+1 on adopting
On 13/12/2011 17:19, Graham Leggett wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have concluded negotiation with the BBC to open source some httpd modules
> that I wrote under the AL, and the BBC have very kindly agreed to donate the
> code to the ASF[1], which I believe would fit well as subprojects of httpd,
> and would like to know whether httpd would accept these.
>
> To be clear, this isn't a "code dump", my intention is to continue to develop
> and support this moving forward, and hopefully expand the community around
> them.
>
> - mod_firehose: "tcpdump for httpd"
>
> Based originally on mod_dumpio.c, mod_firehose is an httpd filter that writes
> the contents of a request and/or a response to a file or pipe in such a way
> that the requests can be reconstructed later using a second dedicated tool
> called "firehose".
>
> It was initially developed to help debug restful services that were secured
> with client certificates and therefore opaque to other tools like tcpdump or
> tcpflow, but was then subsequently used to record "dirty traffic" for
> subsequent replay for the purposes of testing.
>
> The module and the corresponding firehose demultiplexer was used to uncover
> some of the more tricky bugs in mod_cache, as well as protocol
> inconsistencies in backend services, and would prove very useful to anyone
> deploying restful services. We have also intended it to be used to create a
> "dark live" environment, where live traffic can be split off and diverted to
> a staging environment to test whether a software update works correctly.
>
> The code is currently packaged as an RPM, wrapped in autotools, and a
> snapshot is available here:
>
> http://people.apache.org/~minfrin/bbc-donated/mod_firehose/
> http://people.apache.org/~minfrin/bbc-donated/firehose/
>
> The corresponding README documenting in more detail is here:
>
> http://people.apache.org/~minfrin/bbc-donated/mod_firehose/README
>
> The code itself is here:
>
> http://people.apache.org/~minfrin/bbc-donated/mod_firehose/mod_firehose.c
> http://people.apache.org/~minfrin/bbc-donated/firehose/firehose.c
>
> Obviously the expectation is for the documentation to be completed and
> fleshed out.
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52322
>
> Regards,
> Graham
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