Re: Version check idea

2015-04-23 Thread Kurt Newman
On Apr 23, 2015, at 7:50 AM, dev-digest-h...@httpd.apache.org wrote: From: Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com Subject: Version check idea Date: April 21, 2015 at 8:55:38 AM CDT To: httpd dev@httpd.apache.org For comment: What do people think about adding the capability that when httpd

Re: Version check idea

2015-04-23 Thread Jim Jagielski
Hmmm... I wonder if the config directive could take a URL as a parameter as an alternative... On Apr 23, 2015, at 8:48 AM, Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com wrote: On 04/21/2015 10:13 AM, Jeff Trawick wrote: On 04/21/2015 09:55 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: For comment: What do people think

Re: Version check idea

2015-04-23 Thread Christophe JAILLET
Le 21/04/2015 15:55, Jim Jagielski a écrit : 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

Re: Version check idea

2015-04-23 Thread Rich Bowen
On 04/21/2015 10:13 AM, Jeff Trawick wrote: On 04/21/2015 09:55 AM, Jim Jagielski 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

Re: Version check idea

2015-04-21 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Apr 21, 2015, at 10:00 AM, 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

Re: Version check idea

2015-04-21 Thread Leif Hedstrom
On Apr 21, 2015, at 8:27 AM, Nick Kew n...@webthing.com wrote: 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

Re: Version check idea

2015-04-21 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
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

Re: Version check idea

2015-04-21 Thread Jeff Trawick
On 04/21/2015 10:13 AM, Jeff Trawick wrote: On 04/21/2015 09:55 AM, Jim Jagielski 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

Re: Version check idea

2015-04-21 Thread Nick Kew
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

Re: Version check idea

2015-04-21 Thread Stefan Eissing
Some weeks ago, I asked the openssl team something related to this. I wanted a URL which redirects to the latest 1.0.2 release tar. I use this in my mod_h2 sandbox setup and got rid of updating version numbers for that package. If there would be a url, such as

Re: Version check idea

2015-04-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.04.2015 um 15:55 schrieb Jim Jagielski: 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

Version check idea

2015-04-21 Thread Jim Jagielski
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

Re: Version check idea

2015-04-21 Thread Jeff Trawick
On 04/21/2015 09:55 AM, Jim Jagielski 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