At 10:29 AM 5/29/2003, you wrote: >Looking through the bugreports and the problems we have... >internal_fast_redirect saves some CPU cycles (I guess), but it's finally >(currently) an unclean thing.
This was (in 1.3) an unclean thing in mod_negotiation. Early in 2.0, I significantly refactored it to assure we 'initialized things properly' between subrequests and fast_internal_redirects. And finally, just to ensure it was well tested, moved it into mod_dir and possibly other places. Now if we cannot maintain that code, I strongly suggest we drop that feature altogether in Apache 2.2 and revert it's use in mod_dir, and within mod_negotiation for 2.0 and 1.3.28. >IMHO we should drop and discourage the usage fast_redirects until the >concept (subreq/filters/data stream/redirects) has reached some more >maturity. Normal internal_redirects may be (a bit) slower, but they are >approved and work as expected, since they process a complete request. We must either ditch it or support it, all the way around. Bill
