Fallback server hostname

2003-11-17 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
Having a fallback servername of 127.0.0.1 is broken, I realise even in IPv4 it's not a globally reachable address, but in IPv6 it's just plain confusing and leads to a lot (well o.k. 3 ever) of reports that Apache isnt working for someone in IPv6. Index: server/util.c

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 04:40:02AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got any real numbers? Completely unconfigured, out of the box configs; Apache 1.3.29; Concurrency Level: 100 Time taken for tests: 2.54841 seconds Complete requests: 1000 Failed requests:0 Write errors:

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 06:00:09AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Colm... Slainte!... Cead mile failte romhat! Go raibh maith agat! Agus tú féin a cháirde, chaitfidh mé rá b'éidir gurb seo on t-aon deis a bhéis gam cumarsáid le Gaeilgeoir so comh-théacs seo, ach mar a deartaí áfach -

Re: Antw: RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:01:46AM -0700, Peter J. Cranstone wrote: Oh yes - forgot about v6... that's a must have for Apache. Is it available for 1.x? If not that would be the first feature to add. The KAME project has IPv6 patches for 1.3.* at ftp://ftp.kame.net/pub/kame/misc/ they

Re: Fallback server hostname

2003-11-17 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 08:56:28PM +0100, André Malo wrote: * Colm MacCarthaigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: unconfigured. Or make it a hard error, and have no fallback. I'd prefer the latter. FWIW. Same here. It probably breaks a lot of lame configs though, all the same ... patch attached

Re: cvs commit: httpd-2.0 STATUS

2003-12-28 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 04:10:04PM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On Tuesday, December 23, 2003 2:59 PM + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + PR 24469, broken reverse lookups with IPv4-mapped addrs on old OS X +The autoconf check added between 2.0.47 and 2.0.48 isn't +sufficient

Re: cvs commit: httpd-2.0 STATUS

2003-12-28 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 09:09:42PM -0500, Jeff Trawick wrote: it will be fine anyway :) it is okay to fail the test, as it just brings a few extra instructions... it is only bad to pass the test when in fact it should be failed some number of boxes will start failing the test now, and

Re: Forensic Logging

2003-12-29 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 01:39:28PM +, Ben Laurie wrote: So, I've written a forensic logging module. What this does is log the request as soon as all the headers have been read, then log again when its complete. Any request that doesn't complete should be viewed with great suspicion!

Re: Forensic Logging

2003-12-30 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:49:37AM +, Ben Laurie wrote: Could the forensic_id be tied in with mod_unique_id? It seems confusing to have two different methods to generate unique id's for requests. Also with unique_id, I can see it being useful to make CGI's aware of their tracking code via

Re: Forensic Logging

2003-12-30 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 06:52:07PM +, Ben Laurie wrote: I realise that having the value of getpid() and time() to hand is useful for forensic purposes, but a getpid():time():next_id++ will result in duplicates accross even small clusters. Ah, I see :-) does mod_unique_id handle that? It

[PATCH] raise MAX_SERVER_LIMIT

2004-01-07 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
Not entirely serious, but today, we actually hit this, in production :) The hardware, a dual 2Ghz Xeon with 12Gb RAM with Linux 2.6.1-rc2 coped, and remained responsive. So 20,000 may no longer be outside the realms of what administrators reasonably desire to have. Index:

Re: Proposal: Allow ServerTokens to specify Server header completely

2004-01-13 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 03:04:30PM +0100, Lars Eilebrecht wrote: - It's only security by obscurity and providing such a security feature may be misleading for our users. - We don't want people to obfuscate the server name, do we? It's a terrible terrible terrible idea, and makes auditing

Re: Proposal: Allow ServerTokens to specify Server header completely

2004-01-13 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 03:28:24PM +, Ivan Ristic wrote: Also, imagine I have a PHP application (I chose PHP because it runs on Windows and on Unix), and that someone is trying to find a hole in the app. If they think I'm running Windows they'll try to run Windows-specific

Re: cvs commit: httpd-2.0/server/mpm/prefork prefork.c

2004-01-15 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
Modified:server/mpm/prefork prefork.c Log: bump MAX_SERVER_LIMIT by 10x (hoping to stay ahead of Moore's Law for a little while) since the current limit is too small for at least one high end site. Submitted by: Colm MacCarthaigh [colm stdlib.net] Revision Changes

