1 APACHE 2.1 STATUS: -*-text-*-
2 Last modified at [$Date$]
4 Release [NOTE that only Alpha/Beta releases occur in 2.1 development]:
7 2.1.1 : Released on 11/19/2004 as alpha.
10 Please consult the following STATUS files for information
14 * srclib/apr-util/STATUS
17 Contributors looking for a mission:
19 * Just do an egrep on "TODO" or "XXX" in the source.
21 * Review the "PatchAvailable" bugs in the bug database.
22 Append a comment saying "Reviewed and tested".
24 * Open bugs in the bug database.
26 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
32 jerenkrantz asks: Why should this block a release?
34 * the edge connection filter cannot be removed
35 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-httpd-dev&m=105366252619530&w=2
36 jerenkrantz asks: Why should this block a release?
40 * Promote mod_cache from experimental to non-experimental
41 status (keep issues noted below in EXPERIMENTAL MODULES as
42 items to be addressed as a supported module).
43 +1: jerenkrantz, pquerna
46 There are a couple of problems that need to be resolved
47 before this module is moved out of experimental.
48 1) We need to at least review and comment on the RFC violations
49 2) Resolve issue of how to cache page fragements (or perhaps -if- we
50 want to cache page fragements). Today, mod_cache/mod_mem_cache
51 will cache #include 'virtual' requests (but not #include 'file'
52 requests). This was accomplished by making CACHE_IN a
53 CONTENT_SET-1 filter to force it to run before the SUBREQ_CORE
54 filter. But now responses cannot be cached that include the
55 effects of having been run through CONTENT_SET filters
56 (mod_deflate, mod_expires, etc). We could rerun all the
57 CONTENT_SET filters on the cached response, but this will not
58 work in all cases. For example, mod_expires relies on installing
59 the EXPIRATION filter during fixups. Contents served out of
60 mod_cache (out of the quick_handler) bypass -all- the request
61 line server hooks (Ryan really hated this. It is great for
62 performance, but bad because of the complications listed above).
64 jerenkrantz: I think it's time. We've done a *lot* of work to it, and
65 we think most of the blatant RFC violations are now gone.
66 mod_cache just belongs in cache/. There may still be bugs,
67 but not likely to be major ones.
69 * httpd-std.conf and friends
71 a) httpd-std.conf should be tailored by install (from src or
72 binbuild) even if user has existing httpd.conf
73 +1: trawick, slive, gregames, ianh, Ken, wrowe, jwoolley, jim, nd,
75 wrowe - prefer httpd.default.conf to avoid ambiguity with cvs
77 b) tailored httpd-std.conf should be copied by install to
81 c) tailored httpd-std.conf should be installed to
82 sysconfdir/examples or manualdir/exampleconf/
83 +1: slive, trawick, Ken, nd (prefer the latter), erikabele
85 d) Installing a set of default config files when upgrading a server
86 doesn't make ANY sense at all.
87 +1: ianh - medium/big sites don't use 'standard config' anyway, as it
88 usually needs major customizations
89 -1: Ken, wrowe, jwoolley, jim, nd, erikabele
90 wrowe - diff is wonderful when comparing old/new default configs,
91 even for customized sites that ianh mentions
92 jim - ... assuming that the default configs have been updated
93 with the required inline docs to explain the
96 * If the parent process dies, should the remaining child processes
97 "gracefully" self-terminate. Or maybe we should make it a runtime
98 option, or have a concept of 2 parent processes (one being a
100 See: Message-ID: <3C58232C.FE91F19F@Golux.Com>
102 Self-destruct: Ken, Martin, Lars
103 Not self-destruct: BrianP, Ian, Cliff, BillS
104 Make it runtime configurable: Aaron, jim, Justin, wrowe, rederpj, nd
106 /* The below was a concept on *how* to handle the problem */
107 Have 2 parents: +1: jim
108 -1: Justin, wrowe, rederpj, nd
109 +0: Lars, Martin (while standing by, could it do
112 * Make the worker MPM the default MPM for threaded Unix boxes.
113 +1: Justin, Ian, Cliff, BillS, striker, wrowe, nd
114 +0: BrianP, Aaron (mutex contention is looking better with the
115 latest code, let's continue tuning and testing), rederpj, jim
118 pquerna: Do we want to change this for 2.2?
