"William A. Rowe, Jr." wrote:
> 
> Better yet...
> 
> DirectoryIndex index.html
> 
> index.html.cgi
> index.html.ssi
> 
> where cgi is set via AddHandler, ssi is set via AddFilter.
> 
> That is a really good demonstration.  Neither .cgi nor .ssi offers any
> hint to mod_negotiation of what it aught to do.
> 
> The smaller file wins, whether that makes a bit of sense, or not.

A lot of these just sound like configuration errors.  I don't think we
should write a lot of code to deal with them.  If we serve an arbitrary
file, fine; if we produce an error message, also fine, as long as our
code kept simple.

Greg

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