to send absoluteURIs for all requests.
4888 In order to achieve this change subtle changes were made to the API. In a
4889 request_rec, r->hostlen has been removed. r->unparsed_uri now exists so
4890 that the unmodified uri can be retrieved easily. r->proxyreq is not set
4891 by the core, modules must set it during the post_read_request or
4892 translate_names phase.
4894 Plus changes to the virtualhost test suite for absoluteURI testing.
4896 This fixes several bugs with the proxy proxying requests to vhosts
4897 managed by the same httpd.
4900 *) API: Cleanup of code in http_vhost.c, and remove vhost matching
4901 code from mod_rewrite. The vhost matching is now performed by a
4902 globally available function matches_request_vhost(). [Dean Gaudet]
4904 *) Reduce memory usage, and speed up ServerAlias support. As a
4905 side-effect users can list multiple ServerAlias directives
4906 and they're all considered.
4907 [Chia-liang Kao <clkao@cirx.org>] PR#1531
4909 *) The "poly" directive in image maps did not include the borders of the
4910 polygon, whereas the "rect" directive does. Fix this inconsistency.
4911 [Konstantin Morshnev <moko@design.ru>] PR#1771
4913 *) Make \\ behave as expected. [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch]
4915 *) Add the `%a' construct to LogFormat and CustomLog to log the client IP
4916 address. [Todd Eigenschink <eigenstr@mixi.net>] PR#1885
4918 *) API: A new source module main/util_uri.c; It contains a routine
4919 parse_uri_components() and friends which breaks a URI into its component
4920 parts. These parts are stored in a uri_components structure called
4921 parsed_uri within each request_rec, and are available to all modules.
4922 Additionally, an unparse routine is supplied which re-assembles the URI
4923 components back to an URI, optionally hiding the username:password@ part
4924 from ftp proxy requests, and other useful routines. Within the structure,
4925 you find on a ready-for-use basis:
4926 scheme; /* scheme ("http"/"ftp"/...) */
4927 hostinfo; /* combined [user[:password]@]host[:port] */
4928 user; /* user name, as in http://user:passwd@host:port/ */
4929 password; /* password, as in http://user:passwd@host:port/ */
4930 hostname; /* hostname from URI (or from Host: header) */
4931 port_str; /* port string (integer representation is in "port") */
4932 path; /* the request path (or "/" if only scheme://host was given) */
4933 query; /* Everything after a '?' in the path, if present */
4934 fragment; /* Trailing "#fragment" string, if present */
4935 This is meant to serve as the platform for *BIG* savings in
4936 code complexity for the proxy module (and maybe the vhost logic).
4939 *) Make all possible meta-construct expansions ($N, %N, %{NAME} and
4940 ${map:key}) available for all location where a string is created in
4941 mod_rewrite rewriting rulesets: 1st arg of RewriteCond, 2nd arg of
4942 RewriteRule and for the [E=NAME:STRING] flag of RewriteRule. This way the
4943 possible expansions are consequently usable at all string creation
4944 locations. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4946 *) Fix initialization of RewriteLogLevel (default now is 0 as documented
4947 and not 1) and the per-virtual-server merging of directives. Now all
4948 directives except `RewriteEngine' and `RewriteOption' are either
4949 completely overridden (default) or completely inherited (when
4950 `RewriteOptions inherit') is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1325
4952 *) Fix `RewriteMap' program lookup in situations where such maps are
4953 defined but disabled (`RewriteEngine off') in per-server context.
4954 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1431
4956 *) Fix bug introduced in 1.3b4-dev, config with no Port setting would cause
4957 server to bind to port 0 rather than 80. [Dean Gaudet]
4959 *) Fix long-standing problem with RewriteMap _programs_ under Unix derivates
4960 (like SunOS and FreeBSD) which don't accept the locking of pipes
4961 directly. A new directive RewriteLock is introduced which can be used to
4962 setup a separate locking file which then is used for synchronization.
4963 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1029
4965 *) WIN32: The server root is obtained from the registry key
4966 HKLM\SOFTWARE\Apache Group\Apache\<version> (version is currently
4967 "1.3 beta"), unless overridden by the -d command line flag. The
4968 value is stored by running "apache -i -d serverroot". [Paul Sutton]
4970 *) Merged os/win32/mod_dll.c into modules/standard/mod_so.c to support
4971 dynamic loading on Win32 and Unix via the same module. [Paul Sutton]
4973 *) Now mod_rewrite no longer makes problematic assumptions on the characters
4974 a username can contain when trying to expand it via /etc/passwd.
4975 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4977 *) The mod_setenvif BrowserMatch backwards compatibility command did not
4978 work properly with spaces in the regex. [Ronald Tschalaer] PR#1825
4980 *) Add new RewriteMap types: First, `rnd' which is equivalent to the `txt'
4981 type but with a special post-processing for the looked-up value: It
4982 parses it into alternatives according to `|' chars and then only one
4983 particular alternative is chosen randomly (this is an essential
4984 functionality needed for balancing between backend-servers when using
4985 Apache as a Reverse Proxy. The looked up value here is a list of
4986 servers). Second, `int' with the built-in maps named `tolower' and
4987 `toupper' which can be used to map URL parts to a fixed case (this is an
4988 essential feature to fix the case of server names when doing mass
4989 virtual-hosting with the help of mod_rewrite instead of using
4990 <VirtualHost> sections). [Ralf S. Engelschall, parts based on code from
4991 Jay Soffian <jay@cimedia.com>] PR#1631
4993 *) Add a new directive to mod_proxy similar to ProxyPass: `ProxyPassReverse'.
4994 This directive lets Apache adjust the URL in Location-headers on HTTP
4995 redirect responses sent by the remote server. This way the virtually
4996 mapped area is no longer left on redirects and thus by-passed which is
4997 especially essential when running Apache as a reverse proxy.
4998 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5000 *) Hide Proxy-Authorization from CGI/SSI/etc just like Authorization is
5001 hidden. [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
5003 *) Apache will, when started with the -X (single process) debugging flag,
5004 honor the SIGINT or SIGQUIT signals again now. This capability got lost
5005 a while ago during OS/2 signal handling changes.
5007 *) [PORT] Work around the fact that NeXT runs on more than the
5008 m68k chips in mod_status [Scott Anguish and Timothy Luoma
5011 *) [PORT] Recognize FreeBSD versions so we can use the OS regex as well
5012 as handling unsigned-chars for FreeBSD v3 and v2 [Andrey Chernov
5013 <ache@nagual.pp.ru> and Jim] PR#1450
5015 *) Use SA_RESETHAND or SA_ONESHOT when installing the coredump handlers.
5016 In particular the handlers could trigger themselves into an infinite
5017 loop if RLimitMem was used with a small amount of memory -- too small
5018 for the signal stack frame to be set up. [Dean Gaudet]
5020 *) Fix problems with absoluteURIs introduced during 1.3b4. [Dean Gaudet,
5021 Alvaro Martinez Echevarria <alvaro@lander.es>]
5023 *) Fix multiple UserDir problem introduced during 1.3b4-dev.
5024 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1850
5026 *) ap_cpystrn() had an off-by-1 error.
5027 [Charles Fu <ccwf@klab.caltech.edu>] PR#1847
5029 *) API: As Ken suggested the check_cmd_context() function and related
5030 defines are non-static now so modules can use 'em. [Martin Kraemer]
5032 *) mod_info would occasionally produce an unpaired <tt> in its
5033 output. Fixed. [Martin Kraemer]
5035 *) By default AIX binds a process (and it's children) to a single
5036 processor. httpd children now unbind themselves from that cpu
5037 and re-bind to one selected at random via bindprocessor()
5040 *) Linux 2.0 and above implement RLIMIT_AS, RLIMIT_DATA has almost no
5041 effect. Work around it by using RLIMIT_AS for the RLimitMEM
5042 directive. [Enrik Berkhan <enrik@inka.de>] PR#1816
5044 *) mod_mime_magic error message should indicate the filename when
5045 reads fail. ["M.D.Parker" <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#1827
5047 *) Previously Apache would permit </Files> to end <FilesMatch> (and
5048 similary for Location and Directory), now this is diagnosed as an
5049 error. Improve error messages for mismatched sections (<Files>,
5050 <FilesMatch>, <Directory>, <DirectoryMatch>, ...).
5051 [Dean Gaudet, Martin Kraemer]
5053 *) <Files> is not permitted within <Location> (because of the
5054 semantic ordering). [Dean Gaudet] PR#379
5056 *) <Files> with wildcards was broken by the change in wildcard
5057 semantics (* does not match /). To fix this, <Files> now
5058 apply only to the basename of the request filename. This
5059 fixes some other inconsistencies in <Files> semantics
5060 (such as <Files a*b> not working). [Dean Gaudet] PR#1817
5062 *) Removed bogus "dist.tar" target from Makefile.tmpl and make sure
5063 backup files are removed on "clean" target [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5065 *) PORT: Add -lm to LIBS for HPUX. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1639
5067 *) Various errors from select() and accept() in child_main() would
5068 result in an infinite loop. It seems these two tickle kernel
5069 or library bugs occasionally, and result in log spammage and
5070 a generally bad scene. Now the child exits immediately,
5071 which seems to be a good workaround.
5072 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1747, 1107, 588, 1787, 987, 588
5074 *) Cleaned up some race conditions in unix child_main during
5075 initialization. [Dean Gaudet]
5077 *) SECURITY: "UserDir /abspath" without a * in the path would allow
5078 remote users to access "/~.." and bypass access restrictions
5079 (but note /~../.. was handled properly).
5080 [Lauri Jesmin <jesmin@ut.ee>] PR#1701
5082 *) API: os_is_path_absolute() now takes a const char * instead of a char *.
5085 Changes with Apache 1.3b5
5087 *) Source file dependencies in Makefile.tmpl files throughout the
5088 source tree were updated to accurately reflect reality.
5091 *) Preserve the content encoding given by the AddEncoding directive
5092 when the client doesn't otherwise specify an encoding.
5093 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>]
5095 *) Sort out problems with canonical filename handling happening too late.
5096 [Dean Gaudet, Ben Laurie]
5098 Changes with Apache 1.3b4
5100 *) The module structure was modified to include a *dynamic_load_handle
5101 in the STANDARD_MODULE_STUFF portion, and the MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER
5102 has been bumped accordingly. [Paul Sutton]
5104 *) All BrowserMatch directives mentioned in
5105 htdocs/manual/known_client_problems.html are in the default
5106 configuration files. [Lars Eilebrecht]
5108 *) MiNT port update. [Jan Paul Schmidt]
5110 *) HTTP/1.1 requires x-gzip and gzip encodings be treated
5111 equivalent, similarly for x-compress and compress. Apache
5112 now ignores a leading x- when comparing encodings. It also
5113 preserves the encoding the client requests (for example if
5114 it requests x-gzip, then Apache will respond with x-gzip
5115 in the Content-Encoding header).
5116 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>] PR#1772
5118 *) Fix a memory leak on keep-alive connections. [Igor Tatarinov]
5120 *) Added mod_so module to support dynamic loading of modules on Unix
5121 (like mod_dld for Win32). This replaces mod_dld.c. Use SharedModule
5122 instead of AddModule in Configuration to build shared modules
5123 [Sameer Parekh, Paul Sutton]
5125 *) Minor cleanups to r->finfo handling in some modules.
5128 *) Abstract read()/write() to ap_read()/ap_write().
5129 Makes it easier to add other types of IO code such as SFIO.
5132 *) API: Generalize default_port manipulations to make support of
5133 different protocols easier. [Ben Laurie, Randy Terbush]
5135 *) There are many cases where users do not want Apache to form
5136 self-referential urls using the "canonical" ServerName and Port.
5137 The new UseCanonicalName directive (default on), if set to off
5138 will cause Apache to use the client-supplied hostname and port.
5139 API: Part of this change required a change to the construct_url()
5140 prototype; and the addition of get_server_name() and
5142 [Michael Douglass <mikedoug@texas.net>, Dean Gaudet]
5143 PR#315, 459, 485, 1433
5145 *) Yet another rearrangement of the source tree.. now all the common
5146 header files are in the src/include directory. The -Imain -Iap
5147 references in Makefiles have been changed to the simpler -Iinclude
5148 instead. In addition to simplifying the build a little bit, this
5149 also makes it clear when a module is referencing something in a
5150 other than kosher manner (e.g., the proxy including mod_mime.h).
5151 Module-private header files (the proxy, mod_mime, the regex library,
5152 and mod_rewrite) have not been moved to src/include; nor have
5153 the OS-abstraction files. [Ken Coar]
5155 *) Fix a bug where r->hostname didn't have the :port stripped
5156 from it. [Dean Gaudet]
5158 *) Tweaked the headers_out table size, and the subprocess_env
5159 table size guess in rename_original_environment(). Added
5160 MAKE_TABLE_PROFILE which can help discover make_table()
5161 calls that use too small an initial guess, see alloc.c.
5164 *) Options and AllowOverride weren't properly merging in the main
5165 server setting inside vhosts (only an issue when you have no
5166 <Directory> or other section containing an Options that affects
5167 a request). Options +foo or -foo in the main_server wouldn't
5168 affect the main_server's lookup defaults. [Dean Gaudet]
5170 *) Variable 'cwd' was being used pointlessly before being set.
5173 *) r->allowed handling cleaned up in the standard modules.
5176 *) Some case-sensitivity issues cleaned up to be consistent with
5177 RFC2068. [Dean Gaudet]
5179 *) SIGURG doesn't exist everywhere.
5180 [Mark Andrew Heinrich <heinrich@tinderbox.Stanford.EDU>]
5182 *) mod_unique_id was erroneously generating a second unique id when
5183 an internal redirect occured. Such redirects occur, for example,
5184 when processing a DirectoryIndex match. [Dean Gaudet]
5186 *) API: table_add, table_merge, and table_set include implicit pstrdup()
5187 of the key and value. But in many cases this is not required
5188 because the key/value is a constant, or the value has been built
5189 by pstrcat() or other similar means. New routines table_addn,
5190 table_mergen, and table_setn have been added to the API, these
5191 routines do not pstrdup() their arguments. The core code and
5192 standard modules were changed to take advantage of these routines.
5193 The resulting server is up to 20% faster in some situations.
5195 Note that it is easy to get code subtly wrong if you pass a key/value
5196 which is in a pool other than the pool of the table. The only
5197 safe thing to do is to pass key/values which are in the pool of
5198 the table, or in one of the ancestors of the pool of the table.
5199 i.e. if the table is part of a subrequest, a value from the main
5200 request's pool is OK since the subrequest pool is a sub_pool of the
5201 main request's pool (and therefore has a lifespan at most as long as
5202 the main pool). There is debugging code which can detect improper
5203 usage, enabled by defining POOL_DEBUG. See alloc.c for more details.
5204 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>, Dean Gaudet]
5206 *) More mod_mime_magic cleanup: fewer syscalls; should handle "files"
5207 which don't exist on disk more gracefully; handles vhosts properly.
5208 Update documentation to reflect the code -- if there's no
5209 MimeMagicFile directive then the module is not enabled.
5212 *) PORT: Some older *nix dialects cannot automatically start scripts
5213 which begin with a #! interpreter line (the shell starts the scripts
5214 appropriately on these platforms). Apache now supports starting of
5215 "hashbang-scripts" when the NEED_HASHBANG_EMUL define is set.
5216 [Martin Kraemer, with code from peter@zeus.dialix.oz.au (Peter Wemm)
5219 *) API: "typedef array_header table" removed from alloc.h, folks should
5220 have been writing to use table as if it were an opaque type, but even
5221 some standard modules got this wrong. By changing the definition
5222 to "typedef struct table table" module authors will receive compile
5223 time warnings that they're doing the wrong thing. This change
5224 facilitates future changes with more sophisticated table
5225 structures. Specifically, module authors should be using table_elts()
5226 to get access to an array_header * for the table. [Dean Gaudet]
5228 *) API: Renamed new_connection() to avoid namespace collision with LDAP
5229 library routines. [Ken Coar, Rasmus Lerdorf]
5231 *) WIN32: mod_speling is now available on the Win32 platform.
5234 *) For clarity the following compile time definition was changed:
5236 SAFE_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT -> SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
5238 Also, for example, HAVE_MMAP would mean to use mmap() scoreboards
5239 and not be a general notice that the OS has mmap(). Now the
5240 HAVE_MMAP/SHMGET #defines strictly are informational that the
5241 OS has that method of shared memory; the type to use for
5242 the scoreboard is a seperate #define (USE_MMAP_SCOREBOARD
5243 and USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD). This allows outside modules to
5244 determine if shared memory is available and allows Apache
5245 to determine the best method to use for the scoreboard.
5248 *) PORT: UnixWare 2.1.2 SMP appears to require USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT,
5249 as do various earlier versions. It should be safe on all versions.
5250 Unixware 1.x appears to have the same SIGHUP bug as solaris does with
5251 the slack code. A few other cleanups for Unixware.
5252 [Tom Hughes <thh@cyberscience.com>] PR#1082, PR#1282, PR#1499, PR#1553
5254 *) PORT: A/UX can handle single-listen accepts without mutex
5255 locking, so we add SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT. [Jim Jagielski]
5257 *) When die() happens we need to eat any request body if one exists.
5258 Otherwise we can't continue with a keepalive session. This shows up
5259 as a POST problem with MSIE 4.0, typically against pages which are
5260 authenticated. [Roy Fielding] PR#1399
5262 *) If you define SECURITY_HOLE_PASS_AUTHORIZATION then the Authorization
5263 header will be passed to CGIs. This is generally a security hole, so
5264 it's not a default. [Marc Slemko] PR#549
5266 *) Fix Y2K problem with date printing in suexec log.
5267 [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>] PR#1343
5269 *) WIN32 deserves a pid file. [Ben Hyde]
5271 *) suexec errors now include the errno/description. [Marc Slemko] PR#1543
5273 *) PORT: OSF/1 now uses USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT to solve PR#467.
5274 The choice of flock vs. fcntl was made based on timings which showed that
5275 even on non-NFS, non-exported filesystems fcntl() was an order of
5276 magnitude slower. It also uses SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT so
5277 that single socket users will see no difference. [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
5279 *) "File does not exist" error message was erroneously including the
5280 errno. [Marc Slemko]
5282 *) Improve the warning message generated when a client drops the
5283 connection (hits stop button, etc.) during a send. [Roy Fielding]
5285 *) Defining GPROF will disable profiling in the parent and enable it
5286 in the children. If you're profiling under Linux this is pretty much
5287 necessary because SIGPROF is lost across a fork(). [Dean Gaudet]
5289 *) htdigest and htpasswd needed slight tweaks to work on OS/2 and WIN32.
5292 *) The NeXT cc (which is gcc hacked up) doesn't appear to support some
5293 gcc functionality. Work around it.
5294 [Keith Severson <keith@sssd.navy.mil>] PR#1613
5296 *) Some linkers complain when .o files contain no functions.
5297 [Keith Severson <keith@sssd.navy.mil>] PR#1614
5299 *) Some const declarations in mod_imap.c that were added for debugging
5300 purposes caused some compilers heartburn without adding any
5301 significant value, so they've been removed. [Ken Coar]
5303 *) The src/main/*.h header files have had #ifndef wrappers added to
5304 insulate them against duplicate calls if they get included through
5305 multiple paths (e.g., in .c files as well as other .h files).
5308 *) The libap routines now have a header file for their prototypes,
5309 src/ap/ap.h, to ease their use in non-httpd applications. [Ken Coar]
5311 *) mod_autoindex with a plaintext header file would emit the <PRE>
5312 start-tag before the HTML preamble, rather than after the preamble
5313 but before the header file contents. [John Van Essen <jve@gamers.org>]
5316 *) SECURITY: Fix a possible buffer overflow in logresolve. This is
5317 only an issue on systems without a MAXDNAME define or where
5318 the resolver returns domain names longer than MAXDNAME. [Marc Slemko]
5320 *) SECURITY: Eliminate possible buffer overflow in cfg_getline, which
5321 is used to read various types of files such as htaccess and
5322 htpasswd files. [Marc Slemko]
5324 *) SECURITY: Ensure that the buffer returned by ht_time is always
5325 properly null terminated. [Marc Slemko]
5327 *) The "Connection" header could be sent back with multiple "close"
5328 tokens. Not an error, but a waste.
5329 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1683
5331 *) mod_rewrite's RewriteLog should behave like mod_log_config, it
5332 shouldn't force hostname lookups. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1684
5334 *) "basic" auth needs a case-insensitive comparison.
5335 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1666
5337 *) For maximum portability, the environment passed to CGIs should
5338 only contain variables whose names match the regex
5339 /[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*/. This is now enforced by stamping
5340 underscores over any character outside the regex. This
5341 affects HTTP_* variables, in a way that should be backward
5342 compatible for all the standard headers; and affects variables
5343 set with SetEnv/BrowserMatch and similar directives.
