gamin should be used instead of fam; fam is no longer maintained
This patch makes it safe to build lighttpd with gamin, but run on
systems with the (deprecated) fam installed, which can happen due
to historical package dependency declarations on some platforms
(Debian, Ubuntu).
gamin and fam are not 100% binary compatible.
(Among other things, fam does not provide FAMNoExists())
x-ref:
"llibgamin vs libfam conflict solving"
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/lighttpd/-/merge_requests/18
"libgamin0: libfam shlib dependency wrongly set to libfam0"
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510368
"undefined symbol: FAMNoExists"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1453463
fix fallback if linkat() fails
check at startup if /proc/self/fd is present on systems with O_TMPFILE
(containers might not mount /proc)
x-ref:
"mod_webdav - PUT files with < 64kb Content-Length reults in zero length file"
https://redmine.lighttpd.net/boards/2/topics/9273
decode Transfer-Encoding: chunked from gw (gateway backends)
Transfer-Encoding: chunked is a hop-by-hop header.
Handling chunked encoding remove a hurdle for mod_proxy to send HTTP/1.1
requests to backends and be able to handle HTTP/1.1 responses.
Other backends ought not to send Transfer-Encoding: chunked, but in
practice, some implementations do.
Using BIO_new_mem_buf() allows lighttpd to control file reads and
securely wiping memory, avoiding the use of BIO_s_file(), which
employs stdio and BIO internal copying without securely wiping memory.
BIO_new_mem_buf() is also much more performant than BIO_s_file()
or BIO_new_fd() without a buffering BIO, which might make many
syscalls reading a single character at a time.
BIO_new_mem_buf() appears to be supported by older OpenSSL versions
as well as by numerous OpenSSL-compatible APIs, e.g. in BoringSSL,
LibreSSL, WolfSSL
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.
./configure --with-bzip2 to enable
(autoconf build previously had bzip2 enabled by default, but bzip2
already disabled by default in CMake, SCONS, and meson build configs)
use crypt() instead of crypt_r() to save stack space,
as struct crypt_data might be very large.
While crypt() is not thread-safe, lighttpd is single-threaded
Glenn Strauss
Jeff Zignego
Stefan Bühler