1 APACHE 2.1 STATUS: -*-text-*-
2 Last modified at [$Date: 2003/05/29 15:07:11 $]
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" and see what's there
20 CURRENT RELEASE NOTES:
28 * Promote mod_cache from experimental to non-experimental
29 status (keep issues noted below in EXPERIMENTAL MODULES as
30 items to be addressed as a supported module).
34 There are a couple of problems that need to be resolved
35 before this module is moved out of experimental.
36 1) We need to at least review and comment on the RFC violations
37 2) Resolve issue of how to cache page fragements (or perhaps -if- we
38 want to cache page fragements). Today, mod_cache/mod_mem_cache
39 will cache #include 'virtual' requests (but not #include 'file'
40 requests). This was accomplished by making CACHE_IN a
41 CONTENT_SET-1 filter to force it to run before the SUBREQ_CORE
42 filter. But now responses cannot be cached that include the
43 effects of having been run through CONTENT_SET filters
44 (mod_deflate, mod_expires, etc). We could rerun all the
45 CONTENT_SET filters on the cached response, but this will not
46 work in all cases. For example, mod_expires relies on installing
47 the EXPIRATION filter during fixups. Contents served out of
48 mod_cache (out of the quick_handler) bypass -all- the request
49 line server hooks (Ryan really hated this. It is great for
50 performance, but bad because of the complications listed above).
53 jerenkrantz: There are a slew of RFC compliance bugs filed in Bugzilla
54 for mod_cache (see 'RFC 2616 violations' below). I think
55 fixing them is a pre-requisite before it isn't experimental.
57 * httpd-std.conf and friends
59 a) httpd-std.conf should be tailored by install (from src or
60 binbuild) even if user has existing httpd.conf
61 +1: trawick, slive, gregames, ianh, Ken, wrowe, jwoolley, jim, nd
62 wrowe - prefer httpd.default.conf to avoid ambiguity with cvs
64 b) tailored httpd-std.conf should be copied by install to
68 c) tailored httpd-std.conf should be installed to
69 sysconfdir/examples or manualdir/exampleconf/
70 +1: slive, trawick, Ken, nd (prefer the latter)
72 d) Installing a set of default config files when upgrading a server
73 doesn't make ANY sense at all.
74 +1: ianh - medium/big sites don't use 'standard config' anyway, as it
75 usually needs major customizations
76 -1: Ken, wrowe, jwoolley, jim, nd
77 wrowe - diff is wonderful when comparing old/new default configs,
78 even for customized sites that ianh mentions
79 jim - ... assuming that the default configs have been updated
80 with the required inline docs to explain the
83 * If the parent process dies, should the remaining child processes
84 "gracefully" self-terminate. Or maybe we should make it a runtime
85 option, or have a concept of 2 parent processes (one being a
87 See: Message-ID: <3C58232C.FE91F19F@Golux.Com>
89 Self-destruct: Ken, Martin, Lars
90 Not self-destruct: BrianP, Ian, Cliff, BillS
91 Make it runtime configurable: Aaron, jim, Justin, wrowe, rederpj, nd
93 /* The below was a concept on *how* to handle the problem */
94 Have 2 parents: +1: jim
95 -1: Justin, wrowe, rederpj, nd
96 +0: Lars, Martin (while standing by, could it do
99 * Make the worker MPM the default MPM for threaded Unix boxes.
100 +1: Justin, Ian, Cliff, BillS, striker, wrowe, nd
101 +0: BrianP, Aaron (mutex contention is looking better with the
102 latest code, let's continue tuning and testing), rederpj, jim
105 RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
107 * Filter stacks and subrequests, redirects and fast redirects.
108 There's at least one PR that suffers from the current unclean behaviour
109 (which lets the server send garbage): PR 17629
110 nd says: Every subrequest should get its own filter stack with the
111 subreq_core filter as bottom-most. That filter does two things:
112 - swallow EOS buckets
113 - redirect the data stream to the upper request's (rr->main)
114 filter chain directly after the subrequest's starting
116 Once we have a clean solution, we can try to optimize
117 it, so that the server won't be slow down too much.
119 * RFC 2616 violations.
121 Open PRs: 15852, 15859, 15861, 15864, 15865, 15866, 15868, 15869,
122 15870, 16120, 16125, 16126, 16133, 16135, 16136, 16137,
123 16138, 16139, 16140, 16142, 16518, 16520, 16521,
124 jerenkrantz says: need to decide how many we need to backport and/or
125 if these rise to showstopper status.
