Re: [Sks-devel] RFC: Index file search order

[John Clizbe]

Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2012-04-12 at 18:02 -0500, John Clizbe wrote:
>> Presently, I have the search order as the list:
>>     [ "index.html"; "index.htm"; "index.shtml"; "index.xhtml";
>>       "index.xhtm"; "index.xml"; ]
>>     if none of these are found "index.html" will be returned so to have a
>>     meaningful error message.
>> 
>> Does this seem reasonable?
>> Should any additions or deletions be made to the list?
> 
> "index.shtml" should probably go: that's for server-side includes, as
> processed by Apache and some other servers.  The <!--#something -->
> stuff, a bit like PHP or other inline scripting markup systems.

Easy enough. Gone.

> AFAIK, the others are all typically static content safe to be served
> as-is (even if some systems do handle transforms on .xml).
> 
> Some of those are supposed to have MIME types other than text/html.

see dbserver.ml around line 400. The .shtml line will be removed in the next 
commit.

Thanks, Phil.

-John

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