SetFilter

[rb...@covalent.net]

SetFilter is the directive I added late Friday night and modified early
Saturday morning.  Originally it used the mime-type to setup a filter
chain.  Now, it uses a handler.  The problem with this is that 99% of the
files use the same handler, default_handler.

This needs to be based on either Mime-type or file extensions, because the
handler just isn't descriptive enough anymore.  I am setting this back to
mime-type for now, and we will deal with it after the alpha.

Ryan


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Ryan Bloom                        	rbb@apache.org
406 29th St.
San Francisco, CA 94131
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Re: SetFilter

[rb...@covalent.net]

> I figured you would realize that eventually ;-)
> 
> My complaint was that the docs were inconsistent, but you fixed the
> code instead of the docs.  I think it is a good idea to have filters
> selectable by mime type, but I think the primary way of doing it
> should be by file/location.  Judging from your ApacheToday article,
> I thought that is how it was working.

Patches coming all around.  Currently (before the SetFilter directive was
added), the way it worked was you would do:

AddOutputFitler INCLUDES

in your config file.  Generally this would go in a Directory or Files
container, so it would all just work.  People disliked that when I
committed it.  They wanted a different syntax and a different method for
assigning filters.  SetFilter was an attempt at fixing that.

> Perhaps we could have a more enlightened discussion about this if you took
> some of your copious amounts of free time and wrote a htdocs/filters.html
> which describes how you think the whole thing will work.

I'll try to get to it as soon as I roll the alpha, or over Thanksgiving,
or next week.....   :-)

Ryan

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Ryan Bloom                        	rbb@apache.org
406 29th St.
San Francisco, CA 94131
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Re: SetFilter

[Joshua Slive <sl...@finance.commerce.ubc.ca>]

On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 rbb@covalent.net wrote:

>
> SetFilter is the directive I added late Friday night and modified early
> Saturday morning.  Originally it used the mime-type to setup a filter
> chain.  Now, it uses a handler.  The problem with this is that 99% of the
> files use the same handler, default_handler.
>
> This needs to be based on either Mime-type or file extensions, because the
> handler just isn't descriptive enough anymore.  I am setting this back to
> mime-type for now, and we will deal with it after the alpha.
>

I figured you would realize that eventually ;-)

My complaint was that the docs were inconsistent, but you fixed the
code instead of the docs.  I think it is a good idea to have filters
selectable by mime type, but I think the primary way of doing it
should be by file/location.  Judging from your ApacheToday article,
I thought that is how it was working.

Perhaps we could have a more enlightened discussion about this if you took
some of your copious amounts of free time and wrote a htdocs/filters.html
which describes how you think the whole thing will work.

Joshua.