On 12/14/2012 02:52 PM, André Warnier wrote: > Or am I totally off-track here ?
I think yes, you are confused by the similarity of "finfo" and "OR_FILEINFO". The finfo part of $r is simply a data structure that represents the metadata of a file on the filesystem such as modification dates, access rights, the size and whether it is a regular file, directory, socket or something else. A standard request for a static file in Apache works as follows. In the MapToStorage phase the request URI is mapped to a file (or directory) on the filesystem (by means of DocumentRoot, Alias and the like). Then also in the MapToStorage phase Apache performs a stat(2) call on the resolved file name. The result is stored in $r->finfo. Then in the response phase the information stored in finfo is used to set up the Content-Length header as well as the cache control headers like Etag and Last-Modified. OR_FILEINFO on the other hand is simply a flag that represents the "FileInfo" flag in the "AllowOverride" directive: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#allowoverride Modperl's $r->add_config acts more or less like a .htaccess file. In this context the "SetHandler" directive needs "AllowOverride FileInfo" to be in effect. See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#sethandler Unlike a .htaccess file, $r->add_config expects the override bits as the next parameter after the list of configuration directives. So, to be able to set the handler by means of $r->add_config(['SetHandler ...']) you have to pass along a set of override bits that includes OR_FILEINFO. That means for example $r->add_config(['SetHandler ...'], OR_FILEINFO) or even $r->add_config(['SetHandler ...'], ~0) since ~0 is an integer with all bits set. I can't remember why I hinted at $r->add_config instead of $r->handler('newhandler') at the time of the first discussion. Perhaps there was a reason (like the wrong request phase), perhaps I had a blackout. I hope you understand now that "OR_FILEINFO" and "finfo" are completely unrelated things. The only thing they have in common is a certain similarity in their names. Torsten
