1 APACHE 2.0 STATUS: -*-text-*-
2 Last modified at [$Date: 2002/02/06 22:30:56 $]
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
43 CURRENT RELEASE NOTES:
45 * Proposed BETA possibilities
46 31 + fixes for all resolved problems and call it 32 (instead of HEAD)
47 See: http://www.apache.org/~jerenkrantz/httpd-2.0.jre.patch
53 running on Daedalus since 02-Feb-2002 7:58 PST (need 3 days)
54 Compiles on : AIX 4.3, Solaris, FreeBSD 3.4 & 4.5, Win32,
56 Broken on: Win32 [no error logging within service, other bugs]
59 +0 : Lars, Justin, trawick
61 -1 : BillS, Ian, gregames, BrianP, Jim
62 bumps since original tag:
64 * scoreboard x2 : 1 to fix gracefull restarts
66 * win32/locks.c : to fix mod_rewrite on win32
69 * libtool/binbuild on AIX -- possible addition of patched
70 binbuild.sh to 31-beta roll
74 Jeff says: We can't do anything about libtool since AIX
75 needs a version that won't work on some
76 platforms. Handle this in the README.
77 The binbuild issue isn't AIX. It is
78 something that could happen anywhere that
79 the binbuild-er has their own expat.
80 Handle this by patching binbuild.sh for a
81 beta roll or putting a patch in the README for
82 use by people who want to do binbuild but
83 have expat installed locally.
84 gregames: why can't we roll a second tarball with the
85 appropriate libtool version? doesn't
86 Darwin need it as well as AIX?
88 * erroneous check in an AP_DEBUG_ASSERT() call. Only happens
89 in maintainer mode. Fixed in modules/http/http_protocol.c
92 * seg faults in core_input_filter when the client goes away
93 before any POST body bytes are received.
94 Jeff committed a fix with server/core.c revision 1.144.
95 Justin committed a fix with server/protocol.c revision 1.78
96 (server/protocol.c revision 1.81 demotes a potentially
97 annoying error message)
99 * FirstBill reports problem [re]starting as-a-service, shared
100 score is suspect. OtherBill is investigating... has found
101 . created restart and shutdown events, only restart
102 survived initialization on XP, although breaking into
103 the debugger interferes with reproducing the bug.
104 Perhaps in FirstBill's example _restart didn't survive.
105 . Scoreboard appears irrelevant to the problem.
106 . This looks like handle corruption in NT/XP
107 . Args are not initialized correctly when the -k install
109 OtherBill will not create Win32 binaries due to this bug.
111 * mod_auth_dbm can't open a Berkeley DB password file on Unix
112 Justin postulates that this might be related to the fact
113 that mod_auth_dbm wasn't using apr-util. See
114 modules/aaa/mod_auth_dbm.c revision 1.42 and
115 module/aaa/config.m4 revision 1.54. Also, FreeBSD's DB
116 variant was not properly detected. See
117 apr-util/build/apu-conf.m4 revision 1.31 and
118 apr-util/dbm/apr_dbm_berkeleydb.c revision 1.17.
120 * Madhu reports that the worker MPM doesn't shutdown nicely
123 * mod_autoindex displays the wrong icon for subdirectories
125 possible fix in modules/generators/mod_autoindex.c r1.93.
127 * anon shared memory not allocating enough
128 (fix is apr/shm/unix/shm.c 1.14)
130 FINAL RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:
132 * ap_directory_walk skips some per-dir config merge functions
133 if there is no "<Directory />" block in the configuration
134 Message-ID: <m3itbdiijq.fsf@rdu163-40-092.nc.rr.com>
135 * That is very unlikely, merges are additive. Much more likely,
136 the default SetOutputFilter default or merge is borked.
137 Unless it's the code that permits 'null' merges, per module.
138 Still, it's probably in SetOutputFilter's behavior.
139 * BrianP notes: directory_walk's handling of trailing slashes
140 appears to be the cause: <3C1CF721.1090300@pacbell.net>
142 * If any request gets to the core handler, without a flag that this
143 r->filename was tested by dir/file_walk, we need to 500 at the very
144 end of the ap_process_request_internal() processing. This provides
145 authors of older modules better compatibility, while still improving
146 the security and robustness of 2.0.
