1 Changes with Apache 2.0.23-dev
3 *) Fix broken mod_mime behavior in merging its arguments. Possible
4 cause of unexplicable crashes introduced in 2.0.20. [William Rowe]
6 *) Solve many mod_ssl porting issues (too many to detail) with
7 help from the whole team, but most notably [Ralf S. Engelschall,
8 Madhusudan Mathihalli <madhusudan_mathihalli@hp.com>,
9 Doug MacEachern, William Rowe, Cliff Woolley]
11 *) More stall fixes for the threaded & worker mpm's.
12 Make mod_status output more accurate. Don't
13 count workers in processes which aren't actively
14 serving requests. [Greg Ames]
16 *) Win32: Get SSI exec cgi tag working. [Bill Stoddard]
18 *) Add a single listener/multiple worker MPM. This MPM is
19 definately not fully correct, but it allows us to solve many
20 of the problems that exist in the threaded MPM. This is a
21 modified version of the threaded MPM. [Ryan Bloom]
23 *) Improve content generation throughout Apache, providing closer
24 compliance with HTML 3.2, HTML 4.01 Transitional and XHTML 1.0
25 Transitional specifications. [William Rowe]
27 Changes with Apache 2.0.22
29 *) Fix a problem where the threaded MPM stalls after restarts or
30 segfaults. Also prevent multiple active processes from using
31 the same scoreboard slot. [Greg Ames]
33 *) Apache/Win32 now fills in the service description with Apache's
34 server version string, including loaded and advertised modules.
37 *) Improved support for the Win32 build, to recover gracefully from
38 missing apr or apr-util directories or the awk interpreter,
39 create the proper cgi-bin examples, including a test-cgi.bat, and
40 fix the perl shebang line for printenv.pl, when installing from
41 the build environment. [William Rowe]
43 *) Fix a segfault in threaded.c caused by passing uninitialized
44 apr_thread_t * to apr_thread_join(). [Jeff Trawick]
46 *) Use new APR number conversion functions to reduce CPU consumption
47 when setting the content length, and in mod_log_config.
50 *) Fix problem reported by Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>
51 where HEAD response headers were being repeated twice for
52 files greater than 32K bytes (4*AP_MIN_BYTES_TO_WRITE). This
53 problem in the http_header filter was exposed by the recent rewrite
54 of the content_length filter. [Taketo Kabe, Bill Stoddard]
56 *) Fix seg faults in mod_status with ExtendedStatus enabled, after
57 restarts. A garbage pointer to a vhost's server_rec from the
58 previous generation was being left around under certain
59 conditions. [Greg Ames]
61 *) Fix a cosmetic problem with mod_include. Non-existant SSI vars
62 used to appear as '(none', without the closing paren.
63 [Günter Knauf <eflash@gmx.net>]
65 *) Improve the exports generating awk script. In the past, we had
66 work around problems in the awk script by avoiding some #if and
67 #ifdefs. This has bitten us many times in generating the exports.c
68 file. This improvement allows corrects the header file parsing.
69 [Sander Striker <striker@apache.org>]
71 Changes with Apache 2.0.21
73 *) Resolve the Win32 htpasswd bug, where a file that existed would be
74 overwritten, regardless of the -c flag.
75 [William Rowe, Mladen Turk <mladen.turk@mail.inet.hr>]
77 *) Introduce connection sub-pools into ab. Truncating the lifetime
78 of these allocations means that ab no longer perpetually grows
79 its working set, running out of memory on large request attempts.
82 *) Make scoreboard creation a hook. This allows management
83 modules to have access to the scoreboard at the time that it is
84 created, and at every restart request.
85 [Cody Sherr <csherr@covalent.net>]
87 *) Changed AP_MPMQ_MAX_DAEMONS to refer to MaxClients and
88 added an AP_MPMQ_MAX_DAEMON_USED to refer to the highest
89 daemon index actually used in the scoreboard. I also
90 updated the pertinent calls. [Paul J. Reder]
92 *) Win32: Prevent listening sockets from being inherited by
93 the Apache child process, CGI scripts, rotatelog process
94 etc. If the Apache child process segfaults, any processes
95 that the child started are not reaped. Prior to this fix,
96 these processes inherited the listening sockets which sometimes
97 prevented the restarted Apache child process from accepting
98 connections (ie, the server would hang).
101 *) Provide vhost and request strings when ExtendedStatus is on.
104 *) Fix some issues with the pod and prefork: check the pod *after*
105 processing a connection so that a server processing a time-
106 consuming request bails out as soon as practical; when the
107 parent process wakes up a server process via connect(), use an
108 APR timeout on the connect() so that we don't hang for a long
109 time if there aren't server processes around to do accept().
110 [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
112 *) Performance improvement to mod_mime.c. find_ct() in mod_mime,
113 spends a lot of time in apr_table_get calls. Using the default
114 httpd.conf, the tables for languages and charsets are somewhat
115 large, so the time spent scanning them on each request is
116 significant. Replacing the tables with hash tables provides
117 a nice speedup. [Brian Pane <bpane@pacbell.net>]
119 *) Add two functions to allow modules to access random parts of the
120 scoreboard. This allows modules compiled for one MPM to access the
121 scoreboard, even if it the server was compiled for another MPM.
122 [Harrie Hazewinkel <harrie@covalent.net>]
124 Changes with Apache 2.0.20
126 *) Fix problem in content-length filter where the filter would
127 buffer all the output from a CGI before sending any bytes
128 down the filter stack to the network. This problem would cause
129 significant memory consumption if the CGIs generated
130 lots of bytes. [Bill Stoddard]
132 *) Get non-blocking CGI pipe reads working with the bucket brigades.
135 *) Fix seg fault on Windows when serving files cached with mod_file_cache.
138 *) Fix a bug in the threaded MPM that would cause it to kill off all
139 workers immediately after starting if the number of workers started
140 was above a certain threshold. [Ryan Bloom, Bill Stoddard]
142 Changes with Apache 2.0.19
144 *) Fix problem with threaded MPM. The problem was that if each child
145 process was busy serving a single long-lived request and the server
146 was sent a graceful restart signal, the server would stop serving
147 requests. This would happen because each child process would wait to
148 die until the last thread was done, and the parent wouldn't spawn any
149 new children until a process died. Now, the parent looks at the fact
150 that the children are dying gracefully, and starts new children.
151 Those new children only start enough threads to compliment the number
152 of threads in the other child process that shares the same spot in
153 the scoreboard. In this way, we make sure to never go over
154 MaxClients. [Ryan Bloom]
156 *) modified mod_negotiation and mod_autoindex to speed up by almost a
157 factor of two on apr_dir_read()-enhanced platforms, such as Win32
158 and OS2, by calling ap_sub_request_lookup_dirent() with the results
159 already provided by apr_dir_read(). [William Rowe]
161 *) mod_file_cache is now more robust to filtering and serves requests
162 slightly more efficiently. [Cliff Woolley]
164 *) Fix problem handling FLUSH bucket in the chunked encoding filter.
165 Module was calling ap_rwrite() followed by ap_rflush() but the
166 served content was not being displayed in the browser. Inspection
167 of the output stream revealed that the first data chunk was
168 missing the trailing CRLF required by the RFC. [Bill Stoddard]
170 *) apxs no longer generates ap_send_http_header() in the example handler
172 *) Fix an ab problem which could cause a divide-by-zero exception
173 with certain invocations (e.g., ab -k -c 6 -n 100 localhost/).
174 [Ian Holsman <ianh@cnet.com>]
176 *) Solve case-insensitive platforms' confusion about negotiated
177 filenames, allowing files of differnt case to match in choosing
178 the document to serve. [William Rowe]
180 *) Fix brokenness when ThreadsPerChild is higher than the built-in
181 limit. We left ap_threads_per_child at the higher value which
182 led to segfaults when doing certain scoreboard operations.
185 *) Fix seg faults and/or missing output from mod_include. The
186 default_handler was using the subrequest pool for files and
187 MMAPs, even though the associated APR structures typically
188 live longer than the subrequest. [Greg Ames]
190 *) Extend mod_setenvif to support specifying regular expressions
191 on the SetEnvIf (and SetEnvIfNoCase) directive attribute field.
192 Example: SetEnvIf ^TS* [a-z].* HAVE_TS
193 will cause HAVE_TS to be set if any of the request headers begins
194 with "TS" and has a value that begins with any character in the
195 set [a-z]. [Bill Stoddard]
197 *) httpd children now re-bind themselves to a random CPU on
198 multiprocessor systems on AIX via bindprocessor() in 2.0.
199 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
201 *) Fix htdigest. It would go into a loop in getline when adding
202 a second user. [Bill Stoddard]
204 *) Win32 platforms now fully support mod_userdir options. [Will Rowe]
206 *) Automatically generate httpd.exp for AIX.
207 DSOs now work again on AIX in 2.0
208 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
210 *) Add a new request hook, error_log. This phase allows modules
211 to act on the error log string _after_ it has been written
212 to the error log. The goal for this hook is to allow monitoring
213 modules to send the error string to the monitoring agent.
216 *) Modify mod_echo to make it use filters for input and output.
217 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
219 *) Extend mod_headers to support conditional driven Header
220 add, append and set. Use SetEnvIf to set an envar and conditionally
221 add/append/set headers based on this envar thusly:
223 SetEnvIf TSMyHeader value HAVE_TSMyHeader
224 Header add MyHeader "%t %D" env=HAVE_TSMyHeader
226 If the request contains header "TSMyHeader: value" then header
227 MyHeader: "t=xxxxxxxxxx D=yyyy" will be sent on the response.
230 *) Extend mod_headers to support using format specifiers on Header
231 add, append and set header values. Two format specifiers are supported:
233 %t - reports, in UTC microseconds since the epoch, when the
234 request was received.
236 %D - reports the time, in microseconds, between when the request was
237 received and the response sent.
240 Header add MyHeader "This request served in %D microseconds. %t"
242 results in a header being added to the response that looks like this:
244 MyHeader: This request served in D=5438 microseconds. t=991424704447256
248 *) Fix reset_filter(). We need to be careful how we remove filters.
249 If we set r->output_filters to NULL, we also have to reset the
250 connection's filters. [John Sterling]
252 *) Optimise reset_filter() in http_protocol.c. [Greg Stein]
254 *) Add a check to ap_die() to make sure the filter stack is sane and
255 contains the correct basic filters when an error occurs. This fixes
256 a problem where headers are not being sent on error. [John Sterling]
258 *) New Header directive 'echo' option. "Header echo regex" will
259 cause any headers received on the request that match regex to be
260 echoed to (included in) the response headers.
263 *) include/ap_compat.h tested and set APR_COMPAT_H instead of AP_COMPAT_H.
264 This prevented the inclusion of apr_compat.h. PR #7773
265 [Oleg Broytmann <phd@phd.pp.ru>]
267 *) Moved util_uri to the apr-util library. This required a bunch of
268 apr_name changes for the uri utility functions. [Justin Erenkrantz]
270 *) Move the addition of default AP_HTTP_HTTP_HEADER filters to the
271 insert_filter phase so that other filters are not bypassed by default.
274 *) Reimplement mod_headers as an output filter. mod_headers can now
275 add custom headers to inbound requests using the RequestHeader directive
276 and to responses using the same old Header directive. [Graham Leggett]
278 Changes with Apache 2.0.18
280 *) Fix command-line processing so that if a bad argument is specified
281 Apache will exit. [Jeff Trawick]
283 *) Change the make targets and rules to be consistent in all of the
284 Apache-owned source trees. [Roy Fielding]
286 *) Fix processing of the TRACE method. Previously we passed bogus
287 parms to form_header_field() and it overlaid some vhost structures,
288 resulting in a segfault in check_hostalias().
289 [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
291 *) Win32: Add support for reliable piped logs. If the logging process
292 goes down, Apache will automatically restart it. This function has
293 been part of Apache on Unix/Linux/BSD since the early v1.3 releases.
296 *) Do not start piped log processes during the config file
297 preflight. This change also circumvents a problem on
298 Windows where the rotatelog processes created during preflight
299 was not getting cleaned up properly.
302 *) add "Request Phase Participation" info to mod_info
305 *) Make first phase changes to the scoreboard data structures in
306 preparation for the rewriting of the scoreboard per my posted
307 design notes. [Paul J. Reder]
309 *) Fix httpd's definition of LTFLAGS to be consistent with that of apr
310 and apr-util, allow it to be overridden by the configure command-line
311 (default="--silent") and introduce LT_LDFLAGS to replace what we were
312 formerly abusing as LTFLAGS. [Roy Fielding]
314 *) Clean up the reporting of incorrect closing container tags.
315 [Barrie Slaymaker <barries@slaysys.com>]
317 *) Simplify the configure process by moving all libtool stuff to APR
318 and moving hints.m4 inline. [Roy Fielding]
320 *) Add the AP_DECLARE()/AP_CORE_DECLARE macros on the return types
321 of functions used by mod_proxy for export in the DLL
322 [Ian Holsman <IanH@cnet.com>]
324 *) Prevent a hang when a cgi handled by mod_cgid tries to read a
325 request body from its stdin but no reqest body is being written to
326 the cgi. [Jeff Trawick]
328 *) mod_log_config: %c connection status incorrectly logged
329 as "-" (non-keepalive) when MaxKeepAliveRequests is set to 0.
332 *) Get mod_cern_meta working under Windows
335 *) Create Files, and thus MMAPs, out of the request pool, not the
336 connection pool. This solves a small resource leak that had us
337 not closing files until a connection was closed. In order to do
338 this, at the end of the core_output_filter, we loop through the
339 brigade and convert any data we have into a single HEAP bucket
340 that we know will survive clearing the request_rec.
341 [Ryan Bloom, Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz@ebuilt.com>,
344 *) Completely revamp configure so that it preserves the standard make
345 variables CPPFLAGS, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LDFLAGS and LIBS by moving
346 the configure additions to EXTRA_* variables. Also, allow the user
347 to specify NOTEST_* values for all of the above, which eliminates the
348 need for THREAD_CPPFLAGS, THREAD_CFLAGS, and OPTIM. Fix the setting
349 of INCLUDES and EXTRA_INCLUDES. Check flags as they are added to
350 avoid pointless duplications. Fix the order in which flags are given
351 on the compile and link lines. Remove obsolete macros APR_DOEXTRA,
352 AC_ADD_LIBRARY, AC_CHECK_DEFINE, APACHE_PASSTHRU, and APACHE_ONCE.
353 Added APR_SAVE_THE_ENVIRONMENT and APR_RESTORE_THE_ENVIRONMENT macros.
354 Renamed AC_TYPE_RLIM_T macro to APACHE_TYPE_RLIM_T. [Roy Fielding]
356 *) Get mod_tls to compile/work better on Windows. PR #7612
357 [Bernhard Schrenk <b.schrenk@improx.com>]
359 *) Fix shutdown/restart hangs in the threaded MPM.
360 [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames, Ryan Bloom]
362 *) Removed the keptalive boolean from conn_rec because it is now only
363 used by a single routine and can be replaced by a local variable.
364 [Greg Stein, Ryan Bloom, Roy Fielding]
366 *) Patch prefork to put enough of the signal processing back in so that
367 signals are all handled properly now. The previous patch fixed the
368 deadlock race condition, but broke the user directed signal handling.
369 This fixes it to work the way it did before my previous prefork patch
370 (primarily, SIGTERM is now working).
372 *) Change how input filters decide how much data is returned to the
373 higher filter. We used to use a field in the conn_rec, with this
374 change, we use an argument to ap_get_brigade to determine how much
375 data is retrieved. [Ryan Bloom]
377 *) Fix seg fault at start-up introduced by Ryan's change to enable
378 modules to specify their own logging tags. mod_log_config
379 registers an optional function, ap_register_log_handler().
380 ap_register_log_handler() was being called by http_core before
381 the directive hash table was created. This patch creates the
382 directive hash table before ap_register_log_handler() is
383 registered as an optional function.
384 [jean-frederic clere <jfrederic.clere@fujitsu-siemens.com>]
386 *) Add ap_set_int_slot() function
387 [John K. Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
389 *) Under certain circumstances, Apache did not supply the
390 right response headers when requiring authentication.
391 [Gertjan van Wingerde <Gertjan.van.Wingerde@cmg.nl>] PR#7114
392 (This is a port of the change that went into Apache 1.3.19.)
394 *) Allow modules to specify their own logging tags. This basically
395 allows a module to tell mod_log_config that when %x is encountered
396 a specific function should be called. Currently, x can be any single
397 character. It may be more useful to make this a string at some point.
400 Changes with Apache 2.0.17
402 *) If a higher-level filter handles the the byterange aspects of a
403 request, then the byterange filter should not try to redo the
404 work. The most common case of this happening, is a byterange
405 request going through the proxy, and the origin server handles
406 the byterange request. The proxy should ignore it.
407 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>]
409 *) Changed the threaded mpm to have child_main join to each of the
410 worker threads to make sure the kids are all gone before child_main
411 exits after a signal (cleanup from perform_idle_server_maintenance).
412 This is an extension of Ryans recent commit to make the child_main
415 *) Add more options to the ap_mpm_query function. This also allows MPMs to
416 report if their threads are dynamic or static. Finally, this also
417 implements a new API, ap_show_mpm, which returns the MPM that was
418 required into the core. [Harrie Hazewinkel <harrie@covalent.net>]
420 *) Do not install the binaries from the support directory twice.
421 [jun-ichiro hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>]
423 *) The ap_f* functions should flush data to the filter that is passed
424 in, not the the filter after the one passed in.
425 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
427 *) Make ab work again by changing its native types to apr types and formats.
428 [Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz@ebuilt.com>]
430 *) Move the byterange filter and all of the supporting functions back
431 to the HTTP module. The byterange filter turned out to be very
432 HTTP specific, and it belongs in the HTTP module. [Greg Stein]
434 *) Make clean, distclean, and extraclean consistently according to the
435 Gnu makefile guidelines. [Justin Erenkrantz <jerenkrantz@ebuilt.com>]
437 *) Fix errors in the renaming of the apr_threadattr_detach_xxx functions.
438 This may have been causing problems stopping processes in the threaded
441 *) Fix content-length in mod_negotiation to a long int representation.
444 *) Remove BindAddress from the default config file.
445 [giles@nemeton.com.au]
447 *) Allow module authors to add a module to their Apache build using
448 --with-module, without re-running buildconf. The syntax is:
449 --with-module=module_type:/path/to/module.c
450 The configure script will copy the module.c file to
451 modules/module_type, and it will be added to the relevant Makefiles.
452 currently, this only works for static modules. [Ryan Bloom]
454 *) Changes required to make prefork clean up idle children properly.
455 There was a window during which a starting worker deadlocks when
456 an idle cleanup arrives before it completes init. Apache then keeps
457 trying to cleanup the same deadlocked worker forever (until higher
458 pids come along, but it still will never reduce below the deadlocked
459 pid). Thus the number of children would not reduce to the correct
460 idle level. [Paul J. Reder]
462 Changes with Apache 2.0.16
464 *) Change the default installation directory to /usr/local/apache2,
465 as now defined by the "Apache" layout in config.layout. [Marc Slemko]
467 *) OS/2: Added support for building loadable modules as OS/2 DLLs.
470 *) Get MaxRequestsPerChild working with the Windows MPM.
473 *) Make generic hooks to work, with mod_generic_hook_import/export
474 experimental modules. [Ben Laurie, Will Rowe]
476 *) Fix segfaults for configuration file syntax errors such as
477 "<Directory>" followed by "</Directory" and
478 "<Directory>" followed by "</Directoryz>". [Jeff Trawick]
480 *) Cleanup the --enable-layout option of configure. This makes
481 us use a consistent location for the config.layout file, and it
482 makes configure more portable.
483 [jun-ichiro hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>]
485 *) Changes to 'ab'; fixed int overrun's, added statistics, output in
486 csv/gnuplot format, rudimentary ssl support and various other tweaks
487 to make results more true to what is measured. The upshot of this it
488 turns out that 'ab' has often underreported the true performance of
489 apache. Often by a order of magnitude :-) See talk/paper of Sander
490 Temme <sctemme@covalent.net> at April ApacheCon 2001 for details.
491 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
493 *) Clean up mod_cgid's temporary request pool. Besides fixing a
494 storage leak this ensures that some unnecessary pipes are closed.
497 *) Performance: Add quick_handler hook. This hook is called at the
498 very beginning of the request processing before location_walk,
499 translate_name, etc. This hook is useful for URI keyed content
500 caches like Mike Abbott's Quick Shortcut Cache.
503 *) top_module global variable renamed to ap_top_module [Perl]
505 *) Move ap_set_last_modified to the core. This is a potentially
506 controversial change, because this is kind of HTTP specific. However
507 many protocols should be able to take advantage of this kind of
508 information. I expect that headers will need one more layer of
509 indirection for multi-protocol work, but this is a small step in
510 the right direction. [Ryan Bloom]
512 *) Enable mod_status by default. This matches what Apache 1.3 does.
515 *) Add a ScriptSock directive to the default config file. This is
516 only enabled when mod_cgid is used.
517 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
519 Changes with Apache 2.0.15
521 *) Untangled the buildconf script and eliminated the need for build's
522 aclocal.m4, generated_lists, build.mk, build2.mk, and a host of other
523 libtool muck that is now under srclib/apr/build. [Roy Fielding]
525 *) Win32: Don't accept more connections than we have worker threads
529 *) Fix bug in the Unix threaded.c MPM that allowed child processes
530 to fork() new child processes.
533 *) Fix a major security problem with double-reverse lookup checking.
534 Previously, a client connecting over IPv4 would not be matched
535 properly when the server had an IPv6 listening socket. PR #7407
536 [Taketo Kabe <kiabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
538 *) Change the way the beos MPM handles polling to allow it to stop and
539 restart. Problem was the sockets being polled were being reset by
540 the select call, so once it had accepted a connection it was no
541 longer listening on the UDP socket we use for shutdown instructions.
542 APR needs to be altered, patch on it's way. [David Reid]
544 *) Empty out the brigade shared by ap_getline()/ap_get_client_block()
545 on error exit from ap_getline(). Some other code got upset because
546 the wrong data was in the brigade. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
548 *) Handle ap_discard_request_body() being called more than once.
549 [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
551 *) Get rid of an inadvertent close of file descriptor 2 in
552 mod_mime_magic. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
554 *) Add a hook, create_request. This hook allows modules to modify
555 a request while it is being created. This hook is called for all
556 request_rec's, main request, sub request, and internal redirect.
557 When this hook is called, the the r->main, r->prev, r->next
558 pointers have been set, so modules can determine what kind of
559 request this is. [Ryan Bloom]
561 *) Cleanup the build process a bit more. The Apache configure
562 script no longer creates its own helper scripts, it just
564 [jean-frederic clere <jfrederic.clere@fujitsu-siemens.com>]
566 *) Stop the forced downgrade of the connection to HTTP/1.0 for
567 proxy requests. [Graham Leggett]
569 *) Avoid using sscanf to determine the HTTP protocol number in
570 the common case because sscanf is a performance hog. From
571 Mike Abbot's Accelerating Apache patch number 6.
572 [Mike Abbot <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com>, Bill Stoddard]
574 *) Fix a security exposure in mod_access. Previously when IPv6
575 listening sockets were used, allow/deny-from-IPv4-address rules
576 were not evaluated properly (PR #7407). Also, add the ability to
577 specify IPv6 address strings with optional prefix length on Allow
578 and Deny. [Jeff Trawick]
580 *) Enhance rotatelogs so that a UTC offset can be specified, and
581 the logfile name can be formatted using strftime(3). (Brought
582 forward from 1.3.) [Ken Coar]
584 *) Reimplement the Windows MPM (mpm_winnt.c) to eliminate calling
585 DuplicateHandle on an IOCompletionPort (a practice which
586 MS "discourages"). The new model does not rely on associating
587 the completion port with the listening sockets, thus the
588 completion port can be completely managed within the child
589 process. A dedicated thread accepts connections off the network,
590 then calls PostQueuedCompletionStatus() to wake up worker
591 threads blocked on the completion port.
594 *) Bring forward the --suexec-umask option which allows the
595 builder to preset the umask for suexec processes. [Ken Coar]
597 *) Add a -V flag to suexec, which causes it to display the
598 compile-time settings with which it was built. (Only
599 usable by root or the AP_HTTPD_USER username.) [Ken Coar]
601 *) Mod_include should always unset the content-length if the file is
602 going to be passed through send_parsed_content. There is no to
603 determine if the content will change before actually scanning the
604 entire content. It is far safer to just remove the C-L as long
605 as we are scanning it. [Ryan Bloom]
607 *) Make sure Apache sends WWW-Authenticate during a reverse proxy
608 request and not Proxy-Authenticate.
609 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>]
611 Changes with Apache 2.0.14
613 *) Fix content-length computation. We ONLY compute a content-length if
614 We are not in a 1.1 request and we cannot chunk, and this is a keepalive
615 or we already have all the data. [Ryan Bloom]
617 *) Report unbounded containers in the config file. Previously, a typo
618 in the </container> directive could result in the rest of the config
619 file being silently ignored, with undesired defaults used.
622 *) Make the old_write filter use the ap_f* functions for the buffering.
625 *) Move more code from the http module into the core server. This
626 is core code, basically the default handler, the default input
627 and output filters, and all of the core configuration directives.
628 All of this code is required in order for the server to work, with or
629 without HTTP. The server is closer to working without the HTTP
630 module, although there is still more to do. [Ryan Bloom]
632 *) Fix a number of SGI compile warnings throughout the server. Fix some
633 bad parameters to apr_bucket_read(). Fix a bad statement in
634 ap_method_in_list(). For the mod_rewrite cache use apr_time_t
635 consistently; we were mixing apr_time_t and time_t in invalid ways
636 before. In load_file(), call apr_dso_error() instead of
637 apr_strerror() so that we get a more specific string on some platforms.
638 PR #6980 [Jeff Trawick]
640 *) Allow modules to query the MPM about it's execution profile. This
641 query API can and should be extended in the future, but for now,
642 max_daemons, and threading or forking is a very good start.
643 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
645 *) Modify mod_include to send blocks of data no larger than 9k.
646 Without this, mod_include will wait until the whole file is parsed,
647 or the first tag is found to send any data to the client.
648 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
650 *) Fix mod_info, so that <Directory> and <Location> directives are
651 not displayed twice when displaying the current configuration.
652 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
654 *) Add config directives to override DEFAULT_ERROR_MSG and
655 DEFAULT_TIME_FORMAT. This was sent in as PR 6193.
656 [Dan Rench <drench@xnet.com>]
658 *) Get mod_info building and loading on Win32. [William Rowe]
660 *) Begin to move protocol independant functions out of mod_http. The goal
661 is to have only functions that are HTTP specific in the http directory.
664 Changes with Apache 2.0.13
666 *) Don't assume that there will always be multiple calls to the byterange
667 filter. It is possible that we will need to do byteranges with only
668 one call to the filter. [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
670 *) Move the error_bucket definition from the http module to the
671 core server. Every protocol will need this ability, not just
674 Changes with Apache 2.0.12
676 *) Modify mod_file_cache to save pre-formatted strings for
677 content-length and last-modified headers for performance.
678 [Mike Abbot <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com>]
680 *) Namespace protect IOBUFSIZ since it is exposed in the API.
681 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
683 *) Use "Basic" authentication instead of "basic" in ab, as the spec
684 says we should. [Andre Breiler <andre.breiler@rd.bbc.co.uk>]
686 *) Fix a seg fault in mod_userdir.c. We used to use the pw structure
687 without ever filling it out. This fixes PR 7271.
688 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp> and
689 Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
691 *) Add a couple of GCC attribute tags to printf style functions.
692 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
694 *) Add the correct language tag for interoperation with the Taiwanese
695 versions of MSIE and Netscape. [Clive Lin <clive@CirX.ORG>] PR#7142
697 *) Migrate the perchild MPM to use the new apr signal child, and
698 APR thread functions. [Ryan Bloom]
700 *) Close one copy of the CGI's stdout before creating the new process.
701 The CGI will still have stdout, because we have already dup'ed it.
702 This keeps Apache from waiting forever to send the results of a CGI
703 process that has forked a long-lived child process.
704 [Taketo Kabe <kabe@sra-tohoku.co.jp>]
706 *) Remove the rest of the pthreads functions from the threaded MPM.
707 This requires the APR support for a signal thread that was just
710 *) Make mod_dir use a fixup for sending a redirect to the browser.
711 Before this, we were using a handler, which doesn't make much
712 sense, because the handler wasn't generating any data, it would
713 either return a redirect error code, or DECLINED. This fits the
714 current hooks better. [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
716 *) Make the threaded MPM use APR threads instead of pthreads.
719 *) Get mod_tls to the point where it actually appears to work in all cases.
722 *) implement --enable-modules and --enable-mods-shared for "all" and
725 *) Move the threaded MPM to use APR locks instead of pthread locks.
728 *) Rename mpmt_pthread to threaded. This is more in line with the
729 fact that mpmt_pthread shouldn't be using pthreads directly, and
730 it is a smaller name that doesn't tie into anything.
733 *) Rename the module structures so that the exported symbol matches
734 the file name, and it is easier to automate the installation
735 process (generating LoadModule directives from the module filenames).
738 *) Remove the coalesce filter. With the ap_f* functions, this filter
739 is no longer needed. [Ryan Bloom]
741 Changes with Apache 2.0.11
743 *) Remove the dexter MPM. Perchild is the same basic idea, but it has the
744 added feature of allowing a uid/gid per child process. If no
745 uid/gid is specified, then Perchild behaves exactly like dexter.
748 *) Get perchild building again. [Ryan Bloom]
750 *) Don't disable threads just because we are using the prefork MPM.
751 If somebody wants to compile without threads, they must now add
752 --disable-threads to the configure command line. [Ryan Bloom]
754 *) Begin to move the calls to update_child_status into common code, so
755 that each individual MPM does not need to update the scoreboard itself.
758 *) Allow mod_tls to compile under Unix boxes where openssl has been
759 installed to the system include files.
760 [Gomez Henri <new-httpd@slib.fr>]
762 *) Cleanup the mod_tls configure process. This should remove any need
763 to hand-edit any files. We require OpenSSL 0.9.6 or later, but
764 configure doesn't check that yet. [Ryan Bloom]
766 *) Add a very early prototype of SSL support (in mod_tls.c). It is
767 vital that you read modules/tls/README before attempting to build
770 *) Fix a potential seg fault on all platforms. David Reid fixed this
771 on BEOS, but the problem could happen anywhere, so we don't want
772 to #ifdef it. [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
774 *) Add new LogFormat directive, %D, to log time it takes to serve a
775 request in microseconds. [Bill Stoddard]
777 *) Change AddInputFilter and AddOutputFilter to SetInputFilter and
778 SetOutputFilter. This corresponds nicely with the other Set
779 directives, which operate on containers while the Add* directives
780 tend to work directly on extensions. [Ryan Bloom]
782 *) Cleanup the header handling a bit. This uses the apr_brigade_*
783 functions for the buffering so that we don't need to compute
784 the length of the headers before we actually create the header
787 *) Allow filters to buffer data using the ap_f* functions. These have
788 become macros that resolve directly to apr_brigade_*.
791 *) Get the Unix MPM's to do a graceful restart again. If we are going
792 to register a cleanup with ap_cleanup_scoreboard, then we have to
793 kill the cleanup with the same function, and that function can't be
796 *) Install all required header files. Without these, it was not
797 possible to compile some modules outside of the server.
800 *) Fix the AliasMatch directive in Apache 2.0. When we brought a patch
801 forward from 1.3 to 2.0, we missed a single line, which broke regex
802 aliases. [Ryan Bloom]
804 *) We have a poor abstraction in the protocol. This is a temporary
805 hack to fix the bug, but it will need to be fixed for real. If
806 we find an error while sending out a custom error response, we back
807 up to the first non-OK request and send the data. Then, when we send
808 the EOS from finalize_request_protocol, we go to the last request,
809 to ensure that we aren't sending an EOS to a request that has already
810 received one. Because the data is sent on a different request than
811 the EOS, the error text never gets sent down the filter stack. This
812 fixes the problem by finding the last request, and sending the data
813 with that request. [Ryan Bloom]
815 *) Make the server status page show the correct restart time, and
816 thus the proper uptime. [Ryan Bloom]
818 *) Move the CGI creation logic from mod_include to mod_cgi(d). This
819 should reduce the amount of duplicate code that is required to
820 create CGI processes.
821 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
823 *) ap_new_connection() closes the socket and returns NULL if a socket
824 call fails. Usually this is due to a connection which has been
825 reset. [Jeff Trawick]
827 *) Move the Apache version information out of httpd.h and into release.h.
828 This is in preparation for the first tag with the new tag and release
831 *) Begin restructuring scoreboard code to enable adding back in
832 the ability to use IPC other than shared memory.
833 Get mod_status working on Windows again. [Bill Stoddard]
835 *) Make mod_status work with 2.0. This will work for prefork,
836 mpmt_pthread, and dexter. [Ryan Bloom]
838 *) Correct a typo in httpd.conf.
839 [Kunihiro Tanaka <tanaka@apache.or.jp>] PR#7154
841 *) Really fix mod_rewrite map lookups this time. [Tony Finch]
843 *) Get the correct IP address if ServerName isn't set and we can't
844 find a fully-qualified domain name at startup.
845 PR#7170 [Danek Duvall <dduvall@eng.sun.com>]
847 *) Make mod_cgid work with SuExec. [Ryan Bloom]
849 *) Adopt apr user/group name features for mod_rewrite. Eliminates some
850 'extra' stat's for user/group since they should never occur, and now
851 resolves the SCRIPT_USER and SCRIPT_GROUP, including on WinNT NTFS
852 volumes. [William Rowe]
854 *) Adopt apr features to simplify mod_includes. This changes the
855 behavior of the USER_NAME variable, unknown uid's are now reported
856 as USER_NAME="<unknown>" rather than the old user#000 result.
857 WinNT now resolves USER_NAME on NTFS volumes. [William Rowe]
859 *) Adopt apr features for simplifing mod_userdir, and accept the new
860 Win32/OS2 exceptions without hiccuping. [William Rowe]
862 *) Replace configure --with-optim option by using and saving the
863 environment variable OPTIM instead. This is needed because configure
864 options do not support multiple flags separated by spaces.
867 *) Fix some byterange handling. If we get a byte range that looks like
868 "-999999" where that is past the end of the file, we should return
869 a PARTIAL CONTENT status code, and return the whole file as one big
870 byterange. This matches the 1.3 handling now. [Ryan Bloom]
872 *) Make the error bucket a real meta-data bucket. This means that the
873 bucket length is 0, and a read returns NULL data. If one of these
874 buckets is passed down after the headers are sent, this data will
875 just be ignored. [Greg Stein]
877 *) The prefork MPM wasn't killing child processes correctly if a restart
878 signal was received while the process was serving a request. The child
879 process would become the equivalent of a second parent process. If
880 we break out of the accept loop, then we need to do die after cleaning
881 up after ourselves. [Ryan Bloom]
883 *) Change the Prefork MPM to use SIGWINCH instead of SIGUSR1 for graceful
884 restarts. [Ryan Bloom]
886 *) Modify the apr_stat/lstat/getfileinfo calls within apache to use
887 the most optimal APR_FINFO_wanted bits. This spares Win32 from
888 performing very expensive owner, group and permission lookups
889 and allows the server to function until these apr_finfo_t fields
890 are implemented under Win32. [William Rowe]
892 *) Support for typedsafe optional functions - that is functions exported by
893 optional modules, which, therefore, may or may not be present, depending
894 on configuration. See the experimental modules mod_optional_fn_{ex,im}port
895 for sample code. [Ben Laurie]
897 *) filters can now report an HTTP error to the server. This is done
898 by sending a brigade where the first bucket is an error_bucket.
899 This bucket is a simple bucket that stores an HTTP error and
900 a string. Currently the string is not used, but it may be needed
901 to output an error log. The http_header_filter will find this
902 bucket, and output the error text, and then return
903 AP_FILTER_ERROR, which informs the server that the error web page
904 has already been sent. [Ryan Bloom]
906 *) If we get an error, then we should remove all filters except for
907 those critical to serving a web page. This fixes a bug, where
908 error pages were going through the byterange filter, even though
909 that made no sense. [Ryan Bloom]
911 *) Relax the syntax checking of Host: headers in order to support
912 iDNS. PR#6635 [Tony Finch]
914 *) Cleanup the byterange filter to use the apr_brigade_partition
915 and apr_bucket_copy functions. This removes a lot of very messy
916 code, and hopefully makes this filter more stable.
919 *) Remove AddModule and ClearModuleList directives. Both of these
920 directives were used to ensure that modules could be enabled
921 in the correct order. That requirement is now gone, because
922 we use hooks to ensure that modules are in the correct order.
925 *) When SuExec is specified, we need to add it to the list of
926 targets to be built. If we don't, then any changes to the
927 configuration won't affect SuExec, unless 'make suexec' is
928 specifically run. [Ryan Bloom]
930 *) Cleaned out open_file from mod_file_cache, as apr now accepts
931 the APR_XTHREAD argument to open a file for consumption by
932 parallel threads on win32. [William Rowe]
934 *) Correct a bug in determining when we follow symlinks. The code
935 expected a stat -1 result, not an apr_status_t positive error.
936 Also check if the APR_FINFO_USER fields are valid before we
937 follow the link. [William Rowe]
939 *) Move initgroupgs, ap_uname2id and ap_gname2id from util.c to
940 mpm_common.c. These functions are only valid on some platforms,
941 so they should not be in the main-line code. [Ryan Bloom]
943 *) Remove ap_chdir_file(). This function is not thread-safe,
944 and nobody is currently using it. [Ryan Bloom]
946 *) Do not try to run make depend if there are no .c files in the
947 current directory, doing so makes `make depend` fail.
950 *) Update highperformance.conf to work with either prefork or
951 pthreads mpms. [Greg Ames]
953 *) Stop checking to see if this is a pipelined request if we know
954 for a fact that it isn't. Basically, if r->connection->keepalive == 0.
955 This keeps us from making an extra read call when serving a 1.0
956 request. [Ryan Bloom and Greg Stein]
958 *) Fix the handling of variable expansion look-ahead in mod_rewrite,
959 i.e. syntax like %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER}, and also fix the parsing of
960 more complicated nested RewriteMap lookups. PR#7087 [Tony Finch]
962 *) Fix the RFC number mentioned when complaining about a missing
963 Host: header. PR#7079 [Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt@wam.umd.edu>]
965 *) Fix an endless loop in ab which occurred when ab was posting
966 and the server dropped the connection unexpectedly.
969 *) Fix a segfault while handling request bodies in ap_http_filter().
970 This problem has been seen with mod_dav usage as well as with
971 requests where the body was just being discarded. [Jeff Trawick]
973 *) Some adjustment on the handling and automatic setting (via
974 hints.m4) of various compilation flags (eg: CFLAGS). Also,
975 add the capability to specify flags (NOTEST_CFLAGS and
976 NOTEST_LDFLAGS) which are used to compile Apache, but
977 not used during the configuration process. Useful for
978 flags like "-Werror". [Jim Jagielski]
980 *) Stop using environment variables to force debug mode or
981 no detach. We now use the -D command line argument to
982 specify the correct mode. -DONE_PROCESS and -DNO_DETACH.
983 [Greg Stein, Ryan Bloom]
985 *) Change handlers to use hooks. [Ben Laurie]
987 *) Stop returning copies of filenames from both apr_file_t and
988 apr_dir_t. We pstrdup the filenames that we store in the
989 actual structures, so we don't need to pstrdup the strings again.
992 *) mod_cgi: Fix some problems where the wrong error value was being
993 traced. [Jeff Trawick]
995 *) EBCDIC: Fix some missing ASCII conversion on some protocol data.
998 *) Add generic hooks. [Ben Laurie]
1000 *) Use a real pool to dup the error log descriptor. [Ryan Bloom]
1002 *) Fix a segfault caused by mod_ext_filter when the external filter
1003 program does not exist. [Jeff Trawick]
1005 *) Fix an output truncation error when on an HTTP >= 1.0 request an
1006 object of size between DEFAULT_BUCKET_SIZE and AP_MIN_BYTES_TO_WRITE
1007 was served through mod_charset_lite (or anything else that would
1008 create a transient bucket in this size range). ap_bucket_make_heap()
1009 silently failed (fixed), transient_setaside() discovered it, but
1010 ap_save_brigade() ignored it (fixed). [Jeff Trawick]
1012 *) Ignore \r\n or \n when using PEEK mode for input filters. The problem
1013 is that some browsers send extra lines at the end of POST requests, and
1014 we don't want to delay sending data back to the user just because the
1015 browser isn't well behaved. [Ryan Bloom]
1017 *) Get SuEXEC working again. We can't send absolute paths to suExec
1018 because it refuses to execute those programs. SuEXEC also wasn't
1019 always recognizing configuration changes made using the autoconf
1022 *) Allow the buildconf process to find the config.m4 files in the correct
1023 order. Basically, we can now name config.m4 files as config\d\d.m4,
1024 and we will sort them correctly when inserting them into the build
1025 process. [Ryan Bloom]
1027 *) Get mod_cgid to use apr calls for creating the actual CGI process.
1028 This also allows mod_cgid to use ap_os_create_priviledged_process,
1029 thus allowing for SuExec execution from mod_cgid. Currently, we do
1030 not support everything that standard SuExec supports, but at least
1031 it works minimally now. [Ryan Bloom]
1033 *) Allow SuExec to be configured from the ./configure command line.
1036 *) Update some of the docs in README and INSTALL to reflect some of
1037 the changes in Apache 2.0 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
1039 *) If we get EAGAIN returned from the call to apr_sendfile, then we
1040 need to call sendfile again. This gets us serving large files
1041 such as apache_2.0a9.tar.gz on FreeBSD again. [Ryan Bloom]
1043 *) Get the support programs building cleanly again.
1044 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
1046 *) The Apache/Win32 Apache.exe and dll's now live in bin. The
1047 current directory logic now backs up over bin/ to determine the
1048 server root from the Apache.exe path.
1050 *) Apache/Win32 now follows the standard conventions of mod_foo.so
1051 loadable modules, dynamic libs are all named libfoo.dll, and the
1052 makefile.win populates the include, lib and libexec directories.
1054 *) Apache is now IPv6-capable. On systems where APR supports IPv6,
1055 Apache gets IPv6 listening sockets by default. Additionally, the
1056 Listen, NameVirtualHost, and <VirtualHost> directives support IPv6
1057 numeric address strings (e.g., "Listen [fe80::1]:8080").
1060 *) Modify the install directory layout. Modules are now installed in
1061 modules/. Shared libraries should be installed in libraries/, but
1062 we don't have any of those on Unix yet. All install directories
1063 are modifyable at configure time. [Ryan Bloom]
1065 *) Install all header files in the same directory on Unix. [Ryan Bloom]
1067 *) Get the functions in server/linked into the server, regardless of
1068 which modules linked into the server. This uses the same hack
1069 for Apache that we use for APR and apr-util to ensure all of the
1070 necessary functions are linked. As a part of thise, the CHARSET_EBCDIC
1071 was renamed to AP_CHARSET_EBCDIC for namespace protection, and to make
1072 the scripts a bit easier.
1075 *) Rework the RFC1413 handling to make it thread-safe, use a timeout
1076 on the query, and remove IPv4 dependencies. [Jeff Trawick]
1078 *) Get all of the auth modules to the point that they will install and
1079 be loadable into the server. Our new build/install mechanism expects
1080 that all modules will have a common name format. The auth modules
1081 didn't use that format, so we didn't install them properly.
1084 *) API routines ap_pgethostbyname() and ap_pduphostent() are no longer
1085 available. Use apr_getaddrinfo() instead. [Jeff Trawick]
1087 *) Get "NameVirtualHost *" working in 2.0. [Ryan Bloom]
1089 *) Return HTTP_RANGE_NOT_SATISFIABLE if the every range requested starts
1090 after the end of the response. [Ryan Bloom]
1092 *) Get byterange requests working with responses that do not have a
1093 content-length. Because of the way byterange requests work, we have to
1094 have all of the data before we can actually do the byterange, so we
1095 can compute the content-length in the byterange filter.
1098 *) Get exe CGI's working again on Windows.
1101 *) Get mod_cgid and mod_rewrite to work as DSOs by changing the way
1102 they keep track of whether or not their post config hook has been
1103 called before. Instead of a static variable (which is replaced when
1104 the DSO is loaded a second time), use userdata in the process pool.
1107 Changes with Apache 2.0a9
1109 *) Win32 now requires perl to complete the final install step for users
1110 to build + install on Win32. Makefile.win now rewrites @@ServerRoot@
1111 and installs the conf, htdocs and htdocs/manual directories.
1114 *) Make mod_include use a hash table to associate directive tags with
1115 functions. This allows modules to implement their own SSI tags easily.
1116 The idea is simple enough, a module can insert it's own tag and function
1117 combination into a hash table provided by mod_include. While mod_include
1118 parses an SSI file, when it encounters a tag in the file, it does a
1119 hash lookup to find the function that implements that tag, and passes
1120 all of the relevant data to the function. That function is then
1121 responsible for processing the tag and handing the remaining data back
1122 to mod_include for further processing.
1123 [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1125 *) Get rid of ap_new_apr_connection(). ap_new_connection() now has
1126 fewer parameters: the local and remote socket addresses were removed
1127 from the parameter list because all required information is available
1128 via the APR socket. [Jeff Trawick]
1130 *) Distribution directory structure reorganized to reflect a
1131 normal source distribution with external install targets.
1134 *) The MPMs that need multiple segments of shared memory now create
1135 two apr_shmem_t variables, one for each shared memory allocation.
1136 the problem is that we can't determine how much memory will be required
1137 for shared memory allocations once we try to allocate more than one
1138 variable. The MM code automatically aligns the shared memory allocations,
1139 so we end up needing to pad the amount of shared memory we want based
1140 on how many variables will be allocated out of the shared memory segment.
1141 It is just easier to create a second apr_shmem_t variable, and two
1142 shmem memory blocks.
1145 *) Cleanup the export list a bit. This creates a single unified list of
1146 functions exported by APR. The export list is generated at configure
1147 time, and that list is then used to generate the exports.c file.
1148 Because of the way the export list is generated, we only export those
1149 functions that are valid on the platform we are building on.
1152 *) Enable logging the cookie with mod_log_config
1153 [Sander van Zoest <sander@covalent.net>]
1155 *) Fix a segfault in mod_info when it reaches the end of the configuration.
1158 *) Added lib/aputil/ as a placeholder for utility functions which are not
1159 specific to the Apache HTTP Server (but do not make sense with APR).
1160 The first utility is "apu_dbm": a set of functions to work with DBM
1161 files. This first version can be compiled for SDBM or GDBM databases.
1164 *) Complete re-write of mod_include. This makes mod_include a filter that
1165 uses buckets directly. This has now served the FAQ correctly.
1166 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
1168 *) Allow modules to specify the first filter in a sub_request when
1169 making the sub_request. This keeps modules from having to change the
1170 output_filter immediately after creating the sub-request, and therefore
1171 skip the sub_req_output_filter. [Ryan Bloom]
1173 *) Update ab to accept URLs with IPv6 literal address strings (in the
1174 format described in RFC 2732), and to build Host header fields in
1175 the same format. This allows IPv6 literal address strings to be
1176 used with ab. This support has been tested against Apache 1.3 with
1177 the KAME patch, but Apache 2.0 does not yet work with this format
1178 of the Host header field. [Jeff Trawick]
1180 *) Accomodate an out-of-space condition in the piped logs and the
1181 rotatelogs.c code, and no longer churn log processes for this
1182 condition. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
1184 *) Add support for partial writes with apr_sendfile() to core_output_filter.
1187 Changes with Apache 2.0a8
1189 *) Add a directive to mod_mime so that filters can be associated with
1193 *) Get multi-views working again. We were setting the path_info
1194 field incorrectly if we couldn't find the specified file.
1197 *) Fix 304 processing. The core should never try to send the headers
1198 down the filter stack. Always, just setup the table in the request
1199 record, and let the header filter convert it to data that is ready
1203 *) More fixes for the proxy. There are still bugs in the proxy code,
1204 but this has now proxied www.yahoo.com and www.ntrnet.net (my ISP)
1208 *) Fix params for apr_getaddrinfo() call in connect proxy handler.
1211 *) APR: Add new apr_getopt_long function to handle long options.
1212 [B. W. Fitzpatrick <fitz@red-bean.com>]
1214 *) APR: Change apr_connect() to take apr_sockaddr_t instead of hostname.
1215 Add generic apr_create_socket(). Add apr_getaddrinfo() for doing
1216 hostname resolution/address string parsing and building
1217 apr_sockaddr_t. Add apr_get_sockaddr() for getting the address
1218 of one of the apr_sockaddr_t structures for a socket. Change
1219 apr_bind() to take apr_sockaddr_t. [David Reid and Jeff Trawick]
1221 *) Remove the BUFF from the HTTP proxy. This is still a bit ugly, but
1222 I have proxied pages with it, cleanup will commence soon.
1225 *) Make the proxy work with filters. This isn't perfect, because we
1226 aren't dealing with the headers properly. [Ryan Bloom]
1228 *) Do not send a content-length iff the C-L is 0 and this is a head
1229 request. [Ryan Bloom]
1231 *) Make cgi-bin work as a regular directory when using mod_vhost_alias
1232 with no VirtualScriptAlias directives. PR#6829 [Tony Finch]
1234 *) Remove BUFF from the PROXY connect handling. [Ryan Bloom]
1236 *) Get the default_handler to stop trying to deal with HEAD requests.
1237 The idea is to let the content-length filter compute the C-L before
1238 we try to send the data. If we can get the C-L correctly, then we
1239 should send it in the HEAD response.
1242 *) The Header filter can now determine if a body should be sent based
1243 on r->header_only. The general idea of this is that if we delay
1244 deciding to send the body, then we might be able to compute the
1245 content-length correctly, which will help caching proxies to cache
1246 our data better. Any handler that doesn't want to try to compute
1247 the content-length can just send an EOS bucket without data and
1248 everything will just work.
1251 *) Add the referer to the error log if one is available.
1252 [Markus Gyger <mgyger@itr.ch>]
1254 *) Mod_info.c has now been ported to Apache 2.0. As a part of this
1255 change, the root of the configuration tree has been exposed to modules
1257 [Ryan Morgan <rmorgan@covalent.net>]
1259 *) Get the core_output_filter to use the bucket interface directly.
1260 This keeps us from calling the content-length filter multiple times
1261 for a simple static request.
1264 *) We are sending the content-type correctly now.
1265 [Ryan Bloom and Will Rowe]
1267 *) APR on FreeBSD: Fix a bug in apr_sendfile() which caused us to report
1268 a bogus bytes-sent value when the only thing being sent was trailers
1269 and writev() returned an error (or EAGAIN). [Jeff Trawick]
1271 *) Get SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT working again. This uses the
1272 hints file to determine which platforms define
1273 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
1276 *) APR: add apr_get_home_directory() [Jeff Trawick]
1278 *) Initial import of 1.3-current mod_proxy. [Chuck Murcko]
1280 *) Not all platforms have INADDR_NONE defined by default. Apache
1281 used to make this check and define INADDR_NONE if appropriate,
1282 but APR needs the check too, and I suspect other applications will
1283 as well. APR now defines APR_INADDR_NONE, which is always a valid
1284 value on all platforms.
1285 [Branko Èibej <brane@xbc.nu>]
1287 *) Destroy the pthread mutex in lock_intra_cleanup() for PR#6824.
1288 [Shuichi Kitaguchi <ki@hh.iij4u.or.jp>]
1290 *) Relax the syntax checking of Host: headers in order to support
1291 iDNS. PR#6635 [Tony Finch]
1293 *) When reading from file buckets we convert to an MMAP if it makes
1294 sense. This also simplifies the default handler because the
1295 default handler no longer needs to try to create MMAPs.
1298 *) BUFF has been removed from the main server. The BUFF code will remain
1299 in the code until it has been purged from the proxy module as well.
1302 *) Byteranges have been completely re-written to be a filter. This
1303 has been tested, and I believe it is working correctly, but it could
1304 doesn't work for the Adobe Acrobat plug-in. The output almost matches
1305 the output from 1.3, the only difference being that 1.3 includes
1306 a content-length in the response, and this does not.
1309 *) APR read/write functions and bucket read functions now operate
1310 on unsigned integers, instead of signed ones. It doesn't make
1311 any sense to use signed ints, because we return the error codes,
1312 so if we have an error we should report 0 bytes read or written.
