On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:23:27PM -0500, Allan Edwards wrote:
>
> Also, anyone have a good reason why we can't remove these
> lines and allow mod_cache to serve default welcome pages?
>
> /* DECLINE urls ending in / ??? EGP: why? */
> if (url[urllen-1] == '/') {
> return DECLINED;
> }
>
> AllanThis isn't really a qualified comment as I haven't really contributed as a developper (yet), but I'd still like to share it with you: I've recently adapted the cache modules of a vanilla 2.0.44 source tree in order to enable reverse proxy caching for an important but slow performance site of ours that generates mostly static content with dynamically served pages. In the course of those changes (which include RFC violations) we also stumbled across the fact that URLs ending in / are not cached. We removed the corresponding lines - the change works fine so far and we cannot see a reason why it shouldn't be done, either. Cheers - Harry
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