[dev] Automatic detection of mod_rewrite?

[Jan Schneider]

OK.
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> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>
>>>>> What do you think of doing away with the halfway PATH_INFO method, in
>>>>> any case?
>>>>
>>>> Hm, I still like it as a not-so-bad solution where PATH_INFO doesn't
>>>> work. But I don't have strong feelings for or against it.
>>>
>>> Do you mean where mod_rewrite doesn't work?
>>
>> Eh, of course.
>
> Okay, so here's my line of thinking:
>
> 1. mod_rewrite obviously gives the prettiest urls
> 2. There aren't _that_ many servers that support PATH_INFO that
> support mod_rewrite.
> 3. PATH_INFO is even disabled in some newer apache builds and distributions.
> 4. If the GET method isn't pretty, we can make it better - if
> PATH_INFO works, we can make a simple GET string work.
> 5. Maintaining more code paths than we need to is bad.
>
> Since we have to have GET as the baseline, and mod_rewrite means we
> can use the same parsing (URLs get rewritten to what we'd expect via
> GET), PATH_INFO seems expendable to me.
>
> -chuck
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Jan.

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