1315 *) Always compute the content length, whether it is sent or not.
1316 The reason for this, is that it allows us to correctly report
1317 the bytes_sent when logging the request. This also simplifies
1318 content-length filter a bit, and fixes the actual byte-reporing
1319 code in mod_log_config.c
1322 *) Remove AP_END_OF_BRIGADE definition. This does not signify what
1323 it says, because it was only used by EOS and FLUSH buckets. Since
1324 neither of those are required at the end of a brigade, this was
1325 really signifying FLUSH_THE_DATA, but that can be determined better
1326 by checking AP_BUCKET_IS_EOS() or AP_BUCKET_IS_FLUSH. EOS and FLUSH
1327 buckets now return a length of 0, which is actually the amount of data
1328 read, so they make more sense.
1331 *) Allow the core_output_filter to save some data past the end of a
1332 request. If we get an EOS bucket, we only send the data if it
1333 makes sense to send it. This allows us to pipeline request
1334 responses. As a part of this, we also need to allocate mmap
1335 buckets out of the connection pool, not the request pool. This
1336 allows the mmap to outlive the request.
1339 *) Make blocking and non-blocking bucket reads work correctly for
1340 sockets and pipes. These are the only bucket types that should
1341 have non-blocking reads, because the other bucket types should
1342 ALWAYS be able to return something immediately.
1345 *) In the Apache/Win32 console window, accept Ctrl+C to stop the
1346 server, but use Ctrl+Break to initiate a graceful restart
1347 instead of duplicating behavior. [John Sterling]
1349 *) Patch mod_autoindex to set the Last-Modified header based on
1350 the directory's mtime, and add the ETag header. [William Rowe]
1352 *) Merge the 1.3 patch to add support for logging query string in
1353 such a way that "%m %U%q %H" is the same as "%r".
1356 *) Port three log methods from mod_log_config 1.3 to 2.0:
1357 CLF compliant '-' byte count, method and protocol.
1360 *) Add a new LogFormat directive, %c, that will log connection
1361 status at the end of the response as follows:
1362 'X' - connection aborted before the response completed.
1363 '+' - connection may be kept-alive by the server.
1364 '-' - connection will be closed by the server.
1367 *) Expand APR for WinNT to fully accept and return utf-8 encoded
1368 Unicode file names and paths for Win32, and tag the Content-Type
1369 from mod_autoindex to reflect that charset if the the feature
1370 macro APR_HAS_UNICODE_FS is true. [William Rowe]
1372 *) Compute the content length (and add appropriate header field) for
1373 the response when no content length is available and we can't use
1374 chunked encoding. [Jeff Trawick]
1376 *) Changed ap_discard_request_body() to use REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK,
1377 so that content input filters get dechunked data when using
1378 the default handler. Also removed REQUEST_CHUNKED_PASS.
1381 *) Add mod_ext_filter as an experimental module. This module allows
1382 the administrator to use external programs as filters. Currently,
1383 only filtering of output is supported. [Jeff Trawick]
1385 *) Most Apache functions work on EBCDIC machines again, as protocol
1386 data is now translated (again). [Jeff Trawick]
1388 *) Introduce ap_xlate_proto_{to|from}_ascii() to clean up some of
1389 the EBCDIC support. They are noops on ASCII machines, so this
1390 type of translation doesn't have to be surrounded by #ifdef
1391 CHARSET_EBCDIC. [Jeff Trawick]
1393 *) Fix mod_include. tag commands work again, and the server will
1394 send the FAQ again. This also allows mod_include to set aside
1395 buckets that include partial buckets.
1396 [Ryan Bloom and David Reid]
1398 *) Add suexec support back. [Manoj Kasichainula]
1400 *) Lingering close now uses the socket directly instead of using
1401 BUFF. This has been tested, but since all we can tell is that it
1402 doesn't fail, this needs to be really hacked on.
1405 *) Allow filters to modify headers and have those headers be sent to
1406 the client. The idea is that we have an http_header filter that
1407 actually sends the headers to the network. This removes the need
1408 for the BUFF to send headers.
1411 *) Charset translation: mod_charset_lite handles translation of
1412 request bodies. Get rid of the xlate version of ap_md5_digest()
1413 since we don't compute digests of filtered (e.g., translated)
1414 response bodies this way anymore. (Note that we don't do it at
1415 all at the present; somebody needs to write a filter to do so.)
1418 *) Input filters and ap_get_brigade() now have a input mode parameter
1419 (blocking, non-blocking, peek) instead of a length parameter.
1422 *) Update the mime.types file to the registered media types as
1423 of 2000-10-19. PR#6613 [Carsten Klapp <carsten.klapp@home.net>,
1426 *) Namespace protect some macros declared in ap_config.h
1429 *) Support HTTP header line folding with input filtering.
1432 *) Mod_include works again. This should still be re-written, but at
1433 least now we can serve an SHTML page again.
1436 *) Begin to remove BUFF from the core. Currently, we keep a pointer
1437 to both the BUFF and the socket in the conn_rec. Functions that
1438 want to use the BUFF can, functions that want to use the socket,
1439 can. They point to the same place.
1442 *) apr_psprintf doesn't understand %lld as a format. Make it %ld.
1443 [Tomas "Ögren" <stric@ing.umu.se>]
1445 *) APR pipes on Unix and Win32 are now cleaned up automatically when the
1446 associated pool goes away. (APR pipes on OS/2 were already had this
1447 logic.) This resolvs a fatal file descriptor leak with CGIs.
1450 *) The final line of the config file was not being read if there was
1451 no \n at the end of it. This was caused by apr_fgets returning
1452 APR_EOF even though we had read valid data. This is solved by
1453 making cfg_getline check the buff that was returned from apr_fgets.
1454 If apr_fgets return APR_EOF, but there was data in the buf, then we
1455 return the buf, otherwise we return NULL.
1458 *) Piped logs work again in the 2.0 series.
1461 *) Restore functionality broken by the mod_rewrite security fix:
1462 rewrite map lookup keys and default values are now expanded
1463 so that the lookup can depend on the requested URI etc.
1464 PR #6671 [Tony Finch]
1466 *) Tighten up the syntax checking of Host: headers to fix a
1467 security bug in some mass virtual hosting configurations
1468 that can allow a remote attacker to retrieve some files
1469 on the system that should be inaccessible. [Tony Finch]
1471 *) Add a pool bucket type. This bucket is used for data allocated out
1472 of a pool. If the pool is cleaned before the bucket is destroyed, then
1473 the data is converted to a heap bucket, allowing it to survive the
1477 *) Add a flush bucket. This allows modules to signal that the filters
1478 should all flush whatever data they currently have. There is no way
1479 to actually force them to do this, so if a filter ignores this bucket,
1480 that's life, but at least we can try with this.
1483 *) Add an output filter for sub-requests. This filter just strips the
1484 EOS bucket so that we don't confuse the main request's core output
1485 filter by sending multiple EOS buckets. This change also makes sub
1486 requests start to send EOS buckets when they are finished.
1489 *) Make ap_bucket_(read|destroy|split|setaside) into macros. Also
1490 makes ap_bucket_destroy a return void, which is okay because it
1491 used to always return APR_SUCCESS, and nobody ever checked its
1492 return value anyway.
1493 [Cliff Woolley <cliffwoolley@yahoo.com>]
1495 *) Remove the index into the bucket-type table from the buckets
1496 structure. This has now been replaced with a pointer to the
1497 bucket_type. Also add some macros to test the bucket-type.
1500 *) Renamed all MODULE_EXPORT symbols to AP_MODULE_DECLARE and all symbols
1501 for CORE_EXPORT to AP_CORE_DECLARE (namespace protecting the wrapper)
1502 and retitled API_EXPORT as AP_DECLARE and APR_EXPORT as APR_DECLARE.
1503 All _VAR_ flavors changes to _DATA to be absolutely clear.
1506 *) Add support for /, //, //servername and //server/sharename
1507 parsing of <Directory> blocks under Win32 and OS2.
1508 [Tim Costello, William Rowe, Brian Harvard]
1510 *) Remove the function pointers from the ap_bucket type. They have been
1511 replaced with a global table. Modules are allowed to register bucket
1512 types and use then use those buckets.
1515 *) mod_cgid: In the handler, shut down the Unix socket (only for write)
1516 once we finish writing the request body to the cgi child process;
1517 otherwise, the client doesn't hit EOF on stdin. Small request bodies
1518 worked without this change (for reasons I don't understand), but large
1519 ones didn't. [Jeff Trawick]
1521 *) Remove file bucket specific information from the ap_bucket type.
1522 This has been moved to a file_bucket specific type that hangs off
1523 the data pointer in the ap_bucket type.
1526 *) Input filtering now has a third argument. This is the amount of data
1527 to read from lower filters. This argument can be -1, 0, or a positive
1528 number. -1 means give me all the data you have, I'll deal with it and
1529 let you know if I need more. 0 means give me one line and one line
1530 only. A positive number means I want no more than this much data.
1532 Currently, only 0 and a positive number are implemented. This allows
1533 us to remove the remaining field from the conn_rec structure, which
1537 *) Big cleanup of the input filtering. The goal is that http_filter
1538 understands two conditions, headers and body. It knows where it is
1539 based on c->remaining. If c->remaining is 0, then we are in headers,
1540 and http_filter returns a line at a time. If it is not 0, then we are
1541 in body, and http_filter returns raw data, but only up to c->remaining
1542 bytes. It can return less, but never more.
1543 [Greg Ames, Ryan Bloom, Jeff Trawick]
1545 *) mod_cgi: Write all of the request body to the child, not just what
1546 the kernel would accept on the first write. [Jeff Trawick]
1548 *) Back out the change that moved the brigade from the core_output_filters
1549 ctx to the conn_rec. Since all requests over a given connection
1550 go through the same core_output_filter, the ctx pointer has the
1554 *) Fix another bug in the send_the_file() read/write loop. A partial
1555 send by apr_send would cause unsent data in the read buffer to
1556 get clobbered. Complete making send_the_file handle partial
1557 writes to the network.
1560 *) Fix a couple of type fixes to allow compilation on AIX again
1561 [Victor J. Orlikowski <v.j.orlikowski@gte.net>]
1563 *) Fix bug in send_the_file() which causes offset to be ignored
1564 if there are no headers to send.
1567 *) Handle APR_ENOTIMPL returned from apr_sendfile in the core
1568 filter. Useful for supporting Windows 9* with a binary
1569 compiled on Windows NT.
1572 Changes with Apache 2.0a7
1574 *) Reimplement core_output_filter to buffer/save bucket brigades
1575 across multiple calls to the core_filter. The brigade will be
1576 sent when either MIN_BYTES_TO_SEND or MAX_IOVEC_TO_WRITE
1577 thresholds are hit or the EOS bucket is received.
1580 *) Create experimental filter (buffer_filter) that coalesces bytes
1581 into one large buffer before invoking the next filter in the
1582 chain. This filter is particularly useful with the current
1583 implementation of mod_autoindex when it inserted above the
1584 chunk_filter. mod_autoindex generates a lot of brigades that
1585 containing buckets holding just a few bytes each. The
1586 buffer_filter coalesces these buckets into a single large bucket.
1589 *) Add apr_sendfile() support into the core_output_filter.
1592 *) Add apr_sendv() support into the core_output_filter.
1595 *) Fix mod_log_config so that it compiles cleanly with BUFFERED_LOGS
1596 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
1598 *) Remove ap_send_fb. This is no longer used in Apache, and it doesn't
1599 make much sense, because Apache uses buckets instead of BUFFs now.
1602 *) send_the_file now falls back to a read/write loop on platforms that
1603 do not have sendfile.
1604 [Ryan Bloom and Brian Havard]
1606 *) Install apachectl correctly, and substitute the proper values so
1607 that it works again. [Ryan Bloom]
1609 *) Better(??) handle platforms that lack sendfile().
1612 *) APR now has UUID generation/formatting/parsing support.
1615 *) Begin the http_filter. This is an input filter that understands
1616 the absolute basic amount required to parse an HTTP Request. The
1617 goal is to be able to split headers from request body before passing
1618 the data back to the other filters.
1621 *) Bring forward from 1.3.13 the config directory implementation
1624 *) install apxs if it is created
1627 *) Added APR_IS_STATUS_condition test macros to eliminate canonical error
1628 conversions. [William Rowe]
1630 *) Now that we have ap_add_input_filter(), rename ap_add_filter() to
1631 ap_add_output_filter(). [Jeff Trawick]
1633 *) Multiple build and configuration fixes
1636 -add datadir and localstatedir substitutions
1638 -fix logfilename misspelling
1639 -fix evaluation of installation dir variables and
1640 -replace $foobar by $(foobar) to be usefull in the makefile
1644 -add rules for cross-compiling in rules.mk. Okay, rule to check for
1645 $CC_FOR_BUILD is still missing
1646 -use CHECK_TOOL instead of CHECK_PROG for ranlib
1647 -add missing "AR=@AR@" to severaly Makefile.in's
1648 -cache result for "struct rlimit"
1649 -compile all helper programs with native and cross compiler
1650 and use the native version to generate header file
1651 ["Rüdiger" Kuhlmann <Tadu@gmx.de>]
1653 *) Prepare our autoconf setup for autoconf 2.14a and for cross-
1655 ["Rüdiger" Kuhlmann <Tadu@gmx.de>]
1657 *) Fix a bug where a client which only sends \n to delimit header
1658 lines (netcat) gets a strange looking HTTP_NOT_IMPLEMENTED
1659 message. Start working on ebcdic co-existance with input
1661 [William Rowe, Greg Ames]
1663 *) If mod_so is enabled in the server always create libexec, even
1664 if there are no modules installed in this directory. This is a
1665 requirement for APXS to work correctly.
1668 *) Connection oriented output filters are now stored in the
1669 conn_rec instead of the request_rec. This allows us to add the
1670 output filter in the pre-connection phase instead of the
1671 post_read_request phase, which keeps us from trying to write an
1672 error page before we have a filter to write to the network.
1673 [Ryan Bloom, Jeff Trawick, and Greg Ames]
1675 *) Cleaning up an mmap bucket no longer deletes the mmap. An
1676 mmap can be used across multiple buckets (default_handler with
1677 byte ranges, mod_file_cache, mod_mmap_static), so cleanup of
1678 the mmap itself can't be associated with the bucket.
1681 *) Add .dll caching directive ISAPICacheFile to mod_isapi.
1684 *) Radical surgery to improve mod_isapi support under Win32.
1685 Includes a number of newer ServerSupportFunction calls, support
1686 for ReadClient (in order to retrieve POSTs greater than 48KB),
1687 and general bug fixes to more reliably load ISAPI .dll's and
1688 prevent leaking handle resources. Note: There are still
1689 discrepancies between IIS's and Apache's ServerVariables, and
1690 async calls are still not supported. Additional warnings are
1691 logged to facilitate debugging of unsupported ISAPI calls.
1694 *) Add input filtering to Apache. The basic idea for the input
1695 filters is the same as the ideas for output filters. The biggest
1696 difference is that instead of calling ap_pass_brigade, ap_get_brigade
1697 should be called, and the order of execution for the filter itself is
1698 different. When writing an output filter, a brigade is passed in,
1699 and filters operate directly on that brigade, when done, they call
1700 ap_pass_brigade. Input filters are the exact opposite. Because input
1701 is not a push operation, filters first call ap_get_brigade. When this
1702 function returns, the input filter will be left with a valid brigade.
1703 The input filter should then operate on the brigade, and return.
1706 *) Fix building on BSD/OS using its native make. The build system
1707 falls back to the BSD .include directive on that host platform.
1710 *) Expand dbmmanage to allow -d -m -s -p options for Crypt, MD5,
1711 SHA1 and plaintext password encodings. Make feature tests a
1712 bit more flexible. [William Rowe]
1714 *) Charset translation: mod_charset_lite handles output content
1715 translation in a filter. mod_charset_lite no longer ignores
1716 subrequests. A bunch of cruft related to BUFF's support for
1717 translating request and response bodies was removed.
1720 *) Move the addition of the CORE filter to the post_read_request
1721 hook in http_core.c. This removes the need to add the filter in
1722 multiple places and allows for an SSL module to be added much
1723 simpler. [Ryan Bloom]
1725 *) Fix a security problem that affects certain configurations of
1726 mod_rewrite. If the result of a RewriteRule is a filename that
1727 contains expansion specifiers, especially regexp backreferences
1728 $0..$9 and %0..%9, then it may be possible for an attacker to
1729 access any file on the web server. [Tony Finch]
1731 *) Fix a bug where errors that are detected during early request parsing
1732 don't produce visible HTTP error messages at the browser, because
1733 the core_filter wasn't present. [Greg Ames]
1735 *) Provide apr_socklen_t as a portability aid.
1736 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
1738 *) Overhaul of dbmmanage to allow a groups arg (as in Apache 1.2)
1739 as well as a comment arg to the add, adduser and update cmds.
1740 update allows the user to clear or preserve pw/groups/comment.
1741 Fixed a bug in dbmmanage that prevented the check option from
1742 parsing a password followed by :group... text. Corrected the
1743 seed calcualation for Win32 systems, and added -lsdbm support.
1746 *) Configured mod_auth_dbm to compile with sdbmlib under Win32.
1749 *) Avoid a segfault when parsing .htaccess files. An
1750 uninitialized tree pointer was passed to ap_build_config().
1753 *) Change the way that inet_addr & inet_network are checked for
1754 in APR's configure process to allow BeOS BONE to correctly
1755 find them. With this change BeOS BONE now builds from source
1756 with no problems. [David Reid]
1758 *) Fix a bug in apr_create_process() for Unix. The NULL signifying
1759 the end of the parameters to execve() was stored in the wrong
1760 location, overlaying the storage beyond the newargs[] array and
1761 also passing uninitialized storage to execve(), which would
1762 sometimes fail with EFAULT. [Jeff Trawick]
1764 *) Fix a bug parsing configuration file containers. With a sequence
1765 like this in the config file
1767 <IfModule mod_kilroy.c>
1770 <IfModule mod_lovejoy.c>
1775 the second container would be terminated at the blank line due to
1776 sediment in the buffer from reading the prior </IfModule> and an
1777 error message would be generated for the real </IfModule> for the
1778 second container. Also due to this problem, any two characters
1779 could be used for "</" in the close of a container.
1782 *) ap_add_filter prototype changed to remove the ctx pointer. The
1783 pointer still remains in the filter structure, but it can not be
1784 a part of the ap_add_filter prototype. The reason is that when
1785 the core uses AddFilter to add a filter to the stack it doesn't
1786 know how to allocate the ctx pointer, or even how much memory should
1787 be allocated. The filters will have to be responsible for allocating
1788 the ctx memory when they need it.
1791 *) Add an AddFilter directive. This directive takes a list of filters
1792 that should be activated for the requested resource.
1795 *) apr_snprintf(): Get quad format strings working on OS/390 (and perhaps
1796 some other platforms). [Jeff Trawick]
1798 *) Modify mod_include to be a filter. Currently, it has only been tested
1799 on actual files, but it should work for CGI scripts too.
1802 *) apr_putc(), apr_puts() for Unix: handle buffered files and interrupted
1803 writes. apr_flush() for Unix: handle interrupted writes.
1806 *) NameVirtualHost can now take "*" as an argument instead of
1807 an IP address. This allows you to create a purely name-based
1808 virtual hosting server that does not have any IP addresses in
1809 the configuration file and which ignores the local address
1810 of any connections. PR #5595, PR #4455 [Tony Finch]
1812 *) Fix some compile warnings in mod_mmap_static.c
1813 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
1815 *) Fix chunking problem with CGI scripts. The general problem was that
1816 the CGI modules were adding an EOS bucket and then the core added an
1817 EOS bucket. The chunking filter finalizes the chunked response when it
1818 encounters an EOS bucket. Because two EOS buckets were sent, we
1819 finalized the response twice. The fix is to make sure we only send one
1820 EOS, by utilizing a flag in the request_rec.
1823 *) apr_put_os_file() now sets up the unget byte appropriately on Unix
1824 and Win32. Previously, the first read from an apr_file_t set up via
1825 apr_put_os_file() would return a '\0'. [Jeff Trawick]
1827 *) Mod_cgid now creates a single element bucket brigade, with a pipe
1828 bucket, instead of using BUFF's and ap_r*.
1831 *) APRVARS.in no longer overwrites the EXTRA_LIBS variable.
1832 [Mike Abbott <mja@sgi.com>]
1834 *) Remove ap_bopenf from buff code. This required modifying the file_cache
1835 code to use APR file's directly instead of going through BUFFs.
1838 *) Fix compile break on some platforms for mod_mime_magic.c
1839 [John K. Sterling <sterling@covalent.net>]
1841 *) Fix merging of AddDefaultCharset directive.
1842 PR #5872 (1.3) [Jun Kuriyama <kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp>]
1844 *) Minor revamp of the rlimit sections of code. We now test
1845 explicitly for setrlimit and getrlimit. Also, unixd_set_rlimit()
1846 is now "available" even if the platform doesn't support
1847 the rlimit family (it's just a noop though). [Jim Jagielski]
1849 *) Migrate the pre-selection of which MPM to use for specific
1850 platforms to hints.m4, which contains (or should contain)
1851 all platform specific "hints". [Jim Jagielski]
1853 *) Remove IOLs from Apache. With filtering, IOLs are no longer necessary
1856 *) Add tables with non-string/binary values to APR.
1859 *) Fix some bad calls to ap_log_rerror() in mod_rewrite.
1862 *) Update PCRE to version 3.2. [Ryan Bloom]
1864 *) Change the way buckets' destroy functions are called so that
1865 they can be more directly used when changing the type of a
1866 bucket in place. [Tony Finch]
1868 *) Add generic support for reference-counting the resources used by
1869 buckets, and alter the HEAP and MMAP buckets to use it. Change
1870 the way buckets are initialised to support changing the type of
1871 buckets in place, and use it when setting aside TRANSIENT buckets.
1872 Change the implementation of TRANSIENT buckets so that it can be
1873 mostly shared with IMMORTAL buckets, which are now implemented.
1876 Changes with Apache 2.0a6
1878 *) Add support to Apache and APR for dsos on OS/390. [Greg Ames]
1880 *) Add a chunking filter to Apache. This brings us one step closer
1881 to removing BUFF. [Ryan Bloom]
1883 *) ap_add_filter now adds filters in a LIFO fashion. The first filter
1884 added to the stack is the last filter to be called. [Ryan Bloom]
1886 *) Apache 2.0 has been completely documented using Scandoc. The
1887 docs can be generated by running 'make docs'. [Ryan Bloom]
1889 *) Add filtered I/O to Apache. This is based on bucket brigades,
1890 Currently the buckets still use BUFF under the covers, but that
1891 should change quickly. The only currently written filter is the
1892 core filter which just calls ap_bwrite. [The Apache Group]
1894 *) APR locks on Unix: Let APR_LOCKALL locks work when APR isn't
1895 built with thread support. [Jeff Trawick]
1897 *) Abort configuration if --with-layout was specified and there's
1898 no layout definition file. [Ken Coar]
1900 *) Add support for '--with-port=n' option to configure. [Ken Coar]
1902 *) Add support for extension methods for the Allow response header
1903 field, and an API routine for accessing r->allowed and the
1904 list of extension methods in a unified manner. [Ken Coar]
1906 *) mod_cern_meta: fix broken file reading loop in scan_meta_file().
1907 [Rob Simonson <simo@us.ibm.com>]
1909 *) Get xlate builds working again. The apr renaming in 2.0a5 broke
1910 APACHE_XLATE builds. [Jeff Trawick]
1912 *) A configuration file parsing problem was fixed. When the
1913 configuration file started with an IfModule/IfDefine container,
1914 only the last statement in the container would be retained.
1917 Changes with Apache 2.0a5
1919 *) Perchild is serving pages after passing them to different child
1920 processes. There are still a lot of bugs, but this does work. I
1921 have made requests against the same installation of Apache, and had
1922 different servers use different user IDs to serve the responses.
1923 This change moves to using socketpair instead of an AF_UNIX socket.
1926 *) Perchild MPM still doesn't work perfectly, but it is serving pages.
1927 It can't seem to pass between child processes yet, but I think we
1928 are closer now than before. This moves us back to using Unix
1929 Domain Sockets. [Ryan Bloom]
1931 *) libapr functions and types renamed with apr_ prefix.
1932 #include "apr_compat.h" for 1.3.x backwards compat
1935 *) Fix problems with APR sockaddr handling on Win32. It didn't always
1936 return the right information on the local socket address.
1937 [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
1939 *) ap_recv() on Win32: Set bytes-read to 0 on error.
1940 [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
1942 *) Add an option to not detach from the controlling terminal without
1943 going into single process mode. This allows for much easier
1944 debugging of the process startup code. [Ryan Bloom]
1946 *) ab: don't use perror() to report the failure of an APR function.
1949 *) Make dexter, mpmt_pthread, and perchild MPMs not destroy the
1950 scoreboard on graceful restarts.
1953 *) Fix segfault/SIGSEGV when running gzip from mod_mime_magic.c.
1954 An invalid ap_proc_t was passed to ap_create_process().
1957 *) Allow modules to register filters. Those filters are still
1958 never called, but this is a step in the right direction.
1959 [Ryan Bloom and Greg Stein]
1961 *) Register the mod_cgid daemon process for cleanup so that it is
1962 killed at termination if it does not die when the parent gets
1963 SIGTERM. This change is to fix occasional problems where the
1964 process stays around. Bugs in similar logic in mod_rewrite and
1965 mod_include were also fixed. [Jeff Trawick]
1967 *) Fix a bug in the time handling. Basically, we were imploding a time
1968 in ap_parseHTTPdate, but it had bogus data in the exploded time format.
1969 Namely, tm_usec and tm_gmtoff were not filled out. ap_implode_time
1970 uses those two fields to adjust the time value. Because of the HTTP
1971 spec, both of those values can be zero'ed out safely. This fixes
1972 the bug correctly. [Ryan Bloom]
1974 *) Fix a couple of place in the Windows code where the wrong error
1975 code was being returned. [Gregory Nicholls <gnicholls@level8.com>]
1977 *) Fix POOL_DEBUG (at least for prefork mpm). [Dean Gaudet]
1979 *) Added the APR_EOL_STR macro for platform dependent differences in
1980 logfiles and other raw text (such as all APR files). Fixes logfiles
1981 not terminated with cr/lf sequences in Win32. [William Rowe]
1983 *) Move all strings functions in APR to src/lib/apr/strings and create
1984 apr_strings.h for the prototypes. [Ryan Bloom]
1986 *) APR lock fixes: when using SysV sems, flock(), or fcntl(), be sure
1987 to repeat the syscall until we stop getting EINTR. I noticed a
1988 related problem at termination (SIGTERM) on FreeBSD when using
1989 fcntl(). Apache 1.3 had these new loops too. Also, make the flock()
1990 implementation work properly with child init. Previously, ap_lock()
1991 was essentially a no-op because all children were using different
1992 locks and thus nobody ever blocked. [Jeff Trawick]
1994 *) The htdocs/ tree has been moved out of the CVS source tree into
1995 a separate area for easier development. This has NO EFFECT on
1996 end-users or Apache installations. [Ken Coar]
1998 *) Integrate the mod_dav module for WebDAV protocol handling. This
1999 adds the dav and dav_fs modules, the SDBM library, and additional
2000 XML handling utilities. [Greg Stein]
2002 *) Clean out obsolete names (from httpd.h) for the HTTP Status Codes
2005 *) Update the lib/expat-lite/ library (bring forward changes from
2006 the Apache 1.3 repository). [Greg Stein]
2008 *) If sizeof(long long) == sizeof(long), then prefer long in APR
2009 configure.in. [Dave Hill <ddhill@zk3.dec.com>]
2011 *) Add ap_sendfile for Tru64 Unix. Also, add an error message for
2012 machines where sendfile is detected, but nobody has written ap_sendfile.
2013 [Dave Hill <ddhill@zk3.dec.com>]
2015 *) Compile fixes in mod_mmap_static. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
2017 *) ab would start up more connections than needed, then quit when the
2018 desired number were finished. Also fixed a logic error involving
2019 ab keepalives. [Victor J. Orlikowski]
2021 *) WinNT: Implement non-blocking pipes with timeouts to communicate
2022 with CGIs. Apache 2.0a4 had non-blocking pipes but without
2023 timeouts (i.e, if a timeout was specified, the pipe reverted to
2024 a full blocking pipe). Now the behaviour is more in line with
2025 Unix non-blocking pipes.
2028 *) WinNT: Implement accept socket reuse. Using mod_file_cache to
2029 cache open file handles along with accept socket reuse enables
2030 Apache 2.0 to serve non-keepalive requests for static files at
2031 3x the rate of Apache 1.3.(e.g, Apache 1.3 will serve 400 rps
2032 and Apache 2.0 will serve almost 1200 rps on my system).
2035 *) Merge mod_mmap_static function into mod_file_cache. mod_file_cache
2036 supports two config directives, mmapfile (same behavious as
2037 mod_mmap_static) and cachefile. Use the cachefile directive
2038 to cache open file handles. This directive only works on systems
2039 that have implemented the ap_sendfile API. cachefile works today
2040 on Windows NT, but has not been tested on any flavors of Unix.
2043 *) Cleanup the configuration. With the last few changes the
2044 configuration process automatically:
2045 inherits information about how to build from APR. Allowing
2046 APR to inform Apache that it should or should not use -ldl
2048 Detects which mod_cgi should be used mod_cgi or mod_cgid,
2049 based on the threading model
2051 Apache calls APR's configure process before finishing it's
2052 configuration processing, allowing for more information flow
2057 *) Change Unix and Win32 ap_setsockopt() so that APR_SO_NONBLOCK
2058 with non-zero argument makes the socket non-blocking. BeOS and
2059 OS/2 already worked this way. [Jeff Trawick]
2061 *) ap_close() now calls ap_flush() for buffered files, so write
2062 operations work a whole lot better on buffered files.
2065 *) Fix error messages issued from MPMs which explain where to change
2066 compiled-in limits (e.g., ThreadsPerChild, MaxClients, StartTreads).
2069 *) ap_create_pipe() now leaves pipes in blocking state. (This helps
2070 reduce the number of syscalls on Unix.) ap_set_pipe_timeout() is
2071 now the way that the blocking state of a pipe is manipulated.
2072 ap_block_pipe() is gone. [Jeff Trawick]
2074 *) Correct the problem where the only local host name that the IP stack
2075 can discover are 'undotted' private names. If no fully qualified
2076 domain name can be identified, the default ServerName will be set to
2077 the machine's IP address string. A warning is always provided if the
2078 ServerName not specified, but assumed. Solves PR6215 [William Rowe]
2080 *) Repair problems with config file processing which caused segfault
2081 at init when virtual hosts were defined and which caused ServerName to
2082 be ignored when there was no valid DNS setup. [Jeff Trawick]
2084 *) Removed pointless ap_is_aborted macro function. [Roy Fielding]
2086 *) Add ap_sendfile implementation for AIX
2087 [Victor J. Orlikowski]
2089 *) Repair C++ compatibility in ap_config.h, apr_file_io.h,
2090 apr_network_io.h, and apr_thread_proc.h.
2091 [Tyler J. Brooks <tylerjbrooks@home.com>, Jeff Trawick]
2093 *) Bring the allocation and pool debugging code back into a working
2094 state. This will need to be tested as so far it's only been used on
2097 *) Change configuration command setup to be properly typesafe when in
2098 maintainer mode. Note that this requires a compiler that can initialise
2099 unions. [Ben Laurie]
2101 *) Turn on buffering for config file reads. Part of this was to
2102 repair buffered I/O support in Unix and implement buffered
2103 ap_fgets() for all platforms. [Brian Havard, Jeff Trawick]
2105 *) Win32: Fix problem where UTC offset was not being set correctly
2106 in the access log. Problem reported on news group by Jerry Baker.
2109 *) Fix segfault when reporting this type of syntax error:
2110 "</container> without matching <container> section", where
2111 container is VirtualHost or Directory or whatever.
2114 *) Prevent the source code for CGIs from being revealed when using
2115 mod_vhost_alias and the CGI directory is under the document root
2116 and a user makes a request like http://www.example.com//cgi-bin/cgi
2117 as reported in <news:960999105.344321@ernani.logica.co.uk>
2120 *) Add support for the new Beos NetwOrking Environment (BONE)
2123 *) xlate: ap_xlate_conv_buffer() now tells the caller when the
2124 final input char is incomplete; ap_bwrite_xlate() now handles
2125 incomplete final input chars. [Jeff Trawick]
2127 *) Yet another update to saferead/halfduplex stuff -- need to ensure
2128 that a bhalfduplex call occurs before logging or else DNS and
2129 such can delay the last packet of the response. [Dean Gaudet]
2131 *) Some syscall reduction in APR on unix -- don't seek when setting
2132 up an mmap; and don't fcntl() more than once per socket.
2135 *) When mod_cgid is started as root, the cgi daemon now switches
2136 to the configured User/Group (like other httpd processes)
2137 instead of continuing as root. [Jeff Trawick]
2139 *) The prefork MPM now uses an APR lock for the accept() mutex.
2140 It has not been getting a lock at all recently. httpd -V now
2141 displays APR's selection of the lock mechanism instead of the
2142 symbols previously respected by prefork. [Jeff Trawick]
2144 *) Change the mmap() feature test to check only for existence.
2145 The previous check required features not used by Apache.
2148 *) Fix a couple of bugs in mod_cgid: The cgi arguments were
2149 sometimes mangled. The len parm to accept() was not
2150 initialized, leading sometimes to an endless loop of failed
2151 accept() calls on OS/390 and anywhere else that failed the call
2152 if the len was negative. Use <sys/un.h> for struct sockaddr_un
2153 instead of declaring it ourselves to fix a compilation problem
2154 on Solaris. [Jeff Trawick]
2156 *) Add Resource limiting code back into Apache 2.0. [Ryan Bloom]
2158 *) Fix zombie process problem with mod_cgi. [Jeff Trawick]
2160 *) Port mod_mmap_static to 2.0. Make it go faster. [Greg Ames]
2162 *) Fix storage overlay when loading dsos. Symptom: Apache dies at
2163 initialization if ALLOC_DEBUG is defined; no known symptom
2164 otherwise. [Jeff Trawick]
2166 *) Fix typo in configure script when checking for mod_so. bash
2167 doesn't seem to have a problem but /bin/sh on Solaris does.
2168 Symptom: "./configure: test: unknown operator =="
2171 *) Rebind the Win32 NT and 9x services control into the MPM.
2172 All console, WinNT SCM and Win9x pseudo-service control code is
2173 now wrapped within the WinNT MPM.
2176 *) Make a copy of getenv("PATH") before storing for later use. Some
2177 getenv() implementations use the same storage for successive calls.
2178 CGIs on OS/390 had a bad PATH due to this. [Jeff Trawick]
2180 *) Server Tokens work in 2.0 again. This also propogates the change
2181 to allow just the product name in the server string using
2185 Changes with Apache 2.0a4
2187 *) EBCDIC: Rearrange calls to ap_checkconv() so that most handlers
2188 won't need to call it. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
2190 *) Move pre_config hook call to between configuration read and config
2191 tree walk. This allows all modules to implement pre_config hooks
2192 and know that they will be called at an appropriate time.
2195 *) mod_cgi, mod_cgid: Make ScriptLog directive work again.
2198 *) Add pre-config hooks back to all modules.
2201 *) Fix a SIGSEGV in ap_md5digest(), which is used when you have
2202 ContentDigest enabled and we can't/don't mmap the file.
2205 *) We now report the correct line number for syntax errors in config
2206 files. [Ryan Bloom, Greg Stein, Jeff Trawick]
2208 *) Brought mod_auth_digest up to synch with 1.3, fixed ap_time_t-
2209 related bugs, and changed shmem/locking to use apr API. Shared-mem
2210 is currently disabled, however, because of problems with graceful
2211 restarts. [Ronald Tschalär]
2213 *) Fix corruption of IFS variable in --with-module= handling.
2214 Depending on the user's shell or customization thereof, there
2215 would be errors generating ap_config_auto.h later in the configure
2216 procedure. [Jeff Trawick]
2218 *) mod_cgi: Restore logging of stderr from child process when ScriptLog
2219 isn't used (as in 1.3), except that on Unix it is now logged via
2220 ap_log_rerror() instead of by the child having STDERR_FILENO refer
2221 to the error log. [Greg Ames, Jeff Trawick]
2223 *) Add '-D' argument processing for run time configuration defines.
2226 *) Organize http_main.c as independent code, such that no code or
2227 global data is exported from it. WIN32 will dynamically link it
2228 to the server core, so this will prevent mutual dependency.
2231 *) Add separate dynamic linkage tags APR_EXPORT(), APR_EXPORT_NONSTD()
2232 and APR_VAR_EXPORT to correctly resolve apr functions and globals.
2235 *) Add Win9x service execution and Ctrl+C/Ctrl+Break/Shutdown handlers.
2236 [William Rowe, Jan Just Keijser <KEIJSERJJ@logica.com>]
2238 *) Add mod_charset_lite for configuring character set translation.
2241 *) Add '-n' option to htpasswd to make it print its user:pw record
2242 on stdout rather than having to frob a text file. [Ken Coar]
2244 *) Fix saferead. Basically, we flush the output buffer if a read on the
2248 *) APR: Add ap_xlate_get_sb() so that an app can find out whether or not
2249 a conversion is single-byte only. [Jeff Trawick]
2251 *) BEOS: ap_shutdown should return APR_SUCCESS or errno. Note that
2252 the BeOS 5.0 documentation says that shutdown doesn't work yet.
2255 *) Fix some minor errors where pid was being manipulated as an int
2256 instead of the portable pid_t. [Roy Fielding]
2258 *) Fix some error log prints that were printing the pointer to a
2259 structure rather than the pid within the structure.
2260 [Jeff Trawick, Roy Fielding]
2262 *) ab: Fix a command-line processing bug; track bad headers in
2263 err_response; support reading headers up to 2K.
2264 [Ask Bjoern Hansen <ask@valueclick.com>]
2266 *) Fix ap_resolve_env() so that it handles new function added in a prior
2267 alpha (see "Added the capability to do ${ENVVAR} constructs in the
2268 config file.") as well as the constructs used by mod_rewrite.
2269 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2271 *) Apache 2.0 builds and runs on OS/390. [Jeff Trawick, Greg Ames]
2273 *) Change the EBCDIC support in functions for MD5, SHA1, and base 64 to use
2274 APR to perform translation, instead of accessing the hard-coded tables
2275 in 1.3's ebcdic.c. [Jeff Trawick]
2277 *) Fix some bugs (mostly lost 1.3 code) in ab's command-line processing.
2280 *) Add the ability to hook into the config file reading phase. Basically
2281 if a directive is specified EXEC_ON_READ, then when that directive is
2282 read from the config file, the assocaited function is executed. This
2283 should only be used for those directives that must muck with HOW the
2284 server INTERPRETS the config. This should not be used for directives
2285 that re-order or replace items in the config tree. Those changes should
2286 be made in the pre-config step.
2289 *) Add mod_example to the build system.
2292 *) APR: Add ap_xlate_conv_byte() to convert one char between single-
2293 byte character sets. [Jeff Trawick]
2295 *) Pick up various EBCDIC fixes from 1.3 (from Martin
2296 Kraemer and Oliver Reh originally according to the change log).
2299 *) Fix a couple of problems in RFC1413 support (controlled by the
2300 IdentityCheck directive). Apache did not build the request string
2301 properly and more importantly Apache would loop forever if the
2302 would-be ident server dropped the connection before sending a
2303 properly terminated response. [Jeff Trawick]
2305 *) apxs works in 2.0.
2308 *) Reliable piped logs work in 2.0.
2311 *) Introduce a hash table implementation into APR to be used for
2312 replacing tables and other random data structures in Apache.
2315 *) Add some more error reporting to htpasswd in the case of problems
2316 generating or accessing the temporary file. Also, pass in a
2317 buffer if the implementation knows how to use it (i.e., if L_tmpnam
2318 is defined). [Ken Coar]
2320 *) Configure creates config.nice now containing your configure
2321 options. Syntax: ./config.nice [--more-options]
2324 *) Fix various return code problems in APR on Win32. For most of
2325 these, APR was returning APR_EEXIST instead of GetLastError()/
2326 WSAGetLastError(). [Jeff Trawick]
2328 *) Make piped logs work again in version 2.0
2331 *) Add VPATH support to UNIX build system of Apache and APR.
2334 *) Fix ap_tokenize_to_argv to respect the const arguments that are
2338 *) Fix mm's memcpy/memset macros, pointer arithmetic was broken.
2339 Patch submitted to author.
2342 *) Fix mm configuration on Solaris 8 x86 and OS/390. Don't require
2343 /sbin in PATH on FreeBSD (all submitted to rse previously)
2346 *) Fix building Pthread-based MPMs on OpenBSD
2347 [Sascha Schumann] PR#26
2349 *) Fix ap_readdir() problem on systems where d_name[] field in
2350 struct dirent is declared with only one byte. (This problem only
2351 affected multithreaded builds.) This caused a segfault during
2352 pool cleanup with mod_autoindex on Solaris (Solaris 8 x86, at
2353 least). [Jeff Trawick]
2355 *) Fix some make-portability problems on at least Tru64, Irix
2357 [Sascha Schumann] PR#18, PR#39
2359 *) Add ap_sigwait() to support old-style sigwait() on systems
2360 like OS/390 and UnixWare.
2363 *) Add POSIX-thread flags for more platforms.
2366 *) Fix some minor bugs in ap_strerror(). Teach ap_strerror()
2367 (on Unix, at least) to handle resolver errors. Fix a bug in
2368 the definition of APR_ENOMEM so that ap_strerror() can spit
2369 out the correct error message for it.
2372 Changes with Apache 2.0a3
2374 *) mod_so reports ap_os_dso_error() if ap_dso_load() fails
2377 *) API: *HOOK* macros now have an AP_ prefix
2380 *) Win32: Eliminate redundant calls to initialize winsock.
2381 [Tim Costello <timcostello@ozemail.com.au>]
2383 *) Fix bugs initializing ungetchar for pipes.
2384 [Chia-liang Kao <clkao@CirX.ORG>]
2386 *) The ab program in the src/support directory is now portable using
2390 *) Support directory is being compiled when the server is built
2393 *) The configure option --with-program-name has been added to allow
2394 developers to rename the executable at configure time. This also
2395 changes the name of the config files to match the executable's name.
2398 *) mod_autoindex: Add `IndexOptions +VersionSort', to nicely sort filenames
2399 containing version numbers. [Martin Pool]
2401 *) ap_open(..,APR_OS_DEFAULT,..) uses perms 0666 instead of 0777 on
2402 Unix; access_log and error_log now created with these perms; non-
2403 Unix is unaffected [Jeff Trawick]
2405 *) Finished move of ap_md5 routines to apr_md5. Removed ap_md5.h.
2406 Replaced more magic numbers with MD5_DIGESTSIZE.
2407 [William Rowe, Roy Fielding]
2409 *) Win32: Get mod_auth_digest compiling and added to the Windows
2410 build environment. Not tested and I'd be suprised if it
2411 actually works. [Bill Stoddard]
2413 *) Revamp the Win32 make environment. Makefiles have been removed and
2414 Apache.dsw created to bring together all the pieces. Create new file
2415 os/win32/BaseAddr.ref to define module base addresses (to prevent
2416 dll relocation at start-up).
2417 [William Rowe, Greg Marr, Tim Costello, Bill Stoddard]
2419 *) [EBCDIC] Port Paul Gilmartin's CRLF patch from 1.3. This replaces most
2420 of the \015, \012, and \015\012 constants with macros.
2421 [Greg Ames <gregames@us.ibm.com>]
2423 *) Add ap_xlate_open() et al for translation of text between different
2424 character sets. The initial implementation requires iconv().
2427 *) More FAQs and answers from comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix.
2428 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>]
2430 *) CGI output is being timed out now.
2433 *) Fix the problem with dieing quietly. dupfile now takes a pool which
2434 is used by the new apr file. There is no reason to create a new file
2435 with the same lifetime as the original file.
2438 *) Win32: Attempt to eliminate dll relocation at start-up by specifying
2439 module base addresses. This will help shooting seg faults
2440 in the field. [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
2442 *) Update Apache on Windows documentation. Add new document
2443 describing how to compile Apache on Windows.
2444 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
2446 *) ap_set_pipe_timeout(), ap_poll(), and APR_SO_TIMEOUT now take
2447 microseconds instead of seconds. Some storage leaks and other
2448 minor bugs in related code were fixed. [Jeff Trawick]
2450 *) Win32: First cut at getting mod_isapi working under 2.0
2451 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
2453 *) First stab at getting mod_auth_digest working under 2.0
2454 quick change summary:
2455 - moved the random byte generation (ap_generate_random_bytes) into APR
2456 - now uses ap_time_t
2457 - compiles and runs on linux
2459 [Brian Martin <bmartin@penguincomputing.com>]
2461 *) Win32: Move the space stripping of physical service names
2462 fix up from Apache 1.3. #include'ing "ap_mpm.h" fixes up an
2463 unresolved symbol. Add dependency checking to the
2464 CreateService call to ensure TCPIP and AFP (winsock) is started
2466 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
2468 *) Win32: Add code to perform latebinding on functions that may
2469 not exist on all levels of Windows where Apache runs. This
2470 is needed to allow Apache to start-up on Win95/98. All calls
2471 to non portable functions should be protected with
2472 ap_oslevel checks to prevent runtime segfaults.
2473 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
2475 *) Fix fallback default values for SHM_R and SHM_W [Martin Kraemer]
2477 *) Get lingering_close() working again. [Dean Gaudet, Jeff Trawick]
2479 *) Win32: Get non-blocking CGI pipe reads working under Windows NT.
2480 This addresses PR 1623. Still need to address timing out runaway
2481 CGI scripts. [Bill Stoddard]
2483 *) Win32: Make ap_stat Windows 95/98 friendly
2484 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
2486 *) Win32: Fix a bug in ap_get_oslevel which causes GetVersionEx() to
2487 always fail. Need to initialise the dwOSVersionInfoSize member of the
2488 OSVERSIONINFO struct before calling GetVersionEx, so GetVersionEx
2491 The patch also enhances ap_get_oslevel (and the associated enum) to
2492 handle selected service packs for NT4, and adds recognition for
2493 Windows 2000. This is useful, eg. if we can recognise NT4 SP2 then
2494 we can use ReadFileScatter and WriteFileGather in readwrite.c.
2495 [Tim Costello <Tim.Costello@BTFinancialgroup.com>]
2497 *) Get mod_rewrite building and running, and mod_status building for Win NT
2498 [Allan Edwards <ake@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2500 *) Patch to port mod_auth_db to the 2.0 api and also to support
2501 Berlekey DB 3.0. It works for me with both Berkeley DB 3.0.55 and
2502 2.7.7. It should work with version 1 as well but I haven't tested it.
2503 [Brian Martin <bmartin@penguincomputing.com>]
2505 *) Get APR DSO code working under Windows. Includes cross platform
2507 [Tim.Costello@BTFinancialgroup.com]
2509 *) Fix some of the Windows APR time functions.
2512 *) FAQ changes related to tidying up historical documents on the web site.
2513 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>]
2515 *) Move Windows DSO code into APR.
2518 *) Eliminate apr_win.h and apr_winconfig.h (and the ugly #ifdefs they cause).
2519 Now, apr.h and apr_config.h are generated from apr.hw and apr_config.hw
2520 at build time. At this point, the server will not compile on Windows because
2521 of the recent DSO commits. Fixing those next.
2522 [Bill Rowe & Bill Stoddard]
2524 *) Added error checking for file I/O APR routines.
2525 [Jon Travis <jtravis@covalent.net>]
2527 *) APR: Don't use the values of resolver error codes for the
2528 corresponding APR error codes. On Unix and Win32, return the
2529 proper APR error code after a resolver error. [Jeff Trawick]
2531 Changes with Apache 2.0a2
2533 *) Renamed the executable back to httpd on all platforms other
2537 *) Allow BeOS to survive restarts, log properly and a few
2538 small things it had problems with due to the way it setup
2539 users and groups. [David Reid]
2541 *) Get mod_rewrite working with APR locks
2542 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2544 *) Actually remove the sempahore when the lock cleanup routine
2545 is called on BeOS. [David Reid]
2547 *) Clear hook registrations between reads of the config file.
2548 When DSOs are unloaded and re-loaded the old hook pointers may
2549 no longer be valid. This fix eliminates potential segfaults.
2550 [Allan Edwards <ake@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2552 *) Fix a problem with Sigfunc not being defined or bypassed
2553 if sigaction() wasn't found. [Jim Jagielski]
2555 *) Fix the locking mechanism on BSD variants. They now use fcntl
2556 locks. This allows the server to start and serve pages.
2559 *) First cut at getting the Win32 installer to work
2560 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
2562 *) Get htpasswd compiling under Windows
2563 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>]
2565 *) Change the log message for a bind() failure to show the
2566 interface and port number. [Jeff Trawick]
2568 *) Import the documentation from 1.3.12 and bring parts of it
2569 up-to-date with respect to the changes that have occurred
2573 *) BeOS MPM updated. CGI bug on BeOS fixed. IP addresses
2574 now logged correctly on BeOS.
2577 *) Create one makefile for all Win32 distributions (NT/2000/95/98).
2578 Makefile.win includes the same user interface as the old
2580 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>, Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
2582 *) Win32 exec now uses COMSPEC environment string for command
2583 shell path resolution.
2584 [William Rowe <wrowe@lnd.com>] PR#3715
2586 *) Win32: ap_connect() was not returning correct error condition
2588 [Allen Prescott <allen@clanprescott.com>]
2590 *) Win32: ap_open() was broken on Win9x because an NT-specific
2591 flag was passed to CreateFile. ap_puts() added an unnecessary
2593 [Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
2595 *) Put in Korean and Norwegian index.html pages (2.0 and 1.3)
2596 which where donated by Lee Kuk Hyun and Lorant Czaran. 'Fixed'
2597 confusing ee/et name and made all extensions language/dialect
2598 rather than country reflecting. Changed example files to
2599 explicit reflect the ISO charset and added a few common
2600 ones to the example config [dirkx]
2602 *) Extend external module capability. To use this, you call
2603 configure with --with-module=path/to/mod1,path/to/mod2,etc.
2606 *) Backported the various "default charset" fixes from 1.3.12,
2607 including the AddDefaultCharset directive. [Jim Jagielski]
2609 *) Added the capability to do ${ENVVAR} constructs in the
2610 config file. E.g. 'ServerAdmin ${POSTMASTER}'. As commited
2611 it does this on a line by line basis; i.e. if the envvar
2612 expands to something with spaces you have to protect it
2613 by adding quotes around it (Unless of course you expect it
2614 to contains more than one argument. Alternatively you
2615 can compile it on a per token basis; which is what people
2616 usually expect by setting RESOLVE_ENV_PER_TOKEN. But this
2617 hampers fancier hacks.
2618 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
2620 *) Changed the 'ErrorDocument' syntax in that it NO longer
2621 supports the asymetric
2623 ErrorDocument 301 "Some message
2625 Note the opening " quote, without a closing quote. It now
2626 has either the following syntaxes
2628 ErrorDocument XXX /local/uri
2629 ErrorDocument XXX http://valid/url
2630 ErrorDocument XXX "Some Message"
2632 The recognition heuristic is: if it has a space it
2633 is a message. If it has no spaces and starts with a /
2634 or is a valid URL then treat it that way. Otherwise it
2635 is assumed to be a message.
2637 This breaks backward compatibility but makes live a hell
2638 of a lot easier for GUI's and config file parsers.
2639 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
2641 *) Changed 'CacheNegotiatedDocs' from its present/not-present
2642 syntax into a 'on' or 'off' syntax. As it currently is the
2643 only non nesting token which uses NO_ARGS and thus is an
2644 absolute pain for any config interface automation. This
2645 breaks backward compatibility. [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
2647 *) Add ability to add external modules to the build process. This is
2648 done with --with-module=/path/to/module. Modules can only be added
2649 as static modules at this point.
2652 Changes with Apache 2.0a1
2654 *) Fix FreeBSD 3.3 core dump.
2655 Basically, ap_initialize() needs to get called before
2656 create_process(), since create_process() passes op_on structure
2657 to semop() to get a lock, but op_on isn't initialized until
2658 ap_initialize() calls setup_lock(). Here is a slight
2659 rearrangement to main() which calls ap_initialize() earlier...
2660 [Jeff Trawick <trawick@us.ibm.com>]
2662 *) Enable Apache to use sendfile/TransmitFile API
2663 [Bill Stoddard, David Reid, Paul Reder]
2665 *) Re-Implement Win32 APR network I/O APIs and most of the file I/O
2669 *) Make file I/O and network I/O writev/sendv APIs consistent.
2670 Eliminate use of ap_iovec_t and use Posix struct iovec.
2671 Use seperate variable on ap_writev to set the number of iovecs
2672 passed in and number of bytes written.
2675 *) Adapt file iol to use APR functions. Replaced ap_open_file()
2676 with ap_create_file_iol(). ap_create_file_iol() requires that
2677 the file be opened prior to the call using ap_open().
2680 *) Port mod_include and mod_cgi to 2.0
2681 [Paul Reder, Bill Stoddard]
2683 *) ap_send{,v}, ap_recv, ap_sendfile API clarification --
2684 bytes_read/bytes_written is always valid (never -1). Plus
2685 some fixes to buff.c to correct problems introduced by the
2686 errno => ap_status_t changes a while back. Plus a fix to
2687 chunked encoding introduced right at the beginning of 2.0.
2690 *) Revamped UNIX build system to use autoconf and libtool.
2691 [Manoj Kasichainula, Sascha Schumann]
2693 *) port mod_rewrite to 2.0. [Paul J. Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2695 *) More rigorous checking of Host: headers to fix security problems
2696 with mass name-based virtual hosting (whether using mod_rewrite
2697 or mod_vhost_alias).
2698 [Ben Hyde, Tony Finch]
2700 *) Add back support for UseCanonicalName in <Directory> containers.
2701 [Manoj Kasichainula]
2703 *) Added APLOG_STARTUP log type. This allows us to write an error
2704 message without any of the date and time information. As a part
2705 of this change, I also removed all of the calls to fprintf(stderr
2706 and replaced them with calls to ap_log_error using APLOG_STARTUP
2707 writing to stderr is no longer portable, because we don't direct
2708 stderr to the error log on all platforms.
2711 *) Convert error logging functions to take errno as an argument.
2712 This makes our error logs more portable, because some Windows API's
2713 don't set errno. This change allows us to still output a valid
2714 message on all of our platforms.
2717 *) mod_mime_magic runs in 2.0-dev now.
2718 [Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2720 *) sendfile has been added to APR.
2721 [John Zedlewski <zedlwski@Princeton.EDU>]
2723 *) buff.c has been converted to no longer use errno.
2724 [Manoj Kasichainula]
2726 *) mod_speling runs in 2.0-dev now: a bug in readdir_r handling and
2727 interface adaption to APR functions did it. [Martin Kraemer]
2729 *) Support DSOs properly on 32-bit HP-UX 11.0
2730 [Dilip Khandekar <dilip@cup.hp.com>]
2732 *) Updated MM in APR source tree from version 1.0.8 to 1.0.11
2733 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2735 *) Cleaned APR build environment integration and bootstrap APR
2736 automatically for developers from src/Configure.
2737 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2739 *) Fixed building of src/support/htpasswd.c
2740 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2742 *) When generating the Location: header, mod_speling forgot
2743 to escape the spelling-fixed uri. (Forw-Port from 1.3)
2746 *) Moved mod_auth_digest.c from experimental to standard. [Roy Fielding]
2748 *) Change all pools to APR contexts. This is the first step to
2749 incorporating APR into Apache. [Ryan Bloom]
2751 *) Move "handler not found" warning message to below the check
2752 for a wildcard handler. [Dirk <dirkm@teleport.com>, Roy Fielding]
2753 PR#2584, PR#2751, PR#3349, PR#3436, PR#3548, PR#4384, PR#4795, PR#4807
2755 *) Support line-continuation feature in config.option file and
2756 allow the loading of multiple option sections at once via
2757 ``--with-option=<section1>,<section2>,...''
2758 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2760 *) Rebuilt CVS repository with Apache 1.3.9 as basis. [Roy Fielding]
2762 Changes with Apache MPM
2764 *) Use asynchronous AcceptEx() and a completion port to accept and
2765 dispatch connections to threads in Windows NT/2000.
2768 *) Implement WINNT Win32 MPM from original Win32 code in http_main.c
2771 *) Implement the APACI --with-option facility
2772 (per default used the config.option file).
2773 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2775 *) MPM BEOS port. [David Reid <abb37@dial.pipex.com>]
2777 *) Start to implement module-defined hooks that are a) fast and b) typesafe.
2778 Replace pre_connection module call with a register_hook call and
2779 implement pre_connection as a hook. The intent is that these hooks will
2780 be extended to allow Apache to be multi-protocol, and also to allow the
2781 calling order to be specified on a per-hook/per-module basis.
2784 *) Implement mpm_* methods as "modules". Each method gets its own
2785 subdir in src/modules (eg: src/modules/prefork). Selection
2786 of method uses Rule MPM_METHOD. [Jim Jagielski]
2788 *) Port the hybrid server from the apache-apr repository as
2789 mpm_mpmt_pthread. [Manoj Kasichainula]
2791 *) os/unix/unixd.[ch]: detach, setuid, setgid, stuff which will be common
2792 amongst the unix MPMs.
2794 *) mpm_prefork: throw away all the alarm/timeout crud; and clean up the
2795 signal handling for the new world order. [Dean Gaudet]
2797 *) Crude ap_thread_mutex abstraction so that we get the pthread stuff out
2798 of alloc.c for now. [Dean Gaudet]
2800 *) Handle partial large writes correctly. [Ben Laurie]
2802 *) Eliminate conn_rec's pointer to server. All it knows is the base server
2803 based on IP/port. [Ben Laurie]
2805 *) Port a bunch of modules to the new module structure.
2806 ["Michael H. Voase" <mvoase@midcoast.com.au>]
2808 *) I/O layering and BUFF revamp. See docs/buff.txt. [Dean Gaudet]
2810 *) Basic restructuring to introduce the MPM concept; includes various
2811 changes to the module API... better described by
2812 docs/initial_blurb.txt. [Dean Gaudet]
2814 Changes with Apache pthreads
2816 *) New buff option added: BO_TIMEOUT. It describes the timeout for
2817 buff operations (generally over a network).
2818 [Dean Gaudet, Ryan Bloom, Manoj Kasichainula]
2820 *) Created http_accept abstraction. Added 4 new functions (not exported):
2821 init_accept(), begin_accepting_requests(), get_request(),
2822 stop_accepting_requests() [Bill Stoddard]
2824 *) Fix to ap_rprintf call that allows mod_info to work properly.
2825 [James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>]
2827 *) user and ap_auth_type fields were moved from connection_rec to
2828 request_rec. [Ryan Bloom]
2830 *) Removed the ap_block_alarms and ap_unblock_alarm calls. These aren't
2831 needed in a threaded server.
2833 *) Initial pthread implementation from from Dean's apache-nspr code.
2834 [Bill Stoddard, Ryan Bloom]
2837 Changes with Apache 1.3.9
2839 *) Remove bogus error message when a redirect doesn't set Location.
2840 Instead, use an empty string to avoid coredump if the error message
2841 was supposed to include a location. [Roy Fielding]
2843 *) Don't allow configure to include mod_auth_digest unless it is
2844 explicitly requested, even if the user asked for all modules.
2847 *) Translate module names to dll names for OS/2 so that they are no more
2848 than 8 characters long and have an extension of "dll" instead of "so".
2851 *) Print out pointer to Rule DEV_RANDOM when truerand lib not found.
2852 Fix test-compile check to check for randbyte instead of trand32.
2853 Use ap_base64encode_binary/decode instead of copy in mod_auth_digest.c
2854 and tweak to make Amaya happier. [Ronald Tschalär]
2856 *) Ensure that the installed expat include files are world readable,
2857 just like the other header files. [Martin Kraemer]
2859 *) Fixed generated AddModule adjustments in APACI's `configure' script
2860 in order to allow (new) modules like mod_vhost_alias to be handled
2861 correctly (which was touched by the adjustments for mod_alias).
2862 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2864 *) For binary builds, add -R flag to apachectl to work around the lack of
2865 an absolute path to the ./libexec directory where the libhttp.ep file
2866 is needed for SHARED_CORE architectures. [Randy Terbush]
2868 *) WIN32: Create the CGI script process as DETACHED. This may solve the
2869 problem observed by some Win95/98 users where they get CGI script
2870 output sent to the console. [Bill Stoddard]
2872 *) Fix (re)naming in the uuencode/decode section. The ap/ap_
2873 routines are now called ap_base64* and are 'plain' (i.e., no
2874 pool access or anything clever). Inside util.c the routines acting
2875 like pstrdup are called ap_pbase64encode() and ap_pbase64decode().
2876 The oddly named ap_uuencode(), ap_uudecode() are kept around for
2877 now but deprecated. [dirkx]
2879 *) Clean up the base64 and SHA1 additions and make sure they are
2880 represented in the ApacheCore.def, ApacheCoreOS2.def, and httpd.exp
2881 files. [Roy Fielding]
2883 *) WIN32: Migrate to InstallShield 5.5 and provide a bit more error
2884 checking. Allow compiling on VS 6.0. [Randy Terbush]
2886 *) Fixed assumption of absolute paths in binbuild.sh. [Tony Finch]
2888 *) Use TestCompile to search for the truerand library (rather than blindly
2889 assuming its existence). If it is not found, complain (but do not
2890 exit - yet). [Martin Kraemer]
2892 *) We forgot to add the new exported function names to
2893 src/support/httpd.exp. [Bill Stoddard, Randy Terbush]
2895 *) Add description of -T command-line option to usage().
2896 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2898 *) For "some" platforms (notably, EBCDIC based ones), libos needs to be
2899 searched only AFTER libap has been searched, because libap needs
2900 some symbols from libos. [Martin Kraemer]
2902 *) Fix conflict with original mod_digest related to the symbol of the
2903 module dispatch list (which has to be unique for DSO and follow the
2904 usual conventions for the installation procedure).
2905 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
2907 *) Add a dbm-library check for the "usual places" (-ldbm, -lndbm, -ldb)
2908 for other platforms as well. [Martin Kraemer]
2910 *) Make ap_sha1.c compile for EBCDIC platforms: replace remaining LONG
2911 types by AP_LONG and replace reference to renamed variable 'ubuf'
2912 by 'buffer'. [Martin Kraemer]
2914 Changes with Apache 1.3.8 [not released]
2916 *) Flush the output buffer immediately after sending an error or redirect
2917 response, since the result may be needed by the client to abort a
2918 long data transfer or restart a series of pipelined requests.
2919 [Tom Vaughan <tvaughan@aventail.com>, Roy Fielding]
2921 *) PORT: Improved compilation and DSO support on Sequent DYNIX/ptx.
2922 [Ian Turner <iant@sequent.com>] PR#4735
2924 *) Local struct mmap in http_core.c conflicted with system structure
2925 name on DYNIX -- changed to mmap_rec. [Roy Fielding] PR#4735
2927 *) Added updated mod_digest as modules/experimental/mod_auth_digest.
2928 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>]
2930 *) Fix a memory leak where the module counts were getting messed
2931 up across restarts. [David Harris <dharris@drh.net>]
2933 *) CIDR addresses such as a.b.c.d/24 where d != 0 weren't handled
2934 properly in mod_access.
2935 ["Paul J. Reder" <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#4770
2937 *) RewriteLock/RewriteMap didn't work properly with virtual hosts.
2938 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>] PR#3874
2940 *) PORT: Support for compaq/tandem/com.
2941 [Michael Ottati <michael.ottati@compaq.com>, dirkx]
2943 *) Added SHA1 password encryption support to easy migration from
2944 Netscape servers. See support/SHA1 for more information.
2945 Caused the separation of ap_md5.c into md5, sha1 and a general
2946 ap_checkpass.c with just a validate_passwd routine. Added a
2947 couple of flags to support/htpasswd. Some reuse of the to64()
2948 function; hence renamed to ap_to64().
2949 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Clinton Wong <clintdw@netcom.com>]
2951 *) Change for EBCDIC platforms (TPF and BS2000) to correctly deal
2952 with ASCII/EBCDIC conversions in "ident" query.
2953 [David McCreedy <McCreedy@us.ibm.com>]
2955 *) Get rid of redefinition warning on MAC_OS_X_SERVER platform.
2956 Change "Power Macintosh" to Power* so if uname prints "Power Book"
2957 we're still happy on Rhapsody platforms. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
2959 *) Fix SIGSEGV on some systems because the Vary fix below included
2960 a call to table_do with a variable argument list that was not
2961 NULL terminated. Replaced with better implementation. [Roy Fielding]
2963 Changes with Apache 1.3.7 [not released]
2965 *) The "Vary" response header field is now sanitised right before
2966 the header is sent back to the client. Multiple "Vary" fields
2967 are combined, and duplicate tokens (e.g., "Vary: host, host" or
2968 "Vary: host, negotiate, host, accept-language") are reduced to
2969 single instances. This is a better solution than the force-no-vary
2970 one (which is still valid for clients that can't cope with Vary
2971 at all). PR#3118 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Ken Coar]
2973 *) Portability changes for BeOS. [David Reid abb37@dial.pipex.com]
2975 *) Link DSO's with "gcc -shared" instead of "ld -Bshareable" at
2976 least on Linux and FreeBSD for now.
2979 *) Win32: More apache -k restart work. Restarts are now honored
2980 immediately and connections in the listen queue are -not- lost.
2981 This is made possible by the use of the WSADuplicateSocket()
2982 call. The listeners are opened in the parent, duplicated, then
2983 the duplicates are passed to the child. The original listen sockets
2984 are not closed by the parent across a restart, thus the listen queue
2986 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
2988 *) Fix handling of case when a client has sent "Expect: 100-continue"
2989 and we are going to respond with an error, but get stuck waiting to
2990 discard the body in the pointless hope of preserving the connection.
2991 [Roy Fielding, Joe Orton <jeo101@york.ac.uk>] PR#4499, PR#3806
2993 *) Fix 'configure' to work correctly with SysV-based versions of
2994 'tr' (consistent with Configure's use as well). [Jim Jagielski]
2996 *) apxs: Add "-S var=val" option which allows for override of CFG_*
2997 built-in values. Add "-e" option which works like -i but doesn't
2998 install the DSO; useful for editing httpd.conf with apxs. Fix
2999 editing code so that multiple invocations of apxs -a will not
3000 create duplicate LoadModule/AddModule entries; apxs can now be
3001 used to re- enable/disable a module. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
3003 *) Win32: Update the server to use Winsock 2. Specifically, link with
3004 ws2_32.lib rather than wsock32.lib. This gives us access to
3005 WSADuplcateSocket() in addition to some other enhanced comm APIs.
3006 Win 95 users may need to update their TCP/IP stack to pick up
3007 Winsock 2. (See http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/)
3008 [Bill Stoddard stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com]
3010 *) Win32: Redirect CGI script stderr (script debug info) into the
3011 error.log when CGI scripts fail. This makes Apache on Win32
3012 behave more like Unix.
3013 [Bill Stoddard stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com]
3015 *) Fixed `httpd' usage display: -D was missing.
3016 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4614
3018 *) Fix `make r' test procedure in src/regex/: ap_isprint was not found.
3019 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4561, PR#4562
3021 *) OS/2: Fix problem with accept lock semaphores where server would die with
3022 "OS2SEM: Error 105 getting accept lock. Exiting!"
3023 [Brian Havard] PR#4505
3025 *) Add DSO support for DGUX 4.x using gcc. Tested on x86 platforms.
3026 [Randy Terbush <randy@covalent.net>]
3028 *) Add the new mass-vhost module (mod_vhost_alias.c) developed and
3029 used by Demon Internet, Ltd. [Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>]
3031 *) Better GCC detection for DSO flags under Solaris 2 where the `cc'
3032 command potentially _is_ GCC. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3034 *) Fix apxs build issues on AIX
3035 [Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3037 *) DocumentRoot Checking: Under previous versions, when Apache
3038 first started up, it used to do a stat of each DocumentRoot to
3039 see if it existed and was a directory. If not, then an error
3040 message was printed. THIS HAS BEEN DISABLED. If DocumentRoot
3041 does not exist, you will get error messages in error_log. If
3042 the '-t' command line option is used (to check the configuration)
3043 the check of DocumentRoot IS performed. An additional command
3044 line option, '-T', has been added if you want to avoid the
3045 DocumentRoot check even when checking the configuration.
3048 *) Win32: The query switch "apache -S" didn't exit after showing the
3049 vhost settings. That was inconsistent with the other query functions.
3050 [Bill Stoddard - Fixed by Martin on Unix in 1.3.4]
3052 *) Win32: Changed behaviour of apache -k restart.
3053 Previously, the server would drain all connections in the stack's
3054 listen queue before honoring the restart. On a busy server, this
3055 could take hours. Now, a restart is honored almost immediately.
3056 All connections in Apache's queues are handled but connections in
3057 the stack's listen queue are discarded. Restart triggered by
3058 MaxRequestPerChild is unchanged.
3059 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3061 *) Win32: Eliminated unnecessary call to wait_for_multiple_objects in
3062 the accept loop. Good for a 5% performance boost. Cleaned up
3063 parent/child process management code.
3064 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3066 *) Added ceiling on file size for memory mapped files.
3067 [John Giannandrea <jg@meer.net>] PR#4122
3069 *) Fix ndbm.h include problems with brain-dead glibc >= 2.1 which
3070 has ndbm.h in a non-standard db1/ subdir. PR#4431, PR#4528
3071 [Henri Gomez <gomez@slib.fr>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
3073 *) Determine AP_BYTE_ORDER for ap_config_auto.h and already
3074 use this at least for Expat. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3076 *) Allow .module files to specify libraries with Lib:.
3079 *) Allow SetEnvIf[NoCase] to test environment variables as well
3080 as header fields and request attributes. [Ken Coar]
3082 *) Fix mod_autoindex's handling of ScanHTMLTitles when file
3083 content-types are "text/html;parameters". PR#4524 [Ken Coar]
3085 *) Remove "mxb" support from mod_negotiation -- it was a draft feature
3086 never accepted into any standard, and it opens up certain DoS
3087 attacks. [Koen Holtman <Koen.Holtman@cern.ch>]
3089 *) TestCompile updated. We can now run programs and output the
3090 results during the Configure process. [ Jim Jagielski]
3092 *) The source is now quad (long long) aware as needed. Specifically,
3093 the Configure process determines the correct size of off_t and
3094 *void. When the OS/platform/compiler supports quads, ap_snprintf()
3095 provides for the 'q' format qualifier (if quads are not available,
3096 'q' is silently "demoted" to long). [Jim Jagielski]
3098 *) When the username or password fed to htpasswd is too long, include the
3099 size limit in the error message. Also report illegal characters
3100 (currently only ':') in the username. Add the size restrictions
3101 to the man page. [Ken Coar]
3103 *) Fixed the configure --without-support option so it doesn't result in
3104 an infinite loop. [Marc Slemko]
3106 *) Piped error logs could cause a segfault if an error occured
3107 during configuration after a restart.
3108 [Aidan Cully <aidan@panix.com>] PR#4456
3110 *) If a "Location" field was stored in r->err_headers_out rather
3111 than r->headers_out, redirect processing wouldn't find it and
3112 the server would core dump on ap_escape_html(NULL). Check both
3113 tables and raise HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR with a log message
3114 if Location isn't set. [Doug MacEachern, Ken Coar]
3116 *) Add RULE_EXPAT, the src/lib/ directory structure, and a modified copy
3117 of the Expat 1.0.2 distribution. [Greg Stein]
3119 *) Replace regexec() calls with calls to a new API stub function
3120 ap_regexec(). This solves problems with DSO modules which use the regex
3121 library. [Jens-Uwe Mager <jum@helios.de>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
3123 *) Add 'Request_Protocol' special keyword to mod_setenvif so that
3124 environment variables can be set according to the protocol version
3125 (e.g., HTTP/0.9 or HTTP/1.1) of the request. [Ken Coar]
3127 *) Add DSO support for OpenStep (Mach 4.2) platform.
3128 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>] PR#3997
3130 *) Fix sed regex for generating ap_config_auto.h in src/Configure.
3131 [Jan Gallo <gallo@pvt.sk>] PR#3690, PR#4373
3133 *) Switch to /bin/sh5 in APACI on Ultrix and friends to avoid problems with
3134 their brain-dead /bin/sh. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4372
3136 *) Better DSO flags recognition on NetBSD platforms using ELF.
3137 [Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>] PR#4310
3139 *) Always log months in english format for %t in mod_log_config.
3140 [Petr Lampa <lampa@fee.vutbr.cz>] PR#4366, 679
3142 *) Support for server-parsed and multiview-determined ReadmeName and
3143 HeaderName files in mod_autoindex. Removed the restriction on
3144 "/"s in ReadmeName and HeaderName directives since the *sub_req*
3145 routines will deal with the access issues. (It's now possible to
3146 have {site|group|project|customer|...} wide readmes and headers.)
3147 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>, Ken Coar] PR#1574, 3026, 3529,
3150 *) When stat() fails, don't assume anything about the contents of
3151 the struct stat. [Ed Korthof <ed@bitmechanic.com>]
3153 *) It's OK for a semop to return EINTR, just loop around and try
3154 again. [Dean Gaudet]
3156 *) Fix configuration engine re-entrant hangups, which solve a
3157 handful of problems seen with mod_perl <Perl> configuration sections
3158 [Salvador Ortiz Garcia <sog@msg.com.mx>]
3160 *) Mac OS and Mac OS X Server now use the appropriate custom layout
3161 by default when building with APACI; allow for platform-specific
3162 variable defaults in configure. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
3164 *) Do setgid() before initgroups() in http_main; some platforms
3165 zap the grouplist when setgid() is called. This was fixed in
3166 suexec earlier, but the main httpd code missed the change.
3167 [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2579
3169 *) Add recognition of .tgz as a gzipped tarchive.
3170 [Bertrand de Singly <bertrand.de-singly@polytechnique.fr>] PR#2364
3172 *) mod_include's fsize/flastmod should allow only relative paths, just
3173 like "include file". [Jaroslav Benkovsky <benkovsk@pha.pvt.cz>]
3175 *) OS/2: Add support for building loadable modules using DLLs.
3178 *) Add iconsdir, htdocsdir, and cgidir to config.layout.
3181 *) Fix minor but annoying bug with the test for Configuration.tmpl
3182 being newer than Configuration so that it is less likely to fail
3183 when using APACI and shadow sources. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
3185 *) PORT: Add initial support for Mac OS (versions 10.0 and
3186 greater). Use Mac OS X Server layout for now. Clean up dyld code
3187 in unix/os.c, and don't install the dyld error handlers, which
3188 are no longer needed in Mac OS. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
3190 *) Rename Rhapsody layout to "Mac OS X Server". Change install
3191 locations to appropriate ones for user-built (as opposed to
3192 system) installs. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
3194 *) Modify mod_autoindex's handling of AddDescription so that the
3195 behaviour matches the documentation. [Ken Coar] PR#1898, 3072.
3197 *) Add functionality to the install-bindist.sh script created by
3198 binbuild.sh to use tar when copying distribution files to the
3199 serverroot. This allows upgrading an existing installation
3200 without nesting the new distribution in the old.
3202 install-bindist.sh now detects the local perl5 path to install
3203 apxs and dbmmanage with proper path to perl interpreter.
3205 Add an install-binsupport target which copies the source files
3206 for apxs and dbmmanage to bindist to allow these scripts to
3207 be properly installed relative to the destination serverroot.
3208 [Randy Terbush, Covalent Technologies, randy@covalent.net]
3210 *) Fix intermittent SEGV in ap_proxy_cache_error() in
3211 src/modules/proxy_util.c where a NULL filepointer and
3212 temporary filename were closed and unlinked.
3213 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>,
3214 Tim Costello <tjcostel@socs.uts.edu.au>] PR#3178
3216 *) Fix inconsistent error messages reported by mod_proxy.
3217 [Graham Leggett <minfrin@sharp.fm>]
3219 *) OS/2: Fix terminating CGIs that aren't compiled by EMX GCC when a
3220 connection is aborted. [Brian Havard]
3222 *) Force the LANG envariable to the known state of "C" so that we
3223 have assurance about how string manipulators (e.g., tr) will
3224 function. [Ken Coar] PR#1630
3226 *) Add a directive to allow customising of the tracking cookie name.
3227 [Ken Coar] PR#2921, 4303
3229 *) Add "force-no-vary" envariable to allow servers to work around
3230 clients that choke on "Vary" fields in the response header.
3231 [Ken Coar, Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@zippy.machaon.ru>] PR#4118
3233 *) Fixed a bug in mod_dir that causes a child process will infinitely
3234 recurse when it attemps to handle a request for a directory wnd the
3235 value of the DirectoryIndex directive is a single dot. Also likely
3236 to happen for anyother values of DirectoryIndex that will map back
3237 to the same directory. The handler now only considers regular files
3238 as being index candidates. No PR#s found.
3239 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>]
3241 *) Ease configuration debugging by making TestCompile fall back to
3242 using "make" if the $MAKE variable is unset [Martin Kraemer]
3244 *) Fixed the ServerSignature directive to work as documented.
3245 [Raymond S Brand <rsbx@rsbx.net>] PR#4248
3247 *) Add "opt" (SysV-style) layout to config.layout. [Raymond S Brand
3250 *) Add APACI --without-execstrip option which can be used to disable the
3251 stripping of executables on installation. This is very important for DSO
3252 and debugging situations. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3254 *) Add support for OS/2 (case insenstive filesystem, .exe suffix, etc)
3255 to APACI files and related scripts.
3256 [Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4269
3258 *) Add support for standalone mode in TPF
3259 [Joe Moenich <moenich@us.ibm.com>]
3261 *) Fix number of bytes copied by read_connection() in src/support/ab.c
3262 [Jim Cox <jc@superlink.net>] PR#4271
3264 *) Fix special RewriteCond "-s" pattern matching.
3265 [Bob Finch <bob@nas.com>]
3267 *) Fix value quoting in src/Configure script for ap_config_auto.h
3268 [Paul Sutton <paul@awe.com>]
3270 *) Make sure RewriteLock can be used only in the global context, (i.e.
3271 outside of any <VirtualHost> sections) because it's a global facility of
3272 the rewrite engine. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3274 *) Fix the ownership delegation for proxy directory under `make install'.
3275 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3277 *) APACI would not correctly build suexec. [Maria Verina
3278 <mariav@icgeb.trieste.it>] PR#4260
3280 *) mod_mime_magic passed only the first 4k of a file to
3281 uncompress/gzip, but those tools sometimes do not produce
3282 any output unless a sufficient portion of the compressed
3283 file is input. Change to pass the entire file -- but
3284 only read 4k of output.
3285 [Marcin Cieslak <saper@system.pl>] PR#4097
3287 *) "IndexOptions None" generated extra spaces at the end of each
3288 line. [inkling@firstnethou.com] PR#3770
3290 *) The "100 Continue" response wasn't being sent after internal
3291 redirects. [Jose KAHAN <kahan@w3.org>] PR#3910, 3806, 3575
3293 *) When padding the name with spaces for display, mod_autoindex would
3294 count &, <, and > in their escaped width, messing up the display.
3295 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4075, 3758
3297 *) PORT: fixed a compilation problem on NEXT.
3298 [Jacques Distler <distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu>] PR#4130
3300 *) r->request_time wasn't being set properly in certain error conditions.
3301 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4156
3303 *) PORT: deal with UTS compiler error in http_protocol.c
3304 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#4189
3306 *) Add ap_vrprintf() function. [John Tobey <jtobey@banta-im.com>] PR#4246
3308 *) Fix the mod_mime hash table to work properly with locales other
3309 than C. [Dean Gaudet] PR#3427
3311 *) Fix a memory leak which is exacerbated by certain configurations.
3312 [Dean Gaudet] PR#4225
3314 *) Prevent clobbering saved IFS values in APACI. [Jim Jagielski]
3316 *) Fix buffer overflows in ap_uuencode and ap_uudecode pointed out
3317 by "Peter 'Luna' Altberg <peter@altberg.nu>" and PR#3422
3318 [Peter 'Luna' Altberg <peter@altberg.nu>, Ronald Tschalär]
3320 *) Make {Set,Unset,Pass}Env per-directory instead of per-server.
3323 *) Correct an apparent typo: on the Windows and MPE platforms, the
3324 htpasswd utility was limiting passwords to only 8 characters.
3327 *) EBCDIC platforms: David submitted patches for two bugs in the
3328 MD5 digest port for EBCDIC machines:
3329 a) the htdigest utility overwrote the old contents of the digest file
3330 b) the Content-MD5 header value (ContentDigest directive) was wrong
3331 when the returned file was not converted from EBCDIC, but was a
3332 binary (e.g., image file) in the first place.
3333 [David McCreedy <mccreedy@us.ibm.com>]
3335 *) support/htpasswd now permits the password to be specified on the
3336 command line with the '-b' switch. This is useful when passwords
3337 need to be maintained by scripts -- particularly in the Win32
3338 environment. [Ken Coar]
3340 *) Win32: Win32 multiple services patch. Added capability to install and
3341 run multiple copies of apache as individual services.
3344 apache -n apache1 -i -f c:/httpd.conf
3345 Installs apache as service 'apache1' and associates c:/httpd.conf
3348 Starts apache1 service.
3350 Stops apache1 service
3353 apache -n apache2 -i
3354 Installs apache as service 'apache2'. httpd.conf is located under
3355 the default server root (/apache/conf/httpd.conf).
3357 Starts apache2 service.
3360 apache -n apache3 -i -d c:/program files/apache
3361 Install apache as service 'apache3' and sets server root to
3362 c:/program files/apache.
3365 apache -n apache2 -k restart
3366 Restart apache2 service
3368 [Keith Wannamaker, Ken Parzygnat, Bill Stoddard]
3370 *) Correct the signed/unsigned character handling for the MD5 routines;
3371 mismatches were causing compilation problems with gcc -pedantic and
3372 in the TPF cross-compilation. [Ken Coar]
3374 *) OS/2: Rework CGI handling to use spawn*() instead of fork/exec, achieving
3375 a roughly 5 fold speed up. [Brian Havard]
3377 *) proxy ftp: instead of using the hardwired string "text/plain" as
3378 a fallback type for files served by the ftp proxy, use the
3379 ap_default_type() function to determine the configured type.
3380 This allows for special configurations like
3381 <Directory proxy:ftp://some.host>
3382 DefaultType gargle/blurb
3384 Additionally, add the Content-Encoding: header to FTP proxy replies
3385 when the encoding is defined (by the AddEncoding directive).
3386 Because it was missing, it was almost impossible to browse compressed
3387 files using the FTP proxy (works now perfectly in Communicator).
3388 The ftp proxy now also returns the Date: and Server: header lines (if not
3389 much else... This code is "somewhat" broken) like normal requests do.
3392 *) Be more smart in APACI's configure script when determining the UID/GID
3393 for User/Group directives and use the determined UID/GID to initialize
3394 the permissions on the proxycachedir.
3395 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Ralf S. Engelschall]
3397 *) Changed the forking-prior-to-cleanup in the proxy module to first
3398 check wether it actually needs to collect garbage. This reduces
3399 the number of fork()s from one/request to just the odd one an hour.
3400 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
3402 *) Added proxy, auth and header support to src/support/ab.c. Added a
3403 README file to src/support/
3404 [Dirk-Willem van Gulik]
3406 *) Don't hard-code the path to AWK in --shadow bootstrapping Makefile.
3407 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#4050
3409 *) Add support for DSO module compilation on BSD/OS 3.x.
3410 [Randy Terbush, Covalent Technologies]
3412 *) Fix sed-substitutions in `make install': path elements like `httpd/conf'
3413 (for instance from an APACI configure --sysconfdir=/etc/httpd/conf
3414 option) were substituted with $(TARGET).conf, etc. Same for other strings
3415 with dots where the dot wasn't matched as plain text.
3416 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3418 *) PORT: Add support for FreeBSD 4.x [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3420 *) Fix verbose output of APACI configure (option -v)
3421 [Martin Kraemer, Ralf S. Engelschall]
3423 Changes with Apache 1.3.6
3425 *) Removed new PassAllEnv code due to DSO problems. [Lars Eilebrecht]
3427 Changes with Apache 1.3.5 [not released]
3429 *) M_INVALID needed a value within the scope of METHODS so that unknown
3430 methods can be access controlled. [Roy Fielding] PR#3821
3432 *) Added PassAllEnv; makes server's entire environment available
3433 to CGIs and SSIs executed within directive's scope. [Ken Coar]
3435 *) ap_uuencode() always added two trailing '='s and encoding of
3436 8 bit characters on a machine with signed char may produced
3437 incorrect results. Additionally ap_uuencode() should now
3438 work correctly on EBCDIC platforms.
3439 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>] PR#3411
3441 *) WIN32: Binary installer now runs the configuration DLL before
3442 the reboot prompt (which is only given if MSVCRT.DLL system
3443 DLL is new or updated). This should avoid the configuration
3444 directory being empty after installation. [Paul Sutton]
3445 PR#3767, 3800, 3827, 3850, 3900, 3953, 3988
3447 *) WIN32: Binary installer now creates Start menu options to start
3448 and stop Apache as a console application and to uninstall
3449 the Apache service on NT. [Paul Sutton] PR#3741
3451 *) WIN32: Apache.exe now contains an icon. [Paul Sutton]
3453 *) PORT: Switch back to using fcntl() locking on Linux -- instabilities
3454 have been reported with flock() locking (probably related to kernel
3455 version). [Dean Gaudet] PR#2723, 3531
3457 *) Using APACI, the main config file (usually httpd.conf) was
3458 not being adjusted as $(TARGET).conf. [Wilfredo Sanchez
3459 <wsanchez@apple.com>]
3461 *) PORT: AIX does not require the SHARED_CODE "hack"
3462 [Ryan Bloom <rbb@raleigh.ibm.com>]
3464 *) Set-Cookie headers were being doubled up for some CGIs by the O(n^2)
3465 avoidance code added in 1.3.3.
3466 [Dean Gaudet, Jeff Lewis <lewis@stanford.edu>] PR#3872
3468 *) ap_isxdigit was somehow neglected when adding the ap_isfoo() macros
3469 for 8-bit safeness. [Dean Gaudet]
3471 *) PORT: Use -fPIC instead of -fpic on Solaris and SunOS for compiling DSOs
3472 because SPARCs have a small machine-specific maximum size for the Global
3473 Offset Table which is often exceeded when compiling one of the larger
3474 third-party modules with Apache. [Peter Urban <Peter.Urban@epfl.ch>] PR#3977
3476 *) Move the directive `ExtendedStatus' in httpd.conf-dist-win _after_ the
3477 DSO/DLL section because it's a directive from mod_status and isn't
3478 available before the DLL of mod_status is loaded.
3479 [Martin POESCHL <mpoeschl@gmx.net>] PR#3936
3481 *) SECURITY: Fix a bug in the calculation of the buffer size for the line
3482 continuation facility in Apache's configuration files which could
3483 lead to a buffer overflow situation.
3484 [Thomas Devanneaux <Thomas.Devanneaux@enst.fr>] PR#3617
3486 *) Make documentation and error messages of APACI's --activate-module=FILE
3487 option more clear. [Jan Wolter <janc@wwnet.net>] PR#3995
3489 *) Fix the gcc version check (for enabling the `inline' facility) to
3490 really support all future gcc versions >= 2.7 until we know more.
3491 [John Tobey <jtobey@banta-im.com>] PR#3983
3493 *) Let APACI's configure script correctly complain for unknown --enable-XXX
3494 and --disable-XXX options. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3958
3496 *) Link the shared core bootstrap program (``Rule SHARED_CORE=yes'') also
3497 against libap.a and use its ap_snprintf() instead of sprintf() to avoid
3498 possible buffer overflows. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3500 *) Remove no longer used non-API function ap_single_module_init().
3501 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3503 *) Add Apple's Mac OS X Server Layout "Rhapsody" to config.layout.
3506 *) Add cgidir, htdocsdir, iconsdir variables to Makefile.tmpl in order
3507 to make platform installations easier. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
3509 *) In configure, do not append the target name to the directory path if
3510 the path already contains "apache". [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3512 *) SIGPIPE is now ignored by the server core. The request write routines
3513 (ap_rputc, ap_rputs, ap_rvputs, ap_rwrite, ap_rprintf, ap_rflush) now
3514 correctly check for output errors and mark the connection as aborted.
3515 Replaced many direct (unchecked) calls to ap_b* routines with the
3516 analogous ap_r* calls. [Roy Fielding]
3518 *) Enhanced mod_rewrite's mapfile handling: The in-core cache for text and
3519 DBM format mapfiles now uses a 4-way hash table with LRU functionality.
3520 Furthermore map lookups for non-existent keys are now cached as well.
3521 Additionally "txt" maps are now parsed with simple string functions
3522 instead of using ap_pregcomp(). As a side effect a bug that prevented
3523 the usage of keys containing the "," character was fixed.
3524 The changes drastically improve the performance when large rewrite maps
3526 [Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.swb.de>, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3160
3528 *) Added ap_sub_req_method_uri() for doing a subrequest with a method
3529 other than GET, and const'd the definition of method in request_rec.
3532 *) Use proper pid_t type for saving PIDs in alloc.c. [John Bley]
3534 *) Replaced use of WIN32 define with HAVE_DRIVE_LETTERS to indicate
3535 when the OS allows a DOS drive letter within pathnames. [Brian Havard]
3537 *) Add %V to mod_log_config, this logs the hostname according to the
3538 UseCanonicalName setting (this is the pre-1.3.4 behaviour of
3539 %v). Useful for mass vhosting. [Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>]
3541 *) Add support for \n and \t to mod_log_config, can be used to produce
3542 more reliable logs with multiline entries. [Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>]
3544 *) Fixed a few compiler nits. [John Bley <jbb6@acpub.duke.edu>]
3546 *) Added informative error messages for failed munmap() and fseek() calls
3547 in http_core.c. [John Bley, Roy Fielding]
3549 *) Added some informative error messages for some failed malloc()
3550 calls. [John Bley <jbb6@acpub.duke.edu>, Jim Jagielski]
3552 *) OS/2 ap_os_canonical_filename()'s behaviour is improved: ap_assert()
3553 is removed. This allows <Directory proxy:*> directives to work and
3554 prevents invalid requests from killing the process.
3555 [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
3557 *) Reorganised FAQ document.
3558 [Joshua Slive <slive@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>] PR#2497
3560 *) src/support/: The ApacheBench benchmark program was overhauled by
3561 David N. Welton: you can now have it generate an HTML TABLE, presumably
3562 for integration into other HTML sources. David updated the ab man page
3563 as well and added some missing descriptions. Thanks!
3564 [David N. Welton <davidw@prosa.it>]
3566 *) Win32: The filename validity checker now allows filenames containing
3567 characters in the range 0x80 to 0xff (for example accented characters).
3568 [Paul Sutton] PR#3890
3570 *) Added conditional logging based upon environment variables to
3571 mod_log_config. mod_log_referer and mod_log_agent
3572 are now deprecated. [Ken Coar]
3574 *) Allow apache acting as a proxy server to relay the real
3575 reason of a failure to a client rather than the "internal
3576 server error" it does currently. The general exposure mechanism
3577 can be triggered by any module by setting the "verbose-error-to"
3578 note to "*"; this allows more than just proxy errors to be exposed.
3579 [Cliff Skolnick, Roy Fielding, Martin Kraemer] Related to PR#3455, 4086
3581 *) Moved man pages for ab and apachectrl to section 8.
3582 [Wilfredo Sanchez, Roy Fielding]
3584 *) Added -S option to install.sh so that options can be passed to
3585 strip on some platforms. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Wilfredo Sanchez]
3587 *) Tweak modules Makefile generated by Configure so that it handles
3588 the test case of no modules being selected. [chaz@reliant.com]
3590 *) Added a <LimitExcept method ...> sectioning directive that allows
3591 the user to assign authentication control to any HTTP method that
3592 is *not* given in the argument list; i.e., the logical negation
3593 of the <Limit> directive. This is particularly useful for controlling
3594 access on methods unknown to the Apache core, but perhaps known by
3595 some module or CGI script. [Roy Fielding, Tony Finch]
3597 *) Prevent apachectl from complaining if the PIDFILE exists but
3598 does not contain a process id, as might occur if the server is
3599 being rapidly restarted. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
3601 *) Win32: Add global symbols missing from ApacheCore.def. [Carl Olsen]
3603 *) Entity tag comparisons for If-Match and If-None-Match were not being
3604 performed correctly -- weak tags might cause false positives. Also,
3605 strong comparison wasn't properly enforced in all cases.
3606 [Roy Fielding, Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet] PR#2065, 3657
3608 *) OS/2: Supply OS/2 error code instead of errno on semaphore errors.
3611 *) Work around a bug in Lynx regarding its sending "Negotiate: trans"
3612 even though it doesn't understand TCN. [Koen Holtman, Roy Fielding]
3614 *) Added ap_size_list_item(), ap_get_list_item(), and ap_find_list_item()
3615 to util.c for parsing an HTTP header field value to extract the next
3616 list item, taking into account the possible presence of nested comments,
3617 quoted-pairs, and quoted-strings. ap_get_list_item() also removes
3618 insignificant whitespace and lowercases non-quoted tokens.
3619 [Roy Fielding] PR#2065
3621 *) proxy: The various calls to ap_proxyerror() can return HTTP/1.1 status
3622 code different from 500. This allows the proxy to, e.g., return
3623 "403 Forbidden" for ProxyBlock'ed URL's. [Martin Kraemer] Related to PR#3455
3625 *) Fix ordering of language variants for the case where the traditional
3626 negotiation algorithm is being used with multiple language variants
3627 and no Accept-Language. [James Treacy <treacy@debian.org>] PR#3299, 3688
3629 *) Do not round the TCN quality calculation to 5 decimal places,
3630 unlike RFC 2296, because the calculation might need 12 decimal places
3631 to get the right result. [Roy Fielding]
3633 *) Remove unused code to disable transparent negotiation when
3634 negotiating on encoding only, as we now handle encoding too
3635 (though this is nonstandard for TCN), remove charset=ISO-8859-1
3636 fiddle from the fiddle-averse RVSA comparison, and fix bugs in
3637 some debugging statements within mod_negotiation. [Koen Holtman]
3639 *) Fixed a rare memory corruption possibility in mod_dir if the index
3640 file is negotiable and no acceptable variant can be found.
3641 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Martin Kraemer]
3643 *) Win32: Add new config directive, ScriptInterpreterSource, to enable
3644 searching the Win32 registry for script interpreters.
3647 *) Win32: The compiled-in default filename for the error log is now
3648 error.log, which matches the default in the distributed httpd.conf.
3651 *) Win32: Any error messages from -i or -u command line options are now
3652 displayed on the console output rather than sent to the error log.
3653 Also the "Running Apache..." message is not output unless Apache is
3654 going to serve requests. [Paul Sutton]
3656 *) Rework the MD5 authentication scheme to use FreeBSD's algorithm,
3657 and use a private significator ('$apr1$') to mark passwords as
3658 being smashed with our own algorithm. Also abstract the password
3659 checking into a new ap_validate_password() routine. [Ken Coar]
3661 *) Win32: The filename validity checker now allows "COM" but refuses
3662 access to "COM1" through "COM4". This allows filenames such
3663 as "com.name" to be served. [Paul Sutton] PR#3769.
3665 *) BS2000: Adapt to the new ufork() system call interface which will
3666 make subtasking easier on the OSD/POSIX mainframe environment.
3669 *) Add a compatibility define for escape_uri() -> ap_escape_uri() to
3670 ap_compat.h. [David White <david@persimmon.com>] PR#3725
3672 *) Make NDBM file suffix determination for mod_rewrite more accurate, i.e.
3673 use `.db' instead of `.pag' not only for FreeBSD, but also when
3674 the NDBM library looks like Berkeley-DB based.
3675 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3773
3677 *) Add ability to handle DES or MD5 authentication passwords.
3678 [Ryan Bloom <rbb@Raleigh.IBM.Com>]
3680 *) Fix O(n^2) memory consumption in mod_speling. [Dean Gaudet]
3682 *) SECURITY: Avoid some buffer overflow problems when escaping
3683 quoted strings. (This overflow was on the heap and we believe
3684 impossible to exploit.) [Rick Perry <perry@ece.vill.edu>]
3686 *) Let src/Configure be aware of CFLAGS options starting with plus
3687 signs as it's the case for the HP/UX compiler.
3688 [Doug Yatcilla <yatcilda@umdnj.edu>] PR#3681
3690 *) Remove the hard-wire of TAR=tar (we now check for gtar and gnutar first)
3691 and check to see if the tar we wind up with supports '-h'.
3692 [Jim Jagielski] PR#3671
3694 *) A consistent and conservative style for all shell scripts has been
3695 implemented. Basically, all shell string tests use the traditional
3696 hack of 'if [ "x$var" != "x" ]' or 'if [ "x$var" = "xstring" ]'
3697 to protect against bare null variable strings (ie: wrapping both
3698 sides with double quotes and prepending 'x'). 'x' was chosen
3699 because it's more universal and hopefully easier for old shell
3700 prgrammers, as well as being easier to search for in 'vi' (/x\$) :)
3703 *) The status module now prints out both the main server generation as
3704 well as the generation of each process. Also, the vhost info is
3705 printed with '?notable'. [Jim Jagielski]
3707 *) Move src/main/md5c.c to src/ap/ap_md5c.c; it's httpd-neutral
3708 and this makes its functions available to things in src/support.
3711 Changes with Apache 1.3.4
3713 *) Renamed macros status_drops_connection to ap_status_drops_connection
3714 and vestigial scan_script_header to ap_scan_script_header_err,
3715 mostly for aesthetic reasons. [Roy Fielding]
3717 *) The query switch "httpd -S" didn't exit after showing the
3718 vhost settings. That was inconsistent with the other query functions.
3721 *) Moved the MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE from before the versions and
3722 filename to the end of the STANDARD_MODULE_STUFF. Its
3723 presence at the beginning prevented reporting of the filename
3724 for modules compiled before 1 January 1999. [Ken Coar]
3726 *) SECURITY: ap_os_is_filename_valid() has been added to Win32
3727 to detect and prevent access to special DOS device file names.
3728 [Paul Sutton, Ken Parzygnat]
3730 *) WIN32: Created new makefiles Makefile_win32.txt (normal build)
3731 and Makefile_win32_debug.txt (debug build) that work on Win95.
3732 Run each of the following from the src directory:
3733 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt # compiles normal build
3734 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt install # compiles and installs
3735 nmake /f Makefile_win32.txt clean # removes compiled junk
3736 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt # compiles debug build
3737 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt install
3738 nmake /f Makefile_win32_debug.txt clean
3741 *) Added binbuild.sh and findprg.sh helpers to make it easier for us
3742 to build binary distributions. [Lars Eilebrecht]
3744 *) IndexOptions SuppressColumnSorting only turned off making
3745 the column headers anchors; you could still change the display
3746 order by manually adding a '?N=A' or similar query string to the
3747 URL. Now SuppressColumnSorting locks in the sort order so
3748 it can't be overridden this way. [Ken Coar]
3750 *) Added IndexOrderDefault directive to supply a default sort order
3751 for FancyIndexed directory listings. [Ken Coar] PR#1699
3753 *) Change the ap_assert macro to a variant that works on all platforms.
3754 [Richard Prinz <richard.prinz@cso.net>] PR#2575
3756 *) Make sure under ELF-based NetBSD (now) and OpenBSD (future) we don't
3757 search for an underscore on dlsym() (as it's already the case
3758 for FreeBSD 3.0). [Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>] PR#2462
3760 *) Small fix for mod_env.html: The module was documented as to be _not_
3761 compiled into Apache per default, although it _IS_ compiled into
3762 Apache per default. [Sim Harbert <sim@mindspring.com>] PR#3572
3764 *) Instead of fixing a bug in the generation procedure for config.status (a
3765 backslash was missing) we remove the bug together with it's complete
3766 context because the special cases of the past can now no longer occur
3767 because of the recent magic for the --with-layout default.
3768 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3590
3770 *) Make top-level Makefile aware of a parallel build procedures (make -j) by
3771 making sure the src/support/ tools are _forced_ to be build last (they
3772 depend on other libraries).
3773 [Markus Theissinger <markus.theissinger@gmx.de>]
3775 *) Fix installation procedure: Now that os-inline.c is actually used (a
3776 recently fixed bug prevented this) we need to also install os-include.c
3777 in addition to os.h into the PREFIX/include/ location or building of
3778 module DSOs with APXS fails. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3527
3780 *) Added MODULE_MAGIC_COOKIE as the first field in a module structure to
3781 allow us to distinguish between a garbled DSO (or even a file which isn't
3782 an Apache module DSO at all) and a DSO which doesn't match the current
3783 Apache API. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3152
3785 *) Two minor enhancements to mod_rewrite: First RewriteRule now also
3786 supports the ``nocase|NC'' flag (as RewriteCond already does for ages) to
3787 match case insensitive (this especially avoids nasty patterns like
3788 `[tT][eE][sS][tT]'). Second two additional internal map functions
3789 `escape' and `unescape' were added which can be used to escape/unescape
3790 to/from hex-encodings in URLs parts (this is especially useful in
3791 combination with map lookups).
3792 [Magnus Bodin, Ian Kallen, Ralf S. Engelschall]
3794 *) Renamed the macro escape_uri() to ap_escape_uri() which was
3795 forgotten (because it was a macro) in the symbol renaming process.
3796 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3798 *) Fix some inconsistencies related to the scopes of directives. The only
3799 user visible change is that the directives `UseCanonicalName' and
3800 `ContentDigest' now use the (more correct) `Options' scope instead of
3801 (less correct) `AuthConfig' scope. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3803 *) Using DSO, the Server token was being mangled. Specifically, the
3804 module's token was being added first before the Apache token. This
3805 has been fixed. [Jim Jagielski]
3807 *) Major overhaul of mod_negotiation.c, part 2.
3808 - properly handle "identity" within Accept-Encoding.
3809 - allow encoded variants in RVSA negotiation and let them appear in
3810 the Alternates field using the non-standard "encoding" tag-list.
3811 - fixed both negotiation algorithms so that an explicitly accepted
3812 encoding is preferred over no encoding if "identity" is not
3813 included within Accept-Encoding.
3814 - added ap_array_pstrcat() to alloc.c for efficient concatenation
3815 of large substring sequences.
3816 - replaced O(n^2) memory hogs in mod_negotiation with ap_array_pstrcat.
3819 *) Major overhaul of mod_negotiation.c, part 1.
3820 - cleanups to mod_negotiation comments and code structure
3821 - made compliant with HTTP/1.1 proposed standard (rfc2068) and added
3822 support for everything in the upcoming HTTP/1.1
3823 revision (draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-06.txt).
3824 - language tag matching also handles tags with more than 2
3826 - empty Accept, Accept-Language, Accept-Charset headers are
3827 processed correctly; previously an empty header would make all
3828 values acceptable instead of unacceptable.
3829 - allowed for q values in Accept-Encoding
3830 - added support for transparent content negotiation (rfc2295 and
3831 rfc2296) (though we do not implement all features in these drafts,
3832 e.g. no feature negotiation). Removed old experimental version.
3833 - implemented 'structured entity tags' for better cache correctness
3834 (structured entity tags ensure that caches which can deal with Vary
3835 will (eventually) be updated if the set of variants on the server
3837 - this involved adding a vlist_validator element to request_rec
3838 - this involved adding the ap_make_etag() function to the global API
3839 - modified guessing of charsets used by Apache negotiation algorithm
3840 to guess 'no charset' if the variant is not a text/* type
3841 - added code to sort multiviews variants into a canonical order so that
3842 negotiation results are consistent across backup/restores and mirrors
3843 - removed possibility of a type map file resolving to another type map
3844 file as its best variant
3845 [Koen Holtman, Roy Fielding, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3451, 3299, 1987
3847 *) RFC2396 allows the syntax http://host:/path (with no port number)
3848 but the proxy disallowed it (ap_proxy_canon_netloc()).
3849 [David Kristol <dmk@bell-labs.com>] PR#3530
3851 *) When modules update/modify the file name in the configfile_t structure,
3852 syntax errors will report the updated name, not the original one.
