On Jun 6, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Andrew Piskorski wrote: > > In general, I don't think the ACS/OpenACS 4.x request processor design > was EVER carefully thought out with respect to all of AOLserver's > features and use cases.
Or, in this case, didn't understand the bug that the internal redirects on various errors like 404 didn't run the filters. Of course, in AOLserver 3.0 (underwhich the rp was first written) perhaps AOLserver did ... I admit to being somewhat astonished by the lack of orthogonality when I figured this out in the AOLserver code. It wasn't documented, and actually, rather than being an example of the rp's design not being carefully thought out in regard to AOLserver's features, I'd say that the design exposed a bug. > The OpenACS rp_* Tcl code just grabs control > from the AOLserver mechanisms. And this is just stupid. If the AOLserver paradigm is that people shouldn't write filters, it should not provide the facility to write filters. QED and all that. ---- Don Baccus http://donb.photo.net http://birdnotes.net http://openacs.org -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[email protected]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
