On 30.03.2014 22:52, Eric Covener wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Rainer Jung <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> AFAICT {
>>> In as much that it was ever useful, this breaks people relying on the
>>> "context info" for aliasmatches structured the way this code was
>>> originally biased to expecting:
>>>
>>> AliasMatch ^(/foo/bar/)(.*) /var/www/baz/$1
>>>
>>> IMO might be best to just never set context info here, or not set it
>>> when the first capture is not starting at offset 0.
>>> }
>> What would have been the expected prefix value in this case?
>
> Sorry, got myself mixed up with regm[0], it's the entire match not a capture.
>
> Once you have a trailing wildcard like that, this code will think the
> entire request path was the prefix.
Still I don't understand what a correct "prefix" would be. I don't get
the idea behind the prefix.
>> What in the AliasMatch / /some/thing case?
>
> For "AliasMatch / /some/thing", a prefix of "/" makes sense but
> nothing will ever be meaningful for the context document root.
>
> Is there any AliasMatch that does produce a meaningul prefix and
> context document root? It makes sense that it could never know.
So you suggest to remove ap_set_context_info() from the AliasMatch handling?
Regards,
Rainer