5346 *) mod_speling returned incorrect HREF's when an ambigous match
5347 was found. Noticed by <robinton@amtrash.comlink.de> (Soeren Ziehe)
5348 [robinton@amtrash.comlink.de (Soeren Ziehe), Martin Kraemer]
5350 *) PORT: Apache now compiles & runs on an EBCDIC mainframe
5351 (the Siemens BS2000/OSD family) in the POSIX subsystem
5354 *) PORT: Fix problem killing children when terminating. Allow ^C
5355 to shut down the server. [Brian Havard]
5357 *) pstrdup() is implicit in calls to table_* functions, so there's
5358 no need to do it before calling. Clean up a few cases.
5359 [Marc Slemko, Dean Gaudet]
5361 *) new -C and -c command line arguments
5363 -C "directive" : process directive before reading config files
5364 -c "directive" : process directive after reading config files
5366 httpd -C "PerlModule Apache::httpd_conf"
5367 [Doug MacEachern, Martin Kraemer]
5369 *) WIN32: Fix the execution of CGIs that are scripts and called
5370 with path info that does not have an '=' in.
5371 (eg. http://server/cgi-bin/printenv?foobar)
5372 [Marc Slemko] PR#1591
5374 *) WIN32: Fix a call to os_canonical_filename so it doesn't try to
5375 mess with fake filenames. This fixes proxy caching on
5378 *) SECURITY: General mod_include cleanup, including fixing several
5379 possible buffer overflows and a possible infinite loop.
5380 [Dean Gaudet, Marc Slemko]
5382 *) SECURITY: Numerous changes to mod_imap in a general cleanup
5383 including fixing a possible buffer overflow. [Dean Gaudet]
5385 *) WIN32: overhaul of multithreading code. Shutdowns are now graceful
5386 (connections are not dropped). Code can handle graceful restarts
5387 (but there is as yet no way to signal this to Apache). Various
5388 other cleanups. [Paul Sutton]
5390 *) The aplog_error changes specific to 1.3 introduced a buffer
5391 overrun in the (now legacy) log_printf function. Fixed.
5394 *) mod_digest didn't properly deal with proxy authentication. It
5395 also lacked a case-insensitive comparision of the "Digest"
5396 token. [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>] PR#1599
5398 *) A few cleanups in mod_status for efficiency. [Dean Gaudet]
5400 *) A few cleanups in mod_info to make it thread-safe, and remove an
5401 off-by-5 bug that could hammer \0 on the stack. [Dean Gaudet]
5403 *) no2slash() was O(n^2) in the length of the input. Make it O(n).
5406 *) API: migration from strncpy() to our "enhanced" version called
5407 ap_cpystrn() for performance and functionality reasons.
5408 Located in libap.a. [Jim Jagielski]
5410 *) table_set() and table_unset() did not deal correctly with
5411 multiple occurrences of the same key.
5412 [Stephen Scheck <sscheck@infonex.net>, Ben Laurie] PR#1604
5414 *) The AuthName must now be enclosed in quotes if it is to contain
5415 spaces. [Ken Coar] PR#1195
5417 *) API: new function: ap_escape_quotes(). [Ken Coar] PR#1195
5419 *) WIN32: Work around optimiser bug that killed ISAPI in release
5420 versions. [Ben Laurie] PR#1533
5422 *) PORT: Update the MPE port [Mark Bixby, Jim Jagielski]
5424 *) Interim (slow) fix for p->sub_pool critical sections in
5425 alloc.c (affects win32 only). [Ben Hyde]
5427 *) non-WIN32 was missing destroy_mutex definition. [Ben Hyde]
5429 *) send_fd_length() did not calculate total_bytes_sent properly.
5430 [Ben Reser <breser@regnow.com>] PR#1366
5432 *) The bputc() macro was not properly integrated with the chunking
5433 code; in many cases modules using bputc() could cause completely
5434 bogus chunked output. (Typically this will show up as problems
5435 with Internet Explorer 4.0 reading a page, but other browsers
5436 having no problem.) [Dean Gaudet]
5438 *) Create LARGE_WRITE_THRESHOLD define which determines how many
5439 bytes have to be supplied to bwrite() before it will consider
5440 doing a writev() to assemble multiple buffers in one system
5441 call. This is critical for modules such as mod_include,
5442 mod_autoindex, mod_php3 which all use bputc()/bputs() of smaller
5443 strings in some cases. The result would be extra effort
5444 setting up writev(), and in many cases extra effort building
5445 chunks. The default is 31, it can be overriden at compile
5448 *) Move the gid switching code into the child so that log files
5449 and pid files are opened with the root gid.
5450 [Gregory A Lundberg <lundberg@vr.net>]
5452 *) WIN32: Check for binaries by looking for the executable header
5453 instead of counting control characters.
5454 [Jim Patterson <Jim.Patterson@Cognos.COM>] PR#1340
5456 *) ap_snprintf() moved from main/util_snprintf.c to ap/ap_snprintf.c
5457 so the functionality is available to applications other than the
5458 server itself (like the src/support tools). [Ken Coar]
5460 *) ap_slack() moved out of main/util.c into ap/ap_slack.c as part of
5461 the libap consolidation work. [Ken Coar]
5463 *) ap_snprintf() with a len of 0 behaved like sprintf(). This is not
5464 useful, and isn't what the standards require. Now it returns 0
5465 and writes nothing. [Dean Gaudet]
5467 *) When an error occurs in fcntl() locking suggest the user look up
5468 the docs for LockFile. [Dean Gaudet]
5470 *) Eliminate some dead code from writev_it_all().
5471 [Igor Tatarinov <tatarino@prairie.NoDak.edu>]
5473 *) mod_autoindex had an fread() without checking the result code.
5474 It also wouldn't handle "AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif text/*"
5475 (note the missing closing paren) properly. [Dean Gaudet]
5477 *) It appears the "257th byte" bug (see
5478 htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html#257th-byte) can happen
5479 at the 256th byte as well. Fixed. [Dean Gaudet]
5481 *) PORT: Fix mod_mime_magic under OS/2, no support for block devices.
5484 *) Fix memory corruption caused by allocating auth usernames in the
5485 wrong pool. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1500
5487 *) Fix an off-by-1, and an unterminated string error in
5488 mod_mime_magic. [Dean Gaudet]
5490 *) Fix a potential SEGV problem in mod_negotiation when dealing
5491 with type-maps. [Dean Gaudet]
5493 *) Better glibc support under Linux. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1542
5495 *) "RedirectMatch gone /" would cause a SIGSEGV. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1319
5497 *) WIN32: avoid overflows during file canonicalisations.
5498 [malcolm@mgdev.demon.co.uk] PR#1378
5500 *) WIN32: set_file_slot() didn't detect absolute paths. [Ben Laurie]
5503 *) WIN32: mod_status display header didn't match fields. [Ben Laurie]
5505 *) The pthread_mutex_* functions return an error code, and don't
5506 set errno. [Igor Tatarinov <tatarino@prairie.NoDak.edu>]
5508 *) WIN32: Allow spaces to prefix the interpreter in #! lines.
5509 [Ben Laurie] PR#1101
5511 *) WIN32: Cure file leak in CGIs. [Peter Tillemans <pti@net4all.be>] PR#1523
5513 *) proxy_ftp: the directory listings generated by the proxy ftp module
5514 now have a title in which the path components are clickable and allow
5515 quick navigation to the clicked-on directory on the currently listed
5516 ftp server. This also fixes a bug where the ".." directory links would
5517 sometimes refer to the wrong directory. [Martin Kraemer]
5519 *) WIN32: Allocate the correct amount of memory for the scoreboard.
5522 *) WIN32: Only lowercase the part of the path that is real. [Ben Laurie]
5525 *) Fix problems with timeouts in inetd mode and -X mode. [Dean Gaudet]
5527 *) Fix the spurious "(0)unknown error: mmap_handler: mmap failed"
5528 error messages. [Ben Hyde]
5530 Changes with Apache 1.3b3
5532 *) WIN32: Work around brain-damaged spawn calls that can't deal
5533 with spaces and slashes. [Ben Laurie]
5535 *) WIN32: Fix the code so CGIs can use socket calls on Windows.
5536 The problem was that certain undocumented environment variables
5537 needed for sockets to work under Win32 were not being passed.
5538 [Frank Faubert <frank@sane.com>]
5540 *) Add a "-V" command line flag to the httpd binary. This
5541 flag shows some of the defines that Apache was compiled with.
5542 It is useful for debugging purposes. [Martin Kraemer]
5544 *) Start separating the ap_*() routines into their own library, so they
5545 can be used by items in src/support among other things.
5546 [Ken Coar] PR#512, 905, 1252, 1308
5548 *) Give a more informative error when no AuthType is set.
5551 *) Remove strtoul() use from mod_proxy because it isn't available
5552 on all platforms. [Marc Slemko] PR#1214
5554 *) WIN32: Some Win32 systems terminated all responses after 16 kB.
5555 This turns out to be a bug in Winsock - select() doesn't always
5556 return the correct status. [Ben Laurie]
5558 *) Directives owned by http_core can now use the new check_cmd_context()
5559 routine to ensure that they're not being used within a container
5560 (e.g., <Directory>) where they're invalid. [Martin Kraemer]
5562 *) PORT: Recent changes made it necessary to add explicit prototype
5563 for fgetc() and fgets() on SunOS 4.x. [Martin Kraemer, Ben Hyde]
5565 *) It was necessary to distinguish between resources which are
5566 allocated in the parent, for cleanup in the parent, and resources
5567 which are allocated in each child, for cleanup in each child.
5568 A new pool was created which is passed to the module child_init
5569 and child_exit functions; modules are free to register per-child
5570 cleanups there. This fixes a bug with reliable piped logs.
5573 *) mod_autoindex wasn't displaying the ReadmeName file at the bottom
5574 unless it was also doing FancyIndexes, but it displayed the
5575 HeaderName file at the top under all circumstances. It now shows
5576 the ReadmeName file for simple indices, too, as it should.
5579 *) http_core was mmap()ing even in cases where it wasn't going to
5580 read the file. [Ben Hyde <bhyde@gensym.com>]
5582 *) Complete rewrite ;-) of mod_rewrite's URL rewriting engine:
5583 Now the rewriting engine (the heart of mod_rewrite) is organized more
5584 straight-forward, first time well documented and reduced to the really
5585 essential parts. All redundant cases were stripped off and processing now
5586 is the same for both per-server and per-directory context with only a
5587 minimum difference (the prefix stripping in per-dir context). As a
5588 side-effect some subtle restrictions and two recently discovered problems
5589 are gone: Wrong escaping of QUERY_STRING on redirects in per-directory
5590 context and restrictions on the substitution URL on redirects.
5591 Additionally some minor source cleanups were done.
5592 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5594 *) Lars Eilebrecht wrote a whole new set of Apache Vhost Internals
5595 documentation, examples, explanations and caveats. They live in a new
5596 subdirectory htdocs/manual/vhost/. [Lars Eilebrecht <sfx@unix-ag.org>]
5598 *) If ap_slack fails to allocate above the low slack line it's a good
5599 indication that further problems will occur; it's a better indication
5600 than many external libraries give us when we actually run out of
5601 descriptors. So report it to the user once per restart.
5602 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1181
5604 *) Change mod_include and mod_autoindex to use Y2K-safe date formats
5605 by default. [Ken Coar]
5607 *) Add a "SuppressColumnSorting" option to the IndexOptions list,
5608 which will keep the column heading from being links for sorting
5609 the display. [Ken Coar, suggested by Brian Tiemann <btman@pacific.net>]
5612 *) PORT: Update the LynxOS port. [Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>]
5614 *) Fix logic error when issuing a mmap() failed message
5615 with a non-zero MMAP_THRESHOLD.
5616 [David Chambers <davidc@flosun.salk.edu>] PR#1294
5618 *) Preserve handler value on ProxyPass'ed requests by not
5619 calling find_types on a proxy'd request; fixes problems
5620 where some ProxyPass'ed URLs weren't actually passed
5622 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#870
5624 *) Fix a byte ordering problem in mod_access which prevented
5625 the old-style syntax (i.e. "a.b.c." to match a class C)
5626 from working properly. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1248, 1328, 1384
5628 *) Fix problem with USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT not working
5629 properly. Each child needs to open the lockfile instead
5630 of using the passed file-descriptor from the parent.
5631 [Jim Jagielski] PR#1056
5633 *) Fix the error logging in mod_cgi; the recent error log changes
5634 introduced a bug that prevented it from working correctly.
5635 [M.D.Parker] PR#1352
5637 *) Default to USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT on HPUX to properly
5638 handle multiple Listen directives. [Marc Slemko] PR#872
5640 *) Inherit a bugfix to fnmatch.c from FreeBSD sources.
5641 ["[KOI8-R] áÎÄÒÅÊ þÅÒÎÏ×" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>] PR#1311
5643 *) When a configuration parse complained about a bad directive,
5644 the logger would use whatever (unrelated) value was in errno.
5645 errno is now forced to EINVAL first in this case. [Ken Coar]
5647 *) A sed command in the Configure script pushed the edge of POSIXness,
5648 breaking on some systems. [Bhaba R.Misra <system@vt.edu>] PR#1368
5650 *) Solaris >= 2.5 was totally broken due to a mess up using pthread
5651 mutexes. [Roy Fielding, Dean Gaudet]
5653 *) OS/2 Port updated; it should be possible to build OS/2 from the same
5654 sources as Unix now. [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
5656 *) Fix a year formatting bug in mod_usertrack.
5657 [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>] PR#1342
5659 *) A mild SIGTERM/SIGALRM race condition was eliminated.
5660 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1211
5662 *) Warn user that default path has changed if /usr/local/etc/httpd
5663 is found on the system. [Lars Eilebrecht]
5665 *) Various mod_mime_magic bug fixes and cleanups: Uncompression
5666 should work, it should work on WIN32, and a few resource
5667 leaks and abort conditions are fixed.
5668 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1205
5670 *) PORT: On AIX 1.x files can't be named '@', fix the proxy cache
5671 to use '%' instead of '@' in its encodings.
5672 [David Schuler <schuld@btv.ibm.com>] PR#1317
5674 *) Improve the warning message generated when the "server is busy".
5675 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1293
5677 *) PORT: All ports which don't otherwise define DEF_WANTHSREGEX will
5678 get Spencer regex by default. This is to avoid having to
5679 discover bugs in operating system libraries. [Dean Gaudet]
5681 *) PORT: "Fix" PR#467 by generating warnings on systems which we have
5682 not been able to get working USE_*_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT settings for.
5683 Document this a bit more in src/PORTING. [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
5685 *) Ensure that one copy of config warnings makes it to the
5686 error_log. [Dean Gaudet]
5688 *) Invent new structure and associated methods to handle config file
5689 reading. Add "custom" hook to use config file cfg_getline() on
5690 something which is not a FILE* [Martin Kraemer]
5692 *) Make single-exe Windows install. [Ben Laurie and Eric Esselink]
5694 *) WIN32: Make CGI work under Win95. [Ben Laurie and Paul Sutton]
5696 *) WIN32: Make index.html and friends work under Win95. [Ben Laurie]
5698 *) PORT: Solaris 2.4 needs Spencer regex, the system regex is broken.
5699 [John Line <jml4@cam.ac.uk>] PR#1321
5701 *) Default pathname has been changed everywhere to /usr/local/apache
5702 [Sameer <sameer@c2.net>]
5704 *) PORT: AIX now uses USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
5705 [David Bronder <David-Bronder@uiowa.edu>] PR#849
5707 *) PORT: i386 AIX does not have memmove.
5708 [David Schuler <schuld@btv.ibm.com>] PR#1267
5710 *) PORT: HPUX now defaults to using Spencer regex.
5711 [Philippe Vanhaesendonck <pvanhaes@be.oracle.com>,
5712 Omar Del Rio <al112263@academ01.lag.itesm.mx>] PR#482, 1246
5714 *) PORT: Some versions of NetBSD don't automatically define
5715 __NetBSD__. Workaround by defining NETBSD.
5716 [Chris Craft <ccraft@cncc.cc.co.us>] PR#977
5718 *) PORT: UnixWare 2.x requires -lgen for syslog.
5719 [Hans Snijder <hs@meganet.nl>] PR#1249
5721 *) PORT: ULTRIX appears to not have syslog.
5722 [Lars Eilebrecht <Lars.Eilebrecht@unix-ag.org>]
5724 *) PORT: Basic Gemini port (treat it like unixware212).
5725 ["Pavel Yakovlev (Paul McHacker)" <hac@tomcat.olly.ru>]
5727 *) PORT: All SVR4 systems now use NET_SIZE_T = size_t, and
5728 use USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD.
5731 *) Various improvements in detecting config file errors (missing closing
5732 directives for <Directory>, <Files> etc. blocks, prohibiting global
5733 server settings in <VirtualHost> blocks, flagging unhandled multiple
5734 arguments to <Directory>, <Files> etc.)
5737 *) Add support to suexec wrapper program for mod_unique_id's UNIQUE_ID
5738 variable to provide this one to suexec'd CGIs, too.
5739 [M.D.Parker <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#1284
5741 *) New support tool: src/support/split-logfile, a sample Perl script which
5742 splits up a combined access log into separate files based on the
5743 name of the virtual host (listed first in the log records by "%v").
5746 Changes with Apache 1.3b2 (there is no 1.3b1)
5748 *) TestCompile was not passing $LIBS [Dean Gaudet]
5750 *) Makefile.tmpl was not using $CFLAGS in the link phase.
5753 *) Add debugging code to alloc.c. Defining ALLOC_DEBUG provides a
5754 rudimentary memory debugger which can be used on live servers with
5755 low impact -- it sets all allocated and freed memory bytes to 0xa5.
5756 Defining ALLOC_USE_MALLOC will cause the alloc code to use malloc()
5757 and free() for each object. This is far more expensive and should
5758 only be used for testing with tools such as Electric Fence and
5759 Purify. See main/alloc.c for more details. [Dean Gaudet]
5761 *) Configure uses a sh trap and didn't set its exitcode properly.
5762 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1159
5764 *) Yet another vhost revamp. Add the NameVirtualHost directive which
5765 explicitly lists the ip:port pairs that are to be used for name-vhosts.
5766 From a given ip:port, regardless what the Host: header is, you can
5767 only reach the vhosts defined on that ip:port. The precedence of
5768 vhosts was reversed to match other precedences in the config --
5769 the earlier vhosts override the later vhosts. All vhost matching was
5770 moved into http_vhost.[ch]. [Dean Gaudet]
5772 *) ap_inline can be used to force inlining. GNUC __attribute__() can
5773 be used for whatever reason is appropriate (i.e. format() warnings
5774 for printf style functions). Both are enabled only with
5775 gcc >= 2.7.x (so that we have fewer support issues with older
5776 versions). [Dean Gaudet]
5778 *) Fix support for Proxy Authentication (we were testing the response
5779 status too early). [Marc Slemko]
5781 *) CoreDumpDirectory directive directs where the core file is
5782 written when a SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, SIGABORT or SIGABRT are
5783 received. [Marc Slemko, Dean Gaudet]
5785 *) PORT: Support for Atari MINT.
5786 [Jan Paul Schmidt <Jan.P.Schmidt@mni.fh-giessen.de>]
5788 *) When booting, apache will now detach itself from stdin, stdout,
5789 and stderr. stderr will not be detached until after the config
5790 files have been read so you will be able to see initial error
5791 messages. After that all errors are logged in the error_log.
5792 This makes it more convenient to start apache via rsh, ssh,
5793 or crontabs. [Dean Gaudet] PR#523
5795 *) mod_proxy was sending HTTP/1.1 responses to ftp requests by mistake.
5796 Also removed the auto-generated link to www.apache.org that was the
5797 source of so many misdirected bug reports. [Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
5799 *) send_fb would not detect aborted connections in some situations.
5802 *) mod_include would use uninitialized data when parsing certain
5803 expressions involving && and ||. [Brian Slesinsky] PR#1139
5805 *) mod_imap should only handle GET methods. [Jay Bloodworth]
5807 *) suexec.c wouldn't build without -DLOG_EXEC. [Jason A. Dour]
5809 *) mod_autoindex improperly counted &escapes; as more than one
5810 character in the description. It also improperly truncated
5811 descriptions that were exactly the maximum length.
5814 *) RedirectMatch was not properly escaping the result (PR#1155). Also
5815 "RedirectMatch /advertiser/(.*) $1" is now permitted.
5818 *) mod_include now uses symbolic names to check for request success
5819 and return HTTP errors, and correctly handles all types of
5820 redirections (previously it only did temporary redirect correctly).
