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List:       apache-modperl
Subject:    Re: [Question] Handler executing twice!?!
From:       Vince Veselosky <vince () control-escape ! com>
Date:       2003-03-31 15:54:35
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AHA! That's the culprit! mod_dir implements this at the fix-up stage to 
allow the directive in .htaccess files, hence my confusion. Thank you 
Stas! It all makes sense now.

-Vince

Stas Bekman wrote:

> Vince Veselosky wrote:
> [...]
>
>> The thing that triggered it was the fact that the url was an 
>> "index.pl" file. When called as "example.com/index.pl", everything 
>> worked as expected, but when called as "example.com/", apache (or 
>> something) generated a subrequest for index.pl.
>>
>> NOW my question is, why does apache generate the subrequest *after* 
>> the HeaderParser phase, causing it to execute twice? This seems like 
>> a pure URI translation issue, and I would expect it to happen in the 
>> URI translation phase, *before* the HeaderParser executes at all. I'm 
>> wondering if this happens in all requests, or if it is related to 
>> Apache::Registry in the content handler. I didn't take the time to 
>> track down exactly where the subrequest originates, so I'm not sure 
>> if it is a mod_perl issue or just an apache issue. I might one day 
>> build some test cases and figure it out, but not soon. Anyone have 
>> some insight to add?
>
>
> Do you have mod_dir (DirectoryIndex) configured? It performs a 
> rewrite/sub_request-redirect in the fixup stage.
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_dir.html
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