3853 [Fabien Coelho <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>] PR#3573
3855 *) Correct some filename case assumptions from WIN32 to
3856 CASE_BLIND_FILESYSTEM. [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
3858 *) For %v log ServerName regardless of the UseCanonicalName
3859 setting (similarly for %p). [Dean Gaudet]
3861 *) Configure was initializing the variables $OSDIR, $INCDIR and $SHELL
3862 rather late (too late for some invocations of TestCompile).
3863 This improves the make environment available to TestCompile and
3864 the *.module scripts. [Martin Kraemer]
3866 *) The hashbang emulation code in ap_execve.c would interpret
3867 #!/hashbang/scripts correctly, but failed to fall back to a
3868 standard shell for scripts which did NOT start with #!
3869 Now SHELL_PATH is started in these cases. [Martin Kraemer]
3871 *) PORT: Added the Cyberguard V2 port [Richard Stagg <stagg@lentil.org>]
3874 *) Update APXS manual page: some -q option arguments were missing
3875 and another was incorrect. [Mark Anderson <mda@discerning.com>] PR#3553
3877 *) Cleanup the command line options: `-?' was documented to show
3878 the usage list but does it with an error because `?' is not a valid
3879 command. OTOH a lot of users expect `-h' to print such a usage list and
3880 instead are annoyed for ages by our huge unreadable list of directives.
3881 So we now changed the command line options this way:
3883 Intent: we need `-L' to be free, and `-R' for the DSO run-time path is
3884 very similar to the popular linker option.
3886 Intent: while -l gives the small list of modules, -L now gives the
3887 large list of directives implemented by these modules. This is also
3888 consistent with -v (short version info) and -V (large version info).
3890 Intent: it's now the expected option ;-)
3891 The manual page was adjusted accordingly.
3892 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2714
3894 *) Fixed problem of fclose() on an unopened file in suexec if LOG_EXEC
3895 wasn't defined. [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>]
3897 *) Removed recently introduced bugs and disfigurements in APACI:
3898 o fixed argument line processing: using $args was broken: It was not
3899 initialized and using args="$args $apc_option" and even args="$args
3900 \"$apc_option\"" fails in the second processing round for any arguments
3901 containing whitespaces. The only correct way is to use the construct
3902 "$@" (but not possible here) or iterate _both_ times over the implicit
3903 argument line (no argument to for-loop) which is what we now use.
3904 o make --with-layout=Apache the default without creating
3905 redundancy (copying the --with-layout block in the argument parsing
3906 loop). We achieve this by using the "$@" construct together with the
3907 `set' command to prepend --with-layout=Apache to the command line in
3908 case --with-layout is not used.
3909 o fixed auto-suffix handling now that config.layout exists.
3910 Paths which are auto-suffixed are marked with a trailing plus sign in
3911 config.layout and every path now can be marked this way (not only the
3912 four paths for which we do it currently). Additionally the suffix is
3913 no longer a static one. Instead it's now `/<target>' where <target> is
3914 the argument of the --target option or per default `httpd'.
3915 o allow also tabs (and only spaces) where we match whitespaces
3916 o various fixes and cleanups related to used shell coding style
3917 o made Jim happy by replacing `Written by' with `Initially written by' ;-)
3918 o trimmed output of --help to fit into 80 columns
3919 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3921 *) Added two new core API functions, ap_single_module_configure() and
3922 ap_single_module_init(), which are now used by mod_so to configure a module
3923 after loading. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3925 *) PORT: Add defines for USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT and
3926 SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT to NetBSD/OpenBSD section
3927 of ap_config.h to allow serialized accept for multiport listens.
3928 [Roy Fielding, Curt Sampson] PR#3120
3930 *) PORT: Fixed a misplaced #endif for NetBSD/OpenBSD section
3931 of ap_config.h that would skip several defines if DEFAULT_GROUP
3932 was overridden. [Roy Fielding]
3934 *) PORT: The I86 version of DGUX has support for strncasecmp and
3935 strcasecmp, so allow it in ap_config.h. [Amiel Lee Yee] PR#3247
3937 *) Fix ordering of definitions in ap_config.h so that ap_inline is
3938 defined before it might be used. [Victor Khimenko]
3940 *) PORT: Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for BSDI (v4.0).
3941 [Tom Serkowski <tks@bsdi.com>] PR#3453
3943 *) Make generation of src/Configuration.apaci more robust: It failed to
3944 differenciate between modules when one module name was a postfix of
3945 another (e.g. cgi vs. fastcgi). We now check for mod_XXX, libXXX and even
3946 just XXX (think about totally non-standard names like "apache_ssl", too).
3947 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3380
3949 *) In src/Configure remove the SERVER_SUBVERSION support (already deprecated
3950 since 1.3b7) and make whitespace handling more robust (it failed horrible
3951 when whitespaces were present in the arguments of -D options).
3952 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3240
3954 *) Add APACI --shadow=DIR variant (in addition to --shadow). This now first
3955 creates an external package shadow tree in DIR before the local build
3956 shadow tree is generated under DIR. This way one can have the extracted
3957 Apache distribution tree read-only on NFS or CDROM and still build Apache
3958 from these sources. An automatically triggered VPATH-like mechanism is
3959 provided through the TOP variable, too.
3960 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
3962 *) Fix negotiation so that a Vary response header is correctly
3963 generated when, for a particular dimension, variants only vary
3964 in having or not having a value for that dimension. [Paul Sutton]
3966 *) Fix negotiation so that we prefer an encoded variant over an
3967 unencoded variant if the user-agent explicitly says it can
3968 accept that encoding. Previously we always preferred the unencoded
3970 [Paul Ausbeck <paula@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu>, Paul Sutton] PR#3447
3972 *) Fix APXS tool: query variables LIBS_SHLIB and TARGET were not recognized
3973 and the usage page was inconsistent with the functionality and manpage.
3974 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3976 *) Allow special options -Wc,xxx and -Wl,xxx on APXS compile/link command.
3977 They can occur multiple times and their arguments (`xxx') are passed AS
3978 IS to the compiler/linker command. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3980 *) Fixed possible (but harmless in practice) bug in the DBM lookup
3981 procedure of mod_rewrite: very long keys were truncated.
3982 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
3984 *) Added a generic --with-layout=[FILE:]ID option. ID here is a layout
3985 identifier, currently "Apache" and "GNU" are pre-defined in the file
3986 config.layout. Custom layouts are possible by using FILE:ID as the
3987 argument where the layout ID is taken from FILE.
3989 The config.layout file consists of <Layout ID>..</Layout> sections
3990 where inside those sections "path_variable: path_value" pairs can be
3991 specified. These lines are converted to path_variable='path_value'.
3993 *) Add a DefaultLanguage directive so that files missing a language
3994 extension (e.g., .fr, .de) can be labelled as being some other
3995 default language. DefaultLanguage can appear in <Directory> and
3996 <Files> containers as well as .htaccess files. [Paul Sutton]
3999 *) Fix TARGET configuration when configuring and installing using
4000 APACI configure. TARGET now defines the basename of the configuration
4001 file, startup script, manual page, etc. log_error_core() now reports
4002 the server binary name given by argv[0]. TARGET can now also be defined
4003 with --target=TARGET parameter passed to APACI configure.
4004 [Ralf Engelschall, Randy Terbush]
4006 *) mod_include.c:handle_perl() now properly tests for OPT_INCNOEXEC
4007 rather than OPT_INCLUDES [Rainer Schoepf <schoepf@uni-mainz.de>]
4009 *) ap_md5_binary() was using sprintf() rather than a table lookup
4010 to convert binary bytes to hex digits.
4011 [Ronald Tschalär <ronald@innovation.ch>] PR#3409
4013 *) Fix SEGV in TCN negotiation if no variants are acceptable.
4014 [Martin Plechsmid <plechsmi@karlin.mff.cuni.cz>] PR#1987
4016 *) API: ap_exists_config_define() function is now "public" [Doug MacEachern]
4018 *) Fix documentation of `Action' directive: It can activate a CGI script
4019 when either a handler or a MIME content type is triggered by the request.
4020 [Andrew Pimlott <pimlott@math.harvard.edu>] PR#3340
4022 *) Document the `add' command of `dbmmanage' in `dbmmanage.1' manpage.
4023 [David MacKenzie <djm@uu.net>] PR#3394
4025 *) Ignore a "ErrorDocument 401" directive with a full URL and write a
4026 notice to the error log. It is not possible to send a 401 response
4027 and a redirect at the same time. [Lars Eilebrecht]
4029 *) Fallback to native compilers for IRIX-32 platform. It seems that
4030 a gcc 2.8.1 compiled apache is logging client addresses with all
4031 bits set (255.255.255.255). This is the second such problem caused
4032 by gcc 2.8.1 compiler. The first being broken semaphore locking.
4035 *) Updated mime.types to reflect current Internet media types
4036 and include a URL to the registry.
4037 [Manoj Kasichainula, Roy Fielding] PR#2380, 2286, 2246
4039 *) SECURITY: Do a more complete check in mod_include to avoid
4040 an infinite loop of recursive SSI includes. [Marc Slemko] PR#3323
4042 *) Add APACI --suexec-docroot and --suexec-logfile options which can be
4043 used to set the document root directory (DOC_ROOT) and the suexec
4044 logfile (LOG_EXEC), respectively. Additionally the --layout option
4045 was changed to show more information about the suEXEC setup.
4046 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#3316, 3357, 3361
4048 *) Added the last two WebDAV status codes of 424 (Failed Dependency)
4049 and 507 (Insufficient Storage) for use by third-party modules.
4052 *) Enabled all of the WebDAV method names for use by third-party
4053 modules, Limit, and Script directives. That includes PATCH,
4054 PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, MKCOL, COPY, MOVE, LOCK, and UNLOCK.
4055 Improved mod_actions.c so that it can use any of the methods
4056 defined in httpd.h. Added ap_method_number_of(method) for
4057 getting the internal method number. [Roy Fielding]
4059 *) PORT: Add a port to the TPF OS. [Joe Moenich <moenich@us.ibm.com> and
4062 *) Fix problems with handling of UNC names (e.g., \\host\path)
4063 on Win32. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
4065 *) Rework os_canonical_*() on Win32 so it's simpler, more
4066 robust, and works. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
4067 PR#2555, 2915, 3064, 3232
4069 *) Work around incomplete implementation of strftime on Win32.
4070 [Manoj Kasichainula, Ken Parzygnat <kparz@us.ibm.com>]
4072 *) Move a typedef to fix compile problems on Linux with 1.x kernels.
4073 [Manoj Kasichainula] PR#3177
4075 *) PORT: Add a port to the Concurrent PowerMAX OS. [Tom Horsley
4076 <Tom.Horsley@mail.ccur.com>]
4078 *) WIN32: Log more explicit error messages if spawning an interpreted
4079 script failed, including the command line used to attempt to execute
4080 the interpreter and the Win32 error code returned. [Marc Slemko]
4082 *) Disable sending of error-notes on a 500 (Internal Server Error) response
4083 since it often includes file path info. Enable sending of error-notes
4084 on a 501 (Method Not Implemented). [Roy Fielding] PR#3173
4086 *) http_config.c would respond with 501 (Method Not Implemented) if a
4087 content type handler was specified but could not be found, which
4088 should have been a 500 response. Likewise, mod_proxy.c would responsd
4089 with a 501 if the URI scheme is unrecognized instead of the correct
4090 response of 403 (Forbidden). [Roy Fielding]
4092 *) SECURITY: Eliminate DoS attack when a bad URI path contains what
4093 looks like a printf format escape. [Marc Slemko, Studenten Net Twente]
4095 *) Fix in mod_autoindex: for files where the last modified time stamp was
4096 unavailable, an empty string was printed which was 2 bytes short.
4097 The size and description columns were therefore not aligned correctly.
4098 [Martin Kraemer] (no PR#)
4100 *) Update BS2000 OS code to work with recent versions. Starting with
4101 release A17, the child fork() must be replaced by a _rfork().
4102 (BS2000 only) [Martin Kraemer]
4104 *) Add the actual server_rec structure of the specific Vhost to the
4105 scoreboard file and avoid a string copy (as well as allow some
4106 further future enhancements). [Harrie Hazewinkel
4107 <harrie.hazewinkel@jrc.it>]
4109 *) Add APACI --permute-module=foo:bar option which can be used to
4110 on-the-fly/batch permute the order of two modules (mod_foo and mod_bar)
4111 in the Configuration[.apaci] file. Two special and important variants are
4112 supported for the option argument: first BEGIN:foo which permutes module
4113 mod_foo with the begin of the module list, i.e. it `moves' the module to
4114 the begin of the list (gives it lowest priority). And second foo:END
4115 which permutes mod_foo with the end of the module list, i.e. it `moves'
4116 the module to the end of the list (gives it highest priority).
4117 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4119 *) Fix problem with 'apache -k shutdown' and startup event
4120 synchronisation (Win32). [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>]
4123 *) The config parser wasn't correctly noticing a missing '>'
4124 on container start lines (e.g., it wouldn't spot
4125 "<Directory /" as a syntax error). [Ryan Bloom <rbbloom@us.ibm.com>]
4128 *) Add a 'RemoveHandler' directive which will selectively remove
4129 all handler associations for the specified file extensions.
4130 [Ryan Bloom <rbbloom@us.ibm.com>] PR#1799.
4132 *) Properly handle & allow "nul" and ".*/null" in AccessConfig and
4133 ResourceConfig directives on Win32. Also add a note to the effect
4134 of 'useless User directive ignored on Win32' to the errorlog if
4135 a User directive is encountered on Win32.
4136 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2078, 2303.
4138 *) Fix multiple whitespace handling in imagemaps for mod_imap which was
4139 broken since Apache 1.3.1 where we took out compressing of multiple
4140 spaces in ap_cfg_getline().
4141 [Ivan Richwalski <ivan@seppuku.net>] PR#3249
4143 *) Fix Berkeley-DB/2.x support in mod_auth_db: The data structures were not
4144 initialized correctly and the db_open() call used an invalid mode
4145 parameter. [Ron Klatchko <ron@ckm.ucsf.edu>] PR#3171
4147 *) PORT: DSO support for UnixWare 7
4148 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Ron Record <rr@sco.com>]
4150 *) Merge the contents of the {srm,access}.conf-dist* files into the
4151 httpd.conf-dist* files. The srm and access files now contain
4152 only comments, and httpd.conf has all the combined contents in
4153 a rational order. [Ken Coar]
4155 *) PORT: DSO/ELF support for FreeBSD 3.0.
4156 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Dirk Froemberg <ibex@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>]
4158 *) Add a "default-handler" handler that calls the default_hander()
4159 function which is normally called for static content. This allows
4160 you to override a specific handler. [Marc Slemko]
4162 *) Further simplify checking for absolute paths by replacing an
4163 hard-coded syntax check with a call to a routine we already created to
4164 do this. [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2976, 3074
4166 *) Log an error if we encounter a malformed "require" directive
4167 in mod_auth if we know that we know that no other module can
4168 deal with it. [Marc Slemko]
4170 *) Remove ap_private_extern method of hiding conflicting symbols
4171 on the NEXT platform because it is not correct for all versions,
4172 and the versions for which it is correct are unknown.
4173 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
4175 *) Fix inheritance of IndexOptions NameWidth and remove unintended
4176 restriction on +NameWidth, +IconHeight, and +IconWidth. [Ken Coar]
4178 *) Fix per-directory config merging for cases in which a 500 error
4179 is encountered in an .htaccess file somewhere down the tree.
4182 *) Minor performance improvement to ap_escape_html(). [Roy Fielding]
4184 *) Fixed a segmentation violation in mod_proxy when a response is
4185 non-cachable. [Roy Fielding, traced by Doug Bloebaum]. PR#2950, 3056
4187 Changes with Apache 1.3.3
4189 *) Added a complete implementation of the Expect header field as
4190 specified in rev-05 of HTTP/1.1. Disabled the 100 Continue
4191 response when we already know the final status, which is mighty
4192 useful for PUT responses that result in 302 or 401. [Roy Fielding]
4194 *) Remove extra trailing whitespace from the getline results as part
4195 of the protocol processing, which is extra nice because it works
4196 between continuation lines, is almost no cost in the normal case
4197 of no extra whitespace, and saves memory. [Roy Fielding]
4199 *) Added new HTTP status codes and default response bodies from the
4200 revised HTTP/1.1 (307, 416, 417), WebDAV (102, 207, 422, 423), and
4201 HTTP Extension Framework (510) specifications. Did not add the
4202 WebDAV 424 and 425 codes because they are bogus. We don't use any
4203 of these codes yet, but they are now available to 3rd-party modules.
4206 *) Fix a possible race condition between timed-out requests and the
4207 ap_bhalfduplex select that might result in an infinite loop on
4208 platforms that do not validate the descriptor. [Roy Fielding]
4210 *) WIN32: Add "-k shutdown" and "-k restart" options to signal a
4211 running Apache server [Paul Sutton]
4213 *) Fix mod_autoindex bug where directories got a size of "0k" instead
4214 of "-". [Martin Plechsmid <plechsmi@karlin.mff.cuni.cz>, Marc Slemko]
4217 *) PORT: DRS 6000 machine. [Paul Debleecker <pdebleecker@jetair.be>]
4219 *) Add the server signature text (from the core ServerSignature directive)
4220 to the list of envariables available to scripts, SSI, and the like.
4223 *) PORT: Fix sys/resource.h handling for SCO 3.x platform.
4224 [M. Laak <maert@proinv.ee>] PR#3108
4226 *) Fallback from sysconf-based to plain HZ-based `ticks per second'
4227 calculation in mod_status for all systems which don't have POSIX
4228 sysconf() (like UTS 2.1) and not only for the NEXT platform.
4229 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#3055
4231 *) Fix `require ...' directive parsing in mod_auth, mod_auth_dbm and
4232 mod_auth_db by using ap_getword_white() (which uses ap_isspace())
4233 instead of ap_getword(..., ' ') (which parses only according to spaces
4234 but not tabs). [James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>,
4235 Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3105
4237 *) Fix the SERVER_NAME variable under sub-request situations (where
4238 `UseCanonicalName off' is used) like CGI's called from SSI pages or
4239 RewriteCond variables by adopting r->hostname to sub-requests.
4240 [James Grinter <jrg@blodwen.demon.co.uk>] PR#3111
4242 *) Fix stderr redirection under syslog-based error logging situation.
4243 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#3095
4245 *) Document `ErrorLog syslog:facility' variant of error logging.
4246 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#3096
4248 *) Fix http://localhost/ hints in top-level INSTALL document.
4249 [Rob Jenson <robjen@spotch.com>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#3088
4251 *) Quote paths in default configuration files. [Wilfredo Sanchez]
4253 *) PORT: Remove extra HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H define for RHAPSODY since
4254 it is now taken care of properly by the header file tests.
4255 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
4257 *) Fix problem with scripts and filehandle inheritance on Win32.
4258 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2884, 2910
4260 *) Win32 name canonicalisation could end up using the server's
4261 working directory to fill in some blanks. [Ken Parzygnat
4262 <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#3001
4264 *) Correct invalid assumption by ap_sub_req_lookup_file() that all
4265 absolute paths begin with "/" -- because they don't on Win32.
4266 [Ken Parzygnat <kparz@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2976, 3074
4268 *) Add [REDIRECT_]VARIANTS environment variable to mod_speling
4269 so that ErrorDocument 300 processors can reformat the list
4270 if desired. [Ken Coar] PR#2859
4272 *) Add +/- incremental prefixes to IndexOptions keywords, and
4273 enable merging of multiple IndexOptions directives. [Ken Coar]
4275 *) PORT: Allow GuessOS to recognize Unixware 7.0.1 [Steve Cameron
4276 <steve.cameron@compaq.com>]
4278 *) Reconstructed the loop through multiple htaccess file names so
4279 that missing files are not confused with unreadable files.
4282 *) The ap_pfopen and ap_pfdopen routines were failing to protect the
4283 errno on an error, which leads to one error being mistaken for
4284 another when reading non-existent .htaccess files.
4287 *) OS/2: The new header tests get things right, need to update
4288 ap_config.h. [Brian Havard]
4290 *) The Perl %ENV hash will now be setup by default when using the
4291 mod_include `perl' command [Doug MacEachern]
4293 *) PORT: Add Pyramid DC/OSx support to configuration mechanism.
4294 [Earle Ake <akee@wpdiss1.wpafb.af.mil>]
4296 *) PORT: Fix sys/resource.h handling for Amdahl's UTS 2.1
4297 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#3054
4299 *) Correct comment in mod_log_config.c about its internals.
4300 [Elf Sternberg <elf@halcyon.com>]
4302 *) Avoid possible line overflow in Configure: Use an awkfile to
4303 handle the creation of modules.c [Jim Jagielski]
4305 Changes with Apache 1.3.2
4307 *) Fix bug in ap_remove_module(), which caused problems for dso's
4308 who were the top_module. [Doug MacEachern]
4310 *) Add support for Berkeley-DB/2.x (in addition to Berkeley-DB/1.x) to
4311 mod_auth_db to both be friendly to users who wants to use this version
4312 and to avoid problems under platforms where only version 2.x is present.
4313 [Dan Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
4315 *) When using ap_log_rerror(), make the error message available to the
4316 *ERROR_NOTES envariables by default. [Ken Coar]
4318 *) BS2000 platform only: get rid of the nasty BS2000AuthFile.
4319 You now must define a BS2000Account name for the server User.
4320 This has fewer security implications than the old approach.
4323 *) Fix SHARED_CORE feature for HPUX platform: We now use extension `.sl'
4324 instead of `.so' and `SHLIB_PATH' instead of `LD_LIBRARY_PATH' on this
4325 platform to make the braindead HPUX linker happy. Notice, for the module
4326 DSOs we don't have to use this, because these are loaded manually (and
4327 not via HPUX' dld). [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2905, PR#2968
4329 *) Remove 64 thread limit on Win32.
4330 [Bill Stoddard <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com>]
4332 *) Remove redundant substitutions in top-level Makefile.tmpl.
4333 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4335 *) Fix APACI's `Group' configuration adjustment - especially for Linux
4336 platforms where `nogroup' exists in /etc/group. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4338 *) Make PrintPath work generically instead of having one version
4339 strictly for OS/2. [Jim Jagielski, Brian Havard]
4341 *) Fix the recently introduced C header file checking: We now use the C
4342 pre-processor pass only (and no longer the complete compiler pass) to
4343 determine whether a C header file exists or not. Because only this way
4344 we're safe against inter-header dependencies (which caused horrible
4345 portability problems). The only drawback is that we now have a CPP
4346 configuration variable which has to be determined first (we do a similar
4347 approach as GNU Autoconf does here). When all fails the user still has
4348 the possibility to override it manually via APACI or src/Configuration.
4349 As a fallback for the header check itself we can directly check the
4350 existance of the file under /usr/include, too.
4351 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2777
4353 *) PORT: Added RHAPSODY (Mac OS X Server) support. MAP_TMPFILE defined
4354 as an alternate mechanism for mmap'd shared memory for RHAPSODY.
4355 ap_private_extern defined to hide symbols that conflict with loaded
4356 dynamic libraries on the NEXT and RHAPSODY platforms.
4357 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
4359 *) Delete PID file on clean shutdowns.
4360 [Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com>] PR#2947
4362 *) Fix mod_auth_*.html documents: NSCA -> NCSA
4363 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#2991
4365 *) Fix INSTALL document: www.gnu.ai.mit.edu -> www.gnu.org
4366 [Karl Berry <karl@gnu.org>] PR#2994
4368 *) Fix dbmmanage.1 manual page.
4369 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>] PR#2992
4371 *) Fix possible buffer overflow situation in suexec.c.
4372 [Jeff Stewart <jws@purdue.edu>] PR#2790
4374 *) Add some more LIBS for the SCO5 platform which are needed for the already
4375 used -lprot. It's actually a bug in SCO5, of course.
4376 [Ronald Record <rr@sco.com>] PR#2533
4378 *) Fix documentation of ProxyPass/ProxyPassReverse according to the
4379 trailing slash problem. [Jon Drukman <jsd@gamespot.com>] PR#2933
4381 *) Remove `-msym' option from LDFLAGS_SHLIB for the Digital UNIX (OSF/1)
4382 platform, because it's only supported under version 4.0 and higher. But
4383 because our GuessOS is still unaware of Digital UNIX versions and the
4384 -msym is just to optimize the DSO statup time a little bit it's safe and
4385 best when we leave it out now. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2969
4387 *) Fix the ap_log_error_old(), ap_log_unixerr() and ap_log_printf()
4388 functions: First all three functions no longer fail on strings containing
4389 "%" chars and second ap_log_printf() no longer does a double-formatting
4390 (instead it directly passes through the message to be formatted to the
4391 real internal formatting function). [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2941
4393 *) Allow "Include" directives anywhere in the server config
4394 files (but not .htaccess files). [Ken Coar] PR#2727
4396 *) The proxy was refusing to serve CONNECT requests except to
4397 port 443 (https://) and 563 (snews://). The new AllowCONNECT
4398 directive allows the configuration of the ports to which a
4399 CONNECT is allowed. [Sameer Parekh, Martin Kraemer]
4401 *) mod_expires will now act on content that is not sent from a file
4402 on disk. Previously it would never add an Expires: header to
4403 any response that did not come from a file on disk; the only
4404 case where it still doesn't (and can't) add one for that type of
4405 content is if you are using a modification date based setting.
4406 [Marc Slemko, Paul Phillips <paulp@go2net.com>]
4408 *) Problems encountered during .htaccess parsing or CGI execution
4409 that lead to a "500 Server Error" condition now provide explanatory
4410 text (in the *ERROR_NOTES envariable) to ErrorDocument 500 scripts.
4413 *) Add NameWidth keyword to IndexOptions directive so that the
4414 width of the filename column is customisable. [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
4417 *) Recognize lowercase _and_ uppercase `uname' results under
4418 SCO OpenServer. [David Coelho <drc@ppt.com>]
4420 *) As duplicate "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" lines within the header seem to be
4421 a common problem of (mis-administrated?) IIS servers, make the apache
4422 proxy immune to these errors (and ignore the duplicates, but log
4423 the fact to error_log). [Martin Kraemer], after the proposal in PR#2914
4425 *) The <IfModule and <IfDefine block starting directives now only
4426 allow exactly one argument. Previously, the optional negation
4427 character '!' could be separated by whitespace without a syntax
4428 error being reported, albeit defeating the IfModule functionality
4429 (enclosed directives would ALWAYS be executed). By using the
4430 stricter syntax, these hard-to-track errors can be avoided.
4433 *) Simplify handling of IndexOptions in mod_autoindex -- and BTW
4434 cause the standalone FancyIndexing directive to logically OR
4435 into any existing IndexOptions settings rather than wiping
4436 them out. [Ken Coar]
4438 *) Changes in ftp proxy: make URL parsing simpler by using the
4440 + Add display of the "current directory" in cases where it's
4441 different from the supplied path (e.g., ftp://user@host/ lives
4442 in /home/user, not in /, therefore clicking on "../" in the
4443 starting directory might send us to /home/).
4444 + When ftp login fails, (esp. when a user name was part of the
4445 URL already), we now return [401 Unauthorized ] to allow the
4446 browser to pop up an authorization dialog. This makes passwords
4447 slightly less visible (they don't appear in the regular log files)
4448 and implements a functionality that other www proxy servers
4452 *) Triggered by the recent "Via:" header changes, the proxy module would
4453 dump core for replies with invalid headers (e.g., duplicate
4454 "HTTP/1.0 200 OK" lines). These errors are now logged and the
4455 core dump is avoided. Also, broken replies are not cached.
4456 [Martin Kraemer] PR#2914
4458 *) new `GprofDir' directive when compiled with -DGPROF, where gprof can
4459 plop gmon.out profile data for each child [Doug MacEachern]
4461 *) Use the construct ``"$@"'' instead of ``$*'' in the generated
4462 config.status script to be immune against arguments with whitespaces.
4463 [Yves Arrouye <yves@apple.com>] PR#2866
4465 *) Replace the inlined information grabbing stuff for the configuration
4466 adjustment feature (no --without-confadjust) with calls to a new helper
4467 script `buildinfo.sh' which is both more flexible and already proofed to
4468 be more robust against platform differences. This mainly fixes the
4469 recently occured ``sed: command garbled: ...'' problems.
4470 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2776, PR#2848
4472 *) Make ab.c again pass ``gcc -Wall -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align
4473 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Winline''
4474 without complains after we recently added the POST feature.
4475 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4477 *) Renamed is_HTTP_xxx() macros to ap_is_HTTP_xxx() name. They are used inside
4478 modules as API functions and we forgot them at the big symbol renaming.
4479 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4481 *) Remove bad reference to non-existing SERVER_VERSION in mod_rewrite.html
4482 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.ORG>] PR#2895
4484 *) Dynamically size the filename column of mod_autoindex output.
4487 *) Add the ability to do POST requests to the ab benchmarking tool.
4488 [Kurt Sussman <kls@best.com>] PR#2871
4490 *) Bump up MAX_ENV_FLAGS in mod_rewrite.h from the too conservatice limit of
4491 5 to 10 because there are some users out there who always have 5 to 8
4492 variables in one RewriteRule and had to patch mod_rewrite.h for every
4493 release. So 15 should be now more than enough, even for them. (I never
4494 needed more than 4 in my RewriteRules ;-)
4495 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4497 *) Make the proxy generate and understand Via: headers
4500 *) Change the proxy to use tables instead of array_headers for
4501 the header lines. [Martin Kraemer]
4503 *) Make sure the config.status file is not overridden when just
4504 ``configure --help'' is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2844
4506 *) Split MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER into _MAJOR/_MINOR numbers. This should
4507 provide a way to trace API changes that add functionality but do
4508 not create a compatibility issue for precompiled modules, etc.
4509 See include/ap_mmn.h for more details. [Randy Terbush]
4511 *) Fix suexec installation under `make install root=xxx' situation.
4512 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4514 *) Extend the output of the -V switch to include the paths of all
4515 compiled-in configuration files, if they were overridden at
4516 compile time, for least astonishment of the user.
4519 *) When READing a request in ExtendedStatus mode, the "old"
4520 vhost, request and client information is not displayed.
4523 *) STATUS is no longer available. Full status information now
4524 run-time configurable using the ExtendedStatus directive.
4527 *) SECURITY: Eliminate O(n^2) space DoS attacks (and other O(n^2)
4528 cpu time attacks) in header parsing. Add ap_overlap_tables(),
4529 a function which can be used to perform bulk update operations
4530 on tables in a more efficient manner. [Dean Gaudet]
4532 *) SECURITY: Added compile-time and configurable limits for
4533 various aspects of reading a client request to avoid some simple
4534 denial of service attacks, including limits on maximum request-line
4535 size (LimitRequestLine), number of header fields (LimitRequestFields),
4536 and size of any one header field (LimitRequestFieldsize). Also added
4537 a configurable directive LimitRequestBody for limiting the size of the
4538 request message body. [Roy Fielding]
4540 *) Make status module aware of DNS and logging states, even if
4541 STATUS not defined. [Jim Jagielski]
4543 *) Fix a problem with the new OS/2 mutexes. [Brian Havard]
4545 *) Enhance mod_speling so that CheckSpelling can be used in
4546 <Directory> containers and .htaccess files. [Ken Coar]
4548 *) API: new ap_custom_response() function for hooking into the
4549 ErrorDocument mechanism at runtime [Doug MacEachern]
4551 *) API: new ap_uuencode() function [Doug MacEachern]
4553 *) API: scan_script_header_err_core() now "public" and renamed
4554 ap_scan_script_header_err_core() [Doug MacEachern]
4556 *) The 'status' module will now show the process pid's and their
4557 state even without full STATUS accounting. [Jim Jagielski]
4559 *) Restore the client IP address to the error log messages, this
4560 was lost during the transition from 1.2 to 1.3. Add a new
4561 function ap_log_rerror() which takes a request_rec * and
4562 formats it appropriately. [Dean Gaudet] PR#2661
4564 *) Cure ap_cfg_getline() of its nasty habit of compressing internal
4565 whitespace in input lines -- including within quoted strings.
4567 but leading and trailing whitespace should continue to be
4568 stripped [Martin Kraemer]
4570 *) Cleanup of the PrintPath/PrintPathOS2 helper functions. Avoid
4571 the ugly use of an env. variable and use command-line args for
4572 alternate $PATH. Make more like advanced 'type's as well.
4575 *) The IRIXN32 Rule was being ignored. Configure now correctly adds
4576 -n32 only if IRIXN32 says to. [Jim Jagielski, Alain St-Denis
4577 <alain.st-denis@ec.gc.ca>] PR#2736
4579 *) Clean up a warning in mod_proxy. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4581 *) Renamed __EMX__ (internal define of the gcc port under OS/2) to OS2
4582 following the same idea as "MSVC vs WIN32". Additionally the src/os/emx/
4583 directory was renamed to src/os/os2/ for consistency.
4584 [Brian Havard, Ralf S. Engelschall]
4586 *) Add new Rule SHARED_CHAIN which can be used to enable linking of DSO
4587 files (here modules) against other DSO files (here shared libraries).
4588 This is done by determining a subset of LIBS which can be safely used for
4589 linking the DSOs, i.e. PIC libs and shared libs. Currently the rule is
4590 disabled for all platforms to avoid problems with this (experimental)
4591 rule. But we provide it now for those people how ran into problems and
4592 want to came out by forcing linking against DSOs.
4593 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2587
4595 *) Fix suEXEC start message: Has to be of `notice' level to really get
4596 printed together with the standard startup message because the `notice'
4597 level is handled special inside ap_log_error() for startup messages.
4598 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2761 PR#2761 PR#2765
4600 *) Add correct `model' MIME types from RFC2077 to mime.types file.
4601 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2732
4603 *) Fixed examples in mod_rewrite.html document.
4604 [Youichirou Koga <y-koga@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2756
4606 *) Allow ap_read_request errors to propagate through the normal request
4607 handling loop so that the connection can be properly closed with
4608 lingering_close, thus avoiding a potential TCP reset that would
4609 cause the client to miss the HTTP error response. [Roy Fielding]
4611 *) One more portability fix for APACI shadow tree support: Swap order of awk
4612 and sed in top-level configure script to avoid sed fails on some
4613 platforms (for instance SunOS 4.1.3 and NCR SysV) because of the
4614 non-newline-termined output of Awk. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2729
4616 *) PORT: NEC EWS4800 support.
4617 [MATSUURA Takanori <t-matsuu@protein.osaka-u.ac.jp>]
4619 *) Fix a segfault in the proxy on OS/2. [Brian Havard]
4621 *) Fix Win32 part of ap_spawn_child() by providing a reasonable child_info
4622 structure instead of just NULL. This fixes at least the RewriteMap
4623 programs under Win32. [Marco De Michele <mdemichele@tin.it>] PR#2483
4625 *) Add workaround to top-level `configure' script for brain dead
4626 `echo' commands which interpet escape sequences per default.
4627 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2654
4629 *) Make sure that the path to the Perl interpreter is correctly
4630 adjusted under `make install' also for the printenv CGI script.
4631 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2595
4633 *) Update the mod_rewrite.html document to correctly reflect the situation
4634 of the `proxy' (`[P]') feature. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2679
4636 *) Fix `install-includes' sub-target of `install' target in top-level
4637 Makefile.tmpl: The umask+cp approach didn't work as expected (especially
4638 for users which extracted the distribution under 'umask 077'), so replace
4639 it by an explicit cp+chmod approach.
4640 [Richard Lloyd, Curt Sampson, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2656 PR#2626
4642 *) Fix `distclean' and `clean' targets in src/Makefile.tmpl to have same
4643 behavior and to cleanup correctly even under enabled SHARED_CORE rule.
4644 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4646 *) Use a more straight forward and thus less problematic Sed command in
4647 src/helper/mkdir.sh script. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4649 *) Make sure the `configure' scripts doesn't fail when trying to guess the
4650 domainname of the machine and there are multiple `domainname' and
4651 `search' entries in /etc/resolv.conf.
4652 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2710
4654 *) Add note about the SHARED_CORE requirement on some platforms also to the
4655 INSTALL file because a lot of users don't read htdocs/manual/dso.html
4656 first. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2701
4658 *) Fix document "hyperlink" for dso.html in src/Configuration.tmpl
4659 [Knut A.Syed <Knut.Syed@nhh.no>] PR#2674
4661 *) Modify mod_rewrite to update the Vary response field if the URL rewriting
4662 engine does any manipulations or decisions based upon request fields.
4665 *) Document the special APACI behavior for installation paths where
4666 ``/apache'' is appended to paths under some (well defined, of course)
4667 situations to prevent pollution of system locations with Apache files.
4668 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2660
4670 *) Fixed problem with buffered response message not being sent for
4671 the read_request error conditions of URI-too-long (414) and
4672 malformed header fields (400). [Roy Fielding] PR#2646
4674 *) Add support for the Max-Forwards: header line required by RFC2068 for
4675 the TRACE method. This allows apache to TRACE along a chain of proxies
4676 up to a predetermined depth. [Martin Kraemer]
4678 *) Fix SHARED_CORE rule: The CFLAGS_SHLIB variable is no longer doubled
4679 (compilers complained) and the .so.V.R.P filename extension was adjusted
4680 to correctly reflect the 1.3.2 version.
4681 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2644
4683 *) SECURITY: Plug "..." and other canonicalization holes under OS/2.
4686 *) PORT: implement serialized accepts for OS/2. [Brian Havard]
4688 *) mod_include had problems with the fsize and flastmod directives
4689 under WIN32. Fix also avoids the minor security hole of using
4690 ".." paths for fsize and flastmod.
4691 [Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@raleigh.ibm.com>] PR#2355
4693 *) Fixed some Makefile dependency problems. [Dean Gaudet]
4695 Changes with Apache 1.3.1
4697 *) Disable the incorrect entry for application/msword in the
4698 mod_mime_magic "magic" file because it also matches other Office
4699 documents. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2608
4701 *) Fix broken RANLIB handling in src/Configure (the entry from
4702 src/Configuration.tmpl was ignored) and additionally force RANLIB to
4703 /bin/true under HP/UX where ranlib exists but is deprecated.
4704 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2627
4706 *) 'apachectl status' failed on some systems.
4707 [Steve VanDevender <stevev@darkwing.uoregon.edu>, Lars Eilebrecht] PR#2613
4709 *) Add new flags for ap_unparse_uri_components() to make it generate
4710 the scheme://sitepart string only, or to omit the query string.
4713 *) WIN32: Canonicalize ServerRoot before checking to see if it
4714 is a valid directory. The failure to do this caused certain
4715 ServerRoot settings (eg. "ServerRoot /apache") to be improperly
4716 rejected. [Marc Slemko]
4718 *) Global renaming of C header files to both get rid of conflicts with third
4719 party packages and to again reach consistency:
4720 1. conf.h -> ap_config.h
4721 2. conf_auto.h -> ap_config_auto.h \ these are now merged
4722 3. ap_config.h -> ap_config_auto.h / in the config process
4723 4. compat.h -> ap_compat.h
4724 5. apctype.h -> ap_ctype.h
4725 Backward compatibility files for conf.h and compat.h were created.
4727 *) mod_mmap_static will no longer take action on requests unless at
4728 least one "mmapfile" directive is present in the configuration.
4729 This experimental module has to do some black magic to operate
4730 inside the current API and thus creates side-effects for other
4731 modules under some circumstances.
4732 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4734 *) Add conservative ticks around more egrep arguments in top-level configure
4735 to avoid problems under brain-dead platforms like Digital UNIX (OSF1).
4736 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2596
4738 *) mod_rewrite created RewriteLock files under the UID of the parent
4739 process, thus the child processes had no write access to the files.
4740 Now a chown() is done on the file to the uid of the children,
4741 if applicable. [Lars Eilebrecht, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2341
4743 *) Autogenerate some HAVE_XXXXX_H defines in conf_auto.h (determined via
4744 TestCompile) instead of defining them manually in conf.h based on less
4745 accurate platform definitions. This way we no longer have to fiddle with
4746 OS-type and/or OS-version identifiers to discover whether a system header
4747 file exists or not. Instead we now directly check for the existence of
4748 those esoteric ones.
4749 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2093, PR#2361, PR#2377, PR#2434,
4750 PR#2524, PR#2525, PR#2533, PR#2569
4752 *) mod_setenvif (BrowserMatch* and friends) will now match a missing
4753 field with "^$". [Ken Coar]
4755 *) Set the RTLD_GLOBAL dlopen mode parameter to allow dynamically loaded
4756 modules to load their own modules dynamically. This improves mod_perl
4757 and mod_php3 when these modules are loaded dynamically into Apache.
4760 *) Cache a proxied request in the event that the client cancels the
4761 transfer, provided that the configured percentage of the file has
4762 already been transfered. It works for HTTP transfers only. The
4763 new configuration directive is called CacheForceCompletion.
4764 [Glen Parker <glenebob@nwlink.com>] PR#2277
4766 *) Add the "<!DOCTYPE HTML" magic cookie used by modern documents (and
4767 required by HTML 3.2 and later) to mod_mime_magic's conf/magic.
4768 [Anna Shergold <anna@inext.co.uk>]
4770 *) Fix yet another signal-based race condition involving nested timers.
4771 Signals suck. [Dean Gaudet]
4773 *) suexec's error messages have been clarified a little bit. [Ken Coar]
4775 *) Clean up some, but perhaps not all, 8-bit character set problems
4776 with config file parsing, and URL parsing. We now define
4777 ap_isdigit(), ap_isupper(), ... which cast to an (unsigned char).
4778 This should work on most modern unixes.
4779 [Dean Gaudet] PR#800, 2282, 2553 (and others)
4781 *) The "handler not found" error was issued in cases where the handler
4782 really did exist, but was just declining to serve the request.
4783 [John Van Essen <jve@gamers.org>] PR#2529
4785 *) Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for SCO5 (OpenServer 5.0.x).
4786 [Ronald Record <rr@sco.com>] PR#2533
4788 *) The APACI libexecdir was not extended with an "apache/" subdir
4789 if the installation prefix didn't already contain "apache", but
4790 it should be because the DSO files are Apache-specific. Now
4791 libexecdir is treated the same way sysconfdir, datadir, localstatedir
4792 and includedir are already treated.
4793 [Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>] PR#2551
4795 *) The <Limit> parsing routine was incorrectly treating methods as
4796 case-insensitive. [Ken Coar]
4798 *) The ap_bprintf() code neglected to test if there was an error on
4799 the connection. ap_bflush() misdiagnosed a failure as a success.
4802 *) add support for #perl arg interpolation in mod_include
4805 *) API: Name changes of table_elts to ap_table_elts, is_table_empty
4806 to ap_is_table_empty and bgetflag to ap_bgetflag. [Ben Laurie]
4808 *) PORT: Add UnixWare 7 support
4809 [Vadim Kostoglodoff <vadim@olly.ru>] PR#2463
4811 *) Fix the Guess-DSO-flags-from-Perl stuff in src/Configure: "perl" was
4812 used instead of "$PERL" which contains the correctly determined Perl
4813 interpreter (important for instance on systems where "perl" and "perl5"
4814 exists, like BSDI or FreeBSD, etc).
4815 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2505
4817 *) Move the initial suEXEC-related startup message from plain
4818 fprintf()/stderr to a delayed ap_log_error()-based one to avoid problems
4819 when Apache is started from inetd (instead of standalone). Under this
4820 situation startup messages on stderr lead to problems (the line is sent
4821 to the client in front of the requested document).
4822 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#871, PR#1318
4824 *) Add a flag so ap_fnmatch() can be used for case-blind pattern matching.
4825 [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
4827 *) WIN32: Don't collapse multiple slashes in PATH_INFO.
4828 [Ben Laurie, Bill Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#2274
4830 *) WIN32 SECURITY: Eliminate trailing "."s in path components. These are
4831 ignored by the Windows filesystem, and so can be used to bypass security.
4832 [Ben Laurie, Alexei Kosut].
4834 *) We now attempt to dump core when we get SIGILL. [Jim Jagielski]
4836 *) PORT: remove broken test for MAP_FILE in http_main.c.
4837 [Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com>]
4839 *) PORT: Change support/apachectl to use "kill -0 $pid" to test if the
4840 httpd is running. This should be more portable than figuring out
4841 which of three dozen different versions of "ps" are installed.
4844 *) WIN32: If we can't figure out how to execute a file in a script
4845 directory, bail out of the request with an error message. [W G Stoddard]
4847 *) WIN32 SECURITY: Eliminate directories consisting of three or more dots;
4848 these are treated by Win32 as if they are ".." but are not detected by
4849 other machinery within Apache. This is something of a kludge but
4850 eliminates a security hole. [Manoj Kasichainula, Ben Laurie]
4852 *) Move ap_escape_quotes() from src/ap to src/main/util.c; it uses
4853 pools and thus pollutes libap (until the pool stuff is moved there).
4856 *) IndexIgnore should be case-blind on Win32 (and any other case-aware
4857 but case-insensitive platforms). New #define for this added to conf.h
4858 (CASE_BLIND_FILESYSTEM). [Ken Coar] PR#2455
4860 *) Enable DSO support for OpenBSD in general, not only for 2.x, because it
4861 also works for OpenBSD 1.x. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4863 *) PORT: Fix compilation problem on ARM Linux.
4864 [Sam Kington <sam@illuminated.co.uk>] PR#2443
4866 *) Let APACI's configure script determine some configuration parameters
4867 (Group, Port, ServerAdmin, ServerName) via some intelligent tests to
4868 remove some of the classical hurdles for new users when setting up
4869 Apache. This is done per default because it is useful for the average
4870 user. Package authors can use the --without-confadjust option to disable
4871 these configuration adjustments.
4872 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4874 *) Added an EXTRA_DEPS configuration parameter which can be used
4875 to add an extra Makefile dependency for the httpd target, for instance
4876 to external third-party libraries, etc.
4877 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4879 *) Add <IfDefine>..</IfDefine> sections to the core module (with same spirit
4880 as <IfModule>..</IfModule> sections) which can be used to skip or process
4881 contained commands dependend of ``-D PARAMETER'' options on the command
4882 line. This can be used to achieve logical conditions like <IfDefine
4883 ReverseProxy> instead of physically ones (e.g. <IfModule mod_proxy.c>)
4884 and thus especially can be used for conditionally loading DSO-based
4885 modules via LoadModule, etc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4887 *) PORT: clean up a warning in mod_status for OS/2. [Brian Havard]
4889 *) Make table elements const. This may prevent obscure errors. [Ben Laurie]
4891 *) Fix parsing of FTP `SIZE' responses in proxy module: The newline was not
4892 truncated which forced following HTTP headers to be data in the HTTP
4893 reponse. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Charles Fu <ccwf@bacchus.com>]
4896 *) Portability fix for APACI shadow tree support: Swap order of awk and sed
4897 in top-level configure script to avoid sed fails on some platforms (for
4898 instance SunOS 4.1.3 and NCR SysV) because of the non-newline-termined
4899 output of Awk. [Bill Houle <bhoule@sandiegoca.ncr.com>] PR#2435
4901 *) Improve performance of directory listings (mod_autoindex) by comparing
4902 integer keys (last-modified and size) as integers rather than converting
4903 them to strings first. Also use a set of explicit byte tests rather
4904 than strcmp() to check for parent directory-ness of an entry. Oh, and
4905 make sure the parent directory (if displayed) is *always* listed first
4906 regardless of the sort key. Overall performance winnage should be good
4907 in CPU time, instruction cache, and memory usage, particularly for large
4908 directories. [Ken Coar]
4910 *) Add a tiny but useful goody to APACI's configure script: The generation
4911 of a config.status script (as GNU Autoconf does) which remembers the used
4912 configure command and hence can be used to restore the configuration by
4913 just re-running this script or for remembering the configuration between
4915 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4917 *) Add httpd -t (test) option for running configuration syntax tests only.
4918 If something is broken it complains and exits with a return code
4919 non-equal to 0. This can be used manually by the user to check the Apache
4920 configuration after editing and is also automatically used by apachectl
4921 on (graceful) restart command to make sure Apache doesn't die on restarts
4922 because of a configuration which is now broken since the last (re)start.
4923 This way `apachectl restart' can be used inside cronjobs without having
4924 to expect Apache to be falling down. Additionally the httpd -t can be run
4925 via `apachectl configtest'.
4926 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2393
4928 *) Minor display fix for "install" target of top-level Makefile:
4929 the displayed installation command was incorrect although the
4930 executed command was correct. Now they are in sync.
4931 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2402
4933 *) Correct initialization of variable `allowed_globals' in http_main.c
4934 [Justin Bradford <justin@ukans.edu>] PR#2400
4936 *) Apache would incorrectly downcase the entire Content-Type passed from
4937 CGIs. This affected server-push scripts and such which use
4938 multipart/x-mixed-replace;boundary=ThisRandomString.
4939 [Dean Gaudet] PR#2394
4941 *) PORT: QNX update to properly guess 32-bit systems.
4942 [Sean Boudreau <seanb@qnx.com>] PR#2390
4944 *) Make sure the DSO emulation code for HPUX finds the proprietary shl_xxx()
4945 functions which are in libdld under HPUX 9/10.
4946 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2378
4948 *) Make sure the "install" target of the top-level Makefile doesn't break
4949 because of a return code of 1 from an "if" (for instance under braindead
4950 Ultrix the result code of an "if" construct is 1 if the "then" clause
4951 didn't match). [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4953 *) Add an additional "dummy" target to the "$(LIB)" target in generated
4954 modules/xxx/Makefile's to avoid problems with SVR4 Make under "full-DSO"
4955 situation (no libxxx.a built, only mod_xxx.so's) where LIB and OBJS are
4956 empty. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Dean Gaudet, Martin Kraemer]
4958 *) Replace two bad sprintf() calls with ap_snprintf() variants in
4959 mod_rewrite. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
4961 *) Fix missing usage description for MetaFiles directive.
4962 [David MacKenzie <djm@va.pubnix.com>] PR#2384
4964 *) mod_log_config wouldn't let vhosts use log formats defined in the
4965 main server. [Christof Damian <damian@mediaconsult.com>] PR#2090
4967 *) mod_usertrack was corrupting the client hostname. As part of the
4968 fix, the cookie values were slightly extended to include the
4969 fully qualified hostname of the client.
4970 [Dean Gaudet] PR#2190, 2229, 2366
4972 *) Fix a typo in pool debugging code. [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
4974 *) mod_unique_id did not work on alpha linux (in general on any
4975 architecture that has 64-bit time_t).
4976 [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
4978 *) PORT: Make SCO 5 (and probably 3) compile again. [Ben Laurie]
4980 *) PORT: NCR MPRAS systems have the same bug with SIGHUP restart that
4981 Solaris systems experience. So define WORKAROUND_SOLARIS_BUG.
4982 [Klaus Weber <kweber@chephren.germany.ncr.com>] PR#1973
4984 *) Change "Options None" to "Options FollowSymLinks" in the
4985 <Directory /> section of the default access.conf-dist
4986 (and -win even though it doesn't matter there). This has better
4987 performance, and more intuitive semantics. [Dean Gaudet]
4989 *) PORT: Updated support for UTS 2.1.2.
4990 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#2320
4992 *) Fix symbol export list (src/support/httpd.exp) after recent
4993 API changes in the child spawning area.
4994 [Jens-Uwe Mager <jum@helios.de>]
4996 *) Workaround for configure script and old `test' commands which do not
4997 support the -x flag (for instance under platforms like Ultrix). This is
4998 solved by another helper script findprg.sh which searches for Perl and
4999 Awk like PrintPath but _via different names_.
5000 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5002 *) Remove the system() call from htpasswd.c, which eliminates a system
5003 dependancy. ["M.D.Parker" <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#2332
5005 *) PORT: Fix compilation failures on NEXTSTEP.
5006 [Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>] PR#2293, 2316
5008 *) PORT: F_NDELAY is a typo, should have been FNDELAY. There's also
5009 O_NDELAY on various systems. [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>] PR#2313
5011 *) PORT: helpers/GuessOS updates for various versions for NCR SVR4.
5012 [juerg schreiner <j.schreiner@zh.ch>,
5013 Bill Houle <Bill.Houle@SanDiegoCA.NCR.COM>] PR#2310
5015 *) Fix recently introduced Win32 child spawning code in mod_rewrite.c which
5016 was broken because of invalid ap_pstrcat() -> strcat() transformation.