120 RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
122 * Patches submitted to the bug database:
123 http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&product=Apache+httpd-2.0&keywords=PatchAvailable
125 * Filter stacks and subrequests, redirects and fast redirects.
126 There's at least one PR that suffers from the current unclean behaviour
127 (which lets the server send garbage): PR 17629
128 nd says: Every subrequest should get its own filter stack with the
129 subreq_core filter as bottom-most. That filter does two things:
130 - swallow EOS buckets
131 - redirect the data stream to the upper request's (rr->main)
132 filter chain directly after the subrequest's starting
134 Once we have a clean solution, we can try to optimize
135 it, so that the server won't be slow down too much.
137 * RFC 2616 violations.
139 Open PRs: 15852, 15859, 15861, 15864, 15865, 15866, 15868, 15869,
140 15870, 16120, 16125, 16126, 16133, 16135, 16136, 16137,
141 16138, 16139, 16140, 16142, 16518, 16520, 16521,
142 jerenkrantz says: need to decide how many we need to backport and/or
143 if these rise to showstopper status.
144 wrowe suggests: it would be nice to see "MUST" v.s. "SHOULD" v.s. "MAY"
145 out of this list, without reviewing them individually.
147 * There is a bug in how we sort some hooks, at least the pre-config
148 hook. The first time we call the hooks, they are in the correct
149 order, but the second time, we don't sort them correctly. Currently,
150 the modules/http/config.m4 file has been renamed to
151 modules/http/config2.m4 to work around this problem, it should moved
152 back when this is fixed.
154 OtherBill offers that this is a SERIOUS problem. We do not sort
155 correctly by the ordering arguments passed to the register hook
156 functions. This was proven when I reordered the open_logs hook
157 to attempt to open the error logs prior to the access logs. Possibly
158 the entire sorting code needs to be refactored.
160 * pipes deadlock on all platforms with limited pipe buffers (e.g. both
161 Linux and Win32, as opposed to only Win32 on 1.3). The right solution
162 is either GStein's proposal for a "CGI Brigade", or OtherBill's proposal
163 for "Poll Buckets" for "Polling Filter Chains". Or maybe both :-)
165 * All handlers should always send content down even if r->header_only
166 is set. If not, it means that the HEAD requests don't generate the
167 same headers as a GET which is wrong.
169 * HP/UX 10.20: compile breakage in APR. Looks like it should be easy
170 to fix, probably just some extraneous #include's that are fouling
173 Jeff: See my reply and patch in the PR (and previous commit to
174 stop using "pipe" as a field name). If patch is committed, we
175 should be okay. I'll wait to see if the user tests the patch.
176 Update by Jeff 20020722: I got an account on HP 10.20. It looks
177 like some of the APR thread detection is screwed up. If we find
178 pthread.h but we can't compile the pthread test program we still
179 think we can use threads. For that reason, the patch I posted
180 to the PR won't work as-is since a failed compile of the test
181 program means nothing.
183 * exec cmd and suexec arg-passing enhancements
184 Status: Patches proposed
185 Message-ID: <20020526041748.A29148@prodigy.Redbrick.DCU.IE>
186 (see the "proc.patch" and "suexec-shell.patch" links in this message)
188 * The 2.0.36 worker MPM graceless shutdown changes work but are
189 a bit clunky on some platforms; eg, on Linux, the loop to
190 join each worker thread seems to hang, and the parent ends up
191 killing off the child with SIGKILL. But at least it shuts down.
193 * --enable-mods-shared="foo1 foo2" is busted on Darwin. Pier
194 posted a patch (Message-ID: <B8DBBE8D.575A%pier@betaversion.org>).
196 * We do not properly substitute the prefix-variables in the configuration
197 scripts or generated-configs. (i.e. if sysconfdir is etc,
198 httpd-std.conf points to conf.)
200 * If any request gets through ap_process_request_internal() and is
201 scheduled to be served by the core handler, without a flag that this
202 r->filename was tested by dir/file_walk, we need to 500 at the very
203 end of the ap_process_request_internal() processing so sub_req-esters
204 know this request cannot be run. This provides authors of older
205 modules better compatibility, while still improving the security and
208 Status: still need to decide where this goes, OtherBill comments...
209 Message-ID: <065701c14526$495203b0$96c0b0d0@roweclan.net>
210 [Deleted comments regarding the ap_run_handler phase, as irrelevant
211 as BillS points out that "common case will be caught in
212 default_handler already (with the r->finfo.filetype == 0 check)"
213 and the issue is detecting this -before- we try to run the req.]
