Sorry for joining the discussion so lately. This issue was raised several times in this list.
It was voted off in all of them, because of several reasons, one of them was not mentioned this time: Apache's strongest marketing point has been always its dominance among the web servers. With about 70% in all of the market researches, from netcraft.co.uk to securityspace.com, Apache became the first option for almost everybody. It's sure that the "Off" option will hurt the statistics of Apache. Many of us will love to see this option going away, because everybody can do it very easily through the source code, as "Yahoo!" and others already did. But if this option is a so strong dream for somebody, the minimum that can be done to help a little, is a strong recommendation against using this option, in the documentation. My English is not great, so I leave the exact words for somebody else, but this recommendation should say that using the Off option is not social, pays bad for the great efforts that Apache's developers put into this project, and should be used only in closed networks or if there is no other choice. Something like "use it only if you know what you are doing". After all, people don't pay anything for the great efforts of the Apache's developers, and crediting Apache is the only nominal "thank" that they can do. Of course, the statistics of Apache is going to suffer even with this warning, but without it - it is going to be even worse. I also think that adding this option requires a new license (2.1?) stating that "You" must mention Apache in this HTTP header, so technically it will be possible to use Off, but not according to the license. -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-5237338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel
