Re: [users@httpd] mod_autoindex and README.html gzipped

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On 6/30/06, Miguel Pagano <miguel.pagano@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 6/30/06, Joshua Slive <joshua@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There was an old vaudeville joke that went something like:
> A man walks into the doctor's office, raises his arm and says, "Doc,
> it hurts when I do this."  The doctor says, "Don't do that."
>
> Yes, there is a small bug here in the sense that Apache tries to
> prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot by only trying to
> include text/* documents but allows you to dodge that check using
> encoding and shot yourself in the foot anyway.  But that is really
> only a safety check, and the fix is either not gzip your README, or
> configure apache not to include it.  (In other words, stop trying to
> shoot yourself in the foot.)  I think it is borderline whether it is
> worth adding code to check for this special case.

Should I mark the bug I filled as resolved because it's invalid?
Thanks for the explanation (and for the joke ;)

No, you can leave it and see if anyone thinks it is worth fixing.

Joshua.

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