From 43b381f561323d22008483f3ed114be976144c04 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Justin Erenkrantz Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:44:35 +0000 Subject: Some thoughts on file-agnostic Apache. (more thoughts later...) git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@97045 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- ROADMAP | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'ROADMAP') diff --git a/ROADMAP b/ROADMAP index b6c3f0f1eb..3dcf784229 100644 --- a/ROADMAP +++ b/ROADMAP @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ APACHE 2.x ROADMAP: -Last modified at [$Date: 2002/10/01 15:26:20 $] +Last modified at [$Date: 2002/10/01 15:44:35 $] DEFERRRED FOR APACHE 2.1 @@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ MAKING APACHE REPOSITORY-AGNOSTIC Need to preserve a 'filename'-like string for mime-by-name sorts of operations. But this only needs to be the name itself and not a full path. + + Justin: Can we leverage the path info, or do we not trust the user? * The translate_name hook goes away @@ -174,3 +176,14 @@ MAKING APACHE REPOSITORY-AGNOSTIC need to be converted to use these mechanisms so that their functions will work on logical repositories rather than just filesystems. + + * How do we handle CGI scripts? Especially when the resource may + not be backed by a file? Ideally, we should be able to come up + with some mechanism to allow CGIs to work in a + repository-independent manner. + + - Writing the virtual data as a file and then executing it? + - Can a shell be executed in a streamy manner? (Portably?) + - Have an 'execute_resource' hook/func that allows the + repository to choose its manner - be it exec() or whatever. + - Won't this approach lead to duplication of code? Helper fns? -- cgit v1.2.3