126 wrowe suggests: it would be nice to see "MUST" v.s. "SHOULD" v.s. "MAY"
127 out of this list, without reviewing them individually.
129 * There is a bug in how we sort some hooks, at least the pre-config
130 hook. The first time we call the hooks, they are in the correct
131 order, but the second time, we don't sort them correctly. Currently,
132 the modules/http/config.m4 file has been renamed to
133 modules/http/config2.m4 to work around this problem, it should moved
134 back when this is fixed.
136 OtherBill offers that this is a SERIOUS problem. We do not sort
137 correctly by the ordering arguments passed to the register hook
138 functions. This was proven when I reordered the open_logs hook
139 to attempt to open the error logs prior to the access logs. Possibly
140 the entire sorting code needs to be refactored.
142 * pipes deadlock on all platforms with limited pipe buffers (e.g. both
143 Linux and Win32, as opposed to only Win32 on 1.3). The right solution
144 is either GStein's proposal for a "CGI Brigade", or OtherBill's proposal
145 for "Poll Buckets" for "Polling Filter Chains". Or maybe both :-)
147 * All handlers should always send content down even if r->header_only
148 is set. If not, it means that the HEAD requests don't generate the
149 same headers as a GET which is wrong.
151 * HP/UX 10.20: compile breakage in APR. Looks like it should be easy
152 to fix, probably just some extraneous #include's that are fouling
155 Jeff: See my reply and patch in the PR (and previous commit to
156 stop using "pipe" as a field name). If patch is committed, we
157 should be okay. I'll wait to see if the user tests the patch.
158 Update by Jeff 20020722: I got an account on HP 10.20. It looks
159 like some of the APR thread detection is screwed up. If we find
160 pthread.h but we can't compile the pthread test program we still
161 think we can use threads. For that reason, the patch I posted
162 to the PR won't work as-is since a failed compile of the test
163 program means nothing.
165 * exec cmd and suexec arg-passing enhancements
166 Status: Patches proposed
167 Message-ID: <20020526041748.A29148@prodigy.Redbrick.DCU.IE>
168 (see the "proc.patch" and "suexec-shell.patch" links in this message)
170 * The 2.0.36 worker MPM graceless shutdown changes work but are
171 a bit clunky on some platforms; eg, on Linux, the loop to
172 join each worker thread seems to hang, and the parent ends up
173 killing off the child with SIGKILL. But at least it shuts down.
175 * --enable-mods-shared="foo1 foo2" is busted on Darwin. Pier
176 posted a patch (Message-ID: <B8DBBE8D.575A%pier@betaversion.org>).
178 * We do not properly substitute the prefix-variables in the configuration
179 scripts or generated-configs. (i.e. if sysconfdir is etc,
180 httpd-std.conf points to conf.)
182 * If any request gets through ap_process_request_internal() and is
183 scheduled to be served by the core handler, without a flag that this
184 r->filename was tested by dir/file_walk, we need to 500 at the very
185 end of the ap_process_request_internal() processing so sub_req-esters
186 know this request cannot be run. This provides authors of older
187 modules better compatibility, while still improving the security and
190 Status: still need to decide where this goes, OtherBill comments...
191 Message-ID: <065701c14526$495203b0$96c0b0d0@roweclan.net>
192 [Deleted comments regarding the ap_run_handler phase, as irrelevant
193 as BillS points out that "common case will be caught in
194 default_handler already (with the r->finfo.filetype == 0 check)"
195 and the issue is detecting this -before- we try to run the req.]
197 gregames says: can this happen somehow without a broken module
198 being involved? If not, why waste cycles trying to defend against
199 potential broken modules? It seems futile.
200 wrowe counters: no, it shouldn't happen unless the module is broken.
201 But the right answer is to fail the request up-front in dir/file
202 walk if the path was entirely invalid; and we can't do that either
203 UNTIL 2.1 or we break modules that haven't hooked map_to_storage.
205 * With AP_MODE_EXHAUSTIVE in the core, it is finally clear to me
206 how the Perchild MPM should be re-written. It hasn't worked
207 correctly since filters were added because it wasn't possible to
208 get the content that had already been written and the socket at
209 the same time. This mode lets us do that, so the MPM can be
212 * Can a static httpd be built reliably?