Re: [PATCH] raise MAX_SERVER_LIMIT

2004-01-15 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 10:49:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -#define MAX_SERVER_LIMIT 2 +#define MAX_SERVER_LIMIT 10 dang! Committed a limit of 20. A couple of observations: * I don't think you could do this with an early 2.4 kernel on i386 because of eating up

Graceful stop

2004-01-17 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
This has probably been discussed here before, and if it has I'd like to know the reasons why it's a bad idea. Anyway, I've been working on a graceful stop mechanism for httpd, which is reasonably trivial to work in - the problem is that there are no portable signal numbers left (or am I wrong in

Re: Graceful stop

2004-01-20 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:17:07AM -0800, Andrew Ho wrote: I don't see how this would work--a graceful stop followed by a start would mean clients would drop in between the window when you signal the graceful stop (and Apache therefore stops accepting new requests) and when the new instance

Re: [PATCH] raise MAX_SERVER_LIMIT

2004-01-26 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 10:09:20AM -0800, Aaron Bannert wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:04:38PM +, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: There were other changes co-incidental to that, like going to 12Gb of RAM, which certainly helped, so it's hard to narrow it down too much. Ok with 18,000

Re: [PATCH] raise MAX_SERVER_LIMIT

2004-01-26 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 06:28:03PM +, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: I'd love to find out what's causing your worker failures. Are you using any thread-unsafe modules or libraries? Not to my knowledge, I wasn't planning to do this till later, but I've bumped to 2.1, I'll try out

Re: [PATCH] raise MAX_SERVER_LIMIT

2004-01-26 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 04:25:58PM -0500, Jeff Trawick wrote: *sigh*, forensic_id didn't catch it, forensic_id is just for crash in child I know, but I couldnt rule out a crash in the child being a root cause ... until now, it doesn't look like it's trigger by a particular URI anyway.

Re: [PATCH] raise MAX_SERVER_LIMIT

2004-01-28 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 02:24:46PM -0500, Jeff Trawick wrote: I'm testing with this patch currently (so far so good): Same here, I've applied the patch, and right now have 1 hours uptime, which is 12 times more than I've ever had with worker before. Looks like that was it. Where do I send the

Re: [PATCH] raise MAX_SERVER_LIMIT

2004-01-28 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:40:54AM +, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 02:24:46PM -0500, Jeff Trawick wrote: I'm testing with this patch currently (so far so good): Same here, I've applied the patch, and right now have 1 hours uptime, which is 12 times more than I've

Re: ftp site

2004-03-09 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:35:37PM -0500, Ghanta, Bose wrote: I was working on what I originally thought was a bug in our FTP client. Your ftp site has a very long banner (due to the crypto warnings and what all), and the bug opened against our FTP client was that it would disconnect partly

Re: looking for mpm-perchild info

2004-05-21 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 12:50:16PM -0600, Binam, Jesse wrote: CGI/suexec is not sufficient for me since I still cannot run as root. I know there are other options that would probably be easier, but I think the mpm would work better, plus it would be awesome for virtual hosting as well if I

Re: [PATCH] event driven MPM

2004-06-08 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:23:56AM -0400, Greg Ames wrote: I'm interested to know how httpd 2.x can be made more scalable. Could we serve 10,000 clients with current platforms as discussed at http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html , without massive code churn and module breakage? I've served over

Re: Apache HTTP Server 2.0.50-rc2 tarballs available for testing

2004-06-23 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 10:09:39PM +0200, Sander Striker wrote: Hi, My second attempt at preparing a 2.0.50 rc tarball... I've tagged the tree (STRIKER_2_0_50_RC2) and uploaded associated tarballs to: http://httpd.apache.org/dev/dist/ Please test and report. Asside from a little

Re: CGI scripts and mod_cgid/mod_cgi

2004-06-29 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 11:18:49AM -0700, Mathihalli, Madhusudan wrote: Hello, Upon doing a apachectl stop, shouldn't the CGI processes (forked by mod_cgid or mod_cgi) also exit ? It depends, if they call setsid() and so on - there's no particular reason they should. Ordinarily - yes. --

Re: Invitation to HTTPD commiters in tomcat-dev

2004-07-20 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 10:44:40AM -0400, Manni Wood wrote: In my experience building web sites for Fortune 500 companies (some of them Fortune 50 companies), the get Apache to serve static content while Tomcat only takes care of servlets and JSPs feature is a *huge* draw. I've replaced these

