Reviewing the Filtering API

2004-09-22 Thread Nick Kew
The 2.0 filter chain is a great tool: for me it's _the_ major innovation that turns httpd-2.0 from a (mere) webserver to a powerful applications platform. But extensive working with it highlights weaknesses. The introduction of AddOutputFilterByType sought to address one of the weaknesses, but

Re: Reviewing the Filtering API

2004-09-22 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Wednesday, September 22, 2004 5:13 PM +0100 Nick Kew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *** A few issues with util_filter in 2.0: ap_filter_type == Making this an enum and then using values like AP_FTYPE_[anything] + 5 (as is done in, for example, mod_ssl) makes no sense. An int with a