[Catalyst] A different approach to static content

[Perrin Harkins]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 14:08 -0400, Christopher H. Laco wrote:
> No, but it still requires every request to go through Catalyst right?
> That's the other gripe.

It does, at least far enough for Cat to determine that it doesn't handle
this URL.

> It's not more different than if I took every url I wanted to use in 
> Catalyst and manually created <Location>/<LocatationMatch> blocks in 
> httpd.conf and set-handler on them. I'm just suggestion that with a 
> custom engine we could take the work out of it; just like using perl to 
> auto config 1000 virtual servers in httpd.conf.

Maybe I'm being too pessimistic about the difficulty of it.  Go ahead
and give it a try.

- Perrin