5821 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding]
5823 *) mod_userdir was modifying r->finfo in cases where it wasn't setting
5824 r->filename. Since those two are meant to be in sync with each other
5825 this is a bug. ["Paul B. Henson" <henson@intranet.csupomona.edu>]
5827 *) PORT: Support Unisys SVR4, whose uname returns mostly useless data.
5828 ["Kaufman, Steven E" <Steven.Kaufman@unisys.com>]
5830 *) Inetd mode (which is buggy) uses timeouts without having setup the
5831 jmpbuffer. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1064
5833 *) Work around problem under Linux where a child will start looping
5834 reporting a select error over and over.
5835 [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>] PR#1107, 987, 588
5837 *) Fixed error in proxy_util.c when looping through multiple host IP
5838 addresses. [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#974
5840 *) If BUFFERED_LOGS is defined then mod_log_config will do atomic
5841 buffered writes -- that is, it will buffer up to PIPE_BUF (i.e. 4k)
5842 bytes before writing, but it will never split a log entry across a
5843 buffer boundary. [Dean Gaudet]
5845 *) API: the short_score record has been split into two pieces, one which
5846 the parent writes on, and one which the child writes on. As part of
5847 this change the get_scoreboard_info() function was removed, and
5848 scoreboard_image was exported. This change fixes a race condition
5849 in file based scoreboard systems, and speeds up changes involving the
5850 scoreboard in earlier 1.3 development. [Dean Gaudet]
5852 *) API: New register_other_child() API (see http_main.h) which allows
5853 modules to register children with the parent for maintenance. It
5854 is disabled by defining NO_OTHER_CHILD. [Dean Gaudet]
5856 *) API: New piped_log API (see http_log.h) which implements piped logs,
5857 and will use register_other_child to implement reliable piped logs
5858 when it is available. The reliable piped logs part can be disabled
5859 by defining NO_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS. At the moment reliable piped
5860 logs is only available on Unix. [Dean Gaudet]
5862 *) API: set_last_modified() broken into set_last_modified(), set_etag(), and
5863 meets_conditions(). This allows conditional HTTP selection to be
5864 handled separately from the storing of the header fields, and provides
5865 the ability for CGIs to set their own ETags for conditional checking.
5866 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding] PR#895
5868 *) Changes to mod_log_config to allow naming of format strings.
5869 Format nicknames are defined with "LogFormat fmt nickname", and can
5870 be used with "LogFormat nickname" and "CustomLog logtarget nickname".
5873 *) New module, "mod_speling", which can help find files even when
5874 the URL is slightly misspelled. [Martin Kraemer, Alexei Kosut]
5876 *) API: New function child_terminate() triggers the child process to
5877 exit, while allowing the child finish what it needs to for the
5878 current request first.
5879 [Doug MacEachern, Alexei Kosut]
5881 *) Windows now defaults to using full status reports with mod_status.
5882 [Alexei Kosut] PR #1094
5884 *) *Really* disable all mod_rewrite operations if the engine is off.
5885 Some things (like RewriteMaps) were checked/performed even if they
5886 weren't supposed to be. [Ken Coar] PR #991
5888 *) Implement a new timer scheme which eliminates the need to call alarm() all
5889 the time. Instead a counter in the scoreboard for each child is used to
5890 show when the child has made forward progress. The parent samples this
5891 counter every scoreboard maintenance cycle, and issues SIGALRM if no
5892 progress has been made in the timeout period. This reduces the static
5893 request best-case syscall count to 22 from 29. This scheme is only
5894 used by systems with memory-based scoreboards. [Dean Gaudet]
5896 *) The proxy now properly handles CONNECT requests which are sent
5897 to proxy servers when using ProxyRemote. [Marc Slemko] PR#1024
5899 *) A script called apachectl has been added to the support
5900 directory. This script allows you to do things such as
5901 "apachectl start" and "apachectl restart" from the command
5904 *) Modules and core routines are now put into libraries, which
5905 simplifies the link line tremendously (among other advantages).
5908 *) Some of the MD5 names defined in Apache have been renamed to have
5909 an `ap_' prefix to avoid conflicts with routines supplied by
5910 external libraries. [Ken Coar]
5912 *) Removal of mod_auth_msql.c from the distribution. There are many
5913 other options for databases today. Rather than offer one option,
5914 offer none at this time. mod_auth_msql and other SQL database
5915 authentication modules can be found at the Apache Module Registry.
5916 http://modules.apache.org/ It would be nice to offer a generic
5917 mod_auth_sql option in the near future.
5919 *) PORT: BeOS support added [Alexei Kosut]
5921 *) Configure no longer accepts the -make option, since it creates
5922 Makefile on the fly based on Makefile.tmpl and Configuration.
5924 *) Apache now gracefully shuts down when it receives a SIGTERM, instead
5925 of forcibly killing off all its processes and exiting without
5926 cleaning up. [Alexei Kosut]
5928 *) API: A new field in the request_rec, r->mtime, has been added to
5929 avoid gratuitous parsing of date strings. It is intended to hold
5930 the last-modified date of the resource (if applicable). An
5931 update_mtime() routine has also been added to advance it if
5932 appropriate. [Roy Fielding, Ken Coar]
5934 *) SECURITY: If a htaccess file can not be read due to bad permissions,
5935 deny access to the directory with a HTTP_FORBIDDEN. The previous
5936 behavior was to ignore the htaccess file if it could not be read.
5937 This change may make some setups with unreadable htaccess files
5938 stop working. [Marc Slemko] PR#817
5940 *) Add aplog_error() providing a mechanism to define levels of
5941 verbosity to the server error logging. This addition also provides
5942 the ability to log errors using syslogd. Error logging is configurable
5943 on a per-server basis using the LogLevel directive. Conversion
5944 of log_*() in progress. [Randy Terbush]
5946 *) Further enhance aplog_error() to not log filename, line number, and
5947 errno information when it isn't applicable. [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
5949 *) WIN32: Canonicalise filenames under Win32. Short filenames are
5950 converted to long ones. Backslashes are converted to forward
5951 slashes. Case is converted to lower. Parts of URLs that do not
5952 correspond to files are left completely alone. [Ben Laurie]
5954 *) PORT: 2 new OSs added to the list of ports:
5955 Encore's UMAX V: Arieh Markel <amarkel@encore.com>
5956 Acorn RISCiX: Stephen Borrill <sborrill@xemplar.co.uk>
5958 *) Add the server version (SERVER_VERSION macro) to the "server
5959 configured and running" entry in the error_log. Also build an
5960 object file at link-time that contains the current time
5961 (SERVER_BUILT global const char[]), and include that in the
5964 *) Set r->headers_out when sending responses from the proxy.
5965 This fixes things such as the logging of headers sent from
5966 the proxy. [Marc Slemko] PR#659
5968 *) support/httpd_monitor is no longer distributed because the
5969 scoreboard should not be file based if at all possible. Use
5970 mod_status to see current server snapshot.
5972 *) (set_file_slot): New function, allowing auth directives to be
5973 independent of the server root, so the server documents can be
5974 moved to a different directory or machine more easily.
5975 [David J. MacKenzie]
5977 *) If no TransferLog is given explicitly, decline
5978 to log. This supports coexistence with other logging modules,
5979 such as the custom one that UUNET uses. [David J. MacKenzie]
5981 *) Check for titles in server-parsed HTML files.
5982 Ignore leading newlines and returns in titles. The old behavior
5983 of replacing a newline after <title> with a space causes the
5984 title to be misaligned in the listing. [David J. MacKenzie]
5986 *) Change mod_cern_meta to be configurable on a per-directory basis.
5987 [David J. MacKenzie]
5989 *) Add 'Include' directive to allow inclusion of configuration
5990 files within configuration files. [Randy Terbush]
5992 *) Proxy errors on connect() are logged to the error_log (nothing
5993 new); now they include the IP address and port that failed
5994 (*that's* new). [Ken Coar, Marc Slemko] PR#352
5996 *) Various architectures now define USE_MMAP_FILES which causes
5997 the server to use mmap() for static files. There are two
5998 compile-time tunables MMAP_THRESHOLD (minimum number of bytes
5999 required to use mmap(), default is 0), and MMAP_SEGMENT_SIZE (maximum
6000 number of bytes written in one cycle from a single mmap()d object,
6001 default 32768). [Dean Gaudet]
6003 *) API: Added post_read_request API phase which is run right after reading
6004 the request from a client, or right after an internal redirect. It is
6005 useful for modules setting environment variables that depend only on
6006 the headers/contents of the request. It does not run during subrequests
6007 because subrequests inherit pretty much everything from the main
6008 request. [Dean Gaudet]
6010 *) Added mod_unique_id which is used to generate a unique identifier for
6011 each hit, available in the environment variable UNIQUE_ID.
6014 *) init_modules is now called after the error logs have been opened. This
6015 allows modules to emit information messages into the error logs.
6018 *) Fixed proxy-pass-through feature of mod_rewrite; Added error logging
6019 information for case where proxy module is not available. [Marc Slemko]
6021 *) PORT: Apache has need for mutexes to serialize its children around
6022 accept. In prior versions either fcntl file locking or flock file
6023 locking were used. The method is chosen by the definition of
6024 USE_xxx_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT in conf.h. xxx is FCNTL for fcntl(),
6025 and FLOCK for flock(). New options have been added:
6026 - SYSVSEM to use System V style semaphores
6027 - PTHREAD to use POSIX threads (appears to work on Solaris only)
6028 - USLOCK to use IRIX uslock
6029 Based on timing various techniques, the following changes were made
6031 - Linux 2.x uses flock instead of fcntl
6032 - Solaris 2.x uses pthreads
6033 - IRIX uses SysV semaphores -- however multiprocessor IRIX boxes
6034 work far faster if you -DUSE_USLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT
6035 [Dean Gaudet, Pierre-Yves Kerembellec <Pierre-Yves.Kerembellec@vtcom.fr>,
6036 Martijn Koster <m.koster@pobox.com>]
6038 *) PORT: The semantics of accept/select make it very desirable to use
6039 mutexes to serialize accept when multiple Listens are in use. But
6040 in the case where only a single socket is open it is sometimes
6041 redundant to serialize accept(). Not all unixes do a good job with
6042 potentially dozens of children blocked on accept() on the same
6043 socket. It's now possible to define SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT and
6044 the server will avoid serialization when listening on only one socket,
6045 and use serialization when listening on multiple sockets.
6046 [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
6048 *) Configure changes: TestLib replaced by TestCompile, which has
6049 some additional capability (such as doing a sanity check of
6050 the compiler and flags selected); the version of Solaris is now
6051 available via the #define value of SOLARIS2; IRIX n32bit libs
6052 now supported and selectable by new Configuration Rule: IRIXN32;
6053 We no longer default to -O2 optimization. [Jim Jagielski]
6055 *) Updated Configure: Configuration now uses AddModule to specify
6056 module source or binary file location, relative to src directory.
6057 Modules can be dropped into modules/extra, or in their own
6058 directory, and modules can come with a Makefile or Configure can
6059 create one. Modules can add compiler or library information to
6060 generated Makefiles. [Paul Sutton]
6062 *) Source core re-organisation: distributed modules are now in
6063 modules/standard. All other source code is in main. OS-specific
6064 code is in os/{unix,emx,win32} directories. [Paul Sutton]
6066 *) mod_browser has been removed, since it's replaced by mod_setenvif.
6069 *) Fix another long-standing bug in sub_req_lookup_file where it would
6070 happily skip past access checks on subdirectories looked up with
6071 relative paths. (It's used by mod_dir, mod_negotiation,
6072 and mod_include.) [Dean Gaudet]
6074 *) directory_walk optimization to reduce an O(N*M) loop to O(N+M) where
6075 N is the number of <Directory> sections, and M is the number of
6076 components in the filename of an object.
6078 To achieve this optimization the following config changes were made:
6079 - Wildcards (* and ?, not the regex forms) in <Directory>s,
6080 <Files>s, and <Location>s now treat a slash as a special
6081 character. For example "/home/*/public_html" previously would
6082 match "/home/a/andrew/public_html", now it only matches things
6083 like "/home/bob/public_html". This mimics /bin/sh behaviour.
6084 - It's possible now to use [] wildcarding in <Directory>, <Files>
6086 - Regex <Directory>s are applied after all non-regex <Directory>s.
6090 *) Fix a bug introduced in 1.3a1 directory_walk regarding .htaccess files
6091 and corrupted paths. [Dean Gaudet]
6093 *) Enhanced and cleaned up the URL rewriting engine of mod_rewrite:
6094 First the grouped parts of RewriteRule pattern matches (parenthesis!) can
6095 be accessed now via backreferences $1..$9 in RewriteConds test-against
6096 strings in addition to RewriteRules subst string. Second the grouped
6097 parts of RewriteCond pattern matches (parenthesis!) can be accessed now
6098 via backreferences %1..%9 both in following RewriteCond test-against
6099 strings and RewriteRules subst string. This provides maximum flexibility
6100 through the use of backreferences.
6101 Additionally the rewriting engine was cleaned up by putting common
6102 code to the new expand_backrefs_inbuffer() function.
6103 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6105 *) When merging the main server's <Directory> and <Location> sections into
6106 a vhost, put the main server's first and the vhost's second. Otherwise
6107 the vhost can't override the main server. [Dean Gaudet] PR#717
6109 *) The <Directory> code would merge and re-merge the same section after
6110 a match was found, possibly causing problems with some modules.
6113 *) ip-based vhosts are stored and queried using a hashing function, which
6114 has been shown to improve performance on servers with many ip-vhosts.
6115 Some other changes had to be made to accommodate this:
6116 - the * address for vhosts now behaves like _default_
6117 - the matching process now is:
6118 - match an ip-vhost directly via hash (possibly matches main
6120 - if that fails, just pretend it matched the main server
6121 - if so far only the main server has been matched, perform
6122 name-based lookups (ServerName, ServerAlias, ServerPath)
6123 *only on name-based vhosts*
6124 - if they fail, look for _default_ vhosts
6125 [Dean Gaudet, Dave Hankins <dhankins@sugarat.net>]
6127 *) dbmmanage overhaul:
6128 - merge dbmmanage and dbmmanage.new functionality, remove dbmmanage.new
6129 - tie() to AnyDBM_File which will use one of DB_File, NDBM_File or
6130 GDBM_File (-ldb, -lndbm, -lgdbm) (trying each in that order)
6131 - provide better seed for rand
6132 - prompt for password as per getpass(3) (turn off echo, read from
6134 - use "newstyle" crypt based on $Config{osname} ($^O)
6135 - will not add a user if already in database, use new `update' command
6137 - added `check' command to check a users' password
6138 - added `import' command to convert existing password text-files or
6139 dbm files exported with `view'
6140 - more descriptive usage, general cleanup, 'use strict' clean, etc.
6143 *) Added psocket() which is a pool form of socket(), various places within
6144 the proxy weren't properly blocking alarms while registering the cleanup
6145 for its sockets. bclose() now uses pclose() and pclosesocket(). There
6146 was a bug where the client socket was being close()d twice due a still
6147 registered cleanup. [Dean Gaudet]
6149 *) A few cleanups were made to reduce time(), getpid(), and signal() calls.
6152 *) PORT: AIX >= 4.2 requires -lm due to libc changes.
6153 [Jason Venner <jason@idiom.com>] PR#667
6155 *) Enable ``=""'' for RewriteCond directives to match against
6156 the empty string. This is the preferred way instead of ``^$''.
6157 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6159 *) Fixed an infinite loop in mod_imap for references above the server root
6160 [Dean Gaudet] PR#748
6162 *) mod_proxy now has a ReceiveBufferSize directive, similar to
6163 SendBufferSize, so that the TCP window can be set appropriately
6164 for LFNs. [Phillip A. Prindeville]
6166 *) mod_browser has been replaced by the more general mod_setenvif
6167 (courtesy of Paul Sutton). BrowserMatch* directives are still
6168 available, but are now joined by SetEnvIf*, UnSetEnvIf*, and
6169 UnSetEnvIfZero directives. [Ken Coar]
6171 *) "HostnameLookups double" forces double-reverse DNS to succeed in
6172 order for remote_host to be set (for logging, or for the env var
6173 REMOTE_HOST). The old define MAXIMUM_DNS has been deprecated.
6176 *) mod_access overhaul:
6177 - Now understands network/netmask syntax (i.e. 10.1.0.0/255.255.0.0)
6178 and cidr syntax (i.e. 10.1.0.0/16). PR#762
6179 - Critical path was sped up by pre-computing a few things at config time.
6180 - The undocumented syntax "allow user-agents" was removed,
6181 the replacement is "allow from env=foobar" combined with mod_browser.
6182 - When used with hostnames it now forces a double-reverse lookup
6183 no matter what the directory settings are. This double-reverse
6184 doesn't affect any of the other routines that use the remote
6185 hostname. In particular it's still passed to CGIs and the log
6186 without the double-reverse check. Related PR#860.
6189 *) When a large bwrite() occurs (larger than the internal buffer size),
6190 while there is already something in the buffer, apache will combine
6191 the large write and the buffer into a single writev(). (This is
6192 in anticipation of using mmap() for reading files.)
6195 *) In obscure cases where a partial socket write occurred while chunking,
6196 Apache would omit the chunk header/footer on the next block. Cleaned
6197 up other bugs/inconsistencies in error conditions in buff.c. Fixed
6198 a bug where a long pause in DNS lookups could cause the last packet
6199 of a response to be unduly delayed. [Roy Fielding, Dean Gaudet]
6201 *) API: Added child_exit function to module structure. This is called
6202 once per "heavy-weight process" just before a server child exit()'s
6203 e.g. when max_requests_per_child is reached, etc.
6204 [Doug MacEachern, Dean Gaudet]
6206 *) mod_include cleanup showed that handle_else was being used to handle
6207 endif. It didn't cause problems, but it was cleaned up too.
6210 *) mod_cern_meta would attempt to find meta files for the directory itself
6211 in some cases, but not in others. It now avoids it in all cases.
6214 *) mod_mime_magic would core dump if there was a decompression error.
6215 [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>] PR#904
6217 *) PORT: some variants of DGUX require -lsocket -lnsl
6218 [Alexander L Jones <alex@systems-options.co.uk>] PR#732
6220 *) mod_autoindex now allows sorting of FancyIndexed directory listings
6221 by the various fields (name, size, et cetera), either in ascending
6222 or descending order. Just click on the column header. [Ken Coar]
6224 *) PORT: Various tweaks to eliminate pointer-int casting warnings on 64-bit
6225 CPUs like the Alpha. Apache still stores ints in pointers, but that's
6226 the relatively safe direction. [Dean Gaudet] PR#344
6228 *) PORT: QNX mmap() support for faster/more reliable scoreboard handling.
6229 [Igor N Kovalenko <infoh@mail.wplus.net>] PR#683
6231 *) child_main avoids an unneeded call to select() when there is only one
6232 listening socket. [Dean Gaudet]
6234 *) In the event that the server is starved for idle servers it will
6235 spawn 1, then 2, then 4, ..., then 32 servers each second,
6236 doubling each second. It'll also give a warning in the errorlog
6237 since the most common reason for this is a poor StartServers
6238 setting. The define MAX_SPAWN_RATE can be used to raise/lower
6239 the maximum. [Dean Gaudet]
6241 *) Apache now provides an effectively unbuffered connection for
6242 CGI scripts. This means that data will be sent to the client
6243 as soon as the CGI pauses or stops output; previously, Apache would
6244 buffer the output up to a fixed buffer size before sending, which
6245 could result in the user viewing an empty page until the CGI finished
6246 or output a complete buffer. It is no longer necessary to use an
6247 "nph-" CGI to get unbuffered output. Given that most CGIs are written
6248 in a language that by default does buffering (e.g. perl) this
6249 shouldn't have a detrimental effect on performance.
6251 "nph-" CGIs, which formerly provided a direct socket to the client
6252 without any server post-processing, were not fully compatible with
6253 HTTP/1.1 or SSL support. As such they would have had to implement
6254 the transport details, such as encryption or chunking, in order
6255 to work properly in certain situations. Now, the only difference
6256 between nph and non-nph scripts is "non-parsed headers".
6257 [Dean Gaudet, Sameer Parekh, Roy Fielding]
6259 *) If a BUFF is switched from buffered to unbuffered reading the first
6260 bread() will return whatever remained in the buffer prior to the
6261 switch. [Dean Gaudet]
6263 Changes with Apache 1.3a1
6265 *) Added another Configure helper script: TestLib. It determines
6266 if a specified library exists. [Jim Jagielski]
6268 *) PORT: Allow for use of n32bit libraries under IRIX 6.x
6269 [derived from patch from Jeff Hayes <jhayes@aw.sgi.com>]
6272 *) PORT: Some architectures use size_t for various lengths in network
6273 functions such as accept(), and getsockname(). The definition
6274 NET_SIZE_T is used to control this. [Dean Gaudet]
6276 *) PORT: Linux: Attempt to detect glibc based systems and include crypt.h
6277 and -lcrypt. Test for various db libraries (dbm, ndbm, db) when
6278 mod_auth_dbm or mod_auth_db are included. [Dean Gaudet]
6280 *) PORT: QNX doesn't have initgroups() which support/suexec.c uses.
