WWW Form Bug Report: "Problem with imap module" on Solaris 2.x (fwd)

[Rob Hartill <ro...@imdb.com>]

not acked

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From: rick@americast.com
To: apache-bugs%apache.org@organic.com
Date: Fri Aug 16 11:32:37 1996
Subject: WWW Form Bug Report: "Problem with imap module" on Solaris 2.x

Submitter: rick@americast.com
Operating system: Solaris 2.x, version: 
Version of Apache Used: 1.1.1
Extra Modules used: 
URL exhibiting problem: www.americast.com/~rick/texas.map.html

Symptoms:
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HTML files with names like texas.map.html are
being treated like imagemaps even though they end 
in .html not .map
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Backtrace:
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Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "Problem with imap module" on Solaris 2.x (fwd)

[Alexei Kosut <ak...@organic.com>]

On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, rick@americast.com wrote:

> HTML files with names like texas.map.html are
> being treated like imagemaps even though they end 
> in .html not .map

This is not a bug, it is a feature. To Apache, all filename extensions are
treated as meta-information about the file. The "map" tells Apache to
treat the file as an imagemap rule file, the "html" tells Apache to label
the document as HTML. While these specific two don't work especially well
together, there are situations where this can a very useful feature.

The solution is to rename the files, to something like texas-map.html.

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