From: "Gary Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 9:27 AM
> I found a bug whereby Apache 1.3.22 inconsistently handles the interaction > between aliases to non-existant paths and authentication. If the alias is > specified as an absolute path then a 401 is always served, but if the > alias is a relative path then in some cases a 404 will be served. I believe this is most definately a feature. IIRC, this prevents some phantom requests from autoindex-revealing. At least that's what I remember, could be wrong.
