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*) mod_actions: Propagate the handler name to the action script via
the REDIRECT_HANDLER environment variable. [André Malo]
*) mod_actions: Introduce the "virtual" modifier to the Action directive,
which allows the use of handlers for virtual locations. PR 8431.
[André Malo]
*) mod_speling: Recognize AcceptPathInfo setting for the particular
location. Default is to reject path information. PR 21059.
[André Malo]
*) mod_ext_filter: Add the ability to filter request bodies.
*) Fix some broken log messages in WinNT MPM.
*) prefork MPM: Use the right permissions for the directory created
*) Fix a compile failure with recent OpenSSL and picky compilers
(e.g., OpenSSL 0.9.7a and xlc_r on AIX). [Jeff Trawick]
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*) OpenSSL headers should be included as "openssl/ssl.h", and not rely on
the INCLUDE path to be defined properly.
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*) Modify APACHE_CHECK_SSL_TOOLKIT to detect SSL-C. [Madhusudan Mathihalli]
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*) Replace the APACHE_CHECK_SSL_TOOLKIT method with a cleaner one, using
autoconf tools (AC_CHECK_HEADER, AC_CHECK_LIB etc).
Madhusudan Mathihalli
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*) change directive name from 'compressionlevel' to 'deflatecompressionlevel'
[Ian Holsman, André Malo]
*) mod_negotiation: quality values are now parsed independent from
the current locale. level values are now really parsed as integers.
PR 17564. [André Malo]
*) Extend mod_negotiation to evaluate the environment variables
no-gzip and gzip-only-text/html the same way as mod_deflate does.
[André Malo]
*) mod_rewrite: Fix some problems reporting errors with mapping
programs (RewriteMap prg:/something). [Jeff Trawick]
Justin Erenkrantz
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*) Return 413 if chunk-ext-header is too long rather than reading from
the truncated line. PR 15857. [Justin Erenkrantz]
*) Allow restart of httpd to occur even with syntax errors in the config
file. PR 16813. [Justin Erenkrantz]
*) Use APR_LAYOUT instead of APACHE_LAYOUT in configure. PR 15679.
[Justin Erenkrantz]
*) Remove files on 'make distclean' that should be. PR 15592.
[Justin Erenkrantz]
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*) Allow apachectl to perform status with links and elinks as well.
[Justin Erenkrantz]
*) mod_log_config change optional hook to return previous handler
[Ian Holsman]
*) Forward port of mod_actions' ability to handle arbitrary methods
with the Script directive. [André Malo]
*) Let suexec send a message to stderr, if it failed or its policy
was violated. This message appears in the error log and allows
for easier debugging. PR 5381, 7638, 8255, 10773. [André Malo]
Justin Erenkrantz
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*) Modify buildconf to copy all required files into httpd's tree.
Justin Erenkrantz
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Justin Erenkrantz
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*) Allow mod_dav to do weak entity comparison functions.
[Justin Erenkrantz]
*) Move RFC 1413 ident requests from core to new module mod_ident.
[André Malo]
*) Add mod_authz_owner - a forward port of "Require file-owner"
and "Require file-group", which was already present in version
1.3.21. [André Malo]
Justin Erenkrantz
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*) Add mod_dav_lock - a generic subset of the DAV locking implementation.
[Justin Erenkrantz]
*) Replace some of the mutex locking in the worker MPM with
atomic operations for higher concurrency. [Brian Pane]
*) Allow 'make depend' to work with non-GCC compilers.
[Justin Erenkrantz]
*) If an httpd.conf has commented out AddModule directives,
apxs -i -a will add an un-commented AddModule directive for
the new module, which breaks the config.
PR: 11212 [Joe Orton]
Justin Erenkrantz
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*) Fix mod_proxy handling of filtered input bodies. [Justin Erenkrantz]
*) Move the check of the Expect request header field after the hook
for ap_post_read_request, since that is the only opportunity for
modules to handle Expect extensions. [Justin Erenkrantz]
*) Rewrite of aaa modules to an authn/authz model.
[Dirk-Willem van Gulik, Justin Erenkrantz]
[Apache 2.1.0-dev includes those bug fixes and changes with the
Apache 2.0.xx tree as documented, and except as noted, below.]
Changes with Apache 2.0.56
*) SECURITY: CVE-2005-3357 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_ssl: Fix a possible crash during access control checks if a
non-SSL request is processed for an SSL vhost (such as the
"HTTP request received on SSL port" error message when an 400
ErrorDocument is configured, or if using "SSLEngine optional").
PR 37791. [Rüdiger Plüm, Joe Orton]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2005-3352 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_imap: Escape untrusted referer header before outputting in HTML
to avoid potential cross-site scripting. Change also made to
ap_escape_html so we escape quotes. Reported by JPCERT.
[Mark Cox]
*) mod_speling: Stop crashing with certain non-file requests.