Re: Invitation to HTTPD commiters in tomcat-dev

2004-07-20 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 05:20:53PM +0200, Graham Leggett wrote: The httpd serves the static content feature can be implemented through extending ProxyPass to support regular expressions, for example: ProxyPass /myWebapp/*.jsp http://tomcat/myWebapp/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}

Re: Invitation to HTTPD commiters in tomcat-dev

2004-07-20 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 12:08:01PM -0400, Manni Wood wrote: Along with the ability for your back-end servlets to get a correct value from ServletRequest.isSecure() depending on whether or not Apache was originally contacted with HTTP vs HTTPS? Personally, I always use Apache to authenticate

Re: Invitation to HTTPD commiters in tomcat-dev

2004-07-20 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 05:13:52PM +0200, Graham Leggett wrote: In theory this kind of thing should not be limited to tomcat only, but to web applications (whether PHP, whatever) in general. Perhaps a mechanism that allows the backend to connect to the frontend and say status has changed,

Re: Invitation to HTTPD commiters in tomcat-dev

2004-07-20 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 06:02:37PM +0100, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: Using OPTIONS has the advantage of being backwards compatible, if you send OPTIONS to a plain-old HTTP receiver, the standard ACK can be taken to mean yep, I'm here. Intelligent backends (read: modify tomcat and co slightly

Re: [PATCH] mod_disk_cache working LFS (filecopy)

2006-09-26 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 12:45:39PM +0300, Issac Goldstand wrote: Forgive me for missing the obvious, but why not just use mod_file_cache for this? I recall you mentioning that your use of mod_cache was for locally caching very large remote files, so don't see how this would help that in

Re: vote on concept of ServerTokens Off

2006-12-06 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:43:49PM -0500, Jeff Trawick wrote: * The Apache HTTP Server project believes that most people who want to avoid sending the Server header mistakenly think that doing so may protect their server from attacks based on known flaws in older Apache HTTPD releases, when in

Re: 2007 DST changes, and a non-issue statement...

2007-01-24 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 05:28:49PM -0500, Victor J. Orlikowski wrote: I've been getting some questions (from my new employer) on the impact of the upcoming Daylight Saving Time issues for the httpd. My natural response was: There are none! It's an OS issue. Whatever about DST, this reminds

Re: 3.0 - Proposed Goals

2007-02-14 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 01:57:27PM -0500, Brian Akins wrote: Would be nice if we could do HTTP over unix domain sockets, for example. No need for full TCP stack just to pass things back and forth between Apache and back-end processes. Or over standard input, so that we can have an admin

Re: What do you think about Lighttpd?

2007-02-27 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:05:08AM +0800, howard chen wrote: 1. single-threaded, event-based, (powered by epoll) httpd supports epoll() and event-based polling to the extent that the system-call chains for handling a request by Apache httpd and lighttpd are near-identical, it's hard to tell them

Re: What do you think about Lighttpd?

2007-02-28 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 01:32:44PM -0800, Paul Querna wrote: steve wrote: On 2/27/07, Arnold Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nick already told you, that Apache allows you to choose. So simply use the fast-cgi/mpm-event combo, if you like that best. And if you want to evangelize the

Re: [vote] Piped loggers and APR_SHELLCMD_ENV

2007-05-24 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:39:48PM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: So I brought up to the list 'fixing' this with an additional meta character to follow | that would distinguish sh from non-sh invocations, and permit both. Wouldn't | exec logger work? -- Colm MacCárthaigh

Re: [Issue] External links @ the wiki, aka pagechange wars

2007-05-24 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 08:05:30AM -0400, Joshua Slive wrote: External links are encouraged where they add substantial value, but you may not link to your own pages or otherwise seek private benefits from external links. I like the elegance of this rule, because if it's your page and you

Re: [Issue] External links @ the wiki, aka pagechange wars

2007-05-24 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:47:49PM -0500, Webmaster wrote: Say whatever you want, I'm not going to argue when the evidence is online for everyone to examine. Go look at the wiki at my posting history, you will see how unfairly I have been treated. I've done just that today, never having

Re: [Fwd: Apache httpd vulenrabilities]

2007-06-01 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 10:05:26AM -0400, Jim Jagielski wrote: - if (ap_scoreboard_image-servers[n].status != SERVER_DEAD - kill((pid = ap_scoreboard_image-parent[n].pid), 0) == -1) { - ap_update_child_status(n, SERVER_DEAD, NULL); - /* just mark it as having a

