The following reply was made to PR general/2117; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Dean Gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David J. MacKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: general/2117: The CIDR syntax support for allow and deny finds the '/' in comments. Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 12:43:05 -0700 (PDT) On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, David J. MacKenzie wrote: > That's fine, but in that case apache should print reasonable error > messages rejecting lines with trailing comments, not do undefined > things with them (such as silently accept them in some cases and > suddenly break upon a new release :-). Checking correctness seems be > the apache approach to configuration file processing in other > respects. It actually does a well defined thing with them... it treats them all as hostnames in this case. In general there's not much we can do without overhauling the config language -- because the RAW_ARGS style of commands can do almost anything they want. There's no well defined quoting style; and inadequate centralized parsing. It's somewhat difficult to shoehorn fixes into it. A rewrite is definately in order. Dean
