On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Eric Covener <covener@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Who can guess if that silly page meant either of these subtle issues > with the recipe: > > *) ".+" in .htaccess won't match a request for "/", but I doubt that's > the operative part of the exercise. > *) You Should not redirect if HTTP_HOST is empty, for HTTP/1.0 > clients, or you might loop. > > -- > Eric Covener > covener@xxxxxxxxx > Hi Eric wrt your second point, it's been my understanding that if you are using name based virtual hosting, then HTTP/1.0 clients will always be directed to the first virtual host, and so it is fine to not check for empty HTTP_HOST in name based virtual hosts, when canonicalizing the host name. Is this accurate? Cheers Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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