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[Ryan Boren]

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 16:15 -0700, Steve Ivy wrote:
> I second this - mod_rewrite is very powerful, but should not be 
> *required*.

It's not.  PATH_INFO is supported as well.  Actually, I prefer that
people use PATH_INFO because it eliminates support questions
about .htaccess and such.  Perhaps options-permalink should
emphasize /index.php/archives/... style permalinks.

>  One question - if we do start eating the whole URI, does 
> mod_rewrite not get a shot at it? I've got custom rules that are 
> handling uris from my old CMS and redirecting them to the current WP 
> posts, and I don't want to lose that functionality.

I don't think we can interfere with mod_rewrite from doing its thing.
It sees the URIs before WordPress does, AFAIK.

Ryan

> On Aug 18, 2004, at 2:36 PM, Matt Mullenweg wrote:
> 
> > I think we need to move away from the specialized mod_rewrite rules 
> > and just do our own URI pre-processing. The same methods could be used 
> > for 404 handling, path_info, and mod_rewrite if the URI was just 
> > gulped up.