147 Status: still need to decide where this goes, OtherBill comments...
148 Message-ID: <065701c14526$495203b0$96c0b0d0@roweclan.net>
149 we need to look at halting this in the 'default handler' case,
150 and that implies pushing the 'handler election' into the request
151 internal processing phase from the run request phase.
153 * Convert all instances of the old apr_lock_t type to the new
154 types (once they are fully supported in APR).
155 Status: Aaron is working on converting INTRAPROCESS
156 to apr_thread_mutex_t types. Full replacements for
157 LOCKALL and CROSS_PROCESS are not yet complete on all
158 platforms, and should only be used in MPMs like worker
159 with limited OS exposure.
160 BrianP asks: "Is this really a showstopper?"
161 IanH says: "If we don't do it before we go live we will have 2
162 different API's to support in APR"
164 * [Ken] Test suite failures:
165 o worker is also failing some of the 'cgi' subtests
166 (see <URL:http://Source-Zone.Org/Apache/regression/>):
167 Justin says: "Worker should be fine and passes httpd-test here.
168 If you can provide evidence that it can be reproduced
169 outside of httpd-test, then it's a showstopper. I
170 think it's a perl or a httpd-test problem."
171 Not a showstopper: Justin
173 * [Ken] 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
195 * Should we always build binaries statically unless otherwise
197 Message-ID: <20020129210006.B23512@Lithium.MeepZor.Com>
202 * If the parent process dies, should the remaining child processes
203 "gracefully" self-terminate. Or maybe we should make it a runtime
204 option, or have a concept of 2 parent processes (one being a
206 See: Message-ID: <3C58232C.FE91F19F@Golux.Com>
208 Self-destruct: Ken, Martin
209 Not self-destruct: BrianP, Ian, Cliff, BillS
210 Make it runtime configurable: Aaron, Jim, Justin
211 Have 2 parents: +1: Jim
213 +0: Martin (while standing by, could it do
215 look at accept() error handling first: gregames
217 * Make the worker MPM the default MPM for threaded Unix boxes.
218 +1: Justin, Jeff, Ian
219 -0: Aaron (premature decision, needs more discussion), Lars
220 -0: Cliff (I think the default config should be the safest possible)
222 RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
224 * Usage of APR_BRIGADE_NORMALIZE in core_input_filter should be
226 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201202232430.318-100000@deepthought.cs.virginia.edu>
228 * There is a bug in how we sort some hooks, at least the pre-config
229 hook. The first time we call the hooks, they are in the correct
230 order, but the second time, we don't sort them correctly. Currently,
231 the modules/http/config.m4 file has been renamed to
232 modules/http/config2.m4 to work around this problem, it should moved
233 back when this is fixed. rbb
234 Justin says: "Is this really a showstopper? This has been here
235 forever. What's wrong? Does this have to do with
237 Not a showstopper: Justin, BrianP, trawick, gregames
239 * The Add...Filter and Set...Filter directives do not allow the
240 administrator to order filters, beyond the order of filename (mime)
241 extensions. It isn't clear if Set...Filter(s) should be inserted
242 before or after the Add...Filter(s) which are ordered by sequence of
243 filename extensions. At minimum, some sort of +-[0-10] syntax seems
244 like the quickest fix for a 2.0 gold release.
245 Justin says: "Could we delay this for a point release or 2.1?"
246 Not a showstopper: justin, wrowe, trawick, stoddard, Jim, Ian, Aaron,
249 * Make some modifications to the scoreboard creation routines,
250 prefer anonymous shared memory, and allow a configuration
251 directive to override the defaults.
252 Message-ID: <20020130080804.C16977@clove.org>
253 Status: Aaron volunteers
255 * Get perchild to work on platforms other than Linux. This
256 will require a portable mechanism to pass data and file/socket
257 descriptors between vhost child groups. An API was proposed
259 Message-ID: <20020111115006.K1529@clove.org>
261 * Recent changes to ap_rgetline may have broken EBCDIC boxes.
262 Message-ID: <20020122072605.GF28051@ebuilt.com>
263 Justin says: "I don't have an EBCDIC box to test on. A potential
264 solution is to split out ap_rgetline into two
265 functions as described in this message."
266 gregames says: I see the breakage now, and volunteer to fix it
267 when things calm down a little. It looks OK when
268 there are complete lines and no mime continuations.
