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On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 11:58:23AM -0700, David Wheeler wrote:
> 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 second this one.
I currently take this into account on a large percentage of the
dhandlers I write. I always just thought I was doing something wrong,
but could never figure it out. Sometimes I even make links to
nonexistant files when I really just want to link to the directory just
to change the way relative links work.
> 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?
David++
-Andy
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