DirectoryIndex and File Provider

[funklord]

Greetings and Salutations,

( I apologize ahead of time if this has already been beaten to death or makes 
no sense. It's late/early)

Versions:
AxKit 1.62, with apache 1.3.28 and mod_perl 1.3.28

1.62 possibly has a bug, or just my mis-understanding in Provider/AxKit.pm.  
Whenever I call http://my.website.edu/dir[/] the page just keeps looping 
until either I or the websever gives up with a resulting url that looks like:
http://my.website.edu/dir////////////// .

I tried the AxHandleDir settings but that either gave me the url above or XML 
contents but not what I was looking for which is the file set by 
"DirectoryIndex".

I downgraded to 1.6.1 with the same configuration that produces the 
"...//////..." urls in 1.6.2 and 1.6.1 works fine.

After some digging (in 1.6.2)  I found that the decline function in 
Provider/File.pm returns a redirect to the browser if the URL is a directory, 
regardless of why it was declined by AxKit.  I believe this redirect should 
only happen if AxHandleDirs is on (which would only decline it if it doesn't 
have a trailing slash).

To test my theory (after reinstalling 1.6.2) I changed the decline function 
from:

sub decline {
        my $self = shift;
        if ($self->_is_dir) {
                $self->{apache}->header_out('Location' => $self->{apache}->uri . "/");
                return 302;
        }
}

TO: 

sub decline {
        my $self = shift;
        if ($self->_is_dir) {
           if ($AxKit::Cfg->HandleDirs()) {
                $self->{apache}->header_out('Location' => $self->{apache}->uri . "/");
                return 302;
           }
        }
}


With this change AxHandleDirs works correctly both on and off, without 
producing the "..////..." urls. 

At first glance does this look like it will break anything else?  I don't 
think it will but then again, I don't know and/or understand all the inner 
workings of AxKit.

Damion

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