Re: Conditional RequestHeader patch not reflected in documentation?

2007-08-10 Thread Joshua Slive
On 8/10/07, Rich Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Received this query from a friend and colleague: ... I've been working on an issue at work, where we're trying to remove some headers from a (proxied) request. Whilst I was looking for a solution I came across this patch:

Re: default content type

2007-08-25 Thread Joshua Slive
On 8/25/07, Roy T. Fielding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For standards conformance, I am going to start removing the default content type settings from trunk tomorrow. http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13986 If you have any problems with that, let them be known here. +1

Re: About modules/metadata/mod_expires.c (apache 2.2)

2007-08-26 Thread Joshua Slive
On 8/26/07, Julien Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, While setting up a reverse proxy squid + apache w/ mod_expires.c in order to decrease the load on the web server, I discovered that mod_expires.c was working by checking the mimetype of the content generated by the web server

Re: Increasing the size of allow_options_t and overrides_t

2007-09-01 Thread Joshua Slive
On 9/1/07, Graham Leggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am working on a patch that needs to widen the two bitmaps below, as they have run out of bits. Would such a change be backport-able to v2.2, and what kind of MMN bump would it need if so? I think that'll break the binary API, which

Re: What is httpd -X?

2007-09-20 Thread Joshua Slive
On 9/20/07, Ashwani Kumar Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is httpd –X See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/httpd.html Whether I can use this –X option for the deployment. The better question is: why would you want to? You mention nothing about what problem you are trying to

Re: What is httpd -X?

2007-09-20 Thread Joshua Slive
On 9/20/07, Ashwani Kumar Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to start the httpd web server through my own application and then I would like to shut down the web server once I wish to bring my application down, normally or abnormally (in case). Will it be fine if I spawn the Apache web

Re: Patching PR#13986

2007-09-26 Thread Joshua Slive
On 9/26/07, Nick Kew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We really need to fix this issue of inappropriate DefaultTypes. An approach that deals with this without loss of back-compatibility is to hand the decision to systems administrators: #to suppress setting content-type when the server has no

Re: Proxying OPTIONS *

2007-10-01 Thread Joshua Slive
On 10/1/07, Jim Jagielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know Roy's already reported the proxy error as bogus, but I think the OPTIONS * BUGZ report is also bogus. As a test, I assumed that both www.apache.org and apache.webthing.com are reasonably configured servers: www.apache.org is using a

Re: Proxying OPTIONS *

2007-10-01 Thread Joshua Slive
On 10/1/07, William A. Rowe, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I'm rather against breaking this in 2.2 to solve (what are, today) configuration quirks. Let's get this right for 2.4 and call out the change very clearly in (our overlong) CHANGES? I'm thinking of a new second-priority category

Re: Proxying OPTIONS *

2007-10-01 Thread Joshua Slive
On 10/1/07, William A. Rowe, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Slive wrote: Should be in this, rather sparse file: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/new_features_2_4.html But it's not a feature-per say. It's a bugfix, so the name new_features doesn't tell admins they have to adopt

Re: How to kill 1.3?

2007-10-03 Thread Joshua Slive
On 10/3/07, Roy T. Fielding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't care what the uptake graph says. I don't care what people outside this project mailing list think, period, about this project. And if five years from now there are three or more Apache committers that want to release 1.3.x, then no

Re: AP_CONN_CLOSE on force-response-1.0

2007-10-09 Thread Joshua Slive
On 10/9/07, Jim Jagielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All I'm saying is that, iirc, the intent of force-response-1.0 is to force a 1.0 response and disable keepalives... it was designed to work around buggy browsers that had problems with 1.1 features, including wonky 1.0-type keepalives. No,

Re: Strange access log entry repeating

2007-10-15 Thread Joshua Slive
On 10/15/07, Marten Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using httpd-2.2.4. If you don't have an idea, I can maybe track it down a bit further. But so far this simpelst thing I can explain is: With a pretty standard httpd.conf there is no long entry unless someone actually calls a URL. But