Re: [Fwd: Apache httpd vulenrabilities]

2007-06-01 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 10:50:09AM -0400, Jim Jagielski wrote: Should we get rid of it from the table here? Can we get away without removing stale pids in general? What if they are recycled by the OS for something else? No, that's a good point. We should likely remove the pid from our

Re: PID table changes (was Re: svn commit: r547987 - in /httpd/httpd/trunk)

2007-06-21 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 05:51:34PM +0100, Joe Orton wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 09:29:25PM -, Jim Jagielski wrote: Secondly: I think this approach is unnecessarily complex. I think it's sufficient to simply check whether the target process is in the right process group before sending

Re: Apachelounge problems

2007-08-19 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 05:09:08PM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Hmmm... seems that - even though we've *repeated* this multiple times, we have to state this again. Contents of http://httpd.apache.org/dev/dist/ are *development* tarballs and not for any distribution. It's called dist,

Re: Apachelounge has to remove Apachelounge Feather, be warned

2007-08-19 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 11:49:10AM +0200, Steffen wrote: Correct me if I wrong, but sometimes I have the feeling that ASF and/or Covalent Technologies are not happy with the Apache Lounge. You're wrong in that the ASF (and probably Covalent) are groups of people that don't act with a single

Re: Apachelounge problems

2007-08-19 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 06:31:01PM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: * does it correspond to the tag? * is it correctly licensed? * is it correctly packaged? * are any additions that appear to have IP encumbrances? * does it build? * does it run? * does it pass the perl-framework

Re: Apachelounge problems

2007-08-19 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 09:46:50PM -0400, Tom Donovan wrote: Maybe not threatening - but it is an eye-opener for some of us that the Apache2 license protects released versions of Apache differently. It doesn't. My (possibly faulty) understanding was that the whole Redistribution and

Re: Apachelounge problems

2007-08-19 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 12:16:03PM -0400, Jim Jagielski wrote: Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: Like I said, as long as ApacheLounge makes clear that the versions it carries are not ASF releases, it's certainly permitted by the license and not the least bit out of the ordinary. That's the point

Re: Apachelounge has to remove Apachelounge Feather, be warned

2007-08-19 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 02:40:39PM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: The bottom line is that nobody took issue with Jeff's or my comments. They are free to do so. Colm has this time around. His points don't quite jive, if you offered a patch set and said hey, this is the difference between

Re: patched sources v.s. release candidates

2007-08-19 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 03:05:14PM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: You specifically mentioned how many distros have patched sources, and that's true (and not an issue). What I asked was, are there distros which ship our release candidates before they are released, and if so, are they

Re: fixing graceful-stop with event mpm

2007-08-21 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 04:00:48PM -0700, Paul Querna wrote: Short: We need to call ap_close_listeners() earlier or more aggressively. Question: Where/How? Looking at the Event MPM in both trunk and 2.2.x, the listener_thread is where we call ap_close_listeners(). This does not seem to be

Re: Integrity of Apache source code

2007-12-17 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 11:22:37PM +, Andrew Beverley wrote: I am currently working within the UK Ministry of Defence, and am trying to get Apache web server accredited as software able to be installed on one of our defence networks. However, one of the barriers I am coming up against is

Re: Win32 binary distributions 2.1.9-beta and onwards

2005-10-11 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 02:07:56AM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: I'm looking for input what version of visual c++ we should build apr 1.x and httpd 2.1.x and onwards with. As most are aware, discrepancies in the clib mean that mismatched posix open()/close(), malloc()/free() can all

Re: [pre-release] 2.0.55 *candidate* available for testing

2005-10-11 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:34:16PM +0200, Graham Leggett wrote: We provide SRPMs for building, which contain fixed httpd.spec files. I see people downloading them a fair ammount ( 400 per day, which is actually quite a lot for the binaries section), and I don't see why these would discontinue.

