Re: Various musings about the request URL / URI / whatever

2005-12-01 Thread Graham Dumpleton
Hmmm, go away for two days and a mail storm erupts. :-( I may never be able to catch up and digest this mail thread, but I'll try and add a few comments of my own. On 01/12/2005, at 8:41 AM, Nicolas Lehuen wrote: c) We don't have a req.base_uri (to follow Jim's naming suggestion) or

[jira] Updated: (MODPYTHON-93) Improve util.FieldStorage efficiency

2005-12-01 Thread Mike Looijmans (JIRA)
[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MODPYTHON-93?page=all ] Mike Looijmans updated MODPYTHON-93: Attachment: modpython325_util_py_dict.patch What it does: - Simplifies the creation of StringField objects. This was already marked as a TODO in the

Re: [vote] 2.2.0 tarballs

2005-12-01 Thread Joe Orton
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 07:10:37PM -0600, William Rowe wrote: Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: If apr 1.0 or 1.1 happen to be installed, I don't see why it's not reasonable to fail to configure. The administrator may intend to link against the system version, they may not want httpd having its own

Re: OT: performance FUD

2005-12-01 Thread Brian Candler
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:58:00PM -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: fork() is *painfully* slow on the darwin kernel, I haven't tested but can't imagine that threading isn't a huge win here. Explain? One preforked worker process can handle thousands of requests. Apache doesn't have to fork

Re: OT: performance FUD

2005-12-01 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
I'm referring to shrinking or growing the pool of threads/processes as needed. If worker grows threads as needed, or even has to spawn only one more process to create dozens of threads, this is goodness. Bill Brian Candler wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 02:58:00PM -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr.

Re: [vote] 2.2.0 tarballs

2005-12-01 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Nov 30, 2005, at 10:12 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: So we've been compiling and improving the code, but the build/ install status is -worse- than httpd-2.0, ergo this is not the best version of apache now available and is -not- ready for GA. I just built from

Re: [vote] 2.2.0 tarballs

2005-12-01 Thread Andreas Lindström
Any users who run httpd are unlikely to have installed APR 1.[01] given that APR 1.x has never been supported by an httpd release to date. It's really only httpd/APR developers who are likely to get into this situation. (APR 1.x has never been shipped in a Subversion tarball) As far as i

Re: [vote] 2.2.0 tarballs

2005-12-01 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:06:37AM -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Ok, but did you try installing into a tree that has, say, a fink port of svn based on apr 1.0 or 1.1? We are (mostly) talking about where httpd is finding stale APR versions related to non-httpd packages. (Non-httpd,

Re: [vote] 2.2.0 tarballs

2005-12-01 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:06:37AM -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Ok, but did you try installing into a tree that has, say, a fink port of svn based on apr 1.0 or 1.1? We are (mostly) talking about where httpd Subversion has never officially supported anything other than APR 0.9.x - i.e.

Re: [vote] 2.2.0 tarballs

2005-12-01 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:11:26AM +0100, Andreas Lindström wrote: Any users who run httpd are unlikely to have installed APR 1.[01] given that APR 1.x has never been supported by an httpd release to date. It's really only httpd/APR developers who are likely to get into this situation.

Re: [vote] 2.2.0 tarballs

2005-12-01 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Joe Orton wrote: If some random user has APR 1.1 installed in /usr/local/apr, and builds httpd 2.2 with --prefix=/usr/local/httpd-2.2, it would be a Bad Thing (and certainly, very surprising behaviour) if that httpd install went ahead and silently upgraded that APR install. AGREED! Never

RE: problems with ssl in balance/proxy mode

2005-12-01 Thread Matthias Behrens
thats pretty cool thx -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Colm MacCarthaigh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. Dezember 2005 00:02 An: dev@httpd.apache.org Betreff: Re: AW: problems with ssl in balance/proxy mode On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:54:19PM +0100, Ruediger Pluem

Re: OT: performance FUD

2005-12-01 Thread Brian Candler
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:02:49AM -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: I'm referring to shrinking or growing the pool of threads/processes as needed. If worker grows threads as needed, or even has to spawn only one more process to create dozens of threads, this is goodness. But is it a

Re: httpd-2.1.7 Connection-pooling Problem w/ ReverseProxy, Loadbalancer

2005-12-01 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Nov 30, 2005, at 4:30 PM, Ruediger Pluem wrote: I believe the clearer approach would be to fetch the connection from the connection pool each time and do not use this module config method any longer. This would also resolve the problem of Hans-Joerg which you fixed with your recent