[Jeff Trawick]
*) keep the Content-Length header for a HEAD with no response body.
PR 18757 [Greg Ames]
*) Modify apr[util] .h detection to avoid breakage on VPATH builds
using Solaris make (amoung others) and avoid breakage in ./buildconf
when srclib/apr[-util] are symlinks rather than directories proper.
[William Rowe]
*) Avoid server-driven negotiation when a CGI script has emitted an
explicit "Status:" header. PR 38070. [Nick Kew]
*) mod_log_config now logs all Set-Cookie headers if the %{Set-Cookie}o
format is used. PR 27787. [André Malo]
*) mod_cgid: Refuse to work on Solaris 10 due to OS bugs. PR 34264.
[Justin Erenkrantz]
*) mod_cache: Correctly handle responses with a 301 status. PR 37347.
[Paul Querna]
*) mod_proxy_http: Prevent data corruption of POST request bodies when
client accesses proxied resources with SSL. PR 37145.
[Ruediger Pluem, William Rowe]
*) Elimiated the NET_TIME filter, restructuring the timeout logic.
This provides a working mod_echo on all platforms, and ensures any
custom protocol module is at least given an initial timeout value
based on the <VirtualHost > context's Timeout directive.
*) mod_ssl: Correct issue where mod_ssl does not pick up the
ssl-unclean-shutdown setting when configured. PR 34452. [Joe Orton]
*) Document the ReceiveBufferSize change done in r157583 [Murray
Nesbitt <murray@cpan.org>]
*) mod_deflate: Merge the Vary header, instead of Setting it. Fixes
applications that send the Vary Header themselves. PR 37559.
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*) mod_dav: Fix a null pointer dereference in an error code path during the
handling of MKCOL. [Ghassan Misherghi <ghassanm ucdavis.edu>]
*) mod_mime_magic: Handle CRLF-format magic files so that it works with
the default installation on Windows. [Jeff Trawick]
*) Write message to error log if AuthGroupFile cannot be opened.
PR 37566. [Rüdiger Plüm]
*) Add ReceiveBufferSize directive to control the TCP receive buffer.
[Eric Covener <covener gmail.com>]
*) mod_cache: Fix 'Vary: *' behavior to be RFC compliant. PR 16125.
[Paul Querna]
*) Remove the base href tag from proxy_ftp, as it breaks relative
links for clients not using an Authorization header. [Graham Leggett,
Jon Snow <jsnow27 gatesec.net>]
*) http_request.c: Add missing va_end call. [André Malo]
*) Add httxt2dbm to support/ for creating RewriteMap DBM Files.
[Paul Querna]
*) support/check_forensic: Fix temp file usage
[Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs computer.org>]
*) Chunk filter: Fix chunk filter to create correct chunks in the case that
a flush bucket is surrounded by data buckets. [Ruediger Pluem]
*) mod_cgi(d): Remove block on OPTIONS method so that scripts can
respond to OPTIONS directly rather than via server default.
[Roy Fielding] PR 15242
*) Added new module mod_version, which provides version dependent
configuration containers. [André Malo]
*) Add core version query function (ap_get_server_revision) and
accompanying ap_version_t structure (minor MMN bump).
[André Malo]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2005-2088 (cve.mitre.org)
proxy: Correctly handle the Transfer-Encoding and Content-Length
headers. Discard the request Content-Length whenever T-E: chunked
is used, always passing one of either C-L or T-E: chunked whenever
the request includes a request body. Resolves an entire class of
proxy HTTP Request Splitting/Spoofing attacks. [William Rowe]
*) Added TraceEnable [on|off|extended] per-server directive to alter
the behavior of the TRACE method. This addresses a flaw in proxy
conformance to RFC 2616 - previously the proxy server would accept
a TRACE request body although the RFC prohibited it. The default
remains 'TraceEnable on'. [William Rowe]
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*) Add ap_log_cerror() for logging messages associated with particular
client connections. [Jeff Trawick]
*) Correct mod_cgid's argv[0] so that the full path can be delved by the
invoked cgi application, to conform to the behavior of mod_cgi.
[Pradeep Kumar S <pradeep.smani gmail.com>]
*) mod_include: Fix possible environment variable corruption when
using nested includes. PR 12655. [Joe Orton]
*) Support the suppress-error-charset setting, as with Apache 1.3.x.
PR 31274. [Jeff Trawick]
*) EBCDIC: Handle chunked input from client or, with proxy, origin
server. [Jeff Trawick]
*) Fix bad globbing comparison which could result in getting
a directory listing when a file was requested. PR 34512.
[sean <infamous41md hotmail.com>]
*) Fix core dump if mod_auth_ldap's mod_auth_ldap_auth_checker()
was called even if mod_auth_ldap_check_user_id() was not
(or if it didn't succeed) for non-authoritative cases.