Re: Apache 2 IP_Forwarding

2007-11-02 Thread Joshua Slive
On Nov 2, 2007 12:41 PM, Shaw, Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Morning, We are trying to identify the following and we have received one response and need to verify. We are looking for feedback or heck even a solution on the following In order to get the IP address of the client, instead

Re: nofollow was Re: mod_mbox

2005-10-11 Thread Joshua Slive
Nick Kew wrote: Paul Querna wrote: 2. There are several formats for each mail message (regular, raw, mime). Probably the links to everything other than the standard format should use the rel=nofollow modifier to keep the search engines out. Keeping the robots off of 2/3 of the links

Re: mod_mbox

2005-10-11 Thread Joshua Slive
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: 3. We should probably turn on the email-address-obfiscation feature. I personally would prefer if everyone could just use proper spam filtering, but I think the general expectation nowadays is that we try to avoid displaying raw addresses. I think this feature is

mod_mbox stable index urls

2005-10-15 Thread Joshua Slive
One of the best features of mod_mbox is the stable URLs it provides for messages. But the recent upgrade broke all the index urls (date/thread/author) as well as other special urls (raw) for no apparent reason. I've added some Redirects to catch these, but please try keep these stable in the

mod_mbox last-modified headers

2005-10-15 Thread Joshua Slive
mod_mbox used to send Last-Modified HTTP response headers, at least on the messages. (I can't remember if they were sent on indexes.) This seems to have disappeared. (Sorry for just dumping problem reports here without looking at the code...) Joshua.

Re: mod_mbox last-modified headers

2005-10-15 Thread Joshua Slive
Paul Querna wrote: Joshua Slive wrote: mod_mbox used to send Last-Modified HTTP response headers, at least on the messages. (I can't remember if they were sent on indexes.) This seems to have disappeared. (Sorry for just dumping problem reports here without looking at the code

Re: mod_mbox stable index urls

2005-10-16 Thread Joshua Slive
Maxime Petazzoni wrote: Hi, * Joshua Slive [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-10-15 14:58:16]: One of the best features of mod_mbox is the stable URLs it provides for messages. But the recent upgrade broke all the index urls (date/thread/author) as well as other special urls (raw) for no apparent

1.3 downloads broken

2005-10-16 Thread Joshua Slive
The download.cgi got updated to 1.3.34 before the release, so all 1.3 downloads are now broken (unless the downloader clicks on other files and goes exploring). I don't have time to fix it right now, so if someone else can take a look... joshua.

mod_mbox spinning processes on ajax

2005-10-16 Thread Joshua Slive
There appear to be some httpd processes spinning on cpu on ajax. Attaching with gdb and asking for a backtrace gives me something like this: #0 0x209f3710 in l2 () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6.1 #1 0x21007f30 in mbox_wrap_text ( str=0x22210038 Author: jta\nDate: Thu Jan

Re: mod_mbox spinning processes on ajax

2005-10-16 Thread Joshua Slive
Maxime Petazzoni wrote: Salut, * Joshua Slive [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-10-16 15:54:18]: There appear to be some httpd processes spinning on cpu on ajax. Attaching with gdb and asking for a backtrace gives me something like this: [snip] Could you send us the URL that raised the problem

Re: mod_mbox spinning processes on ajax

2005-10-17 Thread Joshua Slive
Maxime Petazzoni wrote: Salut, * Joshua Slive [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-10-16 15:54:18]: There appear to be some httpd processes spinning on cpu on ajax. Attaching with gdb and asking for a backtrace gives me something like this: [snip] Could you send us the URL that raised the problem

Fwd: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1.3.x release announcements?

