Developers fix multitude of vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP Server

Re:Developers fix multitude of vulnerabilities in Apache HTT... by DonHopkins on Friday September 24, 2021 @03:15PM (#28646646)

It's called Apache HTTP server because it's A Patchy HTTP Server.

https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg06924...

>On Jul 16, 2008, Les Mikesell wrote:

>> Alexandre Oliva wrote:

>> Apache wasn't the original name.

>It was and it wasn't. It was indeed a bunch of patches on top of the (also younger) NCSA http server. That's where "a patchy http server" came from. But that was '90s already, some ten years after GNU started.

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Re:Developers fix multitude of vulnerabilities in Apache HTT... by FreezingKeeper on Friday September 24, 2021 @03:46PM (#28646954)

Every day someone is born who has never seen The Flintstones

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Re:Developers fix multitude of vulnerabilities in Apache HTT... by Thorrez on Saturday September 25, 2021 @04:25AM (#28651498)

Is this a reference to something I'm not understanding? I don't know how the Flintstones are related to Apache.

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Re:Developers fix multitude of vulnerabilities in Apache HTT... by aargh_aargh on Friday September 24, 2021 @06:49PM (#28648654)

https://xkcd.com/1053/

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Re:Developers fix multitude of vulnerabilities in Apache HTT... by RobotCaleb on Friday September 24, 2021 @03:57PM (#28647100)

Everyday someone is born who hasn't seen everything, or anything.

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