This is one of those 'light bulb comes on' posts. The mod_mime bug of not correctly handling unknown file name extensions essentially renders all the negotiable variants equivalent! mod_negotiation does the right thing and serves up the smallest of the equivalent variants!
Bill > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 11:02:46AM -0700, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 12:01:54PM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > > > IMHO, if we have unpredictable behavior due to directory -contents-, > > > then mod_negotiation is broken. > > There was nothing unpredictable about it before. > > > +1 (me too). > > > > Although I have no clue what the proper solution to this, I'm kind > > of sure that if we are choosing based off file size, that is wrong. > > There is no correlation between file size and actual content size > > (think of a php-file versus a static file). The only thing I could > > think of is a preference directive like so: > > The original purpose of content negotiation was to select the highest > quality and smallest transfer size image that a browser supports for > an in-line image. Size does matter. > > > Prefer html shtml php jsp cgi > > We don't need another config directive. All of these used to be special > mime types, but somebody decided it was better to define them as handlers. > Well, all we have to do then is add them to the mime type table (or as > a separate table) and score them higher in negotiation. > > ....Roy >