270 * Modify the worker MPM so that it doesn't need to create and
271 destroy a pool for each request--possibly by adopting a
272 leader/follower model in which each worker owns a persistent
273 ptrans pool (like the prefork MPM) and the workers take
274 turns acting as listeners...this approach might also help
275 reduce context-switching
277 * CGI single-byte reads
278 BrianP suggests that this is caused by the ap_scan_script_header_err()
279 routine, which will do single-byte reads until it finds the end
280 of the header, at which point it constructs a pipe-bucket (buffered)
282 Proposed solution in:
283 Message-ID: <3C36ADAF.60601@cnet.com>
285 * Try to get libtool inter-library dependency code working on AIX.
286 Message-ID: <cm3n10lx555.fsf@rdu163-40-092.nc.rr.com>
288 Justin says: If we get it working on AIX, we can enable this
289 on all platforms and clean up our build system
291 Jeff says: I thought I tested a patch for you sometime in
292 January that you were going to commit within a few
295 * Handling of %2f in URIs. Currently both 1.3 and 2.0
296 completely disallow %2f in the request URI path (see
297 ap_unescape_url() in util.c). It's permitted and passed
298 through in the query string, however. Roy says the
299 original reason for disallowing it, from five years ago,
300 was to protect CGI scripts that applied PATH_INFO to
301 a filesystem location and which might be tricked by
302 ..%2f..%2f(...). We *should* allow path-info of the
303 form 'http://foo.com/index.cgi/path/to/path%2finfo'.
304 Since we've revamped a lot of our processing of path
305 segments, it would be nice to allow this, or at least
306 allow it conditionally with a directive.
308 * FreeBSD, threads, and worker MPM. All seems to work fine
309 if you only have one worker process with many threads. Add
310 a second worker process and the accept lock seems to be
311 lost. This might be an APR issue with how it deals with
312 the child_init hook (i.e. the fcntl lock needs to be resynced).
313 More examination and analysis is required.
314 Status: This has also been reported on Cygwin.
315 Message-ID: <3C2CC514.8EF3BED1@wapme-systems.de> (cygnus)
317 Justin says: So, FreeBSD-CURRENT and Cywin have the same
318 problem. Yum. If another platform has this
319 with worker, this becomes a showstopper.
320 Aaron says: I spent some time disecting this and have come to
321 the conclusion that it is not a problem in the worker MPM
322 (or at least, it is not isolated to a problem in worker).
323 I'll list some of the problems I'm seeing in case someone
324 else wants to pick up where I've left off:
325 - Delivery of just about any signal to one of the child
326 processes will send it into an infinite loop as well.
327 - Even though the parent is spinning out of control,
328 at first the child or children will appear to work
329 properly. At times it is possible to get it into a state,
330 however, where a request will hang until another concurrent
331 request "kicks" the first, at which point the second will
332 hang. My theory is that this has to do with the
333 pthread_cond_*() implementation in FreeBSD, but it's still
334 possible that it is in APR.
336 Justin adds: Oh, FreeBSD threads are implemented entirely with
337 select()/poll()/longjmp(). Welcome to the nightmare.
338 So, that means a ktrace output also has the thread
339 scheduling internals in it (since it is all the same to
340 the kernel). Which makes it hard to distinguish between
341 our select() calls and their select() calls.
342 *bangs head on wall repeatedly* But, some of the libc_r
343 files have a DBG_MSG #define. This is moderately helpful
344 when used with -DNO_DETACH. The kernel scheduler isn't
345 waking up the threads on a select(). Yum. And, I bet
346 those decrementing select calls have to do with the
347 scheduler. Time to brush up on our OS fundamentals.
349 * There is increasing demand from module writers for an API
350 that will allow them to control the server à la apachectl.
351 Reasons include sole-function servers that need to die if
352 an external dependency (e.g., a database) fails, et cetera.
353 Perhaps something in the (ever more abused) scoreboard?
354 rbb: I don't believe the scoreboard is the correct mechanism
355 for this. We already have a pipe that goes between parent
356 and child for graceful shutdown events, along with an API that
357 can be used to send a message down that pipe. In threaded MPMs,
358 it is easy enough to make that one pipe be used for graceful
359 and graceless events, and it is also easy to open that pipe
360 to both parent and child for writing. Then we just need to
361 figure out how to do graceless on non-threaded MPMs.