215 gregames says: can this happen somehow without a broken module
216 being involved? If not, why waste cycles trying to defend against
217 potential broken modules? It seems futile.
218 wrowe counters: no, it shouldn't happen unless the module is broken.
219 But the right answer is to fail the request up-front in dir/file
220 walk if the path was entirely invalid; and we can't do that either
221 UNTIL 2.1 or we break modules that haven't hooked map_to_storage.
223 * With AP_MODE_EXHAUSTIVE in the core, it is finally clear to me
224 how the Perchild MPM should be re-written. It hasn't worked
225 correctly since filters were added because it wasn't possible to
226 get the content that had already been written and the socket at
227 the same time. This mode lets us do that, so the MPM can be
230 * Can a static httpd be built reliably?
231 Message-ID: <20020207142751.T31582@clove.org>
233 * [Ken] Test suite failures:
234 o worker is also failing some of the 'cgi' subtests
235 (see <URL:http://Source-Zone.Org/Apache/regression/>):
236 Justin says: "Worker should be fine and passes httpd-test here.
237 I think it's a perl or a httpd-test problem."
239 * Usage of APR_BRIGADE_NORMALIZE in core_input_filter should be
241 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201202232430.318-100000@deepthought.cs.virginia.edu>
242 Jeff wonders if we still care about this. It is no longer an
243 API issue but simply an extra trip through the brigade.
245 * The Add...Filter and Set...Filter directives do not allow the
246 administrator to order filters, beyond the order of filename (mime)
247 extensions. It isn't clear if Set...Filter(s) should be inserted
248 before or after the Add...Filter(s) which are ordered by sequence of
249 filename extensions. At minimum, some sort of +-[0-10] syntax seems
250 like a nice solution. See ROADMAP.
252 * Get perchild to work on platforms other than Linux. This
253 will require a portable mechanism to pass data and file/socket
254 descriptors between vhost child groups. An API was proposed
256 Message-ID: <20020111115006.K1529@clove.org>
258 * Try to get libtool inter-library dependency code working on AIX.
259 Message-ID: <cm3n10lx555.fsf@rdu163-40-092.nc.rr.com>
261 Justin says: If we get it working on AIX, we can enable this
262 on all platforms and clean up our build system
264 Jeff says: I thought I tested a patch for you sometime in
265 January that you were going to commit within a few
268 * Handling of %2f in URIs. Currently both 1.3 and 2.0
269 completely disallow %2f in the request URI path (see
270 ap_unescape_url() in util.c). It's permitted and passed
271 through in the query string, however. Roy says the
272 original reason for disallowing it, from five years ago,
273 was to protect CGI scripts that applied PATH_INFO to
274 a filesystem location and which might be tricked by
275 ..%2f..%2f(...). We *should* allow path-info of the
276 form 'http://foo.com/index.cgi/path/to/path%2finfo'.
277 Since we've revamped a lot of our processing of path
278 segments, it would be nice to allow this, or at least
279 allow it conditionally with a directive.
281 OtherBill adds that %2f as the SECOND character of a multibyte
282 sequence causes the request to fail! This happens notably in
285 * FreeBSD, threads, and worker MPM. All seems to work fine
286 if you only have one worker process with many threads. Add
287 a second worker process and the accept lock seems to be
288 lost. This might be an APR issue with how it deals with
289 the child_init hook (i.e. the fcntl lock needs to be resynced).
290 More examination and analysis is required.
291 Status: This has also been reported on Cygwin.
292 FreeBSD 4.7 was reputed to have 'fixed' threads. Not.
293 FreeBSD 5.2-RC is a confirmed fix w/either libkse or libthr.
294 [libc_r, still the default, does not serve any pages w/worker;
295 so on FreeBSD 5.2, you must use libmap.conf (see man page).]
296 Work needs to be done to get APR to try to be knowledgable that
297 libkse/libthr are acceptable. Still not recommended for the
298 default since libc_r is still broken.