213 Message-ID: <20020207142751.T31582@clove.org>
215 * [Ken] Test suite failures:
216 o worker is also failing some of the 'cgi' subtests
217 (see <URL:http://Source-Zone.Org/Apache/regression/>):
218 Justin says: "Worker should be fine and passes httpd-test here.
219 I think it's a perl or a httpd-test problem."
221 * Usage of APR_BRIGADE_NORMALIZE in core_input_filter should be
223 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201202232430.318-100000@deepthought.cs.virginia.edu>
224 Jeff wonders if we still care about this. It is no longer an
225 API issue but simply an extra trip through the brigade.
227 * The Add...Filter and Set...Filter directives do not allow the
228 administrator to order filters, beyond the order of filename (mime)
229 extensions. It isn't clear if Set...Filter(s) should be inserted
230 before or after the Add...Filter(s) which are ordered by sequence of
231 filename extensions. At minimum, some sort of +-[0-10] syntax seems
232 like a nice solution. See ROADMAP.
234 * Get perchild to work on platforms other than Linux. This
235 will require a portable mechanism to pass data and file/socket
236 descriptors between vhost child groups. An API was proposed
238 Message-ID: <20020111115006.K1529@clove.org>
240 * Try to get libtool inter-library dependency code working on AIX.
241 Message-ID: <cm3n10lx555.fsf@rdu163-40-092.nc.rr.com>
243 Justin says: If we get it working on AIX, we can enable this
244 on all platforms and clean up our build system
246 Jeff says: I thought I tested a patch for you sometime in
247 January that you were going to commit within a few
250 * Handling of %2f in URIs. Currently both 1.3 and 2.0
251 completely disallow %2f in the request URI path (see
252 ap_unescape_url() in util.c). It's permitted and passed
253 through in the query string, however. Roy says the
254 original reason for disallowing it, from five years ago,
255 was to protect CGI scripts that applied PATH_INFO to
256 a filesystem location and which might be tricked by
257 ..%2f..%2f(...). We *should* allow path-info of the
258 form 'http://foo.com/index.cgi/path/to/path%2finfo'.
259 Since we've revamped a lot of our processing of path
260 segments, it would be nice to allow this, or at least
261 allow it conditionally with a directive.
263 OtherBill adds that %2f as the SECOND character of a multibyte
264 sequence causes the request to fail! This happens notably in
267 * FreeBSD, threads, and worker MPM. All seems to work fine
268 if you only have one worker process with many threads. Add
269 a second worker process and the accept lock seems to be
270 lost. This might be an APR issue with how it deals with
271 the child_init hook (i.e. the fcntl lock needs to be resynced).
272 More examination and analysis is required.
273 Status: This has also been reported on Cygwin.
274 FreeBSD 4.7 was reputed to have 'fixed' threads. Not.
275 Message-ID: <3C2CC514.8EF3BED1@wapme-systems.de> (cygnus)
277 Aaron says: I spent some time disecting this and have come to
278 the conclusion that it is not a problem in the worker MPM
279 (or at least, it is not isolated to a problem in worker).
280 I'll list some of the problems I'm seeing in case someone
281 else wants to pick up where I've left off:
282 - Delivery of just about any signal to one of the child
283 processes will send it into an infinite loop as well.
284 - Even though the parent is spinning out of control,
285 at first the child or children will appear to work
286 properly. At times it is possible to get it into a state,
287 however, where a request will hang until another concurrent
288 request "kicks" the first, at which point the second will
289 hang. My theory is that this has to do with the
290 pthread_cond_*() implementation in FreeBSD, but it's still
291 possible that it is in APR.
293 Justin adds: Oh, FreeBSD threads are implemented entirely with
294 select()/poll()/longjmp(). Welcome to the nightmare.
295 So, that means a ktrace output also has the thread
296 scheduling internals in it (since it is all the same to
297 the kernel). Which makes it hard to distinguish between
298 our select() calls and their select() calls.
299 *bangs head on wall repeatedly* But, some of the libc_r
300 files have a DBG_MSG #define. This is moderately helpful
301 when used with -DNO_DETACH. The kernel scheduler isn't
302 waking up the threads on a select(). Yum. And, I bet
303 those decrementing select calls have to do with the
304 scheduler. Time to brush up on our OS fundamentals.
