On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:08:55 -0400
"Jeff Trawick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 4/5/07, Nick Kew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 10:04:19 +0100
> > Joe Orton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I agree that the intended behaviour of the original code was
> > > intuitively correct, only >= 400 errors should be overriden,
> >
> > A redirection page is likely to include a redirected URL.
> > In a reverse proxy situation, that may need to be rewritten.
> > Use of ProxyErrorOverride could be a valid alternative to
> > mod_proxy_html in that situation, couldn't it?
> >
> > Looks to me like a valid usage case for ProxyErrorOverride 3xx.
> 
> We have a couple of people trying to make their actual problem go away
> permanently by keeping up with this thread and trying to match
> developer comments with patches.

Yep.

> IMO we should go ahead and fix what is broken now, and let
> requirements for the new feature (ProxyErrorOverride nxx) present
> themselves in the fullness of time.  If somebody is relying on the
> current feature-by-defect, then we'll find out soon enough.  If there
> is never a compelling requirement, then we're left with the simpler
> code (which is already hard enough to keep working ;) ).

Fine by me.  I was ready to commit a give-the-users-the-choice patch,
then someone objected to it.  If you want to commit the no-choice
patch instead, that's OK.

Either way, it'll want an accompanying documentation patch before it
goes into a release.

-- 
Nick Kew

Application Development with Apache - the Apache Modules Book
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