On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > --On Sunday, October 13, 2002 9:36 PM -0400 Joshua Slive > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One more note: I'd like to see the rename of mod_access reversed. > > That just seems like a gratuitous change that hurts users and > > doesn't really help developers. > > Could you please explain why breaking out the authorization (authz) > components in a similar fashion to authentication (authn) is a > gratuitous change?
Justin, he said the name change was gratuitous, not the change itself. > I believe mod_authz_host is a much better name for mod_access. It > indicates that this module is only dealing with authorization based on > the remote host components. mod_access can mean lots of things, but > the fact that it was solely restricted to hostnames wasn't obvious to > me from the original module name. -- justin It may not have been obvious to you, but anybody who has been using Apache for the last few years has always known this. I happen to agree, the name change does make more sense, but it wasn't necessary for the patch. Please change the name back. Ryan _______________________________________________________________________________ Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 Jean St Oakland CA 94610 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
