On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Daniel <aleksandersen+apache.org@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2008-05-09 15:25 skreiv Joshua Slive: >> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Mathias wrote: >> > Are there any benefits of including Content-Length in type-maps? I do not >> > understand the need to overwrite this option when Apache is perfectly >> > capable of retrieving the information on it’s own. >> > >> > Are there performance benefits of including it? >> >> Without checking the code I'm just guessing, but it could be that the >> content-length is used as a negotiation criterion: if all else >> matches, choose the smallest representation. > > It is a negotiation criteria. I think what he is trying to ask about is: why > he should manually include it in the type-map instead of letting Apache > gather the file size automatically. Oh, I bet that apache won't bother trying to determine the content-length of all those files if you don't specify it explicitly. Too much work for too little gain. If you want that, just go with MultiViews rather than a type-map. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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