Stefan Sperling wrote on Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 23:42:14 +0200: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 02:30:30PM -0700, Bert Huijben wrote: > > Fnmatch support is in apr(-util?) and has known access/performance patterns, > > so we might be able to move the search handling to the server in the future > > for performance reasons. > > > > Complete regular expression support would at least require using a new third > > party library and moving it to the server is not really possible because > > complete regular expression processing can be way to expensive. > > What he said. I was about to write the same response :) > > I *did* search for regex stuff in APR and other existing dependencies > and then settled on fnmatch. httpd has a regex engine but it's not > part of APR for some reason. I wouldn't have a problem using that > in the client if it were available, but it isn't.
Ah! I was sure APR had regex support for some reason...
