1 APACHE 2.0 STATUS: -*-text-*-
2 Last modified at [$Date: 2002/02/06 02:40:37 $]
6 2.0.32 : in development
7 2.0.31 : rolled Feburary 1, 2002.
8 2.0.30 : tagged January 8, 2002. not rolled.
9 2.0.29 : tagged November 27, 2001. not rolled.
10 2.0.28 : released November 13, 2001
11 2.0.27 : rolled November 6, 2001
12 2.0.26 : tagged October 16, 2001. not rolled.
13 2.0.25 : rolled August 29, 2001
14 2.0.24 : rolled August 18, 2001
15 2.0.23 : rolled August 9, 2001
16 2.0.22 : rolled July 29, 2001
17 2.0.21 : rolled July 20, 2001
18 2.0.20 : rolled July 8, 2001
19 2.0.19 : rolled June 27, 2001
20 2.0.18 : rolled May 18, 2001
21 2.0.17 : rolled April 17, 2001
22 2.0.16 : rolled April 4, 2001
23 2.0.15 : rolled March 21, 2001
24 2.0.14 : rolled March 7, 2001
25 2.0a9 : released December 12, 2000
26 2.0a8 : released November 20, 2000
27 2.0a7 : released October 8, 2000
28 2.0a6 : released August 18, 2000
29 2.0a5 : released August 4, 2000
30 2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000
31 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000
32 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000
33 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000
35 Please consult the following STATUS files for information
39 * srclib/apr-util/STATUS
45 running on Daedalus since 02-Feb-2002 7:58 PST (need 3 days)
46 Compiles on : AIX 4.3, Solaris, FreeBSD 3.4 & 4.5, Win32,
48 Broken on: Win32 [no error logging within service, other bugs]
50 +1 : Jeff Trawick, Aaron, Jim
53 -1 : BillS, Ian, gregames, BrianP
54 bumps since original tag:
56 * scoreboard x2 : 1 to fix gracefull restarts
58 * win32/locks.c : to fix mod_rewrite on win32
61 * libtool/binbuild on AIX -- possible addition of patched
62 binbuild.sh to 31-beta roll
66 Jeff says: We can't do anything about libtool since AIX
67 needs a version that won't work on some
68 platforms. Handle this in the README.
69 The binbuild issue isn't AIX. It is
70 something that could happen anywhere that
71 the binbuild-er has their own expat.
72 Handle this by patching binbuild.sh for a
73 beta roll or putting a patch in the README for
74 use by people who want to do binbuild but
75 have expat installed locally.
76 gregames: why can't we roll a second tarball with the
77 appropriate libtool version? doesn't
78 Darwin need it as well as AIX?
80 * erroneous check in an AP_DEBUG_ASSERT() call. Only happens
81 in maintainer mode. Fixed in modules/http/http_protocol.c
82 revision 1.391. Add item in release notes:
83 +1: Justin, Cliff, Aaron, BillS, Jim, trawick
87 * seg faults in core_input_filter when the client goes away
88 before any POST body bytes are received.
89 Jeff committed a fix with server/core.c revision 1.144.
90 Justin committed a fix with server/protocol.c revision 1.78
91 (server/protocol.c revision 1.79 demotes a potentially
92 annoying error message)
94 * FirstBill reports problem [re]starting as-a-service, shared
95 score is suspect. OtherBill is investigating... has found
96 . created restart and shutdown events, only restart
97 survived initialization on XP, although breaking into
98 the debugger interferes with reproducing the bug.
99 Perhaps in FirstBill's example _restart didn't survive.
100 . Scoreboard appears irrelevant to the problem.
101 . This looks like handle corruption in NT/XP
102 . Args are not initialied correctly when the -k install
104 OtherBill will not create Win32 binaries due to this bug.
106 * mod_auth_dbm can't open a Berkely DB password file on Unix
107 Justin postulates that this might be related to the fact
108 that mod_auth_dbm wasn't using apr-util. See
109 modules/aaa/mod_auth_dbm.c revision 1.42 and
110 module/aaa/config.m4 revision 1.54.
