Re: Proposal/RFC: "informed" load balancing

2015-04-30 Thread Daniel Ruggeri
On 4/29/2015 11:54 PM, Jim Riggs wrote: > [ Long message and proposal follows. Bear with me. There are a lot of words, > but that is because we need a lot of help/input! ;-) ] > > So, this has come up in the past several times, and we discussed it again > this year at ApacheCon: How do we get th

Re: *Match, RewriteRule POLA violation?

2015-04-30 Thread Daniel Ruggeri
+1 By unbreaking configurations we are indeed changing behavior. This could be an unexpected change for an admin during a minor upgrade but I weigh that against the fact that directives enclosed by these matches may be intended to add security/authorization/authentication which a badly written link

Looking ahead to 2.4.13 / 2.2.30

2015-04-30 Thread William A Rowe Jr
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 4:46 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:49:47 -0400 > Jim Jagielski wrote: > > > BTW: Would it make sense to consider a release of 2.4.13 in April > > to coincide w/ ApacheCon? > > We've historically produced a release at the beginning of the con. > It

Re: *Match, RewriteRule POLA violation?

2015-04-30 Thread Yann Ylavic
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Jim Riggs wrote: > > Thanks, Yann. I remember looking at this code before. The question remains, > though: Is it currently "wrong"? > Does it need to be "fixed", or was this distinction made intentionally? > Is there a specific use case that requires the regex-mat

Re: *Match, RewriteRule POLA violation?

2015-04-30 Thread Jim Riggs
> On 28 Apr 2015, at 17:55, Yann Ylavic wrote: > > It seems that while is compared to ap_no2slash(r->uri), > is matched against r->uri directly. > That's probably the "issue". > > A possible fix (untested) could be: > > Index: server/request.c > ===

Re: Proposal/RFC: "informed" load balancing

2015-04-30 Thread Jim Riggs
On Wednesday, April 29, 2015, Jim Riggs mailto:apache-li...@riggs.me>> wrote: Warn out from writing all of this and hopeful that someone other than me actually cares, I wish you all well today/tonight! *Worn* out, even! Boy, I was tired!

Re: Listen on UDS

2015-04-30 Thread Tim Bannister
I'd been musing, coincidentally, about being able to run httpd as a FastCGI. The motivation for this is a packaged webapp - Wordpress, say - that includes .htaccess files in the deployed package. Having the genuine Apache httpd able to serve the application and apply .htaccess restrictions would