2005-10-18 Thread Joshua Slive
Just for your info... I've already responded on the users list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Bret Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 18, 2005 1:35 PM Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1.3.x release announcements? To: users@httpd.apache.org Some time ago, I subscribed to

Re: mod_mbox spinning processes on ajax

2005-10-20 Thread Joshua Slive
Maxime Petazzoni wrote: There appear to be some httpd processes spinning on cpu on ajax. Attaching with gdb and asking for a backtrace gives me something like this: This email is 457 kbytes long, maybe it just take some time to iterate through 450k+ characters. Maybe we could find a better

Re: mod_mbox spinning processes on ajax

2005-10-20 Thread Joshua Slive
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On October 21, 2005 12:49:48 AM +0200 Maxime Petazzoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you can see in the latest commit (r327019), we've set up a small hack to avoid mod_mbox from wrapping messages larger than 50k. I don't get it. Why is mod_mbox wrapping any text

Re: [vote] 2.1.9 as beta

2005-11-02 Thread Joshua Slive
Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: I think the text Deny from all is a particularly dangerous thing to have not work as advertised! No matter how well documented :/ Sure, but in truth, apache configuration is really complex and deny from all doesn't always really mean what it says. This

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

2005-11-03 Thread Joshua Slive
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: In my performance analyses that I did when redoing mod_cache last year, a substantial part of the time in httpd was spent in all of the hooks prior to the handler. Things like BrowserMatch (which do regex's) are ridiculously expensive. Interesting to think,

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

2005-11-04 Thread Joshua Slive
Graham Leggett wrote: The httpd cache is simply yet another cache in the chain of HTTP/1.1 caches that are typically present when a browser accepts a page from a website. The authentication issue is handled by RFC2616 already, and as long as httpd mod_cache conforms to the correct headers

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

2005-11-04 Thread Joshua Slive
Graham Leggett wrote: Joshua Slive said: I agree with you about 90%. The problem is that there are a very few things that aren't accounted for in standard HTTP caching rules. One example is Varying access by client IP address. I can't see how you could have any meaningful caching at all

Re: Documentation TODOs for 2.2

2005-11-05 Thread Joshua Slive
Sander Temme wrote: On Oct 30, 2005, at 2:05 PM, Nick Kew wrote: I'm just looking at docs/2.1 and noting some existing pages that definitely need updating. No reference to pages that need writing, or to non- English versions of anything. I might tackle some of these myself, but no

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?

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 all

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

Re: Documentation; updating filter.xml

2005-11-09 Thread Joshua Slive
Nick Kew wrote: 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. pOne of the major innovations in Apache 2 was the Filter Chain. I think this historical approach to documentation is a

Re: Documentation; updating filter.xml

2005-11-09 Thread Joshua Slive
Nick Kew wrote: This is basically independent of the request processing axis./p I don't really understand what you mean here. Perhaps the figure explains it, but this statement doesn't really stand on its own. The figure exists in a couple of places already. Checking my bookmarks,

Re: Documentation; updating filter.xml

2005-11-09 Thread Joshua Slive
Nick Kew wrote: On Wednesday 09 November 2005 20:11, Joshua Slive wrote: The figure exists in a couple of places already. Checking my bookmarks, it's Figure 1 at http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/12/15/apache-namespaces.html So you are just trying to say that data and meta-data are processed

Re: file tree diff of 2.0 vs 2.2

2005-11-10 Thread Joshua Slive
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: Adding comments or better docs is always a good thing. One thing is that these modules are *much* simpler than their 2.0 counterparts, so the need for extensive documentation isn't as pressing - provided you understand how they all fit together. =) -- justin

Re: svn commit: r344369 - in /httpd/httpd/trunk: ./ docs/manual/ docs/manual/mod/ include/ server/

2005-11-15 Thread Joshua Slive
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Author: jim Date: Tue Nov 15 06:50:39 2005 New Revision: 344369 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=344369view=rev Log: Add in the UseCanonicalPhysicalPort directive, which basically allows Apache to configurably ( :) ) use the physical port when constructing the

Re: svn commit: r344409 - /httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/manual/install.xml