112 * Madhu reports that the worker MPM doesn't shutdown nicely
115 * mod_autoindex displays the wrong icon for subdirectories
118 * anon shared memory not allocating enough
119 (fix is apr/shm/unix/shm.c 1.14)
121 * ap_directory_walk skips some per-dir config merge functions
122 if there is no "<Directory />" block in the configuration
123 Message-ID: <m3itbdiijq.fsf@rdu163-40-092.nc.rr.com>
124 * That is very unlikely, merges are additive. Much more likely,
125 the default SetOutputFilter default or merge is borked.
126 Unless it's the code that permits 'null' merges, per module.
127 Still, it's probably in SetOutputFilter's behavior.
128 * BrianP notes: directory_walk's handling of trailing slashes
129 appears to be the cause: http://www.apachelabs.org/apache-mbox/200112.mbox/%3c3C1CF721.1090300@pacbell.net%3e
131 * Test suite failures:
132 o worker is also failing some of the 'cgi' subtests
133 (see <URL:http://Source-Zone.Org/Apache/regression/>):
134 Justin says: "Worker should be fine and passes httpd-test here.
135 If you can provide evidence that it can be reproduced
136 outside of httpd-test, then it's a showstopper. I
137 think it's a perl or a httpd-test problem."
138 Not a showstopper: Justin
140 * If any request gets to the core handler, without a flag that this
141 r->filename was tested by dir/file_walk, we need to 500 at the very
142 end of the ap_process_request_internal() processing. This provides
143 authors of older modules better compatibility, while still improving
144 the security and robustness of 2.0.
145 Status: still need to decide where this goes, OtherBill comments...
146 Message-ID: <065701c14526$495203b0$96c0b0d0@roweclan.net>
147 we need to look at halting this in the 'default handler' case,
148 and that implies pushing the 'handler election' into the request
149 internal processing phase from the run request phase.
151 * There is a bug in how we sort some hooks, at least the pre-config
152 hook. The first time we call the hooks, they are in the correct
153 order, but the second time, we don't sort them correctly. Currently,
154 the modules/http/config.m4 file has been renamed to
155 modules/http/config2.m4 to work around this problem, it should moved
156 back when this is fixed. rbb
157 Justin says: "Is this really a showstopper? This has been here
158 forever. What's wrong? Does this have to do with
160 Not a showstopper: Justin, BrianP, trawick, gregames
162 * Convert all instances of the old apr_lock_t type to the new
163 types (once they are fully supported in APR).
164 Status: Aaron is working on converting INTRAPROCESS
165 to apr_thread_mutex_t types. Full replacements for
166 LOCKALL and CROSS_PROCESS are not yet complete on all
167 platforms, and should only be used in MPMs like worker
168 with limited OS exposure.
169 BrianP asks: "Is this really a showstopper?"
170 IanH says: "If we don't do it before we go live we will have 2
171 different API's to support in APR"
173 * A binbuild installation picks up the right libraries when
174 running apachectl because we set the appropriate environment
175 variable, but ab, htpasswd, etc. don't know how to pick up apr,
177 Message-ID: <20020116000226.GA15991@ebuilt.com>
178 Justin says: "You could always build all of the binaries
179 statically if you don't want to let libtool
180 handle it. At most, I don't consider this a
181 a release showstopper as it is a packaging issue."
182 Ken sez: "Showstopper because, until it's the default, it
183 violates the P of LA. Binaries will give strange
184 errors and not run if moved."
185 Status: Aaron volunteers: I'll commit a patch to allow all
186 the support binaries to be built statically against
187 libapr/libaprutil/etc and then enable it in binbuild.
