This fixes the patch for nginx to clear the Last-Modified header if a
static file is served from the Nix store.
So far we only used the ETag from the store path, but if the
Last-Modified header is always set to "Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:01 GMT",
Firefox and Chrome/Chromium seem to ignore the ETag and simply use the
cached content instead of revalidating.
Alongside the fix, this also adds a dedicated NixOS VM test, which uses
WebDriver and Firefox to check whether the content is actually served
from the browser's cache and to have a more real-world test case.
* structured config for main config file allows to launch nagios in
debug mode without having to write the whole config file by hand
* build time syntax check
* all options have types, one more example
* I find it misleading that the main nagios config file is linked in
/etc but that if you change the link in /etc/ and restart nagios, it
has no effect. Have nagios use /etc/nagios.cfg
* fix paths in example nagios config files, which allows to reuse it:
services.nagios.objectDefs =
(map (x: "${pkgs.nagios}/etc/objects/${x}.cfg")
[ "templates" "timeperiods" "commands" ]) ++ [ ./main.cfg ]
* for the above reason, add mailutils to default plugins
Co-Authored-By: Aaron Andersen <aaron@fosslib.net>
This is what I've suspected a while ago[1]:
> Heads-up everyone: After testing this in a few production instances,
> it seems that some browsers still get cache hits for new store paths
> (and changed contents) for some reason. I highly suspect that it might
> be due to the last-modified header (as mentioned in [2]).
>
> Going to test this with last-modified disabled for a little while and
> if this is the case I think we should improve that patch by disabling
> last-modified if serving from a store path.
Much earlier[2] when I reviewed the patch, I wrote this:
> Other than that, it looks good to me.
>
> However, I'm not sure what we should do with Last-Modified header.
> From RFC 2616, section 13.3.4:
>
> - If both an entity tag and a Last-Modified value have been
> provided by the origin server, SHOULD use both validators in
> cache-conditional requests. This allows both HTTP/1.0 and
> HTTP/1.1 caches to respond appropriately.
>
> I'm a bit nervous about the SHOULD here, as user agents in the wild
> could possibly just use Last-Modified and use the cached content
> instead.
Unfortunately, I didn't pursue this any further back then because
@pbogdan noted[3] the following:
> Hmm, could they (assuming they are conforming):
>
> * If an entity tag has been provided by the origin server, MUST
> use that entity tag in any cache-conditional request (using If-
> Match or If-None-Match).
Since running with this patch in some deployments, I found that both
Firefox and Chrome/Chromium do NOT re-validate against the ETag if the
Last-Modified header is still the same.
So I wrote a small NixOS VM test with Geckodriver to have a test case
which is closer to the real world and I indeed was able to reproduce
this.
Whether this is actually a bug in Chrome or Firefox is an entirely
different issue and even IF it is the fault of the browsers and it is
fixed at some point, we'd still need to handle this for older browser
versions.
Apart from clearing the header, I also recreated the patch by using a
plain "git diff" with a small description on top. This should make it
easier for future authors to work on that patch.
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/48337#issuecomment-495072764
[2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/48337#issuecomment-451644084
[3]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/48337#issuecomment-451646135
Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@nix.build>
Tests currently fail like this:
```
/nix/store/yslk7x7iw3hka6d33kmnba9sxaia4492-python3.7-mautrix-0.4.0/lib/python3.7/site-packages/mautrix/util/manhole.py:9: in <module>
from socket import SOL_SOCKET, SO_PEERCRED
E ImportError: cannot import name 'SO_PEERCRED' from 'socket' (/nix/store/81qani7sdir46gjwf3a3jr2cv1aggkz1-python3-3.7.5/lib/python3.7/socket.py)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Interrupted: 1 errors during collection !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
=============================== 1 error in 1.73s ===============================
```
Those values don't seem to be available on the MacOS-version of that
module. As there's no workaround implemented in the source, I assume
that upstream doesn't intend to support darwin-alike platforms atm.
Idea shamelessly stolen from 4e60b0efae.
I realized that I don't really know anymore where I'm listed as maintainer and what
I'm actually (co)-maintaining which means that I can't proactively take
care of packages I officially maintain.
As I don't have the time, energy and motivation to take care of stuff I
was interested in 1 or 2 years ago (or packaged for someone else in the
past), I decided that I make this explicit by removing myself from several
packages and adding myself in some other stuff I'm now interested in.
I've seen it several times now that people remove themselves from a
package without removing the package if it's unmaintained after that
which is why I figured that it's fine in my case as the affected pkgs
are rather low-prio and were pretty easy to maintain.
highlight's Perl bindings are currently disabled on Darwin, but I
didn't make the dependency here conditional so that if that is ever
fixed, this function won't need to be updated. p-i is smart enough to
disable the test for highlight if it can't find the Perl module.