2005-11-15 Thread Joshua Slive
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: -tdcode$ emPREFIX/em/bin/apachectl start/code +tdcode$ emPREFIX/em/bin/apachectl -k start/code Really? That'd be the right syntax for httpd, but not for apachectl. (Looking at apachectl, it looks like it'd just happen to work though.) It works by

Auth*Authoritative

2005-11-15 Thread Joshua Slive
I'm trying to wrap my head around the new auth system. All the Auth*Authoritative directives seem to have copied their docs content from someplace that refers to lower level modules (as defined in the modules.c files). What the heck does that mean in an httpd 2.x context? Isn't the ordering

Re: Auth*Authoritative

2005-11-15 Thread Joshua Slive
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: The ordering/implications is now governed by either the provider lists (as specified in the Auth*Provider directives) or the hooks (as per Auth*Authoritative if a module doesn't participate in the new provider scheme). The provider system is, IMHO, a far cleaner

AuthBasicProvider Off

2005-11-16 Thread Joshua Slive
From a quick reading of the code, AuthBasicProvider Off and AuthBasicProvider On have exactly the same effect. This is silly. Off should probably be removed and On renamed to default. Joshua.

Re: AuthBasicProvider Off

2005-11-16 Thread Joshua Slive
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:55:03AM -0500, Joshua Slive wrote: From a quick reading of the code, AuthBasicProvider Off and AuthBasicProvider On have exactly the same effect. This is silly. Off should probably be removed and On renamed to default. Oh. I see

Re: Please include mpm-itk into upsteam.

2005-11-17 Thread Joshua Slive
Corentin CHARY wrote: Hi, I needed a simple way to user different Uid/Gid for my vhost, without cgi, and with a not-threaded mpm (php is not realy threadsafe ...). I discover mpm-itk (based on mpm-prefork) http://home.samfundet.no/~sesse/mpm-itk/ and mpm-peruser (based on mpm-metux)

Re: Please include mpm-itk into upsteam.

2005-11-17 Thread Joshua Slive
Corentin CHARY wrote: I read the code, it seems that it kill the process ... The configuration is not the main problem ... i know how to do that, but it means 2 process per request (with prefork, and i need to use prefork with php ...). I haven't tested, but I can almost guarantee

Re: svn commit: r345301 - /httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/manual/mod/core.xml

2005-11-17 Thread Joshua Slive
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On November 17, 2005 6:29:43 PM + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Deprecate AddOutputFilterByType I disagree. IMHO, recommending switching to mod_filter is like telling people to switch from Alias to mod_rewrite. As I said when this was discussed on the list,

Re: SSL enabled - nokeepalive in MSIE for non-SSL connections

2005-11-21 Thread Joshua Slive
Olaf van der Spek wrote: On 11/3/05, Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe Orton wrote: All versions need unclean shutdown at least, not sure about keepalive. If you have new data to provide on this front that's great and very welcome, please send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] bugzilla

Re: SSL enabled - nokeepalive in MSIE for non-SSL connections

2005-11-21 Thread Joshua Slive
Olaf van der Spek wrote: On 11/21/05, Joshua Slive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Olaf van der Spek wrote: On 11/3/05, Olaf van der Spek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe Orton wrote: All versions need unclean shutdown at least, not sure about keepalive. If you have new data to provide

Re: 2.1.10-worker core dumps on minotaur

2005-11-22 Thread Joshua Slive
Paul Querna wrote: Joshua Slive wrote: I've already posted this on infrastructure@, but I thought I should mention it here as well because it might have an effect on the release decision. We have at least 3 core dumps from 2.1.10 on minotaur. They are in /x1/coredumps, but none seem

Re: 2.1.10-worker core dumps on minotaur

2005-11-23 Thread Joshua Slive
Paul Querna wrote: Joshua Slive wrote: Interestingly, the core files are all almost exactly the same size (538 MB) which, along with the malloc failure, points strongly to hitting a resource limit someplace. Any freebsd gurus want to comment? FreeBSD has a default memory resource limit