188 gregames says: what about httpd? yeah, it works at the moment
189 if you use apachectl. But I've already heard
190 complaints about not being able to execute
193 RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
195 * The Add...Filter and Set...Filter directives do not allow the
196 administrator to order filters, beyond the order of filename (mime)
197 extensions. It isn't clear if Set...Filter(s) should be inserted
198 before or after the Add...Filter(s) which are ordered by sequence of
199 filename extensions. At minimum, some sort of +-[0-10] syntax seems
200 like the quickest fix for a 2.0 gold release.
201 Justin says: "Could we delay this for a point release or 2.1?"
202 Not a showstopper: justin, wrowe, trawick, stoddard, Jim, Ian, Aaron,
205 * Should we always build binaries statically unless otherwise
207 Message-ID: <20020129210006.B23512@Lithium.MeepZor.Com>
212 * If the parent process dies, should the remaining child processes
213 "gracefully" self-terminate. Or maybe we should make it a runtime
214 option, or have a concept of 2 parent processes (one being a
216 See: Message-ID: <3C58232C.FE91F19F@Golux.Com>
218 Self-destruct: Ken, Martin
219 Not self-destruct: BrianP, Ian, Cliff, BillS
220 Make it runtime configurable: Aaron, Jim, Justin
221 Have 2 parents: +1: Jim
223 +0: Martin (while standing by, could it do
225 look at accept() error handling first: gregames
227 * Make some modifications to the scoreboard creation routines,
228 prefer anonymous shared memory, and allow a configuration
229 directive to override the defaults.
230 Message-ID: <20020130080804.C16977@clove.org>
231 Status: Aaron volunteers
233 * Get perchild to work on platforms other than Linux. This
234 will require a portable mechanism to pass data and file/socket
235 descriptors between vhost child groups. An API was proposed
237 Message-ID: <20020111115006.K1529@clove.org>
238 Vote: Is a non-portable perchild going to hold up a GA release?
240 No: Aaron, Justin, trawick, stoddard, Jim, Ian, BrianP, gregames
242 * Recent changes to ap_rgetline may have broken EBCDIC boxes.
243 Message-ID: <20020122072605.GF28051@ebuilt.com>
244 Justin says: "I don't have an EBCDIC box to test on. A potential
245 solution is to split out ap_rgetline into two
246 functions as described in this message."
247 gregames says: I see the breakage now, and volunteer to fix it
248 when things calm down a little. It looks OK when
249 there are complete lines and no mime continuations.
251 * Modify the worker MPM so that it doesn't need to create and
252 destroy a pool for each request--possibly by adopting a
253 leader/follower model in which each worker owns a persistent
254 ptrans pool (like the prefork MPM) and the workers take
255 turns acting as listeners...this approach might also help
256 reduce context-switching
258 * CGI single-byte reads
259 BrianP suggests that this is caused by the ap_scan_script_header_err()
260 routine, which will do single-byte reads until it finds the end
261 of the header, at which point it constructs a pipe-bucket (buffered)
264 Proposed solution in:
265 Message-ID: <3C36ADAF.60601@cnet.com>
267 * Try to get libtool inter-library dependency code working on AIX.
269 Message-ID: <cm3n10lx555.fsf@rdu163-40-092.nc.rr.com>
271 Justin says: If we get it working on AIX, we can enable this
272 on all platforms and clean up our build system
274 Jeff says: I thought I tested a patch for you sometime in
275 January that you were going to commit within a few
278 * Handling of %2f in URIs. Currently both 1.3 and 2.0
279 completely disallow %2f in the request URI path (see
280 ap_unescape_url() in util.c). It's permitted and passed
281 through in the query string, however. Roy says the
282 original reason for disallowing it, from five years ago,
283 was to protect CGI scripts that applied PATH_INFO to
284 a filesystem location and which might be tricked by
285 ..%2f..%2f(...). We *should* allow path-info of the
286 form 'http://foo.com/index.cgi/path/to/path%2finfo'.
287 Since we've revamped a lot of our processing of path
288 segments, it would be nice to allow this, or at least
289 allow it conditionally with a directive.
