Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:57:45 -0700, Aaron Turner wrote:
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I believe Eric was agreeing with Tom's sentiment. Ie: If you think
this is worthwhile, please feel free to submit a patch adding this
feature.
Since I have not looked at Apache source code, for me
this would be at least several hours work, if not
several days. For someone into the source code, I
expect it to take a few minutes, to an hour or two,
depending on structure. I would hope that such a
person might submit a patch.
Some elements maybe to enlighten you, from someone who is, like you, a
grateful (?) user of Apache httpd, and not a contributor of code.
As you probably know, Apache httpd is an open source project, and also
free software. Basically it means that it is being written by people
who are not being paid for the time they spend writing it.
Considering that Apache httpd is being used succesfully on literally
hundreds of thousands of websites worldwide, one would also have to
admit that these people are competent and know what they are doing.
It also means that you get the result, a piece of software that manages
hundreds of thousands of websites worlwide and has cost thousands of
man-hours of work, entirely for free.
Apache httpd is being improved somewhat over time by people who submit
suggestions, but mainly by people who follow-up these suggestions by
contributing what is known as a "patch" (a code modification)
implementing their suggestion.
Such a suggestion, when accompanied by a patch, tends to be taken more
seriously by the Apache httpd code contributors, than a mere (relatively
gratuitious) suggestion on a user's mailing list. It is taken more
seriously, because it shows that the person who made the suggestion, at
least looked at the code, understood it to some extent, made some
change, tested it, and found it to have some benefit and no obvious
nefarious consequences.
If you are really a programmer, you will understand the world of
difference between this, and merely making a suggestion on a mailing
list, based on one particular situation, unverified and uncorroborated
by anyone else.
The way I personally understand your last paragraph above however, it
seems to imply that based on the inherent worth of your insight, you
somehow expect everyone to be in awe, and someone else to do the rest of
the work for you.
That is not how open source projects work, and certainly not Apache
httpd, where any apparently harmless change could ruin the day of 10,000
website administrators.
I am not saying that your suggestion is without merit. But although I
am a mere Apache user, knowing how central DNS is to the entire fabric
and function of the WWW, I would myself expect quite a bit more "backup"
to such a suggestion, before I even spent some time trying to figure out
what benefits it could bring, and what other consequences it might have.
Wow, if this option was set in the Apache main configuration, should it
automatically be inherited by all Virtual Hosts ? does it mean that SSL
would not work anymore ? what about "Allow from mycompany.com" ? what if
some embedded mod_perl or mod_php application tries to do a DNS lookup
via an Apache library call ?
Does the above provide some insight as to the tongue-in-cheek answers
you have been getting so far ?
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