On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 5:57 AM, Stefan Fritsch <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> first of all, sorry that it took me so long to review at this.
>
> The current pre_access hook is executed before opening the htaccess
> and then can abort the request with a HTTP error code.
>
> Wouldn't a hook for opening the htaccess file make more sense because
> it would have more possible use cases? Then modules could use this
> hook to find htaccess files somewhere else, generate/extend/filter
> them on the fly, etc. For example:
>
> apr_status_t  ap_run_open_htaccess(request_rec *r, ap_configfile_t *f,
> const char **full_name, const char *dirname, const char *accessname);
>
> The hook would then build full_name (used later for error logging)
> from dirname and accessname and open it with ap_pcfg_openfile().
>
> Downside would be that the hook cannot provide an arbitrary HTTP
> status code. Only no error and FORBIDDEN. Would that be a problem?
>
> We could add an additional int *request_status parameter, too, though.
> Or put the error logging/generating of FORBIDDEN into core's
> open_htaccess hook function and make the hook return HTTP status and
> not apr_status_t.
>
> What do you think?
>

+1


>
> Cheers,
> Stefan
>



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