363 * revamp the input filter behavior, per discussions since
364 February (and especially at the hackathon last
365 April). Specifically, ap_get_brigade will return a brigade with
366 *up to* a specific number of bytes, or a "line" of data. The
367 read may be blocking or nonblocking. ap_getline() will be
368 refactored into apr_brigade_getline(), and then DECHUNK can use
369 f->next (ap_getline will always read "top of input stack"). Also
370 fix the bug where request body content will end up closing the
371 connection (buggering up persistent conns).
372 Status: Justin is working on this as fast as he can.
373 The core input filters, HTTP-related filters, mod_ssl,
374 mod_proxy, and ap_[r]getline are switched to the new logic.
376 - socket bucket and core input filter changes. see end of
377 message ID (Feb 27): <20010227075326.S2297@lyra.org>
379 - fix up ap_get_brigade() semantics, fix bug in DECHUNK /
380 ap_getline. many messages (plus their threads) (Apr/May):
381 Message-ID: <20010402101207.J27539@lyra.org>
382 Message-ID: <3AF7F921.D2EEC41A@algroup.co.uk>
383 Message-ID: <20010508190029.E18404@lyra.org>
385 - further work with combining/tweaking the builtin filters:
386 Message-ID: <20010509115445.D1374@lyra.org>
388 - thoughts on filter modes:
389 Message-ID: <021b01c14dee$09782af0$93c0b0d0@roweclan.net>
391 - proposal for getline rewrite:
392 Message-ID: <20011231104019.GD3904@ebuilt.com>
394 - patch for getline rewrite:
395 Message-ID: <20020122072605.GF28051@ebuilt.com>
397 - Change ap_get_brigade prototype:
398 Message-ID: <20020120115136.GI17601@ebuilt.com>
400 * Allow the DocumentRoot directive within <Location > scopes? This
401 allows the beloved (crusty) Alias /foo/ /somepath/foo/ followed
402 by a <Directory /somepath/foo> to become simply
403 <Location /foo/> DocumentRoot /somefile/foo (IMHO a bit more legible
404 and in-your-face.) DocumentRoot unset would be accepted [and would
405 not permit content to be served, only virtual resources such as
406 server-info or server-status.
407 This proposed change would _not_ depricate Alias.
409 * Win32: Rotatelogs sometimes is not terminated when Apache
410 goes down hard. FirstBill was looking at possibly tracking the
411 child's-child processes in the parent process.
412 OtherBill asks, wasn't this fixed?
413 stoddard: Not fixed. Shared scoreboard might offer a good
414 way for the parent to keep track of 'other child' processes
415 and whack them if the child goes down.
417 * Win32: Add a simple hold console open patch (wait for close or
418 the ESC key, with a nice message) if the server died a bad
419 death (non-zero exit code) in console mode.
420 Resolution: bring forward same ugly hacks from 1.3.13-.20
422 * Port of mod_ssl to Apache 2.0:
424 The current porting state is summarized in modules/ssl/README. The
425 remaining work includes:
426 (1) stablizing/optimizing the SSL filter logic
427 (2) Enabling the various SSL caching mechanisms (shmcb, shmht)
428 (3) Enabling SSL extentions
429 (4) Trying to seperate the https filter logic from mod_ssl -
430 This is to facilitate other modules that wish to use the https
431 filter or the mod_ssl logic or both as required.
432 Justin: mod_ssl filter logic is redone, so that should be fine.
433 Madhu has submitted a patch for SSL caching - however, I
434 am -0 on that patch as I *think* we could implement the
435 shared memory another way that is much cleaner (i.e.
436 treat shmem directly as a dbm via APR routines). Justin
437 also thinks that the https filter logic may be sufficiently
438 decoupled now, but isn't really sure.
440 * Performance & Debug: Eliminate most (and perhaps all) of the
441 malloc/free calls in the bucket brigade code. Need some
442 light weight memory management functions that allow freeing
443 memory (putting it back into a memory pool) when it is no
444 longer needed. Enabling simple debugging features like guard
445 bands, double free detection, etc. would be cool but certainly
446 not a hard requirement.
