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Well, Paul Q is rolling the 2.3.2 alpha as I type this, I plan to tackle it tonight, does Mario or Mika wanna copy to mess with?

Sure I wanna try it out. I read the status file (http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/STATUS) and hope that it runs smooth. I couldn't view major changes to 2.2

I should have tried before I posted as it was DOA at linking libhttpd with pcre. I threw a few things at it but never had success. I think I'll take up bird watching instead  ;)

Changes with Apache 2.2.12
 
  *) mod_disk_cache: The module now turns off sendfile support if
     'EnableSendfile off' is defined globally. PR 41218.
     [Lars Eilebrecht, Issac Goldstand]

*) prefork: Fix child process hang during graceful restart/stop in
    configurations with multiple listening sockets.  PR 42829.  [Joe Orton,
    Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_ssl: Add SSLRenegBufferSize directive to allow changing the
     size of the buffer used for the request-body where necessary
     during a per-dir renegotiation.  PR 39243.  [Joe Orton]
This one affects SNI

  *) mod_rewrite: Introduce DiscardPathInfo|DPI flag to stop the troublesome
     way that per-directory rewrites append the previous notion of PATH_INFO
     to each substitution before evaluating subsequent rules.
     PR38642 [Eric Covener]

  *) mod_authnz_ldap: Reduce number of initialization debug messages and make
     information more clear. PR 46342 [Dan Poirier]

  *) mod_cache: Introduce 'no-cache' per-request environment variable
     to prevent the saving of an otherwise cacheable response.
     [Eric Covener]

  *) core: Translate the status line to ASCII on EBCDIC platforms in
     ap_send_interim_response() and for locally generated "100 Continue"
     responses.  [Eric Covener]

  *) CGI: return 504 (Gateway timeout) rather than 500 when a script
     times out before returning status line/headers.
     PR 42190 [Nick Kew]

  *) prefork: Log an error instead of segfaulting when child startup fails
     due to pollset creation failures.  PR 46467.  [Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_ext_filter: fix error handling when the filter prog fails to start,
     and introduce an onfail configuration option to abort the request
     or to remove the broken filter and continue.
     PR 41120 [Nick Kew]

  *) mod_include: support generating non-ASCII characters as entities in SSI
     PR 25202 [Nick Kew]

  *) core/utils: Enhance ap_escape_html API to support escaping non-ASCII chars
     [Nick Kew]

  *) mod_rewrite: fix "B" flag breakage by reverting r589343
     PR 45529 [Bob Ionescu <bobsiegen googlemail.com>]

  *) mod_cgid: fix segfault problem on solaris.
     PR 39332 [Masaoki Kobayashi <masaoki techfirm.co.jp>, Jeff Trawick]

  *) mod_ldap: Avoid a segfault when result->rc is checked in uldap_connection_init
     when result is NULL. This could happen if LDAP initialization failed.
     PR 45994.  [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>]

  *) Set Listen protocol to "https" if port is set to 443 and no proto is specified
     (as documented but not implemented). PR 46066  [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>]

  *) mod_cache: Correctly save Content-Encoding of cachable entity. PR 46401
     [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>]

  *) Output -M and -S dumps (modules and vhosts) to stdout instead of stderr.
     PR 42571 and PR 44266 (dup).  [Dan Poirier <poirier pobox.com>]

  *) mod_cache: When an explicit Expires or Cache-Control header is set, cache
     normally non-cacheable response statuses. PR 46346.
     [Alex Polvi <alex polvi.net>]

Changes with Apache 2.2.11

so 2.3.2 == 2.2.12 ?

no no no no .. 2.3.2 != 2.2.12

2.3.x is derived each time straight from Trunk, 2.2 has is a branch taken off trunk way back when.

You can see it broke down on the SVN
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/

You see the Trunk folder and branches, 1.3, 2.0 & 2.2 reside there.
Things however are tested in trunk, if deemed worthy or necessary, get backported to the branches from Trunk (sort-of some 2.2 and anything 2.0 usually required some manual manipulation to fit proper if the diffs are offset too much or have too much fuzz [whatever that means]).

Tom succeeded at this and has sent me his notes on building the beast. Will give it a try again this week and see how it goes.

Will that build also include the SNI patch?

SNI is in 2.3.x, it was there in 2.3.0 .. it just didn't work. I think some of the reason is I do not think SSL is finished. It seemed not finished anyway. There have been quite some changes to SNI lately all of which are in the demo I set up. It is actually 2.2.12-dev .. I just don't want "dev" in the signature so I changed it to 11+, which is still correct .... technically  ;D

Did you correct it with mod_sec or in the source?

There was a discussion in apache.dev list about incompatible browser which can't use sni. Is there a list of that browser?
I like SNI cause it safes a lot of IPs  ;) 

Do you build 2.3 with VS6 oder VS9? 

In trunk I saw mod_heartbeatmonitor which is also intressting.

Quote from: mario on April 02, 2009, 12:30:03 PM
1. Did you correct it with mod_sec or in the source?

2. There was a discussion in apache.dev list about incompatible browser which can't use sni. Is there a list of that browser?
I like SNI cause it safes a lot of IPs  ;) 

3. Do you build 2.3 with VS6 oder VS9? 

4. In trunk I saw mod_heartbeatmonitor which is also intressting.

1. Source: ap_release.h. I don't like to cheat lol

2. See "Support" at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication

3. VS6 first, always, less problems typically, but not always. If I succeed on 6 and get brave I go try on 9

4. mod_ratelimit too ... even if it does what I think it does (mod_bw), it's a definite plus. I'd like to see the features of mod_cband as well.


speaking of mod_bw .. do we have it? *scratching head*