5017 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5019 *) Proxy Cache Fixes: account for directory sizes, fork off garbage collection
5020 to continue in background, use predefined types (off_t, size_t, time_t),
5021 log the current cache usage percentage at LogLevel debug
5022 [Martin Kraemer, based on discussion between Dean Gaudet & Dirk vanGulik]
5024 Changes with Apache 1.3.0
5026 *) Using a type map file as a custom error document was not possible.
5027 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#1031
5029 *) Avoid problems with braindead Awks by additionally searching for gawk
5030 and nawk in APACI's configure script.
5031 [Dave Dykstra <dwd@bell-labs.com>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2319
5033 *) Rename md5.h to ap_md5.h to avoid conflicts with native MD5 on
5034 some systems. [Randy Terbush]
5036 *) Change usage of perror()+fprintf(stderr,...) in mod_rewrite to
5037 more proper ap_log_error() variants.
5038 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5040 *) Make sure the argument for the --add-module option to APACI's configure
5041 script is of type [path/to/]mod_xxx.c because all calculations inside
5042 configure and src/Configure depend on this.
5043 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2307
5045 *) Changes usage of perror/fprintf to stderr to more proper ap_log_error
5046 in mod_mime, mod_log_referer, mod_log_agent, and mod_log_config.
5049 *) Various OS/2 cleanups ["Brian Havard" <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
5051 *) PORT: QNX needed a #include <sys/mman.h>; and now it uses flock
5052 serialized accept to handle multiple sockets.
5053 [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2295, 2296
5055 *) Have NT properly set the directory for CGI scripts
5056 (& other spawned children)
5057 [W G Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>]
5059 *) Propagate environment to CGI scripts correctly in Win32.
5060 [W G Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#2294
5062 *) Some symbol renaming:
5063 ap_spawn_child_err became ap_spawn_child
5064 ap_spawn_child_err_buff became ap_bspawn_child
5065 spawn_child was obsoleted and moved to compat.h
5068 *) Upgrade the child spawning code in mod_rewrite for the RewriteMap
5069 programs: ap_spawn_child_err() is used and the Win32 case now uses
5070 CreateProcess() instead of a low-level execl() (which caused problems in
5071 the past under Win32).
5072 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5074 *) A few cosmetics and trivial enhancements to APXS to make the
5075 generated Makefile more user friendly. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5077 *) Proxy Fix: The proxy special failure routine ap_proxyerror()
5078 was updated to use the normal apache error processing, thereby allowing
5079 proxy errors to be treated by ErrorDocument's as well. For this
5080 purpose, a new module-to-core communication variable "error-notes"
5081 was introduced; the proxy (and possibly other modules) communicates
5082 its error text using this variable. Its content is copied to a new
5083 cgi-env-var REDIRECT_ERROR_NOTES for use by ErrorDocuments.
5084 The old proxy special error routine ap_proxy_log_uerror()
5085 was replaced by regular ap_log_error() calls, many messages were made
5087 [Martin Kraemer] PR#494, 1259
5089 *) SECURITY: A possible buffer overflow in the ftp proxy was fixed.
5092 *) Transform the configure message "You need root privileges for suEXEC"
5093 from a fatal error into a (more friendly) warning because the building
5094 ("make") of Apache we can allow, of course. Root privileges are needed
5095 only for the installation step ("make install"). So make sure the
5096 user is aware of this fact but let him proceed as long as he can.
5097 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2288
5099 *) Renamed three more functions to common ap_ prefix which we missed at the
5100 Big Symbol Renaming because they're #defines and not real C functions:
5101 is_default_port(), default_port(), http_method().
5102 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5104 *) A zero-length name after a $ in an SSI document should cause
5105 just the $ to be in the expansion. This was broken during the
5106 security fixes in 1.2.5. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1921, 2249
5108 *) Call ap_destroy_sub_req() in ap_add_cgi_vars() to reclaim some
5109 memory. [Rob Saccoccio <robs@InfiniteTechnology.com>] PR#2252
5111 *) Fix src/support/httpd.exp (DSO export file which is currently only
5112 used under AIX) because of recent changes to function names.
5113 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5115 Changes with Apache 1.3b7
5117 *) Make sure a MIME-type can be forced via a RewriteRule even when no
5118 substitution takes place, for instance via the following rule:
5119 ``RewriteRule ^myscript$ - [T=application/x-httpd-cgi]'' This was often
5120 requested by users in the past to force a single script without a .cgi
5121 extension and outside any cgi-bin dirs to be executed as a CGI program.
5122 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2254
5124 *) A fix for protocol issues surrounding 400, 408, and
5125 414 responses. [Ed Korthof]
5127 *) Ignore MaxRequestsPerChild on WIN32. [Brian Behlendorf]
5129 *) Fix discrepancy in proxy_ftp.c which was causing failures when
5130 trying to connect to certain ftpd's, such as anonftpd.
5131 [Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>]
5133 *) Make mod_rewrite use ap_open_piped_log() for RewriteLog directive's
5134 logfile instead of fiddling around itself with child spawning stuff.
5135 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5137 *) Made RefererIgnore case-insensitive.
5139 *) Mod_log_agent, mod_log_referer now use ap_open_piped_log for piped logs.
5142 *) Replace use of spawn_child with ap_spawn_child_err_buff, to make everything
5143 "safe" under Win32. In: mod_include.c, mod_mime_magic.c
5146 *) Improve RFC1413 support. [Bob Beck <beck@bofh.ucs.ualberta.ca>]
5148 *) Fix support script `dbmmanage': It was unable to handle some sort
5149 of passwords, especially passwords with "0" chars.
5150 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2242
5152 *) WIN32: Clicking on "Last Modified" in a fancy index caused a crash. Fixed.
5153 [Ben Laurie] PR#2238
5155 *) WIN32: CGIs could cause a hang (because of a deadlock in the standard C
5156 library), so CGI handling has been changed to use Win32 native handles
5157 instead of C file descriptors.
5158 [Ben Laurie and Bill Stoddard <wgstodda@us.ibm.com>] PR#1129, 1607
5160 *) The proxy cache would store an incorrect content-length in the cached
5161 file copy after a cache update. That resulted in repeated fetching
5162 of the original copy instead of using the cached copy.
5163 [Ernst Kloppenburg <kloppen@isr.uni-stuttgart.de>] PR#2094
5165 *) The Makefiles assumed that DSO files are build via $(LD). This
5166 is broken for two reasons: First we never defined at least LD=ld
5167 somewhere to make sure this works (it was silently assumed that most Make
5168 provide a built-in LD definition - ARGL!) and second using the generic LD
5169 variable is not the truth. Instead a special variable named LD_SHLIB is
5170 reasonable because although "ld" is usually the default, the command for
5171 building DSO files can be "libtool" or even "cc" on some systems.
5172 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5174 *) Replace the AddVersionPlatform directive with ServerTokens which
5175 provides for more control over the format of the Server:
5176 header line. SERVER_SUBVERSION is no longer supported;
5177 all module should use the ap_add_version_component()
5178 API function instead. [Jim Jagielski]
5180 *) Support for the NCR MP/RAS 3.0
5181 [John Withers <withers@semi.kcsc.mwr.irs.gov>]
5183 *) The LDFLAGS_SHLIB_EXPORT variable of src/Configuration[.tmpl] was
5184 not retrieved in src/Configure and thus was not useable.
5185 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5187 *) Various Makefile consistency cleanups:
5188 - make OSDIR also automatically be relative to src/ like INCDIR
5189 - SUBDIRS is now generated in src/Makefile only and not in
5190 Makefile.config because it is a local define for this location.
5191 - remove BROKEN_BPRINTF_FLAGS because is it no longer used inside
5192 any Makefile but make sure that at least the "-K inline" is kept in
5194 - update the "depend" targets in Makefile.tmpl files to use $(OSDIR), too.
5195 - updated the dependencies theirself
5196 - removed not existing SHLIB variable from "clean" targets
5197 - replaced SHLIB_OBJS/SHLIBS_OBJ consistently with OBJS_PIC because OBJS
5198 already exists and OBJS_PIC are also just plain objects and have not
5199 directly to do with "shared" things. The only difference is that they
5200 contain PIC. So OBJS_PIC is the more canonical name.
5201 - Updated the Makefile-dependency lines for OBJS_PIC
5202 - Removed the Makefile-dependency line in Configure to avoid double
5204 - replaced ugly xx-so.o/xx.so-o hack with a clean and consistent usage
5205 of xxx.lo as GNU libtool does with its PIC objects
5206 - reduce local complexity in modules Makefile.tmpl by moving the last
5207 existing target "depend" to the generation section in Configure, too.
5208 - removed the historical $(SPACER) which was used in the past together
5209 with BROKEN_BPRINTF_FLAGS to avoid zig-zags in the build process. This
5210 is no longer needed.
5211 - force the build and run of the gen_xxx programs under main/ as the
5212 first step before building the objects because it looks cleaner
5213 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5215 *) WIN32: Make Win32 work again after the /dev/null DoS fix.
5218 *) WIN32: Check for buffer overflows in ap_os_canonical_filename.
5221 *) WIN32: Don't force ISAPI headers to finish with \n.
5222 [Jim Patterson <Jim.Patterson@Cognos.COM>, Ben Laurie] PR#2060
5224 *) When opening "configuration" files (like httpd.conf, htaccess
5225 and htpasswd), Apache will not allow them to be non-/dev/null
5226 device files. This closes a DoS hole. At the same time,
5227 we use ap_pfopen to open these files to handle timeouts.
5228 [Jim Jagielski, Martin Kraemer]
5230 *) Apache will now log the reason its httpd children exit if they exit
5231 due to an unexpected signal. (It requires a new porting define,
5232 SYS_SIGLIST, which if defined should point to a list of text
5233 descriptions of the signals available. See PORTING.) [Dean Gaudet]
5235 *) WIN32: chdir() doesn't make sense in a multithreaded environment
5236 like WIN32. Before, Win32 CGI's could have had sporadic failures
5237 if a chdir call from one thread was made between another chdir call
5238 and a spawn in another thread. So, for now don't chdir for CGI scripts
5239 in WIN32. The current CGI "spec" is unclear as to whether it's
5240 necessary. Long-term fix is to either serialize the chdir/spawn combo
5241 or use WIN32 native calls to spawn a process. This temp fix was
5242 necessary to remove this as a showstopper for 1.3's release.
5245 *) Cleanup the suEXEC support in APACI and make it more safe:
5246 1. Add big fat hint in INSTALL about risks and to read the
5247 htdocs/manual/suexec.html document before using the suexec-related
5249 2. Make sure the user has at least provided one --suexec-xxxx option
5250 (specifies suEXEC parameters) in addition to --enable-suexec option.
5251 If only --enable-suexec is given APACI stops with a hint to INSTALL
5252 and htdocs/manual/suexec.html documents.
5253 3. Provide two additional --suexec-xxxx options to make the suEXEC
5254 configuration complete (especially for package maintainers who else
5255 had to patch the source tree) by providing ways to configure minimal
5256 UID/GID and safe PATH, too.
5257 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5259 *) Cleanup of the `configure --shadow' process:
5260 - make sure the configure script creates its temporary files in the
5261 shadow tree to avoid conflicts with parallel configure runs
5262 - removed unnecessary option "-r" from "rm" call for Makefiles
5263 - make sure the configure scripts creates the shadow-wrapper Makefile
5264 only when no shadow trees already exists
5265 - make sure "make distclean" removes the shadow-wrapper Makefile but only
5266 when no more shadow trees exists
5267 - overhauled mkshadow.sh script: now its more IFS-safe and approx. twice
5268 as fast (in the past it needed 70sec, now it runs just 38sec)
5269 - make sure CVS does not complain about the created files
5270 Makefille.<gnutriple> and directories src.<gnutriple>
5271 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5273 *) Added the ap_add_version_component() API routine and the
5274 AddVersionPlatform core directive. The first allows modules to
5275 declare themselves in the Server response header field value,
5276 augmenting the SERVER_SUBVERSION define in the Configuration file
5277 with run-time settings (more useful in a loadable-module environment).
5278 AddVersionPlatform inserts a comment such as "(UNIX)" or "(Win32)"
5279 into the server version string. [Ken Coar] PR#2056
5281 *) Minor stability tweaks to avoid core dumps in ap_snprintf.
5284 *) Emit the "Accept-Range" header for the default handler.
5285 [Brian Behlendorf] PR#1464
5287 *) Add a note to httpd.conf-dist that apache will on some systems fail
5288 to start when the Group # is set to a negative or large positive value.
5291 *) Make sure the module execution order is correct even when some modules
5292 are loaded under runtime (`LoadModule') via the DSO mechanism:
5293 1. The list of loaded modules is now a dynamically allocated one
5294 and not the original statically list from modules.c
5295 2. The loaded modules are now correctly setup by LoadModule for
5296 later use by the AddModule command.
5297 3. When the DSO mechanism for modules is used APACI's `install'
5298 target now enables all created `LoadModule' lines per default because
5299 this is both already expected by the user _and_ needed to avoid
5300 confusion with the next point and reduces the Makefile.tmpl complexity
5301 4. When the DSO mechanism for modules is used, APACI's `install'
5302 target now additionally makes sure the module list is reconstructed
5303 via a complete `ClearModuleList+AddModule...' entry.
5304 5. The support tool `apxs' now also makes sure an AddModule command
5305 is added in addition to the LoadModule command.
5306 6. The modules.c generation was extended to now contain two
5307 comments to make sure no one is confused by the confusing terminology
5308 of loading/linking (we use load=link+load & link=activate instead of
5309 the obvious load=activate & link=link :-( )
5310 This way now there is no longer a difference under execution time between
5311 statically and dynamically linked modules.
5312 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5314 *) Fix the generated mod_xxx.c from "apxs -g -f xxx" after the
5315 Big Symbol Renaming. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5317 *) Add a comment to mod_example.c showing the format of a FLAG command
5320 *) Standardized the time format in mod_status to match that of other
5321 places in the code (e.g. DATE_GMT). PR#1551
5323 *) Fix handling of %Z in timefmt strings for those platforms with no time
5324 zone information in their tm struct. [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>]
5327 *) Makes mod_rewrite, mod_log_config, mod_status and the ServerSignature
5328 feature compatible with 'UseCanonicalName off' by changing
5329 r->server->server_hostname to ap_get_server_name(). And I changed some
5330 functions which use r->server->port to use ap_get_server_port() instead,
5331 because if there's no Port directive in the config r->server->port is 0.
5334 *) get/set_module_config are trivial enough to be better off inline. Worth
5335 1.5% performance boost. [Dean Gaudet]
5337 *) Fix off-by-one error in ap_proxy_date_canon() in proxy_util.c
5338 when ensuring 'x' is at least 30-chars big. [Jim Jagielski,
5341 *) [BS2000 security] BS2000 needs an extra authentication to initialize
5342 the task environment to the unprivileged User id. Otherwise CGI scripts
5343 would have a way to gain super user access. [Martin Kraemer]
5345 *) Fix debug log messages for BS2000/OSD: instead of logging the whole
5346 absolute path, only log base name of logging source as is done
5347 in unix. [Martin Kraemer]
5349 *) Ronald Tschalaer's Accept-Encoding patch - preserve the "x-" in
5350 the encoding type from the Accept-Encoding header (if it's there)
5351 and use it in the response, as that's probably what it'll be expecting.
5352 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch]
5354 *) Fix to mod_alias: translate_alias_redir is dealing with
5355 a URI, not a filename, so the check for drive letters for win32
5356 and emx is not necessary. [Dean Gaudet]
5358 *) WIN32: Allow .cmd as an executable extension.
5359 [Kari Likovuori <Kari.Likovuori@mol.fi>] PR#2146
5361 *) Make Apache header files, and some variables, C++ friendly.
5362 [Michael Anderson's <mka@redes.int.com.mx>]
5364 *) Child processes can now "signal" (by exiting with a status
5365 of APEXIT_CHILDFATAL) the parent process to abort and
5366 shutdown the server if the error in the child process was
5367 fatal enough. [Jim Jagielski]
5369 *) mod_autoindex's find_itme() was sensitive to MIME type case.
5370 [Jim Jagielski] PR#2112
5372 *) Make sure the referer_log and agent_log entries in the default httpd.conf
5373 file are also adjusted for the actual relative installation paths.
5374 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2175
5376 *) WIN32: Extensive overhaul of the way UNCs are handled. [Ben Laurie]
5378 *) WIN32: Make roots of filesystems (e.g. c:/) work. [Ben Laurie]
5381 *) PORT: Various porting changes to support AIX 3.2, 4.1.5, 4.2 and 4.3.
5382 Additionally the checks for finding the vendor DSO library were moved
5383 from mod_so.c to Configure because first it needs $PLAT etc. and second
5384 mod_so already uses an abstraction layer and does not fiddle with the
5385 vendor functions itself.
5386 [Jens-Uwe Mager, Ralf S. Engelschall]
5388 *) PORT: Some optimization defines for NetBSD
5389 [Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>] PR#2165
5391 *) PORT: Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for NetBSD.
5392 [Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2158
5394 *) Add Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for AIX (at least 4.2 but older
5395 AIX variants should work fine, too. Even AIX 3.x should work). This is
5396 accomplished by using the free DSO emulation code from Jens-Uwe Mager
5397 which we put into a os/unix/os-dso-aix.c file.
5398 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5400 *) PORT: Fix compiler warnings under AIX >= 4.2 where the manual pages imply
5401 that we should use NET_SIZE_T == int but the include files force size_t.
5402 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5404 *) Fix two bugs in select() handling in http_main.c.
5407 *) Suppress "error(0)" messages for ap_log_error() when the APLOG_NOERRNO
5408 is unset (as it is in situations like timeouts) where it is unclear
5409 whether errno is set or not. [Martin Kraemer]
5411 *) Just having APACI's localstatedir is too general and not enough for most
5412 of the systems. 1.3b6 again required manual APACI patches by package
5413 maintainers from RedHat and FreeBSD because for their filesystem layout a
5414 little bit more flexibility in configuring the paths is needed. Hence we
5415 provide three additional configure options (--runtimedir, --logfiledir,
5416 --proxycachedir) which now can be used for more granular adjustments if
5417 --localstatedir is not enough to fit the particular needs. As a nice
5418 side-effect this reduces some subdir fiddling in configure+Makefile.tmpl.
5419 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5421 *) Make the install root for "make install" in APACI's Makefile overrideable
5422 by package authors. This way we are even more friendly to package
5423 maintainers (especially Debian and RedHat) who build for the real prefix
5424 via "configure --prefix=/<real>" but use a different local prefix via
5425 "make root=/tmp/apache install" for rolling the package without bristling
5426 the target location on their system.
5427 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5429 *) Workaround sed limitations in APACI's configure script by now
5430 substituting in chunks of 50 commands (because for instance HPUX's vendor
5431 sed has a limit of max. 98 commands)
5432 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2136
5434 *) Adding SOCKS5 support and fixing existing SOCKS4 support.
5435 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2140
5437 *) Manually fix some symbols which were not renamed to prefix ap_ in the BIG
5438 RENAMING process because they are defined as pre-processor macros instead
5439 of real functions: bputc, bgetc, piped_log_write_fd, piped_log_read_fd
5440 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5442 *) Workaround braindead AWK's when generating ap_config.h: The split() and
5443 substr() functions cannot be nested under vendor AWK from Solaris 2.6.
5444 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2139
5446 *) Various bugfixes and cleanups for the APACI configure script:
5447 o fix IFS handling for _nested_ situation
5448 o fix Perl interpreter search: take first one found instead of last one
5449 o fix DSO consistency check
5450 o print error messages to stderr instead of stdout
5451 o add install-quiet for --shadow situation to Makefile stub
5452 o reduce complexity by avoiding sed-hacks for rule and module list loops
5453 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5455 *) Fix DEBUG_CGI situation in mod_cgi.c [David MacKenzie] PR#2114
5457 *) Make sure the input field separator (IFS) shell variable is explicitly
5458 initialized correctly before _every_ `for' loop and also restored after
5459 the loops. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5461 *) Make sure that "make install" doesn't overwrite the `mime.types' and
5462 `magic' files from an existing Apache installation. Because people often
5463 customize these for own MIME and content types.
5464 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5466 *) PORT: Dynamic Shared Object (DSO) support for OpenBSD 2.x
5467 [Peter Galbavy, Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2109
5469 *) Fix the path to the ScoreBoardFile in the install-config target, too.
5470 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2105
5472 *) Let "configure" clear out the users parameters (provided as shell
5473 variables) to avoid side-effects in "src/Configure" when the user
5474 exported them (which is not needed, but some users do it).
5475 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2101
5477 *) Provide backward compatibility from some old src/Configuration.tmpl
5478 parameter names to the canonical Autoconf-style shell variable names. For
5479 instance CFLAGS vs. EXTRA_CFLAGS. The EXTRA_xxx variants are accepted now
5480 but a hint message is displayed. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5482 *) Make sure that "make install" doesn't overwrite the DocumentRoot and
5483 CGI scripts from an existing Apache installation.
5484 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Jim Jagielski] PR#2084
5486 *) Make `configure --compat' more "compatible" by first
5487 let the libexecdir default to EPREFIX/libexec instead of EPREFIX/bin and
5488 second by making sure the "avoid-bristling-suffix" /apache is not
5489 appended to sysconfdir, datadir, localstatedir and includedir when
5490 --compat is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall, Lars Eilebrecht]
5492 *) NeXT required strdup() in support/logresolve.c
5493 [Francisco Tomei <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>] PR#2082
5495 *) AIX required sys/select.h in support/ab.c
5496 [Jens Schleusener <Jens.Schleusener@dlr.de>] PR#2081
5498 *) Fix the path to the MimeMagicFile in the install-config target, too.
5499 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#2089
5501 *) PORT: Added HP-UX 11 patches [Jeff Earickson <jaearick@colby.edu>]
5503 *) If you start apache with the -S command line option it will dump
5504 out the parsed vhost settings. This is useful for folks trying
5505 to figure out what is wrong with their vhost configuration.
5506 (Other dumps may be added in the future.) [Dean Gaudet]
5508 *) Add %pA, %pI, and %pp codes to ap_vformatter (and hence ap_bprintf,
5509 ap_snprintf, and ap_psprintf). See include/ap.h for docs.
5512 *) Because /usr/local/apache is the default prefix the ``configure
5513 --compat'' option no longer has to set prefix, again. This way the
5514 --compat option honors a leading --prefix option. [Lars Eilebrecht]
5516 *) PORT: Cast the first argument of dlopen() in ap_os_dso_load()
5517 to `char *' under OSF1 and FreeBSD 2.x where it is defined this way
5518 to avoid "discard const" warnings. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5520 *) If a specific handler is set for a file yet the request still
5521 ends up being handled by the default handler, log an error
5522 message before handling it. This catches things such as trying
5523 to use SSIs without mod_include enabled. [Marc Slemko]
5525 *) Fix error logging for the startup case where ap_log_error() still uses
5526 stderr as the target. Now the default log level is honored here, too.
5527 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5529 *) PORT: Make sure some AWK's don't fail in src/Configure with "string too
5530 long" errors when generating the MODULES entry for src/Makefile
5531 [Ben Hyde, Ralf S. Engelschall]
5533 *) Make sure src/Configure doesn't complain about the old directory
5534 /usr/local/etc/httpd/ when APACI is used. [Lars Eilebrecht]
5536 Changes with Apache 1.3b6
5538 *) PORT: Clean up warnings on Ultrix and HPUX. [Ben Hyde]
5540 *) Adding DSO support for the HP/UX platform by emulating the dlopen-style
5541 interface via the similar but proprietary HP/UX shl_xxx-style system
5542 calls. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5544 *) PORT: Updated UnixWare 2.0.x and 2.1.x entries for DSO support and made
5545 APACI Makefile.tmpl "install" target more robust for sensible UnixWare
5546 Make. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5548 *) ++++ THE BIG SYMBOL RENAMING ++++
5549 To avoid symbol clashes with third-party code compiled into the server,
5550 we globally applied the prefix "ap_" to the following classes of
5552 - Apache provided general functions (e.g., ap_cpystrn)
5553 - Public API functions (e.g., palloc, bgets)
5554 - Private functions which we can't make static (because of
5555 cross-object usage) but should be (e.g., new_connection)
5556 For backward source compatibility a new header file named compat.h was
5557 created which provides defines for the old symbol names and can be used
5558 by third-party module authors.
5561 *) Added dynamic shared object (DSO) support for SVR4-derivates: The
5562 problem under SVR4 is that there is no command flag to force the linker
5563 to export the global symbols of the httpd executable therewith they are
5564 available to the DSO's. Instead of problematic hacks like creating a
5565 dummy.so file (containing dummy references to all global symbols) the
5566 httpd binary is linked against, we use a clean trick stolen from Perl 5:
5567 Placing the Apache core code itself into a DSO library named libhttpd.so.
5568 This way the global symbols _HAVE_ to be exported and thus are available
5569 to any manually loaded DSO's under runtime. To reduce the impact to the
5570 user to null we go even further and create a stub httpd executable which
5571 automatically keeps track of the DSO library loading itself and thus
5572 hides the complete mechanism from the user. Although the generation of
5573 this DSO library is automatically triggered for platforms which
5574 essentially need it (mostly all SVR4-derivates) it can be also enabled
5575 manually via the Rule SHARED_CORE. This can be interesting in the future
5576 where we perhaps exploit this libhttpd.so mechanism for providing nifty
5577 features like graceful upgrades, or whatever.
5578 [Ralf S. Engelschall, Martin Kraemer]
5580 *) Build the libraries before building the rest of the tools. [Ben Hyde]
5582 *) Add "distclean" target to src/-Makefiles to provide "make distclean" also
5583 inside the src subtree (i.e. for non-APACI users). Following GNU Makefile
5584 conventions while "clean" removes only stuff created by "all" targets,
5585 "distclean" additionally removes the stuff from the configuration
5586 process. This way "make distclean" (hence the name) provides a fresh
5587 source tree as it was for distribution.
5588 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5590 *) Allow top-level (APACI) Makefile to break on build errors
5591 the same way the src/ subtree Makefiles breaks on them by replacing the
5592 initial APACI sed-subdir-display-kludge with a more clean
5593 variable-passing-solution: variable SDP can optionally hold the subdir
5594 prefix which is consistently used for displaying the subdir movement.
5595 This way even the top-level Makefile can stop correctly on errors as the
5596 user expects. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5598 *) Fixed ordering of argument checks for RewriteBase directive.
5599 [Todd Eigenschink <eigenstr@mixi.net>] PR#2045
5601 *) Change Win32 IS_MODULE to SHARED_MODULE to match Unix' method of
5602 indicating that a module is being compiled for dynamic loading. Also
5603 remove #define IS_MODULE from modules and add SHARED_MODULE define
5604 to the mak/dsp files. [Alexei Kosut]
5606 *) Reduce logging level of "normal" warning messages to APLOG_INFO,
5607 since we are now logging APLOG_WARNING by default. [Roy Fielding]
5609 *) PORT: OS/2 tweak to deal with multiple .exe targets. [Brian Havard]
5611 *) Add documentation file and src/Configuration.tmpl entry for the
5612 experimental mod_mmap_static module. Because although it is and marked as
5613 an experimental one it is distributed and thus should be documented and
5614 prepared for configuration the same way as all others modules.
5615 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5617 *) Add query (-q) option to apxs support tool to be able to manually query
5618 specific settings from apxs. This is needed for instance when you
5619 manually want to access Apache's header files and you need to assemble
5620 the -I option. Now you can do -I`apxs -q INCLUDEDIR`.
5621 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5623 *) Now src/Configure uses a fallback strategy for the shared object support
5624 on platforms where no explicit information is available: If a Perl
5625 installation exists we ask it about its shared object support and if it's
5626 the dlopen-style one we shamelessly guess the compiler and linker flags
5627 for creating shared objects from Perls knowledge. Of course, the user is
5628 warning about what we are doing and informed that he should send us
5629 the guessed flags when they work. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5631 *) Provide APACI --without-support option to be able to disable the build
5632 and installation of the support tools from the src/support/ area.
5633 Although its useful to have these installed per default we should provide
5634 a way to compile and install without them for backward-compatibility.
5635 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5637 *) Add of the new APache eXtenSion (apxs) support tool for building and
5638 installing modules into an _already installed_ Apache package through the
5639 dynamic shared object (DSO) mechanism [mod_so.c]. The trick here is that
5640 this approach actually doesn't need the Apache source tree. The
5641 (APACI-installed) server package is enough, because this now includes the
5642 Apache C header files (PREFIX/include) and the new APXS tool
5643 (SBINDIR/apxs). The intend is to provide a handy tool for third-party
5644 module authors to build their Apache modules _OUTSIDE_ the Apache source
5645 tree while avoiding them to fiddle around with the totally platform
5646 dependend way of compiling DSO files. The tool supports all ranges of
5647 modules, from trivial ones (single mod_foo.c) to complex ones (like PHP3
5648 which has a mod_php3.c plus a pre-built libmodphp3-so.a) and even can
5649 on-the-fly generate a minimalistic Makefile and sample module for the
5650 first step to provide both a quick success event and to demonstrate the
5651 APXS mechanism to module authors. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5653 *) Fix core dumps in use of CONNECT in proxy.
5654 [Rainer.Scherg@rexroth.de] PR#1326, #1573, #1942
5656 *) Modify the log directives in httpd.conf-dist files to use CustomLog
5657 so that users have examples of how CustomLog can be used.
5660 *) Add the new Apache Autoconf-style Interface (APACI) for the top-level of
5661 the Apache distribution tree. Until Apache 1.3 there was no real
5662 out-of-the-box batch-capable build and installation procedure for the
5663 complete Apache package. This is now provided by a top-level "configure"
5664 script and a corresponding top-level "Makefile.tmpl" file. The goal is
5665 to provide a GNU Autoconf-style frontend which is capable to both drive
5666 the old src/Configure stuff in batch and additionally installs the
5667 package with a GNU-conforming directory layout. Any options from the old
5668 configuration scheme are available plus a lot of new options for flexibly
5669 customizing Apache. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5671 *) The floating point ap_snprintf code wasn't threadsafe.
5672 Had to remove the HAVE_CVT macro in order to do threadsafe
5673 calling of the ?cvt() floating point routines. [Dean Gaudet]
5675 *) PORT: Add the SCO_SV port. [Jim Jagielski] PR#1962
5677 *) PORT: IRIX needs the -n32 flag iff using the 'cc' compiler
5678 [Jim Jagielski] PR#1901
5680 *) BUG: Configure was using TCC and CC inconsistently. Make sure
5681 Configure knows which CC we are using. [Jim Jagielski]
5683 *) "Options +Includes" wasn't correctly merged if "+IncludesNoExec"
5684 was defined in a parent directory. [Lars Eilebrecht]
5686 *) API: ap_snprintf() code mutated into ap_vformatter(), which is
5687 a generic printf-style routine that can call arbitrary output
5688 routines. Use this to replace http_bprintf.c. Add new routines
5689 psprintf(), pvsprintf() which allocate the exact amount of memory
5690 required for a string from a pool. Use psprintf() to clean up
5691 various bits of code which used ap_snprintf()/pstrdup().
5694 *) PORT: HAVE_SNPRINTF doesn't do anything any longer. This is because
5695 ap_snprintf() has different semantics and formatting codes than
5696 snprintf(). [Dean Gaudet]
5698 *) SIGXCPU and SIGXFSZ are now reset to SIG_DFL at boot-time. This
5699 is necessary on at least Solaris where the /etc/rc?.d scripts
5700 are run with these signals ignored, and "SIG_IGN" settings are
5701 maintained across exec().
5702 [Rein Tollevik <reint@sys.sol.no>] PR#2009
5704 *) Fix the check for symbolic links in ``RewriteCond ... -l'': stat() was
5705 used instead of lstat() and thus this flag didn't work as expected.
5706 [Rein Tollevik <reint@sys.sol.no>] PR#2010
5708 *) Fix the proxy pass-through feature of mod_rewrite for the case of
5709 existing QUERY_STRING now that mod_proxy was recently changed because of
5710 the new URL parsing stuff. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5712 *) A few changes to scoreboard definitions which helps gcc generate
5713 better code. [Dean Gaudet]
5715 *) ANSI C doesn't guarantee that "int foo : 2" in a structure will
5716 be a signed bitfield. So mark a few bitfields as signed to
5717 ensure correct code. [Dean Gaudet]
5719 *) The default for HostnameLookups was changed to Off, but there
5720 was a problem and it wasn't taking effect. [Dean Gaudet]
5722 *) PORT: Clean up undefined signals on some platforms (SCO, BeOS).
5725 *) After a SIGHUP the listening sockets in the parent weren't
5726 properly marked for closure on fork().
5727 [Jürgen Keil <jk@tools.de>] PR#2000
5729 *) Allow %2F in two situations: 1) it is in the query part of the URI,
5730 therefore not exposed to %2F -> '/' translations and 2) the request
5731 is a proxy request, so we're not dealing with a local resource anyway.
5732 Without this, the proxy would fail to work for any URL's with
5733 %2f in them (occurs quite often in
5734 http://.../cgi-bin/...?http%3A%2F%2F... references) [Martin Kraemer]
5736 *) Protect against FD_SETSIZE mismatches. [Dean Gaudet]
5738 *) Make the shared object compilation command more portable by avoiding
5739 the direct combination of `-c' & `-o' which is not honored by some
5740 compilers like UnixWare's cc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5742 *) WIN32: the proxy was creating filenames missing the last four
5743 characters. While this normally doesn't stop anything from
5744 working, it can result in extra collisions.
5745 [Tim Costello <tjcostel@socs.uts.edu.au>] PR#1890
5747 *) Now mod_proxy uses the response string (in addition to the response status
5748 code) from the already used FTP SIZE command to setup the Content-Length
5749 header if available. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1183
5751 *) Reanimated the (still undocumented) proxy receive buffer size directive:
5752 Renamed from ReceiveBufferSize to ProxyReceiveBufferSize because the old
5753 name was really too generic, added documentation for this directive to
5754 the mod_proxy.html and corrected the hyperlink to it in the
5755 new_features_1.3.html document. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1348
5757 *) Fix a bug in the src/helpers/fp2rp script and make it a little bit
5758 faster [Martin Kraemer]
5760 *) Make Configure die when you give it an unknown command switch.
5763 *) Add five new and fresh manpages for the support programs: dbmmanage.1,
5764 suexec.8, htdigest.1, rotatelogs.8 and logresolve.8. Now all up-to-date
5765 and per default compiled support programs have manual pages - just to
5766 document our stuff a little bit more and to be able to do really
5767 Unix-like installations ;-) [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5769 *) Major cleanups to the Configure script to make it and its generated
5770 Makefiles again readable and maintainable: add SRCDIR option, removed
5771 INCLUDES_DEPTH[0-2] kludge, cleanup of TARGET option, cleanup of
5772 generated sections, consequently added Makefile headers with inheritance
5773 information, added subdir movement messages for easier following where
5774 the build process currently stays (more verbose then standard Make, less
5775 verbose than GNU make), same style to comments in the Configure script,
5776 added Apache license header, fixed a few bugs, etc. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5778 *) Add the new ApacheBench program "ab" to src/support/: This is derived
5779 from the ZeusBench benchmarking program and can be used to determine the
5780 response performance of an Apache installation. This version is
5781 officially licensed with Zeus Technology, Ltd. See the license agreement
5782 statements in <199803171224.NAA24547@en1.engelschall.com> in apache-core.
5783 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5785 *) API: Various core functions that are definately not part of the API
5786 have been made static, and a few have been marked API_EXPORT. Still
5787 more have been marked CORE_EXPORT and are not intended for general
5788 use by modules. [Doug MacEachern, Dean Gaudet]
5790 *) mod_proxy was not clearing the Proxy-Connection header from
5791 requests; now it does. This did not violate any spec, however
5792 causes poor interactions when you are talking to remote proxies.
5793 [Marc Slemko] PR#1741
5795 *) Various cleanups to the command line interface and manual pages.
5796 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5798 *) cfg_getline() was not properly handling lines that did not end
5799 with a line termination character. [Marc Slemko] PR#1869, 1909
5801 *) Performance tweak to mod_log_config. [Dmitry Khrustalev]
5803 *) Clean up some undocumented behavior of mod_setenvif related to
5804 "merging" two SetEnvIf directives when they match the same header
5805 and regex. Document that mod_setenvif will perform comparisons in
5806 the order they appear in the config file. Optimize mod_setenvif by
5807 doing more work at config time rather than at runtime.
5810 *) src/include/ap_config.h now wraps it's #define's with #ifndef/#endif's
5811 to allow for modules to overrule them and to reduce redefinition
5812 warnings [Jim Jagielski]
5814 *) [PORT] For A/UX change the OS-#define for -DAUX to -DAUX3.
5817 *) Making the hard-coded cross-module function call mime_find_ct() (from
5818 mod_proxy to mod_mime) obsolete by making sure the API hook for MIME type
5819 checking is really called even for proxy requests except for URLs with
5820 HTTP schemes (because there we can optimize by not running the type
5821 checking hooks due to the fact that the proxy gets the MIME Content-type
5822 from the remote host later). This change cleans up mod_mime by removing
5823 the ugly export kludge, makes the one-liner file mod_mime.h obsolete, and
5824 especially unbundles mod_proxy and mod_mime. This way they both now can
5825 be compiled as shared objects and are no longer tied together.
5826 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5828 *) util.c cleanup and speedup. [Dean Gaudet]
5830 *) API: Clarification, pstrndup() will always copy n bytes of the source
5831 and NUL terminate at the (n+1)st byte. [Dean Gaudet]
5833 *) Mark module command_rec and handler_rec structures const so that they
5834 end up in the read-only data section (and are friendlier to systems
5835 that don't do optimistic memory allocation on fork()). [Dean Gaudet]
5837 *) Add check to the "Port" directive to make sure the specified
5838 port is in the appropriate range. [Ben Hyde]
5840 *) Performance improvements to invoke_handler().
5841 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>]
5843 *) Added support for building shared objects even for library-style modules
5844 (which are built from more than one object file). This now provides the
5845 ability to build mod_proxy as a shared object module. Additionally
5846 modules like mod_example are now also supported for shared object
5847 building because the generated Makefiles now no longer assume there is at
5848 least one statically linked module. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5850 *) API: Clarify usage of content_type, handler, content_encoding,
5851 content_language and content_languages fields in request_rec. They
5852 must always be lowercased; and the strings pointed to shouldn't
5853 be modified (you must copy them to modify them). Fix a few bugs
5854 related to this. [Dean Gaudet]
5856 *) API: Clarification: except for RAW_ARGS, all command handlers can
5857 treat the char * parameters as permanent, and modifiable. There
5858 is no need to pstrdup() them. Clean up some needless pstrdup().
5861 *) Now mod_so keeps track of which module shared objects with which names
5862 are loaded and thus avoids multiple loading and unloading and irritating
5863 error_log messages. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5865 *) Prior to the existence of mod_setenv it was necessary to tweak the TZ
5866 environment variable in the apache core. But that tweaking interferes
5867 with mod_setenv. So don't tweak if the user has specified an explicit
5868 TZ variable. [Jay Soffian <jay@cimedia.com>] PR#1888
5870 *) rputs() did not calculate r->sent_bodyct properly.
5871 [Siegmund Stirnweiss <siegst@kat.ina.de>] PR#1900
5873 *) The CGI spec says that REMOTE_HOST should be set to the remote hosts's
5874 name, or left unset if this value is unavailable. Apache was setting
5875 it to the IP address when unavailable.
5876 [Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net>] PR#1925
5878 *) Various improvements to the configuration and build support for compiling
5879 modules as shared objects. Especially Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.1, IRIX and
5880 OSF1 support with GCC and vendor compilers was added. This way shared
5881 object support is now provided out-of-the-box for FreeBSD, Linux,
5882 Solaris, SunOS, IRIX and OSF1. In short: On all major platforms!
5883 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5885 *) Minor cleanup in http_main -- split QNX and OS2 specific "mmap"
5886 scoreboard code into separate #defines -- USE_POSIX_SCOREBOARD
5887 and USE_OS2_SCOREBOARD. [Dean Gaudet]
5889 *) Fix one more special locking problem for RewriteMap programs in
5890 mod_rewrite: According to the documentation of flock(), "Locks are on
5891 files, not file descriptors. That is, file descriptors duplicated
5892 through dup(2) or fork(2) do not result in multiple instances of a lock,
5893 but rather multiple references to a single lock. If a process holding a
5894 lock on a file forks and the child explicitly unlocks the file, the
5895 parent will lose its lock.". To overcome this we have to make sure the
5896 RewriteLock file is opened _AFTER_ the childs were spawned which is now
5897 the case by opening it in the child_init instead of the module_init API
5898 hook. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1029
5900 *) Change to Location and LocationMatch semantics. LocationMatch no
5901 longer lets a single slash match multiple adjacent slashes in the
5902 URL. This change is for consistency with RewriteRule and
5903 AliasMatch. Multiple slashes have meaning in URLs that they do
5904 not have in (some) filesystems. Location on the other hand can
5905 be considered a shorthand for a more complicated regex, and it
5906 does match multiple slashes with a single slash -- which is
5907 also consistent with the Alias directive.
5908 [Dean Gaudet] related PR#1440
5910 *) Fix bug with mod_mime_magic causing certain files, including files
5911 of length 0, to result in no response from the server.
5914 *) The Configure script now generates src/include/ap_config.h which
5915 contains the set of defines used when Apache is compiled on a platform.
5916 This file can then be included by external modules before including
5917 any Apache header files in case they are being built separately from
5918 Apache. Along with this change, a couple of minor changes were
5919 made to make Apache's #defines coexist peacefully with any autoconf
5920 defines an external module might have. [Rasmus Lerdorf]
5922 *) Fix mod_rewrite for the ugly API case where <VirtualHost> sections exist
5923 but without any RewriteXXXXX directives. Here mod_rewrite is given no
5924 chance by the API to initialize its per-server configuration and thus
5925 receives the wrong one from the main server. This is now avoided by
5926 remembering the server together with the config structure while
5927 configuring and later assuming there is no config when we see a
5928 difference between the remembered server and the one calling us.
5929 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1790
5931 *) Fixed the DBM RewriteMap support for mod_rewrite: First the support now
5932 is automatically disabled under configure time when the dbm_xxx functions
5933 are not available. Second, two heavy source code errors in the DBM
5934 support code were fixed. This makes DBM RewriteMap's usable again after
5935 a long time of brokenness. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1696
5937 *) Now all configuration files support Unix-style line-continuation via
5938 the trailing backslash ("\") character. This enables us to write down
5939 complex or just very long directives in a more readable way. The
5940 backslash character has to be really the last character before the
5941 newline and it has not been prefixed by another (escaping) backslash.
5942 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
5944 *) When using ProxyPass the ?querystring was not passed correctly.
5945 [Joel Truher <truher@wired.com>]
5947 *) To deal with modules being compiled and [dynamically] linked
5948 at a different time from the core, the SERVER_VERSION and
5949 SERVER_BUILT symbols have been abstracted through the new
5950 API routines apapi_get_server_version() and apapi_get_server_built().
5953 *) WIN32: Preserve trailing slash in canonical path (and hence
5954 in PATH_INFO). [Paul Sutton, Ben Laurie]
5956 *) PORT: USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT has proven unreliable
5957 depending on the rev of Solaris and what mixture of modules
5958 are in use. So it has been disabled, and Solaris is back to
5959 using USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT. Users may experiment with
5960 USE_PTHREAD_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT at their own risk, it may speed
5961 up static content only servers. Or it may fail unpredictably.
5962 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1779, 1854, 1904
5964 *) mod_test_util_uri.c created which tests the logic in util_uri.c.
5967 *) API: Rewrite of absoluteURI handling, and in particular how
5968 absoluteURIs match vhosts. Unless a request is a proxy request, a
5969 "http://host" url is treated as if a similar "Host:" header had been
5970 supplied. This change was made to support future HTTP/1.x protocols
5971 which may require clients to send absoluteURIs for all requests.
5973 In order to achieve this change subtle changes were made to the API. In a
5974 request_rec, r->hostlen has been removed. r->unparsed_uri now exists so
5975 that the unmodified uri can be retrieved easily. r->proxyreq is not set
5976 by the core, modules must set it during the post_read_request or
5977 translate_names phase.
5979 Plus changes to the virtualhost test suite for absoluteURI testing.
5981 This fixes several bugs with the proxy proxying requests to vhosts
5982 managed by the same httpd.
5985 *) API: Cleanup of code in http_vhost.c, and remove vhost matching
5986 code from mod_rewrite. The vhost matching is now performed by a
5987 globally available function matches_request_vhost(). [Dean Gaudet]
5989 *) Reduce memory usage, and speed up ServerAlias support. As a
5990 side-effect users can list multiple ServerAlias directives
5991 and they're all considered.
5992 [Chia-liang Kao <clkao@cirx.org>] PR#1531
5994 *) The "poly" directive in image maps did not include the borders of the
5995 polygon, whereas the "rect" directive does. Fix this inconsistency.
5996 [Konstantin Morshnev <moko@design.ru>] PR#1771
5998 *) Make \\ behave as expected. [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch]
6000 *) Add the `%a' construct to LogFormat and CustomLog to log the client IP
6001 address. [Todd Eigenschink <eigenstr@mixi.net>] PR#1885
6003 *) API: A new source module main/util_uri.c; It contains a routine
6004 parse_uri_components() and friends which breaks a URI into its component
6005 parts. These parts are stored in a uri_components structure called
6006 parsed_uri within each request_rec, and are available to all modules.
6007 Additionally, an unparse routine is supplied which re-assembles the URI
6008 components back to an URI, optionally hiding the username:password@ part
6009 from ftp proxy requests, and other useful routines. Within the structure,
6010 you find on a ready-for-use basis:
6011 scheme; /* scheme ("http"/"ftp"/...) */
6012 hostinfo; /* combined [user[:password]@]host[:port] */
6013 user; /* user name, as in http://user:passwd@host:port/ */
6014 password; /* password, as in http://user:passwd@host:port/ */
6015 hostname; /* hostname from URI (or from Host: header) */
6016 port_str; /* port string (integer representation is in "port") */
6017 path; /* the request path (or "/" if only scheme://host was given) */
6018 query; /* Everything after a '?' in the path, if present */
6019 fragment; /* Trailing "#fragment" string, if present */
6020 This is meant to serve as the platform for *BIG* savings in
6021 code complexity for the proxy module (and maybe the vhost logic).
6024 *) Make all possible meta-construct expansions ($N, %N, %{NAME} and
6025 ${map:key}) available for all location where a string is created in
6026 mod_rewrite rewriting rulesets: 1st arg of RewriteCond, 2nd arg of
6027 RewriteRule and for the [E=NAME:STRING] flag of RewriteRule. This way the
6028 possible expansions are consequently usable at all string creation
6029 locations. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6031 *) Fix initialization of RewriteLogLevel (default now is 0 as documented
6032 and not 1) and the per-virtual-server merging of directives. Now all
6033 directives except `RewriteEngine' and `RewriteOption' are either
6034 completely overridden (default) or completely inherited (when
6035 `RewriteOptions inherit') is used. [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1325
6037 *) Fix `RewriteMap' program lookup in situations where such maps are
6038 defined but disabled (`RewriteEngine off') in per-server context.
6039 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1431
6041 *) Fix bug introduced in 1.3b4-dev, config with no Port setting would cause
6042 server to bind to port 0 rather than 80. [Dean Gaudet]
6044 *) Fix long-standing problem with RewriteMap _programs_ under Unix derivates
6045 (like SunOS and FreeBSD) which don't accept the locking of pipes
6046 directly. A new directive RewriteLock is introduced which can be used to
6047 setup a separate locking file which then is used for synchronization.
6048 [Ralf S. Engelschall] PR#1029
6050 *) WIN32: The server root is obtained from the registry key
6051 HKLM\SOFTWARE\Apache Group\Apache\<version> (version is currently
6052 "1.3 beta"), unless overridden by the -d command line flag. The
6053 value is stored by running "apache -i -d serverroot". [Paul Sutton]
6055 *) Merged os/win32/mod_dll.c into modules/standard/mod_so.c to support
6056 dynamic loading on Win32 and Unix via the same module. [Paul Sutton]
6058 *) Now mod_rewrite no longer makes problematic assumptions on the characters
6059 a username can contain when trying to expand it via /etc/passwd.
6060 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6062 *) The mod_setenvif BrowserMatch backwards compatibility command did not
6063 work properly with spaces in the regex. [Ronald Tschalaer] PR#1825
6065 *) Add new RewriteMap types: First, `rnd' which is equivalent to the `txt'
6066 type but with a special post-processing for the looked-up value: It
6067 parses it into alternatives according to `|' chars and then only one
6068 particular alternative is chosen randomly (this is an essential
6069 functionality needed for balancing between backend-servers when using
6070 Apache as a Reverse Proxy. The looked up value here is a list of
6071 servers). Second, `int' with the built-in maps named `tolower' and
6072 `toupper' which can be used to map URL parts to a fixed case (this is an
6073 essential feature to fix the case of server names when doing mass
6074 virtual-hosting with the help of mod_rewrite instead of using
6075 <VirtualHost> sections). [Ralf S. Engelschall, parts based on code from
6076 Jay Soffian <jay@cimedia.com>] PR#1631
6078 *) Add a new directive to mod_proxy similar to ProxyPass: `ProxyPassReverse'.
6079 This directive lets Apache adjust the URL in Location-headers on HTTP
6080 redirect responses sent by the remote server. This way the virtually
6081 mapped area is no longer left on redirects and thus by-passed which is
6082 especially essential when running Apache as a reverse proxy.
6083 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6085 *) Hide Proxy-Authorization from CGI/SSI/etc just like Authorization is
6086 hidden. [Alvaro Martinez Echevarria]
6088 *) Apache will, when started with the -X (single process) debugging flag,
6089 honor the SIGINT or SIGQUIT signals again now. This capability got lost
6090 a while ago during OS/2 signal handling changes.
6092 *) [PORT] Work around the fact that NeXT runs on more than the
6093 m68k chips in mod_status [Scott Anguish and Timothy Luoma
6096 *) [PORT] Recognize FreeBSD versions so we can use the OS regex as well
6097 as handling unsigned-chars for FreeBSD v3 and v2 [Andrey Chernov
6098 <ache@nagual.pp.ru> and Jim] PR#1450
6100 *) Use SA_RESETHAND or SA_ONESHOT when installing the coredump handlers.
6101 In particular the handlers could trigger themselves into an infinite
6102 loop if RLimitMem was used with a small amount of memory -- too small
6103 for the signal stack frame to be set up. [Dean Gaudet]
6105 *) Fix problems with absoluteURIs introduced during 1.3b4. [Dean Gaudet,
6106 Alvaro Martinez Echevarria <alvaro@lander.es>]
6108 *) Fix multiple UserDir problem introduced during 1.3b4-dev.
6109 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1850
6111 *) ap_cpystrn() had an off-by-1 error.
6112 [Charles Fu <ccwf@klab.caltech.edu>] PR#1847
6114 *) API: As Ken suggested the check_cmd_context() function and related
6115 defines are non-static now so modules can use 'em. [Martin Kraemer]
6117 *) mod_info would occasionally produce an unpaired <tt> in its
6118 output. Fixed. [Martin Kraemer]
6120 *) By default AIX binds a process (and it's children) to a single
6121 processor. httpd children now unbind themselves from that cpu
6122 and re-bind to one selected at random via bindprocessor()
6125 *) Linux 2.0 and above implement RLIMIT_AS, RLIMIT_DATA has almost no
6126 effect. Work around it by using RLIMIT_AS for the RLimitMEM
6127 directive. [Enrik Berkhan <enrik@inka.de>] PR#1816
6129 *) mod_mime_magic error message should indicate the filename when
6130 reads fail. ["M.D.Parker" <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#1827
6132 *) Previously Apache would permit </Files> to end <FilesMatch> (and
6133 similary for Location and Directory), now this is diagnosed as an
6134 error. Improve error messages for mismatched sections (<Files>,
6135 <FilesMatch>, <Directory>, <DirectoryMatch>, ...).
6136 [Dean Gaudet, Martin Kraemer]
6138 *) <Files> is not permitted within <Location> (because of the
6139 semantic ordering). [Dean Gaudet] PR#379
6141 *) <Files> with wildcards was broken by the change in wildcard
6142 semantics (* does not match /). To fix this, <Files> now
6143 apply only to the basename of the request filename. This
6144 fixes some other inconsistencies in <Files> semantics
6145 (such as <Files a*b> not working). [Dean Gaudet] PR#1817
6147 *) Removed bogus "dist.tar" target from Makefile.tmpl and make sure
6148 backup files are removed on "clean" target [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6150 *) PORT: Add -lm to LIBS for HPUX. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1639
6152 *) Various errors from select() and accept() in child_main() would
6153 result in an infinite loop. It seems these two tickle kernel
6154 or library bugs occasionally, and result in log spammage and
6155 a generally bad scene. Now the child exits immediately,
6156 which seems to be a good workaround.