448 Status: Cliff started to implement this using SMS as has
449 been discussed at length for months, but since
450 SMS is not being used anywhere else in the server,
451 several people expressed the opinion that we should
452 get rid of it entirely, meaning that the buckets
453 need their own memory management (free list) functions.
454 Cliff will implement that this weekend so we at least
455 have something to look at/compare with.
457 * Eliminate unnecessary creation of pipes in mod_cgid
458 Status: Ken asks, didn't Jeff fix this when he fixed the queue
461 * the autoconf setup should be fixed to default to using the
462 "Apache" layout from config.layout, and each variable settable
463 in a layout should be overridable on the command line. Plus,
464 what we do right now just doesn't seem to fully fit into how autoconf
465 works, eg. AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT issues.
466 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0104031557420.20876-100000@alive.znep.com>
468 * Combine log_child and piped_log_spawn. Clean up http_log.c.
471 * Document mod_file_cache.
473 * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)
474 Architect start-up code that avoids initializing all the modules
475 in the parent process on platforms that do not support fork.
477 * Win32: Migrate the MPM over to use APR thread/process calls. This
478 would eliminate some code in the Win32 branch that essentially
479 duplicates what is in APR.
481 * There are still a number of places in the code where we are
482 losing error status (i.e. throwing away the error returned by a
483 system call and replacing it with a generic error code)
485 * Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.
487 * All DBMs suffer from confusion in support/dbmmanage (perl script) since
488 the dbmmanage employs the first-matched dbm format. This is not
489 necessarily the library that Apache was built with. Aught to
490 rewrite dbmmanage upon installation to bin/ with the proper library
491 for predictable mod_auth_dbm administration.
492 Questions; htdbm exists, time to kill dbmmanage, or does it remain
493 useful as a perl dbm management example? If we keep it,
494 do we address the issue above?
496 * use apu_dbm in mod_auth_dbm
497 Status: Greg +1 (low-priority volunteer)
498 Justin says: "Seems like this is already there, so should we just
499 remove the other DBM code in that file? If you want
500 to use gdbm, or dbm, etc, you should tell apr-util."
501 Will says: "bs - I may choose the fastest - most efficient native
502 dbm implementation, for shared proc caches, ssl session
503 caching, etc, but that has nothing to do with maintaining
504 a userlist via dbm, which has to remain readable between
505 builds/machines, etc. The use-multiple database schema
506 for apr-util would let us do this with just apr, though."
507 Ian says: "multi-dbm is in, but it still has ndbm support hardcoded
508 is this still required? isn't ndbm supported via gdbm?"
512 Some additional items remaining:
513 - case_preserved_filename stuff
514 (use the new canonical name stuff?)
515 - find a new home for ap_text(_header)
516 - is it possible to remove the DAV: namespace stuff from util_xml?
518 * ap_core_translate() and its use by mod_mmap_static and mod_file_cache
519 are a bit wonky. The function should probably be exposed as a utility
520 function (such as ap_translate_url2fs() or ap_validate_fs_url() or
521 something). Another approach would be a new hook phase after
522 "translate" which would allow the module to munge what the
523 translation has decided to do.
524 Status: Greg +1 (volunteers), Ryan +1
526 * Explore use of a post-config hook for the code in http_main.c which
527 calls ap_fixup_virutal_hosts(), ap_fini_vhost_config(), and
528 ap_sort_hooks() [to reduce the logic in main()]
530 * read the config tree just once, and process N times (as necessary)
532 * (possibly) use UUIDs in mod_unique_id and/or mod_usertrack
534 * (possibly) port the bug fix for PR 6942 (segv when LoadModule is put
535 into a VirtualHost container) to 2.0.
537 * shift stuff to mod_core.h
539 * callers of ap_run_create_request() should check the return value
540 for failure (Doug volunteers)
542 * Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work
543 (at least) needs to be done:
544 - winnt MPM: Fix 95/98 code paths in the winnt MPM. There is some NT
545 specific code that is still not in NT only code paths
546 - IOL binds to APR sendfile, implemented with TransmitFile, which
547 is not available on 95/98.
548 - Document warning that OSR2 is required (for Crypt functions, in
549 rand.c, at least.) This could be resolved with an SSL library, or
550 randomization in APR itself.
551 - Bring the Win9xConHook.dll from 1.3 into 2.0 (no sense till it
552 actually works) and add in a splash of Win9x service code.
