From: "Greg Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 3:53 PM
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 11:24:20AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >...
> > bunch of code so that more people can work on it. Explain to me how it
> > makes sense to put the DocumentRoot directive in the HTTP module. I
>
> Actually, I think DocumentRoot *is* HTTP specific :-)
No, DocumentRoot is the root of the resources. It is _not_ HTTP specific.
It _is_ core_fs specific (going back to the modular filesystem debate :-)
> SMTP, POP, SNMP, and NNTP wouldn't use it. I could see FTP using it, but I
> probably would have used a different name anyway.
No. First, FTP likely needs it's own host block (servername:21). Second, you
don't want to reimplement core_fs for a half-dozen protocols like FTP and Gopher
when you still get right down to a resource.
Second, the other's you mention are _not_ resource-oriented. I'm still figuring
Apache serves resources. Those other URI's specify transients. You can't simply
nttp://server/somethingspecific and get what you want.
Long term, perhaps an entirely different core can communicate those types of
transient connections, but we have a number of resource-based protocols to
consider first.
Bill
