Apache/1.3.26 + mod_perl/1.27 I've noticed that Apache alone appears to differ from one of my modules running under mod_perl in its handling of trailing slashes. I'm wondering if this is expected behavior and, if so, why? (Maybe this is obvious...)
For example: the file "news.html" exists in "/var/www/html/". I issue four requests to Apache alone, one for "/news.html", one for "/news", one for "/news/" and one for "/news.html/", and then the same four requests again, this time under mod_perl. The second time, under mod_perl, I use a basic little module that simply records the value of $r->filename to the error log and then sends the contents of the file to the browser (after opening it with Apache::File, similar to the Ch. 4 Eagle book instructions). (No directory called "/var/www/html//news" exists, nor are there any symlinks involved.) Here's a table of the results: Apache ------- /news.html /news /news/ /news.html/ 200 200 404 404 200 means success, data displayed was from "news.html". The error log showed that "/news.html/" was not found in the case of the 404s. Apache+mod_perl --------------- /news.html /news /news/ /news.html/ 200 200 200 200 200 means success, data displayed was from "news.html", error_log recorded "/var/www/html/news.html" in all cases as the value of $r->filename (thanks to my little Perl module logging this value for me). In the cases of "/news/" and "/news.html/", my relative image links broke (for hopefully obvious reasons). Is this expected behavior? Why? I would expect Apache and Apache+mod_perl to behave similarly. Am I missing something obvious? (Probably...) Thanks, Kris P.S. Just for kicks, I tried a similar set of four URLs at stonehenge.com, and they all displayed the same data (of course, I don't run that server, I just happen to read Randal Schwartz's columns...): http://www.stonehenge.com/perltraining/instructors.html http://www.stonehenge.com/perltraining/instructors http://www.stonehenge.com/perltraining/instructor/ http://www.stonehenge.com/perltraining/instructors.html/ -- kristopher nelson
