Inconsistency with dhandlers

Fellow Masonites,

I've been working on developing an API browser for Bricolage. Check it 
out here:

   http://theory.kineticode.com/docs/1.8/

The script I've been developing uses relative links to the document 
files, and outputs a dhandler. This works great as long as you have a 
slash after 1.8, so that, for example, it would successfully resolve to 
the absolute URL /docs/1.8/Bric.html. However, if you leave out the 
slash, Mason still responds with /docs/1.8/dhandler, but the browser 
thinks that 1.8 is a file name, rather than a directory. The result is 
that the links point to /docs/Bric.html, instead. This is not useful.

What I'd like to suggest is that we add an option to Mason to prevent 
dhandlers from responding to a request if the request comes in for 
files, rather than directories. If it declines the request, I think 
that Apache would notice that 1.8 was a directory, and redirect the 
browser to /docs/1.8/.

I realize that this would not be backwards compatible, but it would be 
more consistent, I think, with how Web servers behave. That's why I 
suggest adding it as a parameter.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

David



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