1 APACHE 2.1 STATUS: -*-text-*-
2 Last modified at [$Date: 2003/11/20 16:12:28 $]
4 Release [NOTE that only Alpha/Beta releases occur in 2.1 development]:
8 Please consult the following STATUS files for information
12 * srclib/apr-util/STATUS
15 Contributors looking for a mission:
17 * just do an egrep on "TODO" or "XXX" in the source.
19 * Review the "PatchAvailable" bugs in the bug database.
20 Append a comment saying "Reviewed and tested".
22 * Open bugs in the bug database.
25 CURRENT RELEASE NOTES:
30 * Handling of non-trailing / config by non-default handler is broken
31 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-httpd-dev&m=105451701628081&w=2
33 * the edge connection filter cannot be removed
34 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-httpd-dev&m=105366252619530&w=2
38 * Promote mod_cache from experimental to non-experimental
39 status (keep issues noted below in EXPERIMENTAL MODULES as
40 items to be addressed as a supported module).
44 There are a couple of problems that need to be resolved
45 before this module is moved out of experimental.
46 1) We need to at least review and comment on the RFC violations
47 2) Resolve issue of how to cache page fragements (or perhaps -if- we
48 want to cache page fragements). Today, mod_cache/mod_mem_cache
49 will cache #include 'virtual' requests (but not #include 'file'
50 requests). This was accomplished by making CACHE_IN a
51 CONTENT_SET-1 filter to force it to run before the SUBREQ_CORE
52 filter. But now responses cannot be cached that include the
53 effects of having been run through CONTENT_SET filters
54 (mod_deflate, mod_expires, etc). We could rerun all the
55 CONTENT_SET filters on the cached response, but this will not
56 work in all cases. For example, mod_expires relies on installing
57 the EXPIRATION filter during fixups. Contents served out of
58 mod_cache (out of the quick_handler) bypass -all- the request
59 line server hooks (Ryan really hated this. It is great for
60 performance, but bad because of the complications listed above).
63 jerenkrantz: There are a slew of RFC compliance bugs filed in Bugzilla
64 for mod_cache (see 'RFC 2616 violations' below). I think
65 fixing them is a pre-requisite before it isn't experimental.
67 * httpd-std.conf and friends
69 a) httpd-std.conf should be tailored by install (from src or
70 binbuild) even if user has existing httpd.conf
71 +1: trawick, slive, gregames, ianh, Ken, wrowe, jwoolley, jim, nd,
73 wrowe - prefer httpd.default.conf to avoid ambiguity with cvs
75 b) tailored httpd-std.conf should be copied by install to
79 c) tailored httpd-std.conf should be installed to
80 sysconfdir/examples or manualdir/exampleconf/
81 +1: slive, trawick, Ken, nd (prefer the latter), erikabele
83 d) Installing a set of default config files when upgrading a server
84 doesn't make ANY sense at all.
85 +1: ianh - medium/big sites don't use 'standard config' anyway, as it
86 usually needs major customizations
87 -1: Ken, wrowe, jwoolley, jim, nd, erikabele
88 wrowe - diff is wonderful when comparing old/new default configs,
89 even for customized sites that ianh mentions
90 jim - ... assuming that the default configs have been updated
91 with the required inline docs to explain the
94 * If the parent process dies, should the remaining child processes
95 "gracefully" self-terminate. Or maybe we should make it a runtime
96 option, or have a concept of 2 parent processes (one being a
98 See: Message-ID: <3C58232C.FE91F19F@Golux.Com>
100 Self-destruct: Ken, Martin, Lars
101 Not self-destruct: BrianP, Ian, Cliff, BillS
102 Make it runtime configurable: Aaron, jim, Justin, wrowe, rederpj, nd
104 /* The below was a concept on *how* to handle the problem */
105 Have 2 parents: +1: jim
106 -1: Justin, wrowe, rederpj, nd
107 +0: Lars, Martin (while standing by, could it do
110 * Make the worker MPM the default MPM for threaded Unix boxes.