Re: [vote] 2.2.0 tarballs

2005-12-01 Thread Oden Eriksson
torsdagen den 1 december 2005 07.54 skrev Roy T. Fielding: On Nov 30, 2005, at 10:12 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: I'm 100% conviced next to nobody on this list has been developing and testing httpd-2.2/apr-1.2 without their own in-tree tweaks. I'm as guilty as anyone. So we've

Re: [vote] 2.2.0 tarballs

2005-12-01 Thread Nick Kew
On Thursday 01 December 2005 14:47, Oden Eriksson wrote: I added mysql support in apr-util-1.2.2 as per INSTALL.MySQL as a conditional build switch in our rpm package, that was only possible after doing a lot of hacks. Are those hacks anything we/I should know about and fix, or are they

Re: [vote] 2.2.0 tarballs

2005-12-01 Thread Oden Eriksson
torsdagen den 1 december 2005 16.01 skrev Nick Kew: On Thursday 01 December 2005 14:47, Oden Eriksson wrote: I added mysql support in apr-util-1.2.2 as per INSTALL.MySQL as a conditional build switch in our rpm package, that was only possible after doing a lot of hacks. Are those hacks

Re: Various musings about the request URL / URI / whatever

2005-12-01 Thread Jim Gallacher
Graham Dumpleton wrote: Hmmm, go away for two days and a mail storm erupts. :-( And when you come back we go completely silent again. It's a conspiracy I tell ya. ;) Jim

buildconf against installed APR

2005-12-01 Thread Sander Temme
OK, I've been poking at the buildconf script a little bit. The following patch: Index: buildconf === --- buildconf (revision 351458) +++ buildconf (working copy) @@ -53,24 +53,32 @@ # should_exit=0 -apr_found=0 -apu_found=0

Re: [vote] 2.2.0 tarballs

2005-12-01 Thread Ruediger Pluem
On 12/01/2005 08:15 AM, Sander Temme wrote: On Nov 30, 2005, at 10:53 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: [..cut..] Is buildconf present? If the user runs it, does it corrupt the unpacked tree? If this is so, and it's broken, then perhaps remove buildconf throughout the tree, and

Re: [vote] 2.2.0 tarballs

2005-12-01 Thread Graham Leggett
Ruediger Pluem wrote: BTW: buildconf is also used by the rpm spec file that is delivered with the tar ball. To be honest I don't think the rpm build script needs to run buildconf, it seems to be a hangup from when the spec file was the Redhat one, and they needed to do custom stuff, all of

Re: buildconf against installed APR

2005-12-01 Thread Oden Eriksson
torsdagen den 1 december 2005 21.38 skrev Sander Temme: Note the cp turds: those files are not installed along with APR, so buildconf cannot copy them over. How come I or no one else noticed this ever? Probably because these files are not cleaned up by make Because you never package it like

Re: [vote] 2.2.0 tarballs

2005-12-01 Thread Ruediger Pluem
On 12/01/2005 10:01 PM, Graham Leggett wrote: Ruediger Pluem wrote: BTW: buildconf is also used by the rpm spec file that is delivered with the tar ball. To be honest I don't think the rpm build script needs to run buildconf, it seems to be a hangup from when the spec file was the

[Fwd: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [announce] Apache HTTP Server 2.2.0 Released]

2005-12-01 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Yo dude, while the community may not catch/catch up with press, if we planned to 'announce' Apache 2.2 as an httpd splash at the convention opening plenary, this sort of just deep sixed that - since I'm pretty sure most convention attendees follow [EMAIL PROTECTED], those who are httpd users. Oh

Re: [Fwd: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [announce] Apache HTTP Server 2.2.0 Released]

2005-12-01 Thread Paul Querna
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Yo dude, while the community may not catch/catch up with press, if we planned to 'announce' Apache 2.2 as an httpd splash at the convention opening plenary, this sort of just deep sixed that - since I'm pretty sure most convention attendees follow [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: Win32 binary distributions 2.1.9-beta and onwards

2005-12-01 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
On 2005.11.10 William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Question; 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 cause serious problems,

Re: [Fwd: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [announce] Apache HTTP Server 2.2.0 Released]

2005-12-01 Thread Jim Jagielski
Known Issues Some non-showstopping issues were found during the 2.2.0 release and testing cycle: * mod_dbd and mod_authn_dbd are absent from the Windows build environment. A patch to correct this is available from: http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/patches/apply_to_2.2.0/

Re: [Fwd: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [announce] Apache HTTP Server 2.2.0 Released]

2005-12-01 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Query; you let the mirrors catch up 24 hours, right? Or you just decided to burn the extra ASF bandwidth? It appears so; I've just cleaned up all the 2.1 turds left behind, but it will take the daily -full- rsync in order for those files to disappear from the