306 * There is increasing demand from module writers for an API
307 that will allow them to control the server à la apachectl.
308 Reasons include sole-function servers that need to die if
309 an external dependency (e.g., a database) fails, et cetera.
310 Perhaps something in the (ever more abused) scoreboard?
312 On the other hand, we already have a pipe that goes between parent
313 and child for graceful shutdown events, along with an API that
314 can be used to send a message down that pipe. In threaded MPMs,
315 it is easy enough to make that one pipe be used for graceful
316 and graceless events, and it is also easy to open that pipe
317 to both parent and child for writing. Then we just need to
318 figure out how to do graceless on non-threaded MPMs.
320 * Allow the DocumentRoot directive within <Location > scopes? This
321 allows the beloved (crusty) Alias /foo/ /somepath/foo/ followed
322 by a <Directory /somepath/foo> to become simply
323 <Location /foo/> DocumentRoot /somefile/foo (IMHO a bit more legible
324 and in-your-face.) DocumentRoot unset would be accepted [and would
325 not permit content to be served, only virtual resources such as
326 server-info or server-status.
327 This proposed change would _not_ depricate Alias.
328 striker: See the thread starting with Message-ID:
329 JLEGKKNELMHCJPNMOKHOGEEJFBAA.striker@apache.org.
331 * Win32: Rotatelogs sometimes is not terminated when Apache
332 goes down hard. FirstBill was looking at possibly tracking the
333 child's-child processes in the parent process.
334 stoddard: Shared scoreboard might offer a good way for the parent
335 to keep track of 'other child' processes and whack them if the child
337 Other thoughts on walking the process chain using the NT kernel
338 have also been proposed on APR.
340 * Eliminate unnecessary creation of pipes in mod_cgid
342 * Combine log_child and piped_log_spawn. Clean up http_log.c.
345 * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)
346 Architect start-up code that avoids initializing all the modules
347 in the parent process on platforms that do not support fork.
349 * There are still a number of places in the code where we are
350 losing error status (i.e. throwing away the error returned by a
351 system call and replacing it with a generic error code)
353 * Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.
355 * All DBMs suffer from confusion in support/dbmmanage (perl script) since
356 the dbmmanage employs the first-matched dbm format. This is not
357 necessarily the library that Apache was built with. Aught to
358 rewrite dbmmanage upon installation to bin/ with the proper library
359 for predictable mod_auth_dbm administration.
360 Questions; htdbm exists, time to kill dbmmanage, or does it remain
361 useful as a perl dbm management example? If we keep it,
362 do we address the issue above?
365 Some additional items remaining:
366 - case_preserved_filename stuff
367 (use the new canonical name stuff?)
368 - find a new home for ap_text(_header)
369 - is it possible to remove the DAV: namespace stuff from util_xml?
371 * ap_core_translate() and its use by mod_mmap_static and mod_file_cache
372 are a bit wonky. The function should probably be exposed as a utility
373 function (such as ap_translate_url2fs() or ap_validate_fs_url() or
374 something). Another approach would be a new hook phase after
375 "translate" which would allow the module to munge what the
376 translation has decided to do.
377 Status: Greg +1 (volunteers)
379 * Explore use of a post-config hook for the code in http_main.c which
380 calls ap_fixup_virutal_hosts(), ap_fini_vhost_config(), and
381 ap_sort_hooks() [to reduce the logic in main()]
383 * read the config tree just once, and process N times (as necessary)
385 * (possibly) use UUIDs in mod_unique_id and/or mod_usertrack
387 * (possibly) port the bug fix for PR 6942 (segv when LoadModule is put
388 into a VirtualHost container) to 2.0.
390 * shift stuff to mod_core.h
392 * callers of ap_run_create_request() should check the return value
393 for failure (Doug volunteers)
395 * Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work
396 (at least) needs to be done:
397 - Document warning that OSR2 is required (for Crypt functions, in
398 rand.c, at least.) This could be resolved with an SSL library, or
399 randomization in APR itself.
400 - Bring the Win9xConHook.dll from 1.3 into 2.0 (no sense till it
401 actually works) and add in a splash of Win9x service code.
403 * Fix the worker MPM to use POD to kill child processes instead
404 of ap_os_killpg, regardless of how they should die.