111 +1: Justin, Ian, Cliff, BillS, striker, wrowe, nd
112 +0: BrianP, Aaron (mutex contention is looking better with the
113 latest code, let's continue tuning and testing), rederpj, jim
116 RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
118 * Patches submitted to the bug database:
119 http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&product=Apache+httpd-2.0&keywords=PatchAvailable
121 * Filter stacks and subrequests, redirects and fast redirects.
122 There's at least one PR that suffers from the current unclean behaviour
123 (which lets the server send garbage): PR 17629
124 nd says: Every subrequest should get its own filter stack with the
125 subreq_core filter as bottom-most. That filter does two things:
126 - swallow EOS buckets
127 - redirect the data stream to the upper request's (rr->main)
128 filter chain directly after the subrequest's starting
130 Once we have a clean solution, we can try to optimize
131 it, so that the server won't be slow down too much.
133 * RFC 2616 violations.
135 Open PRs: 15852, 15859, 15861, 15864, 15865, 15866, 15868, 15869,
136 15870, 16120, 16125, 16126, 16133, 16135, 16136, 16137,
137 16138, 16139, 16140, 16142, 16518, 16520, 16521,
138 jerenkrantz says: need to decide how many we need to backport and/or
139 if these rise to showstopper status.
140 wrowe suggests: it would be nice to see "MUST" v.s. "SHOULD" v.s. "MAY"
141 out of this list, without reviewing them individually.
143 * There is a bug in how we sort some hooks, at least the pre-config
144 hook. The first time we call the hooks, they are in the correct
145 order, but the second time, we don't sort them correctly. Currently,
146 the modules/http/config.m4 file has been renamed to
147 modules/http/config2.m4 to work around this problem, it should moved
148 back when this is fixed.
150 OtherBill offers that this is a SERIOUS problem. We do not sort
151 correctly by the ordering arguments passed to the register hook
152 functions. This was proven when I reordered the open_logs hook
153 to attempt to open the error logs prior to the access logs. Possibly
154 the entire sorting code needs to be refactored.
156 * pipes deadlock on all platforms with limited pipe buffers (e.g. both
157 Linux and Win32, as opposed to only Win32 on 1.3). The right solution
158 is either GStein's proposal for a "CGI Brigade", or OtherBill's proposal
159 for "Poll Buckets" for "Polling Filter Chains". Or maybe both :-)
161 * All handlers should always send content down even if r->header_only
162 is set. If not, it means that the HEAD requests don't generate the
163 same headers as a GET which is wrong.
165 * HP/UX 10.20: compile breakage in APR. Looks like it should be easy
166 to fix, probably just some extraneous #include's that are fouling
169 Jeff: See my reply and patch in the PR (and previous commit to
170 stop using "pipe" as a field name). If patch is committed, we
171 should be okay. I'll wait to see if the user tests the patch.
172 Update by Jeff 20020722: I got an account on HP 10.20. It looks
173 like some of the APR thread detection is screwed up. If we find
174 pthread.h but we can't compile the pthread test program we still
175 think we can use threads. For that reason, the patch I posted
176 to the PR won't work as-is since a failed compile of the test
177 program means nothing.
179 * exec cmd and suexec arg-passing enhancements
180 Status: Patches proposed
181 Message-ID: <20020526041748.A29148@prodigy.Redbrick.DCU.IE>
182 (see the "proc.patch" and "suexec-shell.patch" links in this message)
184 * The 2.0.36 worker MPM graceless shutdown changes work but are
185 a bit clunky on some platforms; eg, on Linux, the loop to
186 join each worker thread seems to hang, and the parent ends up
187 killing off the child with SIGKILL. But at least it shuts down.
189 * --enable-mods-shared="foo1 foo2" is busted on Darwin. Pier
190 posted a patch (Message-ID: <B8DBBE8D.575A%pier@betaversion.org>).