Re: Suggest renaming mod_authz_host to mod_access_host

2005-11-24 Thread Joshua Slive
Joost de Heer wrote: access control: is this request permitted, based on where it is being made from In other words, is the host from which the request comes, authorised to make this request? Hence mod_authz_host. I tend to agree that the new name is confusing. It is theoretically

plenty of mod_mbox cores on ajax

2005-11-25 Thread Joshua Slive
I hadn't checked in a while, but I now see we have lots of httpd-cores related to mod_mbox on ajax. Most of them look like this: #0 mbox_mime_decode_body (p=0x6042e508, cte=CTE_NONE, body=0x0, len=0) at mod_mbox_mime.c:290 #1 0x2101ada0 in mbox_mime_get_body

Re: plenty of mod_mbox cores on ajax

2005-11-26 Thread Joshua Slive
Maxime Petazzoni wrote: * Joshua Slive [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-11-25 15:04:51]: I hadn't checked in a while, but I now see we have lots of httpd-cores related to mod_mbox on ajax. Most of them look like this: #0 mbox_mime_decode_body (p=0x6042e508, cte=CTE_NONE, body=0x0, len=0

Re: plenty of mod_mbox cores on ajax

2005-11-26 Thread Joshua Slive
Paul Querna wrote: I have run mod_mbox on 2.1 2.3-dev on my dev machine just fine. I just compiled mod_mbox and httpd 2.1.10 in my home directory on Ajax... seemed to compile fine. I get undefined references to core apache functions. Can you tell me how you do it? (I can probably just

Re: plenty of mod_mbox cores on ajax

2005-11-27 Thread Joshua Slive
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 06:32:59PM -0500, Joshua Slive wrote: I get undefined references to core apache functions. Can you tell me how you do it? (I can probably just steal the one from your home directory anyway.) Sounds like you're probably getting bit

Re: Any 'official' Apache FastCGI-like alternative planned?

2005-11-27 Thread Joshua Slive
Olaf van der Spek wrote: Hi, I've been wondering, do the Apache developers plan to develop and/or include an official FastCGI-like module in Apache? I know there's for example AJP but that appears to be aimed specifically at Java. An official module would be handy so that PHP can be run in

Re: minotaur down

2005-11-28 Thread Joshua Slive
Nick Kew wrote: minotaur has been down for six hour now, perhaps longer. Given how many critical things live there, this is a problem. From discussion on #asfinfra (IRC), it seems (correct me if I'm wrong) that it can be accessed remotely by sufficiently privileged users even when down, but

Re: OT: performance FUD

2005-11-29 Thread Joshua Slive
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: It'd be nice to complement that information with other sites who have far more complicated setups. -- justin This could also be part of a press release announcing 2.2. Just between Brian and Colm we could have a couple impressive-sounding quotes. Joshua.

Re: OT: performance FUD

2005-11-29 Thread Joshua Slive
Paul A Houle wrote: Don't make it a fudbusting site, make it a apache performance tuning site. There are all of these statements in the apache docs that * .htaccess is slow * ExtendedStatus on reduces performance We did a round of performance testing on a server that we

Press release for httpd 2.2 (was Re: OT: performance FUD)

2005-11-30 Thread Joshua Slive
Brian Akins wrote: I have been given word that our statements can appear in a press release or testimonial, it just has to be passed through legal here. So what type of statements are we looking for? Let's bring the Apache Public Relations Committee into this to see what advice they have.

Re: svn commit: r351702 - /httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/Makefile.win

2005-12-02 Thread Joshua Slive
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: With this single change, there is now a source package available at; httpd.apache.org/dev/dist/httpd-2.2.0-win32-src.zip However, without this single change it was impossible for nmake -f to run to completion. Is it unreasonable to publish this .zip if we

using proxy/cache for apache mirrors

2005-12-06 Thread Joshua Slive
This is really an infrastructure topic, not an httpd-dev one, but I'd like the caching experts to look over this to make sure this simple configuration looks reasonable. (The main issue being, it is almost impossible to get a mirror to change its configuration after they've been accepted into

Re: using proxy/cache for apache mirrors

2005-12-06 Thread Joshua Slive
[ This really should be on infrastructure; oh well.] Perhaps I should have mentioned off the top that I envision setting 30+ day expiry times on all .gz/.zip/.msi/.jar/etc files under dist/. These files should never change without being renamed. Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: * It's

Re: A mod_mbox release ?

