Re: Dynamic configuration for the hackathon?

2008-04-02 Thread Rich Bowen
On Mar 31, 2008, at 13:31, Paul Querna wrote: Just look at SSLRequire, Rewrite*, MPM Process/Thread Management, Filter chaining, large Auth{N,Z} chains, and more. Imagine them not sucking. That would be lovely. Truly. -- Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you

Re: Dynamic configuration for the hackathon?

2008-04-02 Thread Rich Bowen
On Mar 31, 2008, at 13:46, Issac Goldstand wrote: Make mod_wombat a standard module and part of the default moduleset May I request, if mod_wombat becomes a standard module, that it be given a name not quite so calculated to make the newbie disable it without a second glance. I mean,

Re: Dynamic configuration for the hackathon?

2008-04-02 Thread Akins, Brian
On 4/2/08 8:44 AM, Rich Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May I request, if mod_wombat becomes a standard module, that it be given a name not quite so calculated to make the newbie disable it without a second glance. I think the reason wombat was chosen is because mod_lua was taken. In

Re: Dynamic configuration for the hackathon?

2008-04-02 Thread Rich Bowen
There's a couple of conflicting demands by our users, and spending time on the users mailing list and on the IRC channel is a great way to see this first-hand. They don't want to learn a new syntax. And they want a new syntax that lets them do what they mean. And they're very frustrated

Re: Dynamic configuration for the hackathon?

2008-04-02 Thread Matthew M. Burke
Issac Goldstand wrote: We're not talking about fresh users, we're talking about existing users. Fresh users have to deal with one learning curve or another anyway. I'm not talking about fresh users either. Matt

Configuration Issues to Address [was Re: Dynamic configuration for the hackathon?]

2008-04-02 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Akins, Brian wrote: The biggest problems I have with current system are: -Every module does things differently Within limits this will remain true. But we are missing a host of very trivial simplifications for the casual module developer, and reinvent the same wheel module after module. I'm

Re: Dynamic configuration for the hackathon?

2008-04-02 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Graham Leggett wrote: Jim Jagielski wrote: This reminds me: a serf BOF or session would, I think, go over quite well :) A question that has been on my mind for a bit, is what does serf intend to replace, and why is it better?. The impression I have so far is that somehow what we have now

Re: Configuration Issues to Address [was Re: Dynamic configuration for the hackathon?]

2008-04-02 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: -I have to write a good bit of code before a module is configurable. (I'm lazy. Very lazy.) Agreed - see my first point. One interesting point; why do we keep per-server and per-dir sections? Perhaps it's time for a single simpler-to-use mechanic which can

Re: Configuration Issues to Address [was Re: Dynamic configuration for the hackathon?]

2008-04-02 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: -I have to write a good bit of code before a module is configurable. (I'm lazy. Very lazy.) Agreed - see my first point. One interesting point; why do we keep per-server and per-dir sections? Perhaps it's time for a single

Re: [RELEASE CANDIDATE] mod_perl-2.0.4 RC1

2008-04-02 Thread Issac Goldstand
Ahem, On that subject, libapreq1 is already a year and a half into it's latest release cycle. We're still waiting for a PMC vote to finish the release... Someone remind me to do a lightning talk about this next time I'm at AC :) Foo JH wrote: Fantastic! Can I assume that libapreq will

Re: [RELEASE CANDIDATE] mod_perl-2.0.4 RC1

2008-04-02 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Issac Goldstand wrote: Ahem, On that subject, libapreq1 is already a year and a half into it's latest release cycle. We're still waiting for a PMC vote to finish the release... Someone remind me to do a lightning talk about this next time I'm at AC :) Time for a FFT presentation - 15

Re: [RELEASE CANDIDATE] mod_perl-2.0.4 RC1

2008-04-02 Thread Issac Goldstand
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Issac Goldstand wrote: Ahem, On that subject, libapreq1 is already a year and a half into it's latest release cycle. We're still waiting for a PMC vote to finish the release... Someone remind me to do a lightning talk about this next time I'm at AC :) Time

Re: Question: how to change the request in input filter and pass it to proxy

2008-04-02 Thread Graham Dumpleton
On 03/04/2008, Olexandr Prokhorenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I am working on the input filter which is going to catch on input requests, find the bucket with Host: , modify it and pass it through. I will modify it to something that does not belong to my httpd server, so I

Re: Question: how to change the request in input filter and pass it to proxy

2008-04-02 Thread Graham Dumpleton
This technique is taken from modules/proxy/mod_proxy.c in Apache source code. See the proxy_detect() function in that file for a C code example. One could change request headers on way through in same handler function as setup the proxy. Still need an output filter if you want to change handlers