192 * We do not properly substitute the prefix-variables in the configuration
193 scripts or generated-configs. (i.e. if sysconfdir is etc,
194 httpd-std.conf points to conf.)
196 * If any request gets through ap_process_request_internal() and is
197 scheduled to be served by the core handler, without a flag that this
198 r->filename was tested by dir/file_walk, we need to 500 at the very
199 end of the ap_process_request_internal() processing so sub_req-esters
200 know this request cannot be run. This provides authors of older
201 modules better compatibility, while still improving the security and
204 Status: still need to decide where this goes, OtherBill comments...
205 Message-ID: <065701c14526$495203b0$96c0b0d0@roweclan.net>
206 [Deleted comments regarding the ap_run_handler phase, as irrelevant
207 as BillS points out that "common case will be caught in
208 default_handler already (with the r->finfo.filetype == 0 check)"
209 and the issue is detecting this -before- we try to run the req.]
211 gregames says: can this happen somehow without a broken module
212 being involved? If not, why waste cycles trying to defend against
213 potential broken modules? It seems futile.
214 wrowe counters: no, it shouldn't happen unless the module is broken.
215 But the right answer is to fail the request up-front in dir/file
216 walk if the path was entirely invalid; and we can't do that either
217 UNTIL 2.1 or we break modules that haven't hooked map_to_storage.
219 * With AP_MODE_EXHAUSTIVE in the core, it is finally clear to me
220 how the Perchild MPM should be re-written. It hasn't worked
221 correctly since filters were added because it wasn't possible to
222 get the content that had already been written and the socket at
223 the same time. This mode lets us do that, so the MPM can be
226 * Can a static httpd be built reliably?
227 Message-ID: <20020207142751.T31582@clove.org>
229 * [Ken] Test suite failures:
230 o worker is also failing some of the 'cgi' subtests
231 (see <URL:http://Source-Zone.Org/Apache/regression/>):
232 Justin says: "Worker should be fine and passes httpd-test here.
233 I think it's a perl or a httpd-test problem."
235 * Usage of APR_BRIGADE_NORMALIZE in core_input_filter should be
237 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201202232430.318-100000@deepthought.cs.virginia.edu>
238 Jeff wonders if we still care about this. It is no longer an
239 API issue but simply an extra trip through the brigade.
241 * The Add...Filter and Set...Filter directives do not allow the
242 administrator to order filters, beyond the order of filename (mime)
243 extensions. It isn't clear if Set...Filter(s) should be inserted
244 before or after the Add...Filter(s) which are ordered by sequence of
245 filename extensions. At minimum, some sort of +-[0-10] syntax seems
246 like a nice solution. See ROADMAP.
248 * Get perchild to work on platforms other than Linux. This
249 will require a portable mechanism to pass data and file/socket
250 descriptors between vhost child groups. An API was proposed
252 Message-ID: <20020111115006.K1529@clove.org>
254 * Try to get libtool inter-library dependency code working on AIX.
255 Message-ID: <cm3n10lx555.fsf@rdu163-40-092.nc.rr.com>
257 Justin says: If we get it working on AIX, we can enable this
258 on all platforms and clean up our build system
260 Jeff says: I thought I tested a patch for you sometime in
261 January that you were going to commit within a few
264 * Handling of %2f in URIs. Currently both 1.3 and 2.0
265 completely disallow %2f in the request URI path (see
266 ap_unescape_url() in util.c). It's permitted and passed
267 through in the query string, however. Roy says the
268 original reason for disallowing it, from five years ago,
269 was to protect CGI scripts that applied PATH_INFO to
270 a filesystem location and which might be tricked by
271 ..%2f..%2f(...). We *should* allow path-info of the
272 form 'http://foo.com/index.cgi/path/to/path%2finfo'.
273 Since we've revamped a lot of our processing of path
274 segments, it would be nice to allow this, or at least
275 allow it conditionally with a directive.