APR version of support/logresolve.c

2005-10-21 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
support/logresolve doesn't support IPv6 addresses, which is a pain, because while logresolve is not a brilliant log resolver, it's useful for putting at the end of brief command lines, grepping things and so on. Anyway; http://people.apache.org/~colm/logresolve.c is an APR version,

Re: svn commit: r327601 - /httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/STATUS

2005-10-21 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:48:23PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Author: rpluem Date: Fri Oct 21 15:48:18 2005 New Revision: 327601 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=327601view=rev Log: * Move two backports from proposed to accepted, as they have enough votes now. I don't think

Re: svn commit: r327601 - /httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x/STATUS

2005-10-21 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 07:40:04PM -0400, Jeff Trawick wrote: I don't think this should be done until the actual code is backported too :-) (someone more clued-in than I can confirm though). Move from proposed to accepted when there are sufficient votes. Remove from STATUS when code is

Re: svn commit: r327872 - in /httpd/httpd/trunk: CHANGES include/httpd.h server/core_filters.c

2005-10-23 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:38:41PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Modified: httpd/httpd/trunk/server/core_filters.c URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs/httpd/httpd/trunk/server/core_filters.c?rev=327872r1=327871r2=327872view=diff

Re: APR version of support/logresolve.c

2005-10-24 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 12:58:21PM +0100, Joe Orton wrote: - odd style in places, some if(/while( without enough whitespace Ahh that old habit. and declarations with too much whitespace: apr_file_t * etc; This comes directly from the old logresolve.c. Didn't want to change

Re: [RFC] require apr/apr-util 1.2.x for 2.2.x

2005-10-24 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:22:36PM +0100, Joe Orton wrote: There was a thread about this previously; just checking for consensus, is there any objection to bumping the apr/apr-util version requirements to 1.2.x? (1.2.x is already required for mod_dbd, event MP, and it will simplify the

Re: The 2.2.0 Process

2005-10-24 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 06:18:09PM -0700, Paul Querna wrote: Thoughts/Concerns? Can the PMC ask infra to make /docs-2.2/ work? The redirect needs explicit exclusions. There are quite a few instances of httpd 2.1 in the docs tree right now, including explicit links to

Re: APR version of support/logresolve.c

2005-10-24 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 06:16:14PM +0200, Joost de Heer wrote: Looks good; some nits: - odd style in places, some if(/while( without enough whitespace and declarations with too much whitespace: apr_file_t * etc; Is there an indent command line overview for 'ASF approved coding'?

Re: svn commit: r329388 - in /httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/manual: caching.xml mod/mod_cache.xml

2005-10-29 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 01:33:08PM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: + using the directive module=mod_cacheCacheDisable/directive + directive, or modulemod_expires/module. Left unchecked, + modulemod_cache/module - very much like a reverse proxy - would cache + the

Re: [PATCH] IPv6: strip zone-id from hostname

2005-10-31 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 04:23:49PM -0500, Eric Covener wrote: If httpd receives a connection on a link-local (perhaps site-local?) Only link-local, site-local won't matter (as is decrecated in unicast at least). IPv6 socket, apr_getnameinfo()/ap_get_remote_host() can/will return something

Re: [vote] 2.1.9 as beta

2005-11-02 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 09:09:46PM -0700, Paul Querna wrote: 2.1.9-Beta is available from: http://people.apache.org/~pquerna/dev/httpd-2.1.9/ Please test and vote on releasing 2.1.9 as BETA. +1 for beta, but some things that would apply to GA; Doing a complete fresh install from tarball I

Re: [vote] 2.1.9 as beta

2005-11-02 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:21:18AM +, Joe Orton wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:44:02AM +, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 10:33:50AM +, Joe Orton wrote: This sounds very confused. On 64-bit platforms there are never any magic CFLAGS needed, no sendfile64

Re: [vote] 2.1.9 as beta

2005-11-02 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:38:17AM +, Joe Orton wrote: and it's the latter branch that gets trigged on IA64 How have you managed to get SIZEOF_OFF_T == 4 as true on IA64? Hmmm, no, it's 8. As is size_t. I'm going back to scratch at looking at what's up with gdb. -- Colm MacCárthaigh

Re: [vote] 2.1.9 as beta

2005-11-02 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:49:15AM +, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:38:17AM +, Joe Orton wrote: and it's the latter branch that gets trigged on IA64 How have you managed to get SIZEOF_OFF_T == 4 as true on IA64? Hmmm, no, it's 8. As is size_t. I'm going

Re: [vote] 2.1.9 as beta

2005-11-02 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 01:34:56PM +, Joe Orton wrote: Seems to work OK for me with RHEL4/IA64 (2.6.9-22.0.1.EL) with my normal sendfile test app over loopback. open(6G.sparse, O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=6442450945, ...}) = 0 sendfile(1, 3, [0],