6281 [Igor N Kovalenko <infoh@mail.wplus.net>]
6283 *) "force-response-1.0" now only applies to requests which are HTTP/1.0 to
6284 begin with. "nokeepalive" now works for HTTP/1.1 clients. Added
6285 "downgrade-1.0" which causes Apache to pretend it received a 1.0.
6286 [Dean Gaudet] related PR#875
6288 *) API: Correct child_init() slot declaration from int to void, to
6289 match the init() declaration. Update mod_example to use the new
6292 *) added transport handle slot (t_handle) to the BUFF structure
6295 *) get_client_block() returns wrong length if policy is
6296 REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK.
6297 [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#815
6299 *) Support the image map format of FrontPage. For example:
6300 rect /url.hrm 10 20 30 40
6301 ["Chris O'Byrne" <obyrne@iol.ie>] PR#807
6303 *) PORT: -lresolv and -lsocks were in the wrong order for Solaris.
6304 ["Darren O'Shaughnessy" <darren@aaii.oz.au>] PR#846
6306 *) AddModuleInfo directive for mod_info which allows you to annotate
6307 the output of mod_info. ["Lou D. Langholtz" <ldl@usi.utah.edu>]
6309 *) Added NoProxy directive to avoid using ProxyRemote for selected
6310 addresses. Added ProxyDomain directive to cause unqualified
6311 names to be qualified by redirection.
6312 [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>]
6314 *) Support Proxy Authentication, and don't pass the Proxy-Authorize
6315 header to the remote host in the proxy. [Sameer Parekh and
6318 *) Upgraded mod_rewrite from 3.0.6+ to latest officially available version
6319 3.0.9. This upgrade includes: fixed deadlooping on rewriting to same
6320 URLs, fixed rewritelog(), fixed forced response code handling on
6321 redirects from within .htaccess files, disabled pipe locking under
6322 braindead SunOS 4.1.x, allow env variables to be set even on rules with
6323 no substitution, bugfixed situations where HostnameLookups is off, made
6324 mod_rewrite more thread-safe for NT port and fixed problem when creating
6325 an empty query string via "xxx?".
6326 This update also removes the copyright of Ralf S. Engelschall,
6327 i.e. now mod_rewrite no longer has a shared copyright. Instead is is
6328 exclusively copyrighted by the Apache Group now. This happened because
6329 the author now has gifted mod_rewrite exclusively to the Apache Group and
6330 no longer maintains an external version.
6331 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6333 *) API: Added child_init function to module structure. This is called
6334 once per "heavy-weight process" before any requests are handled.
6335 See http_config.h for more details. [Dean Gaudet]
6337 *) Anonymous_LogEmail was logging on each subrequest.
6338 [Dean Gaudet] PR#421, 868
6340 *) API: Added is_initial_req() which tests if the request being
6341 processed is the initial request, or a subrequest.
6344 *) Extended SSI (mod_include) now handles additional relops for
6345 string comparisons (<, >, <=, and >=). [Bruno Wolff III] PR#41
6347 *) Configure fixed to correctly propagate user-selected options and
6348 settings (such as CC and OPTIM) to Makefiles other than
6349 src/Makefile (notably support/Makefile). [Ken Coar] PR#666, #834
6351 *) IndexOptions SuppressHTMLPreamble now causes the actual HTML of
6352 directory indices to start with the contents of the HeaderName file
6353 if there is one. If there isn't one, the behaviour is unchanged.
6354 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding, Andrey A. Chernov]
6356 *) WIN32: Modules can now be dynamically loaded DLLs using the
6357 LoadModule/LoadFile directives. Note that module DLLs must be
6358 compiled with the multithreaded DLL version of the runtime library.
6359 [Alexei Kosut and Ben Laurie]
6361 *) Automatic indexing removed from mod_dir and placed into mod_autoindex.
6362 This allows the admin to completely remove automatic indexing
6363 from the server, while still supporting the basic functions of
6364 trailing-slash redirects and DirectoryIndex files. Note that if
6365 you're carrying over an old Configuration file and you use directory
6366 indexing then you'll want to add:
6368 Module autoindex_module mod_autoindex.o
6370 before mod_dir in your Configuration. [Dean Gaudet]
6372 *) popendir/pclosedir created to properly protect directory scanning.
6373 [Dean Gaudet] PR#525
6375 *) AliasMatch, ScriptAliasMatch and RedirectMatch directives added,
6376 giving regex support to mod_alias. <DirectoryMatch>, <LocationMatch>
6377 and <FilesMatch> sections added to succeed <DirectoryMatch ~>, etc...
6380 *) The AccessFileName directive can now take more than one filename.
6381 ["Lou D. Langholtz" <ldl@usi.utah.edu>]
6383 *) The new mod_mime_magic can be used to "magically" determine the type
6384 of a file if the extension is unknown. Based on the unix file(1)
6385 command. [Ian Kluft <ikluft@cisco.com>]
6387 *) We now determine and display the time spent processing a
6388 request if desired. [Jim Jagielski]
6390 *) mod_status: PID field of "dead" child slots no longer displays
6391 main httpd process's PID. [Jim Jagielski]
6393 *) Makefile.nt added - to build all the bits from the command line:
6394 nmake -f Makefile.nt
6395 Doesn't yet work properly. [Ben Laurie]
6397 *) Default text of 404 error is now "Not Found" rather than the
6398 potentially misleading "File Not Found". [Ken Coar]
6400 *) CONFIG: "HostnameLookups" now defaults to off because it is far better
6401 for the net if we require people that actually need this data to
6402 enable it. [Linus Torvalds]
6404 *) directory_walk() is an expensive function, keep a little more state to
6405 avoid needless string counting. Add two new functions make_dirstr_parent
6406 and make_dirstr_prefix which replace all existing uses of make_dirstr.
6407 The new functions are a little less general than make_dirstr, but
6408 work more efficiently (less memory, less string counting).
6411 *) EXTRA_LFLAGS was changed to EXTRA_LDFLAGS (and LFLAGS was changed
6412 to LDFLAGS) to avoid complications with lex rules in make files.
6413 [Dean Gaudet] PR#372
6415 *) run_method optimized to avoid needless scanning over NULLs in the
6416 module list. [Dean Gaudet]
6418 *) Revamp of (unix) scoreboard management code such that it avoids
6419 unnecessary traversals of the scoreboard on each hit. This is
6420 particularly important for high volume sites with a large
6421 HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. Some of the previous operations were O(n^2),
6422 and are now O(n). See also SCOREBOARD_MAINTENANCE_INTERVAL in
6423 httpd.h. [Dean Gaudet]
6425 *) In configurations using multiple Listen statements it was possible for
6426 busy sockets to starve other sockets of service. [Dean Gaudet]
6428 *) Added hook so standalone_main can be replaced at compile time
6429 (define STANDALONE_MAIN)
6432 *) Lowest-level read/write functions in buff.c will be replaced with
6433 the SFIO library calls sfread/sfwrite if B_SFIO is defined at
6434 compile time. The default sfio discipline will behave as apache
6435 would without sfio compiled in.
6438 *) Enhance UserDir directive (mod_userdir) to accept a list of
6439 usernames for the 'disable' keyword, and add 'enable user...' to
6440 selectively *en*able userdirs if they're globally disabled.
6443 *) If NETSCAPE_DBM_COMPAT is defined in EXTRA_CFLAGS then Apache
6444 will work with Netscape dbm files. (dbmmanage will probably not
6445 work however.) [Alexander Spohr <aspohr@netmatic.com>] PR#444
6447 *) Add a ListenBacklog directive to control the backlog parameter
6448 passed to listen(). Also change the default to 511 from 512.
6451 *) API: A new handler response DONE which informs apache that the
6452 request has been handled and it can finish off quickly, similar to
6453 how it handles errors. [Rob Hartill]
6455 *) Turn off chunked encoding after sending terminating chunk/footer
6456 so that we can't do it twice by accident. [Roy Fielding]
6458 *) mod_expire also issues Cache-Control: max-age headers.
6461 *) API: Added kill_only_once option for free_proc_chain so that it won't
6462 aggressively try to kill off specific children. For fastcgi.
6463 [Stanley Gambarin <gambarin@OpenMarket.com>]
6465 *) mod_auth deals with extra ':' delimited fields. [Marc Slemko]
6467 *) Added IconHeight and IconWidth to mod_dir's IndexOptions directive.
6468 When used together, these cause mod_dir to emit HEIGHT and WIDTH
6469 attributes in the FancyIndexing IMG tags. [Ken Coar]
6471 *) PORT: Sequent and SONY NEWS-OS support added. [Jim Jagielski]
6473 *) PORT: Added Windows NT support
6474 [Ben Laurie and Ambarish Malpani <ambarish@valicert.com>]
6476 Changes with Apache 1.2.6
6478 *) mod_include when using XBitHack Full would send ETags in addition to
6479 sending Last-Modifieds. This is incorrect HTTP/1.1 behaviour.
6480 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1133
6482 *) SECURITY: When a client connects to a particular port/addr, and
6483 gives a Host: header ensure that the virtual host requested can
6484 actually be reached via that port/addr. [Ed Korthof <ed@organic.com>]
6486 *) Support virtual hosts with wildcard port and/or multiple ports
6487 properly. [Ed Korthof <ed@organic.com>]
6489 *) Fixed some case-sensitivity issues according to RFC2068.
6492 *) Set r->allowed properly in mod_asis.c, mod_dir.c, mod_info.c,
6493 and mod_include.c. [Dean Gaudet]
6495 *) Variable 'cwd' was being used pointlessly before being set.
6498 *) SIGURG doesn't exist on all platforms.
6499 [Mark Andrew Heinrich <heinrich@tinderbox.Stanford.EDU>]
6501 *) When an error occurs during a POST, or other operation with a
6502 request body, the body has to be read from the net before allowing
6503 a keepalive session to continue. [Roy Fielding] PR#1399
6505 *) When an error occurs in fcntl() locking suggest the user look up
6506 the docs for LockFile. [Dean Gaudet]
6508 *) table_set() and table_unset() did not deal correctly with
6509 multiple occurrences of the same key. [Stephen Scheck
6510 <sscheck@infonex.net>, Ben Laurie] PR#1604
6512 *) send_fd_length() did not calculate total_bytes_sent properly in error
6513 cases. [Ben Reser <breser@regnow.com>] PR#1366
6515 *) r->connection->user was allocated in the wrong pool causing corruption
6516 in some cases when used with mod_cern_meta. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1500
6518 *) mod_proxy was sending HTTP/1.1 responses to ftp requests by mistake.
6519 Also removed the auto-generated link to www.apache.org that was the
6520 source of so many misdirected bug reports. [Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
6522 *) Multiple "close" tokens may have been set in the "Connection"
6523 header, not an error, but a waste.
6524 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1683
6526 *) "basic" and "digest" auth tokens should be tested case-insensitive.
6527 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1599, PR#1666
6529 *) It appears the "257th byte" bug (see
6530 htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html#257th-byte) can happen
6531 at the 256th byte as well. Fixed. [Dean Gaudet]
6533 *) mod_rewrite would not handle %3f properly in some situations.
6536 *) Apache could generate improperly chunked HTTP/1.1 responses when
6537 the bputc() or rputc() functions were used by modules (such as
6538 mod_include). [Dean Gaudet]
6540 *) #ifdef wrap a few #defines in httpd.h to make life easier on
6541 some ports. [Ralf Engelschall]
6543 *) Fix MPE compilation error in mod_usertrack.c. [Mark Bixby]
6545 *) Quote CC='$(CC)' to improve recurse make calls. [Martin Kraemer]
6547 *) Avoid B_ERROR redeclaration on sysvr4 systems. [Martin Kraemer]
6549 Changes with Apache 1.2.5
6551 *) SECURITY: Fix a possible buffer overflow in logresolve. This is
6552 only an issue on systems without a MAXDNAME define or where
6553 the resolver returns domain names longer than MAXDNAME. [Marc Slemko]
6555 *) Fix an improper length in an ap_snprintf call in proxy_date_canon().
6558 *) Fix core dump in the ftp proxy when reading incorrectly formatted
6559 directory listings. [Marc Slemko]
6561 *) SECURITY: Fix possible minor buffer overflow in the proxy cache.
6564 *) SECURITY: Eliminate possible buffer overflow in cfg_getline, which
6565 is used to read various types of files such as htaccess and
6566 htpasswd files. [Marc Slemko]
6568 *) SECURITY: Ensure that the buffer returned by ht_time is always
6569 properly null terminated. [Marc Slemko]
6571 *) SECURITY: General mod_include cleanup, including fixing several
6572 possible buffer overflows and a possible infinite loop. This cleanup
6573 was done against 1.3 code and then backported to 1.2, the result
6574 is a large difference (due to indentation cleanup in 1.3 code).
6575 Users interested in seeing a smaller set of relevant differences
6576 should consider comparing against src/modules/standard/mod_include.c
6577 from the 1.3b3 release. Non-indentation changes to mod_include
6578 between 1.2 and 1.3 were minimal. [Dean Gaudet, Marc Slemko]
6580 *) SECURITY: Numerous changes to mod_imap in a general cleanup
6581 including fixing a possible buffer overflow. This cleanup also
6582 was done with 1.3 code as a basis, see the the previous note
6583 about mod_include. [Dean Gaudet]
6585 *) SECURITY: If a htaccess file can not be read due to bad
6586 permissions, deny access to the directory with a HTTP_FORBIDDEN.
6587 The previous behavior was to ignore the htaccess file if it could not
6588 be read. This change may make some setups with unreadable
6589 htaccess files stop working. PR#817 [Marc Slemko]
6591 *) SECURITY: no2slash() was O(n^2) in the length of the input.
6592 Make it O(n). This inefficiency could be used to mount a denial
6593 of service attack against the Apache server. Thanks to
6594 Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@boss.staszic.waw.pl> for reporting
6597 *) mod_include used uninitialized data for some uses of && and ||.
6598 [Brian Slesinsky <bslesins@wired.com>] PR#1139
6600 *) mod_imap should decline all non-GET methods.
6601 [Jay Bloodworth <jay@pathways.sde.state.sc.us>]
6603 *) suexec.c wouldn't build without -DLOG_EXEC. [Jason A. Dour]
6605 *) mod_userdir was modifying r->finfo in cases where it wasn't setting
6606 r->filename. Since those two are meant to be in sync with each other
6607 this is a bug. ["Paul B. Henson" <henson@intranet.csupomona.edu>]
6609 *) mod_include did not properly handle all possible redirects from sub-
6610 requests. [Ken Coar]
6612 *) Inetd mode (which is buggy) uses timeouts without having setup the
6613 jmpbuffer. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1064
6615 *) Work around problem under Linux where a child will start looping
6616 reporting a select error over and over.
6617 [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>] PR#1107
6619 Changes with Apache 1.2.4
6621 *) The ProxyRemote change in 1.2.3 introduced a bug resulting in the proxy
6622 always making requests with the full-URI instead of just the URI path.
6623 [Marc Slemko, Roy Fielding]
6625 *) Add -lm for AIX versions >= 4.2 to allow Apache to link properly
6626 on this platform. [Marc Slemko]
6628 Changes with Apache 1.2.3
6630 *) The request to a remote proxy was mangled if it was generated as the
6631 result of a ProxyPass directive. URL schemes other than http:// were not
6632 supported when ProxyRemote was used. PR#260, PR#656, PR#699, PR#713,
6633 PR#812 [Lars Eilebrecht]
6635 *) Fixed proxy-pass-through feature of mod_rewrite; Added error logging
6636 information for case where proxy module is not available. [Marc Slemko]
6638 *) Force proxy to always respond as HTTP/1.0, which it was failing to
6639 do for errors and cached responses. [Roy Fielding]
6641 *) PORT: Improved support for ConvexOS 11. [Jeff Venters]
6643 Changes with Apache 1.2.2 [not released]
6645 *) Fixed another long-standing bug in sub_req_lookup_file where it would
6646 happily skip past access checks on subdirectories looked up with relative
6647 paths. (It's used by mod_dir, mod_negotiation, and mod_include.)
6650 *) Add lockfile name to error message printed out when
6651 USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is defined.
6654 *) Enhanced the chunking and error handling inside the buffer functions.
6655 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding]
6657 *) When merging the main server's <Directory> and <Location> sections into
6658 a vhost, put the main server's first and the vhost's second. Otherwise
6659 the vhost can't override the main server. [Dean Gaudet] PR#717
6661 *) The <Directory> code would merge and re-merge the same section after
6662 a match was found, possibly causing problems with some modules.
6665 *) Fixed an infinite loop in mod_imap for references above the server root.
6666 [Dean Gaudet] PR#748
6668 *) mod_include cleanup showed that handle_else was being used to handle
6669 endif. It didn't cause problems, but it was cleaned up too.
6672 *) Last official synchronization of mod_rewrite with author version (because
6673 mod_rewrite is now directly developed by the author at the Apache Group):
6674 o added diff between mod_rewrite 3.0.6+ and 3.0.9
6675 minus WIN32/NT stuff, but plus copyright removement.
6677 - workaround for detecting infinite rewriting loops
6678 - fixed setting of env vars when "-" is used as subst string
6679 - fixed forced response code on redirects (PR#777)
6680 - fixed cases where r->args is ""
6681 - kludge to disable locking on pipes under braindead SunOS
6682 - fix for rewritelog in cases where remote hostname is unknown
6683 - fixed totally damaged request_rec walk-back loop
6684 o remove static from local data and add static to global ones.
6685 o replaced ugly proxy finding stuff by simple
6686 find_linked_module("mod_proxy") call.
6687 o added missing negation char on rewritelog()
6688 o fixed a few comment typos
6689 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6691 *) Anonymous_LogEmail was logging on each subrequest.
6692 [Dean Gaudet] PR#421, PR#868
6694 *) "force-response-1.0" now only applies to requests which are HTTP/1.0 to
6695 begin with. "nokeepalive" now works for HTTP/1.1 clients. Added
6696 "downgrade-1.0" which causes Apache to pretend it received a 1.0.
6697 Additionally mod_browser now triggers during translate_name to workaround
6698 a deficiency in the header_parse phase.
6699 [Dean Gaudet] PR#875
6701 *) get_client_block() returns wrong length if policy is
6702 REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK.
6703 [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#815
6705 *) Properly treat <files> container like other containers in mod_info.
6706 [Marc Slemko] PR#848
6708 *) The proxy didn't treat the "Host:" keyword of the host header as case-
6709 insensitive. The proxy would corrupt the first line of a response from
6710 an HTTP/0.9 server. [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#813,814
6712 *) mod_include would log some bogus values occasionally.
6713 [Skip Montanaro <skip@calendar.com>, Marc Slemko] PR#797
6715 *) PORT: The slack fd changes in 1.2.1 introduced a problem with SIGHUP
6716 under Solaris 2.x (up through 2.5.1). It has been fixed.
6717 [Dean Gaudet] PR#832
6719 *) API: In HTTP/1.1, whether or not a request message contains a body
6720 is independent of the request method and based solely on the presence
6721 of a Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding. Therefore, our default
6722 handlers need to be prepared to read a body even if they don't know
6723 what to do with it; otherwise, the body would be mistaken for the
6724 next request on a persistent connection. discard_request_body()
6725 has been added to take care of that. [Roy Fielding] PR#378
6727 *) API: Symbol APACHE_RELEASE provides a numeric form of the Apache
6728 release version number, such that it always increases along the
6729 same lines as our source code branching. [Roy Fielding]
6731 *) Minor oversight on multiple variants fixed. [Paul Sutton] PR#94
6733 Changes with Apache 1.2.1
6735 *) SECURITY: Don't serve file system objects unless they are plain files,
6736 symlinks, or directories. This prevents local users from using pipes
6737 or named sockets to invoke programs for an extremely crude form of
6740 *) SECURITY: HeaderName and ReadmeName were settable in .htaccess and
6741 could contain "../" allowing a local user to "publish" any file on
6742 the system. No slashes are allowed now. [Dean Gaudet]
6744 *) SECURITY: It was possible to violate the symlink Options using mod_dir
6745 (headers, readmes, titles), mod_negotiation (type maps), or
6746 mod_cern_meta (meta files). [Dean Gaudet]
6748 *) SECURITY: Apache will refuse to run as "User root" unless
6749 BIG_SECURITY_HOLE is defined at compile time. [Dean Gaudet]
6751 *) CONFIG: If a symlink pointed to a directory then it would be disallowed
6752 if it contained a .htaccess disallowing symlinks. This is contrary
6753 to the rule that symlink permissions are tested with the symlink
6754 options of the parent directory. [Dean Gaudet] PR#353
6756 *) CONFIG: The LockFile directive can be used to place the serializing
6757 lockfile in any location. It previously defaulted to /usr/tmp/htlock.