6157 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1747, 1107, 588, 1787, 987, 588
6159 *) Cleaned up some race conditions in unix child_main during
6160 initialization. [Dean Gaudet]
6162 *) SECURITY: "UserDir /abspath" without a * in the path would allow
6163 remote users to access "/~.." and bypass access restrictions
6164 (but note /~../.. was handled properly).
6165 [Lauri Jesmin <jesmin@ut.ee>] PR#1701
6167 *) API: os_is_path_absolute() now takes a const char * instead of a char *.
6170 Changes with Apache 1.3b5
6172 *) Source file dependencies in Makefile.tmpl files throughout the
6173 source tree were updated to accurately reflect reality.
6176 *) Preserve the content encoding given by the AddEncoding directive
6177 when the client doesn't otherwise specify an encoding.
6178 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>]
6180 *) Sort out problems with canonical filename handling happening too late.
6181 [Dean Gaudet, Ben Laurie]
6183 Changes with Apache 1.3b4
6185 *) The module structure was modified to include a *dynamic_load_handle
6186 in the STANDARD_MODULE_STUFF portion, and the MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER
6187 has been bumped accordingly. [Paul Sutton]
6189 *) All BrowserMatch directives mentioned in
6190 htdocs/manual/known_client_problems.html are in the default
6191 configuration files. [Lars Eilebrecht]
6193 *) MiNT port update. [Jan Paul Schmidt]
6195 *) HTTP/1.1 requires x-gzip and gzip encodings be treated
6196 equivalent, similarly for x-compress and compress. Apache
6197 now ignores a leading x- when comparing encodings. It also
6198 preserves the encoding the client requests (for example if
6199 it requests x-gzip, then Apache will respond with x-gzip
6200 in the Content-Encoding header).
6201 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>] PR#1772
6203 *) Fix a memory leak on keep-alive connections. [Igor Tatarinov]
6205 *) Added mod_so module to support dynamic loading of modules on Unix
6206 (like mod_dld for Win32). This replaces mod_dld.c. Use SharedModule
6207 instead of AddModule in Configuration to build shared modules
6208 [Sameer Parekh, Paul Sutton]
6210 *) Minor cleanups to r->finfo handling in some modules.
6213 *) Abstract read()/write() to ap_read()/ap_write().
6214 Makes it easier to add other types of IO code such as SFIO.
6217 *) API: Generalize default_port manipulations to make support of
6218 different protocols easier. [Ben Laurie, Randy Terbush]
6220 *) There are many cases where users do not want Apache to form
6221 self-referential urls using the "canonical" ServerName and Port.
6222 The new UseCanonicalName directive (default on), if set to off
6223 will cause Apache to use the client-supplied hostname and port.
6224 API: Part of this change required a change to the construct_url()
6225 prototype; and the addition of get_server_name() and
6227 [Michael Douglass <mikedoug@texas.net>, Dean Gaudet]
6228 PR#315, 459, 485, 1433
6230 *) Yet another rearrangement of the source tree.. now all the common
6231 header files are in the src/include directory. The -Imain -Iap
6232 references in Makefiles have been changed to the simpler -Iinclude
6233 instead. In addition to simplifying the build a little bit, this
6234 also makes it clear when a module is referencing something in a
6235 other than kosher manner (e.g., the proxy including mod_mime.h).
6236 Module-private header files (the proxy, mod_mime, the regex library,
6237 and mod_rewrite) have not been moved to src/include; nor have
6238 the OS-abstraction files. [Ken Coar]
6240 *) Fix a bug where r->hostname didn't have the :port stripped
6241 from it. [Dean Gaudet]
6243 *) Tweaked the headers_out table size, and the subprocess_env
6244 table size guess in rename_original_environment(). Added
6245 MAKE_TABLE_PROFILE which can help discover make_table()
6246 calls that use too small an initial guess, see alloc.c.
6249 *) Options and AllowOverride weren't properly merging in the main
6250 server setting inside vhosts (only an issue when you have no
6251 <Directory> or other section containing an Options that affects
6252 a request). Options +foo or -foo in the main_server wouldn't
6253 affect the main_server's lookup defaults. [Dean Gaudet]
6255 *) Variable 'cwd' was being used pointlessly before being set.
6258 *) r->allowed handling cleaned up in the standard modules.
6261 *) Some case-sensitivity issues cleaned up to be consistent with
6262 RFC2068. [Dean Gaudet]
6264 *) SIGURG doesn't exist everywhere.
6265 [Mark Andrew Heinrich <heinrich@tinderbox.Stanford.EDU>]
6267 *) mod_unique_id was erroneously generating a second unique id when
6268 an internal redirect occured. Such redirects occur, for example,
6269 when processing a DirectoryIndex match. [Dean Gaudet]
6271 *) API: table_add, table_merge, and table_set include implicit pstrdup()
6272 of the key and value. But in many cases this is not required
6273 because the key/value is a constant, or the value has been built
6274 by pstrcat() or other similar means. New routines table_addn,
6275 table_mergen, and table_setn have been added to the API, these
6276 routines do not pstrdup() their arguments. The core code and
6277 standard modules were changed to take advantage of these routines.
6278 The resulting server is up to 20% faster in some situations.
6280 Note that it is easy to get code subtly wrong if you pass a key/value
6281 which is in a pool other than the pool of the table. The only
6282 safe thing to do is to pass key/values which are in the pool of
6283 the table, or in one of the ancestors of the pool of the table.
6284 i.e. if the table is part of a subrequest, a value from the main
6285 request's pool is OK since the subrequest pool is a sub_pool of the
6286 main request's pool (and therefore has a lifespan at most as long as
6287 the main pool). There is debugging code which can detect improper
6288 usage, enabled by defining POOL_DEBUG. See alloc.c for more details.
6289 [Dmitry Khrustalev <dima@bog.msu.su>, Dean Gaudet]
6291 *) More mod_mime_magic cleanup: fewer syscalls; should handle "files"
6292 which don't exist on disk more gracefully; handles vhosts properly.
6293 Update documentation to reflect the code -- if there's no
6294 MimeMagicFile directive then the module is not enabled.
6297 *) PORT: Some older *nix dialects cannot automatically start scripts
6298 which begin with a #! interpreter line (the shell starts the scripts
6299 appropriately on these platforms). Apache now supports starting of
6300 "hashbang-scripts" when the NEED_HASHBANG_EMUL define is set.
6301 [Martin Kraemer, with code from peter@zeus.dialix.oz.au (Peter Wemm)
6304 *) API: "typedef array_header table" removed from alloc.h, folks should
6305 have been writing to use table as if it were an opaque type, but even
6306 some standard modules got this wrong. By changing the definition
6307 to "typedef struct table table" module authors will receive compile
6308 time warnings that they're doing the wrong thing. This change
6309 facilitates future changes with more sophisticated table
6310 structures. Specifically, module authors should be using table_elts()
6311 to get access to an array_header * for the table. [Dean Gaudet]
6313 *) API: Renamed new_connection() to avoid namespace collision with LDAP
6314 library routines. [Ken Coar, Rasmus Lerdorf]
6316 *) WIN32: mod_speling is now available on the Win32 platform.
6319 *) For clarity the following compile time definition was changed:
6321 SAFE_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT -> SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT
6323 Also, for example, HAVE_MMAP would mean to use mmap() scoreboards
6324 and not be a general notice that the OS has mmap(). Now the
6325 HAVE_MMAP/SHMGET #defines strictly are informational that the
6326 OS has that method of shared memory; the type to use for
6327 the scoreboard is a seperate #define (USE_MMAP_SCOREBOARD
6328 and USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD). This allows outside modules to
6329 determine if shared memory is available and allows Apache
6330 to determine the best method to use for the scoreboard.
6333 *) PORT: UnixWare 2.1.2 SMP appears to require USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT,
6334 as do various earlier versions. It should be safe on all versions.
6335 Unixware 1.x appears to have the same SIGHUP bug as solaris does with
6336 the slack code. A few other cleanups for Unixware.
6337 [Tom Hughes <thh@cyberscience.com>] PR#1082, PR#1282, PR#1499, PR#1553
6339 *) PORT: A/UX can handle single-listen accepts without mutex
6340 locking, so we add SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT. [Jim Jagielski]
6342 *) When die() happens we need to eat any request body if one exists.
6343 Otherwise we can't continue with a keepalive session. This shows up
6344 as a POST problem with MSIE 4.0, typically against pages which are
6345 authenticated. [Roy Fielding] PR#1399
6347 *) If you define SECURITY_HOLE_PASS_AUTHORIZATION then the Authorization
6348 header will be passed to CGIs. This is generally a security hole, so
6349 it's not a default. [Marc Slemko] PR#549
6351 *) Fix Y2K problem with date printing in suexec log.
6352 [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>] PR#1343
6354 *) WIN32 deserves a pid file. [Ben Hyde]
6356 *) suexec errors now include the errno/description. [Marc Slemko] PR#1543
6358 *) PORT: OSF/1 now uses USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT to solve PR#467.
6359 The choice of flock vs. fcntl was made based on timings which showed that
6360 even on non-NFS, non-exported filesystems fcntl() was an order of
6361 magnitude slower. It also uses SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT so
6362 that single socket users will see no difference. [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
6364 *) "File does not exist" error message was erroneously including the
6365 errno. [Marc Slemko]
6367 *) Improve the warning message generated when a client drops the
6368 connection (hits stop button, etc.) during a send. [Roy Fielding]
6370 *) Defining GPROF will disable profiling in the parent and enable it
6371 in the children. If you're profiling under Linux this is pretty much
6372 necessary because SIGPROF is lost across a fork(). [Dean Gaudet]
6374 *) htdigest and htpasswd needed slight tweaks to work on OS/2 and WIN32.
6377 *) The NeXT cc (which is gcc hacked up) doesn't appear to support some
6378 gcc functionality. Work around it.
6379 [Keith Severson <keith@sssd.navy.mil>] PR#1613
6381 *) Some linkers complain when .o files contain no functions.
6382 [Keith Severson <keith@sssd.navy.mil>] PR#1614
6384 *) Some const declarations in mod_imap.c that were added for debugging
6385 purposes caused some compilers heartburn without adding any
6386 significant value, so they've been removed. [Ken Coar]
6388 *) The src/main/*.h header files have had #ifndef wrappers added to
6389 insulate them against duplicate calls if they get included through
6390 multiple paths (e.g., in .c files as well as other .h files).
6393 *) The libap routines now have a header file for their prototypes,
6394 src/ap/ap.h, to ease their use in non-httpd applications. [Ken Coar]
6396 *) mod_autoindex with a plaintext header file would emit the <PRE>
6397 start-tag before the HTML preamble, rather than after the preamble
6398 but before the header file contents. [John Van Essen <jve@gamers.org>]
6401 *) SECURITY: Fix a possible buffer overflow in logresolve. This is
6402 only an issue on systems without a MAXDNAME define or where
6403 the resolver returns domain names longer than MAXDNAME. [Marc Slemko]
6405 *) SECURITY: Eliminate possible buffer overflow in cfg_getline, which
6406 is used to read various types of files such as htaccess and
6407 htpasswd files. [Marc Slemko]
6409 *) SECURITY: Ensure that the buffer returned by ht_time is always
6410 properly null terminated. [Marc Slemko]
6412 *) The "Connection" header could be sent back with multiple "close"
6413 tokens. Not an error, but a waste.
6414 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1683
6416 *) mod_rewrite's RewriteLog should behave like mod_log_config, it
6417 shouldn't force hostname lookups. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1684
6419 *) "basic" auth needs a case-insensitive comparison.
6420 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1666
6422 *) For maximum portability, the environment passed to CGIs should
6423 only contain variables whose names match the regex
6424 /[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*/. This is now enforced by stamping
6425 underscores over any character outside the regex. This
6426 affects HTTP_* variables, in a way that should be backward
6427 compatible for all the standard headers; and affects variables
6428 set with SetEnv/BrowserMatch and similar directives.
6431 *) mod_speling returned incorrect HREF's when an ambigous match
6432 was found. Noticed by <robinton@amtrash.comlink.de> (Soeren Ziehe)
6433 [robinton@amtrash.comlink.de (Soeren Ziehe), Martin Kraemer]
6435 *) PORT: Apache now compiles & runs on an EBCDIC mainframe
6436 (the Siemens BS2000/OSD family) in the POSIX subsystem
6439 *) PORT: Fix problem killing children when terminating. Allow ^C
6440 to shut down the server. [Brian Havard]
6442 *) pstrdup() is implicit in calls to table_* functions, so there's
6443 no need to do it before calling. Clean up a few cases.
6444 [Marc Slemko, Dean Gaudet]
6446 *) new -C and -c command line arguments
6448 -C "directive" : process directive before reading config files
6449 -c "directive" : process directive after reading config files
6451 httpd -C "PerlModule Apache::httpd_conf"
6452 [Doug MacEachern, Martin Kraemer]
6454 *) WIN32: Fix the execution of CGIs that are scripts and called
6455 with path info that does not have an '=' in.
6456 (eg. http://server/cgi-bin/printenv?foobar)
6457 [Marc Slemko] PR#1591
6459 *) WIN32: Fix a call to os_canonical_filename so it doesn't try to
6460 mess with fake filenames. This fixes proxy caching on
6463 *) SECURITY: General mod_include cleanup, including fixing several
6464 possible buffer overflows and a possible infinite loop.
6465 [Dean Gaudet, Marc Slemko]
6467 *) SECURITY: Numerous changes to mod_imap in a general cleanup
6468 including fixing a possible buffer overflow. [Dean Gaudet]
6470 *) WIN32: overhaul of multithreading code. Shutdowns are now graceful
6471 (connections are not dropped). Code can handle graceful restarts
6472 (but there is as yet no way to signal this to Apache). Various
6473 other cleanups. [Paul Sutton]
6475 *) The aplog_error changes specific to 1.3 introduced a buffer
6476 overrun in the (now legacy) log_printf function. Fixed.
6479 *) mod_digest didn't properly deal with proxy authentication. It
6480 also lacked a case-insensitive comparision of the "Digest"
6481 token. [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>] PR#1599
6483 *) A few cleanups in mod_status for efficiency. [Dean Gaudet]
6485 *) A few cleanups in mod_info to make it thread-safe, and remove an
6486 off-by-5 bug that could hammer \0 on the stack. [Dean Gaudet]
6488 *) no2slash() was O(n^2) in the length of the input. Make it O(n).
6491 *) API: migration from strncpy() to our "enhanced" version called
6492 ap_cpystrn() for performance and functionality reasons.
6493 Located in libap.a. [Jim Jagielski]
6495 *) table_set() and table_unset() did not deal correctly with
6496 multiple occurrences of the same key.
6497 [Stephen Scheck <sscheck@infonex.net>, Ben Laurie] PR#1604
6499 *) The AuthName must now be enclosed in quotes if it is to contain
6500 spaces. [Ken Coar] PR#1195
6502 *) API: new function: ap_escape_quotes(). [Ken Coar] PR#1195
6504 *) WIN32: Work around optimiser bug that killed ISAPI in release
6505 versions. [Ben Laurie] PR#1533
6507 *) PORT: Update the MPE port [Mark Bixby, Jim Jagielski]
6509 *) Interim (slow) fix for p->sub_pool critical sections in
6510 alloc.c (affects win32 only). [Ben Hyde]
6512 *) non-WIN32 was missing destroy_mutex definition. [Ben Hyde]
6514 *) send_fd_length() did not calculate total_bytes_sent properly.
6515 [Ben Reser <breser@regnow.com>] PR#1366
6517 *) The bputc() macro was not properly integrated with the chunking
6518 code; in many cases modules using bputc() could cause completely
6519 bogus chunked output. (Typically this will show up as problems
6520 with Internet Explorer 4.0 reading a page, but other browsers
6521 having no problem.) [Dean Gaudet]
6523 *) Create LARGE_WRITE_THRESHOLD define which determines how many
6524 bytes have to be supplied to bwrite() before it will consider
6525 doing a writev() to assemble multiple buffers in one system
6526 call. This is critical for modules such as mod_include,
6527 mod_autoindex, mod_php3 which all use bputc()/bputs() of smaller
6528 strings in some cases. The result would be extra effort
6529 setting up writev(), and in many cases extra effort building
6530 chunks. The default is 31, it can be overriden at compile
6533 *) Move the gid switching code into the child so that log files
6534 and pid files are opened with the root gid.
6535 [Gregory A Lundberg <lundberg@vr.net>]
6537 *) WIN32: Check for binaries by looking for the executable header
6538 instead of counting control characters.
6539 [Jim Patterson <Jim.Patterson@Cognos.COM>] PR#1340
6541 *) ap_snprintf() moved from main/util_snprintf.c to ap/ap_snprintf.c
6542 so the functionality is available to applications other than the
6543 server itself (like the src/support tools). [Ken Coar]
6545 *) ap_slack() moved out of main/util.c into ap/ap_slack.c as part of
6546 the libap consolidation work. [Ken Coar]
6548 *) ap_snprintf() with a len of 0 behaved like sprintf(). This is not
6549 useful, and isn't what the standards require. Now it returns 0
6550 and writes nothing. [Dean Gaudet]
6552 *) When an error occurs in fcntl() locking suggest the user look up
6553 the docs for LockFile. [Dean Gaudet]
6555 *) Eliminate some dead code from writev_it_all().
6556 [Igor Tatarinov <tatarino@prairie.NoDak.edu>]
6558 *) mod_autoindex had an fread() without checking the result code.
6559 It also wouldn't handle "AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif text/*"
6560 (note the missing closing paren) properly. [Dean Gaudet]
6562 *) It appears the "257th byte" bug (see
6563 htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html#257th-byte) can happen
6564 at the 256th byte as well. Fixed. [Dean Gaudet]
6566 *) PORT: Fix mod_mime_magic under OS/2, no support for block devices.
6569 *) Fix memory corruption caused by allocating auth usernames in the
6570 wrong pool. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1500
6572 *) Fix an off-by-1, and an unterminated string error in
6573 mod_mime_magic. [Dean Gaudet]
6575 *) Fix a potential SEGV problem in mod_negotiation when dealing
6576 with type-maps. [Dean Gaudet]
6578 *) Better glibc support under Linux. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1542
6580 *) "RedirectMatch gone /" would cause a SIGSEGV. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1319
6582 *) WIN32: avoid overflows during file canonicalisations.
6583 [malcolm@mgdev.demon.co.uk] PR#1378
6585 *) WIN32: set_file_slot() didn't detect absolute paths. [Ben Laurie]
6588 *) WIN32: mod_status display header didn't match fields. [Ben Laurie]
6590 *) The pthread_mutex_* functions return an error code, and don't
6591 set errno. [Igor Tatarinov <tatarino@prairie.NoDak.edu>]
6593 *) WIN32: Allow spaces to prefix the interpreter in #! lines.
6594 [Ben Laurie] PR#1101
6596 *) WIN32: Cure file leak in CGIs. [Peter Tillemans <pti@net4all.be>] PR#1523
6598 *) proxy_ftp: the directory listings generated by the proxy ftp module
6599 now have a title in which the path components are clickable and allow
6600 quick navigation to the clicked-on directory on the currently listed
6601 ftp server. This also fixes a bug where the ".." directory links would
6602 sometimes refer to the wrong directory. [Martin Kraemer]
6604 *) WIN32: Allocate the correct amount of memory for the scoreboard.
6607 *) WIN32: Only lowercase the part of the path that is real. [Ben Laurie]
6610 *) Fix problems with timeouts in inetd mode and -X mode. [Dean Gaudet]
6612 *) Fix the spurious "(0)unknown error: mmap_handler: mmap failed"
6613 error messages. [Ben Hyde]
6615 Changes with Apache 1.3b3
6617 *) WIN32: Work around brain-damaged spawn calls that can't deal
6618 with spaces and slashes. [Ben Laurie]
6620 *) WIN32: Fix the code so CGIs can use socket calls on Windows.
6621 The problem was that certain undocumented environment variables
6622 needed for sockets to work under Win32 were not being passed.
6623 [Frank Faubert <frank@sane.com>]
6625 *) Add a "-V" command line flag to the httpd binary. This
6626 flag shows some of the defines that Apache was compiled with.
6627 It is useful for debugging purposes. [Martin Kraemer]
6629 *) Start separating the ap_*() routines into their own library, so they
6630 can be used by items in src/support among other things.
6631 [Ken Coar] PR#512, 905, 1252, 1308
6633 *) Give a more informative error when no AuthType is set.
6636 *) Remove strtoul() use from mod_proxy because it isn't available
6637 on all platforms. [Marc Slemko] PR#1214
6639 *) WIN32: Some Win32 systems terminated all responses after 16 kB.
6640 This turns out to be a bug in Winsock - select() doesn't always
6641 return the correct status. [Ben Laurie]
6643 *) Directives owned by http_core can now use the new check_cmd_context()
6644 routine to ensure that they're not being used within a container
6645 (e.g., <Directory>) where they're invalid. [Martin Kraemer]
6647 *) PORT: Recent changes made it necessary to add explicit prototype
6648 for fgetc() and fgets() on SunOS 4.x. [Martin Kraemer, Ben Hyde]
6650 *) It was necessary to distinguish between resources which are
6651 allocated in the parent, for cleanup in the parent, and resources
6652 which are allocated in each child, for cleanup in each child.
6653 A new pool was created which is passed to the module child_init
6654 and child_exit functions; modules are free to register per-child
6655 cleanups there. This fixes a bug with reliable piped logs.
6658 *) mod_autoindex wasn't displaying the ReadmeName file at the bottom
6659 unless it was also doing FancyIndexes, but it displayed the
6660 HeaderName file at the top under all circumstances. It now shows
6661 the ReadmeName file for simple indices, too, as it should.
6664 *) http_core was mmap()ing even in cases where it wasn't going to
6665 read the file. [Ben Hyde <bhyde@gensym.com>]
6667 *) Complete rewrite ;-) of mod_rewrite's URL rewriting engine:
6668 Now the rewriting engine (the heart of mod_rewrite) is organized more
6669 straight-forward, first time well documented and reduced to the really
6670 essential parts. All redundant cases were stripped off and processing now
6671 is the same for both per-server and per-directory context with only a
6672 minimum difference (the prefix stripping in per-dir context). As a
6673 side-effect some subtle restrictions and two recently discovered problems
6674 are gone: Wrong escaping of QUERY_STRING on redirects in per-directory
6675 context and restrictions on the substitution URL on redirects.
6676 Additionally some minor source cleanups were done.
6677 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
6679 *) Lars Eilebrecht wrote a whole new set of Apache Vhost Internals
6680 documentation, examples, explanations and caveats. They live in a new
6681 subdirectory htdocs/manual/vhost/. [Lars Eilebrecht <sfx@unix-ag.org>]
6683 *) If ap_slack fails to allocate above the low slack line it's a good
6684 indication that further problems will occur; it's a better indication
6685 than many external libraries give us when we actually run out of
6686 descriptors. So report it to the user once per restart.
6687 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1181
6689 *) Change mod_include and mod_autoindex to use Y2K-safe date formats
6690 by default. [Ken Coar]
6692 *) Add a "SuppressColumnSorting" option to the IndexOptions list,
6693 which will keep the column heading from being links for sorting
6694 the display. [Ken Coar, suggested by Brian Tiemann <btman@pacific.net>]
6697 *) PORT: Update the LynxOS port. [Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>]
6699 *) Fix logic error when issuing a mmap() failed message
6700 with a non-zero MMAP_THRESHOLD.
6701 [David Chambers <davidc@flosun.salk.edu>] PR#1294
6703 *) Preserve handler value on ProxyPass'ed requests by not
6704 calling find_types on a proxy'd request; fixes problems
6705 where some ProxyPass'ed URLs weren't actually passed
6707 [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#870
6709 *) Fix a byte ordering problem in mod_access which prevented
6710 the old-style syntax (i.e. "a.b.c." to match a class C)
6711 from working properly. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1248, 1328, 1384
6713 *) Fix problem with USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT not working
6714 properly. Each child needs to open the lockfile instead
6715 of using the passed file-descriptor from the parent.
6716 [Jim Jagielski] PR#1056
6718 *) Fix the error logging in mod_cgi; the recent error log changes
6719 introduced a bug that prevented it from working correctly.
6720 [M.D.Parker] PR#1352
6722 *) Default to USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT on HPUX to properly
6723 handle multiple Listen directives. [Marc Slemko] PR#872
6725 *) Inherit a bugfix to fnmatch.c from FreeBSD sources.
6726 ["[KOI8-R] áÎÄÒÅÊ þÅÒÎÏ×" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>] PR#1311
6728 *) When a configuration parse complained about a bad directive,
6729 the logger would use whatever (unrelated) value was in errno.
6730 errno is now forced to EINVAL first in this case. [Ken Coar]
6732 *) A sed command in the Configure script pushed the edge of POSIXness,
6733 breaking on some systems. [Bhaba R.Misra <system@vt.edu>] PR#1368
6735 *) Solaris >= 2.5 was totally broken due to a mess up using pthread
6736 mutexes. [Roy Fielding, Dean Gaudet]
6738 *) OS/2 Port updated; it should be possible to build OS/2 from the same
6739 sources as Unix now. [Brian Havard <brianh@kheldar.apana.org.au>]
6741 *) Fix a year formatting bug in mod_usertrack.
6742 [Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>] PR#1342
6744 *) A mild SIGTERM/SIGALRM race condition was eliminated.
6745 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1211
6747 *) Warn user that default path has changed if /usr/local/etc/httpd
6748 is found on the system. [Lars Eilebrecht]
6750 *) Various mod_mime_magic bug fixes and cleanups: Uncompression
6751 should work, it should work on WIN32, and a few resource
6752 leaks and abort conditions are fixed.
6753 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1205
6755 *) PORT: On AIX 1.x files can't be named '@', fix the proxy cache
6756 to use '%' instead of '@' in its encodings.
6757 [David Schuler <schuld@btv.ibm.com>] PR#1317
6759 *) Improve the warning message generated when the "server is busy".
6760 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1293
6762 *) PORT: All ports which don't otherwise define DEF_WANTHSREGEX will
6763 get Spencer regex by default. This is to avoid having to
6764 discover bugs in operating system libraries. [Dean Gaudet]
6766 *) PORT: "Fix" PR#467 by generating warnings on systems which we have
6767 not been able to get working USE_*_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT settings for.
6768 Document this a bit more in src/PORTING. [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
6770 *) Ensure that one copy of config warnings makes it to the
6771 error_log. [Dean Gaudet]
6773 *) Invent new structure and associated methods to handle config file
6774 reading. Add "custom" hook to use config file cfg_getline() on
6775 something which is not a FILE* [Martin Kraemer]
6777 *) Make single-exe Windows install. [Ben Laurie and Eric Esselink]
6779 *) WIN32: Make CGI work under Win95. [Ben Laurie and Paul Sutton]
6781 *) WIN32: Make index.html and friends work under Win95. [Ben Laurie]
6783 *) PORT: Solaris 2.4 needs Spencer regex, the system regex is broken.
6784 [John Line <jml4@cam.ac.uk>] PR#1321
6786 *) Default pathname has been changed everywhere to /usr/local/apache
6787 [Sameer <sameer@c2.net>]
6789 *) PORT: AIX now uses USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT.
6790 [David Bronder <David-Bronder@uiowa.edu>] PR#849
6792 *) PORT: i386 AIX does not have memmove.
6793 [David Schuler <schuld@btv.ibm.com>] PR#1267
6795 *) PORT: HPUX now defaults to using Spencer regex.
6796 [Philippe Vanhaesendonck <pvanhaes@be.oracle.com>,
6797 Omar Del Rio <al112263@academ01.lag.itesm.mx>] PR#482, 1246
6799 *) PORT: Some versions of NetBSD don't automatically define
6800 __NetBSD__. Workaround by defining NETBSD.
6801 [Chris Craft <ccraft@cncc.cc.co.us>] PR#977
6803 *) PORT: UnixWare 2.x requires -lgen for syslog.
6804 [Hans Snijder <hs@meganet.nl>] PR#1249
6806 *) PORT: ULTRIX appears to not have syslog.
6807 [Lars Eilebrecht <Lars.Eilebrecht@unix-ag.org>]
6809 *) PORT: Basic Gemini port (treat it like unixware212).
6810 ["Pavel Yakovlev (Paul McHacker)" <hac@tomcat.olly.ru>]
6812 *) PORT: All SVR4 systems now use NET_SIZE_T = size_t, and
6813 use USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD.
6816 *) Various improvements in detecting config file errors (missing closing
6817 directives for <Directory>, <Files> etc. blocks, prohibiting global
6818 server settings in <VirtualHost> blocks, flagging unhandled multiple
6819 arguments to <Directory>, <Files> etc.)
6822 *) Add support to suexec wrapper program for mod_unique_id's UNIQUE_ID
6823 variable to provide this one to suexec'd CGIs, too.
6824 [M.D.Parker <mdpc@netcom.com>] PR#1284
6826 *) New support tool: src/support/split-logfile, a sample Perl script which
6827 splits up a combined access log into separate files based on the
6828 name of the virtual host (listed first in the log records by "%v").
6831 Changes with Apache 1.3b2 (there is no 1.3b1)
6833 *) TestCompile was not passing $LIBS [Dean Gaudet]
6835 *) Makefile.tmpl was not using $CFLAGS in the link phase.
6838 *) Add debugging code to alloc.c. Defining ALLOC_DEBUG provides a
6839 rudimentary memory debugger which can be used on live servers with
6840 low impact -- it sets all allocated and freed memory bytes to 0xa5.
6841 Defining ALLOC_USE_MALLOC will cause the alloc code to use malloc()
6842 and free() for each object. This is far more expensive and should
6843 only be used for testing with tools such as Electric Fence and
6844 Purify. See main/alloc.c for more details. [Dean Gaudet]
6846 *) Configure uses a sh trap and didn't set its exitcode properly.
6847 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1159
6849 *) Yet another vhost revamp. Add the NameVirtualHost directive which
6850 explicitly lists the ip:port pairs that are to be used for name-vhosts.
6851 From a given ip:port, regardless what the Host: header is, you can
6852 only reach the vhosts defined on that ip:port. The precedence of
6853 vhosts was reversed to match other precedences in the config --
6854 the earlier vhosts override the later vhosts. All vhost matching was
6855 moved into http_vhost.[ch]. [Dean Gaudet]
6857 *) ap_inline can be used to force inlining. GNUC __attribute__() can
6858 be used for whatever reason is appropriate (i.e. format() warnings
6859 for printf style functions). Both are enabled only with
6860 gcc >= 2.7.x (so that we have fewer support issues with older
6861 versions). [Dean Gaudet]
6863 *) Fix support for Proxy Authentication (we were testing the response
6864 status too early). [Marc Slemko]
6866 *) CoreDumpDirectory directive directs where the core file is
6867 written when a SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, SIGABORT or SIGABRT are
6868 received. [Marc Slemko, Dean Gaudet]
6870 *) PORT: Support for Atari MINT.
6871 [Jan Paul Schmidt <Jan.P.Schmidt@mni.fh-giessen.de>]
6873 *) When booting, apache will now detach itself from stdin, stdout,
6874 and stderr. stderr will not be detached until after the config
6875 files have been read so you will be able to see initial error
6876 messages. After that all errors are logged in the error_log.
6877 This makes it more convenient to start apache via rsh, ssh,
6878 or crontabs. [Dean Gaudet] PR#523
6880 *) mod_proxy was sending HTTP/1.1 responses to ftp requests by mistake.
6881 Also removed the auto-generated link to www.apache.org that was the
6882 source of so many misdirected bug reports. [Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
6884 *) send_fb would not detect aborted connections in some situations.
6887 *) mod_include would use uninitialized data when parsing certain
6888 expressions involving && and ||. [Brian Slesinsky] PR#1139
6890 *) mod_imap should only handle GET methods. [Jay Bloodworth]
6892 *) suexec.c wouldn't build without -DLOG_EXEC. [Jason A. Dour]
6894 *) mod_autoindex improperly counted &escapes; as more than one
6895 character in the description. It also improperly truncated
6896 descriptions that were exactly the maximum length.
6899 *) RedirectMatch was not properly escaping the result (PR#1155). Also
6900 "RedirectMatch /advertiser/(.*) $1" is now permitted.
6903 *) mod_include now uses symbolic names to check for request success
6904 and return HTTP errors, and correctly handles all types of
6905 redirections (previously it only did temporary redirect correctly).
6906 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding]
6908 *) mod_userdir was modifying r->finfo in cases where it wasn't setting
6909 r->filename. Since those two are meant to be in sync with each other
6910 this is a bug. ["Paul B. Henson" <henson@intranet.csupomona.edu>]
6912 *) PORT: Support Unisys SVR4, whose uname returns mostly useless data.
6913 ["Kaufman, Steven E" <Steven.Kaufman@unisys.com>]
6915 *) Inetd mode (which is buggy) uses timeouts without having setup the
6916 jmpbuffer. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1064
6918 *) Work around problem under Linux where a child will start looping
6919 reporting a select error over and over.
6920 [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>] PR#1107, 987, 588
6922 *) Fixed error in proxy_util.c when looping through multiple host IP
6923 addresses. [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#974
6925 *) If BUFFERED_LOGS is defined then mod_log_config will do atomic
6926 buffered writes -- that is, it will buffer up to PIPE_BUF (i.e. 4k)
6927 bytes before writing, but it will never split a log entry across a
6928 buffer boundary. [Dean Gaudet]
6930 *) API: the short_score record has been split into two pieces, one which
6931 the parent writes on, and one which the child writes on. As part of
6932 this change the get_scoreboard_info() function was removed, and
6933 scoreboard_image was exported. This change fixes a race condition
6934 in file based scoreboard systems, and speeds up changes involving the
6935 scoreboard in earlier 1.3 development. [Dean Gaudet]
6937 *) API: New register_other_child() API (see http_main.h) which allows
6938 modules to register children with the parent for maintenance. It
6939 is disabled by defining NO_OTHER_CHILD. [Dean Gaudet]
6941 *) API: New piped_log API (see http_log.h) which implements piped logs,
6942 and will use register_other_child to implement reliable piped logs
6943 when it is available. The reliable piped logs part can be disabled
6944 by defining NO_RELIABLE_PIPED_LOGS. At the moment reliable piped
6945 logs is only available on Unix. [Dean Gaudet]
6947 *) API: set_last_modified() broken into set_last_modified(), set_etag(), and
6948 meets_conditions(). This allows conditional HTTP selection to be
6949 handled separately from the storing of the header fields, and provides
6950 the ability for CGIs to set their own ETags for conditional checking.
6951 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding] PR#895
6953 *) Changes to mod_log_config to allow naming of format strings.
6954 Format nicknames are defined with "LogFormat fmt nickname", and can
6955 be used with "LogFormat nickname" and "CustomLog logtarget nickname".
6958 *) New module, "mod_speling", which can help find files even when
6959 the URL is slightly misspelled. [Martin Kraemer, Alexei Kosut]
6961 *) API: New function child_terminate() triggers the child process to
6962 exit, while allowing the child finish what it needs to for the
6963 current request first.
6964 [Doug MacEachern, Alexei Kosut]
6966 *) Windows now defaults to using full status reports with mod_status.
6967 [Alexei Kosut] PR #1094
6969 *) *Really* disable all mod_rewrite operations if the engine is off.
6970 Some things (like RewriteMaps) were checked/performed even if they
6971 weren't supposed to be. [Ken Coar] PR #991
6973 *) Implement a new timer scheme which eliminates the need to call alarm() all
6974 the time. Instead a counter in the scoreboard for each child is used to
6975 show when the child has made forward progress. The parent samples this
6976 counter every scoreboard maintenance cycle, and issues SIGALRM if no
6977 progress has been made in the timeout period. This reduces the static
6978 request best-case syscall count to 22 from 29. This scheme is only
6979 used by systems with memory-based scoreboards. [Dean Gaudet]
6981 *) The proxy now properly handles CONNECT requests which are sent
6982 to proxy servers when using ProxyRemote. [Marc Slemko] PR#1024
6984 *) A script called apachectl has been added to the support
6985 directory. This script allows you to do things such as
6986 "apachectl start" and "apachectl restart" from the command
6989 *) Modules and core routines are now put into libraries, which
6990 simplifies the link line tremendously (among other advantages).
6993 *) Some of the MD5 names defined in Apache have been renamed to have
6994 an `ap_' prefix to avoid conflicts with routines supplied by
6995 external libraries. [Ken Coar]
6997 *) Removal of mod_auth_msql.c from the distribution. There are many
6998 other options for databases today. Rather than offer one option,
6999 offer none at this time. mod_auth_msql and other SQL database
7000 authentication modules can be found at the Apache Module Registry.
7001 http://modules.apache.org/ It would be nice to offer a generic
7002 mod_auth_sql option in the near future.
7004 *) PORT: BeOS support added [Alexei Kosut]
7006 *) Configure no longer accepts the -make option, since it creates
7007 Makefile on the fly based on Makefile.tmpl and Configuration.
7009 *) Apache now gracefully shuts down when it receives a SIGTERM, instead
7010 of forcibly killing off all its processes and exiting without
7011 cleaning up. [Alexei Kosut]
7013 *) API: A new field in the request_rec, r->mtime, has been added to
7014 avoid gratuitous parsing of date strings. It is intended to hold
7015 the last-modified date of the resource (if applicable). An
7016 update_mtime() routine has also been added to advance it if
7017 appropriate. [Roy Fielding, Ken Coar]
7019 *) SECURITY: If a htaccess file can not be read due to bad permissions,
7020 deny access to the directory with a HTTP_FORBIDDEN. The previous
7021 behavior was to ignore the htaccess file if it could not be read.
7022 This change may make some setups with unreadable htaccess files
7023 stop working. [Marc Slemko] PR#817
7025 *) Add aplog_error() providing a mechanism to define levels of
7026 verbosity to the server error logging. This addition also provides
7027 the ability to log errors using syslogd. Error logging is configurable
7028 on a per-server basis using the LogLevel directive. Conversion
7029 of log_*() in progress. [Randy Terbush]
7031 *) Further enhance aplog_error() to not log filename, line number, and
7032 errno information when it isn't applicable. [Ken Coar, Dean Gaudet]
7034 *) WIN32: Canonicalise filenames under Win32. Short filenames are
7035 converted to long ones. Backslashes are converted to forward
7036 slashes. Case is converted to lower. Parts of URLs that do not
7037 correspond to files are left completely alone. [Ben Laurie]
7039 *) PORT: 2 new OSs added to the list of ports:
7040 Encore's UMAX V: Arieh Markel <amarkel@encore.com>
7041 Acorn RISCiX: Stephen Borrill <sborrill@xemplar.co.uk>
7043 *) Add the server version (SERVER_VERSION macro) to the "server
7044 configured and running" entry in the error_log. Also build an
7045 object file at link-time that contains the current time
7046 (SERVER_BUILT global const char[]), and include that in the
7049 *) Set r->headers_out when sending responses from the proxy.
7050 This fixes things such as the logging of headers sent from
7051 the proxy. [Marc Slemko] PR#659
7053 *) support/httpd_monitor is no longer distributed because the
7054 scoreboard should not be file based if at all possible. Use
7055 mod_status to see current server snapshot.
7057 *) (set_file_slot): New function, allowing auth directives to be
7058 independent of the server root, so the server documents can be
7059 moved to a different directory or machine more easily.
7060 [David J. MacKenzie]
7062 *) If no TransferLog is given explicitly, decline
7063 to log. This supports coexistence with other logging modules,
7064 such as the custom one that UUNET uses. [David J. MacKenzie]
7066 *) Check for titles in server-parsed HTML files.
7067 Ignore leading newlines and returns in titles. The old behavior
7068 of replacing a newline after <title> with a space causes the
7069 title to be misaligned in the listing. [David J. MacKenzie]
7071 *) Change mod_cern_meta to be configurable on a per-directory basis.
7072 [David J. MacKenzie]
7074 *) Add 'Include' directive to allow inclusion of configuration
7075 files within configuration files. [Randy Terbush]
7077 *) Proxy errors on connect() are logged to the error_log (nothing
7078 new); now they include the IP address and port that failed
7079 (*that's* new). [Ken Coar, Marc Slemko] PR#352
7081 *) Various architectures now define USE_MMAP_FILES which causes
7082 the server to use mmap() for static files. There are two
7083 compile-time tunables MMAP_THRESHOLD (minimum number of bytes
7084 required to use mmap(), default is 0), and MMAP_SEGMENT_SIZE (maximum
7085 number of bytes written in one cycle from a single mmap()d object,
7086 default 32768). [Dean Gaudet]
7088 *) API: Added post_read_request API phase which is run right after reading
7089 the request from a client, or right after an internal redirect. It is
7090 useful for modules setting environment variables that depend only on
7091 the headers/contents of the request. It does not run during subrequests
7092 because subrequests inherit pretty much everything from the main
7093 request. [Dean Gaudet]
7095 *) Added mod_unique_id which is used to generate a unique identifier for
7096 each hit, available in the environment variable UNIQUE_ID.
7099 *) init_modules is now called after the error logs have been opened. This
7100 allows modules to emit information messages into the error logs.
7103 *) Fixed proxy-pass-through feature of mod_rewrite; Added error logging
7104 information for case where proxy module is not available. [Marc Slemko]
7106 *) PORT: Apache has need for mutexes to serialize its children around
7107 accept. In prior versions either fcntl file locking or flock file
7108 locking were used. The method is chosen by the definition of
7109 USE_xxx_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT in conf.h. xxx is FCNTL for fcntl(),
7110 and FLOCK for flock(). New options have been added:
7111 - SYSVSEM to use System V style semaphores
7112 - PTHREAD to use POSIX threads (appears to work on Solaris only)
7113 - USLOCK to use IRIX uslock
7114 Based on timing various techniques, the following changes were made
7116 - Linux 2.x uses flock instead of fcntl
7117 - Solaris 2.x uses pthreads
7118 - IRIX uses SysV semaphores -- however multiprocessor IRIX boxes
7119 work far faster if you -DUSE_USLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT
7120 [Dean Gaudet, Pierre-Yves Kerembellec <Pierre-Yves.Kerembellec@vtcom.fr>,
7121 Martijn Koster <m.koster@pobox.com>]
7123 *) PORT: The semantics of accept/select make it very desirable to use
7124 mutexes to serialize accept when multiple Listens are in use. But
7125 in the case where only a single socket is open it is sometimes
7126 redundant to serialize accept(). Not all unixes do a good job with
7127 potentially dozens of children blocked on accept() on the same
7128 socket. It's now possible to define SINGLE_LISTEN_UNSERIALIZED_ACCEPT and
7129 the server will avoid serialization when listening on only one socket,
7130 and use serialization when listening on multiple sockets.
7131 [Dean Gaudet] PR#467
7133 *) Configure changes: TestLib replaced by TestCompile, which has
7134 some additional capability (such as doing a sanity check of
7135 the compiler and flags selected); the version of Solaris is now
7136 available via the #define value of SOLARIS2; IRIX n32bit libs
7137 now supported and selectable by new Configuration Rule: IRIXN32;
7138 We no longer default to -O2 optimization. [Jim Jagielski]
7140 *) Updated Configure: Configuration now uses AddModule to specify
7141 module source or binary file location, relative to src directory.
7142 Modules can be dropped into modules/extra, or in their own
7143 directory, and modules can come with a Makefile or Configure can
7144 create one. Modules can add compiler or library information to
7145 generated Makefiles. [Paul Sutton]
7147 *) Source core re-organisation: distributed modules are now in
7148 modules/standard. All other source code is in main. OS-specific
7149 code is in os/{unix,emx,win32} directories. [Paul Sutton]
7151 *) mod_browser has been removed, since it's replaced by mod_setenvif.
7154 *) Fix another long-standing bug in sub_req_lookup_file where it would
7155 happily skip past access checks on subdirectories looked up with
7156 relative paths. (It's used by mod_dir, mod_negotiation,
7157 and mod_include.) [Dean Gaudet]
7159 *) directory_walk optimization to reduce an O(N*M) loop to O(N+M) where
7160 N is the number of <Directory> sections, and M is the number of
7161 components in the filename of an object.
7163 To achieve this optimization the following config changes were made:
7164 - Wildcards (* and ?, not the regex forms) in <Directory>s,
7165 <Files>s, and <Location>s now treat a slash as a special
7166 character. For example "/home/*/public_html" previously would
7167 match "/home/a/andrew/public_html", now it only matches things
7168 like "/home/bob/public_html". This mimics /bin/sh behaviour.
7169 - It's possible now to use [] wildcarding in <Directory>, <Files>
7171 - Regex <Directory>s are applied after all non-regex <Directory>s.
7175 *) Fix a bug introduced in 1.3a1 directory_walk regarding .htaccess files
7176 and corrupted paths. [Dean Gaudet]
7178 *) Enhanced and cleaned up the URL rewriting engine of mod_rewrite:
7179 First the grouped parts of RewriteRule pattern matches (parenthesis!) can
7180 be accessed now via backreferences $1..$9 in RewriteConds test-against
7181 strings in addition to RewriteRules subst string. Second the grouped
7182 parts of RewriteCond pattern matches (parenthesis!) can be accessed now
7183 via backreferences %1..%9 both in following RewriteCond test-against
7184 strings and RewriteRules subst string. This provides maximum flexibility
7185 through the use of backreferences.
7186 Additionally the rewriting engine was cleaned up by putting common
7187 code to the new expand_backrefs_inbuffer() function.
7188 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7190 *) When merging the main server's <Directory> and <Location> sections into
7191 a vhost, put the main server's first and the vhost's second. Otherwise
7192 the vhost can't override the main server. [Dean Gaudet] PR#717
7194 *) The <Directory> code would merge and re-merge the same section after
7195 a match was found, possibly causing problems with some modules.
7198 *) ip-based vhosts are stored and queried using a hashing function, which
7199 has been shown to improve performance on servers with many ip-vhosts.
7200 Some other changes had to be made to accommodate this:
7201 - the * address for vhosts now behaves like _default_
7202 - the matching process now is:
7203 - match an ip-vhost directly via hash (possibly matches main
7205 - if that fails, just pretend it matched the main server
7206 - if so far only the main server has been matched, perform
7207 name-based lookups (ServerName, ServerAlias, ServerPath)
7208 *only on name-based vhosts*
7209 - if they fail, look for _default_ vhosts
7210 [Dean Gaudet, Dave Hankins <dhankins@sugarat.net>]
7212 *) dbmmanage overhaul:
7213 - merge dbmmanage and dbmmanage.new functionality, remove dbmmanage.new
7214 - tie() to AnyDBM_File which will use one of DB_File, NDBM_File or
7215 GDBM_File (-ldb, -lndbm, -lgdbm) (trying each in that order)
7216 - provide better seed for rand
7217 - prompt for password as per getpass(3) (turn off echo, read from
7219 - use "newstyle" crypt based on $Config{osname} ($^O)
7220 - will not add a user if already in database, use new `update' command
7222 - added `check' command to check a users' password
7223 - added `import' command to convert existing password text-files or
7224 dbm files exported with `view'
7225 - more descriptive usage, general cleanup, 'use strict' clean, etc.
7228 *) Added psocket() which is a pool form of socket(), various places within
7229 the proxy weren't properly blocking alarms while registering the cleanup
7230 for its sockets. bclose() now uses pclose() and pclosesocket(). There
7231 was a bug where the client socket was being close()d twice due a still
7232 registered cleanup. [Dean Gaudet]
7234 *) A few cleanups were made to reduce time(), getpid(), and signal() calls.
7237 *) PORT: AIX >= 4.2 requires -lm due to libc changes.
7238 [Jason Venner <jason@idiom.com>] PR#667
7240 *) Enable ``=""'' for RewriteCond directives to match against
7241 the empty string. This is the preferred way instead of ``^$''.
7242 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7244 *) Fixed an infinite loop in mod_imap for references above the server root
7245 [Dean Gaudet] PR#748
7247 *) mod_proxy now has a ReceiveBufferSize directive, similar to
7248 SendBufferSize, so that the TCP window can be set appropriately
7249 for LFNs. [Phillip A. Prindeville]
7251 *) mod_browser has been replaced by the more general mod_setenvif
7252 (courtesy of Paul Sutton). BrowserMatch* directives are still
7253 available, but are now joined by SetEnvIf*, UnSetEnvIf*, and
7254 UnSetEnvIfZero directives. [Ken Coar]
7256 *) "HostnameLookups double" forces double-reverse DNS to succeed in
7257 order for remote_host to be set (for logging, or for the env var
7258 REMOTE_HOST). The old define MAXIMUM_DNS has been deprecated.
7261 *) mod_access overhaul:
7262 - Now understands network/netmask syntax (i.e. 10.1.0.0/255.255.0.0)
7263 and cidr syntax (i.e. 10.1.0.0/16). PR#762
7264 - Critical path was sped up by pre-computing a few things at config time.
7265 - The undocumented syntax "allow user-agents" was removed,
7266 the replacement is "allow from env=foobar" combined with mod_browser.
7267 - When used with hostnames it now forces a double-reverse lookup
7268 no matter what the directory settings are. This double-reverse
7269 doesn't affect any of the other routines that use the remote
7270 hostname. In particular it's still passed to CGIs and the log
7271 without the double-reverse check. Related PR#860.
7274 *) When a large bwrite() occurs (larger than the internal buffer size),
7275 while there is already something in the buffer, apache will combine
7276 the large write and the buffer into a single writev(). (This is
7277 in anticipation of using mmap() for reading files.)
7280 *) In obscure cases where a partial socket write occurred while chunking,
7281 Apache would omit the chunk header/footer on the next block. Cleaned
7282 up other bugs/inconsistencies in error conditions in buff.c. Fixed
7283 a bug where a long pause in DNS lookups could cause the last packet
7284 of a response to be unduly delayed. [Roy Fielding, Dean Gaudet]
7286 *) API: Added child_exit function to module structure. This is called
7287 once per "heavy-weight process" just before a server child exit()'s
7288 e.g. when max_requests_per_child is reached, etc.
7289 [Doug MacEachern, Dean Gaudet]
7291 *) mod_include cleanup showed that handle_else was being used to handle
7292 endif. It didn't cause problems, but it was cleaned up too.
7295 *) mod_cern_meta would attempt to find meta files for the directory itself
7296 in some cases, but not in others. It now avoids it in all cases.
7299 *) mod_mime_magic would core dump if there was a decompression error.
7300 [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>] PR#904
7302 *) PORT: some variants of DGUX require -lsocket -lnsl
7303 [Alexander L Jones <alex@systems-options.co.uk>] PR#732
7305 *) mod_autoindex now allows sorting of FancyIndexed directory listings
7306 by the various fields (name, size, et cetera), either in ascending
7307 or descending order. Just click on the column header. [Ken Coar]
7309 *) PORT: Various tweaks to eliminate pointer-int casting warnings on 64-bit
7310 CPUs like the Alpha. Apache still stores ints in pointers, but that's
7311 the relatively safe direction. [Dean Gaudet] PR#344
7313 *) PORT: QNX mmap() support for faster/more reliable scoreboard handling.
7314 [Igor N Kovalenko <infoh@mail.wplus.net>] PR#683
7316 *) child_main avoids an unneeded call to select() when there is only one
7317 listening socket. [Dean Gaudet]
7319 *) In the event that the server is starved for idle servers it will
7320 spawn 1, then 2, then 4, ..., then 32 servers each second,
7321 doubling each second. It'll also give a warning in the errorlog
7322 since the most common reason for this is a poor StartServers
7323 setting. The define MAX_SPAWN_RATE can be used to raise/lower
7324 the maximum. [Dean Gaudet]
7326 *) Apache now provides an effectively unbuffered connection for
7327 CGI scripts. This means that data will be sent to the client
7328 as soon as the CGI pauses or stops output; previously, Apache would
7329 buffer the output up to a fixed buffer size before sending, which
7330 could result in the user viewing an empty page until the CGI finished
7331 or output a complete buffer. It is no longer necessary to use an
7332 "nph-" CGI to get unbuffered output. Given that most CGIs are written
7333 in a language that by default does buffering (e.g. perl) this
7334 shouldn't have a detrimental effect on performance.
