The status string was too long. By removing meaningless stuff, such as: runtime
version of Lua, we have reduced the length of the status string. Limitations
were also placed regarding the size of the ModSecurity version. Big queries may
lead to failure, due to restrictions of "gethostbyname". There is also a bit of
code cosmetics in this patch: big functions were broken into smaller.
In ModSecurityIIS the configuration is loaded upon the first request
is received. In other words, SecStatusEngine value can be only
loaded once the first request hit the server, and so, the status
function was moved to proceed just after the configuration got loaded.
This update is IIS only.
The Status Engine allow the measurements of how many ModSecurity
instances are running around the world, as long as information
on how many times it had been restarted and so on. Everytime that
the server is started it perform a DNS query that is redirected
to our servers, that query constains information about the
ModSecurity version and it dependencies versions. It also sends a
unique indetification generate locally for the server, avoiding
counting the same server twice while generating the statistics.
This id is a sha-1 hash of the machine name + mac address of the
first network adapter. In this commit it is enabled by default,
in the release will be a configuration option to disable this
functionality. It also important to cite that the information
gather by this query will be also available in ModSecurity website
public open via a JSON stateless API. There will be an fancy
heatmap as well.
