> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Eissing [mailto:stefan.eiss...@greenbytes.de]
> Sent: maandag 20 november 2017 11:40
> To: d...@httpd.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Serf support in trunk
>
> +1 for pulling it unless someone steps forward.
>
> > Am 19.11.2017 um 12:49 schrieb Rainer Jung <rainer.j...@kippdata.de>:
> >
> > While testing the 2.5.0 alpha candidate I noticed, that our optional use
of
> serf in mod_proxy and mpm_event is pretty outdated (so unmaintained):
> >
> > - the serf API we use was only present in serf until version 0.3.1
(February
> 2010)
What serf api are we talking about?
There shouldn't have been any changes to the public api withing 1.3.x... but
then around 1.3.0 the project wasn't an ASF project yet.
> > - in May 2010 it was changed inside serf and httpd does not support this
> newer API
> >
> > - serf currently is now at version 1.3.9 (August 2016) providing stable
APIs.
> There is still some basic maintenance activity in the serf project, for
instance
> for supporting newer scons build tool versions or support for OpenSSL
1.1.0.
> >
> > I do not actually know what the serf support adds to httpd, it seems
> mostly some "SerfCluster" feature for mod_proxy. There's no docs and some
> comments in the code indicate the impl is not complete. SVN logs point to
> the same direction.
I have no idea why some things were duplicated for different http engines...
As httpd user I don't see why I want to use different configurations for
different engines, except for one knob that chooses the engine.
Mod_pagespeed (another serf consumer) is also trying to become an ASF
project... Not sure if there would be any interest in that project.
Bert
