On 9/10/05, Dave Howorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter Speltz wrote:
> > Is it me or is a CSS file a really bad here?  Am a missing something
> > about CSS?  Who views css files except developers?
> 
> If you use the standard Maypole example, then every page header has a
> link to an external CSS file that is under the Maypole base URL
> (maypole.css). So every time a browser displays a Maypole page, it
> immediately makes a second request for the CSS file, which Maypole
> processes in the same way. You can see this quite clearly if you have
> debugging on - it kind of looks like all your requests get duplicated (I
> want debugging to show me the URL! - maybe I'll add that :).
> 
> Seriously inefficient if you're running CGI :(
> 

Oh. I see. The <link> tag in the header actually starts a new apache
request. I had no idea.  I do recall seeing two requests for each one.

> I liked John's suggestion of restoring the default handler for a static
> subdirectory in httpd.conf :)

Yeah, I like that  too.


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