At 04:41 AM 7/8/2003, Andr� Malo wrote: >[moved from another list] > >* William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > >> At 12:56 PM 7/7/2003, Andr� Malo wrote: >>>* Martin Kraemer wrote: >>> >>>> Is it really correct that there now is both a *.html and >>>> a *.html.<lang> copy present, or is this a bug (here perhaps, >>>> I have not looked deeper yet, or in the build)? >>> >>>That's correct. The pure *.html files contain type-maps (got a rid of >>>multiviews). >> >> NOOOO!!!! >> >> Never use foo.html as a typemap descriptor! Please use foo.html.var >> to describe the available variants. > >Why not? Extensions are totally irrelevant in HTTP universe. >We've removed multiviews for efficiency reasons. And *.html are our stable >URLs.
Because anyone that sets up the manual/ without properly configuring their .html extention to map to the typemap handler will spill out garbage on every request. Of course you can argue that languages must be set up correctly, but one of several guiding principals is that nobody must modify their httpd.conf file to grab the latest and greatest version of Apache 2.0 (this is why the auth changes are deferred until 2.0, because the list of modules to load changes significantly.) I'm very uncomfortable releasing 2.0.47 with this change. Bill
