RE: minor nit in mod_ssl

2018-09-20 Thread Houser, Rick
be overshadowed by the log write itself. Rick Houser Web Engineer > -Original Message- > From: Stefan Eissing > Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2018 09:57 > To: dev@httpd.apache.org > Subject: Re: minor nit in mod_ssl > > EXTERNAL EMAIL > > > > Am 20.09.2018

RE: minor nit in mod_ssl

2018-09-20 Thread Houser, Rick
: Re: minor nit in mod_ssl > > EXTERNAL EMAIL > > > > > Am 19.09.2018 um 17:17 schrieb William A Rowe Jr clan.net>: > > > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 6:39 AM Stefan Eissing > wrote: > > > > > Am 18.09.2018 um 15:44 schrieb Houser, Rick > :

RE: minor nit in mod_ssl

2018-09-20 Thread Houser, Rick
> Envision a TCP load balancer routing TLS-crypted traffic across a number  > of internal hosts, with each of the named virtual hosts presenting the correct > certificate, and known to httpd by their ServerAlias on the outer-facing > interface. > Not terminated at the edge balancer. We are using

RE: minor nit in mod_ssl

2018-09-18 Thread Houser, Rick
In the same vein, I’ve been running this patch on our builds to get around a warning for certificates not matching the hostname. Certificates are not expected to match the hostname with many load balancing/uptime detection schemes, and this one logs a LOT when it trips on every vhost. Perhaps

RE: Poll: increase OpenSSL version requirement for trunk?

2018-03-19 Thread Houser, Rick
> I may be an odd-ball that I want to manage this kind of a setup but I > think that if you can build one application, you can build more. They > happily live separated into /usr/local on RHEL7... Can, does not necessarily imply should. From an end-user perspective, the less work I need to do

RE: Timeouts and other time-related granularity

2017-06-20 Thread Houser, Rick
> "2:20:33.1h" is 140 minutes, 33 seconds and 100ms. This one seems very backwards to me, as leading zeros could change the meaning. Ex. 0:1:15h vs 1:15h. If allowing combination units like that (personally, it seems overkill), I think it would be much safer to require an explicit

RE: The Version Bump fallacy [Was Re: Post 2.4.25]

2016-12-30 Thread Houser, Rick
I agree with a lot of what Daniel says, and I'm in a similar role with maintaining my organization's httpd RPM packages. However, I don't look at this suggestion so much as a replacement, but rather an additional option end users can use if they aren't up to the challenge of using sources, but

RE: JSON for mod_status

2016-11-30 Thread Houser, Rick
Personally, I'd rather have XML, but it may make sense to support multiple machine readable formats down the line. As such, using a new parameter for every possibility gets messy. If this gets implemented as a get parameter, how about making one parameter with multiple potential values down

RE: access control for dynamic hosts

2016-03-01 Thread Houser, Rick
Forward doesn’t mean dynamic, however, and using one particular solution like that is misleading, IMO. Using “forward-dns” makes more sense to me. That said, how would you intend to handle multiple A records for the same name: look them all up and store in a table, or support only one A record

SSLProxyCheck* behavior

2016-01-07 Thread Houser, Rick
I think this just needs clarification in the documentation, but I'd appreciate a confirmation that I undertstand this all before I create a bug and attach a patch. I'm running a series of web servers fronting a bunch of backend appservers. Many of those are accessed via mod_proxy in some

RE: reverse proxy wishlist

2015-12-03 Thread Houser, Rick
An async mod_proxy backend would be huge for my workloads. In the JEE space I deal with, much more time is spent waiting on the application backends then with the clients, especially now that we have the event mpm. Something like this would allow me to drastically reduce thread counts and

RE: reverse proxy wishlist

2015-12-03 Thread Houser, Rick
wishlist > > Thx! assuming slow backends, how would you like httpd to > handle it: should it just slurp in the data from the backend > and buffer it and send it to the client all in one go? Should > it instead forward data as soon as it gets it? > > On Dec 3, 2015, at 12:36

RE: reverse proxy wishlist

2015-12-03 Thread Houser, Rick
; To: Apache HTTP Server Development List <dev@httpd.apache.org> > Subject: Re: reverse proxy wishlist > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Houser, Rick <rick.hou...@jackson.com> > wrote: > > An async mod_proxy backend would be huge for my workloads. In the JE

HSTS Header Duplication

2015-08-13 Thread Houser, Rick
Some time back, I turned on HSTS for our sites with something like this: Header always set Strict-Transport-Security max-age=### As near as I could tell, everything was working correctly (2.4.12 presently - will be on 2.4.16 shortly). However, one of our development teams recently added a

RE: 2.2 and 2.4 and 2.6/3.0

2015-05-28 Thread Houser, Rick
Mageia: Mageia 3 released with Apahe 2.4 in April 2013 Apache 2.2 (via Mageia 2) reached EOL in November 2013

RE: Question about async mod_proxy_wstunnel and threads

2014-07-17 Thread Houser, Rick
It's a bit heavy, but perhaps use PhantomJS as a non-default test? Rick Houser Web Administration (517)367-3516 -Original Message- From: Jim Jagielski [mailto:j...@jagunet.com] Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2014 5:30 PM To: dev@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: Question about async

RE: stop copying footers to r-headers_in?