[Jim Jagielski]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2005-2728 (cve.mitre.org)
Fix cases where the byterange filter would buffer responses
into memory. PR 29962. [Joe Orton]
*) mod_proxy: Fix over-eager handling of '%' for reverse proxies.
PR 15207. [Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_ldap: Fix various shared memory cache handling bugs.
PR 34209. [Joe Orton]
*) Fix a file descriptor leak when starting piped loggers. PR 33748.
[Joe Orton]
*) mod_ldap: Avoid segfaults when opening connections if using a version
of OpenLDAP older than 2.2.21. PR 34618. [Brad Nicholes]
*) mod_ssl: Fix build with OpenSSL 0.9.8. PR 35757. [William Rowe]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2005-2088 (cve.mitre.org)
core: If a request contains both Transfer-Encoding and Content-Length
headers, remove the Content-Length, mitigating some HTTP Request
Splitting/Spoofing attacks. [Paul Querna, Joe Orton]
*) proxy HTTP: If a response contains both Transfer-Encoding and a
Content-Length, remove the Content-Length and don't reuse the
connection, mitigating some HTTP Response Splitting attacks.
[Jeff Trawick]
*) Prevent hangs of child processes when writing to piped loggers at
the time of graceful restart. PR 26467. [Jeff Trawick]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2005-1268 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_ssl: Fix off-by-one overflow whilst printing CRL information
at "LogLevel debug" which could be triggered if configured
to use a "malicious" CRL. PR 35081. [Marc Stern <mstern csc.com>]
*) mod_userdir: Fix possible memory corruption issue. PR 34588.
[David Leonard <dleonard vintela.com>]
*) worker mpm: don't take down the whole server for a transient
thread creation failure. PR 34514 [Greg Ames]
*) mod_rewrite: use buffered I/O to improve performance with large
RewriteMap txt: files. [Greg Ames]
*) proxy HTTP: Rework the handling of request bodies to handle
chunked input and input filters which modify content length, and
avoid spooling arbitrary-sized request bodies in memory.
PR 15859. [Jeff Trawick]
[Rüdiger Plüm <r.pluem t-online.de>]
*) mod_ldap: Added the directive LDAPConnectionTimeout to configure
the ldap socket connection timeout value.
[Brad Nicholes]
*) Correctly export all mod_dav public functions.
[Branko Äibej <brane xbc.nu>]
*) Add a build script to create a solaris package. [Graham Leggett]
*) worker MPM: Fix a problem which could cause httpd processes to
remain active after shutdown. [Jeff Trawick]
*) Unix MPMs: Shut down the server more quickly when child processes are
slow to exit. [Joe Orton, Jeff Trawick]
*) Remove formatting characters from ap_log_error() calls. These
were escaped as fallout from CVE-2003-0020.
*) mod_ssl: If SSLUsername is used, set r->user earlier. PR 31418.
[David Reid]
*) htdigest: Fix permissions of created files. PR 33765. [Joe Orton]
*) core_input_filter: Move buckets to a persistent brigade instead of
creating a new brigade. This stop a memory leak when proxying a
Streaming Media Server. PR 33382. [Paul Querna]
*) mod_win32: Ignore both PATH_INFO as well as PATH_TRANSLATED to avoid
hiccups from additional path information passed in non-utf-8 format.
[Richard Donkin <rd9 donkin.org]
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[Max Bowsher <maxb ukf.net>]
*) mod_proxy: Fix ProxyRemoteMatch directive. PR 33170.
[Rici Lake <rici ricilake.net>]
*) mod_proxy: Respect errors reported by pre_connection hooks.
[Jeff Trawick]
*) --with-module can now take more than one module to be statically
linked: --with-module=<modtype>:<modfile>,<modtype>:<modfile>,...
If the <modtype>-subdirectory doesn't exist it will be created and
populated with a standard Makefile.in. [Erik Abele]
*) Fix the RPM spec file so that an RPM build now works. An RPM
build now requires system installations of APR and APR-util.
Remove some arbitrary moving around of binaries - the RPM now
maps to the ASF build of httpd.
[Graham Leggett]
*) mod_dumpio, an I/O logging/dumping module, added to the
modules/expermimental subdirectory. [Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_auth_ldap: Handle the inconsistent way in which the MS LDAP
*) Win32 MPM: Correct typo in debugging output. [William Rowe]
*) conf: Remove AddDefaultCharset from the default configuration because
setting a site-wide default does more harm than good. PR 23421.
[Roy Fielding]
*) Add charset to example CGI scripts. [Roy Fielding]
*) mod_ssl: fail quickly if SSL connection is aborted rather than
making many doomed ap_pass_brigade calls. PR 32699. [Joe Orton]
*) Remove compiled-in upper limit on LimitRequestFieldSize.
