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= GSoC 2008 - Ideas =
Ideas for the students for "GSoC08 for lighttpd"
== Jan ==
* implement bayeux (cometd protocol) as described in [http://blog.lighttpd.net/articles/2006/11/27/comet-meets-mod_mailbox 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 ==
* Better FastCGI management
* Perhaps via the angel process already being considered
* Separate daemon would be best (Lighttpd, Apache, anyone could use it)
* Needs to support alternate uid/gid (if built-in to Lighty, could use Lighty logic blocks vs. completely a separate daemon) - possibly through the lua FastCGI stuff under Fernando (but allow it to spawn adaptively still)
* My list of ideas/etc: http://mikehost.com/~mike/tmp/fastcgi.txt
* SNI support and maybe http://rfc.net/rfc2817.html
* IDN support
* 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 restartig the server -
to handle evil spiders, DOS etc. Every webmaster needs this.
* (Apache .htaccess compatibility) - implement -f & -d from mod_rewrite
* mod_wsgi - a module geared towards wsgi [http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/], ala mod_wsgi for apache [http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/] and nginx [http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxNgxWSGIModule]