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http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28174 Optionally allow specifying an URL as the argument to directive ServerAdmin. Summary: Optionally allow specifying an URL as the argument to directive ServerAdmin. Product: Apache httpd-2.0 Version: 2.1-HEAD Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: Other Component: Core AssignedTo: [email protected] ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The directive 'ServerAdmin' today allows you to specify an email address whereto problems with the server should/could be emailed. This address is displayed in various places, e.g. on server generated pages, such as error documents. Considering the widely mis-use of email addresses, collected by harvesting the internet in various ways, for e.g. mass-mailing, spamming, etc, I would like to have the possibility to optionally specify an URL instead of an email address that should be displayed instead. E.g. 'https://somedomain.name/contact', instead of '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', which for example could present a mail form that the user could fill in. Thus there would be no need to expose an email address for this purpose. Of course, such an URL should ideally point to another server, because this server might present the errror response page (showing that "serveradmin" url due to not being able to process such a form. But that decision should of course be left to the administrator to decide on. I can, almost, achive this already with todays implementation (Apache 2.0.49) by specifying an URL to the 'ServerAdmin' directive, but such an URL will automatically get the 'mailto://' protocol prefix prepended, e.g. in customized error responses. Therefore I'd like to suggest the following implementation, and thereby retaining backward compatibility; whenever a URL is given as the argument to the 'ServerAdmin' directive the argument should be presented to the user as specified (or at least constitute the 'href' of a link presented to the user, i think it's someting like webmaster, or so today). If the argument is NOT an URL then it should be assumed it's an email address - just as today. In this way one is allowed to explicitly specify 'mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED]', as an alternative to the implicit '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' too (if one would prefere). This feature could help to reduce the amount of unsolicited emails sent to the otherwise exposed email address, and thereby hopefully allow the administrator(?) to focus on the important issues/emails instead of wading through all the junk. This kind of "redirection", instead of using email addrsses, is becoming more an more popular for use in SSL server certificates too. Best Regards, Rolf Sponsel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
