1 APACHE 2.3 STATUS: -*-text-*-
2 Last modified at [$Date$]
4 The current version of this file can be found at:
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8 Documentation status is maintained seperately and can be found at:
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13 Consult the following STATUS files for information on related projects:
15 * http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr/trunk/STATUS
16 * http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr-util/trunk/STATUS
18 Patches considered for backport are noted in their branches' STATUS:
20 * http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/1.3.x/STATUS
21 * http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/STATUS
22 * http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/STATUS
26 [NOTE that x.{odd}.z versions are strictly Alpha/Beta releases,
27 while x.{even}.z versions are Stable/GA releases.]
29 2.3.0 : in development
32 Contributors looking for a mission:
34 * Just do an egrep on "TODO" or "XXX" in the source.
36 * Review the bug database at: http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/
38 * Review the "PatchAvailable" bugs in the bug database:
40 https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&product=Apache+httpd-2&keywords=PatchAvailable
42 After testing, you can append a comment saying "Reviewed and tested".
44 * Open bugs in the bug database.
47 CURRENT RELEASE NOTES:
52 * Handling of non-trailing / config by non-default handler is broken
53 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-httpd-dev&m=105451701628081&w=2
54 jerenkrantz asks: Why should this block a release?
55 wsanchez agrees: this may be a change in behavior, but isn't
56 clearly wrong, and even if so, it doesn't seem like a
59 * the edge connection filter cannot be removed
60 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-httpd-dev&m=105366252619530&w=2
62 jerenkrantz asks: Why should this block a release?
64 stas replies: because it requires a rewrite of the filters stack
65 implementation (you have suggested that) and once 2.2 is
66 released you can't do that anymore.
71 * If the parent process dies, should the remaining child processes
72 "gracefully" self-terminate. Or maybe we should make it a runtime
73 option, or have a concept of 2 parent processes (one being a
75 See: Message-ID: <3C58232C.FE91F19F@Golux.Com>
77 Self-destruct: Ken, Martin, Lars
78 Not self-destruct: BrianP, Ian, Cliff, BillS
79 Make it runtime configurable: Aaron, jim, Justin, wrowe, rederpj, nd
81 /* The below was a concept on *how* to handle the problem */
82 Have 2 parents: +1: jim
83 -1: Justin, wrowe, rederpj, nd
84 +0: Lars, Martin (while standing by, could it do
87 * Make the worker MPM the default MPM for threaded Unix boxes.
88 +1: Justin, Ian, Cliff, BillS, striker, wrowe, nd
89 +0: BrianP, Aaron (mutex contention is looking better with the
90 latest code, let's continue tuning and testing), rederpj, jim
93 pquerna: Do we want to change this for 2.2?
96 RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
98 * Patches submitted to the bug database:
99 http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&product=Apache+httpd-2.0&keywords=PatchAvailable
101 * Filter stacks and subrequests, redirects and fast redirects.
102 There's at least one PR that suffers from the current unclean behaviour
103 (which lets the server send garbage): PR 17629
104 nd says: Every subrequest should get its own filter stack with the
105 subreq_core filter as bottom-most. That filter does two things:
106 - swallow EOS buckets
107 - redirect the data stream to the upper request's (rr->main)
108 filter chain directly after the subrequest's starting
110 Once we have a clean solution, we can try to optimize
111 it, so that the server won't be slow down too much.
113 * RFC 2616 violations.
115 Open PRs: 15852, 15859, 15861, 15864, 15865, 15866, 15868, 15869,
116 15870, 16120, 16125, 16126, 16133, 16135, 16136, 16137,
117 16138, 16139, 16140, 16142, 16518, 16520, 16521,
118 jerenkrantz says: need to decide how many we need to backport and/or
119 if these rise to showstopper status.
120 wrowe suggests: it would be nice to see "MUST" v.s. "SHOULD" v.s. "MAY"
121 out of this list, without reviewing them individually.
123 * There is a bug in how we sort some hooks, at least the pre-config
124 hook. The first time we call the hooks, they are in the correct
125 order, but the second time, we don't sort them correctly. Currently,
126 the modules/http/config.m4 file has been renamed to
127 modules/http/config2.m4 to work around this problem, it should moved
128 back when this is fixed.
130 OtherBill offers that this is a SERIOUS problem. We do not sort
131 correctly by the ordering arguments passed to the register hook
132 functions. This was proven when I reordered the open_logs hook
133 to attempt to open the error logs prior to the access logs. Possibly
134 the entire sorting code needs to be refactored.
