* Fix the security vulnerability noted in CAN-2002-0061 (mitre.org) regarding the escaping of command line args on Win32. * Prevent invalid client hostnames from appearing in the log file.
New features
The main new features in 1.3.24 (compared to 1.3.23) are:
* Various mod_proxy improvements, such as the new ProxyIOBufferSize directive. * The new ''IgnoreCase' keyword to the IndexOptions directive.
New features that relate to specific platforms:
* Added the module mod_log_nw to handle log rotation under NetWare.
Bugs fixed
The following bugs were found in Apache 1.3.23 (or earlier) and have been fixed in Apache 1.3.24:
* mod_rewrite's 'rnd' was broken and has been fixed. * The '-S' option of 'apxs' was not able to handle quotes; also 'apxs' is now rebuilt when options are changed. * proxy now correctly handles Cookies and X-Cache headers.
The following bugs relate to specific platforms:
* Fixed a problem in TPF when we were using the wrong subpool when opening the error log. * pthread accept() mutexes on Solaris were broken (since we were not linking against pthread)