2005-12-12 Thread Joshua Slive
Maxime Petazzoni wrote: * It's been running on mail-archives.apache.org with fewer than X cores (with X tending to 0) I don't know if I'm able to check this point on my own : where do coredumps go ? Do I have enough access rights to check for them ? Anyway, since my last fixes against core

svn commit: r360207 - in /httpd/httpd/branches/authz-dev: include/http_core.h server/core.c

2006-01-06 Thread Joshua Slive
[Looks like this didn't go through the first time. Do we still have active moderation on this list?] -- Forwarded message -- From: Joshua Slive [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jan 1, 2006 5:28 PM Subject: Re: svn commit: r360207 - in /httpd/httpd/branches/authz-dev: include/http_core.h

Re: Merging branch authz-dev - Authorization and Access Control 2.3 vs. 2.2

2006-01-06 Thread Joshua Slive
On 1/6/06, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Authz refactoring in /branch/authz-dev is basically done and I am about ready to merge the branch back into trunk. Before I do that, I would like to describe the impact that the Authz change will have going forward, as well as the

Re: Merging branch authz-dev - Authorization and Access Control 2.3 vs. 2.2

2006-01-11 Thread Joshua Slive
[Your merge today prompted me to dig out a response I started but never finished.] I am still worried that we are underestimating the pain that this will cause. In my opinion, a config change that requires substantial changes to every httpd.conf and many .htaccess files requires a major version

Re: Merging branch authz-dev - Authorization and Access Control 2.3vs. 2.2

2006-01-13 Thread Joshua Slive
On 1/12/06, Brad Nicholes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, try this on for size. Since Order,Allow,Deny are all hooked at the access_checker stage, we should be able to add these directives back in and allow them to function normally. The real problem is 'Satisfy' because it had its fingers

Re: Improving documentation / configuration as a result of report 38123

2006-01-17 Thread Joshua Slive
On 1/17/06, Ruediger Pluem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A short time ago there had been a discussion on the security list(s) if bug report 38123 (Apache stops receiving new connections) is a new and unknown vulnerability or not. If you want to attract lazy people to the topic, you should provide

Re: Improving documentation / configuration as a result of report 38123

2006-01-17 Thread Joshua Slive
On 1/17/06, Joshua Slive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. There should be a section on the Security Tips page that mentions this issue and makes some remarks on it. Since we really need a place to point everyone who rediscovers this issue and thinks they've found something original, I started

Re: svn commit: r369827 - /httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/manual/misc/security_tips.xml

2006-01-17 Thread Joshua Slive
On 1/17/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Author: rpluem Date: Tue Jan 17 08:08:28 2006 New Revision: 369827 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=369827view=rev Log: * Add some remarks how to mitigate the risk of DoS attacks by setting proper values for the Timeout and

Re: Thread-only execution with Apache 2 : Newbie query

2006-01-19 Thread Joshua Slive
On 1/19/06, Praveen Bhaniramka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, We are developing a custom module for Apache using mod_gsoap over Linux. However, our software currently does not work very well in a multi-process environment as it was designed primarily for a multi-threaded environment. Is

Re: Thread-only execution with Apache 2 : Newbie query

2006-01-19 Thread Joshua Slive
On 1/19/06, Praveen Bhaniramka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Joshua, Thanks for your reply. I tried setting the parameters suggested by you. But when I re-run httpd2, I see that it is still creating 3 processes. Three processes is normal. One is the control process, one is the cgi daemon and

Re: Dynamic configuration

2006-01-24 Thread Joshua Slive
On 1/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There should be feature to dynamically update configuration ( module configurations ) at runtime and no connection should break. I am looking at apache code and could not get any clue. Can anyone suggest me where to start for this?