277 OtherBill adds that %2f as the SECOND character of a multibyte
278 sequence causes the request to fail! This happens notably in
281 * FreeBSD, threads, and worker MPM. All seems to work fine
282 if you only have one worker process with many threads. Add
283 a second worker process and the accept lock seems to be
284 lost. This might be an APR issue with how it deals with
285 the child_init hook (i.e. the fcntl lock needs to be resynced).
286 More examination and analysis is required.
287 Status: This has also been reported on Cygwin.
288 FreeBSD 4.7 was reputed to have 'fixed' threads. Not.
289 Message-ID: <3C2CC514.8EF3BED1@wapme-systems.de> (cygnus)
291 Aaron says: I spent some time disecting this and have come to
292 the conclusion that it is not a problem in the worker MPM
293 (or at least, it is not isolated to a problem in worker).
294 I'll list some of the problems I'm seeing in case someone
295 else wants to pick up where I've left off:
296 - Delivery of just about any signal to one of the child
297 processes will send it into an infinite loop as well.
298 - Even though the parent is spinning out of control,
299 at first the child or children will appear to work
300 properly. At times it is possible to get it into a state,
301 however, where a request will hang until another concurrent
302 request "kicks" the first, at which point the second will
303 hang. My theory is that this has to do with the
304 pthread_cond_*() implementation in FreeBSD, but it's still
305 possible that it is in APR.
307 Justin adds: Oh, FreeBSD threads are implemented entirely with
308 select()/poll()/longjmp(). Welcome to the nightmare.
309 So, that means a ktrace output also has the thread
310 scheduling internals in it (since it is all the same to
311 the kernel). Which makes it hard to distinguish between
312 our select() calls and their select() calls.
313 *bangs head on wall repeatedly* But, some of the libc_r
314 files have a DBG_MSG #define. This is moderately helpful
315 when used with -DNO_DETACH. The kernel scheduler isn't
316 waking up the threads on a select(). Yum. And, I bet
317 those decrementing select calls have to do with the
318 scheduler. Time to brush up on our OS fundamentals.
320 * There is increasing demand from module writers for an API
321 that will allow them to control the server à la apachectl.
322 Reasons include sole-function servers that need to die if
323 an external dependency (e.g., a database) fails, et cetera.
324 Perhaps something in the (ever more abused) scoreboard?
326 On the other hand, we already have a pipe that goes between parent
327 and child for graceful shutdown events, along with an API that
328 can be used to send a message down that pipe. In threaded MPMs,
329 it is easy enough to make that one pipe be used for graceful
330 and graceless events, and it is also easy to open that pipe
331 to both parent and child for writing. Then we just need to
332 figure out how to do graceless on non-threaded MPMs.
334 * Allow the DocumentRoot directive within <Location > scopes? This
335 allows the beloved (crusty) Alias /foo/ /somepath/foo/ followed
336 by a <Directory /somepath/foo> to become simply
337 <Location /foo/> DocumentRoot /somefile/foo (IMHO a bit more legible
338 and in-your-face.) DocumentRoot unset would be accepted [and would
339 not permit content to be served, only virtual resources such as
340 server-info or server-status.
341 This proposed change would _not_ depricate Alias.
342 striker: See the thread starting with Message-ID:
343 JLEGKKNELMHCJPNMOKHOGEEJFBAA.striker@apache.org.
345 * Win32: Rotatelogs sometimes is not terminated when Apache
346 goes down hard. FirstBill was looking at possibly tracking the
347 child's-child processes in the parent process.
348 stoddard: Shared scoreboard might offer a good way for the parent
349 to keep track of 'other child' processes and whack them if the child
351 Other thoughts on walking the process chain using the NT kernel
352 have also been proposed on APR.
354 * Eliminate unnecessary creation of pipes in mod_cgid
356 * Combine log_child and piped_log_spawn. Clean up http_log.c.
