At 12:17 PM 2/5/2004, Joshua Slive wrote: >> I do, however, agree that doing a directory-walk on virtual resources is >> not nice. But my opinion is that "virtualness" is a property of the >> resource, and hence should be designated when selecting the resource. >> That is why I suggested changing SetHandler rather than <Location>. > >And perhaps I'm going way off in left field here, but why should this be >user-configurable at all? Shouldn't the (for example) server-status >handler know itself that it is a virtual handler, and therefore indicate >that the directory-walk should be skipped?
For example, yes. But on the other hand, what prevents someone from removing the server-status handler in the fixups phase and tricking us into serving a file. I'd like to see the default handler entirely detached from the request if the dir_walk code has been bypassed. Bill
