Re: mod_access vs mod_authz_host

2005-11-08 Thread Geoffrey Young
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > --On November 3, 2005 4:54:08 PM + Nick Kew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Just to elaborate on that, it's the name I'm not happy about. >> I'm perfectly happy with the /modules/aaa/ classification. > > > The problem is that mod_access does not indicate the purp

Documentation; updating filter.xml

2005-11-08 Thread Nick Kew
OK, I've made an effort at tackling filter.xml, one of the documentation todos. Since it's pretty much a complete rewrite, please review before I commit. -- Nick Kew Filters This document describes the use of filters in Apache. Filtering in Apache 2 mod

Re: Speedup idea (by changing some strcasecmp into memcmp)

2005-11-08 Thread Ruediger Pluem
On 11/08/2005 10:45 PM, Christophe Jaillet wrote: > Hi, > > in many places in apache, strings are compared using the following > construction : > if (0 == strcasecmp("XX", str)) { > ... > } > else if (0 == strcasecmp("YY", str)) { > ... > } > else if (0 == strcasecmp("ZZ", st

Speedup idea (by changing some strcasecmp into memcmp)

2005-11-08 Thread Christophe Jaillet
Hi, in many places in apache, strings are compared using the following construction : if (0 == strcasecmp("XX", str)) { ... } else if (0 == strcasecmp("YY", str)) { ... } else if (0 == strcasecmp("ZZ", str)) { ... } else if (0 == strcasecmp("AA", str)) { ... } ...

Re: mod_access vs mod_authz_host

2005-11-08 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On November 3, 2005 4:50:08 PM + Nick Kew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So can mod_rewrite and others, but that doesn't make it mod_authz_url! Perhaps mod_load_average should be called mod_authz_busy ? No, mod_authz_host only does authorization checks. mod_rewrite

Incomplete error message in modules ldap

2005-11-08 Thread Christophe Jaillet
Hi, in file "/modules/ldap/util_ldap.c" there is a function (util_ldap_parse_cert_type) that checks that a given string (type) is of a known certificate type. How ever, code using this function does not always return the correct diagnostic message in some cases. * the comment around line 1

Re: mod_access vs mod_authz_host

2005-11-08 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On November 3, 2005 4:50:08 PM + Nick Kew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So can mod_rewrite and others, but that doesn't make it mod_authz_url! Perhaps mod_load_average should be called mod_authz_busy ? No, mod_authz_host only does authorization checks. mod_rewrite can do anything... (Har

Re: mod_access vs mod_authz_host

2005-11-08 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On November 3, 2005 4:54:08 PM + Nick Kew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just to elaborate on that, it's the name I'm not happy about. I'm perfectly happy with the /modules/aaa/ classification. The problem is that mod_access does not indicate the purpose of the module. access to what? What

Re: cache trouble (Re: [vote] 2.1.9 as beta)

2005-11-08 Thread Ruediger Pluem
On 11/08/2005 10:15 PM, Joshua Slive wrote: > > > Ruediger Pluem wrote: > [..cut..] > > > Has anyone actually tested this? Is it true that there is no way to run > a host-restricted cached proxy? That would be really lame. I tested only with 2.0.55 today. But given the fact that this pa

Re: cache trouble (Re: [vote] 2.1.9 as beta)

2005-11-08 Thread Joshua Slive
Ruediger Pluem wrote: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html#access suggests to secure a forward proxy by using mod_authz_host. Currently the advice should be the opposite: Yes, secure your forward proxy, but do *not* do this with mod_authz_host as it does not work as expected.

Re: cache trouble (Re: [vote] 2.1.9 as beta)

2005-11-08 Thread Ruediger Pluem
On 11/08/2005 01:36 AM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > On Nov 7, 2005, at 3:03 PM, Ruediger Pluem wrote: > [..cut..] > >> but the next request for this (fresh) resource will not check the >> access control and >> deliver it to any client, regardless of the IP. Correct? > Many thanks for sorting m

Re: cache trouble (Re: [vote] 2.1.9 as beta)

2005-11-08 Thread Joshua Slive
Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: if single-allow-from-all && no-deny-rules: no-header; else header; I think that is probably reasonable and would catch 99.5% of real configs. There is a silly case that I didn't mention: Order deny,allow Deny from al

[OTAnn] Feedback

2005-11-08 Thread shenanigans
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Re: SSL enabled -> nokeepalive in MSIE for non-SSL connections

2005-11-08 Thread Joe Orton
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 08:08:14PM +0100, Marc Stern wrote: > It's a bit more complex than that. > > At a certain point, a fix was released for IE 6 to correct the > incompatibility that needed the 'ssl-unclean-shutdown' directive (I guess > it's KB 831167). At this point, we had two different f

