Http Accept filters (accf_http)

[Steven Hartland]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "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.

As a point of interest on a 7.0 machine I installed the other
day this didn't work as expected and apache still outputted
the warning about failing to run with the filter.

If your interested in the specific details of this Clement we
can try and reproduce if that would help?

    Regards
    Steve

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