Re: Change in how to configure authorization

2006-01-26 Thread Joshua Slive
I haven't done any of this work myself, but... On 1/26/06, Ian Holsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. It looks like recently some people have changed how authorization is working on the trunk. Could those people please 1. add a note to docs/upgrading.html to document what us idiots need to

Re: Change in how to configure authorization

2006-01-27 Thread Joshua Slive
On 1/26/06, Ian Holsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Joshua: httpd.conf.in has the new structure httpd-std.conf (the one I was looking at) didn't ;( Hmmm... httpd-std.conf doesn't exist in trunk. Joshua.

Re: svn commit: r375083 - in /httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/manual/faq: background.html.en background.xml

2006-02-05 Thread Joshua Slive
On 2/5/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Author: niq Date: Sun Feb 5 11:30:29 2006 New Revision: 375083 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=375083view=rev Log: PR#38521 - fix link. -liYou may use the a href=http://httpd.apache.org/docs/apache_pb.gif;'Powered by

mod_mbox cores on ajax

2006-02-09 Thread Joshua Slive
I hadn't checked in a while, but there seem to be lots of mod_mbox cores on ajax again. Here's one backtrace: #0 mbox_cte_escape_html (p=0x60343ca8, s=0x602f5a68 --_=_NextPart_001_01C3C08D.F854E1E0\nContent-Type: text/html;Content-Transfer-Encoding:

Re: Change in how to configure authorization

2006-02-10 Thread Joshua Slive
On 2/10/06, David Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Slive wrote: On 1/26/06, Ian Holsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Joshua: httpd.conf.in has the new structure httpd-std.conf (the one I was looking at) didn't ;( Hmmm... httpd-std.conf doesn't exist in trunk. Just ran

Re: how does this get changed?

2006-02-16 Thread Joshua Slive
On 2/16/06, David Reid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rather than try and piece it together, can someone simply answer this simple question? Maybe then this mail and your reply will help other poor souls trying to make the change. Convert this Order deny,allow Deny from all Require all denied

Re: how does this get changed?

2006-02-16 Thread Joshua Slive
On 2/16/06, Graham Leggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Holsman wrote: maybe if mod_access_compat is included by default statically into httpd itself? (unless explicitly disabled) we could make it optional in 2.6 (and remove docs on it), and remove in 2.8 or something. this will give

Re: how does this get changed?

2006-02-17 Thread Joshua Slive
On 2/17/06, Joost de Heer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'Breaking a config file' is IMO that you can't just copy your 2.0 config file and it works. And the new mod_auth(n|z) structure just did that: A 2.0 config file needed changes to work in 2.2. Only if you are using dynamically loaded modules.

Re: Integration Apache2.0.48 and an existing server

2006-02-25 Thread Joshua Slive
On 2/25/06, Arshad Ahamad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I have configure Apache-2.0.48 successfully.Now I would like to integrate Apache-2.0.48 and existing server. So I am unable to start this work ,I am too much confused either Apache embedded into the existing server OR

Re: Protecting a file with a password

2006-03-06 Thread Joshua Slive
On 3/6/06, Graham Leggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have just tried to convince httpd v2.2.0 to password protect a single file on the filesystem, but without any success. Does anybody know whether this is possible? I tried Location /cgi-bin/dir/file.cgi and Files

Re: HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR in mod_proxy

2006-04-19 Thread Joshua Slive
On 4/18/06, Matthias Behrens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi is there a way to overwrite the HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR instead of adding to it? the problem is that the content of this headerline is sometimes totally chaotic so its very difficult to parse. other possible solutions would be: - to

Re: HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR in mod_proxy

2006-04-20 Thread Joshua Slive
On 4/20/06, Matthias Behrens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thx doesnt seem to work on 2.0 its a 2.2 feature isnt it? The early option, which may be necessary here, is a 2.2 feature. Joshua.