299 Message-ID: <3C2CC514.8EF3BED1@wapme-systems.de> (cygnus)
301 * There is increasing demand from module writers for an API
302 that will allow them to control the server à la apachectl.
303 Reasons include sole-function servers that need to die if
304 an external dependency (e.g., a database) fails, et cetera.
305 Perhaps something in the (ever more abused) scoreboard?
307 On the other hand, we already have a pipe that goes between parent
308 and child for graceful shutdown events, along with an API that
309 can be used to send a message down that pipe. In threaded MPMs,
310 it is easy enough to make that one pipe be used for graceful
311 and graceless events, and it is also easy to open that pipe
312 to both parent and child for writing. Then we just need to
313 figure out how to do graceless on non-threaded MPMs.
315 * Allow the DocumentRoot directive within <Location > scopes? This
316 allows the beloved (crusty) Alias /foo/ /somepath/foo/ followed
317 by a <Directory /somepath/foo> to become simply
318 <Location /foo/> DocumentRoot /somefile/foo (IMHO a bit more legible
319 and in-your-face.) DocumentRoot unset would be accepted [and would
320 not permit content to be served, only virtual resources such as
321 server-info or server-status.
322 This proposed change would _not_ depricate Alias.
323 striker: See the thread starting with Message-ID:
324 JLEGKKNELMHCJPNMOKHOGEEJFBAA.striker@apache.org.
326 * Win32: Rotatelogs sometimes is not terminated when Apache
327 goes down hard. FirstBill was looking at possibly tracking the
328 child's-child processes in the parent process.
329 stoddard: Shared scoreboard might offer a good way for the parent
330 to keep track of 'other child' processes and whack them if the child
332 Other thoughts on walking the process chain using the NT kernel
333 have also been proposed on APR.
335 * Eliminate unnecessary creation of pipes in mod_cgid
337 * Combine log_child and piped_log_spawn. Clean up http_log.c.
340 * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)
341 Architect start-up code that avoids initializing all the modules
342 in the parent process on platforms that do not support fork.
344 * There are still a number of places in the code where we are
345 losing error status (i.e. throwing away the error returned by a
346 system call and replacing it with a generic error code)
348 * Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.
350 * All DBMs suffer from confusion in support/dbmmanage (perl script) since
351 the dbmmanage employs the first-matched dbm format. This is not
352 necessarily the library that Apache was built with. Aught to
353 rewrite dbmmanage upon installation to bin/ with the proper library
354 for predictable mod_auth_dbm administration.
355 Questions; htdbm exists, time to kill dbmmanage, or does it remain
356 useful as a perl dbm management example? If we keep it,
357 do we address the issue above?
360 Some additional items remaining:
361 - case_preserved_filename stuff
362 (use the new canonical name stuff?)
363 - find a new home for ap_text(_header)
364 - is it possible to remove the DAV: namespace stuff from util_xml?
366 * ap_core_translate() and its use by mod_mmap_static and mod_file_cache
367 are a bit wonky. The function should probably be exposed as a utility
368 function (such as ap_translate_url2fs() or ap_validate_fs_url() or
369 something). Another approach would be a new hook phase after
370 "translate" which would allow the module to munge what the
371 translation has decided to do.
372 Status: Greg +1 (volunteers)
374 * Explore use of a post-config hook for the code in http_main.c which
375 calls ap_fixup_virutal_hosts(), ap_fini_vhost_config(), and
376 ap_sort_hooks() [to reduce the logic in main()]
378 * read the config tree just once, and process N times (as necessary)
380 * (possibly) use UUIDs in mod_unique_id and/or mod_usertrack
382 * (possibly) port the bug fix for PR 6942 (segv when LoadModule is put
383 into a VirtualHost container) to 2.0.
385 * shift stuff to mod_core.h
387 * callers of ap_run_create_request() should check the return value
388 for failure (Doug volunteers)
390 * Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work
391 (at least) needs to be done:
392 - Document warning that OSR2 is required (for Crypt functions, in
393 rand.c, at least.) This could be resolved with an SSL library, or
394 randomization in APR itself.
395 - Bring the Win9xConHook.dll from 1.3 into 2.0 (no sense till it
396 actually works) and add in a splash of Win9x service code.
