Re: mod_proxy drops the content-length header

2002-07-29 Thread Graham Leggett
Bill Stoddard wrote: To be honest, I don't think the content-length header should be removed in the first place in proxy. If a filter needs to modify the content length for any reason, it should update the value of the content-length header itself. That sounds right to me. Making proxy

Re: ldap

2002-07-29 Thread john
-- Original Message -- Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 20:33:02 +0200 From: Graham Leggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ldap mod_ldap* was supposed to be part of v2.0, but happened too close to GA for people to feel comfortable with it's stability. It looks like people

Re: Removing modules

2002-07-29 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 08:35:13PM +0200, Graham Leggett wrote: Justin Erenkrantz wrote: In the past, people have suggested a CPAN/PEAR-approach where modules are downloaded when needed. Modules in source form or binary form? Source. Binaries are too

Re: Removing modules

2002-07-29 Thread Jeff Trawick
Aaron Bannert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I like the idea of decoupling the modules from the core, leaving only the ability to serve static files in the base distribution. That would allow us to make releases without as many constraints, freeing up the modules to release on their own

Re: mod_proxy drops the content-length header

2002-07-29 Thread Jeff Trawick
Graham Leggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Justin Erenkrantz wrote: I believe it would be possible for the proxy to delete the content-length header and replace it with another mechanism of its choosing to signal the entity-length. From what I can see proxy removes the content-length,

Re: mod_proxy drops the content-length header

2002-07-29 Thread Graham Leggett
Jeff Trawick wrote: Agreed, as long as you really mean zap the content-length header when you say update the value of the content-length header. A filter can't ever be *required* to put in the proper content-length value. All it can usually do is zap the content-length header and rely on

Re: ldap

2002-07-29 Thread Graham Leggett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People didn't want it to be a part of the core more because of module bloat. As Aaron says, there is no reason to add all these modules to the core only to have to release them on the same schedule - I like it as a sub project. When proxy was a subproject, it

RE: cvs commit: httpd-2.0/server/mpm/winnt child.c mpm_winnt.c mpm_winnt.h

2002-07-29 Thread Bill Stoddard
Bill, I am chewing on my tounge now to not be nasty. Where are you going with this? Perhaps I missed it but was this change discussed on list? And the commit log message describing the change is quite poor. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

RE: cvs commit: httpd-2.0/server/mpm/winnt child.c mpm_winnt.c mpm_winnt.h

2002-07-29 Thread Bill Stoddard
Seperating out the routines that run only in the child (and putting them in child.c) is not a bad thing but this patch is difficult to review for several reasons: 1. The commit log did not mention the biggest change. Easy to intuit looking at the code, but it should have at least been mentioned

Re: mod_proxy drops the content-length header

2002-07-29 Thread Jeff Trawick
Graham Leggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff Trawick wrote: Agreed, as long as you really mean zap the content-length header when you say update the value of the content-length header. A filter can't ever be *required* to put in the proper content-length value. All it can usually do

Re: Removing modules

2002-07-29 Thread Wilfredo Sanchez
On Sunday, July 28, 2002, at 07:00 PM, Aaron Bannert wrote: I like the idea of decoupling the modules from the core, leaving only the ability to serve static files in the base distribution. I don't. It's a pain in the ass for the users if they have to download and build every single

Re: ldap

2002-07-29 Thread Brad Nicholes
I see the same thing happening to LDAP. For the most part it has been ignored. If it is considered to be unstable at this point, why not put it in /experimental with the other modules that are considered to be not yet ready for prime-time but still very useful? In this way, it will get the

RE: ldap

2002-07-29 Thread Ryan Bloom
Mod_proxy wasn't added back to the server until the developers had proven that there was a development community around it, and most of the bugs had been fixed. The same must be true for ldap before it can be added to the base distribution. Also, as a counter-point to this. Adding a module to

