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From: "Joshua Slive" <joshua@slive.ca>
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Subject: RE: cvs commit: httpd-2.0 STATUS
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:10:42 -0400
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: William A. Rowe, Jr. [mailto:wrowe@covalent.net]
> Let me make this _perfectly_clear_, the only reason .asis worked
> before is that
> _every_ filename extension worked before.  .bak, .old, didn't
> matter.  Everything
> was served, and many users (>100) complained that there was some
> 'bug' in their
> apache installation.  You may call that a misconfiguration, but
> our users disagree.
>

Out of curiosity mostly, can you tell me where that user data comes from?
If you are talking about the problem with the "it worked" page in recent
versions,  I don't see that as directly related to the problem we are
discussing.  Selecting a "non-negotiable" variant when "negotiable" variants
are available was obviously wrong.  But selecting a "non-negotiable" variant
when nothing else is available seems sensible.

I think it is great that you have done all this work to clean up the
negotiation issues.  Things seem to be in MUCH better shape now.  What is
left is a relatively minor issue about a feature of multiviews that,
admittedly, has nothing to do with negotiation.  If you want to add a
directive to turn on or off this part of multiviews, that is fine with me.
But I see no good reason to get rid of this feature entirely.

Joshua.