136 * pipes deadlock on all platforms with limited pipe buffers (e.g. both
137 Linux and Win32, as opposed to only Win32 on 1.3). The right solution
138 is either GStein's proposal for a "CGI Brigade", or OtherBill's proposal
139 for "Poll Buckets" for "Polling Filter Chains". Or maybe both :-)
141 * All handlers should always send content down even if r->header_only
142 is set. If not, it means that the HEAD requests don't generate the
143 same headers as a GET which is wrong.
145 * exec cmd and suexec arg-passing enhancements
146 Status: Patches proposed
147 Message-ID: <20020526041748.A29148@prodigy.Redbrick.DCU.IE>
148 (see the "proc.patch" and "suexec-shell.patch" links in this message)
150 * The 2.0.36 worker MPM graceless shutdown changes work but are
151 a bit clunky on some platforms; eg, on Linux, the loop to
152 join each worker thread seems to hang, and the parent ends up
153 killing off the child with SIGKILL. But at least it shuts down.
155 * --enable-mods-shared="foo1 foo2" is busted on Darwin. Pier
156 posted a patch (Message-ID: <B8DBBE8D.575A%pier@betaversion.org>).
158 * We do not properly substitute the prefix-variables in the configuration
159 scripts or generated-configs. (i.e. if sysconfdir is etc,
160 httpd-std.conf points to conf.)
162 * If any request gets through ap_process_request_internal() and is
163 scheduled to be served by the core handler, without a flag that this
164 r->filename was tested by dir/file_walk, we need to 500 at the very
165 end of the ap_process_request_internal() processing so sub_req-esters
166 know this request cannot be run. This provides authors of older
167 modules better compatibility, while still improving the security and
170 Status: still need to decide where this goes, OtherBill comments...
171 Message-ID: <065701c14526$495203b0$96c0b0d0@roweclan.net>
172 [Deleted comments regarding the ap_run_handler phase, as irrelevant
173 as BillS points out that "common case will be caught in
174 default_handler already (with the r->finfo.filetype == 0 check)"
175 and the issue is detecting this -before- we try to run the req.]
177 gregames says: can this happen somehow without a broken module
178 being involved? If not, why waste cycles trying to defend against
179 potential broken modules? It seems futile.
180 wrowe counters: no, it shouldn't happen unless the module is broken.
181 But the right answer is to fail the request up-front in dir/file
182 walk if the path was entirely invalid; and we can't do that either
183 UNTIL 2.1 or we break modules that haven't hooked map_to_storage.
185 * With AP_MODE_EXHAUSTIVE in the core, it is finally clear to me
186 how the Perchild MPM should be re-written. It hasn't worked
187 correctly since filters were added because it wasn't possible to
188 get the content that had already been written and the socket at
189 the same time. This mode lets us do that, so the MPM can be
192 * Can a static httpd be built reliably?
193 Message-ID: <20020207142751.T31582@clove.org>
195 * Usage of APR_BRIGADE_NORMALIZE in core_input_filter should be
197 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201202232430.318-100000@deepthought.cs.virginia.edu>
198 Jeff wonders if we still care about this. It is no longer an
199 API issue but simply an extra trip through the brigade.
201 * Get perchild to work on platforms other than Linux. This
202 will require a portable mechanism to pass data and file/socket
203 descriptors between vhost child groups. An API was proposed
205 Message-ID: <20020111115006.K1529@clove.org>
207 * Try to get libtool inter-library dependency code working on AIX.
208 Message-ID: <cm3n10lx555.fsf@rdu163-40-092.nc.rr.com>
210 Justin says: If we get it working on AIX, we can enable this
211 on all platforms and clean up our build system
213 Jeff says: I thought I tested a patch for you sometime in
214 January that you were going to commit within a few
217 * Handling of %2f in URIs. Currently both 1.3 and 2.0
218 completely disallow %2f in the request URI path (see
219 ap_unescape_url() in util.c). It's permitted and passed
220 through in the query string, however. Roy says the
221 original reason for disallowing it, from five years ago,
222 was to protect CGI scripts that applied PATH_INFO to
223 a filesystem location and which might be tricked by
224 ..%2f..%2f(...). We *should* allow path-info of the
225 form 'http://foo.com/index.cgi/path/to/path%2finfo'.
226 Since we've revamped a lot of our processing of path
227 segments, it would be nice to allow this, or at least
228 allow it conditionally with a directive.
230 OtherBill adds that %2f as the SECOND character of a multibyte
231 sequence causes the request to fail! This happens notably in
234 * FreeBSD, threads, and worker MPM. All seems to work fine
235 if you only have one worker process with many threads. Add
236 a second worker process and the accept lock seems to be
237 lost. This might be an APR issue with how it deals with
238 the child_init hook (i.e. the fcntl lock needs to be resynced).