291 * FreeBSD, threads, and worker MPM. All seems to work fine
292 if you only have one worker process with many threads. Add
293 a second worker process and the accept lock seems to be
294 lost. This might be an APR issue with how it deals with
295 the child_init hook (i.e. the fcntl lock needs to be resynced).
296 More examination and analysis is required.
297 Status: This has also been reported on Cygwin.
299 Message-ID: <3C2CC514.8EF3BED1@wapme-systems.de> (cygnus)
301 Justin says: So, FreeBSD-CURRENT and Cywin have the same
302 problem. Yum. If another platform has this
303 with worker, this becomes a showstopper.
304 Aaron says: I spent some time disecting this and have come to
305 the conclusion that it is not a problem in the worker MPM
306 (or at least, it is not isolated to a problem in worker).
307 I'll list some of the problems I'm seeing in case someone
308 else wants to pick up where I've left off:
309 - Delivery of just about any signal to one of the child
310 processes will send it into an infinite loop as well.
311 - Even though the parent is spinning out of control,
312 at first the child or children will appear to work
313 properly. At times it is possible to get it into a state,
314 however, where a request will hang until another concurrent
315 request "kicks" the first, at which point the second will
316 hang. My theory is that this has to do with the
317 pthread_cond_*() implementation in FreeBSD, but it's still
318 possible that it is in APR.
320 Justin adds: Oh, FreeBSD threads are implemented entirely with
321 select()/poll()/longjmp(). Welcome to the nightmare.
322 So, that means a ktrace output also has the thread
323 scheduling internals in it (since it is all the same to
324 the kernel). Which makes it hard to distinguish between
325 our select() calls and their select() calls.
326 *bangs head on wall repeatedly* But, some of the libc_r
327 files have a DBG_MSG #define. This is moderately helpful
328 when used with -DNO_DETACH. The kernel scheduler isn't
329 waking up the threads on a select(). Yum. And, I bet
330 those decrementing select calls have to do with the
331 scheduler. Time to brush up on our OS fundamentals.
333 * There is increasing demand from module writers for an API
334 that will allow them to control the server à la apachectl.
335 Reasons include sole-function servers that need to die if
336 an external dependency (e.g., a database) fails, et cetera.
337 Perhaps something in the (ever more abused) scoreboard?
338 rbb: I don't believe the scoreboard is the correct mechanism
339 for this. We already have a pipe that goes between parent
340 and child for graceful shutdown events, along with an API that
341 can be used to send a message down that pipe. In threaded MPMs,
342 it is easy enough to make that one pipe be used for graceful
343 and graceless events, and it is also easy to open that pipe
344 to both parent and child for writing. Then we just need to figure
345 out how to do graceless on non-threaded MPMs.
347 * revamp the input filter behavior, per discussions since
348 February (and especially at the hackathon last
349 April). Specifically, ap_get_brigade will return a brigade with
350 *up to* a specific number of bytes, or a "line" of data. The
351 read may be blocking or nonblocking. ap_getline() will be
352 refactored into apr_brigade_getline(), and then DECHUNK can use
353 f->next (ap_getline will always read "top of input stack"). Also
354 fix the bug where request body content will end up closing the
355 connection (buggering up persistent conns).
356 Status: Justin is working on this as fast as he can.
357 The core input filters, HTTP-related filters, mod_ssl,
358 mod_proxy, and ap_[r]getline are switched to the new logic.