359 * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)
360 Architect start-up code that avoids initializing all the modules
361 in the parent process on platforms that do not support fork.
363 * There are still a number of places in the code where we are
364 losing error status (i.e. throwing away the error returned by a
365 system call and replacing it with a generic error code)
367 * Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.
369 * All DBMs suffer from confusion in support/dbmmanage (perl script) since
370 the dbmmanage employs the first-matched dbm format. This is not
371 necessarily the library that Apache was built with. Aught to
372 rewrite dbmmanage upon installation to bin/ with the proper library
373 for predictable mod_auth_dbm administration.
374 Questions; htdbm exists, time to kill dbmmanage, or does it remain
375 useful as a perl dbm management example? If we keep it,
376 do we address the issue above?
379 Some additional items remaining:
380 - case_preserved_filename stuff
381 (use the new canonical name stuff?)
382 - find a new home for ap_text(_header)
383 - is it possible to remove the DAV: namespace stuff from util_xml?
385 * ap_core_translate() and its use by mod_mmap_static and mod_file_cache
386 are a bit wonky. The function should probably be exposed as a utility
387 function (such as ap_translate_url2fs() or ap_validate_fs_url() or
388 something). Another approach would be a new hook phase after
389 "translate" which would allow the module to munge what the
390 translation has decided to do.
391 Status: Greg +1 (volunteers)
393 * Explore use of a post-config hook for the code in http_main.c which
394 calls ap_fixup_virutal_hosts(), ap_fini_vhost_config(), and
395 ap_sort_hooks() [to reduce the logic in main()]
397 * read the config tree just once, and process N times (as necessary)
399 * (possibly) use UUIDs in mod_unique_id and/or mod_usertrack
401 * (possibly) port the bug fix for PR 6942 (segv when LoadModule is put
402 into a VirtualHost container) to 2.0.
404 * shift stuff to mod_core.h
406 * callers of ap_run_create_request() should check the return value
407 for failure (Doug volunteers)
409 * Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work
410 (at least) needs to be done:
411 - Document warning that OSR2 is required (for Crypt functions, in
412 rand.c, at least.) This could be resolved with an SSL library, or
413 randomization in APR itself.
414 - Bring the Win9xConHook.dll from 1.3 into 2.0 (no sense till it
415 actually works) and add in a splash of Win9x service code.
417 * Fix the worker MPM to use POD to kill child processes instead
418 of ap_os_killpg, regardless of how they should die.
420 * Scoreboard structures could be changed in the future such that
421 proper alignment is not maintained, leading to segfaults on
422 some systems. Cliff posted a patch to deal with this issue but
423 later recanted. See this message to dev@apr.apache.org:
424 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203011354090.16457-200000@deepthought
427 * When sufficiently tested, the AllowEncodedSlashes/%2f patch
428 needs to be backported to 2.0 and 1.3.
430 * APXS either needs to be fixed completely for use when apr is out of tree,
431 or it should drop query mode altogether, and we just grow an
432 httpd-config or similar arrangement.
433 To quote a discussion in STATUS earlier:
435 thommay: this doesn't fix all the problems with apxs and out of
436 tree apr/apr-util, but it's a good start. There's still the
437 query cases; but I'm beginning to think that in these cases
438 the app should be querying ap{r,u}-config directly
439 gstein: agreed. apxs should deprecate the -q flag
441 TODO ISSUES REMAINING IN MOD_SSL:
443 * In order to use a DSO version of mod_ssl we have to link with
444 -lssl and -lcrypto. A workaround is in place right now where the
445 entire EXTRA_LIBS macro is being appended to the objects list, but
446 this is a hack. We should either revamp the APACHE_CHECK_SSL_TOOLKIT
447 autoconf function or come up with some other autoconf checks to
448 search for libssl and libcrypto and properly add them to mod_ssl's
451 * SSL renegotiations in combination with POST request
453 * Port or dispose all code inside #if 0...#endif blocks that remain
454 from the porting effort.