6758 [Somehow it took four of us: Randy Terbush, Jim Jagielski, Dean Gaudet,
6761 *) Request processing now retains state of whether or not the request
6762 body has been read, so that internal redirects and subrequests will
6763 not try to read it twice (and block). [Roy Fielding]
6765 *) Add a placeholder in modules/Makefile to avoid errors with certain
6766 makes. [Marc Slemko]
6768 *) QUERY_STRING was unescaped in mod_include, it shouldn't be.
6769 [Dean Gaudet] PR#644
6771 *) mod_include was not properly changing the current directory.
6772 [Marc Slemko] PR#742
6774 *) Attempt to work around problems with third party libraries that do not
6775 handle high numbered descriptors (examples include bind, and
6776 solaris libc). On all systems apache attempts to keep all permanent
6777 descriptors above 15 (called the low slack line). Solaris users
6778 can also benefit from adding -DHIGH_SLACK_LINE=256 to EXTRA_CFLAGS
6779 which keeps all non-FILE * descriptors above 255. On all systems
6780 this should make supporting large numbers of vhosts with many open
6781 log files more feasible. If this causes trouble please report it,
6782 you can disable this workaround by adding -DNO_SLACK to EXTRA_CFLAGS.
6783 [Dean Gaudet] various PRs
6785 *) Related to the last entry, network sockets are now opened before
6786 log files are opened. The only known case where this can cause
6787 problems is under Solaris with many virtualhosts and many Listen
6788 directives. But using -DHIGH_SLACK_LINE=256 described above will
6789 work around this problem. [Dean Gaudet]
6791 *) USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is now default for FreeBSD, A/UX, and
6794 *) Improved unix error response logging. [Marc Slemko]
6796 *) Update mod_rewrite from 3.0.5 to 3.0.6. New ruleflag
6797 QSA=query_string_append. Also fixed a nasty bug in per-dir context:
6798 when a URL http://... was used in conjunction with a special
6799 redirect flag, e.g. R=permanent, the permanent status was lost.
6800 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
6802 *) If an object has multiple variants that are otherwise equal Apache
6803 would prefer the last listed variant rather than the first.
6806 *) "make clean" at the top level now removes *.o. [Dean Gaudet] PR#752
6808 *) mod_status dumps core in inetd mode. [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
6811 *) pregsub had an off-by-1 in its error checking code. [Alexei Kosut]
6813 *) PORT: fix rlim_t problems with AIX 4.2. [Marc Slemko] PR#333
6815 *) PORT: Update UnixWare support for 2.1.2.
6816 [Lawrence Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>] PR#511
6818 *) PORT: NonStop-UX [Joachim Schmitz <schmitz_joachim@tandem.com>] PR#327
6820 *) PORT: Update ConvexOS support for 11.5.
6821 [David DeSimone <fox@convex.com>] PR#399
6823 *) PORT: Support for DEC cc compiler under ULTRIX.
6824 ["P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia" <alejolo@ideam.gov.co>] PR#388
6826 *) PORT: Support for Maxion/OS SVR4.2 Real Time Unix. [no name given] PR#383
6828 *) PORT: Workaround for AIX 3.x compiler bug in http_bprintf.c.
6829 [Marc Slemko] PR#725
6831 *) PORT: fix problem compiling http_bprintf.c with gcc under SCO
6832 [Marc Slemko] PR#695
6834 Changes with Apache 1.2
6836 Changes with Apache 1.2b11
6838 *) Fixed open timestamp fd in proxy_cache.c [Chuck Murcko]
6840 *) Added undocumented perl SSI mechanism for -DUSE_PERL_SSI and mod_perl.
6841 [Doug MacEachern, Rob Hartill]
6843 *) Proxy needs to use hard_timeout instead of soft_timeout when it is
6844 reading from one buffer and writing to another, at least until it has
6845 a custom timeout handler. [Roy Fielding and Petr Lampa]
6847 *) Fixed problem on IRIX with servers hanging in IdentityCheck,
6848 apparently due to a mismatch between sigaction and setjmp.
6849 [Roy Fielding] PR#502
6851 *) Log correct status code if we timeout before receiving a request (408)
6852 or if we received a request-line that was too long to process (414).
6853 [Ed Korthof and Roy Fielding] PR#601
6855 *) Virtual hosts with the same ServerName, but on different ports, were
6856 not being selected properly. [Ed Korthof]
6858 *) Added code to return the requested IP address from proxy_host2addr()
6859 if gethostbyaddr() fails due to reverse DNS lookup problems. Original
6860 change submitted by Jozsef Hollosi <hollosi@sbcm.com>.
6861 [Chuck Murcko] PR#614
6863 *) If multiple requests on a single connection are used to retrieve
6864 data from different virtual hosts, the virtual host list would be
6865 scanned starting with the most recently used VH instead of the first,
6866 causing most virtual hosts to be ignored.
6867 [Paul Sutton and Martin Mares] PR#610
6869 *) The OS/2 handling of process group was broken by a porting patch for
6870 MPE, so restored prior code for OS/2. [Roy Fielding and Garey Smiley]
6872 *) Inherit virtual server port from main server if none (or "*") is
6873 given for VirtualHost. [Dean Gaudet] PR#576
6875 *) If the lookup for a DirectoryIndex name with content negotiation
6876 has found matching variants, but none are acceptable, return the
6877 negotiation result if there are no more DirectoryIndex names to lookup.
6878 [Petr Lampa and Roy Fielding]
6880 *) If a soft_timeout occurs after keepalive is set, then the main child
6881 loop would try to read another request even though the connection
6882 has been aborted. [Roy Fielding]
6884 *) Configure changes: Allow for whitespace at the start of a
6885 Module declaration. Also, be more understanding about the
6886 CC=/OPTIM= format in Configuration. Finally, fix compiler
6887 flags if using HP-UX's cc compiler. [Jim Jagielski]
6889 *) Subrequests and internal redirects now inherit the_request from the
6890 original request-line. [Roy Fielding]
6892 *) Test for error conditions before creating output header fields, since
6893 we don't want the error message to include those fields. Likewise,
6894 reset the content_language(s) and content_encoding of the response
6895 before generating or redirecting to an error message, since the new
6896 message will have its own Content-* definitions. [Dean Gaudet]
6898 *) Restored the semantics of headers_out (headers sent only with 200..299
6899 and 304 responses) and err_headers_out (headers sent with all responses).
6900 Avoid the overhead of copying tables if err_headers_out is empty
6901 (the usual case). [Roy Fielding]
6903 *) Fixed a couple places where a check for the default Content-Type was
6904 not properly checking both the value configured by the DefaultType
6905 directive and the DEFAULT_TYPE symbol in httpd.h. Changed the value
6906 of DEFAULT_TYPE to match the documented default (text/plain).
6907 [Dean Gaudet] PR#506
6909 *) Escape the HTML-sensitive characters in the Request-URI that is
6910 output for each child by mod_status. [Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar] PR#501
6912 *) Properly initialize the flock structures used by the mutex locking
6913 around accept() when USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is defined.
6916 *) The method for determining PATH_INFO has been restored to the pre-1.2b
6917 (and NCSA httpd) definition wherein it was the extra path info beyond
6918 the CGI script filename. The environment variable FILEPATH_INFO has
6919 been removed, and instead we supply the original REQUEST_URI to any
6920 script that wants to be Apache-specific and needs the real URI path.
6921 This solves a problem with existing scripts that use extra path info
6922 in the ScriptAlias directive to pass options to the CGI script.
6925 *) The _default_ change in 1.2b10 will change the behaviour on configs
6926 that use multiple Listen statements for listening on multiple ports.
6927 But that change is necessary to make _default_ consistent with other
6928 forms of <VirtualHost>. It requires such configs to be modified
6929 to use <VirtualHost _default_:*>. The documentation has been
6930 updated. [Dean Gaudet] PR#530
6932 *) If an ErrorDocument CGI script is used to respond to an error
6933 generated by another CGI script which has already read the message
6934 body of the request, the server would block trying to read the
6935 message body again. [Rob Hartill]
6937 *) signal() replacement conflicted with a define on QNX (and potentially
6938 other platforms). Fixed. [Ben Laurie] PR#512
6940 Changes with Apache 1.2b10
6942 *) Allow HTTPD_ROOT, SERVER_CONFIG_FILE, DEFAULT_PATH, and SHELL_PATH
6943 to be configured via -D in Configuration. [Dean Gaudet] PR#449
6945 *) <VirtualHost _default_:portnum> didn't work properly. [Dean Gaudet]
6947 *) Added prototype for mktemp() for SUNOS4 [Marc Slemko]
6949 *) In mod_proxy.c, check return values for proxy_host2addr() when reading
6950 config, in case the hostent struct returned is trash.
6951 [Chuck Murcko] PR #491
6953 *) Fixed the fix in 1.2b9 for parsing URL query info into args for CGI
6954 scripts. [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
6956 Changes with Apache 1.2b9 [never announced]
6958 *) Reset the MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER to account for the unsigned port
6959 changes and in anticipation of 1.2 final release. [Roy Fielding]
6961 *) Fix problem with scripts not receiving a SIGPIPE when client drops
6962 the connection (e.g., when user presses Stop). Apache will now stop
6963 trying to send a message body immediately after an error from write.
6964 [Roy Fielding and Nathan Kurz] PR#335
6966 *) Rearrange Configuration.tmpl so that mod_rewrite has higher priority
6967 than mod_alias, and mod_alias has higher priority than mod_proxy;
6968 rearranged other modules to enhance understanding of their purpose
6969 and relative order (and maybe even reduce some overhead).
6970 [Roy Fielding and Sameer Parekh]
6972 *) Fix graceful restart. Eliminate many signal-related race
6973 conditions in both forms of restart, and in SIGTERM. See
6974 htdocs/manual/stopping.html for details on stopping and
6975 restarting the parent. [Dean Gaudet]
6977 *) Fix memory leaks in mod_rewrite, mod_browser, mod_include. Tune
6978 memory allocator to avoid a behaviour that required extra blocks to
6979 be allocated. [Dean Gaudet]
6981 *) Allow suexec to access files relative to current directory but not
6982 above. (Excluding leading / or any .. directory.) [Ken Coar]
6985 *) Fix suexec segfault when group doesn't exist. [Gregory Neil Shapiro]
6986 PR#367, 368, 354, 453
6988 *) Fix the above fix: if suexec is enabled, avoid destroying r->url
6989 while obtaining the /~user and save the username in a separate data
6990 area so that it won't be overwritten by the call to getgrgid(), and
6991 fix some misuse of the pool string allocation functions. Also fixes
6992 a general problem with parsing URL query info into args for CGI scripts.
6993 [Roy Fielding] PR#339, 367, 354, 453
6995 *) Fix IRIX warning about bzero undefined. [Marc Slemko]
6997 *) Fix problem with <Directory proxy:...>. [Martin Kraemer] PR#271
6999 *) Corrected spelling of "authoritative". AuthDBAuthoratative became
7000 AuthDBAuthoritative. [Marc Slemko] PR#420
7002 *) MaxClients should be at least 1. [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#375
7004 *) The default handler now logs invalid methods or URIs (i.e. PUT on an
7005 object that can't be PUT, or FOOBAR for some method FOOBAR that
7006 apache doesn't know about at all). Log 404s that occur in mod_include.
7007 [Paul Sutton, John Van Essen]
7009 *) If a soft timeout (or lingerout) occurs while trying to flush a
7010 buffer or write inside buff.c or fread'ing from a CGI's output,
7011 then the timeout would be ignored. [Roy Fielding] PR#373
7013 *) Work around a bug in Netscape Navigator versions 2.x, 3.x and 4.0b2's
7014 parsing of headers. If the terminating empty-line CRLF occurs starting
7015 at the 256th or 257th byte of output, then Navigator will think a normal
7016 image is invalid. We are guessing that this is because their initial
7017 read of a new request uses a 256 byte buffer. We check the bytes written
7018 so far and, if we are about to tickle the bug, we instead insert a
7019 padding header of eminent bogosity. [Roy Fielding and Dean Gaudet] PR#232
7021 *) Fixed SIGSEGV problem when a DirectoryIndex file is also the source
7022 of an external redirection. [Roy Fielding and Paul Sutton]
7024 *) Configure would create a broken Makefile if the configuration file
7025 contained a commented-out Rule. [Roy Fielding]
7027 *) Promote per_dir_config and subprocess_env from the subrequest to the
7028 main request in mod_negotiation. In particular this fixes a bug
7029 where <Files> sections wouldn't properly apply to negotiated content.
7032 *) Fix a potential deadlock in mod_cgi script_err handling.
7033 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7035 *) rotatelogs zero-pads the logfile names to improve alphabetic sorting.
7038 *) Updated mod_rewrite to 3.0.4: Fixes HTTP redirects from within
7039 .htaccess files because the RewriteBase was not replaced correctly.
7040 Updated mod_rewrite to 3.0.5: Fixes problem with rewriting inside
7041 <Directory> sections missing a trailing /. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7043 *) Clean up Linux settings in conf.h by detecting 2.x versus 1.x. For
7044 1.x the settings are those of pre-1.2b8. For 2.x we include
7045 USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD (scoreboard in shared memory rather than file) and
7046 HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H (enable the RLimit commands).
7047 [Dean Gaudet] PR#336, PR#340
7049 *) Redirect did not preserve ?query_strings when present in the client's
7050 request. [Dean Gaudet]
7052 *) Configure was finding non-modules on EXTRA_LIBS. [Frank Cringle] PR#380
7054 *) Use /bin/sh5 on ULTRIX. [P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia] PR#369
7056 *) Add UnixWare compile/install instructions. [Chuck Murcko]
7058 *) Add mod_example (illustration of API techniques). [Ken Coar]
7060 *) Add macro for memmove to conf.h for SUNOS4. [Marc Slemko]
7062 *) Improve handling of directories when filenames have spaces in them.
7065 *) For hosts with multiple IP addresses, try all additional addresses if
7066 necessary to get a connect. Fail only if hostent address list is
7067 exhausted. [Chuck Murcko]
7069 *) More signed/unsigned port fixes. [Dean Gaudet]
7071 *) HARD_SERVER_LIMIT can be defined in the Configuration file now.
7074 Changes with Apache 1.2b8
7076 *) suexec.c doesn't close the log file, allowing CGIs to continue writing
7077 to it. [Marc Slemko]
7079 *) The addition of <Location> and <File> directives made the
7080 sub_req_lookup_simple() function bogus, so we now handle
7081 the special cases directly. [Dean Gaudet]
7083 *) We now try to log where the server is dumping core when a fatal
7084 signal is received. [Ken Coar]
7086 *) Improved lingering_close by adding a special timeout, removing the
7087 spurious log messages, removing the nonblocking settings (they
7088 are not needed with the better timeout), and adding commentary
7089 about the NO_LINGCLOSE and USE_SO_LINGER issues. NO_LINGCLOSE is
7090 now the default for SunOS4, UnixWare, NeXT, and IRIX. [Roy Fielding]
7092 *) Send error messages about setsockopt failures to the server error
7093 log instead of stderr. [Roy Fielding]
7095 *) Fix loopholes in proxy cache expiry vis a vis alarms. [Brian Moore]
7097 *) Stopgap solution for CGI 3-second delay with server-side includes: if
7098 processing a subrequest, allocate memory from r->main->pool instead
7099 of r->pool so that we can avoid waiting for free_proc_chain to cleanup
7100 in the middle of an SSI request. [Dean Gaudet] PR #122
7102 *) Fixed status of response when POST is received for a nonexistent URL
7103 (was sending 405, now 404) and when any method is sent with a
7104 full-URI that doesn't match the server and the server is not acting
7105 as a proxy (was sending 501, now 403). [Roy Fielding]
7107 *) Host port changed to unsigned short. [Ken Coar] PR #276
7109 *) Fix typo in command definition of AuthAuthoritative. [Ken Coar] PR #246
7111 *) Defined USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD for shared memory on Linux. [Dean Gaudet]
7113 *) Report extra info from errno with many errors that cause httpd to exit.
7114 spawn_child, popenf, and pclosef now have valid errno returns in the
7115 event of an error. Correct problems where errno was stomped on
7116 before being reported. [Dean Gaudet]
7118 *) In the proxy, if the cache filesystem was full, garbage_coll() was
7119 never called, and thus the filesystem would remain full indefinitely.
7120 We now also remove incomplete cache files left if the origin server
7121 didn't send a Content-Length header and either the client has aborted
7122 transfer or bwrite() to client has failed. [Petr Lampa]
7124 *) Fixed the handling of module and script-added header fields.
7125 Improved the interface for sending header fields and reduced
7126 the duplication of code between sending okay responses and errors.
7127 We now always send both headers_out and err_headers_out, and
7128 ensure that the server-reserved fields are not being overridden,
7129 while not overriding those that are not reserved. [Roy Fielding]
7131 *) Moved transparent content negotiation fields to err_headers_out
7132 to reflect above changes. [Petr Lampa]
7134 *) Fixed the determination of whether or not we should make the
7135 connection persistent for all of the cases where some other part
7136 of the server has already indicated that we should not. Also
7137 improved the ordering of the test so that chunked encoding will
7138 be set whenever it is desired instead of only when KeepAlive
7139 is enabled. Added persistent connection capability for most error
7140 responses (those that do not indicate a bad input stream) when
7141 accessed by an HTTP/1.1 client. [Roy Fielding]
7143 *) Added missing timeouts for sending header fields, error responses,
7144 and the last chunk of chunked encoding, each of which could have
7145 resulted in a process being stuck in write forever. Using soft_timeout
7146 requires that the sender check for an aborted connection rather than
7147 continuing after an EINTR. Timeouts that used to be initiated before
7148 send_http_header (and never killed) are now initiated only within or
7149 around the routines that actually do the sending, and not allowed to
7150 propagate above the caller. [Roy Fielding]
7152 *) mod_auth_anon required an @ or a . in the email address, not both.
7155 *) per_dir_defaults weren't set correctly until directory_walk for
7156 name-based vhosts. This fixes an obscure bug with the wrong config
7157 info being used for vhosts that share the same ip as the server.
7160 *) Improved generation of modules/Makefile to be more generic for
7161 new module directories. [Ken Coar, Chuck Murcko, Roy Fielding]
7163 *) Generate makefile dependency for Configuration based on the actual
7164 name given when running the Configure process. [Dean Gaudet]
7166 *) Fixed problem with vhost error log not being set prior to
7167 initializing virtual hosts. [Dean Gaudet]
7169 *) Fixed infinite loop when a trailing slash is included after a type map
7170 file URL (extra path info). [Petr Lampa]
7172 *) Fixed server status updating of per-connection counters. [Roy Fielding]
7174 *) Add documentation for DNS issues (reliability and security), and try
7175 to explain the virtual host matching process. [Dean Gaudet]
7177 *) Try to continue gracefully by disabling the vhost if a DNS lookup
7178 fails while parsing the configuration file. [Dean Gaudet]
7180 *) Improved calls to setsockopt. [Roy Fielding]
7182 *) Negotiation changes: Don't output empty content-type in variant list;
7183 Output charset in variant list; Return sooner from handle_multi() if
7184 no variants found; Add handling of '*' wildcard in Accept-Charset.
7185 [Petr Lampa and Paul Sutton]
7187 *) Fixed overlaying of request/sub-request notes and headers in
7188 mod_negotiation. [Dean Gaudet]
7190 *) If two variants' charset quality are equal and one is the default
7191 charset (iso-8859-1), then prefer the variant that was specifically
7192 listed in Accept-Charset instead of the default. [Petr Lampa]
7194 *) Memory allocation problem in push_array() -- it would corrupt memory
7195 when nalloc==0. [Kai Risku <krisku@tf.hut.fi> and Roy Fielding]
7197 *) invoke_handler() doesn't handle mime arguments in content-type
7200 *) Reduced IdentityCheck timeout to 30 seconds, as per RFC 1413 minimum.
7203 *) Fixed problem with ErrorDocument not working for virtual hosts
7204 due to one of the performance changes in 1.2b7. [Dean Gaudet]
7206 *) Log an error message if we get a request header that is too long,
7207 since it may indicate a buffer overflow attack. [Marc Slemko]
7209 *) Made is_url() allow "[-.+a-zA-Z0-9]+:" as a valid scheme and
7210 not reject URLs without a double-slash, as per RFC2068 section 3.2.