360 - socket bucket and core input filter changes. see end of
361 message ID (Feb 27): <20010227075326.S2297@lyra.org>
363 - fix up ap_get_brigade() semantics, fix bug in DECHUNK /
364 ap_getline. many messages (plus their threads) (Apr/May):
365 Message-ID: <20010402101207.J27539@lyra.org>
366 Message-ID: <3AF7F921.D2EEC41A@algroup.co.uk>
367 Message-ID: <20010508190029.E18404@lyra.org>
369 - further work with combining/tweaking the builtin filters:
370 Message-ID: <20010509115445.D1374@lyra.org>
372 - thoughts on filter modes:
373 Message-ID: <021b01c14dee$09782af0$93c0b0d0@roweclan.net>
375 - proposal for getline rewrite:
376 Message-ID: <20011231104019.GD3904@ebuilt.com>
378 - patch for getline rewrite:
379 Message-ID: <20020122072605.GF28051@ebuilt.com>
381 - Change ap_get_brigade prototype:
382 Message-ID: <20020120115136.GI17601@ebuilt.com>
384 * Allow the DocumentRoot directive within <Location > scopes? This
385 allows the beloved (crusty) Alias /foo/ /somepath/foo/ followed
386 by a <Directory /somepath/foo> to become simply
387 <Location /foo/> DocumentRoot /somefile/foo (IMHO a bit more legible
388 and in-your-face.) DocumentRoot unset would be accepted [and would
389 not permit content to be served, only virtual resources such as
390 server-info or server-status.
391 This proposed change would _not_ depricate Alias.
393 * Win32: Rotatelogs sometimes is not terminated when Apache
394 goes down hard. FirstBill was looking at possibly tracking the
395 child's-child processes in the parent process.
396 OtherBill asks, wasn't this fixed?
397 stoddard: Not fixed. Shared scoreboard might offer a good
398 way for the parent to keep track of 'other child' processes
399 and whack them if the child goes down.
401 * Win32: Add a simple hold console open patch (wait for close or
402 the ESC key, with a nice message) if the server died a bad
403 death (non-zero exit code) in console mode.
404 Resolution: bring forward same ugly hacks from 1.3.13-.20
406 * Port of mod_ssl to Apache 2.0:
408 The current porting state is summarized in modules/ssl/README. The
409 remaining work includes:
410 (1) stablizing/optimizing the SSL filter logic
411 (2) Enabling the various SSL caching mechanisms (shmcb, shmht)
412 (3) Enabling SSL extentions
413 (4) Trying to seperate the https filter logic from mod_ssl -
414 This is to facilitate other modules that wish to use the https
415 filter or the mod_ssl logic or both as required.
416 Justin: mod_ssl filter logic is redone, so that should be fine.
417 Madhu has submitted a patch for SSL caching - however, I
418 am -0 on that patch as I *think* we could implement the
419 shared memory another way that is much cleaner (i.e.
420 treat shmem directly as a dbm via APR routines). Justin
421 also thinks that the https filter logic may be sufficiently
422 decoupled now, but isn't really sure.
424 * Performance & Debug: Eliminate most (and perhaps all) of the
425 malloc/free calls in the bucket brigade code. Need some
426 light weight memory management functions that allow freeing
427 memory (putting it back into a memory pool) when it is no
428 longer needed. Enabling simple debugging features like guard
429 bands, double free detection, etc. would be cool but certainly
430 not a hard requirement.
432 Status: Cliff started to implement this using SMS as has
433 been discussed at length for months, but since
434 SMS is not being used anywhere else in the server,
435 several people expressed the opinion that we should
436 get rid of it entirely, meaning that the buckets
437 need their own memory management (free list) functions.
438 Cliff will implement that this weekend so we at least
439 have something to look at/compare with.
441 * Eliminate unnecessary creation of pipes in mod_cgid
443 * the autoconf setup should be fixed to default to using the
444 "Apache" layout from config.layout, and each variable settable
445 in a layout should be overridable on the command line. Plus,
446 what we do right now just doesn't seem to fully fit into how autoconf
447 works, eg. AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT issues.
448 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0104031557420.20876-100000@alive.znep.com>
450 * Combine log_child and piped_log_spawn. Clean up http_log.c.
453 * Document mod_file_cache.
455 * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)
456 Architect start-up code that avoids initializing all the modules
457 in the parent process on platforms that do not support fork.
459 * Win32: Migrate the MPM over to use APR thread/process calls. This
460 would eliminate some code in the Win32 branch that essentially
461 duplicates what is in APR.
