Hi Folks, The following question is simply to help me understand how apache is doing something. The scenario is: In our docroot, there is a file as such: /wrp/mary.html If someone types the following url into a browser: http://www.nrw.qld.gov.au/wrp/mary (**i.e. no .html extension) Then Apache can locate the page and successfully logs the entry like (note the 302 status): 123.123.123.123 - - [30/Jul/2008:09:59:01 +1000] "GET /wrp/mary HTTP/1.1" 302 218 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 ......etc This seems to also be the case for PDF's (.pdf) and PHP (.php) files. This is the question(s): As there is no extension, how can apache know what mimetype the file is and successfully respond?? Does it try all sorts of common extensions until it gets a response? Also, is there a configuration item to tweak so that unless the full (and correct) url is entered (like ../mary.html), it would return a 404 status? Cheers, Craig Craig Robinson System Administrator , Web Services Telephone: 07 3224 8877 Facsimile: 07 3227 4521 Email: craig.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.nrw.qld.gov.au Department of Natural Resources and Water 41 George Street, Brisbane Q 4000 GPO 2454, Brisbane Q 4001 ************************************************************************ The information in this email together with any attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any form of review, disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this email message is prohibited, unless as a necessary part of Departmental business. If you have received this message in error, you are asked to inform the sender as quickly as possible and delete this message and any copies of this message from your computer and/or your computer system network. ************************************************************************ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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