Project

General

Profile

GSoC2008Ideas » History » Revision 15

Revision 14 (mike503, 2008-04-14 01:59) → Revision 15/18 (Anonymous, 2008-04-14 05:51)

= 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 == 
    * 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 restarting 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]