[Bill Stoddard]
*) Start keeping track of time-taken-to-process-request again for
mod_status if ExtendedStatus is enabled. [Jim Jagielski]
*) mod_proxy: Handle client-aborted connections correctly. PR 32443.
[Janne Hietamäki, Joe Orton]
*) Fix handling of files >2Gb on all platforms (or builds) where
apr_off_t is larger than apr_size_t. PR 28898. [Joe Orton]
*) mod_include: Fix bug which could truncate variable expansions
of N*64 characters by one byte. PR 32985. [Joe Orton]
*) Correct handling of certain bucket types in ap_save_brigade, fixing
possible segfaults in mod_cgi with #include virtual. PR 31247.
[Joe Orton]
*) Allow for the use of --with-module=foo:bar where the ./modules/foo
directory is local only. Assumes, of course, that the required
files are in ./modules/foo, but makes it easier to statically
build/log "external" modules. [Jim Jagielski]
*) Util_ldap: Implemented the util_ldap_cache_getuserdn() API so that
ldap authorization only modules have access to the util_ldap
user cache without having to require ldap authentication as well.
PR 31898. [Jari Ahonen jah progress.com, Brad Nicholes]
*) mod_auth_ldap: Added the directive "Requires ldap-attribute" that
allows the module to only authorize a user if the attribute value
specified matches the value of the user object. PR 31913
[Ryan Morgan <rmorgan pobox.com>]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2004-0942 (cve.mitre.org)
Fix for memory consumption DoS in handling of MIME folded request
headers. [Joe Orton]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2004-0885 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_ssl: Fix a bug which allowed an SSLCipherSuite setting to be
bypassed during an SSL renegotiation. PR 31505.
[Hartmut Keil <Hartmut.Keil adnovum.ch>, Joe Orton]
*) mod_ssl: Fail at startup rather than segfault at runtime if a
client cert is configured with an encrypted private key.
PR 24030. [Joe Orton]
*) apxs: fix handling of -Wc/-Wl and "-o mod_foo.so". PR 31448
[Joe Orton]
*) mod_ldap: Fix format strings to use %APR_PID_T_FMT instead of %d.
[Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_cache: CacheDisable will only disable the URLs it was meant to
disable, not all caching. PR 31128.
[Edward Rudd <eddie omegaware.com>, Paul Querna]
*) mod_cache: Try to correctly follow RFC 2616 13.3 on validating stale
cache responses. [Justin Erenkrantz]
*) mod_rewrite: Handle per-location rules when r->filename is unset.
Previously this would segfault or simply not match as expected,
depending on the platform. [Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_rewrite: Fix 0 bytes write into random memory position.
PR 31036. [André Malo]
*) mod_disk_cache: Do not store aborted content. PR 21492.
[Rüdiger Plüm <r.pluem t-online.de>]
*) mod_disk_cache: Correctly store cached content type. PR 30278.
[Rüdiger Plüm <r.pluem t-online.de>]
*) mod_ldap: prevent the possiblity of an infinite loop in the LDAP
*) mod_ldap: fix a bogus error message to tell the user which file
is causing a potential problem with the LDAP shared memory cache.
PR 31431 [Graham Leggett]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2004-1834 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_disk_cache: Do not store hop-by-hop headers. [Justin Erenkrantz]
*) Fix the re-linking issue when purging elements from the LDAP cache
*) mod_disk_cache: Fix races in saving responses. [Justin Erenkrantz]
*) Fix Expires handling in mod_cache. [Justin Erenkrantz]
*) Alter mod_expires to run at a different filter priority to allow
proper Expires storage by mod_cache. [Justin Erenkrantz]
*) Use HTML 2.0 <hr> for error pages. PR 30732 [André Malo]
*) Fix the global mutex crash when the global mutex is never allocated
due to disabled/empty caches. [Jess Holle <jessh ptc.com>]
*) Fix a segfault in the LDAP cache when it is configured switched
off. [Jess Holle <jessh ptc.com>]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2004-0811 (cve.mitre.org)
Fix merging of the Satisfy directive, which was applied to
the surrounding context and could allow access despite configured
authentication. PR 31315. [Rici Lake <rici ricilake.net>]
*) Fix the handling of URIs containing %2F when AllowEncodedSlashes
is enabled. Previously, such urls would still be rejected.
[Jeff Trawick, Bill Stoddard]
*) mod_mem_cache: Fixed race condition causing segfault because of memory being
freed twice, or reused after being freed.
