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https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49927

--- Comment #3 from Nick Kew <nick@webthing.com> 2010-09-18 06:38:34 EDT ---

> No, the current documentation is correct. The semantics of Limit/LimitExcept is
> just insane. We should relly get rid if it in 2.4 and improve the docs for 2.2.
> Maybe the "unprotected" should be big, red, and blinking ;-)

Agreed.  We can even document it as superseded by
<If "$request-method ...">
having of course checked the expression parser, which probably needs updating
to support things like
   "... in GET,HEAD,OPTIONS,TRACE"
without some nasty great OR expression.

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