On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:00:05 +0200 Dirk-Willem van Gulik <di...@webweaving.org> wrote:
> On 21 Apr 2015, at 15:55, Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: > > > For comment: What do people think about adding the capability that > > when httpd is started, it tries to access http://httpd.apache.org/doap.rdf > > to check its version number with the latest one referred to in that > > file and, if a newer one exists, it prints out a little message > > in the error.log (or stderr)… > > First reaction - Eek && Evil ! Breaks about every assumption I have about > well defined unix programmes. > > However if it where something like ‘httpd C / --configcheck’ or similarily > for apachectl then I could easily image that to be rather useful. +1 (to Dirk). Capability, OK. Even, configuration option, perhaps (that would allow packagers to reference their own URL). But no way would I want it calling home in a default startup behind my back! Suggestion 1: make it a module. Suggestion 2: consider something lighter-weight than RDF. e.g. an X-latest: header in our own server response to HEAD / . -- Nick Kew