398 * Fix the worker MPM to use POD to kill child processes instead
399 of ap_os_killpg, regardless of how they should die.
401 * Scoreboard structures could be changed in the future such that
402 proper alignment is not maintained, leading to segfaults on
403 some systems. Cliff posted a patch to deal with this issue but
404 later recanted. See this message to dev@apr.apache.org:
405 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0203011354090.16457-200000@deepthought
408 * When sufficiently tested, the AllowEncodedSlashes/%2f patch
409 needs to be backported to 2.0 and 1.3.
411 * APXS either needs to be fixed completely for use when apr is out of tree,
412 or it should drop query mode altogether, and we just grow an
413 httpd-config or similar arrangement.
414 To quote a discussion in STATUS earlier:
416 thommay: this doesn't fix all the problems with apxs and out of
417 tree apr/apr-util, but it's a good start. There's still the
418 query cases; but I'm beginning to think that in these cases
419 the app should be querying ap{r,u}-config directly
420 gstein: agreed. apxs should deprecate the -q flag
422 TODO ISSUES REMAINING IN MOD_SSL:
424 * In order to use a DSO version of mod_ssl we have to link with
425 -lssl and -lcrypto. A workaround is in place right now where the
426 entire EXTRA_LIBS macro is being appended to the objects list, but
427 this is a hack. We should either revamp the APACHE_CHECK_SSL_TOOLKIT
428 autoconf function or come up with some other autoconf checks to
429 search for libssl and libcrypto and properly add them to mod_ssl's
432 * SSL renegotiations in combination with POST request
434 * Port or dispose all code inside #if 0...#endif blocks that remain
435 from the porting effort.
437 * Do we need SSL_set_read_ahead()?
439 * the ssl_expr api is NOT THREAD SAFE. race conditions exist:
440 -in ssl_expr_comp() if SSLRequire is used in .htaccess
441 (ssl_expr_info is global)
442 -is ssl_expr_eval() if there is an error
443 (ssl_expr_error is global)
445 * SSLRequire directive (parsing of) leaks memory
447 * Diffie-Hellman-Parameters for temporary keys are hardcoded in
448 ssl_engine_dh.c, while the comment in ssl_engine_kernel.c says:
449 "it is suggested that keys be changed daily or every 500
450 transactions, and more often if possible."
452 * ssl_var_lookup could be rewritten to be MUCH faster
454 * CRL callback should be pluggable
456 * session cache store should be pluggable
458 * init functions should return status code rather than ssl_die()
460 * ssl_engine_pphrase.c needs to be reworked so it is generic enough
461 to also decrypt proxy keys
463 * the shmcb code should just align its memory segment rather than
464 jumping through all the "safe" memcpy and memset hoops
467 * mod_proxy performance: when mod_proxy is configured to do proxy
468 gateway (aka reverse proxy), it would be nice to be able to reuse
469 connections to the backend servers. Now, connections to the
470 backend servers are taken down when the corresponding frontend
471 connection is taken down.
473 * mod_proxy: Ability to run SSL over proxy gateway connections,
474 encrypting (or reencrypting) at the proxy.
476 * mod_proxy: Add capability of mod_proxy to load balance across
477 a farm of backend servers.
479 * mod_cache: Handle ESI tags.
481 EXPERIMENTAL MODULES:
483 Experimental modules should eventually be be promoted to fully supported
484 status or removed from the repository entirely (ie, the
485 'experiment' failed). This section tracks what needs to happen to
486 get the modules promoted to fully supported status.
488 mod_cache/mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache:
490 * mod_mem_cache: Consider adding a RevalidateTimeout directive to
491 specify time at which local cached content is to be revalidated
492 (ie, underlying file stat'ed to see if it has changed).
494 * mod_cache: CacheEnable/CacheDisable should accept regular expressions.
495 jerenkrantz says: Too slow. Get regexs away from speedy caches by
496 default. Introduce a new CacheEnableRegex if you want.
498 * mod_cache: Fix dependency on ATOMIC operators. Need
499 APR_HAS_ATOMIC_* feature macros.
500 jerenkrantz says: APR 1.0+ has some guaranteed form of atomics.
502 * mod_mem_cache/mod_disk_cache: Need to be able to query cache
503 status (num of entries, cache object properties, etc.).
