Known bugs in 1.4.18

Every release has bugs and some are more visible than others.

Version specific defect reports for 1.4.18

#516
using round-robin as a balance scheme to reverse proxy to a single server doesn't seem to work
#575
high-time connections in handle-req impact fastcgi overload calculation
#841
Segmentation fault using fastcgi / php5-cgi
#892
No PATH_INFO/PATH_TRANSLATED when using FastCGI as an index generator
#911
Need for URL encoding in mod_redirect and possibly mod_rewrite
#1150
Incomplete cache files can lead to serving bad content
#1164
mod_extforward breaks (at least) URL matching
#1171
mod_compress supresses Etag and Last-Modified headers
#1200
(network_solaris_sendfilev.c.104) writev failed: Transport endpoint is not connected 894
#1229
Unable to compile on AIX 5.3 using gcc 4.1.1
#1253
underline in http address causes a 400 - Bad Request error example http://my_web.com.br
#1324
authorization blocks OPTIONS
#1347
memory leak on win32 in stream.c if CreateFileMapping() failed
#1349
gnu make broken when building outside src directory.
#1357
mod_evasive, max-conns-per-ip and max-worker
#1359
alias, auth etc are not checked for destination path for webdav operations
#1384
Supplementary groups not working
#1387
lighttpd+fastcgi memory problem
#1392
mod_rewrite vulnerability
#1393
access log pipe writer should restart child process if it exits
#1402
multiple by 8 / 10 instead of 0.8 to prevent the need for floating support
#1408
get data from proxy
#1412
mod_fastcgi or lighttpd mangling 307 replies
#1413
slight compilation problem in src/etag.c
#1416
request the uri "/personal/" but get the index.jsp's source
#1417
mod_fastcgi doesn not accept hostnames for 'host'. This is not according to Docs:ModFastCGI
#1418
posix_fadvise missfunctions
#1420
Lighttpd + mod_magnet throws default 503 page with the custom one.
#1428
spawn-fcgi should not exec /bin/sh
#1429
Sporadic crashes with 1.4.18
#1433
authorization gets activated in second request
#1434
freebsd-sendfile bring cpu 100%
#1436
when server.max-connections is hit cpu load dramatically increases
#1440
Improper ERROR code of expired urls when using mod_secdownload
#1449
"Accept-Ranges: bytes" when range-request is disabled
#1452
spawn-fcgi doesn't pass on the exit code from child's it spawns
#1456
http authorization header case problem
#1462
Disable guest postings to decrease spam
#1464
lighttpd breaks with higher traffic
#1472
wrong REQUEST_METHOD set in FastCGI
#1477
Lighttpd kills Ubuntu network install / local mirror
#1482
lighty does not appear to use server.errorfile-prefix when fastcgi returns error
#1483
magnet offset > length bug
#1487
OPTIONS should not map to GET when webdav is disabled, but rather return 501 not implemented
#1488
PHP does not use FCGI_OVERLOADED, suggest to use timeout to detect overload
#1489
mod_fastcgi "/"-prefix extension issue
#1492
mod-webdav and Vista
#1499
HTTPS env var should be "on" when using mod_extforward and the X-Forwarded-Proto header is set.
#1502
mod_setenv very broken
#1518
Problems with IPv6 address parsing
#1527
Possible Solution to "Prem. end of script headers" with PHP?
#1528
support chained proxies in mod_extforward
#1532
Lighttpd fails to start when using the same $HTTP["host"] match in an IF/ELSE form
#1539
can't capture lighttpd startup notifications output in perl script
#1540
lighttpd.conf still talks about "server.virtual-* options"
#1544
wrong password reporting NOT USEFUL without IP logging
#1547
conditional "add-environment"s overwrite each other / no inheritance
#1550
segfault
#1551
mod_accesslog does not escape quotes
#1554
lighttpd [1.4.18] RSTs TCP connections if mysql dies, and ceases to work
#1561
Kernel Panic on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE
#1562
sigsegv @ fdevent_get_handler - when congestion occurs, and file descriptor arrays is full.
#1564
auth.backend.ldap.filter not working with conditionals/not being rebuilt
#1571
Crash when trying to add single item to list in config file
#1572
users can't finish downloads of static files (in error.log: write failed: Bad address 827)
#1573
lighttpd mod proxy in front of IIS with Integrated Windows Authentication
#1574
After finding a pathinfo part in the path, the new path is not checked for symlinks
#1575
net.inet.tcp.blackhole and spawn-fcgi
#1576
Sometimes no HTTP error when file can't be opened
#1578
ldap_init implicitly converted to pointer
#1579
1.4.18 + mod_evasive + ipv6
#1585
mod_compress will append etags header even if etags is disabled
#1587
[security] when mod_userdir is loaded but not configured, the server's whole disk becomes remotely readable
#1598
bypassing htdigest authentication by adding trailing "/" to the end of the url
#1636
lighttpd-1.4.18-1 (on F-7) does not escape %% to %.
#1653
mod_alias silently drops aliases containing a ~