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Anybody know why mod_rewrite doesn't have a version # but mod_ssl does? #Apachehttpd
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@musicman I don’t know, but I could guess that #Apache #mod_ssl probably has versions because they pull in #OpenSSL, which has versioned security releases. Whenever these openssl versions become incompatible, things that hook into it, such as mod_ssl, need to release a new version that is compatible with the new one. (I guess its rival #ApacheSSL must be completely dead now.…
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mod_ssl just has the same version as #ApacheHTTPD
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in this case...
[root@ip-10-250-75-75 modules]# strings `pwd`/mod_ssl.so | grep "mod_ssl/[0-9]\.[0-9]"
mod_ssl/2.4.37
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@musicman RE: their rival #ApacheSSL, all #DDG found was a Sourceforge project for the Win32 version. Even that hasn’t seen an updated release in a decade ( last code change was 2015 ).
I do see that ApacheSSL ( like #mod_ssl ) releases a version for each #Apache version. https://sourceforge.net/projects/apachessl/files/