504 mod_status could be extended to query optional hooks defined
505 by modules for the purpose of reporting module status.
506 mod_cache (et. al.) could define optional hooks that are called
507 to collect status. Status should be queryable by
509 jerenkrantz says: Yawn. Who cares.
511 PRs that have been suspended forever waiting for someone to
512 put them into 'the next release':
514 * documentation and Q&A
516 PR#2221: Make online documentation search link back to my installation
519 PR#2906: Propose that Apache recommend $UNIQUE_ID for all "session id"
523 PR#2793: When will Apache support P3P? Any Plans?
528 PR#2113: HTTP Server Rebuild Line Needs Changing for the better
531 PR#2421: problem specifying ndbm library for build ?with autoconfigure
536 PR#76: missing call to "setlocale();"
539 PR#628: Request of "Options SymLinksIfGroupMatch"
542 PR#793: RLimitCPU and RLimitMEM don't apply to all children like they should
545 PR#922: it is useful to allow specifiction that root-owned symlinks
546 should always be followed
549 PR#1028: DoS attacks involving memory consumption
552 PR#1191: setlogin() is not called, causing problems with e.g. identd
555 PR#1204: regerror() exists, use it
558 PR#2284: Can not POST to ErrorDocument - Apache/1.3b6
561 PR#2396: Proposal for TimeZone directive
564 PR#2446: AllowOverride FileInfo is too coarse
567 PR#2760: [PATCH] User/Group for <Directory> and <Location> i.e. not only
568 in global and <Virtual>.
571 PR#2907: suggestion: power up your Include directive :)
574 PR#3018: cannot limit some HTTP methods
577 PR#3677: New ErrorDocumentMatch directive
580 PR#4244: "Files" and "FilesMatch" regexp does not recognize bang as
584 PR#5993: AllowOverride should have a 'CheckNone' and 'AllowNone' argument
585 instead of only 'None'
590 PR#537: mod_access syntax allows hosts that should be restricted
593 PR#1287: add allow,deny/deny,allow warning to mod_access
596 PR#2512: <IfDenied> directive wanted
601 PR#557: ~UserHome directories are not honored in absolute pathname
605 PR#1117: Using NIS passwd.byname dbm files with AuthDBMUserFile
608 PR#1809: Suggestion for improving authentication modules and core source
609 code, problem with 401 and ErrorDocument
614 PR#1263: Add frame-safe anchor attribute to mod_autoindex links
617 * mod_cgi (and suexec)
