On 1 Jun 2011, at 21:04, Stefan Fritsch wrote:

>> If you want to tackle it, it would be a Good Idea to think through
>> how it interacts with a wide selection of real-life filters.  It
>> looks unduly complex to derive from FilterProvider rules + filter
>> properties, so I wonder if the least-bad solution would be yet
>> another config option?
> 
> Yes, maybe some more options for the FilterProtocol directive to add 
> to Vary or to set an env-var. But I am not going to work on this in 
> the near future, I was just wondering if I had missed something.
> 
> I have filed PR 51312 about this problem.

Do you see FilterProtocol as worth building on?

I've been looking on it as a legacy thing that should be deprecated
in favour of filters declaring themselves with 
ap_register_output_filter_protocol .
That's part of the half-baked-ness I mentioned.

I guess so long as it exists we should update both in parallel.

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