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- Upgrading NCSA httpd
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- httpd 1.2 -> httpd 1.3
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- httpd 1.3 is a maintenance release designed to fix some of the bugs which were
- introduced in httpd 1.2.
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- Changes from httpd 1.2
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- Now compiles cleanly under A/UX and Solaris.
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- Directory indexing bugs repaired, new options to suppress last modified, size,
- and description columns (thanks Tanmoy.)
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- Wildcard based access control should work this time.
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- Fixed core dump related to recursive parsed document include.
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- Fixed bug by which httpd would not follow a symbolic link it should have.
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- Fixed file typing (no longer case sensitive like in 1.2.)
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- Parent directory escaped in indexes.
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- IdentityCheck should work again.
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- LAST_MODIFIED and #flastmod are now local zone.
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- Time related functions work with NeXT now.
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- Fixed spelling error in 500 error page.
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- Server will log proper timeout message for non-DNS hosts.
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- Added x-bit hack for people to use the x-bit of an HTML file to determine if
- it is parsed or not.
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- Added compile defines so people can customize the amount of DNS the server
- performs (for speed).
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- httpd 1.1 -> httpd 1.2
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- httpd 1.2 makes some significant changes over httpd 1.1. These changes make its
- "look and feel" a bit different than 1.1.
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- New features
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- The CGI interface is now revised to version 1.1. See the changes that were
- made.
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- A new logfile format was agreed upon which should simplify the lives of the
- authors of logfile analyzers. Quickly, the format is:
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- host rfc931 authuser [DD/Mon/YYYY:hh:mm:ss [+/-]HHMM] "request" status bytes
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- Host = hostname
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- rfc931 = RFC931 user name if IdentityCheck active, - if not.
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- authuser = HTTP/1.0 authenticated user, - if none.
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- DD/Mon/YYY:hh:mm:ss [+/-]HHMM: Local time of the request with
- timezone offset from GMT at end.
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- "request" = the request as sent by the client
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- status = the HTTP/1.0 status code from this transaction
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- bytes = the count of the bytes sent in this transaction, not including the header.
- If not applicable, this will be a - character.
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- CGI scripts are now allowed anywhere. See this tutorial on the new setup (and
- how it relates to the old setup), and how to disable this feature in places you
- don't want it.
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- The server side includes interface has been completely rewritten. See this
- tutorial to learn how to convert your old INC SRV documents, and to learn
- how to take advantage of the new features.
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- There is a new access control option to disable symbolic links only if the
- owner of the pointer is not the same as the owner of that which is pointed to.
- This means your users can have symbolic links to things they own, but not to
- dangerous things like /etc.
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- A new access control method called mutual-failure has been added. This
- method is a bit unorthodox, but allows you to allow hosts from one domain
- while excluding certain hosts (such as public access machines) from that
- domain.
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- Wildcard expressions are now allowed in various areas of server
- configuration, to allow patterns to be specified. This is most useful in the
- Directory directive.
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- Directory indexing has been revamped. It looks much different, and I've
- written a short tutorial on how to set it up.
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- Access Control Files now allow the indexing directives as well as the
- DefaultType directive.
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- require user now allows quotes for PGP usernames with spaces.
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- Server now explicitly kills CGI scripts when the client aborts.
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- Server now verifies the DNS hostname it gets from the IP number to prevent
- PTR spoofs.
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- Support for 304 and If-modified-since.
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- Bug fixes
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- All of the known bugs in 1.1 have now been fixed. Now it's time to find the ones I
- introduce with 1.2.
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- Fixed problem running scripts in ServerMode inetd under IRIX.
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- Fixed bad port problem under OSF/1.
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- Inserted missing return statement for the IdentityCheck directive.
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- Fixed problem whereby errors would stop being logged after a restart.
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- Fixed 256 character limitation on CGI URLs.
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- httpd 1.0 -> httpd 1.1
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- httpd 1.1 should plug right in if you already have httpd 1.0.
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- Introduced experimental PEM/PGP based encrypted user authentication. See
- this overview to read about trying it out.
- Improved directory indexing. See the new directives in srm.conf to use it.
- Cleaned up error output and fixed horrible output when server-side include
- error occurred
- Fixed slight bug in buffering code
- Directory indexing for user-supported directories fixed
- Retrieval of user supported directory with no trailing slash issues redirect
- again
- Now supports RFC931 identd for logging purposes. See the IdentityCheck
- directive.
- stderr for scripts and server side includes now sent to error_log
- Fixed bug in NCSA POST script code which would cause Location: to be
- ignored for local files
- Removed misfeature wherein Location: url's were being escaped by the server
- Args to INC SRVURL escaped to avoid unpleasant surprises
- Location: /cgi-bin/foo?arg now works
- HEAD only for CGI scripts now ignores body put out by stupid scripts
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- httpd 1.0a5 -> httpd1.0
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- httpd 1.0 is fairly similar to httpd 1.0a5.
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- Changes which directly require configuration changes
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- ScriptAlias now used for CGI scripts only, access your NCSA scripts with
- OldScriptAlias
- Fixed AddType directive
- The NCSA scripts are no longer included, CGI replacements are now included
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- Other changes
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- NCSA POST scripts now have REMOTE_HOST set
- Added AddEncoding directive to srm.conf and .htaccess
- error_log now logs all failed accesses and the reason for failure
- Time headers are now RFC822 compliant
- You can now alias or disable user-supported directories
- Added a require directive to allow you to allow any valid user
- I/O is now buffered into chunks for speed
- Redirect no longer supported from .htaccess files.
- Added -v and -f command line flags
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- httpd@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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