619 PR#921: suexec Uses cwd before filling it in, doesn't use syslog
622 PR#1176: Apache cannot handle continuation line in headers
625 PR#1120: suexec does not parse arguments to #exec cmd
628 PR#1268: CGI scripts running as Apache user: security (suexec etc.)
631 PR#1285: Error messages could be easier to spot in cgi.log file for suexec.c
634 PR#1905: suexec - Allow modules to set user:group for execution.
637 PR#2360: suexec for general access of user content?
640 PR#2460: TimeOut applies to output of CGI scripts
643 PR#2573: CGI's for general use still have to be run as another user
647 PR#4241: Need to be able to override shebang line to make CGI scripts
651 PR#4490: mod_cgi prevents handling of OPTIONS requests
656 PR#370: Modified PATH environemnt variable is not passed, instead
662 PR#1383: I make mod_headers to modify request headers as well as
666 PR#1677: mod_headers should allow mod_log_config-style formats in
672 PR#759: imap should read <MAP><AREA>*</MAP> too!
677 PR#78: Additional status for XBitHack directive
680 PR#623: A smarter "Last Modified" value for SSI documents (see PR number 600)
684 Allow for Last-Modified: without resorting to XBitHack
687 PR#1803: patches to mod_include to allow for file tests
690 PR#4459: Suggestion for better handling of Last-modified headers
695 PR#1050: Logging of virtual server to error_log as well
698 PR#1358: Selective url-encode of log fields (or maybe a pseudo
702 PR#2073: pipelined connections are not logged correctly
705 PR#4448: Please allow CGI env variables (QUERY_STRING, ...) to be logged
711 PR#3191: no way to set global quality-of-source (qs) coneg values
717 PR#362: Mod_proxy doesn't allow change of error pages
720 PR#440: Proxy doesn't deliver documents if not connected
723 PR#534: proxy converts ~name to %7Ename when name starts with a dot (.)
726 PR#612: Proxy FTP Authentication Fails
729 PR#700: Proxy doesn't do links right for OpenVMS files through ftp:
732 PR#980: Controlling Access to Remote Proxies would be nice...
735 PR#994: Adding authentication "on the fly" through the proxy module
738 PR#1085: ProxyRemote make a dead cycle.
741 PR#1166: ``nph-'' not honored (no buffering) for ProxyRemote mapping
744 PR#1290: Need to know "hit-rate" on proxy cache
747 PR#1532: Proxy transfer logging
750 PR#1547: No HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR set...
753 PR#1567: ProxyRemote proxy requests fail authentication by firewall
756 PR#1702: mod_proxy to support persistent conns?
759 PR#1878: listing of proxy cache content
762 PR#2314: patterns in ProxyRemote
765 PR#2648: Cache file names in Proxy module
768 PR#3568: Accessing URL through proxy server corrupts data.
771 PR#3605: Some anonymous FTP URLs ask for authentication
776 PR#1582: mod_rewrite forms REQUEST_URI different than mod_cgi does
779 PR#2074: mod_rewrite doesn't pass Proxy Throughput on internal subrequests
784 PR#2138: mod_status always displays 256 possible connection slots
787 PR#2343: Status module averages are for entire uptime
792 PR#1004: request_config field in request_rec is moderately bogus
795 PR#1158: improvements to child spawning API
798 PR#1233: there is no way to keep per-connection per-module state
801 PR#2024: adding auth_why to conn_rec
804 PR#2873: Feedback/Comment on APACI
807 PR#3143: No module specific data hook for per-connection data
810 * generally odds and ends
812 PR#2431: A small addition to rotatelogs.c to improve program functionality.
815 PR#2763: mailto tags and bundling bug report script
818 PR#2785: os-aix Support for System Resource Controller
821 PR#2889: Inclusion of RPM spec file in CVS/distributions
824 PR#5713: os-windows [PATCH] install as win32 service with domain account
825 Status: Cannot accept password-as-arg, we should prompt the
826 user when -k install/-k config with a user argument.
830 Other bugs that need fixing:
832 * ap_discard_request should be converted to use the bucket API
833 directly rather than waste cycles copying buffers with the old API.
835 * MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests.
836 Until someone has a better way, we'll probably just rename it
837 "MaxConnectionsPerChild".
839 * Regex containers don't work in an intutive way
840 Status: No one has come up with an efficient way to fix this
841 behavior. Dean has suggested getting rid of regex containers
843 OtherBill suggests: We at least seem to agree on eliminating
844 the <Container ~ foo> forms, and using only
845 <ContainerMatch foo> semantics.
847 * SIGSEGV on Linux (glibc 2.1.2) isn't caught properly by a
848 sigwaiting thread. We need to work around this, perhaps unless
849 there is hope soon for a fixed glibc.
851 * orig_ct in the byterange/multipart handling may not be
852 needed. Apache 1.3 just never stashed "multipart" into
853 r->content_type. We should probably follow suit since the
854 byterange stuff doesn't want the rest of the code to see the
855 multipart content-type; the other code should still think it is
856 dealing with the <orig_ct> stuff.
857 Status: Greg volunteers to investigate (esp. since he was most
858 likely the one to break it :-)
860 Binaries (probably not till beta):
862 Platform Avail. Volunteer
863 ------------------------------------------------------------------
864 AIX 4.3.3 no Bill Stoddard
867 hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.00 no Cliff Woolley
868 i386-pc-solaris2.8 no Aaron Bannert
869 i386-unknown-freebsd4.5 no
870 i386-unknown-freebsd4.6 no Cliff Woolley
871 i686-pc-linux-gnu-slackware81 no Cliff Woolley
872 i686-pc-linux-gnu-rh70 no Aaron Bannert
873 i686-pc-linux-gnu-rh73 no Cliff Woolley
875 powerpc-apple-darwin5.5 no Aaron Bannert
876 powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu no Graham Leggett
877 s390-ibm-linux no Greg Ames
878 sparc-sun-solaris2.8 no Jim Jagielski
879 NetWare no Brad Nicholes
882 Win32-x86 no William Rowe