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authorArno Töll <debian@toell.net>2012-01-08 22:53:17 +0100
committerArno Töll <debian@toell.net>2012-01-08 22:53:17 +0100
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------------------
Details of the latest version can be found on the Apache HTTP
- server project page under <http://httpd.apache.org/>.
+ server project page under http://httpd.apache.org/.
Documentation
-------------
The documentation available as of the date of this release is
included in HTML format in the docs/manual/ directory. The most
- up-to-date documentation for the 2.2.x releases can be found at
- <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/>.
+ up-to-date documentation can be found at
+ http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/.
Installation
------------
@@ -70,11 +70,14 @@
SSL facilities.
In addition, some versions of apr-util provide an abstract interface
- for SSL encrypted network sockets in the files under the directory
- srclib/apr-util/ssl/
- that makes use of a general-purpose encryption library, such as
- OpenSSL or the operating system's platform-specific SSL facilities.
- Apache httpd currently does not use that apr-util interface.
+ for symmetrical cryptographic functions that make use of a
+ general-purpose encryption library, such as OpenSSL, NSS, or the
+ operating system's platform-specific facilities. This interface is
+ known as the apr_crypto interface, with implementation beneath the
+ /crypto directory. The apr_crypto interface is used by the
+ mod_session_crypto module available under
+ modules/session
+ for optional encryption of session information.
Some object code distributions of Apache httpd, indicated with the
word "crypto" in the package name, may include object code for the
@@ -116,25 +119,3 @@
subscribe to the `dev@httpd.apache.org' mailing list as described at
<http://httpd.apache.org/lists.html#http-dev>
- Acknowledgments
- ----------------
-
- We wish to acknowledge the following copyrighted works that
- make up portions of the Apache software:
-
- Portions of this software were developed at the National Center
- for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of
- Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
-
- This software contains code derived from the RSA Data Security
- Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm, including various
- modifications by Spyglass Inc., Carnegie Mellon University, and
- Bell Communications Research, Inc (Bellcore).
-
- Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE library package, which
- is open source software, written by Philip Hazel, and copyright by the
- University of Cambridge, England. The original software is available from
- ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/
-
- Apache 2 relies heavily on the use of autoconf and libtool to provide
- a build environment.