[FASTCGI] SetHandler and AddHandler ignored

[Rob Saccoccio]

I'm afraid your barking up the wrong tree.  SetHandler/AddHandler don't set
the content-type.

Is your fastcgi application sending a content-type header?

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of David Pashley
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 3:38 AM
> To: fastcgi-developers at mailman.fastcgi.com
> Subject: [FASTCGI] SetHandler and AddHandler ignored
> 
> I've been looking at a problem I've been having with using
> FastCGIExternalServer. The problem is that it ignores SetHandler and
> AddHandler and passes everything through the fastcgi handler. I've
> tracked this down to the fixups() function in mod_fastcgi.c, which looks
> to see if the path is in one of the fastcgi handled paths and explicitly
> sets the handler to fastcgi-script. This causes a problem when using php
> in fastcgi mode, as the module forces every single request through the
> php interpreter, rather than just the php files. The result is that
> every request ends up having a content type of text/html.
> 
> The fixups() function was added some time between 22-Sep-2002 and
> 19-Oct-2002 with the change log entry of:
> 
>  *) Eliminate the need for SetHandler or AddHandler with static or
>      external applications.
> 
> The solution would be to remove the fixups function and document that if
> a users wants the old behaviour, they should add a Sethandler
> fastcgi-script option in their apache config.
> 
> I can provide a patch if needs be.
> 
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> David Pashley
> david at davidpashley.com
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