William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > From: "Stas Bekman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 8:39 PM > > > >>Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: >> >> >>>Greg Ames wrote: >>> >>> >>>>I just noticed that autoindex listings from apache.org no >>>>longer display the folder icon for directories. You see >>>>a '?' icon instead. The Rodent tells me there's some kind >>>>of magic type that mod_autoindex uses to figure this out. >>>>Not debugged yet. >>>> >>>> >>>As an unsubstantiated WAG, I would guess that the subrequest >>>that's sent off to determine the content-type is running >>>afoul of mod_dir somehow, and S_ISDIR isn't set correctly >>>when it comes back. >>> >> >>BTW, since you are talkinga about mod_autoindex, I don't recall that it >>was working this way before: >> >>I've uploaded a dir with files to apache.org/~stas/. as of that moment >>apache.org was running 2.0.28. I was trying to view apache.org/~stas/, >>all the files/dirs showed up, but not this new sub-dir. When I've tried >>to enter the new directory manually >>http://apache.org/~stas/modperl-site/ I've got 500 error. Looking at >>error_log revealed that I had a broken .htaccess in that directory. I >>don't understand why mod_autoindex won't display the directory in the >>index's listing. >> >>I think it's a bug. The sub-directory can be password-protected. Does it >>mean that mod_autoindex won't display it, since it'll fail to run the >>sub-request? >> > > By design, for better or worse [feel free to debate here.] > > The new logic [perhaps 1.3 as well, you would have to look] does a subrequest > on the /~stas/ url ... and decides it's broken [or inaccessable, or whatever] > and autoindex won't display it. What's broken about not displaying things that > the user cannot access?
I gave an example of a password protected sub-directory. You say that it's correct not to display it then? How do you know whether the user cannot access this directory? May be he does have the needed access credentials. -- _____________________________________________________________________ Stas Bekman JAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide http://perl.apache.org/guide mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ticketmaster.com http://apacheweek.com http://singlesheaven.com http://perl.apache.org http://perlmonth.com/
