- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 13:10:02 +0200
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>, <public-appformats@w3.org>
On Jan 5, 2008, at 11:24, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > The only problem that has been > mentioned so far is that scripts running under Apache's mod_cgi up > until > October 2005 are not invoked on OPTIONS requests. Scripts usually do > not > run under mod_cgi for usability, performance, and security reasons, > they > run under specialized modules like mod_php. Ian's server has since > been > upgraded to an Apache version that does not have this problem, and > so'll > be many other servers by the time implementations are deployed. Hixie also said that having mod_dav loaded still makes Apache not expose OPTIONS to other modules. > The question you are asking with an access check request is "What > methods > may I use for this URL" while the processing instruction is meant to > control "Who may I share these bytes with". I agree that these are distinct questions. Moreover, I think the XML PI approach makes sense for the latter case but not the former case. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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