>
> > It's not replaced. My personal opinion is that this is a silly module to
be
> > part of the core server distribution. It is currently broken on Windows
and
> > no one maintains it AFAIK. I would like to see it moved out of the core
server
> > and placed in modules.apache.org.
>
> So fix it on Win32. Actually, it should be _VERY_ easy once it is apr-ized.
>
> Let's look at what it does...
>
> 1. transpose upper/lower case typos
>
> * This is absolutely required as long as we encourage win32 users to
adopt
> unix systems, with all their case-broken links and the rest.
> * For this purpose, Win32 isn't even asking for this module.
This is nothing that your handy-dandy perl script can't fix. This just sounds
like a good excuse for sloppy web admin'ing to me.
>
> 2. fix up other ugly typos.
>
> * This is actually in the spirit of the rfc, "strict in the output,
leinent
> of the input."
Or saying it another way, "garbage-in, garbage-out".
> Remember that URI's are ment to be keyed from other media
> (magazines, newspapers, napkin notes, etc) and that means there is a
user
> in the way of success (EBCAD).
The module would not go away. It will just live somewhere else. Let the folks
who are interested in it maintain it. Given a bit of time, I am sure I could
contrive dozens o silly modules that try to 'do what I mean not what I asked',
which is this modules purpose in life.
Bill