463 * There are still a number of places in the code where we are
464 losing error status (i.e. throwing away the error returned by a
465 system call and replacing it with a generic error code)
467 * Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.
469 * All DBMs suffer from confusion in support/dbmmanage (perl script) since
470 the dbmmanage employs the first-matched dbm format. This is not
471 necessarily the library that Apache was built with. Aught to
472 rewrite dbmmanage upon installation to bin/ with the proper library
473 for predictable mod_auth_dbm administration.
474 Questions; htdbm exists, time to kill dbmmanage, or does it remain
475 useful as a perl dbm management example? If we keep it,
476 do we address the issue above?
478 * use apu_dbm in mod_auth_dbm
479 Status: Greg +1 (low-priority volunteer)
480 Justin says: "Seems like this is already there, so should we just
481 remove the other DBM code in that file? If you want
482 to use gdbm, or dbm, etc, you should tell apr-util."
483 Will says: "bs - I may choose the fastest - most efficient native
484 dbm implementation, for shared proc caches, ssl session
485 caching, etc, but that has nothing to do with maintaining
486 a userlist via dbm, which has to remain readable between
487 builds/machines, etc. The use-multiple database schema
488 for apr-util would let us do this with just apr, though."
489 Ian says: "multi-dbm is in, but it still has ndbm support hardcoded
490 is this still required? isn't ndbm supported via gdbm?"
494 Some additional items remaining:
495 - case_preserved_filename stuff
496 (use the new canonical name stuff?)
497 - find a new home for ap_text(_header)
498 - is it possible to remove the DAV: namespace stuff from util_xml?
500 * ap_core_translate() and its use by mod_mmap_static and mod_file_cache
501 are a bit wonky. The function should probably be exposed as a utility
502 function (such as ap_translate_url2fs() or ap_validate_fs_url() or
503 something). Another approach would be a new hook phase after
504 "translate" which would allow the module to munge what the
505 translation has decided to do.
506 Status: Greg +1 (volunteers), Ryan +1
508 * Explore use of a post-config hook for the code in http_main.c which
509 calls ap_fixup_virutal_hosts(), ap_fini_vhost_config(), and
510 ap_sort_hooks() [to reduce the logic in main()]
512 * read the config tree just once, and process N times (as necessary)
514 * (possibly) use UUIDs in mod_unique_id and/or mod_usertrack
516 * (possibly) port the bug fix for PR 6942 (segv when LoadModule is put
517 into a VirtualHost container) to 2.0.
519 * shift stuff to mod_core.h
521 * callers of ap_run_create_request() should check the return value
522 for failure (Doug volunteers)
524 * Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work
525 (at least) needs to be done:
526 - winnt MPM: Fix 95/98 code paths in the winnt MPM. There is some NT
527 specific code that is still not in NT only code paths
528 - IOL binds to APR sendfile, implemented with TransmitFile, which
529 is not available on 95/98.
530 - Document warning that OSR2 is required (for Crypt functions, in
531 rand.c, at least.) This could be resolved with an SSL library, or
532 randomization in APR itself.
533 - Bring the Win9xConHook.dll from 1.3 into 2.0 (no sense till it
534 actually works) and add in a splash of Win9x service code.
536 * In order to use a DSO version of mod_ssl we have to link with
537 -lssl and -lcrypto. A workaround is in place right now where the
538 entire EXTRA_LIBS macro is being appended to the objects list, but
539 this is a hack. We should either revamp the APACHE_CHECK_SSL_TOOLKIT
540 autoconf function or come up with some other autoconf checks to
541 search for libssl and libcrypto and properly add them to mod_ssl's
544 * Make the worker MPM the default MPM for threaded Unix boxes.
545 +1: Justin, Jeff, Ian
546 -0: Aaron (premature decision, needs more discussion), Lars
547 -0: Cliff (I think the default config should be the safest possible)
549 * Fix the worker MPM to use POD to kill child processes instead
550 of ap_os_killpg, regardless of how they should die. (Ryan Bloom)
552 PRs that have been suspended forever waiting for someone to
553 put them into 'the next release':
556 missing call to "setlocale();"
560 Additional status for XBitHack directive
564 Mod_proxy doesn't allow change of error pages
568 Modified PATH environemnt variable is not passed, instead
573 Proxy doesn't deliver documents if not connected
577 proxy converts ~name to %7Ename when name starts with a dot (.)