Re: [vote] 2.1.9 as beta

2005-11-02 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 02:50:55PM +, Joe Orton wrote: Really I don't think it's right to change the code at all to try to cope with the Nth latest sendfile is broken if... issue. Just EnableSendfile off as should be default. Definitely not the preferred option in my case, don't know how

Re: [vote] 2.1.9 as beta

2005-11-02 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 01:10:09PM -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Well if you see only one way to fix it, yes, The only viable way anyway. I've been looking at this for a few months, since I first reported to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (still waiting on a response) and have tried to construct the

Re: [vote] 2.1.9 as beta

2005-11-02 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 08:41:18PM +0100, Ruediger Pluem wrote: I do not regard this as a showstopper since we only have an admittedly serious security problem in a *specific* configuration. I think it is enough to add a big warning to the mod_cache documentation that protecting cached

Re: [vote] 2.1.9 as beta

2005-11-03 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 03:27:43PM +, Joe Orton wrote: Agreed, and I don't see why this is a showstopper either if this has been the behaviour of mod_cache forever anyway. showstopper === regression I've taken this out of the show-stopper section, I'll just live with documentation as a

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

2005-11-07 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 09:28:54PM +, Nick Kew wrote: No, you should be setting Vary: * if the content varies. That is also required by HTTP. That applies if it varies by some request header. Vary: * means that how the content varies in unspecified, and section 12.1 of RFC2616

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: 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 following

Re: Head's Up: tab - space cleanup

2005-11-10 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 08:27:49AM -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote: Just a FYI that I'll be performing a TAB-8-SPACE cleanup on all the .c files in both httpd-trunk and httpd-2.2. We've gotten sloppy as far as that's concerned and we might as well bite the bullet and do the fixes now :) While we

APR_FIND_APR and minimum version

2005-11-13 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
The APR_FIND_APR (and _APU) macro hunts for an installed apr with the specified major version number, but then later we use APACHE_CHECK_APxVER to insist on a minor version too. Wouldn't it make more sense for the APR_FIND_APR macro to only return aprs of the minimum version we will use anyway?

Win32 build files and eol-style

2005-11-14 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
I'd like to turn the svn:eol-style attribute off for the windown build files (files ending in .dsp, .dsw and win32ver.awk), and have them stored in win32 new-line format in the repository. The reason being that the current format is preventing me from checking out the repos I have on my unix

Re: Fwd: Win32 build files and eol-style

2005-11-14 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 01:11:05PM +0100, Erik Huelsmann wrote: A reason to set the eol-style to CRLF is that *if* someone edits them on unix and accidentally inserts LFs, they're forcibly recoded to CRLF upon commit. Which -obviously- doesn't happen if you don't set an eol-style. Setting to

Re: Win32 build files and eol-style

2005-11-14 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 11:14:13AM -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: The reason being that the current format is preventing me from checking out the repos I have on my unix box, and using samba to share the working copies with my windows box. That way I can check my changes on the two

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.10 as GA

2005-11-20 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:17:42PM -0800, Paul Querna wrote: Please test and vote on releasing 2.1.10 as STABLE/General Availability. -1 for GA, +1 for beta, as the release is unbuildable on systems with APR 1.0 or 1.1 installed. Unfortunately I'm away in Munich right now, so I havn't had a

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.10 as GA

2005-11-20 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 04:33:12AM -0800, Paul Querna wrote: Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:17:42PM -0800, Paul Querna wrote: Please test and vote on releasing 2.1.10 as STABLE/General Availability. -1 for GA, +1 for beta, as the release is unbuildable on systems

Re: [VOTE] 2.1.10 as GA

2005-11-21 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 10:38:26AM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 12:43:09PM +, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: Yep, but it's how the user gets around that that's the real problem. If a user has apr 1.1 installed in /usr, the only way to get httpd to configure

Re: 2.1 Live on Proudction Sites was Re: [VOTE] 2.1.10 as GA

2005-11-21 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 10:44:05AM +, Nick Kew wrote: FWIW, www.apache.org has been running 2.1.9 since early November. I've been running it exclusively live since 2.1.9 (and previously 2.1.8 quietly on a high port). I expect Colm should be able to report on it running in an

