On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Philip Prindeville <philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com> wrote: > I’ve not heard back so I’m going to go ahead and file a bug as a placekeeper.
+1 (I'm not seeing this yet.) >> On Mar 29, 2017, at 7:04 PM, Philip Prindeville >> <philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com> wrote: >> >> to allow access contingent on the presence of a flag, it should also be >> possible to do the inverse: allow access contingent on the absence of a flag: >> >> <Location /> >> Require not env is_a_bogon >> </Location> >> >> More broadly on a philosophical level, looking at Comment 3 by Daniel Gruno: >> >> https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53069#c3 >> >> He writes: >> >> “[…] I have made some changes to the access howto to emphasize that a >> negation cannot stand on its own.” >> >> Just out of curiosity, why can’t it stand on its own? >> >> I don’t see anything intrinsically wrong about gating on the _absence_ of >> _negative factors_. This is complete nonsense IMO, a basic CS 101 failure. Can any of the authors or maintainers explain?