581 mod_access syntax allows hosts that should be restricted
584 * PR#557: mod_auth-any
585 ~UserHome directories are not honored in absolute pathname
590 Proxy FTP Authentication Fails
593 * PR#623: mod_include
594 A smarter "Last Modified" value for SSI documents (see PR number 600)
598 Request of "Options SymLinksIfGroupMatch"
602 Proxy doesn't do links right for OpenVMS files through ftp:
606 imap should read <MAP><AREA>*</MAP> too!
610 RLimitCPU and RLimitMEM don't apply to all children like they should
614 Uses cwd before filling it in, doesn't use syslog
618 it is useful to allow specifiction that root-owned symlinks
619 should always be followed
623 Controlling Access to Remote Proxies would be nice...
627 Adding authentication "on the fly" through the proxy module
630 * PR#1004: apache-api
631 request_config field in request_rec is moderately bogus
635 DoS attacks involving memory consumption
638 * PR#1050: mod_log-any
639 Logging of virtual server to error_log as well
643 ProxyRemote make a dead cycle.
646 * PR#1117: mod_auth-any
647 Using NIS passwd.byname dbm files with AuthDBMUserFile
651 suexec does not parse arguments to #exec cmd
654 * PR#1145: mod_include
655 Allow for Last-Modified: without resorting to XBitHack
658 * PR#1158: apache-api
659 improvements to child spawning API
663 ``nph-'' not honored (no buffering) for ProxyRemote mapping
667 Apache cannot handle continuation line in headers
671 setlogin() is not called, causing problems with e.g. identd
675 regerror() exists, use it
678 * PR#1233: apache-api
679 there is no way to keep per-connection per-module state
682 * PR#1263: mod_autoexec
683 Add frame-safe anchor attribute to mod_autoindex links
687 CGI scripts running as Apache user: security (suexec etc.)
691 Error messages could be easier to spot in cgi.log file for suexec.c
694 * PR#1287: mod_access
695 add allow,deny/deny,allow warning to mod_access
699 Need to know "hit-rate" on proxy cache
702 * PR#1358: mod_log-any
703 Selective url-encode of log fields (or maybe a pseudo
707 * PR#1383: mod_headers
708 I make mod_headers to modify request headers as well as
713 Proxy transfer logging
717 No HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR set...
721 ProxyRemote proxy requests fail authentication by firewall
724 * PR#1582: mod_rewrite
725 mod_rewrite forms REQUEST_URI different than mod_cgi does
728 * PR#1677: mod_headers
729 mod_headers should allow mod_log_config-style formats in
734 mod_proxy to support persistent conns?
737 * PR#1803: mod_include
738 patches to mod_include to allow for file tests
741 * PR#1809: mod_auth-any
742 Suggestion for improving authentication modules and core source
743 code, problem with 401 and ErrorDocument
747 listing of proxy cache content
751 Allow modules to set user:group for execution.
754 * PR#2024: apache-api
755 adding auth_why to conn_rec
758 * PR#2073: mod_log-any
759 pipelined connections are not logged correctly
762 * PR#2074: mod_rewrite
763 mod_rewrite doesn't pass Proxy Throughput on internal subrequests
767 HTTP Server Rebuild Line Needs Changing for the better
770 * PR#2138: mod_status
771 mod_status always displays 256 possible connection slots
774 * PR#2221: documentation
775 Make online documentation search link back to my installation
779 Can not POST to ErrorDocument - Apache/1.3b6
783 patterns in ProxyRemote
786 * PR#2343: mod_status
787 Status module averages are for entire uptime
791 suexec for general access of user content?
