On Wednesday 02 January 2002 10:56, Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
> In any case, should we have FilesToForbid and FilesToNotFind? That
> way the names match the response and you can do as you like. Or we
> could have something more generic that lets you specify the status
> code and string, perhaps even multiple groups.
>
> Thoughts?

Whatever approach we go with, I agree that the name should be 
explicit.

> Additionally, I would like to deny the use of extensions for my
> site for various reasons:
>   - it's unnecessary
>   - some of my servlet code (in SitePage) parses the URL and I
> don't want to have to test the site with and without extensions
>   - if the user bookmarks such a URL, it could break later when I
> switch techniques
>
> I haven't thought about where to put that in the process.

You'd still want to make sure extensions worked for .gif, .jpeg, etc.

Apache's Rewrite directive or mod_rewrite could be used to make sure 
that extensions are left off.  Do you want 404s or graceful URL 
rewrites when the extension is given?






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