Bug 63923

On the FOSS server fossies.org I recently added a new feature "Source code misspelling reports". Animated by the bug report https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62960 I have now done such a check for the current trunk version of "httpd" (since there some spelling errors contained still in the release version are already patched):

 https://fossies.org/linux/test/httpd-trunk.tar.bz2/codespell.html

That URL hopefully redirects always to the last available report, currently to

 https://fossies.org/linux/test/httpd-trunk.191113_1757.tar.bz2/codespell.html

Since I am neither a real coder nor a native or good English speaker I have not yet created a patch file since the risk is too high that something would be wrongly corrected. But if that is really required I would do that but only for the very obvious spelling errors and typos.

The analysis, that uses as basis the command line tool "codespell" (https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell) has found still 261 occurrences of 194 different spelling error types (so most of the errors occur only once).

Maybe some are False Positives but to minimize them some matched words were for "httpd" manually excluded (see the according page
https://fossies.org/linux/test/httpd-trunk.tar.bz2/codespell_conf_info.html)

Especially also the words "depandancies" (130 matches) and "creater" (48 matches) were finally excluded to make the page clearer, but not in a first run that was done for the last httpd release 2.4.41:

 https://fossies.org/linux/www/httpd-2.4.41.tar.bz2/codespell.html

By the way, the reports show the top found spelling error types and a sortable list of all found errors together with the suggested fixes, the affected member files and the according line numbers. Clicking on a red colored spelling error in the "top" list jumps to the first match in the actual spelling error occurrence list. Clicking on a matching member file let you browse that file while jumping to the according red marked line containing the error (in some cases the matching line may lie in the neighborhood).

And a further remark: Most errors are found "only" in the documentation or in the code comments, but at least the following seven are in the code itself (but probably and hopefully they are uncritical):

 https://fossies.org/linux/test/httpd-trunk.tar.bz2/httpd-trunk/modules/dav/main/mod_dav.h?M=1324#l_1321
 "resrouce" -> "resource"

 https://fossies.org/linux/test/httpd-trunk.tar.bz2/httpd-trunk/modules/md/md_acme_order.c?M=516#l_511
 "consideres" -> "considers" or "considered"

 https://fossies.org/linux/test/httpd-trunk.tar.bz2/httpd-trunk/modules/http2/h2_session.c?M=388#l_386
 "errror" -> "error"

 https://fossies.org/linux/test/httpd-trunk.tar.bz2/httpd-trunk/server/mpm/winnt/service.c?M=1160#l_1156
 "Adminstrator" -> "Administrator" (multiple occurrences)

 https://fossies.org/linux/test/httpd-trunk.tar.bz2/httpd-trunk/docs/server-status/server-status.lua?M=682#l_681
 "avaialable" -> "available"

 https://fossies.org/linux/test/httpd-trunk.tar.bz2/httpd-trunk/modules/arch/win32/mod_isapi.c?M=181#l_179
 "concatinated" -> "concatenated"
 
 https://fossies.org/linux/test/httpd-trunk.tar.bz2/httpd-trunk/support/ab.c?M=1319#l_1317
 "Connnection" -> "Connection"

Maybe that information helps a little bit.

Jens