Re: 2.1 Live on Proudction Sites was Re: [VOTE] 2.1.10 as GA

2005-11-24 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 12:53:01PM +, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 10:44:05AM +, Nick Kew wrote: FWIW, www.apache.org has been running 2.1.9 since early November. I've been running it exclusively live since 2.1.9 (and previously 2.1.8 quietly on a high port

Re: [vote] 2.2.0 tarballs

2005-11-29 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 05:53:52AM -0600, Jess Holle wrote: I'm no commiter but must concur -- until the build runs cleanly on Windows 2.2.0 should not go out the door. Not everyone may like it, but Windows is a major Apache usage platform these days. mod_dbd isn't included in the win32

Re: [vote] 2.2.0 tarballs

2005-11-29 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 02:03:59PM +0100, Steffen wrote: Build with no issue here on Windows, except mod_authn_db and dmod_dbd. How are you building these? there's no .dsp file for either, nor are they in Makefile.win. The distributed source tree not building is one thing, but modules people

Re: [vote] 2.2.0 tarballs

2005-11-29 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 03:20:50PM +, Nick Kew wrote: As for suddenly waking up, please note the date on http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-httpd-devm=113266737311013w=2 mod_dbd compiles fine for me when I remove the AP_DECLARE wrappers actually. But that might break the symbol export

Re: svn commit: r349752 - in /httpd/httpd/trunk/modules/database: mod_dbd.c mod_dbd.h

2005-11-29 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 05:25:31PM +, Nick Kew wrote: On Tuesday 29 November 2005 16:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -AP_DECLARE(void) ap_dbd_prepare(server_rec *s, const char *query, +DBD_DECLARE(void) ap_dbd_prepare(server_rec *s, const char *query,

Re: [vote] 2.2.0 tarballs

2005-11-29 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 09:30:30AM -0800, Paul Querna wrote: My vote, +1 for GA, tested lightly on FreeBSD 5.4/x86, and OSX 10.4.3/ppc. Also based on diff of the 2.1.10 and 2.2.0 tarballs. +1 here too, tested on ubuntu. -- Colm MacCárthaighPublic Key: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [vote] 2.2.0 tarballs

2005-11-29 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 05:53:52AM -0600, Jess Holle wrote: I'm no commiter but must concur -- until the build runs cleanly on Windows 2.2.0 should not go out the door. Not everyone may like it, but Windows is a major Apache usage platform these days. O.k., can any win32 users please test

Re: OT: performance FUD

2005-11-29 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 03:18:57PM -0500, Brian Akins wrote: I know that a press release is out of the question for my company. We do not endorse or disparage any product. That's understandable, for a news organisation. For our part, HEAnet has no problem being quoted, but maybe something

Re: svn commit: r349713 - /httpd/httpd/trunk/Makefile.win

2005-11-29 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
I'm not near my windows box, and the universal inability of any search engine to allow me to search for the literal string $MAKE is geting to me. Does anyone know exactly which is correct; $MAKE or ($MAKE) I can reverse engineer the answer tomorrow, but it's

Re: svn commit: r349713 - /httpd/httpd/trunk/Makefile.win

2005-11-29 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:36:31PM +, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: I can reverse engineer the answer tomorrow, but it's still annoying me now. It looks to me, and some others, like the latter would evaluate to (NMAKE) and yet when I made the change it got rid of the syntax error, and it looked

Re: OT: performance FUD

2005-11-30 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:01:55AM -0500, Paul A Houle wrote: So if one uses worker and few processes (i.e. lots of threads per), then Solaris should be fine? That's what people think, but I'd like to see some numbers. I've never put a worker Apache into production because most of

Re: svn commit: r349979 - /httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/STATUS

2005-11-30 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
These might also be useful in patches-to-apply upon release :) == --- httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/STATUS (original) +++ httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/STATUS Wed Nov 30 08:27:14 2005 @@ -67,8 +67,16 @@ RELEASE

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

2005-11-30 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:25:06AM -0500, Joshua Slive wrote: Re Brian's question above, I think we want a statement emphasizing performance and scalability. It doesn't need to be extremely precise, spec-wise. Most people reading a press release wouldn't care. We just want to transmit

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

2005-11-30 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 09:19:25AM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: I'll just remind everyone this is a public list and its archived too. =) If you wish to keep things private, we can use [EMAIL PROTECTED] and possibly the PMC list. Yes, there's a difference between including it in a PR and

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