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h1. GSoC 2008 - Ideas
Ideas for the students for "GSoC08 for lighttpd"
h2. Jan
* implement bayeux (cometd protocol) as described in "mod_mailbox":http://blog.lighttpd.net/articles/2006/11/27/comet-meets-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
h2. 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.
h2. 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.)
h2. Jomu
* Make mod_fastcgi multiplex requests over same connection, IE exploit CONN_MPX
h2. 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 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