Bug#857327: libapache2-authenntlm-perl: does not work with Apache 2.4

[gregor herrmann]

Control: severity -1 serious

On Fri, 10 Mar 2017 15:03:02 +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> Package: libapache2-authenntlm-perl
> Version: 0.02-7+b1
> Severity: important
> 
> I've configured this module as per http://search.cpan.org/~speeves/Apache2-AuthenNTLM-0.02/AuthenNTLM.pm
> 
> However when used it emits the following errors:
> 
> [Fri Mar 10 14:46:50.659689 2017] [perl:error] [pid 15491] [client 192.168.42.2:40383] Can't locate object method "remote_addr" via package "Apache2::Connection" at /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/Apache2/AuthenNTLM.pm line 504.\n
> 
> A quick Google suggests this is because it is using Apache pre-2.4 API.
> 
> I've marked this important as the package appears to be completely unusable currently.

Thanks for this bug report.

I'm setting the severity to serious, since this seems to make the
package useless.

The same bug is filed in Ubuntu's Launchpad:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libapache2-authenntlm-perl/+bug/1408269

Also interesting:
http://blog.branix.net/snippets/can-t-locate-object-method-remote_ip-via-package-apache2-connection
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/developer/new_api_2_4.html

From reading the above URLs, it seems that
    remote_addr -> client_addr
    remote_ip -> client_ip
should do the trick.

Could you maybe try this proposed fix?
If it works, we can prepare an updated package for stretch.


Cheers,
gregor

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