"Downstream customers" in my case means customers that will deploy
Apache and our products on their own servers. In a great many cases
these servers run Windows.
The clients in most cases are Windows too, but that's a different matter
entirely.
On 8/17/2012 3:12 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote:
I am curious how the number of downstream customers being Windows effects
anything on the server side...
On Aug 17, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Jess Holle <[email protected]> wrote:
The fact that there is no event MPM equivalent for Windows is a huge gap for
2.4.x.
Given the large percentage of our downstream customers using Windows there's
not a huge motivation to move to 2.4.x.
Moreover, it's my understanding that the event MPM falls back to behaving like
the worker MPM in SSL cases. Is that true? If so, then that further decreases
the motivation to move to 2.4.x.
Overall, given that a large portion of our downstream usages are on Windows,
say 50% for the sake of argument, and that a large percentage of our usages are
HTTPS, again say 50% for the sake of argument, the benefits of the event MPM
are really quite narrow in practice in our case.
That said, I didn't know or had forgotten that SSL didn't work with the Windows
MPM in 2.4.x. That would be a substantial regression from 2.2.x -- and
resolving this would clear the way for 2.4.x being GA barring any other such
regressions.
--
Jess Holle
On 8/17/2012 12:48 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote:
In the Announcement you'll see:
NOTE to Windows users: The issues with AcceptFilter None replacing
Win32DisableAcceptEx appears to have resolved starting with version
2.4.3 make Apache httpd 2.4.x suitable for Windows servers.
NOTE: The event MPM is a *nix mpm and has never worked on Windows.
On Aug 17, 2012, at 1:38 PM, Jess Holle <[email protected]> wrote:
Does the event MPM now:
• Work on Windows?
• Work with HTTPS?
When both are true 2.4.x will become very interesting. Until then, not so much
over 2.2.x.
On 8/17/2012 12:34 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote:
The pre-release test tarballs for Apache httpd 2.4.3 can be found
at the usual place:
http://httpd.apache.org/dev/dist/
I'm calling a VOTE on releasing these as Apache httpd 2.4.3 GA.
NOTE: The -deps tarballs are included here *only* to make life
easier for the tester. They will not be, and are not, part
of the official release.
[ ] +1: Good to go
[ ] +0: meh
[ ] -1: Danger Will Robinson. And why.
Vote will last the normal 72 hrs.
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