406 * Scoreboard structures could be changed in the future such that
407 proper alignment is not maintained, leading to segfaults on
408 some systems. Cliff posted a patch to deal with this issue but
409 later recanted. See this message to dev@apr.apache.org:
410 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203011354090.16457-200000@deepthought
413 * When sufficiently tested, the AllowEncodedSlashes/%2f patch
414 needs to be backported to 2.0 and 1.3.
416 * APXS either needs to be fixed completely for use when apr is out of tree,
417 or it should drop query mode altogether, and we just grow an
418 httpd-config or similar arrangement.
419 To quote a discussion in STATUS earlier:
421 thommay: this doesn't fix all the problems with apxs and out of
422 tree apr/apr-util, but it's a good start. There's still the
423 query cases; but I'm beginning to think that in these cases
424 the app should be querying ap{r,u}-config directly
425 gstein: agreed. apxs should deprecate the -q flag
427 TODO ISSUES REMAINING IN MOD_SSL:
429 * In order to use a DSO version of mod_ssl we have to link with
430 -lssl and -lcrypto. A workaround is in place right now where the
431 entire EXTRA_LIBS macro is being appended to the objects list, but
432 this is a hack. We should either revamp the APACHE_CHECK_SSL_TOOLKIT
433 autoconf function or come up with some other autoconf checks to
434 search for libssl and libcrypto and properly add them to mod_ssl's
437 * SSL renegotiations in combination with POST request
439 * Port or dispose all code inside #if 0...#endif blocks that remain
440 from the porting effort.
442 * Do we need SSL_set_read_ahead()?
444 * the ssl_expr api is NOT THREAD SAFE. race conditions exist:
445 -in ssl_expr_comp() if SSLRequire is used in .htaccess
446 (ssl_expr_info is global)
447 -is ssl_expr_eval() if there is an error
448 (ssl_expr_error is global)
450 * SSLRequire directive (parsing of) leaks memory
452 * Diffie-Hellman-Parameters for temporary keys are hardcoded in
453 ssl_engine_dh.c, while the comment in ssl_engine_kernel.c says:
454 "it is suggested that keys be changed daily or every 500
455 transactions, and more often if possible."
457 * ssl_var_lookup could be rewritten to be MUCH faster
459 * CRL callback should be pluggable
461 * session cache store should be pluggable
463 * init functions should return status code rather than ssl_die()
465 * ssl_engine_pphrase.c needs to be reworked so it is generic enough
466 to also decrypt proxy keys
468 * the shmcb code should just align its memory segment rather than
469 jumping through all the "safe" memcpy and memset hoops
472 * mod_proxy performance: when mod_proxy is configured to do proxy
473 gateway (aka reverse proxy), it would be nice to be able to reuse
474 connections to the backend servers. Now, connections to the
475 backend servers are taken down when the corresponding frontend
476 connection is taken down.
478 * mod_proxy: Ability to run SSL over proxy gateway connections,
479 encrypting (or reencrypting) at the proxy.
481 * mod_proxy: Add capability of mod_proxy to load balance across
482 a farm of backend servers.
484 * mod_cache: Handle ESI tags.
486 EXPERIMENTAL MODULES:
488 Experimental modules should eventually be be promoted to fully supported
489 status or removed from the repository entirely (ie, the
490 'experiment' failed). This section tracks what needs to happen to
491 get the modules promoted to fully supported status.
493 mod_cache/mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache:
494 * mod_cache: handle cache_control: no_cache "field_name" to enable
495 cacheing the response w/o header "field_name"
496 See RFC2616 section 14.9.1
498 * mod_mem_cache: Consider adding a RevalidateTimeout directive to
499 specify time at which local cached content is to be revalidated
500 (ie, underlying file stat'ed to see if it has changed).
502 * mod_cache: CacheEnable/CacheDisable should accept regular expressions.
504 * mod_cache: Fix dependency on ATOMIC operators. Need
505 APR_HAS_ATOMIC_* feature macros.
507 * mod_disk_cache: Implement garbage collection
509 * mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache: Need to be able to query cache
510 status (num of entries, cache object properties, etc.).
511 mod_status could be extended to query optional hooks defined
512 by modules for the purpose of reporting module status.
