The following reply was made to PR documentation/948; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Alexei Kosut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sebastian Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: documentation/948: ServerPath doesn't work as excpected from the documentation. Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 11:16:33 -0700 (PDT) On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Sebastian Andersson wrote: > documentation isn't clear about this and it would be more logical to let > the server rewrite the URL from server.domain.com/serverpath/path to > newserver.domain.com/path when a ServerPath match is made. Yes, but consider redirects. If the server blindly rewrote /serverpath/path to /path, and it needed at some point down the line to send a redirect, it wouldn't have any way to know to redirect it, actually, to /servetpath/path. So the code only does the automatic munching for "core" files (DocumentRoot-based). We went through all this when the ServerPath code was originally written, and decided that this was basically the best workable solution. Thanks -- Alexei Kosut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
