On Sun, 7 May 2000, Eric Jain wrote:
> How do I suppress content negotiation headers?
Don't use mod_negotiation!
> I am using my own handler to convert XML to HTML on the fly:
>
> http://biodoc.ch/de/forum/2000/1/01.xml ->
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 20:40:52 GMT
> Server: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) (SuSE/Linux) mod_perl/1.21 mod_ssl/2.4.7
> OpenSSL/0.9.4
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: text/html
>
> Perfect, except that I would like to hide the file ending. Enter
> mod_negotiotion:
>
> http://biodoc.ch/de/forum/2000/1/01 ->
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 20:40:21 GMT
> Server: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) (SuSE/Linux) mod_perl/1.21 mod_ssl/2.4.7
> OpenSSL/0.9.4
> Content-Location: 01.xml
> Vary: negotiate
> TCN: choice
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: text/html
>
> This will obviously not be cached by any proxies :-(
>
> So how do I get rid of Content-Location, Vary and TCN?
Install a handler that sets $r->filename:
$r->filename($r->filename . '.xml') if -e ($r->filename . '.xml');
(note that AxKit can do all this for you, and comes with a FileSuffix
style chooser which does similar to what you're after).
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