Changes Made During the 1.5 Beta Test

Fixes for 1.5 Beta 7

• typo: strncat for strncpy in DOCUMENT_URI setting for SSI
• various domain restriction bugs
• DNSMode support
• DNSMode Minimum should now do the DNS lookup for authentication if necessary
• RESOURCE_LIMIT compile time option makes MaxServers the hard limit for number of servers to run.
• fix imagemap for full urls
• fix referer logging in error_log
• fix SSI file closing
• fixed LOCAL hack to check if remote_host is NULL
• setrlimit (NOFILES) to try and raise the number of file descriptors allowed as high as possible.
• Added patch by Stuart Lynne (sl@wimsey.com) to make proc title a tachometer
• Possible fixes for loop errors and spontaneous 403 errors

Fixes for 1.5 Beta 6

• Added SERVER_ADMIN CGI Variable per requests
• Added LOCAL hack to allow matching in domain restriction of all local hostnames (Maurizio Codogno (mau@beatles.cselt.stet.it))
• Added support for HTTP/1.1 Host: header for virtual host support
• Various includes file and portability fixes
• Fixed weird special case of domain restriction failure from access.conf in conjunction with having .htaccess files
• Fixed new VirtualHost ErrorDocument support so as not to cause SIGSEGV
• Moved RefererIgnore matching to log_transaction() to allow HTTP/1.1 host support to work
• Changed debugging dump (SIGUSR1)
• Typo in ErrorDocument settings
• Added Optional and Required parameters to VirtualHost configuration tag to allow for a single host configuration failure not to bring down all of them
• Added patch by Elf Sternberg (elf@aaden.spry.com) to allow configuring of process titles in SETPROCTITLE
• Change LogType to LogOptions and added a new option (ServerName) which will log the servername of the request to the access_log
• Added CoreDirectory directive to tell HTTPd where to dump core

Fixes for 1.5 Beta 5

• Added support for Combined LogType (CLF with referer and useragent)
• Added check at launch to attempt to keep people from leaving a security hole open by leaving the log file directory writeable by the wrong people
• Added support for internal imagemap support
• Added support for VirtualHost level ErrorDocuments
• Added date stamp to UserAgent and RefererLogs to allow for easier correlation
• Added file descriptor wrappers for directories and DBM files
• Fix SSI bug where index filename not added to DOCUMENT_URI
• Don't pass PATH_INFO information to index files unless specifically refered to (ie, do in case of /index.cgi/wow, but not in /wow)
• Add "fix" by Sun for better performance under Solaris
• Change children proctitle to "idle"
• Removed getdomainname patch, its not portable and not the right thing to do
• changed atoi() in uname2id() and gname2id() to scan_long. If the atoi failed, it would return 0, causing the server to run as root

Fixes for 1.5 Beta 4

• Fixed typo in FD_LINUX support
• Fixed support for NeXT platform
• order of operations wrong on restart
• Now pass environment to CGI script from SSI
• Fix Alias/ScriptAlias/Redirects for VirtualHost
• Fix if all of POST data read on first pass, don't try to read more as seen through CERN proxy
• Work around for systems which don't support numeric IP addresses passed to gethostbyname()
• Added log_reason for non-exec CGI
• Pass reqInfo to init_header_vars() in local redirects from cgi scripts
• use unbuffered i/o for file writes to fix fwrite bug on AIX 3.2.5 for PowerPC
• fix write loop for send_script() for CGI scripts
• use stat inplace of lstat to fix IfSymLinkOwner bug if link to link to file
• should now recognize and use numeric IP on systems with older versions of bind which don't support a numeric IP to gethostbyname()
• Fix SSI, flastmod wasn't working
• freeing ENV array at the wrong time, esp. in SSI
• Fix refererignore again
• Ultrix not brain dead since 4.4, so put #define in old hack for determining which version of ultrix you are compiling on
• possible help for get_local_host() on some systems which didn't work before
• HEAD_GETPASS for ultrix in support directory

Fixes for 1.5 Beta 3

• Fixes to various scripts for cleaner compiles
• Added KeepAlive directives to example httpd.conf
• Fixed Makefile support for SVR4, added ConvexOS, QNX, ATTSVR3 from 1.4.2
• Cleaned up header include directives for portability
• Added file descriptor wrapper to prevent leaks
• Cleaned up exec code, so forked child always dies even if exec() fails in a funny way (should make sure no children of children get left around)
• file descriptor leak if CGI script returns Location header closed
• attempt to keep environment and authorization between multiple requests like for internal redirects and on ErrorDocument
• Added NIS_SUPPORT patch by Kevin Ruddy
• Fixed Multiple referer ignore
• fixed an off by one error in environment handling (env.c). Probable cause of coredumps on Solaris machines, possibly others.
• Now allow DocumentRoot in httpd.conf file (for VirtualHosts)
• Added support for Linux file descriptor passing /proc hack
• Cleaned up File Not Found error message (per HyperNews suggestion)
• Allow restart when relative path used with -f on command line Vince Tkac (tkac@oclc.org)
• Cleaned up Restart code ( kill -HUP ). Should now work on all systems regardless of optimization
• Cleaned up sockaddr usage
• Moved socket initialiazation to its own function
• Now log start command to error_log
• Improved usage function (for -v command line)
• Made sigjmp_buf default define for JMP_BUF (missed from 1.4.2)
• Fixed getline()

Changes between 1.5 Beta 1 and 1.5 Beta 2

• To fix AddType .cgi completely, now has a single virtual path for any method to a "standard document" and checks just before sending if the method is valid for the document type.
• General code reorganization, including renaming of scripts to cgi and removing all method specific files, and creating an http_send for the new general case
• Moved all non-security compile time options to config.h
• Support for profiling the code added
• A/UX, SVR4, SCO3 support updated
• New type of process title changing subroutine added, and made a compile time option
• Collapsed number of malloc()'s for performance
• DBM support now properly #define'd
• Duh, always initialize url/args/filename
• fixed multihome support to allow more than 2 entries
• fixed access control
• log missing user attempt - Gioacchino La Vecchia (gio@di.unipi.it)
• explicitly allow or disallow certain server configuration directives in virtual hosts
• strip ending / on document root at configuration time
• stat filesystem for .htaccess files instead of checking failure of fopen() for speed improvement
• change order of mime initialization to get actual location of file first
• missing LF in redirect message from die()
• actually log the error message if using an error document for 500 errors
• close more file descriptors on errors
• make separate content_type variables for type as sent and type of reply
• allow Connection header to be made into a CGI variable
• fix signal handling during CGI
• Only shutdown(sd,0) to disallow receives not sends and receives This fix was for OSF/1 2.0, but may fix AIX problems of garbling ends of images
• attempt to lessen the number of fflush()'s called during a transaction
• move local variables that might be clobbered by setjmp/longjmp
• call tzset on all systems
• log errno on some errors
• log which URL is being aborted or timing out
• Keberos fixes
• Multiple referer ignore added
• Probably some we've missed

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Last Modified 10-06-95