239 More examination and analysis is required.
240 Status: Works with FreeBSD 5.3. Does not work in previous versions.
241 This has also been reported on Cygwin.
243 * There is increasing demand from module writers for an API
244 that will allow them to control the server à la apachectl.
245 Reasons include sole-function servers that need to die if
246 an external dependency (e.g., a database) fails, et cetera.
247 Perhaps something in the (ever more abused) scoreboard?
249 On the other hand, we already have a pipe that goes between parent
250 and child for graceful shutdown events, along with an API that
251 can be used to send a message down that pipe. In threaded MPMs,
252 it is easy enough to make that one pipe be used for graceful
253 and graceless events, and it is also easy to open that pipe
254 to both parent and child for writing. Then we just need to
255 figure out how to do graceless on non-threaded MPMs.
257 * Allow the DocumentRoot directive within <Location > scopes? This
258 allows the beloved (crusty) Alias /foo/ /somepath/foo/ followed
259 by a <Directory /somepath/foo> to become simply
260 <Location /foo/> DocumentRoot /somefile/foo (IMHO a bit more legible
261 and in-your-face.) DocumentRoot unset would be accepted [and would
262 not permit content to be served, only virtual resources such as
263 server-info or server-status.
264 This proposed change would _not_ depricate Alias.
265 striker: See the thread starting with Message-ID:
266 JLEGKKNELMHCJPNMOKHOGEEJFBAA.striker@apache.org.
268 * Win32: Rotatelogs sometimes is not terminated when Apache
269 goes down hard. FirstBill was looking at possibly tracking the
270 child's-child processes in the parent process.
271 stoddard: Shared scoreboard might offer a good way for the parent
272 to keep track of 'other child' processes and whack them if the child
274 Other thoughts on walking the process chain using the NT kernel
275 have also been proposed on APR.
277 * Eliminate unnecessary creation of pipes in mod_cgid
279 * Combine log_child and piped_log_spawn. Clean up http_log.c.
282 * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)
283 Architect start-up code that avoids initializing all the modules
284 in the parent process on platforms that do not support fork.
286 * There are still a number of places in the code where we are
287 losing error status (i.e. throwing away the error returned by a
288 system call and replacing it with a generic error code)
290 * Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.
292 * All DBMs suffer from confusion in support/dbmmanage (perl script) since
293 the dbmmanage employs the first-matched dbm format. This is not
294 necessarily the library that Apache was built with. Aught to
295 rewrite dbmmanage upon installation to bin/ with the proper library
296 for predictable mod_auth_dbm administration.
297 Questions; htdbm exists, time to kill dbmmanage, or does it remain
298 useful as a perl dbm management example? If we keep it,
299 do we address the issue above?
302 Some additional items remaining:
303 - case_preserved_filename stuff
304 (use the new canonical name stuff?)
305 - find a new home for ap_text(_header)
306 - is it possible to remove the DAV: namespace stuff from util_xml?
308 * ap_core_translate() and its use by mod_mmap_static and mod_file_cache
309 are a bit wonky. The function should probably be exposed as a utility
310 function (such as ap_translate_url2fs() or ap_validate_fs_url() or
311 something). Another approach would be a new hook phase after
312 "translate" which would allow the module to munge what the
313 translation has decided to do.
314 Status: Greg +1 (volunteers)
316 * Explore use of a post-config hook for the code in http_main.c which
317 calls ap_fixup_virutal_hosts(), ap_fini_vhost_config(), and
318 ap_sort_hooks() [to reduce the logic in main()]
320 * read the config tree just once, and process N times (as necessary)
322 * (possibly) use UUIDs in mod_unique_id and/or mod_usertrack
324 * (possibly) port the bug fix for PR 6942 (segv when LoadModule is put
325 into a VirtualHost container) to 2.0.
327 * shift stuff to mod_core.h
329 * callers of ap_run_create_request() should check the return value
330 for failure (Doug volunteers)
332 * Fix the worker MPM to use POD to kill child processes instead
333 of ap_os_killpg, regardless of how they should die.
335 * Scoreboard structures could be changed in the future such that
336 proper alignment is not maintained, leading to segfaults on
337 some systems. Cliff posted a patch to deal with this issue but
338 later recanted. See this message to dev@apr.apache.org:
339 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203011354090.16457-200000@deepthought
342 * APXS either needs to be fixed completely for use when apr is out of tree,
343 or it should drop query mode altogether, and we just grow an
344 httpd-config or similar arrangement.
345 To quote a discussion in STATUS earlier:
347 thommay: this doesn't fix all the problems with apxs and out of
348 tree apr/apr-util, but it's a good start. There's still the
349 query cases; but I'm beginning to think that in these cases
350 the app should be querying ap{r,u}-config directly
351 gstein: agreed. apxs should deprecate the -q flag
352 pquerna: I vote for a httpd-config, and to deprecate the -q flag.