[J. Clar, W. Stoddard, G. Ames]
*) Add -l option to rotatelogs to let it use local time rather than
UTC. PR 24417. [Ken Coar, Uli Zappe <uli ritual.org>]
*) mod_log_config: Fix a bug which prevented request completion time
from being logged for I_INSIST_ON_EXTRA_CYCLES_FOR_CLF_COMPLIANCE
processing. PR 29696. [Alois Treindl <alois astro.ch>]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2004-0786 (cve.mitre.org)
Fix an input validation issue in apr-util which could be
triggered by malformed IPv6 literal addresses. [Joe Orton]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2004-0747 (cve.mitre.org)
Fix buffer overflow in expansion of environment variables in
configuration file parsing. [André Malo]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2004-0809 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_dav_fs: Fix a segfault in the handling of an indirect lock
refresh. PR 31183. [Joe Orton]
in the core. This allows for careful usage of recursive SSI.
[André Malo]
*) Fix memory leak in the cache handling of mod_rewrite. PR 27862.
[chunyan sheng <shengperson yahoo.com>, André Malo]
*) Include directives no longer refuse to process symlinks on
directories. Instead there's now a maximum nesting level
of included directories (128 as distributed). This is configurable
at compile time using the -DAP_MAX_INCLUDE_DIR_DEPTH switch.
PR 28492. [André Malo]
*) Win32: apache -k start|restart|install|config can leave stranded
piped logger processes (eg, rotatelogs.exe) due to improper
server shutdown on these code paths.
[Bill Stoddard]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2004-0751 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_ssl: Fix a segfault in the SSL input filter which could be
triggered if using "speculative" mode, for instance by a
proxy request to an SSL server. PR 30134. [Joe Orton]
*) mod_rewrite: Add %{SSL:...} and %{HTTPS} variable lookups.
PR 30464. [Joe Orton, Madhusudan Mathihalli]
*) mod_ssl: Add new 'ssl_is_https' optional function. [Joe Orton]
*) Prevent CGI script output which includes a Content-Range header
from being passed through the byterange filter. [Joe Orton]
container. PR 14726. [André Malo]
*) mod_rewrite now officially supports RewriteRules in <Proxy> sections.
PR 27985. [André Malo]
Bill Stoddard
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*) mod_disk_cache: Implement binary format for on-disk header files.
[Brian Akins <bakins web.turner.com>, Justin Erenkrantz]
*) mod_disk_cache: Optimize network performance of disk cache subsystem by
allowing zero-copy (sendfile) writes and other miscellaneous fixes.
[Justin Erenkrantz]
*) mod_cache, mod_disk_cache, mod_mem_cache: Refactor cache modules, and
switch to the provider API instead of hooks. [Justin Erenkrantz]
*) mod_autoindex: Don't truncate the directory listing if a stat()
call fails (for instance on a >2Gb file). PR 17357.
[Joe Orton]
*) Makefile fix: httpd is linked against LIBS given to the
'make' invocation. PR 7882. [Joe Orton]
*) WinNT MPM: Fix a broken log message at termination. PR 28063.
[Eider Oliveira <eider bol.com.br>]
*) Prevent Win32 pool corruption at startup [Allan Edwards]
*) mod_ssl: Add "SSLUserName" directive to set r->user based on a
chosen SSL environment variable. PR 20957.
[Martin v. Loewis <martin v.loewis.de>]
*) suexec: Pass the SERVER_SIGNATURE envvar through to CGIs.
[Zvi Har'El <rl math.technion.ac.il>]
*) apachectl: Fix a problem finding envvars if sbindir != bindir.
PR 30723. [Friedrich Haubensak <hsk imb-jena.de>]
*) mod_ssl: Build on RHEL 3. PR 18989. [Justin Erenkrantz]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2004-0748 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_ssl: Fix a potential infinite loop. PR 29964. [Joe Orton]
*) mod_ssl: Avoid startup failure after unclean shutdown if using shmcb.
PR 18989. [Joe Orton]
*) mod_userdir: Ensure that the userdir identity is used for
suexec userdir access in a virtual host which has suexec configured.
PR 18156. [Joshua Slive]
*) mod_rewrite no longer confuses the RewriteMap caches if
different maps defined in different virtual hosts use the
same map name. PR 26462. [André Malo]
never worked at all. PR 25725. [André Malo]
*) Backport from 2.1 / Regression from 1.3: mod_headers now knows
again the functionality of the ErrorHeader directive. But instead
using this misnomer additional flags to the Header directive were
introduced ("always" and "onsuccess", defaulting to the latter).
PR 28657. [André Malo]
*) Use the higher performing 'httpready' Accept Filter on all platforms
except FreeBSD < 4.1.1. [Paul Querna]
regexp. [André Malo]
matched value. [André Malo]
*) Recursive Include directives no longer crash. The server stops
including configuration files after a certain nesting level (128
as distributed). This is configurable at compile time using the
-DAP_MAX_INCLUDE_DEPTH switch. PR 28370. [André Malo]
*) mod_dir: the trailing-slash behaviour is now configurable using the
DirectorySlash directive. [André Malo]
*) Allow proxying of resources that are invoked via DirectoryIndex.