7211 [Ken Coar] PR #146, #187
7213 *) Added table entry placeholder for new header_parser callback
7214 in all of the distributed modules. [Ken Coar] PR #191
7216 *) Allow for cgi files without the .EXE extension on them under OS/2.
7217 [Garey Smiley] PR #59
7219 *) Fixed error message when resource is not found and URL contains
7220 path info. [Petr Lampa and Dean Gaudet] PR #40
7222 *) Fixed user and server confusion over what should be a virtual host
7223 and what is the main server, resulting in access to something
7224 other than the name defined in the virtualhost directive (but
7225 with the same IP address) failing. [Dean Gaudet]
7227 *) Updated mod_rewrite to version 3.0.2, which: fixes compile error on
7228 AIX; improves the redirection stuff to enable the users to generally
7229 redirect to http, https, gopher and ftp; added TIME variable for
7230 RewriteCond which expands to YYYYMMDDHHMMSS strings and added the
7231 special patterns >STRING, <STRING and =STRING to RewriteCond, which
7232 can be used in conjunction with %{TIME} or other variables to create
7233 time-dependent rewriting rules. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7235 *) bpushfd() no longer notes cleanups for the file descriptors it is handed.
7236 Module authors may need to adjust their code for proper cleanup to take
7237 place (that is, call note_cleanups_for_fd()). This change fixes problems
7238 with file descriptors being erroneously closed when the proxy module was
7239 in use. [Ben Laurie]
7241 *) Fix bug in suexec reintroduced by changes in 1.2b7 which allows
7242 initgroups() to hose the group information needed for later
7243 comparisons. [Randy Terbush]
7245 *) Remove unnecessary call to va_end() in create_argv() which
7246 caused a SEGV on some systems.
7248 *) Use proper MAXHOSTNAMELEN symbol for limiting length of server name.
7251 *) Clear memory allocated for listeners. [Randy Terbush]
7253 *) Improved handling of IP address as a virtualhost address and
7254 introduced "_default_" as a synonym for the default vhost config.
7255 [Dean Gaudet] PR #212
7257 Changes with Apache 1.2b7
7259 *) Port to UXP/DS(V20) [Toshiaki Nomura <nom@yk.fujitsu.co.jp>]
7261 *) unset Content-Length if chunked (RFC-2068) [Petr Lampa]
7263 *) mod_negotiation fixes [Petr Lampa] PR#157, PR#158, PR#159
7264 - replace protocol response numbers with symbols
7265 - save variant-list into main request notes
7266 - free allocated memory from subrequests
7267 - merge notes, headers_out and err_headers_out
7269 *) changed status check mask in proxy_http.c from "HTTP/#.# ### *" to
7270 "HTTP/#.# ###*" to be more lenient about what we accept.
7273 *) more proxy FTP bug fixes:
7274 - Changed send_dir() to remove user/passwd from displayed URL.
7275 - Changed login error messages to be more descriptive.
7276 - remove setting of SO_DEBUG socket option
7277 - Make ftp_getrc() more lenient about multiline responses,
7278 specifically, 230 responses which don't have continuation 230-
7279 on each line). These seem to be all NT FTP servers, and while
7280 perhaps questionable, they appear to be legal by RFC 959.
7281 - Add missing kill_timeout() after transfer to user completes.
7284 *) Fixed problem where a busy server could hang when restarting
7285 after being sent a SIGHUP due to child processes not exiting.
7288 *) Modify mod_include escaping so a '\' only signifies an escaped
7289 character if the next character is one that needs
7290 escaping. [Ben Laurie]
7292 *) Eliminated possible infinite loop in mod_imap when relative URLs are
7293 used with a 'base' directive that does not have a '/' in it.
7294 [Marc Slemko, reported by Onno Witvliet <onno@tc.hsa.nl>]
7296 *) Reduced the default timeout from 1200 seconds to 300, and the
7297 one in the sample configfile from 400 to 300. [Marc Slemko]
7299 *) Stop vbprintf from crashing if given a NULL string pointer;
7300 print (null) instead. [Ken Coar]
7302 *) Don't disable Nagle algorithm if system doesn't have TCP_NODELAY.
7303 [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
7305 *) Fixed problem with mod_cgi-generated internal redirects trying to
7306 read the request message-body twice. [Archie Cobbs and Roy Fielding]
7308 *) Reduced timeout on lingering close, removed possibility of a blocked
7309 read causing the child to hang, and stopped logging of errors if
7310 the socket is not connected (reset by client). [Roy Fielding]
7312 *) Rearranged main child loop to remove duplication of code in
7313 select/accept and keep-alive requests, fixed several bugs regarding
7314 checking scoreboard_image for exit indication and failure to
7315 account for all success conditions and trap all error conditions,
7316 prevented multiple flushes before closing the socket; close the entire
7317 socket buffer instead of just one descriptor, prevent logging of
7318 EPROTO and ECONNABORTED on platforms where supported, and generally
7319 improved readability. [Roy Fielding]
7321 *) Extensive performance improvements. Cleaned up inefficient use of
7322 auto initializers, multiple is_matchexp calls on a static string,
7323 and excessive merging of response_code_strings. [Dean Gaudet]
7325 *) Added double-buffering to mod_include to improve performance on
7326 server-side includes. [Marc Slemko]
7328 *) Several fixes for suexec wrapper. [Randy Terbush]
7329 - Make wrapper work for files on NFS filesystem.
7330 - Fix portability problem of MAXPATHLEN.
7331 - Fix array overrun problem in clean_env().
7332 - Fix allocation of PATH environment variable
7334 *) Removed extraneous blank line is description of mod_status chars.
7337 *) Logging of errors from the call_exec routine simply went nowhere,
7338 since the logfile fd has been closed, so now we send them to stderr.
7339 [Harald T. Alvestrand]
7341 *) Fixed core dump when DocumentRoot is a CGI.
7342 [Ben Laurie, reported by geddis@tesserae.com]
7344 *) Fixed potential file descriptor leak in mod_asis; updated it and
7345 http_core to use pfopen/pfclose instead of fopen/fclose.
7346 [Randy Terbush and Roy Fielding]
7348 *) Fixed handling of unsigned ints in ap_snprintf() on some chips such
7349 as the DEC Alpha which is 64-bit but uses 32-bit ints.
7350 [Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar]
7352 *) Return a 302 response code to the client when sending a redirect
7353 due to a missing trailing '/' on a directory instead of a 301; now
7354 it is cacheable. [Markus Gyger]
7356 *) Fix condition where, if a bad directive occurs in .htaccess, and
7357 sub_request() goes first to this directory, then log_reason() will
7358 SIGSEGV because it doesn't have initialized r->per_dir_config.
7359 [PR#162 from Petr Lampa, fix by Marc Slemko and Dean Gaudet]
7361 *) Fix handling of lang_index in is_variant_better(). This was
7362 causing problems which resulted in the server sending the
7363 wrong language document in some cases. [Petr Lampa]
7365 *) Remove free() from clean_env() in suexec wrapper. This was nuking
7366 the clean environment on some systems.
7368 *) Tweak byteserving code (e.g. serving PDF files) to work around
7369 bugs in Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
7370 Emit Content-Length header when sending multipart/byteranges.
7373 *) Port to HI-UX/WE2. [Nick Maclaren]
7375 *) Port to HP MPE operating system for HP 3000 machines
7376 [Mark Bixby <markb@cccd.edu>]
7378 *) Fixed bug which caused a segmentation fault if only one argument
7379 given to RLimit* directives. [Ed Korthof]
7381 *) Continue persistent connection after 204 or 304 response. [Dean Gaudet]
7383 *) Improved buffered output to the client by delaying the flush decision
7384 until the BUFF code is actually about to read the next request.
7385 This fixes a problem introduced in 1.2b5 with clients that send
7386 an extra CRLF after a POST request. Also improved chunked output
7387 performance by combining writes using writev() and removing as
7388 many bflush() calls as possible. NOTE: Platforms without writev()
7389 must add -DNO_WRITEV to the compiler CFLAGS, either in Configuration
7390 or Configure, unless we have already done so. [Dean Gaudet]
7392 *) Fixed mod_rewrite bug which truncated the rewritten URL [Marc Slemko]
7394 *) Fixed mod_info output corruption bug introduced by buffer overflow
7395 fixes. [Dean Gaudet]
7397 *) Fixed http_protocol to correctly output all HTTP/1.1 headers, including
7398 for the special case of a 304 response. [Paul Sutton]
7400 *) Improved handling of TRACE method by bypassing normal method handling
7401 and header parsing routines; fixed Allow response to always allow TRACE.
7404 *) Fixed compiler warnings in the regex library. [Dean Gaudet]
7406 *) Cleaned-up some of the generated HTML. [Ken Coar]
7408 Changes with Apache 1.2b6
7410 *) Allow whitespace in imagemap mapfile coordinates. [Marc Slemko]
7412 *) Fix typo introduced in fix for potential infinite loop around
7413 accept() in child_main(). This change caused the rev to 1.2b6.
7414 1.2b5 was never a public beta.
7416 Changes with Apache 1.2b5
7418 *) Change KeepAlive semantics (On|Off instead of a number), add
7419 MaxKeepAliveRequests directive. [Alexei Kosut]
7421 *) Various NeXT compilation patches, as well as a change in
7422 regex/regcomp.c since that file also used a NEXT define.
7425 *) Allow * to terminate the end of a directory match in mod_dir.
7426 Allows /~* to match for both /~joe and /~joe/. [David Bronder]
7428 *) Don't call can_exec() if suexec_enabled. Calling this requires
7429 scripts executed by the suexec wrapper to be world executable, which
7430 defeats one of the advantages of running the wrapper. [Randy Terbush]
7432 *) Portability Fix: IRIX complained with 'make clean' about *pure* (removed)
7435 *) Migration from sprintf() to snprintf() to avoid buffer
7436 overflows. [Marc Slemko]
7438 *) Provide portable snprintf() implementation (ap_snprintf)
7439 as well as *cvt family. [Jim Jagielski]
7441 *) Portability Fix: NeXT lacks unistd.h so we wrap it's inclusion
7444 *) Remove mod_fastcgi.c from the distribution. This module appears
7445 to be maintained more through the Open Market channels and should
7446 continue to be easily available at http://www.fastcgi.com/
7448 *) Fixed bug in modules/Makefile that wouldn't allow building in more
7449 than one subdirectory (or cleaning, either). [Jeremy Laidman]
7451 *) mod_info assumed that the config files were relative to ServerRoot.
7454 *) CGI scripts called as an error document resulting from failed
7455 CGI execution would hang waiting for POST'ed data. [Rob Hartill]
7457 *) Log reason when mod_dir returns access HTTP_FORBIDDEN
7460 *) Properly check errno to prevent display of a directory index
7461 when server receives a long enough URL to confuse stat().
7464 *) Several security enhancements to suexec wrapper. It is _highly_
7465 recommended that previously installed versions of the wrapper
7466 be replaced with this version. [Randy Terbush, Jason Dour]
7468 - ~user execution now properly restricted to ~user's home
7469 directory and below.
7470 - execution restricted to UID/GID > 100
7471 - restrict passed environment to known variables
7472 - call setgid() before initgroups() (portability fix)
7473 - remove use of setenv() (portability fix)
7475 *) Add HTTP/1.0 response forcing. [Ben Laurie]
7477 *) Add access control via environment variables. [Ben Laurie]
7479 *) Add rflush() function. [Alexei Kosut]
7481 *) remove duplicate pcalloc() call in new_connection().
7483 *) Fix incorrect comparison which could allow number of children =
7484 MaxClients + 1 if less than HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. Also fix potential
7485 problem if StartServers > HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. [Ed Korthof]
7487 *) Updated support for OSes (MachTen, ULTRIX, Paragon, ISC, OpenBSD
7488 AIX PS/2, CONVEXOS. [Jim Jagielski]
7490 *) Replace instances of inet_ntoa() with inet_addr() for ProxyBlock.
7491 It's more portable. [Martin Kraemer]
7493 *) Replace references to make in Makefile.tmpl with $(MAKE).
7496 *) Add ProxyBlock directive w/IP address caching. Add IP address
7497 caching to NoCache directive as well. ProxyBlock works with all
7498 handlers; NoCache now also works with FTP for anonymous logins.
7499 Still more code cleanup. [Chuck Murcko]
7501 *) Add "header parse" API hook [Ben Laurie]
7503 *) Fix byte ordering problems for REMOTE_PORT [Chuck Murcko]
7505 *) suEXEC wrapper was freeing memory that had not been malloc'ed.
7507 *) Correctly allow access and auth directives in <Files> sections in
7508 server config files. [Alexei Kosut]
7510 *) Fix bug with ServerPath that could cause certain files to be not
7511 found by the server. [Alexei Kosut]
7513 *) Fix handling of ErrorDocument so that it doesn't remove a trailing
7514 double-quote from text and so that it properly checks for unsupported
7515 status codes using the new index_of_response interface. [Roy Fielding]
7517 *) Multiple fixes to the lingering_close code in order to avoid being
7518 interrupted by a stray timeout, to avoid lingering on a connection
7519 that has already been aborted or never really existed, to ensure that
7520 we stop lingering as soon as any error condition is received, and to
7521 prevent being stuck indefinitely if the read blocks. Also improves
7522 reporting of error conditions. [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
7524 *) Fixed initialization of parameter structure for sigaction.
7525 [mgyger@itr.ch, Adrian Filipi-Martin]
7527 *) Fixed reinitializing the parameters before each call to accept and
7528 select, and removed potential for infinite loop in accept.
7529 [Roy Fielding, after useful PR from adrian@virginia.edu]
7531 *) Fixed condition where, if a child fails to fork, the scoreboard would
7532 continue to say SERVER_STARTING forever. Eventually, the main process
7533 would refuse to start new children because count_idle_servers() will
7534 count those SERVER_STARTING entries and will always report that there
7535 are enough idle servers. [Phillip Vandry]
7537 *) Fixed bug in bcwrite regarding failure to account for partial writes.
7538 Avoided calling bflush() when the client is pipelining requests.
7539 Removed unnecessary flushes from http_protocol. [Dean Gaudet]
7541 *) Added description of "." mode in server-status [Jim Jagielski]
7543 Changes with Apache 1.2b4
7545 *) Fix possible race condition in accept_mutex_init() that
7546 could leave a small security hole open allowing files to be
7547 overwritten in cases where the server UID has write permissions.
7550 *) Fix awk compatibilty problem in Configure. [Jim Jagielski]
7552 *) Fix portablity problem in util_script where ARG_MAX may not be
7553 defined for some systems.
7555 *) Add changes to allow compilation on Machten 4.0.3 for PowerPC.
7558 *) OS/2 changes to support an MMAP style scoreboard file and UNIX
7559 style magic #! token for better script portability. [Garey Smiley]
7561 *) Fix bug in suexec wrapper introduced in b3 that would cause failed
7562 execution for ~userdir CGI. [Jason Dour]
7564 *) Fix initgroups() business in suexec wrapper. [Jason Dour]
7566 *) Fix month off by one in suexec wrapper logging.
7568 Changes with Apache 1.2b3:
7570 *) Fix error in mod_cgi which could cause resources not to be properly
7571 freed, or worse. [Dean Gaudet]
7573 *) Fix find_string() NULL pointer dereference. [Howard Fear]
7575 *) Add set_flag_slot() at the request of Dirk and others.
7578 *) Sync mod_rewrite with patch level 10. [Ralf Engelschall]
7580 *) Add changes to improve the error message given for invalid
7581 ServerName parameters. [Dirk vanGulik]
7583 *) Add "Authoritative" directive for Auth modules that don't
7584 currently have it. This gives admin control to assign authoritative
7585 control to an authentication scheme and allow "fall through" for
7586 those authentication modules that aren't "Authoritative" thereby
7587 allowing multiple authentication mechanisms to be chained.
7590 *) Remove requirement for ResourceConfig/AccessConfig if not using
7591 the three config file layout. [Randy Terbush]
7593 *) Add PASV mode to mod_proxy FTP handler. [Chuck Murcko]
7595 *) Changes to suexec wrapper to fix the following problems:
7596 1. symlinked homedirs will kill ~userdirs.
7597 2. initgroups() on Linux 2.0.x clobbers gr->grid.
7598 3. CGI command lines paramters problems
7599 4. pw-pwdir for "docroot check" still the httpd user's pw record.
7600 [Randy Terbush, Jason Dour]
7602 *) Change create_argv() to accept variable arguments. This fixes
7603 a problem where arguments were not getting passed to the CGI via
7604 argv[] when the suexec wrapper was active. [Randy Terbush, Jake Buchholz]
7606 *) Collapse multiple slashes in path URLs to properly apply
7607 handlers defined by <Location>. [Alexei Kosut]
7609 *) Define a sane set of DEFAULT_USER and DEFAULT_GROUP values for AIX.
7611 *) Improve the accuracy of request duration timings by setting
7612 r->request_time in read_request_line() instead of read_request().
7615 *) Reset timeout while reading via get_client_block() in mod_cgi.c
7616 Fixes problem with timed out transfers of large files. [Rasmus Lerdorf]
7618 *) Add the ability to pass different Makefile.tmpl files to Configure
7619 using the -make flag. [Rob Hartill]
7621 *) Fix coredump triggered when sending a SIGHUP to the server caused
7622 by an assertion failure, in turn caused by an uninitialised field in a
7626 *) Add FILEPATH_INFO variable to CGI environment, which is equal to
7627 PATH_INFO from previous versions of Apache (in certain situations,
7628 Apache 1.2's PATH_INFO will be different than 1.1's). [Alexei Kosut]
7629 [later removed in 1.2b11]
7631 *) Add rwrite() function to API to allow for sending strings of
7632 arbitrary length. [Doug MacEachern]
7634 *) Remove rlim_t typedef for NetBSD. Do older versions need this?
7636 *) Defined rlim_t and WANTHSREGEX=yes and fixed waitpid() substitute for
7637 NeXT. [Jim Jagielski]
7639 *) Removed recent modification to promote the status code on internal
7640 redirects, since the correct fix was to change the default log format
7641 in mod_log_config so that it outputs the original status. [Rob Hartill]
7643 Changes with Apache 1.2b2:
7645 *) Update set_signals() to use sigaction() for setting handlers.
7646 This appears to fix a re-entrant problem in the seg_fault()
7647 bus_error() handlers. [Randy Terbush]
7649 *) Changes to allow mod_status compile for OS/2 [Garey Smiley]
7651 *) changes for DEC AXP running OSF/1 v3.0. [Marc Evans]
7653 *) proxy_http.c bugfixes: [Chuck Murcko]
7654 1) fixes possible NULL pointer reference w/NoCache
7655 2) fixes NoCache behavior when using ProxyRemote (ProxyRemote
7656 host would cache nothing if it was in the local domain,
7657 and the local domain was in the NoCache list)
7658 3) Adds Host: header when not available
7659 4) Some code cleanup and clarification
7661 *) mod_include.c bugfixes:
7662 1) Fixed an ommission that caused include variables to not
7663 be parsed in config errmsg directives [Howard Fear]
7664 2) Remove HAVE_POSIX_REGEX cruft [Alexei Kosut]
7665 3) Patch to fix compiler warnings [perrot@lal.in2p3.fr]
7666 4) Allow backslash-escaping to all quoted text
7667 [Ben Yoshino <ben@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>]
7668 5) Pass variable to command line if not set in XSSI's env
7671 *) Fix infinite loop when processing Content-language lines in
7672 type-map files. [Alexei Kosut]
7674 *) Closed file-globbing hole in test-cgi script. [Brian Behlendorf]
7676 *) Fixed problem in set_[user|group] that prevented CGI execution
7677 for non-virtualhosts when suEXEC was enabled. [Randy Terbush]
7679 *) Added PORTING information file. [Jim Jagielski]
7681 *) Added definitions for S_IWGRP and S_IWOTH to conf.h [Ben Laurie]
7683 *) Changed default group to "nogroup" instead of "nobody" [Randy Terbush]
7685 *) Fixed define typo of FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT where
7686 USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT was intended.
7688 *) Fixed additional uses of 0xffffffff where INADDR_NONE was intended,
7689 which caused problems of systems where socket s_addr is >32bits.
7691 *) Added comment to explain (r->chunked = 1) side-effect in
7692 http_protocol.c [Roy Fielding]
7694 *) Replaced use of index() in mod_expires.c with more appropriate
7695 and portable isdigit() test. [Ben Laurie]
7697 *) Updated Configure for ...
7698 OS/2 (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, other code changes)
7699 *-dg-dgux* (bad pattern match)
7700 QNX (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes)
7701 *-sunos4* (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, -DUSEBCOPY)
7704 and added some user diagnostic info. [Ben Laurie]
7706 *) In helpers/CutRule, replaced "cut" invocation with "awk" invocation
7707 for better portability. [Jim Jagielski]
7709 *) Updated helpers/GuessOS for ...