Re: Win32 binary distributions 2.1.9-beta and onwards

2005-12-01 Thread Nick Kew
On Thursday 01 December 2005 22:40, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: On 2005.11.10 William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Question; 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

Re: buildconf against installed APR

2005-12-01 Thread Sander Temme
On Dec 1, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Oden Eriksson wrote: torsdagen den 1 december 2005 21.38 skrev Sander Temme: Note the cp turds: those files are not installed along with APR, so buildconf cannot copy them over. How come I or no one else noticed this ever? Probably because these files are not

Re: [Fwd: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [announce] Apache HTTP Server 2.2.0 Released]

2005-12-01 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Jim Jagielski wrote: I know I'm beating a dead horse here, but I still don't understand the reason for such a rushed release, when an extra few days would likely have resolved them... Because it's httpd-dev tradition, .0 releases are never ready, and most RM's live to regret them, yet new

Re: [Fwd: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [announce] Apache HTTP Server 2.2.0 Released]

2005-12-01 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Paul Querna wrote: William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Oh - why to users@ and not [EMAIL PROTECTED] (announce@apache.org, as well as [EMAIL PROTECTED], as after all this is big news.) I have sent it to both of those. It is still waiting moderation. users@httpd.apache.org is the only one that I

Re: Win32 binary distributions 2.1.9-beta and onwards

2005-12-01 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:40:25PM -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: I have 6.0, 2000/.NET, 2003, and 2005 sitting here, and will build whichever flavor is deemed 'appropriate'. If nobody speaks up, I'm building 'same old, same old' under MSVCRT. I think that's appropriate, 2005 is a bit of

Re: Win32 binary distributions 2.1.9-beta and onwards

2005-12-01 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:40:25PM -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: I have 6.0, 2000/.NET, 2003, and 2005 sitting here, and will build whichever flavor is deemed 'appropriate'. If nobody speaks up, I'm building 'same old, same old' under MSVCRT. I think that's

Re: [Fwd: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [announce] Apache HTTP Server 2.2.0 Released]

2005-12-01 Thread Brian Akins
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: ++1! On to 2.4 :) you mean X right? :) Seriously though, will the inclusion of all the async stuff warrant a jump to 3.0? -- Brian Akins Lead Systems Engineer CNN Internet Technologies

Re: [Fwd: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [announce] Apache HTTP Server 2.2.0 Released]

2005-12-01 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Brian Akins wrote: William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Seriously though, will the inclusion of all the async stuff warrant a jump to 3.0? My 2c CA (yes, I have 2 of them sitting here)... If the user can write a content handling module that ignores threading and remains on-thread, then it's a 2.4

Re: Win32 binary distributions 2.1.9-beta and onwards

2005-12-01 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:40:25PM -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: I have 6.0, 2000/.NET, 2003, and 2005 sitting here, and will build whichever flavor is deemed 'appropriate'. If nobody speaks up, I'm building 'same old, same old'

Re: Win32 binary distributions 2.1.9-beta and onwards

2005-12-01 Thread Steffen
Ok, on further consideration, if Joe casual user has the opportunity to open up the project in their free edition of VisualStudio 2005, and learn Apache, perhaps contribute back, I believe *we* win, and the user wins. Agree *you* win, and we user wins. And I try to contribute back. I used

Re: [Fwd: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [announce] Apache HTTP Server 2.2.0 Released]

2005-12-01 Thread Jim Jagielski
Brian Akins wrote: William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: ++1! On to 2.4 :) you mean X right? :) How about dropping numbers totally and using colors? Apache HTTP Server Green :) -- === Jim Jagielski [|] [EMAIL

Re: [Fwd: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [announce] Apache HTTP Server 2.2.0 Released]

2005-12-01 Thread Jim Jagielski
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Jim Jagielski wrote: I know I'm beating a dead horse here, but I still don't understand the reason for such a rushed release, when an extra few days would likely have resolved them... Because it's httpd-dev tradition, .0 releases are never ready, and most

Re: buildconf against installed APR

2005-12-01 Thread Oden Eriksson
torsdagen den 1 december 2005 23.56 skrev Sander Temme: On Dec 1, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Oden Eriksson wrote: torsdagen den 1 december 2005 21.38 skrev Sander Temme: Note the cp turds: those files are not installed along with APR, so buildconf cannot copy them over. How come I or no one else

Re: svn commit: r351547 - in /httpd/httpd/branches/authz-dev: include/http_core.h modules/aaa/mod_authz_host.c server/core.c server/request.c

2005-12-01 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 01:19:11AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Author: bnicholes Date: Thu Dec 1 17:19:07 2005 New Revision: 351547 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=351547view=rev Log: Reimplement ap_some_auth_required as an optional function since the data has moved to