This patch removes the processing of `mxb' parameters in Accept
headers in mod_negotiation. A second patch updates the manual to reflect this (mxb is not documented directly in the manual but support for it is implied in one place). Reasons for removing this feature: 1) As currently implemented, the 'mxb' feature makes possible certain denial-of-service attacks on negotiated content. These attacks are posssible for user communities which access an Apache server from behind a HTTP/1.1 proxy which implements `Vary' related optimisations. Plugging this denial of service hole without removing `mxb' is fairly expensive in terms of degrading caching efficiency. 2) `mxb' is not in HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1 or any other standard 3) Nobody seems to make use of 'mxb'. (Balachander Krishnamurthy kindly offered to grep some of his web traffic traces -- he did not find a single Accept with mxb in a whole day of recent traffic, nor in older traces) 4) Removing a feature makes a nice change from adding features. Submitted by: Koen Holtman <Koen.Holtman@cern.ch> git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@83288 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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