On Saturday 25 August 2001 20:06, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> From: "Joshua Slive" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 9:23 PM
>
> > Before I go back and put back all the stuff I took out of the docs on
> > mod_include handlers (;-) could you clarify this a little for me.
> >
> > 1. True/False: Using the handler is perfectly equivalent to using the
> > filter except in the case where more than one filter or handler is in use
> > or a content-type other than text/html is being filtered. The
> > server-parsed handler cannot be used when another handler is in use for
> > the same file (eg. cgi-script). As well, the server-parsed handler will
> > always run first, so if you wish the INCLUDES filter to run after another
> > filter, you should explictly specify the filter chain using SetFilter.
> > Finally, the server-parsed filter will always output HTML, whereas the
> > INCLUDES filter can process any file type and will not change the
> > content-type.
>
> Actually, they are very different. I don't know which we will endorse.
> I'd expect performance testing to answer the question...
I only added the AddType stuff back for backwards compat. The handler
doesn't actually exist. We just use the handler as a way to tell mod_include
to add the filter to the chain. If you use the handler, the INCLUDES filter
will always run immediately after the default-handler
> > 3. If you are going to add back the magic-mime-type, please let me know
> > so I don't have to re-re-revise the docs.
>
> Dunno those plans
I am likely to add it back in sometime this weekend.
Ryan
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