513 mod_cache (et. al.) could define optional hooks that are called
514 to collect status. Status should be queryable by
517 * Enable mod_cache/mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache to handle
520 * mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache: Complete implementing config
521 directives (mod_disk_cache: CacheExpiryCheck and GC directives
522 including CacheGc*, CacheSize, and, CacheTimeMargin)
523 (mod_mem_cache: MCacheMaxObjectCount) and
524 (mod_cache: CacheForceCompletion).
526 mod_auth_ldap/util_ldap:
527 * General stabilization and testing
530 PRs that have been suspended forever waiting for someone to
531 put them into 'the next release':
533 * documentation and Q&A
535 PR#2221: Make online documentation search link back to my installation
538 PR#2906: Propose that Apache recommend $UNIQUE_ID for all "session id"
542 PR#2793: When will Apache support P3P? Any Plans?
547 PR#2113: HTTP Server Rebuild Line Needs Changing for the better
550 PR#2421: problem specifying ndbm library for build ?with autoconfigure
555 PR#76: missing call to "setlocale();"
558 PR#628: Request of "Options SymLinksIfGroupMatch"
561 PR#793: RLimitCPU and RLimitMEM don't apply to all children like they should
564 PR#922: it is useful to allow specifiction that root-owned symlinks
565 should always be followed
568 PR#1028: DoS attacks involving memory consumption
571 PR#1191: setlogin() is not called, causing problems with e.g. identd
574 PR#1204: regerror() exists, use it
577 PR#2284: Can not POST to ErrorDocument - Apache/1.3b6
580 PR#2396: Proposal for TimeZone directive
583 PR#2446: AllowOverride FileInfo is too coarse
586 PR#2760: [PATCH] User/Group for <Directory> and <Location> i.e. not only
587 in global and <Virtual>.
590 PR#2907: suggestion: power up your Include directive :)
593 PR#3018: cannot limit some HTTP methods
596 PR#3677: New ErrorDocumentMatch directive
599 PR#4244: "Files" and "FilesMatch" regexp does not recognize bang as
603 PR#5993: AllowOverride should have a 'CheckNone' and 'AllowNone' argument
604 instead of only 'None'
609 PR#537: mod_access syntax allows hosts that should be restricted
612 PR#1287: add allow,deny/deny,allow warning to mod_access
615 PR#2512: <IfDenied> directive wanted
620 PR#557: ~UserHome directories are not honored in absolute pathname
624 PR#1117: Using NIS passwd.byname dbm files with AuthDBMUserFile
627 PR#1809: Suggestion for improving authentication modules and core source
628 code, problem with 401 and ErrorDocument
633 PR#1263: Add frame-safe anchor attribute to mod_autoindex links
636 * mod_cgi (and suexec)
