Marc Slemko wrote:
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> The server string isn't for "webmasters to add comments about what they've
> done"! That isn't the point of it, and encouraging such things is
> foolish.
You're missing my point again. I was typing colloquially. The httpd
binary is not necessarily the entirety of a Web server - functionality
external to it may be part of what make a server what it is. If someone
has enhanced its site in some significant server-related way beyond what
httpd provides, they should be able to note that fact in the version string.
Or take another case - modules for which no source is available/provided,
and that have an effect worth mentioning. Should the Webmaster have to
wait around until the authors get around to enhancing it to use
ap_add_version_component()? If he can compile, he could hack the
SERVER_SUBVERSION string - but then that's broken if the module in
question is being dynamically loaded, and isn't at the moment. And if
he can't compile, he's out of luck altogether.
#ken P-)}
Ken Coar <http://Web.Golux.Com/coar/>
Apache Group member <http://www.apache.org/>
"Apache Server for Dummies" <http://WWW.Dummies.Com/
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