PR 14648, 15112, 29961. [André Malo]
*) util_ldap: Switched the lock types on the shared memory cache
from thread reader/writer locks to global mutexes in order to
provide cross process cache protection. [Brad Nicholes]
*) util_ldap: Reworked the cache locking scheme to eliminate duplicate
cache entries in the credentials cache due to race conditions.
[Brad Nicholes]
*) util_ldap: Enhanced the util_ldap cache-info display to show more
detail about the contents and current state of the cache.
[Brad Nicholes]
*) Enable the option to support anonymous shared memory in mod_ldap.
This makes the cache work on Linux again. [Graham Leggett]
*) Enable special ErrorDocument value 'default' which restores the
canned server response for the scope of the directive.
[Geoffrey Young, André Malo]
*) work around MSIE Digest auth bug - if AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack
is set in r->subprocess_env allow mismatched query strings to pass.
PR 27758. [Paul Querna, Geoffrey Young]
*) Accept URLs for the ServerAdmin directive. If the supplied
argument is not recognized as an URL, assume it's a mail address.
PR 28174. [André Malo, Paul Querna]
*) initialize server arrays prior to calling ap_setup_prelinked_modules
so that static modules can push Defines values when registering
hooks just like DSO modules can ["Philippe M. Chiasson" <gozer cpan.org>]
*) Small fix to allow reverse proxying to an ftp server. Previously
an attempt to do this would try and connect to 0.0.0.0, regardless
of the server specified. PR 24922
[Pascal Terjan <pterjan@linuxfr.org>]
*) Add the NOTICE file to the rpm spec file in compliance with the
Apache v2.0 license. [Graham Leggett]
*) RPM spec file changes: changed default dependancy to link to db4
instead of db3. Fixed complaints about unpackaged files.
[Graham Leggett]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2004-0493 (cve.mitre.org)
Close a denial of service vulnerability identified by Georgi
Guninski which could lead to memory exhaustion with certain
input data. [Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_cgi: Handle output on stderr during script execution on Unix
platforms; preventing deadlock when stderr output fills pipe buffer.
Also fixes case where stderr from nph- scripts could be lost.
PR 22030, 18348. [Joe Orton, Jeff Trawick]
directives. [André Malo]
*) mod_rewrite no longer turns forward proxy requests into reverse proxy
requests. PR 28125 [ast domdv.de, André Malo]
*) ap_set_sub_req_protocol and ap_finalize_sub_req_protocol are now
exported on Win32 and Netware as well (minor MMN bump). PR 28523.
[Edward Rudd <eddie omegaware.com>, André Malo]
*) Restore the ability to disable the use of AcceptEx on Win9x systems
automatically (broken in 2.0.49). PR 28529. [André Malo]
*) <VirtualHost myhost> now applies to all IP addresses for myhost
instead of just the first one reported by the resolver. This
corrects a regression since 1.3. [Jeff Trawick]
*) util_ldap: allow relative paths for LDAPTrustedCA to be resolved
against ServerRoot PR#26602 [Brad Nicholes]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2004-0488 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_ssl: Fix a buffer overflow in the FakeBasicAuth code for a
(trusted) client certificate subject DN which exceeds 6K in length.
[Joe Orton]
*) mod_dav_fs: Fix MKCOL response for missing parent collections, which
caused issues for the Eclipse WebDAV extension.
PR 29034. [Joe Orton]
*) mod_deflate: Fix memory consumption (which was proportional to the
response size). PR 29318. [Joe Orton]
*) mod_ssl: Log the errors returned on failure to load or initialize
a crypto accelerator engine. [Joe Orton]
[Vincent Deffontaines <vincent gryzor.com>, André Malo]
[André Malo]
*) Fix a bunch of cases where the return code of the regex compiler
was not checked properly. This affects: mod_setenvif, mod_usertrack,
mod_proxy, mod_proxy_ftp and core. PR 28218. [André Malo]
*) mod_ssl: Fix a potential segfault in the 'shmcb' session cache for
small cache sizes. PR 27751. [Geoff Thorpe <geoff geoffthorpe.net>]
*) Remove 2Gb log file size restriction on some 32-bit platforms.
PR 13511. [Joe Orton]
*) mod_logio no longer removes the EOS bucket. PR 27928.
[Bojan Smojver <bojan rexursive.com>]
*) htpasswd no longer refuses to process files that contain empty
lines. [André Malo]
*) Regression from 1.3: At startup, suexec now will be checked for
availability, the setuid bit and user root. The works only if
httpd is compiled with the shipped APR version (0.9.5).
