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List:       apache-modperl-dev
Subject:    Re: [mp2] extending Apache::RequestRec::filename to optionally set
From:       Stas Bekman <stas () stason ! org>
Date:       2004-11-24 19:24:53
Message-ID: 41A4E005.1070604 () stason ! org
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Geoffrey Young wrote:
> 
> Stas Bekman wrote:
> 
>>At the modperl list following the question documented at this entry's Note:
>>http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/Apache/RequestRec.html#C_filename_
>>
>>-----------------------------
>>Note that if you change the filename after the PerlMapToStorageHandler
>>phase was run and expect Apache to serve it, you need to update its stat
>>record, like so:
>>
>>  use Apache::RequestRec ();
>>  use APR::Finfo ();
>>  use APR::Const -compile => qw(FINFO_NORM);
>>  $r->filename($newfile);
>>  $r->finfo(APR::Finfo::stat($newfile, APR::FINFO_NORM, $r->pool));
>>
>>if you don't, Apache will still try to use the previously cached
>>information about the previously set value of the filename.
>>------------------------------
> 
> 
> you should note that "Apache" here really means "Apache's default, flat-file
> content handler" - the issue is that default_handler assumes nobody will
> play with anything, so it makes 304 decisions based on finfo and not a new
> stat of filename.

mind to commit that?

>>I've suggested that we could make an option argument to filename() that
>>will do that work automatically on behalf of users. Some folks seem to
>>like the idea. What other developers think?
> 
> 
> not surprisingly, I'm really not in favor of it :)

That's what I've expected and that's why I've forwarded it here.

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