OpenBSD crypt() does not support (insecure) crypt-des or crypt-md5
(The password used in the tests and lighttpd.htpasswd is crypt-des.
Something else could be used so that the tests can execute,
though that something might be different on different platforms.)
- rewrite fcgi-responder as standalone app
fcgi-responder is now a minimal, standalone FastCGI server for tests
- remove dependency on fcgi-devel package
- merge fcgi-auth into fcgi-responder
allow LIGHTTPD_EXE_PATH override to be able to run source tree tests/*.t
against installed executable, e.g. LIGHTTPD_EXE_PATH=/usr/sbin/lighttpd
Beware that tests might not pass or might not be supported if the target
executable is not the same version as that of the source tree
(Possible use for this override is by Debian autopkgtests)
(bug on master branch; never released)
(thx avij)
fix crash on master if blank line precedes HTTP/1.1 keep-alive request
header parsing code previously made assumptions that request was
HTTP/1.0 or HTTP/1.1, where a request-line was required, and which
would error out elsewhere if request-line was missing. The parsing
code also previously looked for "\r\n\r\n" to end headers.
The header offset parsing code was modified and invalidated the above
assumptions, now looking only for blank line "\r\n", but the calling
code had not properly been updated. (until this patch)
Location response header is permitted to use relative-path in
RFC 7231 Section 7.1.2. Location
Prefer relative path in redirection for the benefit of reverse proxies
and CDNs. Doing so also avoids potentially disclosing internal schemes
and server names which client might not be able to directly reach.
To restore prior behavior of sending a fully-qualified absolute URI:
server.feature-flags += ("absolute-dir-redirect" => "enable")
x-ref:
https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63357
translate config server.modules "mod_compress" to "mod_deflate"
accept compress.* directives, but issue DEPRECATED warning trace
mod_deflate differences from mod_compress:
- mod_compress compress.filetype was exact match; deflate.mimetypes is
prefix match (behavior change might compress longer mimetype matches,
which are likely of similar type and compressability)
- mod_compress always sent entire (compressed) file for Range request
mod_deflate will stream compress range result (not stored in cache)
- mod_compress would short-circuit request with 403 Forbidden error
if request file did not exist (stat() failed) (This behavior was
unfriendly to other handlers)
- mod_compress compress.cache-dir layout differs from deflate.cache-dir
layout; file cache should be cleared (or renamed) when migrating from
mod_compress to mod_deflate
- mod_deflate does not issue Vary: Accept-Encoding if request does not
contain Accept-Encoding. The identity response can be cache by
proxies and served to clients. Historically, some proxies disabled
caching if any Vary: response was seen. If the Vary header is
desirable, mod_deflate code which checks for Accept-Encoding and
compression type can be moved down a few lines to be below the
setting of the Vary response header.
reject whitespace following request header field-name and before colon
Such whitespace is forbidden in RFC 7230 Section 3.2.4.
strict header parsing is enabled by default in lighttpd. However,
if explicitly disabled in lighttpd.conf, lighttpd will continue to
accept (and re-format) such field-names before passing to any backend.
UNSAFE: server.http-parseopts = ( "header-strict" => "disable" )
This is NOT RECOMMENDED since doing so disables other protections
provided by lighttpd strict http header parsing.
(thx fedormixalich)
x-ref:
stricter request header parsing
https://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/2985
unit tests for request processing
collect existing request processing tests from Perl tests/*.t
(test_request.c runs *much* more quickly than Perl tests/*.t)
enable with, e.g.:
extforward.headers = ( "Forwarded" )
or
extforward.headers = ( "Forwarded", "X-Forwarded-For" )
or
extforward.headers = ( "Forwarded", "X-Forwarded-For", "Forwarded-For" )
The default remains:
extforward.headers = ( "X-Forwarded-For", "Forwarded-For" )
Support for "Forwarded" is not enabled by default since intermediate
proxies might not be aware of Forwarded, and might therefore pass
spoofed Forwarded header received from client.
extforward.params = ( # overwrite "Host" with Forwarded value
#"host" => 1
# set REMOTE_USER with Forwarded value
#"remote_user" => 1
)
Note: be cautious configuring trusted proxies if enabling these options
since Forwarded header may be spoofed and passed along indescriminantly
by proxies which do not handle Forwarded.
To remove "Forwarded" from incoming requests, do not enable these
options and instead use mod_setenv to clear the request header:
setenv.set-request-header = ( "Forwarded" => "" )
Other proxy-related headers which admin might evaluate to keep or clear:
setenv.set-request-header = ( "X-Forwarded-For" => "",
"X-Forwarded-By" => "",
"X-Forwarded-Server" => "",
"X-Origin-IP" => "",
"Via" => "",
#...
)
x-ref:
"Forwarded HTTP Extension"
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7239
"Forward authenticated user to proxied requests"
https://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/2703
new directive cgi.local-redir = [enable|disable]
*disable* RFC3875 6.2.2 local-redir by default.
(behavior change from when local-redir support added in lighttpd 1.4.40)
The reason for this behavior change is that CGI local-redir support
(RFC3875 6.2.2) is an optimization. Absence of support may result in
additional latency in servicing a request due the additional round-trip
to the client, but that was the prior behavior (before lighttpd 1.4.40)
and is the behavior of web servers which do not support CGI local-redir.
However, enabling CGI local-redir by default may result in broken links
in the case where a user config (unaware of CGI local-redir behavior)
returns HTML pages containing *relative* paths (not root-relative paths)
which are relative to the location of the local-redir target document,
and the local-redir target document is located at a different URL-path
from the original CGI request.
x-ref:
RFC3875 CGI 1.1 specification section 6.2.2 Local Redirect Response
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3875
"CGI local redirect not implemented correctly"
https://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/2108
"1.4.40 regression: broken redirect (using Location) between url.rewrite-once URLs"
https://redmine.lighttpd.net/issues/2793
