On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:

> Gary Benson wrote:
> > 
> > I found a bug whereby Apache 1.3.22 inconsistently handles
> > the interaction between aliases to non-existant paths and
> > authentication. If the alias is specified as an absolute
> > path then a 401 is always served, but if the alias is a
> > relative path then in some cases a 404 will be served.
> 
> I don't recall that we ever supported, nor even suggested
> that we supported, 'relative' file paths for aliases.  To
> what would they be relative?

The docroot, I suppose. But in that case, if we don't support them then 
should we not be returning 500s instead of 401s and 404s?

Gary

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