APACHE 2.0 STATUS:						-*-text-*-

Last modified at [$Date: 2001/10/06 00:48:03 $]

Last modified at [$Date: 2001/10/09 03:11:08 $]

Release:

RELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:

    * Revert to a 1.3 behavior and allow a non-file request to travel

      through the request cycle.  If any request gets to the core handler,

      without a flag that this r->filename was tested by dir/file_walk,

      then we 500 at the very end of the request cycle.  This provides

    * Handler and Filter filetypes in mod_mime now trigger mod_negotiation 

      recognition of files, but no mechanism exists to prioritize which of

      several mod_negotation files aught to be served by handler or filter.

      There needs to be a mechanism, or the change to reenable this match

      behavior must be reverted [OtherBill's veto of 1.3 behavior].

    * If any request gets to the core handler, without a flag that this 

      r->filename was tested by dir/file_walk, we need to 500 at the very 

      end of the ap_process_request_internal() processing.  This provides

      authors of older modules better compatibility, while still improving

      the security and robustness of 2.0.  This does not remove the new

      map_to_storage hook itself, but makes it optional for some cases.

      the security and robustness of 2.0. 

        Status: still need to decide where this goes, OtherBill comments...

        Message-ID: <065701c14526$495203b0$96c0b0d0@roweclan.net>

        we need to look at halting this in the 'default handler' case,

        MsgId: <20010227104646.E2297@lyra.org>

        MsgId: <3A9C0097.9C83F07C@Golux.Com>

    * mod_negotiation will not serve a request when an early extention

      is understood, but a later extention is not.  e.g. if the request

      index.html.bak is recieved, and negotition could find the file

      index.html.bak.en, it still won't be served because the 

      ap-mime-exception-list will contain "index" and "bak", and the

      string "index.bak" doesn't match "index.html.bak".  Need to

      review the ap-mime-exception-list component by component to be

      allow these cases.  [This could be part of a patch to allow the

      name index.bak in the case above to match index.html.bak.en]

    * mod_negotiation needs a new option or directive, something like

      ForceLanguagePriority, to fall back to the LanguagePriority

      directive instead of returning a "no acceptable variant" error.

      - thoughts on filter modes:

          Message-ID: <021b01c14dee$09782af0$93c0b0d0@roweclan.net>

    * Fold mod_auth_db features back into mod_auth_dbm, and depricate it.

        This can't wait until we have a 2.0-gold release, if folks need

        to move over to auth_dbm, we can't do that to them after 2.0 gold.

RELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:

    * Allow the DocumentRoot directive within <Location > scopes?  This

      allows the beloved (crusty) Alias /foo/ /somepath/foo/ followed

      by a <Directory /somepath/foo> to become simply 

      <Location /foo/> DocumentRoot /somefile/foo (IMHO a bit more legible

      and in-your-face.)  This proposed change would not depricate Alias.

      and in-your-face.)  DocumentRoot unset would be accepted [and would

      not permit content to be served, only virtual resources such as

      server-info or server-status.

        This proposed change would _not_ depricate Alias.

    * add mod_gz to httpd-2.0 (in modules/experimental/)

      +1: Greg, Justin, ben, Ken, Jeff, Bill

    * Win32: Rotatelogs sometimes is not terminated when Apache

      goes down hard.  FirstBill was looking at possibly tracking the 

      child's-child processes in the parent process.

        OtherBill asks, wasn't this fixed?

    * Win32: Add a simple hold console open patch (wait for close or

        the ESC key, with a nice message) if the server died a bad 

      optimization working in threaded.  prefork's new design for how

      to notice data on the pod should be sufficient.

    * mod_tls is very specific to OpenSSL. Make the API calls

      more generic to support other encryption libraries.

    * Performance & Debug: Eliminate most (and perhaps all) of the 

      malloc/free calls in the bucket brigade code.  Need some 

      light weight memory management functions that allow freeing 

        necessarily the library that Apache was built with.  Aught to

        rewrite dbmmanage upon installation to bin/ with the proper library 

        for predictable mod_auth_db/dbm administration.

        Status: Mladen Turk has posted several patches and ideas.

                Key question, part of htpasswd, or a seperate utility?

                prefer htpasswd:

                prefer seperate: OtherBill

    * use apu_dbm in mod_auth_dbm

        Status: Greg +1 (low-priority volunteer)

                    builds/machines, etc.  The use-multiple database schema

                    for apr-util would let us do this with just apr, though."

    * Fold mod_auth_db features back into mod_auth_dbm, and depricate it.

    * Integrate mod_dav.

        Some additional items remaining:

	- case_preserved_filename stuff

Open issues:

   * What do we do about mod_proxy?

   * Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?