[PATCH] Add LSB layout to config.layout

2002-07-29 Thread Marvin Heffler
The patch below will add a Linux Standard Base (LSB) layout. This will make it easier to create an LSB compliant version of the http server. The LSB team from the Free Standards Group (FSG) has already used this layout to make a binary image that passes all the tests for LSB compliance. If this

RE: cvs commit: httpd-2.0/server/mpm/winnt child.c mpm_winnt.c mpm_winnt.h

2002-07-29 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 08:15 AM 7/29/2002, you wrote: Seperating out the routines that run only in the child (and putting them in child.c) is not a bad thing but this patch is difficult to review for several reasons: 1. The commit log did not mention the biggest change. Easy to intuit looking at the code, but it

RE: ldap

2002-07-29 Thread Brad Nicholes
Being Novell which is the leading provider of directory services, we obviously have a great interest in LDAP. What if I were able to get the Novell LDAP developers to step up and support AUTH_LDAP? Would that be enough to get AUTH_LDAP put back into the mainstream? Brad Brad Nicholes

Re: [PATCH] Add LSB layout to config.layout

2002-07-29 Thread Raymond S Brand
Marvin Your layout mixes read-only information with read-write information. Specifically the manual, icons, sample CGIs, and info files are all part of the standard http server that sites shouldn't need to change. They can also be shared among http servers on the same machine or via NFS etc. The

Re: ldap

2002-07-29 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Ryan Bloom wrote: Mod_proxy wasn't added back to the server until the developers had proven that there was a development community around it, and most of the bugs had been fixed. The same must be true for ldap before it can be added to the base distribution. Unless the httpd committer

RE: ldap

2002-07-29 Thread Ryan Bloom
From: Brad Nicholes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Being Novell which is the leading provider of directory services, we obviously have a great interest in LDAP. What if I were able to get the Novell LDAP developers to step up and support AUTH_LDAP? Would that be enough to get AUTH_LDAP

Re: Removing modules

2002-07-29 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Wilfredo Sanchez wrote: I'm in favor of putting new modules in their own projects, then when they are stable and generally complete, if they are still just a couple of files small, and have become reasonably popular/useful, I have no problem including them in the HTTPd project. +1 --

Re: [PATCH] Add LSB layout to config.layout

2002-07-29 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Marvin Heffler wrote: The patch below will add a Linux Standard Base (LSB) layout. H'm. I thought Red Hat's was LSB compliant. -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ Millennium hand and shrimp!

Re: ldap

2002-07-29 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: And I, for one, wouldn't want to see ldap in the tree anywhere but experimental I'd just as soon not see it in the tree at all, if it's that complex. The word I have from the author of the 1.3 mod_auth_ldap module is that he stopped working on it when he found

mod_auth_pam, acronyms and talk

2002-07-29 Thread dirkx
FYI - on http://www.apache.org/~dirkx/oscon2002 is my talk on apache modules from Oscon 2002. Feel free to use/rip it for your own presentations. The presentation and the two modules are under an ASF license and/or can be donated to the ASF on request. Also there is a copy of a 2.0 version of

Re: ldap

2002-07-29 Thread Brad Nicholes
So it seems like we burned all of our bridges. We had somebody working on it until we added it in. Then the author stopped so we took it out. Now we not only don't have anybody working on it, we also don't have it. IMO, if we put it back at least in experimental, maybe we can get developers

Apache 1.3 timeout processing question

2002-07-29 Thread David McCreedy
I'm struggling with some Apache 1.3 logic and would like some advice in order to make changes specific to the TPF operating system. Various routines call ap_set_callback_and_alarm() to set a timeout value, such as ap_keepalive_timeout() and ap_hard_timeout() in http_main.c. The read in

mod_auth_digest partial responses

2002-07-29 Thread Rob Emanuele
I'm running 2.0.36 with the mod_auth_digest module. It seems to work great in your basic browser. I've got a custom browser that gets the pages with partial requests. Apache, on the first request, instead of returning a 401 I get a 206. I don't seem to have this problem on 1.3 but there I'm