Http Accept filters (accf_http)

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Wed Apr 23 15:44:06 UTC 2008


2008/4/23 Clement Laforet <sheepkiller at cultdeadsheep.org>:

>  There's not technical reason actually. It's an "opt-in" feature ;-)
>  In the early 2.2.x times, httpd used to print a warning when accf_http
>  is disabled. It was, of course, just a matter of loglevel. apache ran
>  perfectly fine, but a warning got printed. Some users started
>  complaining about how my port was broken, sometimes in very rude
>  manner.
>  So I decided to explicilty disable AcceptFilter unless
>  apache22_http_accept_enable is set to "YES" in /etc/rc.conf.

Thanks for the very good explanation :) Could you perhaps add a line
to pkg-message that points to the setting?


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