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GSoC 2008 - Ideas

Ideas for the students for "GSoC08 for lighttpd"

Jan

  • implement bayeux (cometd protocol) as described in mod_mailbox
  • implement a scoreboard to make server.max-workers a clean approach
  • improve the lighttpd-angel to integrate nicely with supervise and runit for graceful restarts
  • for 1.5.0
    • streaming upload and chunked encoding for uploads
    • scalability testing for 1.5.x and its threaded backends on large-scale hardware

Fernando

  • restructure the virtual hosting system so it can accept different sources without need to implement different modules, by unifying mod_evhost, mod_mysql_vhost, mod_simple_vhost (and also adding LUA vhost)
  • allow LUA (through mod_magnet) to change the FastCGI backend, allowing virtual hosts to easily switch application backends
  • study, document and implement the best way for virtual hosting (using lighttpd) using only one lighttpd process but obeying the need for permissions per domain.

Kevin Worthington

  • improve (or overhaul) the documentation for building the 1.5 branch on Windows
  • continue work on the 1.5 branch to make Windows builds seamless
  • (these are just suggestions, and I am certainly not qualified to perform either of the above ideas.)

Jomu

  • Make mod_fastcgi multiplex requests over same connection, IE exploit CONN_MPX

Unassigned

  • error_log per virtual domain
  • what definitely is needed is a facility to easily load a list of ip-addresses that will be blocked - dynamically, of course, without manual restarting the server -
    to handle evil spiders, DOS etc. Every webmaster needs this.
  • (Apache .htaccess compatibility) - implement -f & -d from mod_rewrite

Updated by gstrauss about 2 years ago · 18 revisions