Bug 199304 – www-servers/boa: enhancement MAX_HEADER_LENGTH

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jochen Schlick 2007-11-15 22:19:39 UTC]

1) added support for dietlibc with a new use flag "diet"

2) added a patch to set the MAX_HEADER_LENGTH to 2048. The old value is 1024 which was to low for some applications like prewikka (web front end for Prelude) 


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jochen Schlick 2007-11-15 22:20:33 UTC]

Created attachment 136063 [details]
ebuild

[Comment 2 Jochen Schlick 2007-11-15 22:21:14 UTC]

Created attachment 136064 [details, diff]
MAX_HEADER_LENGTH patch

[Comment 3 Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) 2008-01-26 23:28:53 UTC]

the diet useflag was in use some years ago and will not be readded. i don't remember the exact reason for removing it, but it wont be reintroduced AFAICT.

you may however still try to use dietlibc as forced dependancy...
ie. dietlibc support without the use flag

[Comment 4 Jochen Schlick 2008-02-07 22:31:23 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> the diet useflag was in use some years ago and will not be readded. i don't
> remember the exact reason for removing it, but it wont be reintroduced AFAICT.
> 

no problem for me !  

but I think at least the  MAX_HEADER_LENGTH patch is useful.

[Comment 5 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2008-05-12 07:10:01 UTC]

Can this bug be closed then as WONTFIX or something similar?  Or are there other plans for the patch?

[Comment 6 Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) 2008-05-12 08:40:11 UTC]

> but I think at least the  MAX_HEADER_LENGTH patch is useful.

the bug is still open for the above feature request... i suppose.

[Comment 7 Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) 2008-10-05 20:44:58 UTC]

well - upstream appears pretty dead. if you can get the MAX_HEADER_LENGTH patch applied upstream, we will gladly bundle it, but with an dead upstream the burden of maintaining this extra patch is IMHO too high...
sorry.