Re: Docs problems?

[Randy Terbush <ra...@zyzzyva.com>]

> At 11:56 AM 8/1/97 -0500, Randy Terbush wrote:
> >I've gotten 4 such reports this morning. Does someone here know 
> >what might have changes? If not, I'll try to get some time to check 
> >this later today.
> ...
> >The link to the search page from http://www.apache.org/docs is broken.
> >It points to http://www.apache.org/manual-index/docs which the server
> >can't find.
> 
> I think there's a content-negotiation and MultiViews problem with the
> latest 1.3a2-dev.  I updated last night and started seeing some funkiness
> related to when multiviews needs to make a choice between two files to send
> out.  In this case, there is a "manual-index.cgi", a "manual-index.dat",
> and a "manual-index.dat.old".  I fixed this for now by making the call to
> "manual-index.cgi" explicit, but we should look into this.  On the other
> hand, it is really bad practice to have the data file and the CGI script
> share the same basename in the same directory, and ask the server to
> negotiate between them.  Ken, could you fix this?
> 
> 	Brian

I agree that it is bad form to name these the same. Learned that 
long ago. However, I seem to have to tell users this on a frequent 
basis, and I total understand the desire to give these the same 
basename. I wonder if we should consider some priority for 
Multiviews that would force it to look for files with extensions in 
a specific order. cgi --> shtml --> html etc.?  I think that we can 
do that with a .var, but there should probably be a default 
behavior.

Re: Docs problems?

[Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>]

Well I didn't think the code would give files with extensions that it
doesn't know about a high priority.  So the cgi should be taken ... unless
hyperreal knows about .dat.  Or unless mod_mime_magic has typed the .dat
file ... :)

Dean

On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, Randy Terbush wrote:

> > At 11:56 AM 8/1/97 -0500, Randy Terbush wrote:
> > >I've gotten 4 such reports this morning. Does someone here know 
> > >what might have changes? If not, I'll try to get some time to check 
> > >this later today.
> > ...
> > >The link to the search page from http://www.apache.org/docs is broken.
> > >It points to http://www.apache.org/manual-index/docs which the server
> > >can't find.
> > 
> > I think there's a content-negotiation and MultiViews problem with the
> > latest 1.3a2-dev.  I updated last night and started seeing some funkiness
> > related to when multiviews needs to make a choice between two files to send
> > out.  In this case, there is a "manual-index.cgi", a "manual-index.dat",
> > and a "manual-index.dat.old".  I fixed this for now by making the call to
> > "manual-index.cgi" explicit, but we should look into this.  On the other
> > hand, it is really bad practice to have the data file and the CGI script
> > share the same basename in the same directory, and ask the server to
> > negotiate between them.  Ken, could you fix this?
> > 
> > 	Brian
> 
> I agree that it is bad form to name these the same. Learned that 
> long ago. However, I seem to have to tell users this on a frequent 
> basis, and I total understand the desire to give these the same 
> basename. I wonder if we should consider some priority for 
> Multiviews that would force it to look for files with extensions in 
> a specific order. cgi --> shtml --> html etc.?  I think that we can 
> do that with a .var, but there should probably be a default 
> behavior.
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