William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> From: "Stas Bekman" <stas@stason.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 8:39 PM
>
>
>
>>Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Greg Ames wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I just noticed that autoindex listings from apache.org no
>>>>longer display the folder icon for directories. You see
>>>>a '?' icon instead. The Rodent tells me there's some kind
>>>>of magic type that mod_autoindex uses to figure this out.
>>>>Not debugged yet.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>As an unsubstantiated WAG, I would guess that the subrequest
>>>that's sent off to determine the content-type is running
>>>afoul of mod_dir somehow, and S_ISDIR isn't set correctly
>>>when it comes back.
>>>
>>
>>BTW, since you are talkinga about mod_autoindex, I don't recall that it
>>was working this way before:
>>
>>I've uploaded a dir with files to apache.org/~stas/. as of that moment
>>apache.org was running 2.0.28. I was trying to view apache.org/~stas/,
>>all the files/dirs showed up, but not this new sub-dir. When I've tried
>>to enter the new directory manually
>>http://apache.org/~stas/modperl-site/ I've got 500 error. Looking at
>>error_log revealed that I had a broken .htaccess in that directory. I
>>don't understand why mod_autoindex won't display the directory in the
>>index's listing.
>>
>>I think it's a bug. The sub-directory can be password-protected. Does it
>>mean that mod_autoindex won't display it, since it'll fail to run the
>>sub-request?
>>
>
> By design, for better or worse [feel free to debate here.]
>
> The new logic [perhaps 1.3 as well, you would have to look] does a subrequest
> on the /~stas/ url ... and decides it's broken [or inaccessable, or whatever]
> and autoindex won't display it. What's broken about not displaying things that
> the user cannot access?
I gave an example of a password protected sub-directory. You say that
it's correct not to display it then? How do you know whether the user
cannot access this directory? May be he does have the needed access
credentials.
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