At 10:59 06.05.2002 -0700, you wrote: >On Mon, 6 May 2002, Perrin Harkins wrote: > > Incidentally, that's how Vignette StoryServer works. You could also do > > this kind of thing with a transhandler (or mod_rewrite) that checks for > > the existence of a static file and rewrites the URL if it can't find > > one. That might be more "correct", but trapping 404 is the best > > possible performance, since there is no additional code in the response > > chain if the static file is there. > > > >fyi, i believe that Vignette is attempting to patent that.
Phew, and I just thought that I did not like the design. It might have good performance now, but the idea sounds valid that in an error handler performance does not matter. So if someone changes apache in that direction ... How can they patent it if there already is an article about this? Sincerely, Joachim -- "... ein Geschlecht erfinderischer Zwerge, die fuer alles gemietet werden koennen." - Bertolt Brecht - Leben des Galilei