7336 "nph-" CGIs, which formerly provided a direct socket to the client
7337 without any server post-processing, were not fully compatible with
7338 HTTP/1.1 or SSL support. As such they would have had to implement
7339 the transport details, such as encryption or chunking, in order
7340 to work properly in certain situations. Now, the only difference
7341 between nph and non-nph scripts is "non-parsed headers".
7342 [Dean Gaudet, Sameer Parekh, Roy Fielding]
7344 *) If a BUFF is switched from buffered to unbuffered reading the first
7345 bread() will return whatever remained in the buffer prior to the
7346 switch. [Dean Gaudet]
7348 Changes with Apache 1.3a1
7350 *) Added another Configure helper script: TestLib. It determines
7351 if a specified library exists. [Jim Jagielski]
7353 *) PORT: Allow for use of n32bit libraries under IRIX 6.x
7354 [derived from patch from Jeff Hayes <jhayes@aw.sgi.com>]
7357 *) PORT: Some architectures use size_t for various lengths in network
7358 functions such as accept(), and getsockname(). The definition
7359 NET_SIZE_T is used to control this. [Dean Gaudet]
7361 *) PORT: Linux: Attempt to detect glibc based systems and include crypt.h
7362 and -lcrypt. Test for various db libraries (dbm, ndbm, db) when
7363 mod_auth_dbm or mod_auth_db are included. [Dean Gaudet]
7365 *) PORT: QNX doesn't have initgroups() which support/suexec.c uses.
7366 [Igor N Kovalenko <infoh@mail.wplus.net>]
7368 *) "force-response-1.0" now only applies to requests which are HTTP/1.0 to
7369 begin with. "nokeepalive" now works for HTTP/1.1 clients. Added
7370 "downgrade-1.0" which causes Apache to pretend it received a 1.0.
7371 [Dean Gaudet] related PR#875
7373 *) API: Correct child_init() slot declaration from int to void, to
7374 match the init() declaration. Update mod_example to use the new
7377 *) added transport handle slot (t_handle) to the BUFF structure
7380 *) get_client_block() returns wrong length if policy is
7381 REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK.
7382 [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#815
7384 *) Support the image map format of FrontPage. For example:
7385 rect /url.hrm 10 20 30 40
7386 ["Chris O'Byrne" <obyrne@iol.ie>] PR#807
7388 *) PORT: -lresolv and -lsocks were in the wrong order for Solaris.
7389 ["Darren O'Shaughnessy" <darren@aaii.oz.au>] PR#846
7391 *) AddModuleInfo directive for mod_info which allows you to annotate
7392 the output of mod_info. ["Lou D. Langholtz" <ldl@usi.utah.edu>]
7394 *) Added NoProxy directive to avoid using ProxyRemote for selected
7395 addresses. Added ProxyDomain directive to cause unqualified
7396 names to be qualified by redirection.
7397 [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>]
7399 *) Support Proxy Authentication, and don't pass the Proxy-Authorize
7400 header to the remote host in the proxy. [Sameer Parekh and
7403 *) Upgraded mod_rewrite from 3.0.6+ to latest officially available version
7404 3.0.9. This upgrade includes: fixed deadlooping on rewriting to same
7405 URLs, fixed rewritelog(), fixed forced response code handling on
7406 redirects from within .htaccess files, disabled pipe locking under
7407 braindead SunOS 4.1.x, allow env variables to be set even on rules with
7408 no substitution, bugfixed situations where HostnameLookups is off, made
7409 mod_rewrite more thread-safe for NT port and fixed problem when creating
7410 an empty query string via "xxx?".
7411 This update also removes the copyright of Ralf S. Engelschall,
7412 i.e. now mod_rewrite no longer has a shared copyright. Instead is is
7413 exclusively copyrighted by the Apache Group now. This happened because
7414 the author now has gifted mod_rewrite exclusively to the Apache Group and
7415 no longer maintains an external version.
7416 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7418 *) API: Added child_init function to module structure. This is called
7419 once per "heavy-weight process" before any requests are handled.
7420 See http_config.h for more details. [Dean Gaudet]
7422 *) Anonymous_LogEmail was logging on each subrequest.
7423 [Dean Gaudet] PR#421, 868
7425 *) API: Added is_initial_req() which tests if the request being
7426 processed is the initial request, or a subrequest.
7429 *) Extended SSI (mod_include) now handles additional relops for
7430 string comparisons (<, >, <=, and >=). [Bruno Wolff III] PR#41
7432 *) Configure fixed to correctly propagate user-selected options and
7433 settings (such as CC and OPTIM) to Makefiles other than
7434 src/Makefile (notably support/Makefile). [Ken Coar] PR#666, #834
7436 *) IndexOptions SuppressHTMLPreamble now causes the actual HTML of
7437 directory indices to start with the contents of the HeaderName file
7438 if there is one. If there isn't one, the behaviour is unchanged.
7439 [Ken Coar, Roy Fielding, Andrey A. Chernov]
7441 *) WIN32: Modules can now be dynamically loaded DLLs using the
7442 LoadModule/LoadFile directives. Note that module DLLs must be
7443 compiled with the multithreaded DLL version of the runtime library.
7444 [Alexei Kosut and Ben Laurie]
7446 *) Automatic indexing removed from mod_dir and placed into mod_autoindex.
7447 This allows the admin to completely remove automatic indexing
7448 from the server, while still supporting the basic functions of
7449 trailing-slash redirects and DirectoryIndex files. Note that if
7450 you're carrying over an old Configuration file and you use directory
7451 indexing then you'll want to add:
7453 Module autoindex_module mod_autoindex.o
7455 before mod_dir in your Configuration. [Dean Gaudet]
7457 *) popendir/pclosedir created to properly protect directory scanning.
7458 [Dean Gaudet] PR#525
7460 *) AliasMatch, ScriptAliasMatch and RedirectMatch directives added,
7461 giving regex support to mod_alias. <DirectoryMatch>, <LocationMatch>
7462 and <FilesMatch> sections added to succeed <DirectoryMatch ~>, etc...
7465 *) The AccessFileName directive can now take more than one filename.
7466 ["Lou D. Langholtz" <ldl@usi.utah.edu>]
7468 *) The new mod_mime_magic can be used to "magically" determine the type
7469 of a file if the extension is unknown. Based on the unix file(1)
7470 command. [Ian Kluft <ikluft@cisco.com>]
7472 *) We now determine and display the time spent processing a
7473 request if desired. [Jim Jagielski]
7475 *) mod_status: PID field of "dead" child slots no longer displays
7476 main httpd process's PID. [Jim Jagielski]
7478 *) Makefile.nt added - to build all the bits from the command line:
7479 nmake -f Makefile.nt
7480 Doesn't yet work properly. [Ben Laurie]
7482 *) Default text of 404 error is now "Not Found" rather than the
7483 potentially misleading "File Not Found". [Ken Coar]
7485 *) CONFIG: "HostnameLookups" now defaults to off because it is far better
7486 for the net if we require people that actually need this data to
7487 enable it. [Linus Torvalds]
7489 *) directory_walk() is an expensive function, keep a little more state to
7490 avoid needless string counting. Add two new functions make_dirstr_parent
7491 and make_dirstr_prefix which replace all existing uses of make_dirstr.
7492 The new functions are a little less general than make_dirstr, but
7493 work more efficiently (less memory, less string counting).
7496 *) EXTRA_LFLAGS was changed to EXTRA_LDFLAGS (and LFLAGS was changed
7497 to LDFLAGS) to avoid complications with lex rules in make files.
7498 [Dean Gaudet] PR#372
7500 *) run_method optimized to avoid needless scanning over NULLs in the
7501 module list. [Dean Gaudet]
7503 *) Revamp of (unix) scoreboard management code such that it avoids
7504 unnecessary traversals of the scoreboard on each hit. This is
7505 particularly important for high volume sites with a large
7506 HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. Some of the previous operations were O(n^2),
7507 and are now O(n). See also SCOREBOARD_MAINTENANCE_INTERVAL in
7508 httpd.h. [Dean Gaudet]
7510 *) In configurations using multiple Listen statements it was possible for
7511 busy sockets to starve other sockets of service. [Dean Gaudet]
7513 *) Added hook so standalone_main can be replaced at compile time
7514 (define STANDALONE_MAIN)
7517 *) Lowest-level read/write functions in buff.c will be replaced with
7518 the SFIO library calls sfread/sfwrite if B_SFIO is defined at
7519 compile time. The default sfio discipline will behave as apache
7520 would without sfio compiled in.
7523 *) Enhance UserDir directive (mod_userdir) to accept a list of
7524 usernames for the 'disable' keyword, and add 'enable user...' to
7525 selectively *en*able userdirs if they're globally disabled.
7528 *) If NETSCAPE_DBM_COMPAT is defined in EXTRA_CFLAGS then Apache
7529 will work with Netscape dbm files. (dbmmanage will probably not
7530 work however.) [Alexander Spohr <aspohr@netmatic.com>] PR#444
7532 *) Add a ListenBacklog directive to control the backlog parameter
7533 passed to listen(). Also change the default to 511 from 512.
7536 *) API: A new handler response DONE which informs apache that the
7537 request has been handled and it can finish off quickly, similar to
7538 how it handles errors. [Rob Hartill]
7540 *) Turn off chunked encoding after sending terminating chunk/footer
7541 so that we can't do it twice by accident. [Roy Fielding]
7543 *) mod_expire also issues Cache-Control: max-age headers.
7546 *) API: Added kill_only_once option for free_proc_chain so that it won't
7547 aggressively try to kill off specific children. For fastcgi.
7548 [Stanley Gambarin <gambarin@OpenMarket.com>]
7550 *) mod_auth deals with extra ':' delimited fields. [Marc Slemko]
7552 *) Added IconHeight and IconWidth to mod_dir's IndexOptions directive.
7553 When used together, these cause mod_dir to emit HEIGHT and WIDTH
7554 attributes in the FancyIndexing IMG tags. [Ken Coar]
7556 *) PORT: Sequent and SONY NEWS-OS support added. [Jim Jagielski]
7558 *) PORT: Added Windows NT support
7559 [Ben Laurie and Ambarish Malpani <ambarish@valicert.com>]
7561 Changes with Apache 1.2.6
7563 *) mod_include when using XBitHack Full would send ETags in addition to
7564 sending Last-Modifieds. This is incorrect HTTP/1.1 behaviour.
7565 [Dean Gaudet] PR#1133
7567 *) SECURITY: When a client connects to a particular port/addr, and
7568 gives a Host: header ensure that the virtual host requested can
7569 actually be reached via that port/addr. [Ed Korthof <ed@organic.com>]
7571 *) Support virtual hosts with wildcard port and/or multiple ports
7572 properly. [Ed Korthof <ed@organic.com>]
7574 *) Fixed some case-sensitivity issues according to RFC2068.
7577 *) Set r->allowed properly in mod_asis.c, mod_dir.c, mod_info.c,
7578 and mod_include.c. [Dean Gaudet]
7580 *) Variable 'cwd' was being used pointlessly before being set.
7583 *) SIGURG doesn't exist on all platforms.
7584 [Mark Andrew Heinrich <heinrich@tinderbox.Stanford.EDU>]
7586 *) When an error occurs during a POST, or other operation with a
7587 request body, the body has to be read from the net before allowing
7588 a keepalive session to continue. [Roy Fielding] PR#1399
7590 *) When an error occurs in fcntl() locking suggest the user look up
7591 the docs for LockFile. [Dean Gaudet]
7593 *) table_set() and table_unset() did not deal correctly with
7594 multiple occurrences of the same key. [Stephen Scheck
7595 <sscheck@infonex.net>, Ben Laurie] PR#1604
7597 *) send_fd_length() did not calculate total_bytes_sent properly in error
7598 cases. [Ben Reser <breser@regnow.com>] PR#1366
7600 *) r->connection->user was allocated in the wrong pool causing corruption
7601 in some cases when used with mod_cern_meta. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1500
7603 *) mod_proxy was sending HTTP/1.1 responses to ftp requests by mistake.
7604 Also removed the auto-generated link to www.apache.org that was the
7605 source of so many misdirected bug reports. [Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
7607 *) Multiple "close" tokens may have been set in the "Connection"
7608 header, not an error, but a waste.
7609 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1683
7611 *) "basic" and "digest" auth tokens should be tested case-insensitive.
7612 [Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch] PR#1599, PR#1666
7614 *) It appears the "257th byte" bug (see
7615 htdocs/manual/misc/known_client_problems.html#257th-byte) can happen
7616 at the 256th byte as well. Fixed. [Dean Gaudet]
7618 *) mod_rewrite would not handle %3f properly in some situations.
7621 *) Apache could generate improperly chunked HTTP/1.1 responses when
7622 the bputc() or rputc() functions were used by modules (such as
7623 mod_include). [Dean Gaudet]
7625 *) #ifdef wrap a few #defines in httpd.h to make life easier on
7626 some ports. [Ralf Engelschall]
7628 *) Fix MPE compilation error in mod_usertrack.c. [Mark Bixby]
7630 *) Quote CC='$(CC)' to improve recurse make calls. [Martin Kraemer]
7632 *) Avoid B_ERROR redeclaration on sysvr4 systems. [Martin Kraemer]
7634 Changes with Apache 1.2.5
7636 *) SECURITY: Fix a possible buffer overflow in logresolve. This is
7637 only an issue on systems without a MAXDNAME define or where
7638 the resolver returns domain names longer than MAXDNAME. [Marc Slemko]
7640 *) Fix an improper length in an ap_snprintf call in proxy_date_canon().
7643 *) Fix core dump in the ftp proxy when reading incorrectly formatted
7644 directory listings. [Marc Slemko]
7646 *) SECURITY: Fix possible minor buffer overflow in the proxy cache.
7649 *) SECURITY: Eliminate possible buffer overflow in cfg_getline, which
7650 is used to read various types of files such as htaccess and
7651 htpasswd files. [Marc Slemko]
7653 *) SECURITY: Ensure that the buffer returned by ht_time is always
7654 properly null terminated. [Marc Slemko]
7656 *) SECURITY: General mod_include cleanup, including fixing several
7657 possible buffer overflows and a possible infinite loop. This cleanup
7658 was done against 1.3 code and then backported to 1.2, the result
7659 is a large difference (due to indentation cleanup in 1.3 code).
7660 Users interested in seeing a smaller set of relevant differences
7661 should consider comparing against src/modules/standard/mod_include.c
7662 from the 1.3b3 release. Non-indentation changes to mod_include
7663 between 1.2 and 1.3 were minimal. [Dean Gaudet, Marc Slemko]
7665 *) SECURITY: Numerous changes to mod_imap in a general cleanup
7666 including fixing a possible buffer overflow. This cleanup also
7667 was done with 1.3 code as a basis, see the the previous note
7668 about mod_include. [Dean Gaudet]
7670 *) SECURITY: If a htaccess file can not be read due to bad
7671 permissions, deny access to the directory with a HTTP_FORBIDDEN.
7672 The previous behavior was to ignore the htaccess file if it could not
7673 be read. This change may make some setups with unreadable
7674 htaccess files stop working. PR#817 [Marc Slemko]
7676 *) SECURITY: no2slash() was O(n^2) in the length of the input.
7677 Make it O(n). This inefficiency could be used to mount a denial
7678 of service attack against the Apache server. Thanks to
7679 Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@boss.staszic.waw.pl> for reporting
7682 *) mod_include used uninitialized data for some uses of && and ||.
7683 [Brian Slesinsky <bslesins@wired.com>] PR#1139
7685 *) mod_imap should decline all non-GET methods.
7686 [Jay Bloodworth <jay@pathways.sde.state.sc.us>]
7688 *) suexec.c wouldn't build without -DLOG_EXEC. [Jason A. Dour]
7690 *) mod_userdir was modifying r->finfo in cases where it wasn't setting
7691 r->filename. Since those two are meant to be in sync with each other
7692 this is a bug. ["Paul B. Henson" <henson@intranet.csupomona.edu>]
7694 *) mod_include did not properly handle all possible redirects from sub-
7695 requests. [Ken Coar]
7697 *) Inetd mode (which is buggy) uses timeouts without having setup the
7698 jmpbuffer. [Dean Gaudet] PR#1064
7700 *) Work around problem under Linux where a child will start looping
7701 reporting a select error over and over.
7702 [Rick Franchuk <rickf@transpect.net>] PR#1107
7704 Changes with Apache 1.2.4
7706 *) The ProxyRemote change in 1.2.3 introduced a bug resulting in the proxy
7707 always making requests with the full-URI instead of just the URI path.
7708 [Marc Slemko, Roy Fielding]
7710 *) Add -lm for AIX versions >= 4.2 to allow Apache to link properly
7711 on this platform. [Marc Slemko]
7713 Changes with Apache 1.2.3
7715 *) The request to a remote proxy was mangled if it was generated as the
7716 result of a ProxyPass directive. URL schemes other than http:// were not
7717 supported when ProxyRemote was used. PR#260, PR#656, PR#699, PR#713,
7718 PR#812 [Lars Eilebrecht]
7720 *) Fixed proxy-pass-through feature of mod_rewrite; Added error logging
7721 information for case where proxy module is not available. [Marc Slemko]
7723 *) Force proxy to always respond as HTTP/1.0, which it was failing to
7724 do for errors and cached responses. [Roy Fielding]
7726 *) PORT: Improved support for ConvexOS 11. [Jeff Venters]
7728 Changes with Apache 1.2.2 [not released]
7730 *) Fixed another long-standing bug in sub_req_lookup_file where it would
7731 happily skip past access checks on subdirectories looked up with relative
7732 paths. (It's used by mod_dir, mod_negotiation, and mod_include.)
7735 *) Add lockfile name to error message printed out when
7736 USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is defined.
7739 *) Enhanced the chunking and error handling inside the buffer functions.
7740 [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding]
7742 *) When merging the main server's <Directory> and <Location> sections into
7743 a vhost, put the main server's first and the vhost's second. Otherwise
7744 the vhost can't override the main server. [Dean Gaudet] PR#717
7746 *) The <Directory> code would merge and re-merge the same section after
7747 a match was found, possibly causing problems with some modules.
7750 *) Fixed an infinite loop in mod_imap for references above the server root.
7751 [Dean Gaudet] PR#748
7753 *) mod_include cleanup showed that handle_else was being used to handle
7754 endif. It didn't cause problems, but it was cleaned up too.
7757 *) Last official synchronization of mod_rewrite with author version (because
7758 mod_rewrite is now directly developed by the author at the Apache Group):
7759 o added diff between mod_rewrite 3.0.6+ and 3.0.9
7760 minus WIN32/NT stuff, but plus copyright removement.
7762 - workaround for detecting infinite rewriting loops
7763 - fixed setting of env vars when "-" is used as subst string
7764 - fixed forced response code on redirects (PR#777)
7765 - fixed cases where r->args is ""
7766 - kludge to disable locking on pipes under braindead SunOS
7767 - fix for rewritelog in cases where remote hostname is unknown
7768 - fixed totally damaged request_rec walk-back loop
7769 o remove static from local data and add static to global ones.
7770 o replaced ugly proxy finding stuff by simple
7771 find_linked_module("mod_proxy") call.
7772 o added missing negation char on rewritelog()
7773 o fixed a few comment typos
7774 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
7776 *) Anonymous_LogEmail was logging on each subrequest.
7777 [Dean Gaudet] PR#421, PR#868
7779 *) "force-response-1.0" now only applies to requests which are HTTP/1.0 to
7780 begin with. "nokeepalive" now works for HTTP/1.1 clients. Added
7781 "downgrade-1.0" which causes Apache to pretend it received a 1.0.
7782 Additionally mod_browser now triggers during translate_name to workaround
7783 a deficiency in the header_parse phase.
7784 [Dean Gaudet] PR#875
7786 *) get_client_block() returns wrong length if policy is
7787 REQUEST_CHUNKED_DECHUNK.
7788 [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#815
7790 *) Properly treat <files> container like other containers in mod_info.
7791 [Marc Slemko] PR#848
7793 *) The proxy didn't treat the "Host:" keyword of the host header as case-
7794 insensitive. The proxy would corrupt the first line of a response from
7795 an HTTP/0.9 server. [Kenichi Hori <ken@d2.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp>] PR#813,814
7797 *) mod_include would log some bogus values occasionally.
7798 [Skip Montanaro <skip@calendar.com>, Marc Slemko] PR#797
7800 *) PORT: The slack fd changes in 1.2.1 introduced a problem with SIGHUP
7801 under Solaris 2.x (up through 2.5.1). It has been fixed.
7802 [Dean Gaudet] PR#832
7804 *) API: In HTTP/1.1, whether or not a request message contains a body
7805 is independent of the request method and based solely on the presence
7806 of a Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding. Therefore, our default
7807 handlers need to be prepared to read a body even if they don't know
7808 what to do with it; otherwise, the body would be mistaken for the
7809 next request on a persistent connection. discard_request_body()
7810 has been added to take care of that. [Roy Fielding] PR#378
7812 *) API: Symbol APACHE_RELEASE provides a numeric form of the Apache
7813 release version number, such that it always increases along the
7814 same lines as our source code branching. [Roy Fielding]
7816 *) Minor oversight on multiple variants fixed. [Paul Sutton] PR#94
7818 Changes with Apache 1.2.1
7820 *) SECURITY: Don't serve file system objects unless they are plain files,
7821 symlinks, or directories. This prevents local users from using pipes
7822 or named sockets to invoke programs for an extremely crude form of
7825 *) SECURITY: HeaderName and ReadmeName were settable in .htaccess and
7826 could contain "../" allowing a local user to "publish" any file on
7827 the system. No slashes are allowed now. [Dean Gaudet]
7829 *) SECURITY: It was possible to violate the symlink Options using mod_dir
7830 (headers, readmes, titles), mod_negotiation (type maps), or
7831 mod_cern_meta (meta files). [Dean Gaudet]
7833 *) SECURITY: Apache will refuse to run as "User root" unless
7834 BIG_SECURITY_HOLE is defined at compile time. [Dean Gaudet]
7836 *) CONFIG: If a symlink pointed to a directory then it would be disallowed
7837 if it contained a .htaccess disallowing symlinks. This is contrary
7838 to the rule that symlink permissions are tested with the symlink
7839 options of the parent directory. [Dean Gaudet] PR#353
7841 *) CONFIG: The LockFile directive can be used to place the serializing
7842 lockfile in any location. It previously defaulted to /usr/tmp/htlock.
7843 [Somehow it took four of us: Randy Terbush, Jim Jagielski, Dean Gaudet,
7846 *) Request processing now retains state of whether or not the request
7847 body has been read, so that internal redirects and subrequests will
7848 not try to read it twice (and block). [Roy Fielding]
7850 *) Add a placeholder in modules/Makefile to avoid errors with certain
7851 makes. [Marc Slemko]
7853 *) QUERY_STRING was unescaped in mod_include, it shouldn't be.
7854 [Dean Gaudet] PR#644
7856 *) mod_include was not properly changing the current directory.
7857 [Marc Slemko] PR#742
7859 *) Attempt to work around problems with third party libraries that do not
7860 handle high numbered descriptors (examples include bind, and
7861 solaris libc). On all systems apache attempts to keep all permanent
7862 descriptors above 15 (called the low slack line). Solaris users
7863 can also benefit from adding -DHIGH_SLACK_LINE=256 to EXTRA_CFLAGS
7864 which keeps all non-FILE * descriptors above 255. On all systems
7865 this should make supporting large numbers of vhosts with many open
7866 log files more feasible. If this causes trouble please report it,
7867 you can disable this workaround by adding -DNO_SLACK to EXTRA_CFLAGS.
7868 [Dean Gaudet] various PRs
7870 *) Related to the last entry, network sockets are now opened before
7871 log files are opened. The only known case where this can cause
7872 problems is under Solaris with many virtualhosts and many Listen
7873 directives. But using -DHIGH_SLACK_LINE=256 described above will
7874 work around this problem. [Dean Gaudet]
7876 *) USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is now default for FreeBSD, A/UX, and
7879 *) Improved unix error response logging. [Marc Slemko]
7881 *) Update mod_rewrite from 3.0.5 to 3.0.6. New ruleflag
7882 QSA=query_string_append. Also fixed a nasty bug in per-dir context:
7883 when a URL http://... was used in conjunction with a special
7884 redirect flag, e.g. R=permanent, the permanent status was lost.
7885 [Ronald Tschalaer <Ronald.Tschalaer@psi.ch>, Ralf S. Engelschall]
7887 *) If an object has multiple variants that are otherwise equal Apache
7888 would prefer the last listed variant rather than the first.
7891 *) "make clean" at the top level now removes *.o. [Dean Gaudet] PR#752
7893 *) mod_status dumps core in inetd mode. [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
7896 *) pregsub had an off-by-1 in its error checking code. [Alexei Kosut]
7898 *) PORT: fix rlim_t problems with AIX 4.2. [Marc Slemko] PR#333
7900 *) PORT: Update UnixWare support for 2.1.2.
7901 [Lawrence Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>] PR#511
7903 *) PORT: NonStop-UX [Joachim Schmitz <schmitz_joachim@tandem.com>] PR#327
7905 *) PORT: Update ConvexOS support for 11.5.
7906 [David DeSimone <fox@convex.com>] PR#399
7908 *) PORT: Support for DEC cc compiler under ULTRIX.
7909 ["P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia" <alejolo@ideam.gov.co>] PR#388
7911 *) PORT: Support for Maxion/OS SVR4.2 Real Time Unix. [no name given] PR#383
7913 *) PORT: Workaround for AIX 3.x compiler bug in http_bprintf.c.
7914 [Marc Slemko] PR#725
7916 *) PORT: fix problem compiling http_bprintf.c with gcc under SCO
7917 [Marc Slemko] PR#695
7919 Changes with Apache 1.2
7921 Changes with Apache 1.2b11
7923 *) Fixed open timestamp fd in proxy_cache.c [Chuck Murcko]
7925 *) Added undocumented perl SSI mechanism for -DUSE_PERL_SSI and mod_perl.
7926 [Doug MacEachern, Rob Hartill]
7928 *) Proxy needs to use hard_timeout instead of soft_timeout when it is
7929 reading from one buffer and writing to another, at least until it has
7930 a custom timeout handler. [Roy Fielding and Petr Lampa]
7932 *) Fixed problem on IRIX with servers hanging in IdentityCheck,
7933 apparently due to a mismatch between sigaction and setjmp.
7934 [Roy Fielding] PR#502
7936 *) Log correct status code if we timeout before receiving a request (408)
7937 or if we received a request-line that was too long to process (414).
7938 [Ed Korthof and Roy Fielding] PR#601
7940 *) Virtual hosts with the same ServerName, but on different ports, were
7941 not being selected properly. [Ed Korthof]
7943 *) Added code to return the requested IP address from proxy_host2addr()
7944 if gethostbyaddr() fails due to reverse DNS lookup problems. Original
7945 change submitted by Jozsef Hollosi <hollosi@sbcm.com>.
7946 [Chuck Murcko] PR#614
7948 *) If multiple requests on a single connection are used to retrieve
7949 data from different virtual hosts, the virtual host list would be
7950 scanned starting with the most recently used VH instead of the first,
7951 causing most virtual hosts to be ignored.
7952 [Paul Sutton and Martin Mares] PR#610
7954 *) The OS/2 handling of process group was broken by a porting patch for
7955 MPE, so restored prior code for OS/2. [Roy Fielding and Garey Smiley]
7957 *) Inherit virtual server port from main server if none (or "*") is
7958 given for VirtualHost. [Dean Gaudet] PR#576
7960 *) If the lookup for a DirectoryIndex name with content negotiation
7961 has found matching variants, but none are acceptable, return the
7962 negotiation result if there are no more DirectoryIndex names to lookup.
7963 [Petr Lampa and Roy Fielding]
7965 *) If a soft_timeout occurs after keepalive is set, then the main child
7966 loop would try to read another request even though the connection
7967 has been aborted. [Roy Fielding]
7969 *) Configure changes: Allow for whitespace at the start of a
7970 Module declaration. Also, be more understanding about the
7971 CC=/OPTIM= format in Configuration. Finally, fix compiler
7972 flags if using HP-UX's cc compiler. [Jim Jagielski]
7974 *) Subrequests and internal redirects now inherit the_request from the
7975 original request-line. [Roy Fielding]
7977 *) Test for error conditions before creating output header fields, since
7978 we don't want the error message to include those fields. Likewise,
7979 reset the content_language(s) and content_encoding of the response
7980 before generating or redirecting to an error message, since the new
7981 message will have its own Content-* definitions. [Dean Gaudet]
7983 *) Restored the semantics of headers_out (headers sent only with 200..299
7984 and 304 responses) and err_headers_out (headers sent with all responses).
7985 Avoid the overhead of copying tables if err_headers_out is empty
7986 (the usual case). [Roy Fielding]
7988 *) Fixed a couple places where a check for the default Content-Type was
7989 not properly checking both the value configured by the DefaultType
7990 directive and the DEFAULT_TYPE symbol in httpd.h. Changed the value
7991 of DEFAULT_TYPE to match the documented default (text/plain).
7992 [Dean Gaudet] PR#506
7994 *) Escape the HTML-sensitive characters in the Request-URI that is
7995 output for each child by mod_status. [Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar] PR#501
7997 *) Properly initialize the flock structures used by the mutex locking
7998 around accept() when USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT is defined.
8001 *) The method for determining PATH_INFO has been restored to the pre-1.2b
8002 (and NCSA httpd) definition wherein it was the extra path info beyond
8003 the CGI script filename. The environment variable FILEPATH_INFO has
8004 been removed, and instead we supply the original REQUEST_URI to any
8005 script that wants to be Apache-specific and needs the real URI path.
8006 This solves a problem with existing scripts that use extra path info
8007 in the ScriptAlias directive to pass options to the CGI script.
8010 *) The _default_ change in 1.2b10 will change the behaviour on configs
8011 that use multiple Listen statements for listening on multiple ports.
8012 But that change is necessary to make _default_ consistent with other
8013 forms of <VirtualHost>. It requires such configs to be modified
8014 to use <VirtualHost _default_:*>. The documentation has been
8015 updated. [Dean Gaudet] PR#530
8017 *) If an ErrorDocument CGI script is used to respond to an error
8018 generated by another CGI script which has already read the message
8019 body of the request, the server would block trying to read the
8020 message body again. [Rob Hartill]
8022 *) signal() replacement conflicted with a define on QNX (and potentially
8023 other platforms). Fixed. [Ben Laurie] PR#512
8025 Changes with Apache 1.2b10
8027 *) Allow HTTPD_ROOT, SERVER_CONFIG_FILE, DEFAULT_PATH, and SHELL_PATH
8028 to be configured via -D in Configuration. [Dean Gaudet] PR#449
8030 *) <VirtualHost _default_:portnum> didn't work properly. [Dean Gaudet]
8032 *) Added prototype for mktemp() for SUNOS4 [Marc Slemko]
8034 *) In mod_proxy.c, check return values for proxy_host2addr() when reading
8035 config, in case the hostent struct returned is trash.
8036 [Chuck Murcko] PR #491
8038 *) Fixed the fix in 1.2b9 for parsing URL query info into args for CGI
8039 scripts. [Dean Gaudet, Roy Fielding, Marc Slemko]
8041 Changes with Apache 1.2b9 [never announced]
8043 *) Reset the MODULE_MAGIC_NUMBER to account for the unsigned port
8044 changes and in anticipation of 1.2 final release. [Roy Fielding]
8046 *) Fix problem with scripts not receiving a SIGPIPE when client drops
8047 the connection (e.g., when user presses Stop). Apache will now stop
8048 trying to send a message body immediately after an error from write.
8049 [Roy Fielding and Nathan Kurz] PR#335
8051 *) Rearrange Configuration.tmpl so that mod_rewrite has higher priority
8052 than mod_alias, and mod_alias has higher priority than mod_proxy;
8053 rearranged other modules to enhance understanding of their purpose
8054 and relative order (and maybe even reduce some overhead).
8055 [Roy Fielding and Sameer Parekh]
8057 *) Fix graceful restart. Eliminate many signal-related race
8058 conditions in both forms of restart, and in SIGTERM. See
8059 htdocs/manual/stopping.html for details on stopping and
8060 restarting the parent. [Dean Gaudet]
8062 *) Fix memory leaks in mod_rewrite, mod_browser, mod_include. Tune
8063 memory allocator to avoid a behaviour that required extra blocks to
8064 be allocated. [Dean Gaudet]
8066 *) Allow suexec to access files relative to current directory but not
8067 above. (Excluding leading / or any .. directory.) [Ken Coar]
8070 *) Fix suexec segfault when group doesn't exist. [Gregory Neil Shapiro]
8071 PR#367, 368, 354, 453
8073 *) Fix the above fix: if suexec is enabled, avoid destroying r->url
8074 while obtaining the /~user and save the username in a separate data
8075 area so that it won't be overwritten by the call to getgrgid(), and
8076 fix some misuse of the pool string allocation functions. Also fixes
8077 a general problem with parsing URL query info into args for CGI scripts.
8078 [Roy Fielding] PR#339, 367, 354, 453
8080 *) Fix IRIX warning about bzero undefined. [Marc Slemko]
8082 *) Fix problem with <Directory proxy:...>. [Martin Kraemer] PR#271
8084 *) Corrected spelling of "authoritative". AuthDBAuthoratative became
8085 AuthDBAuthoritative. [Marc Slemko] PR#420
8087 *) MaxClients should be at least 1. [Lars Eilebrecht] PR#375
8089 *) The default handler now logs invalid methods or URIs (i.e. PUT on an
8090 object that can't be PUT, or FOOBAR for some method FOOBAR that
8091 apache doesn't know about at all). Log 404s that occur in mod_include.
8092 [Paul Sutton, John Van Essen]
8094 *) If a soft timeout (or lingerout) occurs while trying to flush a
8095 buffer or write inside buff.c or fread'ing from a CGI's output,
8096 then the timeout would be ignored. [Roy Fielding] PR#373
8098 *) Work around a bug in Netscape Navigator versions 2.x, 3.x and 4.0b2's
8099 parsing of headers. If the terminating empty-line CRLF occurs starting
8100 at the 256th or 257th byte of output, then Navigator will think a normal
8101 image is invalid. We are guessing that this is because their initial
8102 read of a new request uses a 256 byte buffer. We check the bytes written
8103 so far and, if we are about to tickle the bug, we instead insert a
8104 padding header of eminent bogosity. [Roy Fielding and Dean Gaudet] PR#232
8106 *) Fixed SIGSEGV problem when a DirectoryIndex file is also the source
8107 of an external redirection. [Roy Fielding and Paul Sutton]
8109 *) Configure would create a broken Makefile if the configuration file
8110 contained a commented-out Rule. [Roy Fielding]
8112 *) Promote per_dir_config and subprocess_env from the subrequest to the
8113 main request in mod_negotiation. In particular this fixes a bug
8114 where <Files> sections wouldn't properly apply to negotiated content.
8117 *) Fix a potential deadlock in mod_cgi script_err handling.
8118 [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8120 *) rotatelogs zero-pads the logfile names to improve alphabetic sorting.
8123 *) Updated mod_rewrite to 3.0.4: Fixes HTTP redirects from within
8124 .htaccess files because the RewriteBase was not replaced correctly.
8125 Updated mod_rewrite to 3.0.5: Fixes problem with rewriting inside
8126 <Directory> sections missing a trailing /. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8128 *) Clean up Linux settings in conf.h by detecting 2.x versus 1.x. For
8129 1.x the settings are those of pre-1.2b8. For 2.x we include
8130 USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD (scoreboard in shared memory rather than file) and
8131 HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H (enable the RLimit commands).
8132 [Dean Gaudet] PR#336, PR#340
8134 *) Redirect did not preserve ?query_strings when present in the client's
8135 request. [Dean Gaudet]
8137 *) Configure was finding non-modules on EXTRA_LIBS. [Frank Cringle] PR#380
8139 *) Use /bin/sh5 on ULTRIX. [P. Alejandro Lopez-Valencia] PR#369
8141 *) Add UnixWare compile/install instructions. [Chuck Murcko]
8143 *) Add mod_example (illustration of API techniques). [Ken Coar]
8145 *) Add macro for memmove to conf.h for SUNOS4. [Marc Slemko]
8147 *) Improve handling of directories when filenames have spaces in them.
8150 *) For hosts with multiple IP addresses, try all additional addresses if
8151 necessary to get a connect. Fail only if hostent address list is
8152 exhausted. [Chuck Murcko]
8154 *) More signed/unsigned port fixes. [Dean Gaudet]
8156 *) HARD_SERVER_LIMIT can be defined in the Configuration file now.
8159 Changes with Apache 1.2b8
8161 *) suexec.c doesn't close the log file, allowing CGIs to continue writing
8162 to it. [Marc Slemko]
8164 *) The addition of <Location> and <File> directives made the
8165 sub_req_lookup_simple() function bogus, so we now handle
8166 the special cases directly. [Dean Gaudet]
8168 *) We now try to log where the server is dumping core when a fatal
8169 signal is received. [Ken Coar]
8171 *) Improved lingering_close by adding a special timeout, removing the
8172 spurious log messages, removing the nonblocking settings (they
8173 are not needed with the better timeout), and adding commentary
8174 about the NO_LINGCLOSE and USE_SO_LINGER issues. NO_LINGCLOSE is
8175 now the default for SunOS4, UnixWare, NeXT, and IRIX. [Roy Fielding]
8177 *) Send error messages about setsockopt failures to the server error
8178 log instead of stderr. [Roy Fielding]
8180 *) Fix loopholes in proxy cache expiry vis a vis alarms. [Brian Moore]
8182 *) Stopgap solution for CGI 3-second delay with server-side includes: if
8183 processing a subrequest, allocate memory from r->main->pool instead
8184 of r->pool so that we can avoid waiting for free_proc_chain to cleanup
8185 in the middle of an SSI request. [Dean Gaudet] PR #122
8187 *) Fixed status of response when POST is received for a nonexistent URL
8188 (was sending 405, now 404) and when any method is sent with a
8189 full-URI that doesn't match the server and the server is not acting
8190 as a proxy (was sending 501, now 403). [Roy Fielding]
8192 *) Host port changed to unsigned short. [Ken Coar] PR #276
8194 *) Fix typo in command definition of AuthAuthoritative. [Ken Coar] PR #246
8196 *) Defined USE_SHMGET_SCOREBOARD for shared memory on Linux. [Dean Gaudet]
8198 *) Report extra info from errno with many errors that cause httpd to exit.
8199 spawn_child, popenf, and pclosef now have valid errno returns in the
8200 event of an error. Correct problems where errno was stomped on
8201 before being reported. [Dean Gaudet]
8203 *) In the proxy, if the cache filesystem was full, garbage_coll() was
8204 never called, and thus the filesystem would remain full indefinitely.
8205 We now also remove incomplete cache files left if the origin server
8206 didn't send a Content-Length header and either the client has aborted
8207 transfer or bwrite() to client has failed. [Petr Lampa]
8209 *) Fixed the handling of module and script-added header fields.
8210 Improved the interface for sending header fields and reduced
8211 the duplication of code between sending okay responses and errors.
8212 We now always send both headers_out and err_headers_out, and
8213 ensure that the server-reserved fields are not being overridden,
8214 while not overriding those that are not reserved. [Roy Fielding]
8216 *) Moved transparent content negotiation fields to err_headers_out
8217 to reflect above changes. [Petr Lampa]
8219 *) Fixed the determination of whether or not we should make the
8220 connection persistent for all of the cases where some other part
8221 of the server has already indicated that we should not. Also
8222 improved the ordering of the test so that chunked encoding will
8223 be set whenever it is desired instead of only when KeepAlive
8224 is enabled. Added persistent connection capability for most error
8225 responses (those that do not indicate a bad input stream) when
8226 accessed by an HTTP/1.1 client. [Roy Fielding]
8228 *) Added missing timeouts for sending header fields, error responses,
8229 and the last chunk of chunked encoding, each of which could have
8230 resulted in a process being stuck in write forever. Using soft_timeout
8231 requires that the sender check for an aborted connection rather than
8232 continuing after an EINTR. Timeouts that used to be initiated before
8233 send_http_header (and never killed) are now initiated only within or
8234 around the routines that actually do the sending, and not allowed to
8235 propagate above the caller. [Roy Fielding]
8237 *) mod_auth_anon required an @ or a . in the email address, not both.
8240 *) per_dir_defaults weren't set correctly until directory_walk for
8241 name-based vhosts. This fixes an obscure bug with the wrong config
8242 info being used for vhosts that share the same ip as the server.
8245 *) Improved generation of modules/Makefile to be more generic for
8246 new module directories. [Ken Coar, Chuck Murcko, Roy Fielding]
8248 *) Generate makefile dependency for Configuration based on the actual
8249 name given when running the Configure process. [Dean Gaudet]
8251 *) Fixed problem with vhost error log not being set prior to
8252 initializing virtual hosts. [Dean Gaudet]
8254 *) Fixed infinite loop when a trailing slash is included after a type map
8255 file URL (extra path info). [Petr Lampa]
8257 *) Fixed server status updating of per-connection counters. [Roy Fielding]
8259 *) Add documentation for DNS issues (reliability and security), and try
8260 to explain the virtual host matching process. [Dean Gaudet]
8262 *) Try to continue gracefully by disabling the vhost if a DNS lookup
8263 fails while parsing the configuration file. [Dean Gaudet]
8265 *) Improved calls to setsockopt. [Roy Fielding]
8267 *) Negotiation changes: Don't output empty content-type in variant list;
8268 Output charset in variant list; Return sooner from handle_multi() if
8269 no variants found; Add handling of '*' wildcard in Accept-Charset.
8270 [Petr Lampa and Paul Sutton]
8272 *) Fixed overlaying of request/sub-request notes and headers in
8273 mod_negotiation. [Dean Gaudet]
8275 *) If two variants' charset quality are equal and one is the default
8276 charset (iso-8859-1), then prefer the variant that was specifically
8277 listed in Accept-Charset instead of the default. [Petr Lampa]
8279 *) Memory allocation problem in push_array() -- it would corrupt memory
8280 when nalloc==0. [Kai Risku <krisku@tf.hut.fi> and Roy Fielding]
8282 *) invoke_handler() doesn't handle mime arguments in content-type
8285 *) Reduced IdentityCheck timeout to 30 seconds, as per RFC 1413 minimum.
8288 *) Fixed problem with ErrorDocument not working for virtual hosts
8289 due to one of the performance changes in 1.2b7. [Dean Gaudet]
8291 *) Log an error message if we get a request header that is too long,
8292 since it may indicate a buffer overflow attack. [Marc Slemko]
8294 *) Made is_url() allow "[-.+a-zA-Z0-9]+:" as a valid scheme and
8295 not reject URLs without a double-slash, as per RFC2068 section 3.2.
8296 [Ken Coar] PR #146, #187
8298 *) Added table entry placeholder for new header_parser callback
8299 in all of the distributed modules. [Ken Coar] PR #191
8301 *) Allow for cgi files without the .EXE extension on them under OS/2.
8302 [Garey Smiley] PR #59
8304 *) Fixed error message when resource is not found and URL contains
8305 path info. [Petr Lampa and Dean Gaudet] PR #40
8307 *) Fixed user and server confusion over what should be a virtual host
8308 and what is the main server, resulting in access to something
8309 other than the name defined in the virtualhost directive (but
8310 with the same IP address) failing. [Dean Gaudet]
8312 *) Updated mod_rewrite to version 3.0.2, which: fixes compile error on
8313 AIX; improves the redirection stuff to enable the users to generally
8314 redirect to http, https, gopher and ftp; added TIME variable for
8315 RewriteCond which expands to YYYYMMDDHHMMSS strings and added the
8316 special patterns >STRING, <STRING and =STRING to RewriteCond, which
8317 can be used in conjunction with %{TIME} or other variables to create
8318 time-dependent rewriting rules. [Ralf S. Engelschall]
8320 *) bpushfd() no longer notes cleanups for the file descriptors it is handed.
8321 Module authors may need to adjust their code for proper cleanup to take
8322 place (that is, call note_cleanups_for_fd()). This change fixes problems
8323 with file descriptors being erroneously closed when the proxy module was
8324 in use. [Ben Laurie]
8326 *) Fix bug in suexec reintroduced by changes in 1.2b7 which allows
8327 initgroups() to hose the group information needed for later
8328 comparisons. [Randy Terbush]
8330 *) Remove unnecessary call to va_end() in create_argv() which
8331 caused a SEGV on some systems.
8333 *) Use proper MAXHOSTNAMELEN symbol for limiting length of server name.
8336 *) Clear memory allocated for listeners. [Randy Terbush]
8338 *) Improved handling of IP address as a virtualhost address and
8339 introduced "_default_" as a synonym for the default vhost config.
8340 [Dean Gaudet] PR #212
8342 Changes with Apache 1.2b7
8344 *) Port to UXP/DS(V20) [Toshiaki Nomura <nom@yk.fujitsu.co.jp>]
8346 *) unset Content-Length if chunked (RFC-2068) [Petr Lampa]
8348 *) mod_negotiation fixes [Petr Lampa] PR#157, PR#158, PR#159
8349 - replace protocol response numbers with symbols
8350 - save variant-list into main request notes
8351 - free allocated memory from subrequests
8352 - merge notes, headers_out and err_headers_out
8354 *) changed status check mask in proxy_http.c from "HTTP/#.# ### *" to
8355 "HTTP/#.# ###*" to be more lenient about what we accept.
8358 *) more proxy FTP bug fixes:
8359 - Changed send_dir() to remove user/passwd from displayed URL.
8360 - Changed login error messages to be more descriptive.
8361 - remove setting of SO_DEBUG socket option
8362 - Make ftp_getrc() more lenient about multiline responses,
8363 specifically, 230 responses which don't have continuation 230-
8364 on each line). These seem to be all NT FTP servers, and while
8365 perhaps questionable, they appear to be legal by RFC 959.
8366 - Add missing kill_timeout() after transfer to user completes.
8369 *) Fixed problem where a busy server could hang when restarting
8370 after being sent a SIGHUP due to child processes not exiting.
8373 *) Modify mod_include escaping so a '\' only signifies an escaped
8374 character if the next character is one that needs
8375 escaping. [Ben Laurie]
8377 *) Eliminated possible infinite loop in mod_imap when relative URLs are
8378 used with a 'base' directive that does not have a '/' in it.
8379 [Marc Slemko, reported by Onno Witvliet <onno@tc.hsa.nl>]
8381 *) Reduced the default timeout from 1200 seconds to 300, and the
8382 one in the sample configfile from 400 to 300. [Marc Slemko]
8384 *) Stop vbprintf from crashing if given a NULL string pointer;
8385 print (null) instead. [Ken Coar]
8387 *) Don't disable Nagle algorithm if system doesn't have TCP_NODELAY.
8388 [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
8390 *) Fixed problem with mod_cgi-generated internal redirects trying to
8391 read the request message-body twice. [Archie Cobbs and Roy Fielding]
8393 *) Reduced timeout on lingering close, removed possibility of a blocked
8394 read causing the child to hang, and stopped logging of errors if
8395 the socket is not connected (reset by client). [Roy Fielding]
8397 *) Rearranged main child loop to remove duplication of code in
8398 select/accept and keep-alive requests, fixed several bugs regarding
8399 checking scoreboard_image for exit indication and failure to
8400 account for all success conditions and trap all error conditions,
8401 prevented multiple flushes before closing the socket; close the entire
8402 socket buffer instead of just one descriptor, prevent logging of
8403 EPROTO and ECONNABORTED on platforms where supported, and generally
8404 improved readability. [Roy Fielding]
8406 *) Extensive performance improvements. Cleaned up inefficient use of
8407 auto initializers, multiple is_matchexp calls on a static string,
8408 and excessive merging of response_code_strings. [Dean Gaudet]
8410 *) Added double-buffering to mod_include to improve performance on
8411 server-side includes. [Marc Slemko]
8413 *) Several fixes for suexec wrapper. [Randy Terbush]
8414 - Make wrapper work for files on NFS filesystem.
8415 - Fix portability problem of MAXPATHLEN.
8416 - Fix array overrun problem in clean_env().
8417 - Fix allocation of PATH environment variable
8419 *) Removed extraneous blank line is description of mod_status chars.
8422 *) Logging of errors from the call_exec routine simply went nowhere,
8423 since the logfile fd has been closed, so now we send them to stderr.
8424 [Harald T. Alvestrand]
8426 *) Fixed core dump when DocumentRoot is a CGI.
8427 [Ben Laurie, reported by geddis@tesserae.com]
8429 *) Fixed potential file descriptor leak in mod_asis; updated it and
8430 http_core to use pfopen/pfclose instead of fopen/fclose.
8431 [Randy Terbush and Roy Fielding]
8433 *) Fixed handling of unsigned ints in ap_snprintf() on some chips such
8434 as the DEC Alpha which is 64-bit but uses 32-bit ints.
8435 [Dean Gaudet and Ken Coar]
8437 *) Return a 302 response code to the client when sending a redirect
8438 due to a missing trailing '/' on a directory instead of a 301; now
8439 it is cacheable. [Markus Gyger]
8441 *) Fix condition where, if a bad directive occurs in .htaccess, and
8442 sub_request() goes first to this directory, then log_reason() will
8443 SIGSEGV because it doesn't have initialized r->per_dir_config.
8444 [PR#162 from Petr Lampa, fix by Marc Slemko and Dean Gaudet]
8446 *) Fix handling of lang_index in is_variant_better(). This was
8447 causing problems which resulted in the server sending the
8448 wrong language document in some cases. [Petr Lampa]
8450 *) Remove free() from clean_env() in suexec wrapper. This was nuking
8451 the clean environment on some systems.
8453 *) Tweak byteserving code (e.g. serving PDF files) to work around
8454 bugs in Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.
8455 Emit Content-Length header when sending multipart/byteranges.
8458 *) Port to HI-UX/WE2. [Nick Maclaren]
8460 *) Port to HP MPE operating system for HP 3000 machines
8461 [Mark Bixby <markb@cccd.edu>]
8463 *) Fixed bug which caused a segmentation fault if only one argument
8464 given to RLimit* directives. [Ed Korthof]
8466 *) Continue persistent connection after 204 or 304 response. [Dean Gaudet]
8468 *) Improved buffered output to the client by delaying the flush decision
8469 until the BUFF code is actually about to read the next request.
8470 This fixes a problem introduced in 1.2b5 with clients that send
8471 an extra CRLF after a POST request. Also improved chunked output
8472 performance by combining writes using writev() and removing as
8473 many bflush() calls as possible. NOTE: Platforms without writev()
8474 must add -DNO_WRITEV to the compiler CFLAGS, either in Configuration
8475 or Configure, unless we have already done so. [Dean Gaudet]
8477 *) Fixed mod_rewrite bug which truncated the rewritten URL [Marc Slemko]
8479 *) Fixed mod_info output corruption bug introduced by buffer overflow
8480 fixes. [Dean Gaudet]
8482 *) Fixed http_protocol to correctly output all HTTP/1.1 headers, including
8483 for the special case of a 304 response. [Paul Sutton]
8485 *) Improved handling of TRACE method by bypassing normal method handling
8486 and header parsing routines; fixed Allow response to always allow TRACE.
8489 *) Fixed compiler warnings in the regex library. [Dean Gaudet]
8491 *) Cleaned-up some of the generated HTML. [Ken Coar]
8493 Changes with Apache 1.2b6
8495 *) Allow whitespace in imagemap mapfile coordinates. [Marc Slemko]
8497 *) Fix typo introduced in fix for potential infinite loop around
8498 accept() in child_main(). This change caused the rev to 1.2b6.
8499 1.2b5 was never a public beta.
8501 Changes with Apache 1.2b5
8503 *) Change KeepAlive semantics (On|Off instead of a number), add
8504 MaxKeepAliveRequests directive. [Alexei Kosut]
8506 *) Various NeXT compilation patches, as well as a change in
8507 regex/regcomp.c since that file also used a NEXT define.
8510 *) Allow * to terminate the end of a directory match in mod_dir.