2014-07-15 Thread Houser, Rick
That would be at least half my fault for responding off-list... Here it is: Thanks -- I went with ^ Shouldn't have much worry about responding to dev@ On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Houser, Rick rick.hou...@us.pgds.com wrote: New to this list, so responding

mod_ssl server certificate does NOT include an ID which matches the server name

2014-07-08 Thread Houser, Rick
We have an external load balancer handling client-facing SSL sessions, and Apache httpd uses a single x509 cert for receiving traffic from those load balancers. As such, the Host field in the received content does not match the CN in the certificate the load balancers see when contacting

RE: Repetitive warnings on ErrorLogs.

2009-09-09 Thread Houser, Rick
This is a known issue in IBM's 2.0.47 port of Apache (IHS), which was fixed in a later upstream version (possibly by the 2.2.8 port, but I really can't say for sure). It would take a lot of digging for me to locate the specific version, so I'm going to pass on that one. At least in my case, this

RE: correct hook function after accepting connection

2009-08-28 Thread Houser, Rick
However, I would suggest that connections are better dropped at IP-level (by firewall rules/iptables) or by using I agree for blocking access, however a module that was to add something like a per-IP connection-rate or simultaneous connection limit could be a nice gem for the toolbox, too :).

RE: Defining mandatory parameters for Apache modules

2009-08-13 Thread Houser, Rick
There's a hook for processing your configuration and making any changes (offhand, post-config?). If any of this is done on a file or directory level, you can do that in your configuration merge callbacks. I have to do something similar where a forwarding capability might be enabled, but the

RE: mod_deflate feature needed

2009-07-16 Thread Houser, Rick
I don't understand why standard mod_deflate functionality won't work. If you violate the specs and muck with content-length, it's not going to work right in a browser, anyhow. Thanks, Rick Houser Auto-Owners Insurance Systems Support (517)703-2580 -Original Message- From: Anthony J.

RE: mod_deflate feature needed

2009-07-16 Thread Houser, Rick
I'm not familiar with the CDN acronym. I could be mistaken, but I'm fairly certain that HTTP 1.1 required support for chunked transfer (which implies Content-Length would NOT be required for anything HTTP 1.1 compliant). Additionally, I thought the content-length referenced the contents of the

RE: How do I manipulate request_rec Object in worker.c

2009-07-15 Thread Houser, Rick
You realize that you could trivially handle most related issues without changing Apache at all just by prioritizing your backend work, right? For example, put your higher priority work in a faster server process than the low priority work. If your applications are written according to best

RE: Module that forward requests

2009-07-13 Thread Houser, Rick
I'm newbie in APR ... the same in mod_rewrite with flag [P]. If the mod_rewrite does what you need, you should use that rather than re-writing an alternate version on your own. Thanks, Rick Houser Auto-Owners Insurance Systems Support (517)703-2580 -Original Message- From: ricardo13

POST Body Buffer?

2009-06-19 Thread Houser, Rick
I'm facing a situation where we may be required to handle multi-megabyte POST submissions from dial-up users. We want to avoid tying up the backend servers for long periods of time if possible. Does anyone know of either built-in support for pre-buffering complete POST request bodies (i.e. avoid

RE: POST Body Buffer?

2009-06-19 Thread Houser, Rick
@httpd.apache.org Cc: modules-dev@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: POST Body Buffer? Are your multi-megabyte submissions going to use multipart/form-data encoding? If so, ModSecurity does exactly what you need when you enable request body buffering. Ivan On 19 Jun 2009, at 21:01, Houser, Rick

RE: do I need a custom proxy?

2009-06-02 Thread Houser, Rick
Not entirely. You could also either use a wildcard certificate (although IE doesn't support dots in the wildcard portion) or exclusively support the vhosts on modern browsers running TLS. Thanks, Rick Houser Auto-Owners Insurance Systems Support (517)703-2580

RE: Location of Apache Modules

2009-04-23 Thread Houser, Rick
: Houser, Rick [mailto:houser.r...@aoins.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 1:49 PM To: modules-dev@httpd.apache.org Subject: RE: Location of Apache Modules Folks I've talked to just don't try to get htaccess to work with ajax for the most part. They rely on php security. That's

RE: Location of Apache Modules

2009-04-22 Thread Houser, Rick
Folks I've talked to just don't try to get htaccess to work with ajax for the most part. They rely on php security. That's probably because on the backend, they still need to handle authorization. Unless all users to your backend should have equal access to all associated data, you're

RE: rewrite before caching?

