Return-Path: owner-new-httpd Received: by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.10/8.6.5) id TAA24668; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 19:20:19 -0700 Received: from get.wired.com by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.10/8.6.5) with ESMTP id TAA24661; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 19:20:16 -0700 Received: by get.wired.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) id SAA26252; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 18:19:59 -0800 Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 18:19:58 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Behlendorf To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com cc: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Subject: Re: E71 Description File Addition In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-new-httpd@hyperreal.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com On Tue, 11 Apr 1995, David Robinson wrote: > >I want to separate them from the rest of the stuff in the .htaccess file. > Actually, I've always thought that the indexing should be as separate as > possible from the other httpd functions. This is one of those creeping-featuritis-potential functions, like log file processing, that as said before are probably better handled by passing that functionality off to a script. Here's a proposal: DirectoryIndexGenerator some_script DirectoryIndexGenerator would be the program that generates the pretty HTML directory index. It's got the full suite of CGI scripts, and gets information about the directory it's in by whatever the language it's written in has for obtaining the current working directory (like CGI scripts do). By default, httpd uses the built-in generator it has now - however, both the 4DOS "descript.ion" and ALIWEB mechanisms can use this, and we could distribute those scripts in the utils/ directory. Thoughts? Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@hotwired.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.hotwired.com/Staff/brian/