456 * Do we need SSL_set_read_ahead()?
458 * the ssl_expr api is NOT THREAD SAFE. race conditions exist:
459 -in ssl_expr_comp() if SSLRequire is used in .htaccess
460 (ssl_expr_info is global)
461 -is ssl_expr_eval() if there is an error
462 (ssl_expr_error is global)
464 * SSLRequire directive (parsing of) leaks memory
466 * Diffie-Hellman-Parameters for temporary keys are hardcoded in
467 ssl_engine_dh.c, while the comment in ssl_engine_kernel.c says:
468 "it is suggested that keys be changed daily or every 500
469 transactions, and more often if possible."
471 * ssl_var_lookup could be rewritten to be MUCH faster
473 * CRL callback should be pluggable
475 * session cache store should be pluggable
477 * init functions should return status code rather than ssl_die()
479 * ssl_engine_pphrase.c needs to be reworked so it is generic enough
480 to also decrypt proxy keys
482 * the shmcb code should just align its memory segment rather than
483 jumping through all the "safe" memcpy and memset hoops
486 * mod_proxy performance: when mod_proxy is configured to do proxy
487 gateway (aka reverse proxy), it would be nice to be able to reuse
488 connections to the backend servers. Now, connections to the
489 backend servers are taken down when the corresponding frontend
490 connection is taken down.
492 * mod_proxy: Ability to run SSL over proxy gateway connections,
493 encrypting (or reencrypting) at the proxy.
495 * mod_proxy: Add capability of mod_proxy to load balance across
496 a farm of backend servers.
498 * mod_cache: Handle ESI tags.
500 EXPERIMENTAL MODULES:
502 Experimental modules should eventually be be promoted to fully supported
503 status or removed from the repository entirely (ie, the
504 'experiment' failed). This section tracks what needs to happen to
505 get the modules promoted to fully supported status.
507 mod_cache/mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache:
508 * mod_cache: handle cache_control: no_cache "field_name" to enable
509 cacheing the response w/o header "field_name"
510 See RFC2616 section 14.9.1
512 * mod_mem_cache: Consider adding a RevalidateTimeout directive to
513 specify time at which local cached content is to be revalidated
514 (ie, underlying file stat'ed to see if it has changed).
516 * mod_cache: CacheEnable/CacheDisable should accept regular expressions.
518 * mod_cache: Fix dependency on ATOMIC operators. Need
519 APR_HAS_ATOMIC_* feature macros.
521 * mod_disk_cache: Implement garbage collection
523 * mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache: Need to be able to query cache
524 status (num of entries, cache object properties, etc.).
525 mod_status could be extended to query optional hooks defined
526 by modules for the purpose of reporting module status.
527 mod_cache (et. al.) could define optional hooks that are called
528 to collect status. Status should be queryable by
531 * Enable mod_cache/mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache to handle
534 * mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache: Complete implementing config
535 directives (mod_disk_cache: CacheExpiryCheck and GC directives
536 including CacheGc*, CacheSize, and, CacheTimeMargin)
537 (mod_mem_cache: MCacheMaxObjectCount) and
538 (mod_cache: CacheForceCompletion).
540 mod_auth_ldap/util_ldap:
541 * General stabilization and testing
544 PRs that have been suspended forever waiting for someone to
545 put them into 'the next release':