554 * In order to use a DSO version of mod_ssl we have to link with
555 -lssl and -lcrypto. A workaround is in place right now where the
556 entire EXTRA_LIBS macro is being appended to the objects list, but
557 this is a hack. We should either revamp the APACHE_CHECK_SSL_TOOLKIT
558 autoconf function or come up with some other autoconf checks to
559 search for libssl and libcrypto and properly add them to mod_ssl's
562 * Fix the worker MPM to use POD to kill child processes instead
563 of ap_os_killpg, regardless of how they should die. (Ryan Bloom)
565 PRs that have been suspended forever waiting for someone to
566 put them into 'the next release':
569 missing call to "setlocale();"
573 Additional status for XBitHack directive
577 Mod_proxy doesn't allow change of error pages
581 Modified PATH environemnt variable is not passed, instead
586 Proxy doesn't deliver documents if not connected
590 proxy converts ~name to %7Ename when name starts with a dot (.)
594 mod_access syntax allows hosts that should be restricted
597 * PR#557: mod_auth-any
598 ~UserHome directories are not honored in absolute pathname
603 Proxy FTP Authentication Fails
606 * PR#623: mod_include
607 A smarter "Last Modified" value for SSI documents (see PR number 600)
611 Request of "Options SymLinksIfGroupMatch"
615 Proxy doesn't do links right for OpenVMS files through ftp:
619 imap should read <MAP><AREA>*</MAP> too!
623 RLimitCPU and RLimitMEM don't apply to all children like they should
627 Uses cwd before filling it in, doesn't use syslog
631 it is useful to allow specifiction that root-owned symlinks
632 should always be followed
636 Controlling Access to Remote Proxies would be nice...
640 Adding authentication "on the fly" through the proxy module
643 * PR#1004: apache-api
644 request_config field in request_rec is moderately bogus
648 DoS attacks involving memory consumption
651 * PR#1050: mod_log-any
652 Logging of virtual server to error_log as well
656 ProxyRemote make a dead cycle.
659 * PR#1117: mod_auth-any
660 Using NIS passwd.byname dbm files with AuthDBMUserFile
664 suexec does not parse arguments to #exec cmd
667 * PR#1145: mod_include
668 Allow for Last-Modified: without resorting to XBitHack
671 * PR#1158: apache-api
672 improvements to child spawning API
676 ``nph-'' not honored (no buffering) for ProxyRemote mapping
680 Apache cannot handle continuation line in headers
684 setlogin() is not called, causing problems with e.g. identd
688 regerror() exists, use it
691 * PR#1233: apache-api
692 there is no way to keep per-connection per-module state
695 * PR#1263: mod_autoexec
696 Add frame-safe anchor attribute to mod_autoindex links
700 CGI scripts running as Apache user: security (suexec etc.)
704 Error messages could be easier to spot in cgi.log file for suexec.c
707 * PR#1287: mod_access
708 add allow,deny/deny,allow warning to mod_access
712 Need to know "hit-rate" on proxy cache
715 * PR#1358: mod_log-any
716 Selective url-encode of log fields (or maybe a pseudo
720 * PR#1383: mod_headers
721 I make mod_headers to modify request headers as well as
726 Proxy transfer logging
730 No HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR set...
734 ProxyRemote proxy requests fail authentication by firewall
737 * PR#1582: mod_rewrite
738 mod_rewrite forms REQUEST_URI different than mod_cgi does
741 * PR#1677: mod_headers
742 mod_headers should allow mod_log_config-style formats in
747 mod_proxy to support persistent conns?
750 * PR#1803: mod_include
751 patches to mod_include to allow for file tests
754 * PR#1809: mod_auth-any
755 Suggestion for improving authentication modules and core source
756 code, problem with 401 and ErrorDocument
760 listing of proxy cache content
764 Allow modules to set user:group for execution.
767 * PR#2024: apache-api
768 adding auth_why to conn_rec
771 * PR#2073: mod_log-any
772 pipelined connections are not logged correctly
775 * PR#2074: mod_rewrite
776 mod_rewrite doesn't pass Proxy Throughput on internal subrequests
780 HTTP Server Rebuild Line Needs Changing for the better
783 * PR#2138: mod_status
784 mod_status always displays 256 possible connection slots
787 * PR#2221: documentation
788 Make online documentation search link back to my installation
792 Can not POST to ErrorDocument - Apache/1.3b6
796 patterns in ProxyRemote
799 * PR#2343: mod_status
800 Status module averages are for entire uptime
804 suexec for general access of user content?
