Should nginx' default shipped fastcgi_param file updated to mitigate httpoxy?

2016-07-19 Thread Thomas Deutschmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, I am proxy maintaining the nginx package on Gentoo. Regarding the recent "httpoxy" problem (you already published a blog posting [1] with instructions how to mitigate the problem) we are unsure if we should update our package to ship your mitig

Re: Should nginx' default shipped fastcgi_param file updated to mitigate httpoxy?

2016-08-09 Thread Thomas Deutschmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, thank you for your response. For the sake of completeness: For Gentoo we decided to patch the default configuration, see [1]. [1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/www-servers/nginx/files/nginx-httpoxy-mitigation.patch?id=c4b897d

Re: Should nginx' default shipped fastcgi_param file updated to mitigate httpoxy?

2016-08-10 Thread Thomas Deutschmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2016-08-10 11:00, Valentin V. Bartenev wrote: > Why have you decided to patch "fastcgi_params" and left untouched > other similar protocols like scgi, uwsgi? Uhm, good catch. Thanks! Will update our patch to https://git.io/v6Wp9 (i.e. patch wil

When to use --with-compat configure option?

2016-10-12 Thread Thomas Deutschmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, nginx-1.11.5 introduced a new configure option "--with-compat" however I don't find any documentation regarding this option. Could you please give us some insight when you expect that this option should be used (especially from distribution vie

Re: When to use --with-compat configure option?

2016-10-12 Thread Thomas Deutschmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2016-10-12 16:33, Maxim Dounin wrote: > [...] > > From package maintaining point of view it should be a good idea to > add the option to nginx builds. This will allow others to easily > compile dynamic modules to be loaded into nginx shipped i