To close the loop, I made this implicit and added it to the backport proposal. I think handler strings should be safe enough.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 5:03 AM, Graham Leggett <minf...@sharp.fm> wrote: > On 18 Jan 2016, at 1:40 AM, cove...@apache.org wrote: > >> Author: covener >> Date: Sun Jan 17 23:40:09 2016 >> New Revision: 1725149 >> >> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1725149&view=rev >> Log: >> allow expressions to be used in SetHandler. Opt-in with expr= prefix. > > I am -0.9 on the opt-in with expr= syntax. > > Almost all the directives with expression support simply support expressions. > Except for the one or two that don’t, which forces our end users to either > know or constantly check the manual to work out which is which. We can’t even > cleanly detect a possible error - if the person puts in an expression by > accident where an expr= is needed there is no way the server can detect that. > This is really nasty. > > If we want opt-in expression support we need some kind of Expression +Foo > statement to control this. > > Regards, > Graham > — > -- Eric Covener cove...@gmail.com