7710 SCO 5 (recognize minor releases)
7711 SCO UnixWare (braindamaged uname, whatever-whatever-unixware2)
7712 SCO UnixWare 2.1.1 (requires a separate set of #defines in conf.h)
7713 IRIX64 (-sgi-irix64)
7714 ULTRIX (-unknown-ultrix)
7715 SINIX (-whatever-sysv4)
7716 NCR Unix (-ncr-sysv4)
7717 and fixed something in helpers/PrintPath [Ben Laurie]
7719 Changes with Apache 1.2b1
7721 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_2.html>
7723 Changes with Apache 1.1.1
7725 *) Fixed bug where Cookie module would make two entries in the
7726 logfile for each access [Mark Cox]
7728 *) Fixed bug where Redirect in .htaccess files would cause memory
7729 leak. [Nathan Neulinger]
7731 *) MultiViews now works correctly with AddHandler [Alexei Kosut]
7733 *) Problems with mod_auth_msql fixed [Dirk vanGulik]
7735 *) Fix misspelling of "Anonymous_Authorative" directive in mod_auth_anon.
7737 Changes with Apache 1.1.0
7739 *) Bring NeXT support up to date. [Takaaki Matsumoto]
7741 *) Bring QNX support up to date. [Ben Laurie]
7743 *) Make virtual hosts default to main server keepalive parameters.
7744 [Alexei Kosut, Ben Laurie]
7746 *) Allow ScanHTMLTitles to work with lowercase <title> tags. [Alexei Kosut]
7748 *) Fix missing address family for connect, also remove unreachable statement
7749 in mod_proxy. [Ben Laurie]
7751 *) mod_env now turned on by default in Configuration.tmpl.
7753 *) Bugs which were fixed:
7754 a) yet more mod_proxy bugs [Ben Laurie]
7755 b) CGI works again with inetd [Alexei Kosut]
7756 c) Leading colons were stripped from passwords [osm@interguide.com]
7757 d) Another fix to multi-method Limit problem [jk@tools.de]
7759 Changes with Apache 1.1b4
7761 *) r->bytes_sent variable restored. [Robert Thau]
7763 *) Previously broken multi-method <Limit> parsing fixed. [Robert Thau]
7765 *) More possibly unsecure programs removed from the support directory.
7767 *) More mod_auth_msql authentication improvements.
7769 *) VirtualHosts based on Host: headers no longer conflict with the
7772 *) OS/2 compatibility enhancements. [Gary Smiley]
7774 *) POST now allowed to directory index CGI scripts.
7776 *) Actions now work with files of the default type.
7778 *) Bugs which were fixed:
7779 a) more mod_proxy bugs
7780 b) early termination of inetd requests
7781 c) compile warnings on several systems
7782 d) problems when scripts stop reading output early
7784 Changes with Apache 1.1b3
7786 *) Much of cgi-bin and all of cgi-src has been removed, due to
7787 various security holes found and that we could no longer support
7790 *) The "Set-Cookie" header is now special-cased to not merge multiple
7791 instances, since certain popular browsers can not handle multiple
7792 Set-Cookie instructions in a single header. [Paul Sutton]
7794 *) rprintf() added to buffer code, occurrences of sprintf removed.
7797 *) CONNECT method for proxy module, which means tunneling SSL should work.
7798 (No crypto needed) Also a NoCache config directive.
7800 *) Several API additions: pstrndup(), table_unset() and get_token()
7801 functions now available to modules.
7803 *) mod_imap fixups, in particular Location: headers are now complete
7806 *) New "info" module which reports on installed module set through a
7807 special URL, a la mod_status.
7809 *) "ServerPath" directive added - allows for graceful transition
7810 for Host:-header-based virtual hosts.
7812 *) Anonymous authentication module improvements.
7814 *) MSQL authentication module improvements.
7816 *) Status module design improved - output now table-based. [Ben Laurie]
7818 *) htdigest utility included for use with digest authentication
7821 *) mod_negotiation: Accept values with wildcards to be treated with
7822 less priority than those without wildcards at the same quality
7823 value. [Alexei Kosut]
7825 *) Bugs which were fixed:
7826 a) numerous mod_proxy bugs
7827 b) CGI early-termination bug [Ben Laurie]
7828 c) Keepalives not working with virtual hosts
7829 d) RefererIgnore problems
7830 e) closing fd's twice in mod_include (causing core dumps on
7831 Linux and elsewhere).
7833 Changes with Apache 1.1b2
7836 a) core dumps in mod_digest
7837 b) truncated hostnames/ip address in the logs
7838 c) relative URL's in mod_imap map files
7840 Changes with Apache 1.1b1
7842 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_1.html>
7844 Changes with Apache 1.0.3
7846 *) Internal redirects which occur in mod_dir.c now preserve the
7847 query portion of a request (the bit after the question mark).
7850 *) Escape active characters '<', '>' and '&' in html output in
7851 directory listings, error messages and redirection links.
7854 *) Apache will now work with LynxOS 2.3 and later [Steven Watt]
7856 *) Fix for POSIX compliance in waiting for processes in alloc.c.
7859 *) setsockopt no longer takes a const declared argument [Martijn Koster]
7861 *) Reset timeout timer after each successful fwrite() to the network.
7862 This patch adds a reset_timeout() procedure that is called by
7863 send_fd() to reset the timeout ever time data is written to the net.
7866 *) timeout() signal handler now checks for SIGPIPE and reports
7867 lost connections in a more user friendly way. [Rob Hartill]
7869 *) Location of the "scoreboard" file which used to live in /tmp is
7870 now configurable (for OSes that can't use mmap) via ScoreBoardFile
7871 which works similar to PidFile (in httpd.conf) [Rob Hartill]
7873 *) Include sys/resource.h in the correct place for SunOS4 [Sameer Parekh]
7875 *) the pstrcat call in mod_cookies.c didn't have an ending NULL,
7876 which caused a SEGV with cookies enabled
7878 *) Output warning when MinSpareServers is set to <= 0 and change it to 1
7881 *) Log the UNIX textual error returned by some system calls, in
7882 particular errors from accept() [David Robinson]
7884 *) Add strerror function to util.c for SunOS4 [Randy Terbush]
7886 Changes with Apache 1.0.2
7888 *) patch to get Apache compiled on UnixWare 2.x, recommended as
7889 a temporary measure, pending rewrite of rfc931.c. [Chuck Murcko]
7891 *) Fix get_basic_auth_pw() to set the auth_type of the request.
7894 *) past changes to http_config.c to only use the
7895 setrlimit function on systems defining RLIMIT_NOFILE
7896 broke the feature on SUNOS4. Now defines HAVE_RESOURCE
7897 for SUNOS and prototypes the needed functions.
7899 *) Remove uses of MAX_STRING_LEN/HUGE_STRING_LEN from several routines.
7902 *) Fix use of pointer to scratch memory. [Cliff Skolnick]
7904 *) Merge multiple headers from CGI scripts instead of taking last
7905 one. [David Robinson]
7907 *) Add support for SCO 5. [Ben Laurie]
7909 Changes with Apache 1.0.1
7911 *) Silence mod_log_referer and mod_log_agent if not configured
7914 *) Recursive includes can occur if the client supplies PATH_INFO data
7915 and the server provider uses relative links; as file.html
7916 relative to /doc.shtml/pathinfo is /doc.shtml/file.html. [David Robinson]
7918 *) The replacement for initgroups() did not call {set,end}grent(). This
7919 had two implications: if anything else used getgrent(), then
7920 initgroups() would fail, and it was consuming a file descriptor.
7923 *) On heavily loaded servers it was possible for the scoreboard to get
7924 out of sync with reality, as a result of a race condition.
7925 The observed symptoms are far more Apaches running than should
7926 be, and heavy system loads, generally followed by catastrophic
7927 system failure. [Ben Laurie]
7929 *) Fix typo in license. [David Robinson]
7931 Changes with Apache 1.0.0 23 Nov 1995
7933 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_0.html>
7935 Changes with Apache 0.8.16 05 Nov 1995
7937 *) New man page for 'httpd' added to support directory [David Robinson]
7939 *) .htgroup files can have more than one line giving members for a
7940 given group (each must have the group name in front), for NCSA
7941 back-compatibility [Robert Thau]
7943 *) Mutual exclusion around accept() is on by default for SVR4 systems
7944 generally, since they generally can't handle multiple processes in
7945 accept() on the same socket. This should cure flaky behavior on
7946 a lot of those systems. [David Robinson]
7948 *) AddType, AddEncoding, and AddLanguage directives take multiple
7949 extensions on a single command line [David Robinson]
7951 *) UserDir can be disabled for a given virtual host by saying
7952 "UserDir disabled" in the <VirtualHost> section --- it was a bug
7953 that this didn't work. [David Robinson]
7955 *) Compiles on QNX [Ben Laurie]
7957 *) Corrected parsing of ctime time format [David Robinson]
7959 *) httpd does a perror() before exiting if it can't log its pid
7960 to the PidFile, to make diagnosing the error a bit easier.
7963 *) <!--#include file="..."--> can no longer include files in the
7964 parent directory, for NCSA back-compatibility. [David Robinson]
7966 *) '~' is *not* escaped in URIs generated for directory listings
7969 *) Eliminated compiler warning in the imagemap module [Randy Terbush]
7971 *) Fixed bug involving handling URIs with escaped %-characters
7972 in redirects [David Robinson]
7974 Changes with Apache 0.8.15 14 Oct 1995
7976 *) Switched to new, simpler license
7978 *) Eliminated core dumps with improperly formatted DBM group files [Mark Cox]
7980 *) Don't allow requests for ordinary files to have PATH_INFO [Ben Laurie]
7982 *) Reject paths containing %-escaped '%' or null characters [David Robinson]
7984 *) Correctly handles internal redirects to files with names containing '%'
7987 *) Repunctuated some error messages [Aram Mirzadeh, Andrew Wilson]
7989 *) Use geteuid() rather than getuid() to see if we have root privilege,
7990 so that server correctly resets privilege if run setuid root. [Andrew
7993 *) Handle ftp: and telnet: URLs correctly in imagemaps (built-in module)
7996 *) Fix relative URLs in imagemap files [Randy Terbush]
7998 *) Somewhat better fix for the old "Alias /foo/ /bar/" business
8001 *) Don't repeatedly open the ErrorLog if a bunch of <VirtualHost>
8002 entries all name the same one. [David Robinson]
8004 *) Fix directory listings with filenames containing unusual characters
8007 *) Better URI-escaping for generated URIs in directories with filenames
8008 containing unusual characters [Ben Laurie]
8010 *) Fixed potential FILE* leak in http_main.c [Ben Laurie]
8012 *) Unblock alarms on error return from spawn_child() [David Robinson]
8014 *) Sample Config files have extra note for SCO users [Ben Laurie]
8016 *) Configuration has note for HP-UX users [Rob Hartill]
8018 *) Eliminated some bogus Linux-only #defines in conf.h [Aram Mirzadeh]
8020 *) Nuked bogus #define in httpd.h [David Robinson]
8022 *) Better test for whether a system has setrlimit() [David Robinson]
8024 *) Calls update_child_status() after reopen_scoreboard() [David Robinson]
8026 *) Doesn't send itself SIGHUP on startup when run in the -X debug-only mode
8029 Changes with Apache 0.8.14 19 Sep 1995
8031 *) Compiles on SCO ODT 3.0 [Ben Laurie]
8033 *) AddDescription works (better) [Ben Laurie]
8035 *) Leaves an intelligible error diagnostic when it can't set group
8036 privileges on standalone startup [Andrew Wilson]
8038 *) Compiles on NeXT again --- the 0.8.13 RLIMIT patch was failing on
8039 that machine, which claims to be BSD but does not support RLIMIT.
8042 *) gcc -Wall no longer complains about an unused variable when util.c
8043 is compiled with -DMINIMAL_DNS [Andrew Wilson]
8045 *) Nuked another compiler warning for -Wall on Linux [Aram Mirzadeh]
8047 Changes with Apache 0.8.13 07 Sep 1995
8049 *) Make IndexIgnore *work* (ooops) [Jarkko Torppa]
8051 *) Have built-in imagemap code recognize & honor Point directive [James
8054 *) Generate cleaner directory listings in directories with a mix of
8055 long and short filenames [Rob Hartill]
8057 *) Properly initialize dynamically loaded modules [Royston Shufflebotham]
8059 *) Properly default ServerName for virtual servers [Robert Thau]
8061 *) Rationalize handling of BSD in conf.h and elsewhere [Randy Terbush,
8062 Paul Richards and a cast of thousands...]
8064 *) On self-identified BSD systems (we don't try to guess any more),
8065 allocate a few extra file descriptors per virtual host with setrlimit,
8066 if we can, to avoid running out. [Randy Terbush]
8068 *) Write 22-character lock file name into buffer with enough space
8069 on startup [Konstantin Olchanski]
8071 *) Use archaic setpgrp() interface on NeXT, which requires it [Brian
8074 *) Suppress -Wall warning by casting const away in util.c [Aram Mirzadeh]
8076 *) Suppress -Wall warning by initializing variable in negotiation code
8077 [Tobias Weingartner]
8079 Changes with Apache 0.8.12 31 Aug 1995
8081 *) Doesn't pause three seconds after including a CGI script which is
8082 too slow to die off (this is done by not even trying to kill off
8083 subprocesses, including the SIGTERM/pause/SIGKILL routine, until
8084 after the entire document has been processed). [Robert Thau]
8086 *) Doesn't do SSI if Options Includes is off. (Ooops). [David Robinson]
8088 *) Options IncludesNoExec allows inclusion of at least text/* [Roy Fielding]
8090 *) Allows .htaccess files to override <Directory> sections naming the
8091 same directory [David Robinson]
8093 *) Removed an efficiency hack in sub_req_lookup_uri which was
8094 causing certain extremely marginal cases (e.g., ScriptAlias of a
8095 *particular* index.html file) to fail. [David Robinson]
8097 *) Doesn't log an error when the requested URI requires
8098 authentication, but no auth header line was supplied by the
8099 client; this is a normal condition (the client doesn't no auth is
8100 needed here yet). [Robert Thau]
8102 *) Behaves more sanely when the name server loses its mind [Sean Welch]
8104 *) RFC931 code compiles cleanly on old BSDI releases [Randy Terbush]
8106 *) RFC931 code no longer passes out name of prior clients on current
8107 requests if the current request came from a server that doesn't
8108 do RFC931. [David Robinson]
8110 *) Configuration script accepts "Module" lines with trailing whitespace.
8113 *) Cleaned up compiler warning from mod_access.c [Robert Thau]
8115 *) Cleaned up comments in mod_cgi.c [Robert Thau]
8117 Changes with Apache 0.8.11 24 Aug 1995
8119 *) Wildcard <Directory> specifications work. [Robert Thau]
8121 *) Doesn't loop for buggy CGI on Solaris [Cliff Skolnick]
8123 *) Symlink checks (FollowSymLinks off, or SymLinkIfOwnerMatch) always check
8124 the file being requested itself, in addition to the directories leading
8125 up to it. [Robert Thau]
8127 *) Logs access failures due to symlink checks or invalid client address
8128 in the error log [Roy Fielding, Robert Thau]
8130 *) Symlink checks deal correctly with systems where lstat of
8131 "/path/to/some/link/" follows the link. [Thau, Fielding]
8133 *) Doesn't reset DirectoryIndex to 'index.html' when
8134 other directory options are set in a .htaccess file. [Robert Thau]
8136 *) Clarified init code and nuked bogus warning in mod_access.c
8139 *) Corrected several directives in sample srm.conf
8140 --- includes corrections to directory indexing icon-related directives
8141 (using unknown.gif rather than unknown.xbm as the DefaultIcon, doing
8142 icons for encodings right, and turning on AddEncoding by default).
8145 *) Corrected descriptions of args to AddIcon and AddAlt in command table
8148 *) INSTALL & README mention "contributed modules" directory [Brian
8151 *) Fixed English in the license language... "for for" --> "for".
8154 *) Fixed ScriptAlias/Alias interaction by moving ScriptAlias handling to
8155 mod_alias.c, merging it almost completely with handling of Alias, and
8156 adding a 'notes' field to the request_rec which allows the CGI module
8157 to discover whether the Alias module has put this request through
8158 ScriptAlias (which it needs to know for back-compatibility, as the old
8159 NCSA code did not check Options ExecCGI in ScriptAlias directories).
8162 Changes with Apache 0.8.10 18 Aug 1995
8164 *) AllowOverride applies to the named directory, and not just
8165 subdirectories. [David Robinson]
8167 *) Do locking for accept() exclusion (on systems that need it)
8168 using a special file created for the purpose in /usr/tmp, and
8169 not the error log; using the error log causes real problems
8170 if it's NFS-mounted; this is known to be the cause of a whole
8171 lot of "server hang" problems with Solaris. [David Robinson;
8172 thanks to Merten Schumann for help diagnosing the problem].
8174 Changes with Apache 0.8.9 12 Aug 1995
8176 *) Compiles with -DMAXIMUM_DNS ---- ooops! [Henrik Mortensen]
8178 *) Nested includes see environment variables of the including document,
8179 for NCSA bug-compatibility (some sites have standard footer includes
8180 which try to print out the last-modified date). [Eric Hagberg/Robert
8183 *) <!--exec cgi="/some/uri/here"--> always treats the item named by the
8184 URI as a CGI script, even if it would have been treated as something
8185 else if requested directly, for NCSA back-compatibility. (Note that
8186 this means that people who know the name of the script can see the
8187 code just by asking for it). [Robert Thau]
8189 *) New version of dbmmanage script included in support directory as
8192 *) Check if scoreboard file couldn't be opened, and say so, rather
8193 then going insane [David Robinson]
8195 *) POST to CGI works on A/UX [Jim Jagielski]
8197 *) AddIcon and AddAlt commands work properly [Rob Hartill]
8199 *) NCSA server push works properly --- the Arena bug compatibility
8200 workaround, which broke it, is gone (use -DARENA_BUG_WORKAROUND
8201 if you still want the workaround). [Rob Hartill]
8203 *) If client didn't submit any Accept-encodings, ignore encodings in
8204 content negotiation. (NB this will all have to be reworked anyway
8205 for the new HTTP draft). [Florent Guillaume]
8207 *) Don't dump core when trying to log timed-out requests [Jim Jagielski]
8209 *) Really honor CacheNegotiatedDocs [Florent Guillaume]
8211 *) Give Redirect priority over Alias, for NCSA bug compatibility
8214 *) Correctly set PATH_TRANSLATED in all cases from <!--#exec cmd=""-->,
8215 paralleling earlier bug fix for CGI [David Robinson]
8217 *) If DBM auth is improperly configured, report a server error and don't
8220 *) Deleted FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPTS from conf.h entry for A/UX;
8221 it seems to work well enough without it (even in a 10 hits/sec
8222 workout), and the overhead for the locking under A/UX is
8223 alarmingly high (though it is very low on other systems).
8224 [Eric Hagberg, Jim Jagielski]
8226 *) Fixed portability problems with mod_cookies.c [Cliff Skolnick]
8228 *) Further de-Berklize mod_cookies.c; change the bogus #include. [Brian
8229 Behlendorf/Eric Hagberg]
8231 *) More improvements to default Configuration for A/UX [Jim Jagielski]
8233 *) Compiles clean on NEXT [Rob Hartill]
8235 *) Compiles clean on SGI [Robert Thau]
8237 Changes with Apache 0.8.8 08 Aug 1995
8239 *) SunOS library prototypes now never included unless explicitly
8240 requested in the configuration (via -DSUNOS_LIB_PROTOTYPES);
8241 people using GNU libc on SunOS are screwed by prototypes for the
8244 (Those who wish to compile clean with gcc -Wall on a standard
8245 SunOS setup need the prototypes, and may obtain them using
8246 -DSUNOS_LIB_PROTOTYPES. Those wishing to use -Wall on a system
8247 with nonstandard libraries are presumably competent to make their
8250 *) Strips trailing '/' characters off both args to the Alias command,
8251 to make 'Alias /foo/ /bar/' work.
8253 Changes with Apache 0.8.7 03 Aug 1995
8255 *) Don't hang when restarting with a child from 'TransferLog "|..."' running
8256 [reported by David Robinson]
8258 *) Compiles clean on OSF/1 [David Robinson]
8260 *) Added some of the more recent significant changes (AddLanguage stuff,
8261 experimental LogFormat support) to CHANGES file in distribution root
8264 Changes with Apache 0.8.6 02 Aug 1995
8266 *) Deleted Netscape reload workaround --- it's in violation of HTTP specs.