Re: copyright notices

2006-04-21 Thread Joshua Slive
On 4/21/06, Roy T. Fielding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know of any reason to hurry a 2.0.x release (heck, I don't know of any reason to continue its development), but I also don't think releasing one with modified copyright years is any more or less legal than continuing to distribute

Re: 304 response handling with Apache 2.0.53

2006-04-24 Thread Joshua Slive
On 4/24/06, Swapan Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using Apache 2.0.53. I am observing that when a 304 Not Modified response is returned accompanied by the Location header, the Location does not reach the user. I could see that this header is not mentioned in the RFC for 304

Fwd: Email address on mail archive (fwd)

2006-04-27 Thread Joshua Slive
This type of request is becoming more and more common. Although mod_mbox obscures the basic to and from address, there are still two problems: 1. It doesn't obscure email addresses in the body of the message (which could be from forwarded/quoted messages). 2. The raw link still gives access to

Re: Email address on mail archive (fwd)

2006-04-28 Thread Joshua Slive
On 4/28/06, Justin Erenkrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/27/06, Joshua Slive [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know there are people who still hold the idealistic view that we shouldn't be obscuring email addresses at all. Although I agree in principle, I think the world has passed that view

Re: apr_brigade_insert_file() LFS/Linux issues

2006-05-03 Thread Joshua Slive
On 5/3/06, Joe Orton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:39:33PM +0200, Niklas Edmundsson wrote: I've run into apr_brigade_insert_file() creating brigades that's not possible to sendfile() (EINVAL), this is with httpd-2.2.2 on Ubuntu Breezy Linux amd64 (64bit). The file in

Re: Laying undead myths to rest

2006-05-08 Thread Joshua Slive
On 5/8/06, Joseph Dane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Slive [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In very early versions of the Apache HTTP Server, the directiveAddType/directive directive was also used to activate special server-side processing (such as modulemod_include/module or PHP) by assigning

Re: changing request priority in Apache2.2

2006-05-10 Thread Joshua Slive
On 5/10/06, Tiago Semprebom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm developing a new handler module in apache, in this module I need to do some changes in the incoming requests, like change the request priority, for example: I need to intercept the request and in some away to change or set a

Re: How do I get PATH_INFO from 2.0

2006-05-18 Thread Joshua Slive
On 5/18/06, pradeep kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there any other way of getting PATH_INFO without using mod_include? More details please. PATH_INFO works find in 2.x. Perhaps you need to look at the AllowPathInfo directive. Joshua.

Re: Disable multiple file extension support?

2006-05-25 Thread Joshua Slive
On 5/25/06, Rich Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The folks at Drupal have apparently just discovered that something.php.bar is executed as PHP, and, thus, checking to see if a file ends with .php is not sufficient to ensure that their file upload feature can't be exploited. In fact, they have a

Re: svn commit: r410757 - /httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/conf/extra/httpd-info.conf.in

2006-06-01 Thread Joshua Slive
On 6/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add example/default allow-from for localhost, please??? Location /server-status SetHandler server-status Require host .example.com +Allow from 127 /Location I think you are looking for Require ip 127 or something like

Re: svn commit: r410758 - /httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/conf/extra/httpd-dav.conf.in

2006-06-01 Thread Joshua Slive
On 6/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ewww... can't we be consistant with our workfiles paths? -DavLockDB @@ServerRoot@@/var/DavLock +DavLockDB @exp_runtimedir@/DavLock I believe the issue here is that exp_runtimedir is writable only by root, while DavLockDB needs to be

Re: svn commit: r410761 - /httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/conf/extra/httpd-mpm.conf.in

2006-06-01 Thread Joshua Slive
On 6/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Author: wrowe Date: Wed May 31 22:42:13 2006 New Revision: 410761 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=410761view=rev Log: That's the point, isn't it? All mpm's in one basket? Sure, but windows has its own config file where we left

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