547 * documentation and Q&A
549 PR#2221: Make online documentation search link back to my installation
552 PR#2906: Propose that Apache recommend $UNIQUE_ID for all "session id"
556 PR#2793: When will Apache support P3P? Any Plans?
561 PR#2113: HTTP Server Rebuild Line Needs Changing for the better
564 PR#2421: problem specifying ndbm library for build ?with autoconfigure
569 PR#76: missing call to "setlocale();"
572 PR#628: Request of "Options SymLinksIfGroupMatch"
575 PR#793: RLimitCPU and RLimitMEM don't apply to all children like they should
578 PR#922: it is useful to allow specifiction that root-owned symlinks
579 should always be followed
582 PR#1028: DoS attacks involving memory consumption
585 PR#1191: setlogin() is not called, causing problems with e.g. identd
588 PR#1204: regerror() exists, use it
591 PR#2284: Can not POST to ErrorDocument - Apache/1.3b6
594 PR#2396: Proposal for TimeZone directive
597 PR#2446: AllowOverride FileInfo is too coarse
600 PR#2760: [PATCH] User/Group for <Directory> and <Location> i.e. not only
601 in global and <Virtual>.
604 PR#2907: suggestion: power up your Include directive :)
607 PR#3018: cannot limit some HTTP methods
610 PR#3677: New ErrorDocumentMatch directive
613 PR#4244: "Files" and "FilesMatch" regexp does not recognize bang as
617 PR#5993: AllowOverride should have a 'CheckNone' and 'AllowNone' argument
618 instead of only 'None'
623 PR#537: mod_access syntax allows hosts that should be restricted
626 PR#1287: add allow,deny/deny,allow warning to mod_access
629 PR#2512: <IfDenied> directive wanted
634 PR#557: ~UserHome directories are not honored in absolute pathname
638 PR#1117: Using NIS passwd.byname dbm files with AuthDBMUserFile
641 PR#1809: Suggestion for improving authentication modules and core source
642 code, problem with 401 and ErrorDocument
647 PR#1263: Add frame-safe anchor attribute to mod_autoindex links
650 * mod_cgi (and suexec)
