On Jan 5, 2008, at 11:24, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
The only problem that has been
mentioned so far is that scripts running under Apache's mod_cgi up
until
October 2005 are not invoked on OPTIONS requests. Scripts usually do
not
run under mod_cgi for usability, performance, and security reasons,
they
run under specialized modules like mod_php. Ian's server has since
been
upgraded to an Apache version that does not have this problem, and
so'll
be many other servers by the time implementations are deployed.
Hixie also said that having mod_dav loaded still makes Apache not
expose OPTIONS to other modules.
The question you are asking with an access check request is "What
methods
may I use for this URL" while the processing instruction is meant to
control "Who may I share these bytes with".
I agree that these are distinct questions. Moreover, I think the XML
PI approach makes sense for the latter case but not the former case.
--
Henri Sivonen
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http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