8267 (If you actually wanted a conditional GET which bypassed the cache, you
8268 couldn't get it). [Reported by Roy Fielding]
8270 *) Properly terminate headers on '304 Not Modified' replies to conditional
8271 GETs --- no browser we can find cares much, but the CERN proxy chokes.
8272 [Reported by Cliff Skolnick; fix discovered independently by Rob Hartill]
8274 *) httpd -v doesn't call itself "Shambhala". [Reported by Chuck Murcko]
8276 *) SunOS lib-function prototypes in conf.h conditionalized on __GNUC__,
8277 not __SUNPRO_C (they're needed to quiet gcc -Wall, but acc chokes on 'em,
8278 and older versions don't set the __SUNPRO_C preprocessor variable). On
8279 all other systems, these are never used anyway. [Reported by Mark Cox].
8281 *) Scoreboard file (/tmp/htstatus.*) no longer publically writable.
8283 Changes with Apache 0.8.5 01 Aug 1995
8285 *) Added last-minute configurable log experiment, as optional module
8287 *) Correctly set r->bytes_sent for HTTP/0.9 requests, so they get logged
8288 properly. (One-line fix to http_protocol.c).
8290 *) Work around bogus behavior when reloading from Netscape.
8291 It's Netscape's bug --- for some reason they expect a request with
8292 If-modified-since: to not function as a conditional GET if it also
8293 comes with Pragma: no-cache, which is way out of line with the HTTP
8294 spec (according to Roy Fielding, the redactor).
8296 *) Added parameter to set maximum number of server processes.
8298 *) Added patches to make it work on A/UX. A/UX is *weird*. [Eric Hagberg,
8301 *) IdentityCheck bugfix [Chuck Murcko].
8303 *) Corrected cgi-src/Makefile entry for new imagemap script. [Alexei Kosut]
8305 *) More sample config file corrections; add extension to AddType for
8306 *.asis, move AddType generic description to its proper place, and
8307 fix miscellaneous typos. [ Alexei Kosut ]
8309 *) Deleted the *other* reference to the regents from the Berkeley
8310 legal disclaimer (everyplace).
8312 *) Nuked Shambhala name from src/README; had already cleaned it out
8315 Changes with Apache 0.8.4
8317 *) Changes to server-pool management parms --- renamed current
8318 StartServers to MinSpareServers, created separate StartServers
8319 parameter which means what it says, and renamed MaxServers to
8320 MaxSpareServers (though the old name still works, for NCSA 1.4
8321 back-compatibility). The old names were generally regarded as
8322 too confusing. Also altered "docs" in sample config files.
8324 *) More improvements to default config files ---
8325 sample directives (commented out) for XBitHack, BindAddress,
8326 CacheNegotiatedDocs, VirtualHost; decent set of AddLanguage
8327 defaults, AddTypes for send-as-is and imagemap magic types, and
8328 improvements to samples for DirectoryIndex [Alexei Kosut]
8330 *) Yet more improvements to default config files --- changes to
8331 Alexei's sample AddLanguage directives, and sample LanguagePriority
8332 [ Florent Guillaume ]
8334 *) Set config file locations properly if not set in httpd.conf
8337 *) Don't escape URIs in internal redirects multiple times; don't
8338 do that when translating PATH_INFO to PATH_TRANSLATED either.
8341 *) Corrected spelling of "Required" in 401 error reports [Andrew Wilson]
8343 Changes with Apache 0.8.3
8345 *) Edited distribution README to *briefly* summarize installation
8346 procedures, and give a pointer to the INSTALL file in the src/
8349 *) Upgraded imagemap script in cgi-bin to 1.8 version from more
8350 recent NCSA distributions.
8352 *) Bug fix to previous bug fix --- if .htaccess file and <Directory>
8353 exist for the same directory, use both and don't segfault. [Reported
8356 *) Proper makefile dependencies [David Robinson]
8358 *) Note (re)starts in error log --- reported by Rob Hartill.
8360 *) Only call no2slash() after get_path_info() has been done, to
8361 preserve multiple slashes in the PATH_INFO [NCSA compatibility,
8362 reported by Andrew Wilson, though this one is probably a real bug]
8364 *) Fixed mod_imap.c --- relative paths with base_uri referer don't
8365 dump core when Referer is not supplied. [Randy Terbush]
8367 *) Lightly edited sample config files to refer people to our documentation
8368 instead of NCSA's, and to list Rob McCool as *original* author (also
8369 deleted his old, and no doubt non-functional email address). Would be
8370 nice to have examples of new features...
8372 Changes with Apache 0.8.2 19 Jul 1995
8374 *) Added AddLanuage code [Florent Guillaume]
8376 *) Don't say "access forbidden" when a CGI script is not found. [Mark Cox]
8378 *) All sorts of problems when MultiViews finds a directory. It would
8379 be nice if mod_dir.c was robust enough to handle that, but for now,
8380 just punt. [reported by Brian Behlendorf]
8382 *) Wait for all children on restart, to make sure that the old socket
8383 is gone and we can reopen it. [reported by Randy Terbush]
8385 *) Imagemap module is enabled in default Configuration
8387 *) RefererLog and UserAgentLog modules properly default the logfile
8390 *) Mark Cox's mod_cookies added to the distribution as an optional
8391 module (commented out in the default Configuration, and noted as
8392 an experiment, along with mod_dld). [Mark Cox]
8394 *) Compiles on ULTRIX (a continuing battle...). [Robert Thau]
8396 *) Fixed nasty bug in SIGTERM handling [reported by Randy Terbush]
8398 *) Changed "Shambhala" to "Apache" in API docs. [Robert Thau]
8400 *) Added new, toothier legal disclaimer. [Robert Thau; copied from BSD
8403 Changes with Apache 0.8.1
8405 *) New imagemap module [Randy Terbush]
8407 *) Replacement referer log module with NCSA-compatible RefererIgnore
8408 [Matthew Gray again]
8410 *) Don't mung directory listings with very long filenames.
8413 Changes with Apache 0.8.0 (nee Shambhala 0.6.2) 16 Jul 1995
8415 *) New config script. See INSTALL for info. [Robert Thau]
8417 *) Scoreboard mechanism for regulating the number of extant server
8418 processes. MaxServers and StartServers defaults are the same as
8419 for NCSA, but the meanings are slightly different. (Actually,
8420 I should probably lower the MaxServers default to 10).
8422 Before asking for a new connection, each server process checks
8423 the number of other servers which are also waiting for a
8424 connection. If there are more than MaxServers, it quietly dies
8425 off. Conversely, every second, the root, or caretaker, process
8426 looks to see how many servers are waiting for a new connection;
8427 if there are fewer than StartServers, it starts a new one. This
8428 does not depend on the number of server processes already extant.
8429 The accounting is arranged through a "scoreboard" file, named
8430 /tmp/htstatus.*, on which each process has an independent file
8431 descriptor (they need to seek without interference).
8433 The end effect is that MaxServers is the maximum number of
8434 servers on an *inactive* server machine, but more will be forked
8435 off to handle unusually heavy loads (or unusually slow clients);
8436 these will die off when they are no longer needed --- without
8437 reverting to the overhead of full forking operation. There is a
8438 hard maximum of 150 server processes compiled in, largely to
8439 avoid forking out of control and dragging the machine down.
8440 (This is arguably too high).
8442 In my server endurance tests, this mechanism did not appear to
8443 impose any significant overhead, even after I forced it to put the
8444 scoreboard file on a normal filesystem (which might have more
8445 overhead than tmpfs). [Robert Thau]
8447 *) Set HTTP_FOO variables for SSI <!--#exec cmd-->s, not just CGI scripts.
8450 *) Read .htaccess files even in directory with <Directory> section.
8451 (Former incompatibility noted on mailing list, now fixed). [Robert
8454 *) "HEAD /" gives the client a "Bad Request" error message, rather
8455 than trying to send no body *and* no headers. [Cliff Skolnick].
8457 *) Don't produce double error reports for some very obscure cases
8458 mainly involving auth configuration (the "all modules decline to
8459 handle" case which is a sure sign of a server bug in most cases,
8460 but also happens when authentication is badly misconfigured).
8463 *) Moved FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT defines into conf.h (that's what
8464 it's *for*, and this sort of thing really shouldn't be cluttering
8465 up the Makefile). [Robert Thau]
8467 *) Incidental code cleanups in http_main.c --- stop dragging
8468 sa_client around; just declare it where used. [Robert Thau]
8470 *) Another acc-related fix. (It doesn't like const char
8471 in some places...). [Mark Cox]
8473 Changes with Shambhala 0.6.1 13 Jul 1995
8475 *) Fixed auth_name-related typos in http_core.c [Brian Behlendorf]
8476 Also, fixed auth typo in http_protocol.c unmasked by this fix.
8478 *) Compiles clean with acc on SunOS [Paul Sutton]
8480 *) Reordered modules in modules.c so that Redirect takes priority
8481 over ScriptAlias, for NCSA bug-compatibility [Rob Hartill] ---
8482 believe it or not, he has an actual site with a ScriptAlias and
8483 a Redirect declared for the *exact same directory*. Even *my*
8484 compatibility fetish wouldn't motivate me to fix this if the fix
8485 required any effort, but it doesn't, so what the hey.
8487 *) Fixed to properly default several server_rec fields for virtual
8488 servers from the corresponding fields in the main server_rec.
8489 [Cliff Skolnick --- 'port' was a particular irritant].
8491 *) No longer kills off nph- child processes before they are
8492 finished sending output. [Matthew Gray]
8494 Changes with Shambhala 0.6.0 10 Jul 1995
8496 *) Two styles of timeout --- hard and soft. soft_timeout()s just put
8497 the connection to the client in an "aborted" state, but otherwise
8498 allow whatever handlers are running to clean up. hard_timeout()s
8499 abort the request in progress completely; anything not tied to some
8500 resource pool cleanup will leak. They're still around because I
8501 haven't yet come up with a more elegant way of handling
8502 timeouts when talking to something that isn't the client. The
8503 default_handler and the dir_handler now use soft timeouts, largely
8504 so I can test the feature. [Robert Thau]
8506 *) TransferLog "| my_postprocessor ..." seems to be there. Note that
8507 the case of log handlers dying prematurely is probably handled VERY
8508 gracelessly at this point, and if the logger stops reading input,
8509 the server will hang. (It is known to correctly restart the
8510 logging process on server restart; this is (should be!) going through
8511 the same SIGTERM/pause/SIGKILL routine used to ding an errant CGI
8512 script). [Robert Thau]
8514 *) asis files supported (new module). [Robert Thau]
8516 *) IdentityCheck code is compiled in, but has not been tested. (I
8517 don't know anyone who runs identd). [Robert Thau]
8519 *) PATH_INFO and PATH_TRANSLATED are not set unless some real PATH_INFO
8520 came in with the request, for NCSA bug-compatibility. [Robert Thau]
8522 *) Don't leak the DIR * on HEAD request for a directory. [Robert Thau]
8524 *) Deleted the block_alarms() stuff from dbm_auth; no longer necessary,
8525 as timeouts are not in scope. [Robert Thau]
8527 *) quoted-string args in config files now handled correctly (doesn't drop
8528 the last character). [Robert Thau; reported by Randy Terbush]
8530 *) Fixed silly typo in http_main.c which was suddenly fatal in HP-UX.
8531 How the hell did it ever work? [Robert Thau; reported by Rob Hartill]
8533 *) mod_core.c --- default_type returns DEFAULT_TYPE (the compile-time
8534 default default type); the former default default behavior when all
8535 type-checkers defaulted had been a core dump. [Paul Sutton]
8537 *) Copy filenames out of the struct dirent when indexing
8538 directories. (On Linux, readdir() returns a pointer to the same
8539 memory area every time). Fix is in mod_dir.c. [Paul Sutton]
8541 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.3 [not released]
8543 *) Default response handler notes "file not found" in the error log,
8544 if the file was not found. [Cliff Skolnick].
8546 *) Another Cliff bug --- "GET /~user" now properly redirects (the userdir
8547 code no longer sets up bogus PATH_INFO which fakes out the directory
8548 handler). [Cliff Skolnick]
8550 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.2 06 Jul 1995
8552 *) Changes to http_main.c --- root server no longer plays silly
8553 games with SIGCHLD, and so now detects and replaces dying
8554 children. Child processes just die on SIGTERM, without taking
8555 the whole process group with them. Potential problem --- if any
8556 child process refuses to die, we hang in restart.
8557 MaxRequestsPerChild may still not work, but it certainly works
8558 better than it did before this! [Robert Thau]
8560 *) mod_dir.c bug fixes: ReadmeName and HeaderName
8561 work (or work better, at least); over-long description lines
8562 properly terminated. [Mark Cox]
8564 *) http_request.c now calls unescape_url() more places where it
8565 should [Paul Sutton].
8567 *) More directory handling bugs (reported by Cox)
8568 Parent Directory link is now set correctly. [Robert Thau]
8570 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.1 04 Jul 1995
8572 *) Generalized cleanup interface in alloc.c --- any function can be
8573 registered with alloc.c as a cleanup for a resource pool;
8574 tracking of files and file descriptors has been reimplemented in
8575 terms of this interface, so I can give it some sort of a test.
8578 *) More changes in alloc.c --- new cleanup_for_exec() function,
8579 which tracks down and closes all file descriptors which have been
8580 registered with the alloc.c machinery before the server exec()s a
8581 child process for CGI or <!--#exec-->. CGI children now get
8582 started with exactly three file descriptors open. Hopefully,
8583 this cures the problem Rob H. was having with overly persistent
8584 CGI connections. [Robert Thau]
8586 *) Mutual exclusion around the accept() in child_main() --- this is
8587 required on at least SGI, Solaris and Linux, and is #ifdef'ed in
8588 by default on those systems only (-DFCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT).
8589 This uses fcntl(F_SETLK,...) on the error log descriptor because
8590 flock() on that descriptor won't work on systems which have BSD
8591 flock() semantics, including (I think) Linux 1.3 and Solaris.
8593 This does work on SunOS (when the server is idle, only one
8594 process in the pool is waiting on accept()); it *ought* to work
8595 on the other systems. [Robert Thau]
8597 *) FreeBSD and BSDI portability tweaks [Chuck Murcko]
8599 *) sizeof(*sa_client) bugfix from [Rob Hartill]
8601 *) pstrdup(..., NULL) returns NULL, [Randy Terbush]
8603 *) block_alarms() to avoid leaking the DBM* in dbm auth (this should
8604 be unnecessary if I go to the revised timeout-handling scheme).
8607 *) For NCSA bug-compatibility, set QUERY_STRING env var (to a null
8608 string) even if none came in with the request. [Robert Thau]
8610 *) CHANGES file added to distribution ;-).
8612 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.5
8614 *) mod_dld --- early dynamic loading support [rst]
8615 *) Add wildcard content handlers for XBITHACK; default_hander now
8616 invoked with that mechanism (as a handler hanging off mod_core) [rst]
8617 *) XBITHACK supported as a wildcard content-handler, and
8618 configurable at run-time (not just at compile time, as in the
8619 "patchy server" releases) [rst]
8621 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.4 30 Jun 1995
8623 *) Fixed basic thinkos in mod_dbm_auth.c [rst, reported by Mark Cox]
8624 *) Handle Addtype x/y .z [rst, reported by Cox]
8626 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.3
8628 *) Fixed very dumb bug in mod_alias; "Alias" and "Redirect" are not
8629 synonymous [rst, terbush]
8631 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.1 28 Jun 1995
8633 *) First-cut virtual host implementation; some refit in the config
8634 reading code, and log management, was necessary to support this [rst]
8635 *) Sub-pool machinery, originally added to avoid excessive storage
8636 allocation on listings of large directories (which turned out to
8637 be the problem that the 0.3 storage accounting was added to
8638 find). Subrequests and mod_dir changed to use subpools. [rst]
8639 *) More memory debugging --- free list consistency checks. [rst]
8640 *) Added err_headers to request_rec, with support elsewhere [rst]
8641 *) Other fixes to minor bugs in mod_dir and mod_includes [rst, terbush]
8643 Changes with Shambhala 0.3 19 Jun 1995
8645 *) Switch ONE_PROCESS to a runtime command-line option (-X)
8646 *) Don't compile in mod_ai_backcompat by default
8647 *) Switch name of server from Apache to Shambhala in Makefile
8648 *) Add some accounting routines to track memory usage in the pools,
8651 Changes with Shambhala 0.2
8653 *) Set DOCUMENT_ROOT CGI variable
8654 *) Add single-process debugging, as a compile-time option (ONE_PROCESS)
8655 *) Add critical section protection to handling of cleanup structures
8657 *) Significant code reorg within the server core to group related
8658 functions together [rst]
8659 *) Correctly handle clients that hang up before sending any request
8661 *) Replace dying child processes. [rst]
8663 Changes with Shambhala 0.1 12 Jun 1995
8665 Major rewrite of the pre-existing "patchy server" codebase, by
8666 Robert Thau (rst). Significant portions of the server code, such
8667 as configuration-file handling and HTTP authentication support,
8668 were ripped out and rewritten from scratch. Code that was not
8669 completely rewritten was significantly altered.
8671 Major changes with this release include:
8673 *) Introduction of the module API; in request handling, the central
8674 machinery just dispatches to various modules, which actually do
8675 most of the work. Configuration handling is similar --- modules
8676 declare their own commands, and the central machinery just
8679 API features from shambhala/0.1 were substantially unchanged in
8680 Apache 1.0 and 1.1. (1.0 API features not yet present in this
8681 release, such as wildcard handlers and subpools, were added in
8682 subsequent Shambhala releases, and were also generally rst's
8685 *) This release included the following modules:
8687 mod_access (access control --- allow and deny directives),
8688 mod_alias (Alias and Redirect commands),
8689 mod_auth (straight HTTP authentication, based on flat-files)
8690 mod_auth_dbm (same, with dbm files)
8691 mod_cgi (CGI scripts and, in this release, ScriptAlias)
8692 mod_common_log (CLF access logs; later renamed mod_log_common)
8693 mod_dir (directory indexing)
8694 mod_include (server-side includes)
8695 mod_mime (AddType directives)
8696 mod_negotiation (content negotiation)
8697 mod_userdir (support for users' public_html directories)
8699 It also included a mod_ai_backcompat, which was a private hack
8700 for back-compatibility with rst's own AI-lab servers.
8702 All of these modules were substantially complete, and functional
8703 or nearly so (a few, which implemented features not in use at
8704 Thau's site, required patches of a few lines).
8706 *) sub-request machinery, to allow modules to determine how other
8707 modules would assign MIME types to a given file, or optionally
8708 serve its content (this is heavily used by mod_dir, mod_include
8709 and mod_negotiation).
8711 *) Resource pool system for keeping track of memory allocated and
8712 files opened in service of a particular request. Much of the
8713 code in the modules (when they weren't rewrites) was adjusted to
8714 replace a pervasive convention of using fixed-size buffers on
8715 the stack with an equally pervasive convention of using memory
8716 allocated with palloc().
8718 *) Reorganization of data structures associated with a given
8719 request to eliminate use of global variables and the troublesome
8720 unmunge_name function (used in NCSA and early Apache releases to
8721 attempt to determine the URI which mapped to a given filename
8722 --- a difficult proposition, given that it is easy to produce
8723 setups in which multiple URIs map to the same file).
8725 *) Source files renamed and rearranged
8727 *) Very simple pre-forking behavior --- parent process forked off a
8728 fixed number of children, and then just waited for SIGHUP.
8730 *) Other more minor changes too numerous to list.
8732 This release included modified versions of a lot of code from the
8733 Apache 0.6.4 public release, plus an early pre-forking patch
8734 codeveloped by Robert Thau and Rob Hartill.
8736 Changes with Apache 0.7.3 20 Jun 1995
8738 *) There were a bunch of changes between Apache 0.6.4 and 0.7.3 that
8739 were incorporated by Rob Hartill on the main branch while Robert Thau
8740 worked on the Shambhala rewrite above. Most were merged into the
8741 Shambala architecture after Apache 0.8.0.
8743 Changes with Apache 0.6.4 13 May 1995
8745 *) Patches by Rob Hartill, Cliff Skolnick, Randy Terbush, Robert Thau,
8748 Changes with Apache 0.5.1 10 Apr 1995
8750 Changes with Apache 0.4 02 Apr 1995
8752 *) Patches by Brian Behlendorf, Andrew Wilson, Robert Thau,
8755 Changes with Apache 0.3 24 Mar 1995
8757 *) Patches by Robert Thau, David Robinson, Rob Hartill, and
8760 Changes with Apache 0.2 18 Mar 1995
8762 *) Based on NCSA httpd 1.3 by Rob McCool and patches by CERT,
8763 Roy Fielding, Robert Thau, Nicolas Pioch, David Robinson,
8764 Brian Behlendorf, Rob Hartill, and Cliff Skolnick.
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