Re: cache trouble (Re: [vote] 2.1.9 as beta)

2005-11-08 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:54:18PM -0500, Joshua Slive wrote: > 1. Order Allow,Deny >Allow from all > > 2. Order Deny,Allow >Allow from all > > 3. Order Deny,Allow > > The difference between the three only becomes important if you add more > Allow/Deny directives. o.k., is the followin

Re: cache trouble (Re: [vote] 2.1.9 as beta)

2005-11-08 Thread Joshua Slive
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 07:48:07AM +0100, Ruediger Pluem wrote: So do you think that there is a todo for mod_authz_host to add such things or should this be left to the administrator who can of course use mod_headers in the first case to add Cache-Control: private? I

Re: NameVirtualHosts & SSL

2005-11-08 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Ondrej Sury wrote: Just a thought... Wouldn't it be possible to solve this by extending HTTP to support something similar to STARTTLS from IMAP/SMTP? Dudes, it's already published in http://rfc.net/rfc2818.html - yet it seems my mailbox fills with another 100k of

[Fwd: 21 days? Win32 1.3.34 candidate ready for testing]

2005-11-08 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Just an FYI... Original Message Subject: 21 days? Win32 1.3.34 candidate ready for testing Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2005 11:19:24 -0600 From: William A. Rowe, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: testers@httpd.apache.org Folks, I'll pull down Win32 binaries for 1.3.34 tonight, since it's bee

Re: NameVirtualHosts & SSL

2005-11-08 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Ondrej Sury wrote: Just a thought... Wouldn't it be possible to solve this by extending HTTP to support something similar to STARTTLS from IMAP/SMTP? Dudes, it's already published in http://rfc.net/rfc2818.html - yet it seems my mailbox fills with another 100k of this discussion every month (

Re: pgp trust for https?

2005-11-08 Thread Nick Kew
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 12:02, Brian Candler wrote: [twice - please don't] > On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 10:19:25PM +, Nick Kew wrote: > > I'll sign my server. Same as I'll sign an httpd tarball if I roll one > > for public consumption. You sign your server. Where's the problem? > > The pr

Re: pgp trust for https?

2005-11-08 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:02:03PM +, Brian Candler wrote: > The attacker doesn't have your private key, so they would create their own > key pair. As a result, the connecting client would see a *different* key > than the one they would see if they connect to your server directly. The > problem

Re: pgp trust for https?

2005-11-08 Thread Brian Candler
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 05:31:13PM -0500, Peter Djalaliev wrote: >However, I really think that PGP and the web-of-trust has >applicability and usefulness for web sites. For a smaller web site, >obtaining a certificate of sufficient level is quite hard and >expensive. These website

Re: pgp trust for https?

2005-11-08 Thread Brian Candler
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 10:19:25PM +, Nick Kew wrote: > I'll sign my server. Same as I'll sign an httpd tarball if I roll one > for public consumption. You sign your server. Where's the problem? The problem is that you'll have no protection against man-in-the-middle attacks, whereby an atta

Re: mod_deflate Vary header

2005-11-08 Thread Igor Sysoev
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Igor Sysoev wrote Actually, with MSIE 5.5+ appearance the chances that client can not decompress the response from downstream cache have increased. If MSIE 5.5 is configured to work via proxy with HTTP/1.0, then MSIE will never send "Accept-Encoding"

Re: NameVirtualHosts & SSL

2005-11-08 Thread Graham Leggett
Ondrej Sury said: > Just a thought... Wouldn't it be possible to solve this by extending > HTTP to support something similar to STARTTLS from IMAP/SMTP? Very possible yes, HTTP already has support for this, as does httpd v2.2. The trouble is the browsers don't (yet), so until there is widespread

Re: NameVirtualHosts & SSL

2005-11-08 Thread Ondrej Sury
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 20:25 +0200, Joost de Heer wrote: > > The one-virtual-host-per-ip limitation is imposed by SSL, it has nothing > > to do with the webserver. > > > one-virtual-host-per-ip-and-port > Just a thought... Wouldn't it be possible to solve this by extending HTTP to support some

Re: mod_deflate Vary header

2005-11-08 Thread TOKILEY
> Igor Sysoev wrote > > Actually, with MSIE 5.5+ appearance the chances that client can not > decompress the response from downstream cache have increased. > If MSIE 5.5 is configured to work via proxy with HTTP/1.0, then > MSIE will never send "Accept-Encoding" header, and it would refuse > the c