652 PR#921: suexec Uses cwd before filling it in, doesn't use syslog
655 PR#1176: Apache cannot handle continuation line in headers
658 PR#1120: suexec does not parse arguments to #exec cmd
661 PR#1268: CGI scripts running as Apache user: security (suexec etc.)
664 PR#1285: Error messages could be easier to spot in cgi.log file for suexec.c
667 PR#1905: suexec - Allow modules to set user:group for execution.
670 PR#2360: suexec for general access of user content?
673 PR#2460: TimeOut applies to output of CGI scripts
676 PR#2573: CGI's for general use still have to be run as another user
680 PR#4241: Need to be able to override shebang line to make CGI scripts
684 PR#4490: mod_cgi prevents handling of OPTIONS requests
689 PR#370: Modified PATH environemnt variable is not passed, instead
695 PR#1383: I make mod_headers to modify request headers as well as
699 PR#1677: mod_headers should allow mod_log_config-style formats in
705 PR#759: imap should read <MAP><AREA>*</MAP> too!
710 PR#78: Additional status for XBitHack directive
713 PR#623: A smarter "Last Modified" value for SSI documents (see PR number 600)
717 Allow for Last-Modified: without resorting to XBitHack
720 PR#1803: patches to mod_include to allow for file tests
723 PR#4459: Suggestion for better handling of Last-modified headers
728 PR#2415: /server-info doesn't check for the virtual host to list the info
733 PR#1050: Logging of virtual server to error_log as well
736 PR#1358: Selective url-encode of log fields (or maybe a pseudo
740 PR#2073: pipelined connections are not logged correctly
743 PR#4448: Please allow CGI env variables (QUERY_STRING, ...) to be logged
749 PR#3191: no way to set global quality-of-source (qs) coneg values
755 PR#362: Mod_proxy doesn't allow change of error pages
758 PR#440: Proxy doesn't deliver documents if not connected
761 PR#534: proxy converts ~name to %7Ename when name starts with a dot (.)
764 PR#612: Proxy FTP Authentication Fails
767 PR#700: Proxy doesn't do links right for OpenVMS files through ftp:
770 PR#980: Controlling Access to Remote Proxies would be nice...
773 PR#994: Adding authentication "on the fly" through the proxy module
776 PR#1085: ProxyRemote make a dead cycle.
779 PR#1166: ``nph-'' not honored (no buffering) for ProxyRemote mapping
782 PR#1290: Need to know "hit-rate" on proxy cache
785 PR#1532: Proxy transfer logging
788 PR#1547: No HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR set...
791 PR#1567: ProxyRemote proxy requests fail authentication by firewall
794 PR#1702: mod_proxy to support persistent conns?
797 PR#1878: listing of proxy cache content
800 PR#2314: patterns in ProxyRemote
803 PR#2648: Cache file names in Proxy module
806 PR#3568: Accessing URL through proxy server corrupts data.
809 PR#3605: Some anonymous FTP URLs ask for authentication
814 PR#1582: mod_rewrite forms REQUEST_URI different than mod_cgi does
817 PR#2074: mod_rewrite doesn't pass Proxy Throughput on internal subrequests
822 PR#2138: mod_status always displays 256 possible connection slots
825 PR#2343: Status module averages are for entire uptime
830 PR#1004: request_config field in request_rec is moderately bogus
833 PR#1158: improvements to child spawning API
836 PR#1233: there is no way to keep per-connection per-module state
839 PR#2024: adding auth_why to conn_rec
842 PR#2873: Feedback/Comment on APACI
845 PR#3143: No module specific data hook for per-connection data
848 * generally odds and ends
850 PR#2431: A small addition to rotatelogs.c to improve program functionality.
853 PR#2763: mailto tags and bundling bug report script
856 PR#2785: os-aix Support for System Resource Controller
859 PR#2889: Inclusion of RPM spec file in CVS/distributions
862 PR#5713: os-windows [PATCH] install as win32 service with domain account
863 Status: Cannot accept password-as-arg, we should prompt the
864 user when -k install/-k config with a user argument.
868 Other bugs that need fixing:
870 * ap_discard_request should be converted to use the bucket API
871 directly rather than waste cycles copying buffers with the old API.
873 * MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests.
874 Until someone has a better way, we'll probably just rename it
875 "MaxConnectionsPerChild".
877 * Regex containers don't work in an intutive way
878 Status: No one has come up with an efficient way to fix this
879 behavior. Dean has suggested getting rid of regex containers
881 OtherBill suggests: We at least seem to agree on eliminating
882 the <Container ~ foo> forms, and using only
883 <ContainerMatch foo> semantics.
885 * SIGSEGV on Linux (glibc 2.1.2) isn't caught properly by a
886 sigwaiting thread. We need to work around this, perhaps unless
887 there is hope soon for a fixed glibc.
889 * orig_ct in the byterange/multipart handling may not be
890 needed. Apache 1.3 just never stashed "multipart" into
891 r->content_type. We should probably follow suit since the
892 byterange stuff doesn't want the rest of the code to see the
893 multipart content-type; the other code should still think it is
894 dealing with the <orig_ct> stuff.
895 Status: Greg volunteers to investigate (esp. since he was most
896 likely the one to break it :-)
898 Binaries (probably not till beta):
900 Platform Avail. Volunteer
901 ------------------------------------------------------------------
902 AIX 4.3.3 no Bill Stoddard
905 hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.00 no Cliff Woolley
906 i386-pc-solaris2.8 no Aaron Bannert
907 i386-unknown-freebsd4.5 no
908 i386-unknown-freebsd4.6 no Cliff Woolley
909 i686-pc-linux-gnu-slackware81 no Cliff Woolley
910 i686-pc-linux-gnu-rh70 no Aaron Bannert
911 i686-pc-linux-gnu-rh73 no Cliff Woolley
913 powerpc-apple-darwin5.5 no Aaron Bannert
914 powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu no Graham Leggett
915 s390-ibm-linux no Greg Ames
916 sparc-sun-solaris2.8 no Jim Jagielski
917 NetWare no Brad Nicholes
920 Win32-x86 no William Rowe