Return-Path: Delivered-To: apache-bugdb-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 18767 invoked by uid 6000); 23 Sep 1998 16:10:09 -0000 Received: (qmail 18551 invoked by uid 2001); 23 Sep 1998 16:10:00 -0000 Date: 23 Sep 1998 16:10:00 -0000 Message-ID: <19980923161000.18549.qmail@hyperreal.org> To: apache-bugdb@apache.org Cc: apache-bugdb@apache.org, From: Marc Slemko Subject: Re: config/3033: module execution order Reply-To: Marc Slemko Sender: apache-bugdb-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR config/3033; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Marc Slemko To: Randy Jae Weinstein Cc: apbugs@apache.org Subject: Re: config/3033: module execution order Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:05:58 -0700 (PDT) On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Randy Jae Weinstein wrote: > > information. If someone restricts access to an area, they > > have restricted access to the area. You have to access that > > area to get "information" (in this case, a redirect), so > > you require auth. > > > However, if redirect is carried out first, then the user may not even be > in the authentication realm! Even if redirect is executed first, the > authentication information would _still_ be carried out and one would not > sacrifice any restricted information. Erm... no. You are missing the point. The redirect itself could be the restricted information. > > > As for executing things "in the order they appear in htaccess > > files", this makes no sense and is completely unsupportable. > > It may sound nice, but if you actually think about how it would > > work it would be very ugly. > > > this would be the best of both worlds, solving both problems. True it > might get ugly under the current way apache is done, but maybe for 2.0 it > wouldn't be. Atleast suspend the report so the idea isn't lost? No, it just doesn't make sense period. You can't just execute modules in some arbitrary order that you try to make up bsaed on the order in the htaccess file. That would be a horrible nightmare to maintain or debug. It really doesn't do anything to have a bunch of suspended PRs around that aren't going to get addressed because they don't make sense...