638 PR#921: suexec Uses cwd before filling it in, doesn't use syslog
641 PR#1176: Apache cannot handle continuation line in headers
644 PR#1120: suexec does not parse arguments to #exec cmd
647 PR#1268: CGI scripts running as Apache user: security (suexec etc.)
650 PR#1285: Error messages could be easier to spot in cgi.log file for suexec.c
653 PR#1905: suexec - Allow modules to set user:group for execution.
656 PR#2360: suexec for general access of user content?
659 PR#2460: TimeOut applies to output of CGI scripts
662 PR#2573: CGI's for general use still have to be run as another user
666 PR#4241: Need to be able to override shebang line to make CGI scripts
670 PR#4490: mod_cgi prevents handling of OPTIONS requests
675 PR#370: Modified PATH environemnt variable is not passed, instead
681 PR#1383: I make mod_headers to modify request headers as well as
685 PR#1677: mod_headers should allow mod_log_config-style formats in
691 PR#759: imap should read <MAP><AREA>*</MAP> too!
696 PR#78: Additional status for XBitHack directive
699 PR#623: A smarter "Last Modified" value for SSI documents (see PR number 600)
703 Allow for Last-Modified: without resorting to XBitHack
706 PR#1803: patches to mod_include to allow for file tests
709 PR#4459: Suggestion for better handling of Last-modified headers
714 PR#2415: /server-info doesn't check for the virtual host to list the info
719 PR#1050: Logging of virtual server to error_log as well
722 PR#1358: Selective url-encode of log fields (or maybe a pseudo
726 PR#2073: pipelined connections are not logged correctly
729 PR#4448: Please allow CGI env variables (QUERY_STRING, ...) to be logged
735 PR#3191: no way to set global quality-of-source (qs) coneg values
741 PR#362: Mod_proxy doesn't allow change of error pages
744 PR#440: Proxy doesn't deliver documents if not connected
747 PR#534: proxy converts ~name to %7Ename when name starts with a dot (.)
750 PR#612: Proxy FTP Authentication Fails
753 PR#700: Proxy doesn't do links right for OpenVMS files through ftp:
756 PR#980: Controlling Access to Remote Proxies would be nice...
759 PR#994: Adding authentication "on the fly" through the proxy module
762 PR#1085: ProxyRemote make a dead cycle.
765 PR#1166: ``nph-'' not honored (no buffering) for ProxyRemote mapping
768 PR#1290: Need to know "hit-rate" on proxy cache
771 PR#1532: Proxy transfer logging
774 PR#1547: No HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR set...
777 PR#1567: ProxyRemote proxy requests fail authentication by firewall
780 PR#1702: mod_proxy to support persistent conns?
783 PR#1878: listing of proxy cache content
786 PR#2314: patterns in ProxyRemote
789 PR#2648: Cache file names in Proxy module
792 PR#3568: Accessing URL through proxy server corrupts data.
795 PR#3605: Some anonymous FTP URLs ask for authentication
800 PR#1582: mod_rewrite forms REQUEST_URI different than mod_cgi does
803 PR#2074: mod_rewrite doesn't pass Proxy Throughput on internal subrequests
808 PR#2138: mod_status always displays 256 possible connection slots
811 PR#2343: Status module averages are for entire uptime
816 PR#1004: request_config field in request_rec is moderately bogus
819 PR#1158: improvements to child spawning API
822 PR#1233: there is no way to keep per-connection per-module state
825 PR#2024: adding auth_why to conn_rec
828 PR#2873: Feedback/Comment on APACI
831 PR#3143: No module specific data hook for per-connection data
834 * generally odds and ends
836 PR#2431: A small addition to rotatelogs.c to improve program functionality.
839 PR#2763: mailto tags and bundling bug report script
842 PR#2785: os-aix Support for System Resource Controller
845 PR#2889: Inclusion of RPM spec file in CVS/distributions
848 PR#5713: os-windows [PATCH] install as win32 service with domain account
849 Status: Cannot accept password-as-arg, we should prompt the
850 user when -k install/-k config with a user argument.
854 Other bugs that need fixing:
856 * ap_discard_request should be converted to use the bucket API
857 directly rather than waste cycles copying buffers with the old API.
859 * MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests.
860 Until someone has a better way, we'll probably just rename it
861 "MaxConnectionsPerChild".
863 * Regex containers don't work in an intutive way
864 Status: No one has come up with an efficient way to fix this
865 behavior. Dean has suggested getting rid of regex containers
867 OtherBill suggests: We at least seem to agree on eliminating
868 the <Container ~ foo> forms, and using only
869 <ContainerMatch foo> semantics.
871 * SIGSEGV on Linux (glibc 2.1.2) isn't caught properly by a
872 sigwaiting thread. We need to work around this, perhaps unless
873 there is hope soon for a fixed glibc.
875 * orig_ct in the byterange/multipart handling may not be
876 needed. Apache 1.3 just never stashed "multipart" into
877 r->content_type. We should probably follow suit since the
878 byterange stuff doesn't want the rest of the code to see the
879 multipart content-type; the other code should still think it is
880 dealing with the <orig_ct> stuff.
881 Status: Greg volunteers to investigate (esp. since he was most
882 likely the one to break it :-)
884 Binaries (probably not till beta):
886 Platform Avail. Volunteer
887 ------------------------------------------------------------------
888 AIX 4.3.3 no Bill Stoddard
891 hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.00 no Cliff Woolley
892 i386-pc-solaris2.8 no Aaron Bannert
893 i386-unknown-freebsd4.5 no
894 i386-unknown-freebsd4.6 no Cliff Woolley
895 i686-pc-linux-gnu-slackware81 no Cliff Woolley
896 i686-pc-linux-gnu-rh70 no Aaron Bannert
897 i686-pc-linux-gnu-rh73 no Cliff Woolley
899 powerpc-apple-darwin5.5 no Aaron Bannert
900 powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu no Graham Leggett
901 s390-ibm-linux no Greg Ames
902 sparc-sun-solaris2.8 no Jim Jagielski
903 NetWare no Brad Nicholes
906 Win32-x86 no William Rowe