>Number: 2851 >Category: mod_access >Synopsis: Are "order allow,deny" and "order mutual-failure" identical? >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: open >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Fri Aug 14 04:10:01 PDT 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.3.1 >Environment: Solaris 2.5.[1] SPARC, gcc 2.7.2.1 >Description: >From their description, I understand that "order allow,deny" and "order mutual-failure" are actually identical. In both cases, access is permitted if and only if the address occurs in the access list but not in the deny list. This should be clarified in the documentation. If I am right, the separate treatment in the program code is redundant. >How-To-Repeat:
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