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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by "Roy T. Fielding" <fi...@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU> on 1996/02/06 23:05:56 UTC

multiviews and directory permissions

I'd fix this myself, but I may not find the time to look at
it before the Friday deadline.  So, in case someone is itching
to fix a bug....

We now get a lot of errors like

 [Mon Feb  5 16:49:41 1996] access to /i1/cr/uc/rkatzir/public_html/ failed for
 h36.hsis.uci.edu, reason: cannot read directory for multi

because the Multiviews feature needs read access on directories, whereas
NCSA 1.3 only needed execute access.  What the program should do in this
case is, if no read access is available on a directory, simply turn
off Multiviews for that directory and not report an error message.
What it currently does is fail completely even when the actual file
being requested (or index.html) is accessible.

......Roy