PR 28287. [André Malo]
*) Unix MPMs: Stop dropping connections when the file descriptor
is at least FD_SETSIZE. [Jeff Trawick]
*) Fix handling of IPv6 numeric strings in mod_proxy. [Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_isapi: send_response_header() failed to copy status string's
last character. PR 20619. [Jesse Pelton <jsp pkc.com>]
*) Fix a segfault when requests for shared memory fails and returns
NULL. Fix a segfault caused by a lack of bounds checking on the
*) Throw an error message if an attempt is made to use the LDAPTrustedCA
or LDAPTrustedCAType directives in a VirtualHost. PR 26390
[Brad Nicholes]
*) Fix a potential segfault if the bind password in the LDAP cache
*) Quotes cannot be used around require group and require dn
directives, update the documentation to reflect this. Also add
quotes around the dn and group within debug messages, to make it
more obvious why authentication is failing if quotes are used in
*) The Microsoft LDAP SDK escapes filters for us, stop util_ldap
from escaping filters twice when the backslash character is used.
*) Overhaul handling of LDAP error conditions, so that the util_ldap_*
functions leave the connections in a sane state after errors have
occurred. PR 27748, 17274, 17599, 18661, 21787, 24595, 24683, 27134,
27271 [Graham Leggett]
*) mod_ldap calls ldap_simple_bind_s() to validate the user
credentials. If the bind fails, the connection is left
in an unbound state. Make sure that the ldap connection
record is updated to show that the connection is no longer
bound. [Brad Nicholes]
*) Ensure that lines in the request which are too long are
properly terminated before logging.
[Tsurutani Naoki <turutani scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]
*) Update the bind credentials for the cached LDAP connection to
reflect the last bind. This prevents util_ldap from creating
unnecessary connections rather than reusing cached connections.
[Brad Nicholes]
*) mod_isapi: GetServerVariable returned improperly terminated header
fields given "ALL_HTTP" or "ALL_RAW". PR 20656.
[Jesse Pelton <jsp pkc.com>]
*) mod_isapi: GetServerVariable("ALL_RAW") returned the wrong buffer
size. PR 20617. [Jesse Pelton <jsp pkc.com>]
*) mod_dav: Fix a problem that could cause crashes when manipulating
locks on some platforms. [Jeff Trawick]
be added. [André Malo]
circumstances. PR 28047. [André Malo]
*) htpasswd: use apr_temp_dir_get() and general cleanup
[Guenter Knauf <eflash gmx.net>, Thom May]
*) mod_ssl: Fix memory leak in session cache handling. PR 26562
[Madhusudan Mathihalli]
*) mod_ssl: Fix potential segfaults when performing SSL shutdown from
a pool cleanup. PR 27945. [Joe Orton]
*) Add forensic logging module (mod_log_forensic).
[Ben Laurie]
*) logresolve: Allow size of log line buffer to be overridden at
build time (MAXLINE). PR 27793. [Jeff Trawick]
*) Fix the comment delimiter in htdbm so that it correctly parses the
username comment. Also add a terminate function to allow NetWare
to pause the output before the screen is destroyed.
[Guenter Knauf <eflash gmx.net>, Brad Nicholes]
*) Fix crash when Apache was started with no Listen directives.
[Michael Corcoran <mcorcoran warpsolutions.com>]
*) core_output_filter: Fix bug that could result in sending
garbage over the network when module handlers construct
bucket brigades containing multiple file buckets all referencing
the same open file descriptor. [Bojan Smojver]
*) Fix memory corruption problem with ap_custom_response() function.
The core per-dir config would later point to request pool data
that would be reused for different purposes on different requests.
[Jeff Trawick, based on an old 1.3 patch submitted by Will Lowe]
*) Win32: Tweak worker thread accounting routines to eliminate
server hang when number of Listen directives in httpd.conf
is greater than or equal to the setting of ThreadsPerChild.
[Bill Stoddard]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2004-0174 (cve.mitre.org)
Fix starvation issue on listening sockets where a short-lived
connection on a rarely-accessed listening socket will cause a
child to hold the accept mutex and block out new connections until
another connection arrives on that rarely-accessed listening socket.
With Apache 2.x there is no performance concern about enabling the
logic for platforms which don't need it, so it is enabled everywhere
except for Win32. [Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_cgid: Fix storage corruption caused by use of incorrect pool.
[Jeff Trawick]
*) Win32: find_read_listeners was not correctly handling multiple
listeners on the Win32DisableAcceptEx path. [Bill Stoddard]
*) Fix bug in mod_usertrack when no CookieName is set. PR 24483.
[Manni Wood <manniwood planet-save.com>]
*) Fix some piped log problems: bogus "piped log program '(null)'
failed" messages during restart and problem with the logger
respawning again after Apache is stopped. PR 21648, PR 24805.
[Jeff Trawick]
*) Fixed file extensions for real media files and removed rpm extension
from mime.types. PR 26079. [Allan Sandfeld <kde carewolf.com>]
*) Remove compile-time length limit on request strings. Length is
now enforced solely with the LimitRequestLine config directive.
