From: "Brian Pane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 4:51 PM
> The patch in question got committed a long time ago, back in version
> 1.43 of mod_mime.c. I checked the current rev in CVS, and it's still
> using the hash tables that my patch introduced.
Ahhh. I thought you offered a further patch to allow just segments of the filename
to be matched, so that index.en would match index.html.en. I must have been imagining
things :)
Bill
> William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
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> > I won't have much time until next Tuesday, but I'd be happy to review and then
> >commit the idea, based on a couple of significant restrictions;
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> >1. the order of suffixes _must_ remain constant.
> > That is, if the user asks for something.html.en, they cannot be served
> > something.en.html. If they ask for simply something, something.html, or
> > something.en, I'd be happy if we serve something.html.en or something.en.html
> > based on negotation (if they both existed, the smaller would win.)
> >
> >2. the negotation exception-list code needs to be changed to check the exceptions
> > list one segment at a time against the segments the user requested, also in the
> > same sequence. So asking for index.bak might return index.html.en.bak, or even
> > index.bak.html.en, but asking for index.html can _never_ find index.bak since
> > the .bak extension isn't recognized by mod_mime.
> >
> > So if you will fix the patch against these requirements, I'm +1, and will review
> >and commit if nobody objects, sometime early next week (cc wrowe at rowe-clan.net so
> >it ends up on my priority stack, I'll be catching up on a ton of email Monday.)
> >
> >Bill
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