* Cliff Woolley wrote:
So why is this same general behavior unconditional in httpd 1.3 but non-existant in 2.0 and requires a "virtual" flag on 2.1? Andre? Thoughts? The "virtual" thing was your doing...
see STATUS file. It's already voted for backport, just didn't make it yet...
The reason for the virtual flag is that it should be a user decision whether the httpd should generate the 404 (with errordocument and all) or not. IMHO the unconditional behaviour in 1.3 was a mistake (made in version 1.3.10). 2.x was forked in 1.3.9 :-)
I agree. Action was designed to enable processing files via CGI scripts, not to handle arbitrary URLs.
Ryan's example (and most others that want this behavior) would be more cleanly handled with a simple
ScriptAlias /foo /full/path/to/cgi-bin/printenv
Joshua.
