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17 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 3 stories, 14 comments · first 2012-09-06 · latest 2026-10-15

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  1. …https://i.sstatic.net/FRlUG.png It comes from ap_send_error_response(), near the bottom starting at https://github.com/apache/httpd/blob/b2dc966be4178ded1499d5d... Scrolling up from there a bit you can see some of the handling for…
    comment by Izkata · 2026-10-15 · in The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
  2. …=~ /(.+)/". The bug appeared to be introduced on July 7 with a backport from trunk: https://github.com/apache/httpd/blame/ed99ef021de902363c36af... It took me a second but the fix addresses the case where rc==0. If statement is less than…
    comment by firesteelrain · 2025-07-24 · in Apache HTTP Server: 'RewriteCond expr' always evaluates to true
  3. Based on https://github.com/apache/httpd/commits?author=covener , either the committer never writes tests, or this project just doesn't do testing at all. Nothing here would pass a code review at my company. Totally insane.
    comment by testplzignore · 2025-07-24 · in Apache HTTP Server: 'RewriteCond expr' always evaluates to true
  4. It seems like the bug was originally introduced here: https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/dd98030cb399e962aa605... This is seemingly a well-intentioned cleanup that misunderstood the branching logic. The original code was normalizing…
    comment by kevincox · 2025-07-24 · in Apache HTTP Server: 'RewriteCond expr' always evaluates to true
  5. …to Apache [0] which ignored DNT when the user agent was Internet Explorer 10. Full story: [1]. [0]: https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/a381ff35fa4d50a5f7b9f... [1]: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/apach...
    comment by OptionOfT · 2024-12-12 · in "Do Not Track" removed from Firefox after 13 years
  6. …up making it platform specific, so BSDs and unix like operating systems might still use SIGUSR1. https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/395896ae8d19bbea10f82...
    comment by chrsig · 2024-09-08 · in Beyond Ctrl-C: The dark corners of Unix signal handling
  7. …parts[3] of the site. I really wish I still had some of the traffic graphs. Fun times. [1] Receipt: https://github.com/apache/httpd/blob/1.3.x/src/CHANGES#L5754 [2] Receipt: https://github.com/oetiker/mrtg/blob/master/src/CHANGES#L310...…
    comment by js2 · 2022-11-19 · in Mystery Blips
  8. …a day later with no resolution in research a new patch [1] was available and problem resolved. [1] https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/8720881b0634383145e87...
    comment by iBotPeaches · 2021-09-24 · in Developers fix multitude of vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP Server
  9. …have a super simple setup of Make, config, and autoconf. Like checkout this easy-peasy Make file: https://github.com/apache/httpd/blob/trunk/Makefile.in . Even a child could understand it. Or look at Java. Who has ever seen a complicated…
    comment by jaredklewis · 2019-04-26 · in Stepping Away from Sass
  10. The world mostly does it the other way. A couple of code examples: https://github.com/apache/httpd/blob/trunk/server/provider.c https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.... Almost all documentation, references and…
    comment by sigjuice · 2017-10-21 · in Object oriented programming with ANSI-C (1993) [pdf]
  11. …profiling Apache awhile back too: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/201111.mb... https://github.com/apache/httpd/blob/trunk/server/util_time.... The internals of glibc can often be pretty surprising sometimes, I'd really…
    comment by pquerna · 2017-02-21 · in How setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls
  12. Some popular projects still have to support it: https://github.com/apache/httpd/blob/2.4.x/include/util_ebcd...
    comment by tyingq · 2017-01-27 · in Things Every Hacker Once Knew
  13. …code to ignore IE10's DNT header: http://www.cnet.com/news/apache-web-software-overrides-ie10-... https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/a381ff35fa4d50a5f7b9f... but, ironically, it was soon disabled by default:…
    comment by cpeterso · 2015-01-15 · in How Verizon and Turn Defeat Browser Privacy Protections
  14. I agree, Roy Fielding could take a leaf out of Marco's book and admit he was wrong too: https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/a381ff35fa4d50a5f7b9f... That's another example of abusing your trusted position. Just because you're having a…
    comment by teh_klev · 2012-09-11 · in 9to5