2009-03-20 Thread Houser, Rick
Is there a reason you can't just change your rewrite rule to a [R=301]? Thanks, Rick Houser Auto-Owners Insurance Systems Support (517)703-2580 -Original Message- From: Anthony J. Biacco [mailto:abia...@formatdynamics.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 4:53 PM To:

RE: rewrite before caching?

2009-03-19 Thread Houser, Rick
Sounds like a badly broken application to me. If the data is truly cacheable, the application shouldn't be taking explicit steps to try to prevent just that. Depending on what the backend system is, you might be better off using some kind of a filter to just remove that killCache parameter in

RE: mem_cache and disk_cache acting differently when determine when to cache content?

2009-02-23 Thread Houser, Rick
Is this the only child process, or do you have 3+? Thanks, Rick Houser Auto-Owners Insurance Systems Support (517)703-2580 -Original Message- From: Anthony J. Biacco [mailto:abia...@formatdynamics.com] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 6:12 PM To: us...@httpd.apache.org Cc:

RE: cache POST requests

2009-02-11 Thread Houser, Rick
, Inc. 303-573-1800x27 abia...@formatdynamics.com http://www.formatdynamics.com -Original Message- From: Houser, Rick [mailto:houser.r...@aoins.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 2:24 PM To: modules-dev@httpd.apache.org Subject: RE: cache POST requests Is this a little clearer? Notice

RE: cache POST requests

2009-02-11 Thread Houser, Rick
, IT Operations Format Dynamics, Inc. 303-573-1800x27 abia...@formatdynamics.com http://www.formatdynamics.com -Original Message- From: Houser, Rick [mailto:houser.r...@aoins.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 2:24 PM To: modules-...@httpd.apache.org Subject: RE: cache POST requests

RE: cache POST requests

2009-02-10 Thread Houser, Rick
then maybe the limit wouldn't be affected a redirect? That gets a little off-topic. Thanx, -Tony --- Manager, IT Operations Format Dynamics, Inc. 303-573-1800x27 abia...@formatdynamics.com http://www.formatdynamics.com -Original Message- From: Houser, Rick

RE: cache POST requests

2009-02-10 Thread Houser, Rick
You really shouldn't be trying to cache responses to post requests. Completely from memory, but the HTTP spec says not to cache post responses. The URI is the base key to any caching implementations (with the addition of a select few vary headers, etc.), and your post data really doesn't factor

RE: cache POST requests

2009-02-10 Thread Houser, Rick
...@formatdynamics.com http://www.formatdynamics.com -Original Message- From: Houser, Rick [mailto:houser.r...@aoins.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 11:37 AM To: modules-...@httpd.apache.org; us...@httpd.apache.org Subject: RE: cache POST requests You really shouldn't be trying

RE: Setting a handler within a configuration directive

2008-11-24 Thread Houser, Rick
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sam Carleton Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:23 AM To: modules-dev@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: Setting a handler within a configuration directive On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Houser, Rick [EMAIL

RE: Howto implement a new algorithm scheduler in mod_proxy_balancer

2008-10-22 Thread Houser, Rick
part #2 sounds more like the kind of a task you would want to use at least an external process, if not a separate physical machine for. Basically, you are looking for an intelligent load balancer, correct? Thanks, Rick Houser Auto-Owners Insurance Systems Support (517)703-2580 -Original

RE: Logging authentication requests

2008-10-09 Thread Houser, Rick
Given what I learned writing my module, that would certainly work. I think you'd be hooking check_user_id with the very first call that happens in that phase. That said, I don't know if there might be a better way to handle this... Thanks, Rick Houser Auto-Owners Insurance Systems Support

RE: Wrapping an existing hook (2.0)

2008-10-06 Thread Houser, Rick
in the configuration and if the proprietary module declines non-saf authentication types. Hopefully you're lucky, I have never tried the solution I'm proposing. -- S On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 17:11, Houser, Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm relatively new to module development, but I have a need to wrap

RE: Wrapping an existing hook (2.0)

2008-10-06 Thread Houser, Rick
an existing hook (2.0) On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Houser, Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm relatively new to module development, but I have a need to wrap a function in a proprietary module (no source) registered via a check_user_id hook in a proprietary module (mod_auth_saf

Wrapping an existing hook (2.0)

2008-10-03 Thread Houser, Rick
I'm relatively new to module development, but I have a need to wrap a function in a proprietary module (no source) registered via a check_user_id hook in a proprietary module (mod_auth_saf). Basically, I need to detect an expired password condition. I've already tried to use the normal pre/post