808 Proposal for TimeZone directive
812 /server-info doesn't check for the virtual host to list the info
816 problem specifying ndbm library for build ?with autoconfigure
820 A small addition to rotatelogs.c to improve program functionality.
824 AllowOverride FileInfo is too coarse
828 TimeOut applies to output of CGI scripts
831 * PR#2512: mod_access
832 <IfDenied> directive wanted
836 CGI's for general use still have to be run as another user
841 Cache file names in Proxy module
845 [PATCH] User/Group for <Directory> and <Location> i.e. not only
846 in global and <Virtual>.
850 mailto tags and bundling bug report script
854 Support for System Resource Controller
858 When will Apache support P3P? Any Plans?
862 Feedback/Comment on APACI
866 Inclusion of RPM spec file in CVS/distributions
870 Propose that Apache recommend $UNIQUE_ID for all "session id"
875 suggestion: power up your Include directive :)
879 cannot limit some HTTP methods
882 * PR#3143: apache-api
883 No module specific data hook for per-connection data
886 * PR#3191: mod_negotiation
887 no way to set global quality-of-source (qs) coneg values
892 Accessing URL through proxy server corrupts data.
896 Some anonymous FTP URLs ask for authentication
900 New ErrorDocumentMatch directive
904 Need to be able to override shebang line to make CGI scripts
909 "Files" and "FilesMatch" regexp does not recognize bang as
913 * PR#4448: mod_log-any
914 Please allow CGI env variables (QUERY_STRING, ...) to be logged
918 * PR#4459: mod_include
919 Suggestion for better handling of Last-modified headers
923 mod_cgi prevents handling of OPTIONS requests
926 * PR#5713: os-windows
927 [PATCH] install as win32 service with domain account
928 Status: Cannot accept password-as-arg, we should prompt the
929 user when -k install/-k config with a user argument.
932 AllowOverride should have a 'CheckNone' and 'AllowNone' argument
933 instead of only 'None'
936 Other bugs that need fixing:
938 * MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests.
939 Until someone has a better way, we'll probably just rename it
940 "MaxConnectionsPerChild".
942 * Regex containers don't work in an intutive way
943 Status: No one has come up with an efficient way to fix this
944 behavior. Dean has suggested getting rid of regex containers
946 OtherBill suggests: We at least seem to agree on eliminating
947 the <Container ~ foo> forms, and using only
948 <ContainerMatch foo> semantics.
950 * SIGSEGV on Linux (glibc 2.1.2) isn't caught properly by a
951 sigwaiting thread. We need to work around this, perhaps unless
952 there is hope soon for a fixed glibc.
954 * orig_ct in the byterange/multipart handling may not be
955 needed. Apache 1.3 just never stashed "multipart" into
956 r->content_type. We should probably follow suit since the
957 byterange stuff doesn't want the rest of the code to see the
958 multipart content-type; the other code should still think it is
959 dealing with the <orig_ct> stuff.
960 Status: Greg volunteers to investigate (esp. since he was most
961 likely the one to break it :-)
963 Other features that need writing:
965 * Finish infrastructure in core for async MPMs
968 * TODO in source -- just do an egrep on "TODO" and see what's there
972 * Jon Travis's <jtravis@covalent.net> patch to deal with thread-safe
973 issues with inet_ntoa. See message <20001201163220.A12827@covalent.net>
974 Status: This is being set aside until the IPv6 work is finished
975 so that we know exactly what is required.
977 * Martin Sojka <msojka@gmx.de>'s patch to add error reporting for failed
978 htpasswd actions due to a full /tmp volume (other programs may have
983 * Mike Abbott's <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com> patches to improve
985 Status: These were written for 1.3, and are awaiting a port to
988 * Jim Winstead's <jimw@trainedmonkey.com> patch to add CookieDomain and
989 other small mod_usertrack features
991 * Dan Rench's <drench@xnet.com> patch to add allow the errmsg and timefmt
992 of SSI's to be modified in the config file. Patch is available in
997 * Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?