On 25 Sep 2009, at 06:32, [email protected] wrote:
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47447
--- Comment #2 from Will Rowe <[email protected]> 2009-09-24
22:32:34 PDT ---
Here's my problem with the RequestHeader hacks. They are hacks.
We have a whole registration system to provide additional providers
to %*
log formats, and no way to then expose those to other modules
providing
%escape features like RequestHeader. I had a solution for X-FF
based on
picking one of these up, and lo and behold, there is no API in
mod_log_config
to recover all the useful extensions added to logging.
The right way to fix this is to move the %escape registration from the
mod_log_config to the core, and let every module who wants to call
out to
a new provider in the core which collects all available features.
1st reaction to that: sounds like a very similar exercise to moving
ap_expr
into core. The log format stuff might be a good fit there too?
2nd reaction: ap_expr remains work-in-progress, and isn't always simple
to retrofit (big examples where it has yet to be done are mod_rewrite
and
mod_ssl). Is this stuff going to be a simpler exercise?
--
Nick Kew