8511 Allows /~* to match for both /~joe and /~joe/. [David Bronder]
8513 *) Don't call can_exec() if suexec_enabled. Calling this requires
8514 scripts executed by the suexec wrapper to be world executable, which
8515 defeats one of the advantages of running the wrapper. [Randy Terbush]
8517 *) Portability Fix: IRIX complained with 'make clean' about *pure* (removed)
8520 *) Migration from sprintf() to snprintf() to avoid buffer
8521 overflows. [Marc Slemko]
8523 *) Provide portable snprintf() implementation (ap_snprintf)
8524 as well as *cvt family. [Jim Jagielski]
8526 *) Portability Fix: NeXT lacks unistd.h so we wrap it's inclusion
8529 *) Remove mod_fastcgi.c from the distribution. This module appears
8530 to be maintained more through the Open Market channels and should
8531 continue to be easily available at http://www.fastcgi.com/
8533 *) Fixed bug in modules/Makefile that wouldn't allow building in more
8534 than one subdirectory (or cleaning, either). [Jeremy Laidman]
8536 *) mod_info assumed that the config files were relative to ServerRoot.
8539 *) CGI scripts called as an error document resulting from failed
8540 CGI execution would hang waiting for POST'ed data. [Rob Hartill]
8542 *) Log reason when mod_dir returns access HTTP_FORBIDDEN
8545 *) Properly check errno to prevent display of a directory index
8546 when server receives a long enough URL to confuse stat().
8549 *) Several security enhancements to suexec wrapper. It is _highly_
8550 recommended that previously installed versions of the wrapper
8551 be replaced with this version. [Randy Terbush, Jason Dour]
8553 - ~user execution now properly restricted to ~user's home
8554 directory and below.
8555 - execution restricted to UID/GID > 100
8556 - restrict passed environment to known variables
8557 - call setgid() before initgroups() (portability fix)
8558 - remove use of setenv() (portability fix)
8560 *) Add HTTP/1.0 response forcing. [Ben Laurie]
8562 *) Add access control via environment variables. [Ben Laurie]
8564 *) Add rflush() function. [Alexei Kosut]
8566 *) remove duplicate pcalloc() call in new_connection().
8568 *) Fix incorrect comparison which could allow number of children =
8569 MaxClients + 1 if less than HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. Also fix potential
8570 problem if StartServers > HARD_SERVER_LIMIT. [Ed Korthof]
8572 *) Updated support for OSes (MachTen, ULTRIX, Paragon, ISC, OpenBSD
8573 AIX PS/2, CONVEXOS. [Jim Jagielski]
8575 *) Replace instances of inet_ntoa() with inet_addr() for ProxyBlock.
8576 It's more portable. [Martin Kraemer]
8578 *) Replace references to make in Makefile.tmpl with $(MAKE).
8581 *) Add ProxyBlock directive w/IP address caching. Add IP address
8582 caching to NoCache directive as well. ProxyBlock works with all
8583 handlers; NoCache now also works with FTP for anonymous logins.
8584 Still more code cleanup. [Chuck Murcko]
8586 *) Add "header parse" API hook [Ben Laurie]
8588 *) Fix byte ordering problems for REMOTE_PORT [Chuck Murcko]
8590 *) suEXEC wrapper was freeing memory that had not been malloc'ed.
8592 *) Correctly allow access and auth directives in <Files> sections in
8593 server config files. [Alexei Kosut]
8595 *) Fix bug with ServerPath that could cause certain files to be not
8596 found by the server. [Alexei Kosut]
8598 *) Fix handling of ErrorDocument so that it doesn't remove a trailing
8599 double-quote from text and so that it properly checks for unsupported
8600 status codes using the new index_of_response interface. [Roy Fielding]
8602 *) Multiple fixes to the lingering_close code in order to avoid being
8603 interrupted by a stray timeout, to avoid lingering on a connection
8604 that has already been aborted or never really existed, to ensure that
8605 we stop lingering as soon as any error condition is received, and to
8606 prevent being stuck indefinitely if the read blocks. Also improves
8607 reporting of error conditions. [Marc Slemko and Roy Fielding]
8609 *) Fixed initialization of parameter structure for sigaction.
8610 [mgyger@itr.ch, Adrian Filipi-Martin]
8612 *) Fixed reinitializing the parameters before each call to accept and
8613 select, and removed potential for infinite loop in accept.
8614 [Roy Fielding, after useful PR from adrian@virginia.edu]
8616 *) Fixed condition where, if a child fails to fork, the scoreboard would
8617 continue to say SERVER_STARTING forever. Eventually, the main process
8618 would refuse to start new children because count_idle_servers() will
8619 count those SERVER_STARTING entries and will always report that there
8620 are enough idle servers. [Phillip Vandry]
8622 *) Fixed bug in bcwrite regarding failure to account for partial writes.
8623 Avoided calling bflush() when the client is pipelining requests.
8624 Removed unnecessary flushes from http_protocol. [Dean Gaudet]
8626 *) Added description of "." mode in server-status [Jim Jagielski]
8628 Changes with Apache 1.2b4
8630 *) Fix possible race condition in accept_mutex_init() that
8631 could leave a small security hole open allowing files to be
8632 overwritten in cases where the server UID has write permissions.
8635 *) Fix awk compatibilty problem in Configure. [Jim Jagielski]
8637 *) Fix portablity problem in util_script where ARG_MAX may not be
8638 defined for some systems.
8640 *) Add changes to allow compilation on Machten 4.0.3 for PowerPC.
8643 *) OS/2 changes to support an MMAP style scoreboard file and UNIX
8644 style magic #! token for better script portability. [Garey Smiley]
8646 *) Fix bug in suexec wrapper introduced in b3 that would cause failed
8647 execution for ~userdir CGI. [Jason Dour]
8649 *) Fix initgroups() business in suexec wrapper. [Jason Dour]
8651 *) Fix month off by one in suexec wrapper logging.
8653 Changes with Apache 1.2b3:
8655 *) Fix error in mod_cgi which could cause resources not to be properly
8656 freed, or worse. [Dean Gaudet]
8658 *) Fix find_string() NULL pointer dereference. [Howard Fear]
8660 *) Add set_flag_slot() at the request of Dirk and others.
8663 *) Sync mod_rewrite with patch level 10. [Ralf Engelschall]
8665 *) Add changes to improve the error message given for invalid
8666 ServerName parameters. [Dirk vanGulik]
8668 *) Add "Authoritative" directive for Auth modules that don't
8669 currently have it. This gives admin control to assign authoritative
8670 control to an authentication scheme and allow "fall through" for
8671 those authentication modules that aren't "Authoritative" thereby
8672 allowing multiple authentication mechanisms to be chained.
8675 *) Remove requirement for ResourceConfig/AccessConfig if not using
8676 the three config file layout. [Randy Terbush]
8678 *) Add PASV mode to mod_proxy FTP handler. [Chuck Murcko]
8680 *) Changes to suexec wrapper to fix the following problems:
8681 1. symlinked homedirs will kill ~userdirs.
8682 2. initgroups() on Linux 2.0.x clobbers gr->grid.
8683 3. CGI command lines paramters problems
8684 4. pw-pwdir for "docroot check" still the httpd user's pw record.
8685 [Randy Terbush, Jason Dour]
8687 *) Change create_argv() to accept variable arguments. This fixes
8688 a problem where arguments were not getting passed to the CGI via
8689 argv[] when the suexec wrapper was active. [Randy Terbush, Jake Buchholz]
8691 *) Collapse multiple slashes in path URLs to properly apply
8692 handlers defined by <Location>. [Alexei Kosut]
8694 *) Define a sane set of DEFAULT_USER and DEFAULT_GROUP values for AIX.
8696 *) Improve the accuracy of request duration timings by setting
8697 r->request_time in read_request_line() instead of read_request().
8700 *) Reset timeout while reading via get_client_block() in mod_cgi.c
8701 Fixes problem with timed out transfers of large files. [Rasmus Lerdorf]
8703 *) Add the ability to pass different Makefile.tmpl files to Configure
8704 using the -make flag. [Rob Hartill]
8706 *) Fix coredump triggered when sending a SIGHUP to the server caused
8707 by an assertion failure, in turn caused by an uninitialised field in a
8711 *) Add FILEPATH_INFO variable to CGI environment, which is equal to
8712 PATH_INFO from previous versions of Apache (in certain situations,
8713 Apache 1.2's PATH_INFO will be different than 1.1's). [Alexei Kosut]
8714 [later removed in 1.2b11]
8716 *) Add rwrite() function to API to allow for sending strings of
8717 arbitrary length. [Doug MacEachern]
8719 *) Remove rlim_t typedef for NetBSD. Do older versions need this?
8721 *) Defined rlim_t and WANTHSREGEX=yes and fixed waitpid() substitute for
8722 NeXT. [Jim Jagielski]
8724 *) Removed recent modification to promote the status code on internal
8725 redirects, since the correct fix was to change the default log format
8726 in mod_log_config so that it outputs the original status. [Rob Hartill]
8728 Changes with Apache 1.2b2:
8730 *) Update set_signals() to use sigaction() for setting handlers.
8731 This appears to fix a re-entrant problem in the seg_fault()
8732 bus_error() handlers. [Randy Terbush]
8734 *) Changes to allow mod_status compile for OS/2 [Garey Smiley]
8736 *) changes for DEC AXP running OSF/1 v3.0. [Marc Evans]
8738 *) proxy_http.c bugfixes: [Chuck Murcko]
8739 1) fixes possible NULL pointer reference w/NoCache
8740 2) fixes NoCache behavior when using ProxyRemote (ProxyRemote
8741 host would cache nothing if it was in the local domain,
8742 and the local domain was in the NoCache list)
8743 3) Adds Host: header when not available
8744 4) Some code cleanup and clarification
8746 *) mod_include.c bugfixes:
8747 1) Fixed an ommission that caused include variables to not
8748 be parsed in config errmsg directives [Howard Fear]
8749 2) Remove HAVE_POSIX_REGEX cruft [Alexei Kosut]
8750 3) Patch to fix compiler warnings [perrot@lal.in2p3.fr]
8751 4) Allow backslash-escaping to all quoted text
8752 [Ben Yoshino <ben@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>]
8753 5) Pass variable to command line if not set in XSSI's env
8756 *) Fix infinite loop when processing Content-language lines in
8757 type-map files. [Alexei Kosut]
8759 *) Closed file-globbing hole in test-cgi script. [Brian Behlendorf]
8761 *) Fixed problem in set_[user|group] that prevented CGI execution
8762 for non-virtualhosts when suEXEC was enabled. [Randy Terbush]
8764 *) Added PORTING information file. [Jim Jagielski]
8766 *) Added definitions for S_IWGRP and S_IWOTH to conf.h [Ben Laurie]
8768 *) Changed default group to "nogroup" instead of "nobody" [Randy Terbush]
8770 *) Fixed define typo of FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT where
8771 USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT was intended.
8773 *) Fixed additional uses of 0xffffffff where INADDR_NONE was intended,
8774 which caused problems of systems where socket s_addr is >32bits.
8776 *) Added comment to explain (r->chunked = 1) side-effect in
8777 http_protocol.c [Roy Fielding]
8779 *) Replaced use of index() in mod_expires.c with more appropriate
8780 and portable isdigit() test. [Ben Laurie]
8782 *) Updated Configure for ...
8783 OS/2 (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, other code changes)
8784 *-dg-dgux* (bad pattern match)
8785 QNX (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes)
8786 *-sunos4* (DEF_WANTHSREGEX=yes, -DUSEBCOPY)
8789 and added some user diagnostic info. [Ben Laurie]
8791 *) In helpers/CutRule, replaced "cut" invocation with "awk" invocation
8792 for better portability. [Jim Jagielski]
8794 *) Updated helpers/GuessOS for ...
8795 SCO 5 (recognize minor releases)
8796 SCO UnixWare (braindamaged uname, whatever-whatever-unixware2)
8797 SCO UnixWare 2.1.1 (requires a separate set of #defines in conf.h)
8798 IRIX64 (-sgi-irix64)
8799 ULTRIX (-unknown-ultrix)
8800 SINIX (-whatever-sysv4)
8801 NCR Unix (-ncr-sysv4)
8802 and fixed something in helpers/PrintPath [Ben Laurie]
8804 Changes with Apache 1.2b1
8806 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_2.html>
8808 Changes with Apache 1.1.1
8810 *) Fixed bug where Cookie module would make two entries in the
8811 logfile for each access [Mark Cox]
8813 *) Fixed bug where Redirect in .htaccess files would cause memory
8814 leak. [Nathan Neulinger]
8816 *) MultiViews now works correctly with AddHandler [Alexei Kosut]
8818 *) Problems with mod_auth_msql fixed [Dirk vanGulik]
8820 *) Fix misspelling of "Anonymous_Authorative" directive in mod_auth_anon.
8822 Changes with Apache 1.1.0
8824 *) Bring NeXT support up to date. [Takaaki Matsumoto]
8826 *) Bring QNX support up to date. [Ben Laurie]
8828 *) Make virtual hosts default to main server keepalive parameters.
8829 [Alexei Kosut, Ben Laurie]
8831 *) Allow ScanHTMLTitles to work with lowercase <title> tags. [Alexei Kosut]
8833 *) Fix missing address family for connect, also remove unreachable statement
8834 in mod_proxy. [Ben Laurie]
8836 *) mod_env now turned on by default in Configuration.tmpl.
8838 *) Bugs which were fixed:
8839 a) yet more mod_proxy bugs [Ben Laurie]
8840 b) CGI works again with inetd [Alexei Kosut]
8841 c) Leading colons were stripped from passwords [osm@interguide.com]
8842 d) Another fix to multi-method Limit problem [jk@tools.de]
8844 Changes with Apache 1.1b4
8846 *) r->bytes_sent variable restored. [Robert Thau]
8848 *) Previously broken multi-method <Limit> parsing fixed. [Robert Thau]
8850 *) More possibly unsecure programs removed from the support directory.
8852 *) More mod_auth_msql authentication improvements.
8854 *) VirtualHosts based on Host: headers no longer conflict with the
8857 *) OS/2 compatibility enhancements. [Gary Smiley]
8859 *) POST now allowed to directory index CGI scripts.
8861 *) Actions now work with files of the default type.
8863 *) Bugs which were fixed:
8864 a) more mod_proxy bugs
8865 b) early termination of inetd requests
8866 c) compile warnings on several systems
8867 d) problems when scripts stop reading output early
8869 Changes with Apache 1.1b3
8871 *) Much of cgi-bin and all of cgi-src has been removed, due to
8872 various security holes found and that we could no longer support
8875 *) The "Set-Cookie" header is now special-cased to not merge multiple
8876 instances, since certain popular browsers can not handle multiple
8877 Set-Cookie instructions in a single header. [Paul Sutton]
8879 *) rprintf() added to buffer code, occurrences of sprintf removed.
8882 *) CONNECT method for proxy module, which means tunneling SSL should work.
8883 (No crypto needed) Also a NoCache config directive.
8885 *) Several API additions: pstrndup(), table_unset() and get_token()
8886 functions now available to modules.
8888 *) mod_imap fixups, in particular Location: headers are now complete
8891 *) New "info" module which reports on installed module set through a
8892 special URL, a la mod_status.
8894 *) "ServerPath" directive added - allows for graceful transition
8895 for Host:-header-based virtual hosts.
8897 *) Anonymous authentication module improvements.
8899 *) MSQL authentication module improvements.
8901 *) Status module design improved - output now table-based. [Ben Laurie]
8903 *) htdigest utility included for use with digest authentication
8906 *) mod_negotiation: Accept values with wildcards to be treated with
8907 less priority than those without wildcards at the same quality
8908 value. [Alexei Kosut]
8910 *) Bugs which were fixed:
8911 a) numerous mod_proxy bugs
8912 b) CGI early-termination bug [Ben Laurie]
8913 c) Keepalives not working with virtual hosts
8914 d) RefererIgnore problems
8915 e) closing fd's twice in mod_include (causing core dumps on
8916 Linux and elsewhere).
8918 Changes with Apache 1.1b2
8921 a) core dumps in mod_digest
8922 b) truncated hostnames/ip address in the logs
8923 c) relative URL's in mod_imap map files
8925 Changes with Apache 1.1b1
8927 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_1.html>
8929 Changes with Apache 1.0.3
8931 *) Internal redirects which occur in mod_dir.c now preserve the
8932 query portion of a request (the bit after the question mark).
8935 *) Escape active characters '<', '>' and '&' in html output in
8936 directory listings, error messages and redirection links.
8939 *) Apache will now work with LynxOS 2.3 and later [Steven Watt]
8941 *) Fix for POSIX compliance in waiting for processes in alloc.c.
8944 *) setsockopt no longer takes a const declared argument [Martijn Koster]
8946 *) Reset timeout timer after each successful fwrite() to the network.
8947 This patch adds a reset_timeout() procedure that is called by
8948 send_fd() to reset the timeout ever time data is written to the net.
8951 *) timeout() signal handler now checks for SIGPIPE and reports
8952 lost connections in a more user friendly way. [Rob Hartill]
8954 *) Location of the "scoreboard" file which used to live in /tmp is
8955 now configurable (for OSes that can't use mmap) via ScoreBoardFile
8956 which works similar to PidFile (in httpd.conf) [Rob Hartill]
8958 *) Include sys/resource.h in the correct place for SunOS4 [Sameer Parekh]
8960 *) the pstrcat call in mod_cookies.c didn't have an ending NULL,
8961 which caused a SEGV with cookies enabled
8963 *) Output warning when MinSpareServers is set to <= 0 and change it to 1
8966 *) Log the UNIX textual error returned by some system calls, in
8967 particular errors from accept() [David Robinson]
8969 *) Add strerror function to util.c for SunOS4 [Randy Terbush]
8971 Changes with Apache 1.0.2
8973 *) patch to get Apache compiled on UnixWare 2.x, recommended as
8974 a temporary measure, pending rewrite of rfc931.c. [Chuck Murcko]
8976 *) Fix get_basic_auth_pw() to set the auth_type of the request.
8979 *) past changes to http_config.c to only use the
8980 setrlimit function on systems defining RLIMIT_NOFILE
8981 broke the feature on SUNOS4. Now defines HAVE_RESOURCE
8982 for SUNOS and prototypes the needed functions.
8984 *) Remove uses of MAX_STRING_LEN/HUGE_STRING_LEN from several routines.
8987 *) Fix use of pointer to scratch memory. [Cliff Skolnick]
8989 *) Merge multiple headers from CGI scripts instead of taking last
8990 one. [David Robinson]
8992 *) Add support for SCO 5. [Ben Laurie]
8994 Changes with Apache 1.0.1
8996 *) Silence mod_log_referer and mod_log_agent if not configured
8999 *) Recursive includes can occur if the client supplies PATH_INFO data
9000 and the server provider uses relative links; as file.html
9001 relative to /doc.shtml/pathinfo is /doc.shtml/file.html. [David Robinson]
9003 *) The replacement for initgroups() did not call {set,end}grent(). This
9004 had two implications: if anything else used getgrent(), then
9005 initgroups() would fail, and it was consuming a file descriptor.
9008 *) On heavily loaded servers it was possible for the scoreboard to get
9009 out of sync with reality, as a result of a race condition.
9010 The observed symptoms are far more Apaches running than should
9011 be, and heavy system loads, generally followed by catastrophic
9012 system failure. [Ben Laurie]
9014 *) Fix typo in license. [David Robinson]
9016 Changes with Apache 1.0.0 23 Nov 1995
9018 *) Not listed. See <http://www.apache.org/docs/new_features_1_0.html>
9020 Changes with Apache 0.8.16 05 Nov 1995
9022 *) New man page for 'httpd' added to support directory [David Robinson]
9024 *) .htgroup files can have more than one line giving members for a
9025 given group (each must have the group name in front), for NCSA
9026 back-compatibility [Robert Thau]
9028 *) Mutual exclusion around accept() is on by default for SVR4 systems
9029 generally, since they generally can't handle multiple processes in
9030 accept() on the same socket. This should cure flaky behavior on
9031 a lot of those systems. [David Robinson]
9033 *) AddType, AddEncoding, and AddLanguage directives take multiple
9034 extensions on a single command line [David Robinson]
9036 *) UserDir can be disabled for a given virtual host by saying
9037 "UserDir disabled" in the <VirtualHost> section --- it was a bug
9038 that this didn't work. [David Robinson]
9040 *) Compiles on QNX [Ben Laurie]
9042 *) Corrected parsing of ctime time format [David Robinson]
9044 *) httpd does a perror() before exiting if it can't log its pid
9045 to the PidFile, to make diagnosing the error a bit easier.
9048 *) <!--#include file="..."--> can no longer include files in the
9049 parent directory, for NCSA back-compatibility. [David Robinson]
9051 *) '~' is *not* escaped in URIs generated for directory listings
9054 *) Eliminated compiler warning in the imagemap module [Randy Terbush]
9056 *) Fixed bug involving handling URIs with escaped %-characters
9057 in redirects [David Robinson]
9059 Changes with Apache 0.8.15 14 Oct 1995
9061 *) Switched to new, simpler license
9063 *) Eliminated core dumps with improperly formatted DBM group files [Mark Cox]
9065 *) Don't allow requests for ordinary files to have PATH_INFO [Ben Laurie]
9067 *) Reject paths containing %-escaped '%' or null characters [David Robinson]
9069 *) Correctly handles internal redirects to files with names containing '%'
9072 *) Repunctuated some error messages [Aram Mirzadeh, Andrew Wilson]
9074 *) Use geteuid() rather than getuid() to see if we have root privilege,
9075 so that server correctly resets privilege if run setuid root. [Andrew
9078 *) Handle ftp: and telnet: URLs correctly in imagemaps (built-in module)
9081 *) Fix relative URLs in imagemap files [Randy Terbush]
9083 *) Somewhat better fix for the old "Alias /foo/ /bar/" business
9086 *) Don't repeatedly open the ErrorLog if a bunch of <VirtualHost>
9087 entries all name the same one. [David Robinson]
9089 *) Fix directory listings with filenames containing unusual characters
9092 *) Better URI-escaping for generated URIs in directories with filenames
9093 containing unusual characters [Ben Laurie]
9095 *) Fixed potential FILE* leak in http_main.c [Ben Laurie]
9097 *) Unblock alarms on error return from spawn_child() [David Robinson]
9099 *) Sample Config files have extra note for SCO users [Ben Laurie]
9101 *) Configuration has note for HP-UX users [Rob Hartill]
9103 *) Eliminated some bogus Linux-only #defines in conf.h [Aram Mirzadeh]
9105 *) Nuked bogus #define in httpd.h [David Robinson]
9107 *) Better test for whether a system has setrlimit() [David Robinson]
9109 *) Calls update_child_status() after reopen_scoreboard() [David Robinson]
9111 *) Doesn't send itself SIGHUP on startup when run in the -X debug-only mode
9114 Changes with Apache 0.8.14 19 Sep 1995
9116 *) Compiles on SCO ODT 3.0 [Ben Laurie]
9118 *) AddDescription works (better) [Ben Laurie]
9120 *) Leaves an intelligible error diagnostic when it can't set group
9121 privileges on standalone startup [Andrew Wilson]
9123 *) Compiles on NeXT again --- the 0.8.13 RLIMIT patch was failing on
9124 that machine, which claims to be BSD but does not support RLIMIT.
9127 *) gcc -Wall no longer complains about an unused variable when util.c
9128 is compiled with -DMINIMAL_DNS [Andrew Wilson]
9130 *) Nuked another compiler warning for -Wall on Linux [Aram Mirzadeh]
9132 Changes with Apache 0.8.13 07 Sep 1995
9134 *) Make IndexIgnore *work* (ooops) [Jarkko Torppa]
9136 *) Have built-in imagemap code recognize & honor Point directive [James
9139 *) Generate cleaner directory listings in directories with a mix of
9140 long and short filenames [Rob Hartill]
9142 *) Properly initialize dynamically loaded modules [Royston Shufflebotham]
9144 *) Properly default ServerName for virtual servers [Robert Thau]
9146 *) Rationalize handling of BSD in conf.h and elsewhere [Randy Terbush,
9147 Paul Richards and a cast of thousands...]
9149 *) On self-identified BSD systems (we don't try to guess any more),
9150 allocate a few extra file descriptors per virtual host with setrlimit,
9151 if we can, to avoid running out. [Randy Terbush]
9153 *) Write 22-character lock file name into buffer with enough space
9154 on startup [Konstantin Olchanski]
9156 *) Use archaic setpgrp() interface on NeXT, which requires it [Brian
9159 *) Suppress -Wall warning by casting const away in util.c [Aram Mirzadeh]
9161 *) Suppress -Wall warning by initializing variable in negotiation code
9162 [Tobias Weingartner]
9164 Changes with Apache 0.8.12 31 Aug 1995
9166 *) Doesn't pause three seconds after including a CGI script which is
9167 too slow to die off (this is done by not even trying to kill off
9168 subprocesses, including the SIGTERM/pause/SIGKILL routine, until
9169 after the entire document has been processed). [Robert Thau]
9171 *) Doesn't do SSI if Options Includes is off. (Ooops). [David Robinson]
9173 *) Options IncludesNoExec allows inclusion of at least text/* [Roy Fielding]
9175 *) Allows .htaccess files to override <Directory> sections naming the
9176 same directory [David Robinson]
9178 *) Removed an efficiency hack in sub_req_lookup_uri which was
9179 causing certain extremely marginal cases (e.g., ScriptAlias of a
9180 *particular* index.html file) to fail. [David Robinson]
9182 *) Doesn't log an error when the requested URI requires
9183 authentication, but no auth header line was supplied by the
9184 client; this is a normal condition (the client doesn't no auth is
9185 needed here yet). [Robert Thau]
9187 *) Behaves more sanely when the name server loses its mind [Sean Welch]
9189 *) RFC931 code compiles cleanly on old BSDI releases [Randy Terbush]
9191 *) RFC931 code no longer passes out name of prior clients on current
9192 requests if the current request came from a server that doesn't
9193 do RFC931. [David Robinson]
9195 *) Configuration script accepts "Module" lines with trailing whitespace.
9198 *) Cleaned up compiler warning from mod_access.c [Robert Thau]
9200 *) Cleaned up comments in mod_cgi.c [Robert Thau]
9202 Changes with Apache 0.8.11 24 Aug 1995
9204 *) Wildcard <Directory> specifications work. [Robert Thau]
9206 *) Doesn't loop for buggy CGI on Solaris [Cliff Skolnick]
9208 *) Symlink checks (FollowSymLinks off, or SymLinkIfOwnerMatch) always check
9209 the file being requested itself, in addition to the directories leading
9210 up to it. [Robert Thau]
9212 *) Logs access failures due to symlink checks or invalid client address
9213 in the error log [Roy Fielding, Robert Thau]
9215 *) Symlink checks deal correctly with systems where lstat of
9216 "/path/to/some/link/" follows the link. [Thau, Fielding]
9218 *) Doesn't reset DirectoryIndex to 'index.html' when
9219 other directory options are set in a .htaccess file. [Robert Thau]
9221 *) Clarified init code and nuked bogus warning in mod_access.c
9224 *) Corrected several directives in sample srm.conf
9225 --- includes corrections to directory indexing icon-related directives
9226 (using unknown.gif rather than unknown.xbm as the DefaultIcon, doing
9227 icons for encodings right, and turning on AddEncoding by default).
9230 *) Corrected descriptions of args to AddIcon and AddAlt in command table
9233 *) INSTALL & README mention "contributed modules" directory [Brian
9236 *) Fixed English in the license language... "for for" --> "for".
9239 *) Fixed ScriptAlias/Alias interaction by moving ScriptAlias handling to
9240 mod_alias.c, merging it almost completely with handling of Alias, and
9241 adding a 'notes' field to the request_rec which allows the CGI module
9242 to discover whether the Alias module has put this request through
9243 ScriptAlias (which it needs to know for back-compatibility, as the old
9244 NCSA code did not check Options ExecCGI in ScriptAlias directories).
9247 Changes with Apache 0.8.10 18 Aug 1995
9249 *) AllowOverride applies to the named directory, and not just
9250 subdirectories. [David Robinson]
9252 *) Do locking for accept() exclusion (on systems that need it)
9253 using a special file created for the purpose in /usr/tmp, and
9254 not the error log; using the error log causes real problems
9255 if it's NFS-mounted; this is known to be the cause of a whole
9256 lot of "server hang" problems with Solaris. [David Robinson;
9257 thanks to Merten Schumann for help diagnosing the problem].
9259 Changes with Apache 0.8.9 12 Aug 1995
9261 *) Compiles with -DMAXIMUM_DNS ---- ooops! [Henrik Mortensen]
9263 *) Nested includes see environment variables of the including document,
9264 for NCSA bug-compatibility (some sites have standard footer includes
9265 which try to print out the last-modified date). [Eric Hagberg/Robert
9268 *) <!--exec cgi="/some/uri/here"--> always treats the item named by the
9269 URI as a CGI script, even if it would have been treated as something
9270 else if requested directly, for NCSA back-compatibility. (Note that
9271 this means that people who know the name of the script can see the
9272 code just by asking for it). [Robert Thau]
9274 *) New version of dbmmanage script included in support directory as
9277 *) Check if scoreboard file couldn't be opened, and say so, rather
9278 then going insane [David Robinson]
9280 *) POST to CGI works on A/UX [Jim Jagielski]
9282 *) AddIcon and AddAlt commands work properly [Rob Hartill]
9284 *) NCSA server push works properly --- the Arena bug compatibility
9285 workaround, which broke it, is gone (use -DARENA_BUG_WORKAROUND
9286 if you still want the workaround). [Rob Hartill]
9288 *) If client didn't submit any Accept-encodings, ignore encodings in
9289 content negotiation. (NB this will all have to be reworked anyway
9290 for the new HTTP draft). [Florent Guillaume]
9292 *) Don't dump core when trying to log timed-out requests [Jim Jagielski]
9294 *) Really honor CacheNegotiatedDocs [Florent Guillaume]
9296 *) Give Redirect priority over Alias, for NCSA bug compatibility
9299 *) Correctly set PATH_TRANSLATED in all cases from <!--#exec cmd=""-->,
9300 paralleling earlier bug fix for CGI [David Robinson]
9302 *) If DBM auth is improperly configured, report a server error and don't
9305 *) Deleted FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPTS from conf.h entry for A/UX;
9306 it seems to work well enough without it (even in a 10 hits/sec
9307 workout), and the overhead for the locking under A/UX is
9308 alarmingly high (though it is very low on other systems).
9309 [Eric Hagberg, Jim Jagielski]
9311 *) Fixed portability problems with mod_cookies.c [Cliff Skolnick]
9313 *) Further de-Berklize mod_cookies.c; change the bogus #include. [Brian
9314 Behlendorf/Eric Hagberg]
9316 *) More improvements to default Configuration for A/UX [Jim Jagielski]
9318 *) Compiles clean on NEXT [Rob Hartill]
9320 *) Compiles clean on SGI [Robert Thau]
9322 Changes with Apache 0.8.8 08 Aug 1995
9324 *) SunOS library prototypes now never included unless explicitly
9325 requested in the configuration (via -DSUNOS_LIB_PROTOTYPES);
9326 people using GNU libc on SunOS are screwed by prototypes for the
9329 (Those who wish to compile clean with gcc -Wall on a standard
9330 SunOS setup need the prototypes, and may obtain them using
9331 -DSUNOS_LIB_PROTOTYPES. Those wishing to use -Wall on a system
9332 with nonstandard libraries are presumably competent to make their
9335 *) Strips trailing '/' characters off both args to the Alias command,
9336 to make 'Alias /foo/ /bar/' work.
9338 Changes with Apache 0.8.7 03 Aug 1995
9340 *) Don't hang when restarting with a child from 'TransferLog "|..."' running
9341 [reported by David Robinson]
9343 *) Compiles clean on OSF/1 [David Robinson]
9345 *) Added some of the more recent significant changes (AddLanguage stuff,
9346 experimental LogFormat support) to CHANGES file in distribution root
9349 Changes with Apache 0.8.6 02 Aug 1995
9351 *) Deleted Netscape reload workaround --- it's in violation of HTTP specs.
9352 (If you actually wanted a conditional GET which bypassed the cache, you
9353 couldn't get it). [Reported by Roy Fielding]
9355 *) Properly terminate headers on '304 Not Modified' replies to conditional
9356 GETs --- no browser we can find cares much, but the CERN proxy chokes.
9357 [Reported by Cliff Skolnick; fix discovered independently by Rob Hartill]
9359 *) httpd -v doesn't call itself "Shambhala". [Reported by Chuck Murcko]
9361 *) SunOS lib-function prototypes in conf.h conditionalized on __GNUC__,
9362 not __SUNPRO_C (they're needed to quiet gcc -Wall, but acc chokes on 'em,
9363 and older versions don't set the __SUNPRO_C preprocessor variable). On
9364 all other systems, these are never used anyway. [Reported by Mark Cox].
9366 *) Scoreboard file (/tmp/htstatus.*) no longer publically writable.
9368 Changes with Apache 0.8.5 01 Aug 1995
9370 *) Added last-minute configurable log experiment, as optional module
9372 *) Correctly set r->bytes_sent for HTTP/0.9 requests, so they get logged
9373 properly. (One-line fix to http_protocol.c).
9375 *) Work around bogus behavior when reloading from Netscape.
9376 It's Netscape's bug --- for some reason they expect a request with
9377 If-modified-since: to not function as a conditional GET if it also
9378 comes with Pragma: no-cache, which is way out of line with the HTTP
9379 spec (according to Roy Fielding, the redactor).
9381 *) Added parameter to set maximum number of server processes.
9383 *) Added patches to make it work on A/UX. A/UX is *weird*. [Eric Hagberg,
9386 *) IdentityCheck bugfix [Chuck Murcko].
9388 *) Corrected cgi-src/Makefile entry for new imagemap script. [Alexei Kosut]
9390 *) More sample config file corrections; add extension to AddType for
9391 *.asis, move AddType generic description to its proper place, and
9392 fix miscellaneous typos. [ Alexei Kosut ]
9394 *) Deleted the *other* reference to the regents from the Berkeley
9395 legal disclaimer (everyplace).
9397 *) Nuked Shambhala name from src/README; had already cleaned it out
9400 Changes with Apache 0.8.4
9402 *) Changes to server-pool management parms --- renamed current
9403 StartServers to MinSpareServers, created separate StartServers
9404 parameter which means what it says, and renamed MaxServers to
9405 MaxSpareServers (though the old name still works, for NCSA 1.4
9406 back-compatibility). The old names were generally regarded as
9407 too confusing. Also altered "docs" in sample config files.
9409 *) More improvements to default config files ---
9410 sample directives (commented out) for XBitHack, BindAddress,
9411 CacheNegotiatedDocs, VirtualHost; decent set of AddLanguage
9412 defaults, AddTypes for send-as-is and imagemap magic types, and
9413 improvements to samples for DirectoryIndex [Alexei Kosut]
9415 *) Yet more improvements to default config files --- changes to
9416 Alexei's sample AddLanguage directives, and sample LanguagePriority
9417 [ Florent Guillaume ]
9419 *) Set config file locations properly if not set in httpd.conf
9422 *) Don't escape URIs in internal redirects multiple times; don't
9423 do that when translating PATH_INFO to PATH_TRANSLATED either.
9426 *) Corrected spelling of "Required" in 401 error reports [Andrew Wilson]
9428 Changes with Apache 0.8.3
9430 *) Edited distribution README to *briefly* summarize installation
9431 procedures, and give a pointer to the INSTALL file in the src/
9434 *) Upgraded imagemap script in cgi-bin to 1.8 version from more
9435 recent NCSA distributions.
9437 *) Bug fix to previous bug fix --- if .htaccess file and <Directory>
9438 exist for the same directory, use both and don't segfault. [Reported
9441 *) Proper makefile dependencies [David Robinson]
9443 *) Note (re)starts in error log --- reported by Rob Hartill.
9445 *) Only call no2slash() after get_path_info() has been done, to
9446 preserve multiple slashes in the PATH_INFO [NCSA compatibility,
9447 reported by Andrew Wilson, though this one is probably a real bug]
9449 *) Fixed mod_imap.c --- relative paths with base_uri referer don't
9450 dump core when Referer is not supplied. [Randy Terbush]
9452 *) Lightly edited sample config files to refer people to our documentation
9453 instead of NCSA's, and to list Rob McCool as *original* author (also
9454 deleted his old, and no doubt non-functional email address). Would be
9455 nice to have examples of new features...
9457 Changes with Apache 0.8.2 19 Jul 1995
9459 *) Added AddLanuage code [Florent Guillaume]
9461 *) Don't say "access forbidden" when a CGI script is not found. [Mark Cox]
9463 *) All sorts of problems when MultiViews finds a directory. It would
9464 be nice if mod_dir.c was robust enough to handle that, but for now,
9465 just punt. [reported by Brian Behlendorf]
9467 *) Wait for all children on restart, to make sure that the old socket
9468 is gone and we can reopen it. [reported by Randy Terbush]
9470 *) Imagemap module is enabled in default Configuration
9472 *) RefererLog and UserAgentLog modules properly default the logfile
9475 *) Mark Cox's mod_cookies added to the distribution as an optional
9476 module (commented out in the default Configuration, and noted as
9477 an experiment, along with mod_dld). [Mark Cox]
9479 *) Compiles on ULTRIX (a continuing battle...). [Robert Thau]
9481 *) Fixed nasty bug in SIGTERM handling [reported by Randy Terbush]
9483 *) Changed "Shambhala" to "Apache" in API docs. [Robert Thau]
9485 *) Added new, toothier legal disclaimer. [Robert Thau; copied from BSD
9488 Changes with Apache 0.8.1
9490 *) New imagemap module [Randy Terbush]
9492 *) Replacement referer log module with NCSA-compatible RefererIgnore
9493 [Matthew Gray again]
9495 *) Don't mung directory listings with very long filenames.
9498 Changes with Apache 0.8.0 (nee Shambhala 0.6.2) 16 Jul 1995
9500 *) New config script. See INSTALL for info. [Robert Thau]
9502 *) Scoreboard mechanism for regulating the number of extant server
9503 processes. MaxServers and StartServers defaults are the same as
9504 for NCSA, but the meanings are slightly different. (Actually,
9505 I should probably lower the MaxServers default to 10).
9507 Before asking for a new connection, each server process checks
9508 the number of other servers which are also waiting for a
9509 connection. If there are more than MaxServers, it quietly dies
9510 off. Conversely, every second, the root, or caretaker, process
9511 looks to see how many servers are waiting for a new connection;
9512 if there are fewer than StartServers, it starts a new one. This
9513 does not depend on the number of server processes already extant.
9514 The accounting is arranged through a "scoreboard" file, named
9515 /tmp/htstatus.*, on which each process has an independent file
9516 descriptor (they need to seek without interference).
9518 The end effect is that MaxServers is the maximum number of
9519 servers on an *inactive* server machine, but more will be forked
9520 off to handle unusually heavy loads (or unusually slow clients);
9521 these will die off when they are no longer needed --- without
9522 reverting to the overhead of full forking operation. There is a
9523 hard maximum of 150 server processes compiled in, largely to
9524 avoid forking out of control and dragging the machine down.
9525 (This is arguably too high).
9527 In my server endurance tests, this mechanism did not appear to
9528 impose any significant overhead, even after I forced it to put the
9529 scoreboard file on a normal filesystem (which might have more
9530 overhead than tmpfs). [Robert Thau]
9532 *) Set HTTP_FOO variables for SSI <!--#exec cmd-->s, not just CGI scripts.
9535 *) Read .htaccess files even in directory with <Directory> section.
9536 (Former incompatibility noted on mailing list, now fixed). [Robert
9539 *) "HEAD /" gives the client a "Bad Request" error message, rather
9540 than trying to send no body *and* no headers. [Cliff Skolnick].
9542 *) Don't produce double error reports for some very obscure cases
9543 mainly involving auth configuration (the "all modules decline to
9544 handle" case which is a sure sign of a server bug in most cases,
9545 but also happens when authentication is badly misconfigured).
9548 *) Moved FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT defines into conf.h (that's what
9549 it's *for*, and this sort of thing really shouldn't be cluttering
9550 up the Makefile). [Robert Thau]
9552 *) Incidental code cleanups in http_main.c --- stop dragging
9553 sa_client around; just declare it where used. [Robert Thau]
9555 *) Another acc-related fix. (It doesn't like const char
9556 in some places...). [Mark Cox]
9558 Changes with Shambhala 0.6.1 13 Jul 1995
9560 *) Fixed auth_name-related typos in http_core.c [Brian Behlendorf]
9561 Also, fixed auth typo in http_protocol.c unmasked by this fix.
9563 *) Compiles clean with acc on SunOS [Paul Sutton]
9565 *) Reordered modules in modules.c so that Redirect takes priority
9566 over ScriptAlias, for NCSA bug-compatibility [Rob Hartill] ---
9567 believe it or not, he has an actual site with a ScriptAlias and
9568 a Redirect declared for the *exact same directory*. Even *my*
9569 compatibility fetish wouldn't motivate me to fix this if the fix
9570 required any effort, but it doesn't, so what the hey.
9572 *) Fixed to properly default several server_rec fields for virtual
9573 servers from the corresponding fields in the main server_rec.
9574 [Cliff Skolnick --- 'port' was a particular irritant].
9576 *) No longer kills off nph- child processes before they are
9577 finished sending output. [Matthew Gray]
9579 Changes with Shambhala 0.6.0 10 Jul 1995
9581 *) Two styles of timeout --- hard and soft. soft_timeout()s just put
9582 the connection to the client in an "aborted" state, but otherwise
9583 allow whatever handlers are running to clean up. hard_timeout()s
9584 abort the request in progress completely; anything not tied to some
9585 resource pool cleanup will leak. They're still around because I
9586 haven't yet come up with a more elegant way of handling
9587 timeouts when talking to something that isn't the client. The
9588 default_handler and the dir_handler now use soft timeouts, largely
9589 so I can test the feature. [Robert Thau]
9591 *) TransferLog "| my_postprocessor ..." seems to be there. Note that
9592 the case of log handlers dying prematurely is probably handled VERY
9593 gracelessly at this point, and if the logger stops reading input,
9594 the server will hang. (It is known to correctly restart the
9595 logging process on server restart; this is (should be!) going through
9596 the same SIGTERM/pause/SIGKILL routine used to ding an errant CGI
9597 script). [Robert Thau]
9599 *) asis files supported (new module). [Robert Thau]
9601 *) IdentityCheck code is compiled in, but has not been tested. (I
9602 don't know anyone who runs identd). [Robert Thau]
9604 *) PATH_INFO and PATH_TRANSLATED are not set unless some real PATH_INFO
9605 came in with the request, for NCSA bug-compatibility. [Robert Thau]
9607 *) Don't leak the DIR * on HEAD request for a directory. [Robert Thau]
9609 *) Deleted the block_alarms() stuff from dbm_auth; no longer necessary,
9610 as timeouts are not in scope. [Robert Thau]
9612 *) quoted-string args in config files now handled correctly (doesn't drop
9613 the last character). [Robert Thau; reported by Randy Terbush]
9615 *) Fixed silly typo in http_main.c which was suddenly fatal in HP-UX.
9616 How the hell did it ever work? [Robert Thau; reported by Rob Hartill]
9618 *) mod_core.c --- default_type returns DEFAULT_TYPE (the compile-time
9619 default default type); the former default default behavior when all
9620 type-checkers defaulted had been a core dump. [Paul Sutton]
9622 *) Copy filenames out of the struct dirent when indexing
9623 directories. (On Linux, readdir() returns a pointer to the same
9624 memory area every time). Fix is in mod_dir.c. [Paul Sutton]
9626 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.3 [not released]
9628 *) Default response handler notes "file not found" in the error log,
9629 if the file was not found. [Cliff Skolnick].
9631 *) Another Cliff bug --- "GET /~user" now properly redirects (the userdir
9632 code no longer sets up bogus PATH_INFO which fakes out the directory
9633 handler). [Cliff Skolnick]
9635 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.2 06 Jul 1995
9637 *) Changes to http_main.c --- root server no longer plays silly
9638 games with SIGCHLD, and so now detects and replaces dying
9639 children. Child processes just die on SIGTERM, without taking
9640 the whole process group with them. Potential problem --- if any
9641 child process refuses to die, we hang in restart.
9642 MaxRequestsPerChild may still not work, but it certainly works
9643 better than it did before this! [Robert Thau]
9645 *) mod_dir.c bug fixes: ReadmeName and HeaderName
9646 work (or work better, at least); over-long description lines
9647 properly terminated. [Mark Cox]
9649 *) http_request.c now calls unescape_url() more places where it
9650 should [Paul Sutton].
9652 *) More directory handling bugs (reported by Cox)
9653 Parent Directory link is now set correctly. [Robert Thau]
9655 Changes with Shambhala 0.5.1 04 Jul 1995
9657 *) Generalized cleanup interface in alloc.c --- any function can be
9658 registered with alloc.c as a cleanup for a resource pool;
9659 tracking of files and file descriptors has been reimplemented in
9660 terms of this interface, so I can give it some sort of a test.
9663 *) More changes in alloc.c --- new cleanup_for_exec() function,
9664 which tracks down and closes all file descriptors which have been
9665 registered with the alloc.c machinery before the server exec()s a
9666 child process for CGI or <!--#exec-->. CGI children now get
9667 started with exactly three file descriptors open. Hopefully,
9668 this cures the problem Rob H. was having with overly persistent
9669 CGI connections. [Robert Thau]
9671 *) Mutual exclusion around the accept() in child_main() --- this is
9672 required on at least SGI, Solaris and Linux, and is #ifdef'ed in
9673 by default on those systems only (-DFCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT).
9674 This uses fcntl(F_SETLK,...) on the error log descriptor because
9675 flock() on that descriptor won't work on systems which have BSD
9676 flock() semantics, including (I think) Linux 1.3 and Solaris.
9678 This does work on SunOS (when the server is idle, only one
9679 process in the pool is waiting on accept()); it *ought* to work
9680 on the other systems. [Robert Thau]
9682 *) FreeBSD and BSDI portability tweaks [Chuck Murcko]
9684 *) sizeof(*sa_client) bugfix from [Rob Hartill]
9686 *) pstrdup(..., NULL) returns NULL, [Randy Terbush]
9688 *) block_alarms() to avoid leaking the DBM* in dbm auth (this should
9689 be unnecessary if I go to the revised timeout-handling scheme).
9692 *) For NCSA bug-compatibility, set QUERY_STRING env var (to a null
9693 string) even if none came in with the request. [Robert Thau]
9695 *) CHANGES file added to distribution ;-).
9697 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.5
9699 *) mod_dld --- early dynamic loading support [rst]
9700 *) Add wildcard content handlers for XBITHACK; default_hander now
9701 invoked with that mechanism (as a handler hanging off mod_core) [rst]
9702 *) XBITHACK supported as a wildcard content-handler, and
9703 configurable at run-time (not just at compile time, as in the
9704 "patchy server" releases) [rst]
9706 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.4 30 Jun 1995
9708 *) Fixed basic thinkos in mod_dbm_auth.c [rst, reported by Mark Cox]
9709 *) Handle Addtype x/y .z [rst, reported by Cox]
9711 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.3
9713 *) Fixed very dumb bug in mod_alias; "Alias" and "Redirect" are not
9714 synonymous [rst, terbush]
9716 Changes with Shambhala 0.4.1 28 Jun 1995
9718 *) First-cut virtual host implementation; some refit in the config
9719 reading code, and log management, was necessary to support this [rst]
9720 *) Sub-pool machinery, originally added to avoid excessive storage
9721 allocation on listings of large directories (which turned out to
9722 be the problem that the 0.3 storage accounting was added to
9723 find). Subrequests and mod_dir changed to use subpools. [rst]
9724 *) More memory debugging --- free list consistency checks. [rst]
9725 *) Added err_headers to request_rec, with support elsewhere [rst]
9726 *) Other fixes to minor bugs in mod_dir and mod_includes [rst, terbush]
9728 Changes with Shambhala 0.3 19 Jun 1995
9730 *) Switch ONE_PROCESS to a runtime command-line option (-X)
9731 *) Don't compile in mod_ai_backcompat by default
9732 *) Switch name of server from Apache to Shambhala in Makefile
9733 *) Add some accounting routines to track memory usage in the pools,
9736 Changes with Shambhala 0.2
9738 *) Set DOCUMENT_ROOT CGI variable
9739 *) Add single-process debugging, as a compile-time option (ONE_PROCESS)
9740 *) Add critical section protection to handling of cleanup structures
9742 *) Significant code reorg within the server core to group related
9743 functions together [rst]
9744 *) Correctly handle clients that hang up before sending any request
9746 *) Replace dying child processes. [rst]
9748 Changes with Shambhala 0.1 12 Jun 1995
9750 Major rewrite of the pre-existing "patchy server" codebase, by
9751 Robert Thau (rst). Significant portions of the server code, such
9752 as configuration-file handling and HTTP authentication support,
9753 were ripped out and rewritten from scratch. Code that was not
9754 completely rewritten was significantly altered.
9756 Major changes with this release include:
9758 *) Introduction of the module API; in request handling, the central
9759 machinery just dispatches to various modules, which actually do
9760 most of the work. Configuration handling is similar --- modules
9761 declare their own commands, and the central machinery just
9764 API features from shambhala/0.1 were substantially unchanged in
9765 Apache 1.0 and 1.1. (1.0 API features not yet present in this
9766 release, such as wildcard handlers and subpools, were added in
9767 subsequent Shambhala releases, and were also generally rst's
9770 *) This release included the following modules:
9772 mod_access (access control --- allow and deny directives),
9773 mod_alias (Alias and Redirect commands),
9774 mod_auth (straight HTTP authentication, based on flat-files)
9775 mod_auth_dbm (same, with dbm files)
9776 mod_cgi (CGI scripts and, in this release, ScriptAlias)
9777 mod_common_log (CLF access logs; later renamed mod_log_common)
9778 mod_dir (directory indexing)
9779 mod_include (server-side includes)
9780 mod_mime (AddType directives)
9781 mod_negotiation (content negotiation)
9782 mod_userdir (support for users' public_html directories)
9784 It also included a mod_ai_backcompat, which was a private hack
9785 for back-compatibility with rst's own AI-lab servers.
9787 All of these modules were substantially complete, and functional
9788 or nearly so (a few, which implemented features not in use at
9789 Thau's site, required patches of a few lines).
9791 *) sub-request machinery, to allow modules to determine how other
9792 modules would assign MIME types to a given file, or optionally
9793 serve its content (this is heavily used by mod_dir, mod_include
9794 and mod_negotiation).
9796 *) Resource pool system for keeping track of memory allocated and
9797 files opened in service of a particular request. Much of the
9798 code in the modules (when they weren't rewrites) was adjusted to
9799 replace a pervasive convention of using fixed-size buffers on
9800 the stack with an equally pervasive convention of using memory
9801 allocated with palloc().
9803 *) Reorganization of data structures associated with a given
9804 request to eliminate use of global variables and the troublesome
9805 unmunge_name function (used in NCSA and early Apache releases to
9806 attempt to determine the URI which mapped to a given filename
9807 --- a difficult proposition, given that it is easy to produce
9808 setups in which multiple URIs map to the same file).
9810 *) Source files renamed and rearranged
9812 *) Very simple pre-forking behavior --- parent process forked off a
9813 fixed number of children, and then just waited for SIGHUP.
9815 *) Other more minor changes too numerous to list.
9817 This release included modified versions of a lot of code from the
9818 Apache 0.6.4 public release, plus an early pre-forking patch
9819 codeveloped by Robert Thau and Rob Hartill.
9821 Changes with Apache 0.7.3 20 Jun 1995
9823 *) There were a bunch of changes between Apache 0.6.4 and 0.7.3 that
9824 were incorporated by Rob Hartill on the main branch while Robert Thau
9825 worked on the Shambhala rewrite above. Most were merged into the
9826 Shambala architecture after Apache 0.8.0.
9828 Changes with Apache 0.6.4 13 May 1995
9830 *) Patches by Rob Hartill, Cliff Skolnick, Randy Terbush, Robert Thau,
9833 Changes with Apache 0.5.1 10 Apr 1995
9835 Changes with Apache 0.4 02 Apr 1995
9837 *) Patches by Brian Behlendorf, Andrew Wilson, Robert Thau,
9840 Changes with Apache 0.3 24 Mar 1995
9842 *) Patches by Robert Thau, David Robinson, Rob Hartill, and
9845 Changes with Apache 0.2 18 Mar 1995
9847 *) Based on NCSA httpd 1.3 by Rob McCool and patches by CERT,
9848 Roy Fielding, Robert Thau, Nicolas Pioch, David Robinson,
9849 Brian Behlendorf, Rob Hartill, and Cliff Skolnick.
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