Synonym for XBitHack

[Andrew Ford <an...@icarus.demon.co.uk>]

How about adding a synonym for the XBitHack directive -- something
like XBitIndicatesSSI or XBitIndicatesSHTML.  It is not obvious what
XBitHack means and it has negative connotations -- I have had
occaision to explain to clients that there was nothing sinister about
the directive.

Andrew
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Re: Synonym for XBitHack

[Brian Behlendorf <br...@organic.com>]

On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Andrew Ford wrote:
> How about adding a synonym for the XBitHack directive -- something
> like XBitIndicatesSSI or XBitIndicatesSHTML.  It is not obvious what
> XBitHack means and it has negative connotations -- I have had
> occaision to explain to clients that there was nothing sinister about
> the directive.

I would like to see XBitHack (and other directives, like ScriptAlias)
deprecated, with explanations of how to accomplish its functionality in a
cleaner way.  For example, for the desired effect that "XBitHack On" would
have, I'd suggest .shtml as a filename extension and referring to files
internally minus filename extensions - that way you can rename a file from
foo.html to foo.shtml without breaking links.

	Brian

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