From: "Greg Ames" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 11:59 AM
> Greg Ames wrote: > > > > "William A. Rowe, Jr." wrote: > > > > > We still have no mechanism to 'quantify' the quality of one handler or > > > filter over another. Funny that > > > > > > index.html 4000 bytes > > > index.cgi 500 bytes > > > > > > will serve index.cgi, based on size, when the cpu impact of index.html is > > > _significantly_ less expensive ;) > > > > > > > I don't know what to say about this situation when the URI is "index" or > > /. My gut says this is just ambiguous and is a user error. Picking one > > based on size seems pretty arbitrary. > > Actually, for the / situation, it looks like mod_dir will pick the first > match. daedalus has "DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi" coded. It > runs a subrequest for index.html first; if that works, we redirect to > index.html and don't bother with index.cgi. Picture this instead; DirectoryIndex index That better documents the inconsistancy. Bill