795 Proposal for TimeZone directive
799 /server-info doesn't check for the virtual host to list the info
803 problem specifying ndbm library for build ?with autoconfigure
807 A small addition to rotatelogs.c to improve program functionality.
811 AllowOverride FileInfo is too coarse
815 TimeOut applies to output of CGI scripts
818 * PR#2512: mod_access
819 <IfDenied> directive wanted
823 CGI's for general use still have to be run as another user
828 Cache file names in Proxy module
832 [PATCH] User/Group for <Directory> and <Location> i.e. not only
833 in global and <Virtual>.
837 mailto tags and bundling bug report script
841 Support for System Resource Controller
845 When will Apache support P3P? Any Plans?
849 Feedback/Comment on APACI
853 Inclusion of RPM spec file in CVS/distributions
857 Propose that Apache recommend $UNIQUE_ID for all "session id"
862 suggestion: power up your Include directive :)
866 cannot limit some HTTP methods
869 * PR#3143: apache-api
870 No module specific data hook for per-connection data
873 * PR#3191: mod_negotiation
874 no way to set global quality-of-source (qs) coneg values
879 Accessing URL through proxy server corrupts data.
883 Some anonymous FTP URLs ask for authentication
887 New ErrorDocumentMatch directive
891 Need to be able to override shebang line to make CGI scripts
896 "Files" and "FilesMatch" regexp does not recognize bang as
900 * PR#4448: mod_log-any
901 Please allow CGI env variables (QUERY_STRING, ...) to be logged
905 * PR#4459: mod_include
906 Suggestion for better handling of Last-modified headers
910 mod_cgi prevents handling of OPTIONS requests
913 * PR#5713: os-windows
914 [PATCH] install as win32 service with domain account
915 Status: Cannot accept password-as-arg, we should prompt the
916 user when -k install/-k config with a user argument.
919 AllowOverride should have a 'CheckNone' and 'AllowNone' argument
920 instead of only 'None'
923 Other bugs that need fixing:
925 * MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests.
926 Until someone has a better way, we'll probably just rename it
927 "MaxConnectionsPerChild".
929 * Regex containers don't work in an intutive way
930 Status: No one has come up with an efficient way to fix this
931 behavior. Dean has suggested getting rid of regex containers
933 OtherBill suggests: We at least seem to agree on eliminating
934 the <Container ~ foo> forms, and using only
935 <ContainerMatch foo> semantics.
937 * SIGSEGV on Linux (glibc 2.1.2) isn't caught properly by a
938 sigwaiting thread. We need to work around this, perhaps unless
939 there is hope soon for a fixed glibc.
941 * orig_ct in the byterange/multipart handling may not be
942 needed. Apache 1.3 just never stashed "multipart" into
943 r->content_type. We should probably follow suit since the
944 byterange stuff doesn't want the rest of the code to see the
945 multipart content-type; the other code should still think it is
946 dealing with the <orig_ct> stuff.
947 Status: Greg volunteers to investigate (esp. since he was most
948 likely the one to break it :-)
950 Other features that need writing:
952 * Finish infrastructure in core for async MPMs
955 * TODO in source -- just do an egrep on "TODO" and see what's there
959 * Jon Travis's <jtravis@covalent.net> patch to deal with thread-safe
960 issues with inet_ntoa. See message <20001201163220.A12827@covalent.net>
961 Status: This is being set aside until the IPv6 work is finished
962 so that we know exactly what is required.
964 * Martin Sojka <msojka@gmx.de>'s patch to add error reporting for failed
965 htpasswd actions due to a full /tmp volume (other programs may have
970 * Mike Abbott's <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com> patches to improve
972 Status: These were written for 1.3, and are awaiting a port to
975 * Jim Winstead's <jimw@trainedmonkey.com> patch to add CookieDomain and
976 other small mod_usertrack features
978 * Dan Rench's <drench@xnet.com> patch to add allow the errmsg and timefmt
979 of SSI's to be modified in the config file. Patch is available in
984 * Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?