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2018-09-19

17:39 Lighttpd Support: RE: [Solved] lighttpd 413 - Request Entity Too Large

lighttpd 1.4.28 was released of *8 years ago*. That's really old.
@server.max-request-field-size@ - maximum size ...

03:30 Lighttpd Bug #2910 (Patch Pending): include_shell behavior change in 1.4.50

See patch at lighttpd.net git on branch personal/gstrauss/master

2018-09-18

23:08 Lighttpd Bug #2910: include_shell behavior change in 1.4.50

I am not a huge fan of inline shell scripting. include_shell should be used to run a script. Or, you could more sim...

13:23 Lighttpd Bug #2910: include_shell behavior change in 1.4.50

probably commit:a46bc4f5
first hunch is that lighttpd should wrap the command in sh -c before calling popen.

06:51 Lighttpd Support: RE: How to debug lighttpd could not be started by start-stop-daemon.

lighttpd supports doing chroot after lighttpd initial setup with @server.chroot@, if lighttpd is started as root.
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04:29 Lighttpd Bug #2909: auth.backend.ldap.starttls encrypts authenticating user password, but not auth.backend.ldap.bind-pw

Thanks for the update. I'll have to set up a test environment to reproduce this, which may take me some time with $d...

04:25 Lighttpd Feature #688 (Patch Pending): auth via pam

Thanks @akschu1. I have similar code in my tree. As you found, it is straightforward to create a simple, blocking r...

04:19 Lighttpd Bug #2907: mod_proxy delays subsequent requests up to 5 secs

Too bad that you do not have strace.
However, now that you've turned on the debug flags, look for some more messag...

2018-09-17

12:02 Lighttpd Support: RE: How to debug lighttpd could not be started by start-stop-daemon.

> Actually, the log is in /www/var/log/lighttpd-error.log
> 2018-09-09 01:48:37: (server.c.790) opening /dev/null ...

2018-09-16

09:05 Lighttpd Feature #2906 (Patch Pending): Lighttpd responds with 400 not 401

While clients should not be requesting an incorrect auth scheme, sending a 401 Unauthorized should tell the client th...