On Friday 06 October 2006 00:32, Jason Spiro wrote: > > This can be done with mod_speling or with something like > > > > RewriteRule ^(.*)[,.]$ $1 [R] > > > > though the latter will prevent you from requesting any file > > ending with period or comma. With some more refined rewrite magic > > using subrequests, you can probably avoid that. > > > > However, by default Apache should return exactly what was > > requested. Therefore I close this bug. > > Why shouldn't Apache ship with a RewriteRule to correct such a > common error by default? It's very uncommon for webmasters to post > files whose names end with a period or comma anyway.
Several reasons: - if you don't know that the rule is active, it would lead to quite unexpected and hard to debug behaviour (who knows what kind of URLs are used by some webapp...) - you don't want to have mod_rewrite active by default (there have been security issues that only affect mod_rewrite) - mod_speling does quite a bit more, so you don't want to have that active by default either Cheers, Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
