Apache::Dir 0.03

Hello All,

Apache::Dir is a simple and partial replacement for mod_dir. This will 
be of special interest to Mason users, since Mason doesn't currently do 
the right thing with directory requests. The documentation explains 
all:

     This simple module is designed to be a partial replacement for the
     standard Apache mod_dir module. One of the things that module does 
is
     to redirect browsers to a directory URL ending in a slash when they
     request the directory without the slash. Since mod_dir seems do its
     thing during the Apache response phase, if you use a Perl handler, 
it
     won't run. This can be problematic if the Perl handler doesn't 
likewise
     take the directory redirecting into account.

     A good example is HTML::Mason. If you've disabled Mason's 
decline_dirs
     parameter (MasonDeclineDirs 0 in httpd.conf), and there's a 
dhandler in
     the directory /foo, then for a request for /foo, /foo/dhandler will
     respond. This can wreak havoc if you use relative URLs in the 
dhandler.
     What really should happen is that a request for /foo will be 
redirected
     to /foo/ before Mason ever sees it.

     This is the problem that this module is designed to address.
     Configuration would then look something like this:

       <Location /foo>
         PerlSetVar       MasonDeclineDirs 0
         PerlModule       Apache::Dir
         PerlModule       HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
         SetHandler       perl-script
         PerlFixupHandler Apache::Dir
         PerlHandler      HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
       </Location>

     Apache::Dir can also be configured to handle the request during the
     response cycle, if you wish. Just specify it before any other Perl
     handler to have it execute first:

       <Location /foo>
         PerlSetVar  MasonDeclineDirs 0
         PerlModule  Apache::Dir
         PerlModule  HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
         SetHandler  perl-script
         PerlHandler Apache::Dir HTML::Mason::ApacheHandler
       </Location>

See this thread on mason-devel for more information:

   http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108421615500001&r=1&w=2

Enjoy,

David

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