[Paul J. Reder]
*) mod_ssl: Send the Close Alert message to the peer before closing
the SSL session. PR 27428. [Madhusudan Mathihalli, Joe Orton]
*) SECURITY: CVE-2004-0113 (cve.mitre.org)
mod_ssl: Fix a memory leak in plain-HTTP-on-SSL-port handling.
PR 27106. [Joe Orton]
*) mod_ssl: Fix bug in passphrase handling which could cause spurious
failures in SSL functions later. PR 21160. [Joe Orton]
*) mod_log_config: Fix corruption of buffered logs with threaded
MPMs. PR 25520. [Jeff Trawick]
*) Fix mod_include's expression parser to recognize strings correctly
even if they start with an escaped token. [André Malo]
*) Add fatal exception hook for use by diagnostic modules. The hook
is only available if the --enable-exception-hook configure parm
is used and the EnableExceptionHook directive has been set to
"on". [Jeff Trawick]
*) Allow mod_auth_digest to work with sub-requests with different
methods than the original request. PR 25040.
[Josh Dady <jpd indecisive.com>]
*) fix "Expected </Foo>> but saw </Foo>" errors in nested,
argumentless containers.
["Philippe M. Chiasson" <gozer cpan.org>]
*) mod_auth_ldap: Fix some segfaults in the cache logic. PR 18756.
[Matthieu Estrade <apache moresecurity.org>, Brad Nicholes]
*) mod_cgid: Restart the cgid daemon if it crashes. PR 19849
[Glenn Nielsen <glenn apache.org>]
*) The whole codebase was relicensed and is now available under
the Apache License, Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses).
[Apache Software Foundation]
*) Fixed cache-removal order in mod_mem_cache.
[Jean-Jacques Clar, Cliff Woolley]
*) mod_setenvif: Fix the regex optimizer, which under circumstances
treated the supplied regex as literal string. PR 24219.
[André Malo]
instead of mmn. [André Malo]
*) mod_rewrite: Catch an edge case, where strange subsequent RewriteRules
could lead to a 400 (Bad Request) response. [André Malo]
*) Keep focus of ITERATE and ITERATE2 on the current module when
the module chooses to return DECLINE_CMD for the directive.
PR 22299. [Geoffrey Young <geoff apache.org>]
*) Add support for IMT minor-type wildcards (e.g., text/*) to
ExpiresByType. PR#7991 [Ken Coar]
*) Fix segfault in mod_mem_cache cache_insert() due to cache size
becoming negative. PR: 21285, 21287
[Bill Stoddard, Massimo Torquati, Jean-Jacques Clar]
*) core.c: If large file support is enabled, allow any file that is
greater than AP_MAX_SENDFILE to be split into multiple buckets.
This allows Apache to send files that are greater than 2gig.
Otherwise we run into 32/64 bit type mismatches in the file size.
[Brad Nicholes]
*) proxy_http fix: mod_proxy hangs when both KeepAlive and
ProxyErrorOverride are enabled, and a non-200 response without a
body is generated by the backend server. (e.g.: a client makes a
request containing the "If-Modified-Since" and "If-None-Match"
headers, to which the backend server respond with status 304.)
[Graham Wiseman <gwiseman fscinternet.com>, Richard Reiner]
*) mod_dav: Reject requests which include an unescaped fragment in the
Request-URI. PR 21779. [Amit Athavale <amit_athavale lycos.com>]
*) Build array of allowed methods with proper dimensions, fixing
possible memory corruption. [Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_ssl: Fix potential segfault on lookup of SSL_SESSION_ID.
PR 15057. [Otmar Lendl <lendl nic.at>]
*) mod_ssl: Fix streaming output from an nph- CGI script. PR 21944
[Joe Orton]
*) mod_usertrack no longer inspects the Cookie2 header for
the cookie name. PR 11475. [Chris Darrochi <chrisd pearsoncmg.com>]
*) mod_usertrack no longer overwrites other cookies.
PR 26002. [Scott Moore <apache nopdesign.com>]
*) worker MPM: fix stack overlay bug that could cause the parent
process to crash. [Jeff Trawick]
*) Win32: Add Win32DisableAcceptEx directive. This Windows
NT/2000/CP directive is useful to work around bugs in some
third party layered service providers like virus scanners,
VPN and firewall products, that do not properly handle
WinSock 2 APIs. Use this directive if your server is issuing
AcceptEx failed messages.
[Allan Edwards, Bill Rowe, Bill Stoddard, Jeff Trawick]
PR 25772. [André Malo]
*) Fix a long delay with CGI requests and keepalive connections on
AIX. [Jeff Trawick]
*) mod_autoindex: Add 'XHTML' option in order to allow switching between
HTML 3.2 and XHTML 1.0 output. PR 23747. [André Malo]
*) Add XHTML Document Type Definitions to httpd.h (minor MMN bump).
[André Malo]
*) mod_ssl: Advertise SSL library version as determined at run-time rather