Edge connection filter cannot be removed?

2005-11-04 Thread Paul Querna
This is currently listed as a show stopper in the 2.2.x/STATUS file: """ The edge connection filter cannot be removed: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-httpd-dev&m=105366252619530&w=2 jerenkrantz asks: Why should this block a release? stas replies: because it requires a rewrite of the fil

Re: Documentation TODOs for 2.2

2005-11-04 Thread Sander Temme
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 promises. *** = really i

Re: mod_deflate Vary header

2005-11-04 Thread TOKILEY
This has been discussed many times before and no one seems to understand what the fundamental problem is. It is not with the servers at all, it is with the CLIENTS. What both of you are saying is true... whether you "Vary:" on "Content-encoding" and/or "User-agent" or not... there is a risk of

Re: mod_deflate Vary header

2005-11-04 Thread Ruediger Pluem
On 11/04/2005 07:36 AM, Florian Zumbiehl wrote: [..cut..] > >>Maybe I'm pessimistic, but I think, omitting the Vary header for >>uncompressed ressources will lead to "poisoned" caches, which statistically >>nearly always will request the uncompressed variant and so actually >>*add* load to yo

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

2005-11-04 Thread Ruediger Pluem
On 11/04/2005 08:20 PM, Joshua Slive wrote: > > > Graham Leggett wrote: [..cut..] >> >> In this case you'd probably not use the cache at all for this part of the >> URL space. > > > This is the case we've been discussing where someone wishes to, for > example, restrict a reverse proxy to a

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 i

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

2005-11-04 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
I almost tried to snip the comments below in my reply, and there was nothing I could clip out - thank you Graham for explaining so clearly the entire design principals of how and why mod_proxy does exactly what it does. It leaves us wondering; how can allow from/deny from n.n.n.n be mapped to RFC

Re: [PATCH] Broken APR_CHECK_APR_DEFINE() macro in test for APR_HAVE_IPV6 and APR_HAS_RANDOM

2005-11-04 Thread Joe Orton
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 02:10:19PM +0100, Martin Kraemer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:43:42PM +, Joe Orton wrote: > > Converting all use of $() when adding to INCLUDES in configure to ${} so > > the paths get expanded immediately would seem like the best fix unless > > there's some rea

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

2005-11-04 Thread Graham Leggett
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 if the content is varie

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

2005-11-04 Thread Brian Akins
Joshua Slive wrote: I haven't looked carefully at the code, but I don't believe protocol-level things like the force-response-1.0 variable are stored in the cache. If it's a "global" setenvif variable (runs is post-read, before quick-handler), then these "adjustments work, because "force-re

Re: Omission in the documentation

2005-11-04 Thread Joe Schaefer
"Bengt-Arne Fjellner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The documentation for APR::Request ought to mention that atleast jar > and params returns undef if there is no cookie/param done. -- Joe Schaefer

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 hand

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

2005-11-04 Thread Joshua Slive
Justin Erenkrantz wrote: On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 08:03:56PM -0500, Joshua Slive wrote: it seems there is no way to work around client protocol problems. (Just sending Vary: User-Agent wouldn't fix the problem, because when the user agent matched a cached variant, the protocol adjustments stil

Re: authn, authz and access. oh my.

2005-11-04 Thread Brad Nicholes
>>> On 11/3/2005 at 10:38 pm, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As if the old system wasn't hard enough to wrap one's head around. Just when > I had it figured out enough to go and write mod_auth_userdir you guys go and > change things on me. > > BTW, when did this cha

Re: Potential memory leak in /modules/cache/mod_mem_cache.c

2005-11-04 Thread Bill Stoddard
Xuekun Hu wrote: So, same reason. Also in file mod_mem_cache.c around line 786, there is a malloc(mobj->m_len), and a few lines later, another malloc(obj->count) is performed. If the second malloc fails, I think also should add something like free(mobj->m); mobj->m = NULL; reasonable? No.

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

2005-11-04 Thread Graham Leggett
Nick Kew wrote: I'm not convinced by that either. In fact, I dislike the whole "run it in a quick handler" principle - it runs a supertanker through the KISS principle, and has consequently left us with a cache that never really worked. Even if we fix this, it's sure to have a high bugrate for

Re: svn commit: r227435 - in /httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x: CHANGES STATUS modules/proxy/proxy_util.c

2005-11-04 Thread André Malo
Anyone? * Andr__ Malo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Author: jim > > Date: Thu Aug 4 10:07:57 2005 > > New Revision: 227435 > > > > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=227435&view=rev > > Log: > > mod_proxy: Fix over-eager handling of '%' for reverse proxies.

[jira] Commented: (MODPYTHON-77) The multiple interpreter concept of mod_python is broken for Python extension modules since Python 2.3

2005-11-04 Thread Boyan Boyadjiev (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-77?page=comments#action_12356757 ] Boyan Boyadjiev commented on MODPYTHON-77: -- Sorry - I didn't saw the change done for MODPYTHON-83. PyThreadState_Swap must be added in the non thread case of rele

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

2005-11-04 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On 11/4/05, Joe Orton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 03:37:10PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek 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 w

Re: Problem with mod_proxy and ProxyPassReverse

2005-11-04 Thread Graham Leggett
Eric B. wrote: # Production Server ProxyPassReverse / ProxyPass /ASPTest/ http://192.168.100.1/ # Development & Test Server ProxyPassReverse / ProxyPass /dev/ASPTest/ http://192.168.100.1:8080/ Unless you are trying to do somethi

Re: authn, authz and access. oh my.

2005-11-04 Thread Graham Leggett
Brandon Fosdick wrote: Noobie question...what's the difference between authentication, > authorization and access? Authentication asks "is this user who they say they are", this stage usually involves a username and password of some sort, or a certificate, etc. Authorisation asks "is this

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

2005-11-04 Thread Joe Orton
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 03:37:10PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek 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 i

Re: Potential memory leak in /modules/cache/mod_mem_cache.c

2005-11-04 Thread Xuekun Hu
So, same reason. Also in file mod_mem_cache.c around line 786, there is a malloc(mobj->m_len), and a few lines later, another malloc(obj->count) is performed. If the second malloc fails, I think also should add something like free(mobj->m); mobj->m = NULL; reasonable? Thx, Xuekun On 11/3/05