353 minfrin: +1 for httpd-config, and to deprecate -q.
356 TODO ISSUES REMAINING IN MOD_SSL:
358 * In order to use a DSO version of mod_ssl we have to link with
359 -lssl and -lcrypto. A workaround is in place right now where the
360 entire EXTRA_LIBS macro is being appended to the objects list, but
361 this is a hack. We should either revamp the APACHE_CHECK_SSL_TOOLKIT
362 autoconf function or come up with some other autoconf checks to
363 search for libssl and libcrypto and properly add them to mod_ssl's
366 * SSL renegotiations in combination with POST request
368 * Port or dispose all code inside #if 0...#endif blocks that remain
369 from the porting effort.
371 * Do we need SSL_set_read_ahead()?
373 * the ssl_expr api is NOT THREAD SAFE. race conditions exist:
374 -in ssl_expr_comp() if SSLRequire is used in .htaccess
375 (ssl_expr_info is global)
376 -is ssl_expr_eval() if there is an error
377 (ssl_expr_error is global)
379 * SSLRequire directive (parsing of) leaks memory
381 * Diffie-Hellman-Parameters for temporary keys are hardcoded in
382 ssl_engine_dh.c, while the comment in ssl_engine_kernel.c says:
383 "it is suggested that keys be changed daily or every 500
384 transactions, and more often if possible."
386 * ssl_var_lookup could be rewritten to be MUCH faster
388 * CRL callback should be pluggable
390 * session cache store should be pluggable
392 * init functions should return status code rather than ssl_die()
394 * ssl_engine_pphrase.c needs to be reworked so it is generic enough
395 to also decrypt proxy keys
397 * the shmcb code should just align its memory segment rather than
398 jumping through all the "safe" memcpy and memset hoops
402 * mod_proxy: Ability to run SSL over proxy gateway connections,
403 encrypting (or reencrypting) at the proxy.
405 * mod_cache: Handle ESI tags.
407 * mod_cache: Resolve issue of how to cache page fragements (or perhaps
408 -if- we want to cache page fragements). Today, mod_cache/mod_mem_cache
409 will cache #include 'virtual' requests (but not #include 'file'
410 requests). This was accomplished by making CACHE_IN a
411 CONTENT_SET-1 filter to force it to run before the SUBREQ_CORE
412 filter. But now responses cannot be cached that include the
413 effects of having been run through CONTENT_SET filters
414 (mod_deflate, mod_expires, etc). We could rerun all the
415 CONTENT_SET filters on the cached response, but this will not
416 work in all cases. For example, mod_expires relies on installing
417 the EXPIRATION filter during fixups. Contents served out of
418 mod_cache (out of the quick_handler) bypass -all- the request
419 line server hooks (Ryan really hated this. It is great for
420 performance, but bad because of the complications listed above).
422 mod_cache/mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache:
424 * mod_mem_cache: Consider adding a RevalidateTimeout directive to
425 specify time at which local cached content is to be revalidated
426 (ie, underlying file stat'ed to see if it has changed).
428 * mod_cache: CacheEnable/CacheDisable should accept regular expressions.
429 jerenkrantz says: Too slow. Get regexs away from speedy caches by
430 default. Introduce a new CacheEnableRegex if you want.
432 * mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache: Need to be able to query cache
433 status (num of entries, cache object properties, etc.).
434 mod_status could be extended to query optional hooks defined
435 by modules for the purpose of reporting module status.
436 mod_cache (et. al.) could define optional hooks that are called
437 to collect status. Status should be queryable by
439 jerenkrantz says: Yawn. Who cares.
441 * MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests.
442 Until someone has a better way, we'll probably just rename it
443 "MaxConnectionsPerChild".
445 * Regex containers don't work in an intutive way
446 Status: No one has come up with an efficient way to fix this
447 behavior. Dean has suggested getting rid of regex containers
449 OtherBill suggests: We at least seem to agree on eliminating
450 the <Container ~ foo> forms, and using only
451 <ContainerMatch foo> semantics.
453 * orig_ct in the byterange/multipart handling may not be
454 needed. Apache 1.3 just never stashed "multipart" into
455 r->content_type. We should probably follow suit since the
456 byterange stuff doesn't want the rest of the code to see the
457 multipart content-type; the other code should still think it is
458 dealing with the <orig_ct> stuff.
459 Status: Greg volunteers to investigate (esp. since he was most
460 likely the one to break it :-)
462 EXPERIMENTAL MODULES:
464 Experimental modules should eventually be be promoted to fully supported
465 status or removed from the repository entirely (ie, the
466 'experiment' failed). This section tracks what needs to happen to
467 get the modules promoted to fully supported status.