Joshua
I had not forgotten you dismissive attitude to this subject. I may
not have raised it here again except:
1 The wording of the message I replied to appeared to invite
such a reply.
2 Despite many attempts over several months I have failed to
get this facility working on the Apache supplied with, and somewhat
embedded in, my new Xserve. Apple have not yet moved to Apache 2 and
the third party module for Apache 1 is no longer being supported. I
was going to manually upgrade to Apache 2 and accept the loss of the
useful Apple interface when other work pushed this aside. Since the
release of OS X Server 10.5 is imminent I will wait and see if it
includes Apache 2.
I am afraid you are very much mistaken about how widely PAGE_COUNT
was supported not so many years ago.
I also question your implication that it would affect performance
even if not switched on. I can see no harm in providing this as part
of Apache with whatever warning you wish about performance if it is
activated.
From memory the list of default Apache environmental variables is so
short that it would do little harm for Apache to extend it to meet
the needs of customers. Many of these would have virtually no
performance implications and other could come with a warning.
From the way that you dismiss some writing to this list I am not
surprised that few have the courage to make such points.
Neville
At 11:12 -0400 26/09/2007, Joshua Slive wrote:
On 9/26/07, Neville Hillyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 03:11 -0500 26/09/2007, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
>There are ways using mod_env to provide other values you desire
>withouta blanket gap in security.
The value I "desire" is PAGE_COUNT and I would be grateful if you
could tell me how to obtain it without scripts or third party
modules. Prior to Apache's dominance this was provided as a user
option by many web servers.
Wow, you're still going on about that one.
We discussed this issue back in April. The "many web servers" that
offered this feature seems to be a set of one: Quid Pro Quo for Mac
(mid-90s, pre-OS-X). There may be others, but they don't turn up in
any basic search.
I already outlined why this kind of feature is a bad idea in the first
place. It doesn't provide useful information but has significant
performance implications for a busy server.
Finally, apache is designed as a modular and extensible server. If you
don't want to use any third-party modules or add-ons, you have only
yourself to blame for missing features.
Joshua.
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