Re: Inconsistency with dhandlers

> On Mon, 10 May 2004, Jonathan Swartz wrote:
>
> > > No, I mean that if a request comes in for /docs/1.8/, then
> > > /docs/1.8/dhandler can respond. If it comes in for /docs/1.8 (note the
> > > omitted final slash), then /docs/1.8/dhandler will not respond.
> >
> > Ok, that makes sense for the default behavior of decline_dirs=>0. As you
> > say, it is backwards incompatible. So I'll schedule it for 1.3.
>
> Isn't this something the web server should be doing before the request
> ever gets to Mason?  With Apache, this should happen if mod_dir is being
> used.

Nope, Mason gets a chance to handle the directory; if it declines, Apache
transfers control to mod_dir. This is why we have to explicitly decline by
default in ApacheHandler. I don't know why this is; it might have to do with
the precedence of SetHandler over mime type. Apache handler experts, feel
free to speak up.

Jon



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