Uhm, yes. Most definately object. Trying to map ever type that resolves back to, say, text/*, or text/html, would be an unnecessary pain.
I'll look at those reports though, I still have some neurons of info about how/why it was implemented; perhaps I can help on those PR tickets. After my HTTP Request proxy test cluster is done so I'm happy with our solutions to the Watchfire report. Bill At 11:33 AM 6/19/2005, Nick Kew wrote: >AddOutputFilterByType has always been problematic. I see there's another bug >report this month arising from it: > >http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33499 > >Since the purpose of this directive is now available from mod_filter, does >anyone object if I simply yank AddOutputFilterByType from 2.1? > >I've hacked a quick patch just to remove it. If people are happy with it, >I'll test it and commit, and add a note to the docs about replacing it. > >-- >Nick Kew
