[development] .htaccess patch for 404 of Non-drupal files

[Khalid B]

Go ahead and +1 it then ...

On 8/2/06, Moshe Weitzman <weitzman at tejasa.com> wrote:
> Khalid B wrote:
> > It is worth including the change in this page http://drupal.org/node/56773
> > to the standard .htaccess we distribute?
> >
> > This has two advantages:
> >
> > a) Avoid a Drupal bootstrap for every 404 of these files.
> > b) Send a smaller number of bytes when this happen.
> >
> > I believe the majority of sites would not want Drupal to handle 404 for
> > these
> > files.
> >
> > I can make the patch if it has a chance of getting through.
>
> yes, i would like to see this. if people really object, we could default to
> commented out.
>