mathopd - what else? :)

dear folks!


i searched a lot.
the cause is simple and may seem unlogic to some people:

i try to never use a product with a _very_ wide spread.
i try to never use a product that has an overloaded feature-set.

that's why i would never use apache.
and the worm discovered a short time ago tells me i'm right.

i found mathopd.
and it is the best webserver i've ever worked with.
i just love it.
the only bad thing is that some of the best features have
to be read out of the code (safe-shutdown, rotating logfiles, ...)

i'm a coder (at least i think :)

phpstub was buggy.
i changed a few things.

now it can hang only for a defined time and then kills itself
and php (set to 5 min)
it now can never happen that phpstub uses 100% cpu (which
is what it did in some cases before the change)

i added accept-language, accept and accept-encoding to mathopd
cause i need to have this info in php, which is what i mainly build
my sites with.

i'm missing 1 feature and found 2 terrible bugs in mathopd (all versions)

feature missing:
	i'm selling webspace and so i need to be able to count not only the
	traffic of static files but also of cgi's and other external processes 
(php, ...)
	it should not be too hard to pipe the output through mathopd, is it?
	then the correct return-status (default 200 or the value php returns, if any)
	and also the byte-count of the output-data could be correctly logged.

bug:
	go to http://www.t-horner.com/secure
	user: mathopd pwd: mathopd
	notice the missing (!) trailing slash
	if it comes up (ie if using internet explorer) then re-query the page 
after login
	after removing the trailing slash
	scroll down to 'environment'
	PATH_INFO is set incorrectly, it should contain an trailing slash (BUG)

	go to http://www.t-horner.com/secure/xxx/yyy/
	which doesn't exist
	again the page (/secure/index.php) comes up although an error-404 should
	be the correct answer. (BUG)

i did some research on bug1 but i was unable to solve it because in request.c
on line 386 it seems to be added...

i have to mention that my best c days were quite some time ago.


again i have to say that i *love* mathopd and that it is in my opinion the most
powerful and fast webserver

if you need to have some directory browsing functionality, i wrote a script 
that does the
job perfect and looks like apache. i like the idea that mathopd doesn't 
show everything but
some of our customers want to get a 'normal' listing, so this script does 
good work.


regards,
	Thomas E. Horner