[Infrastructures] state machines

[Daniel Hagerty]

 > From: Wesley Craig <wes@umich.edu>
 > Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:37:27 -0400
 >
 > This is a configuration management / infrastructure question, or an
 > apache configuration question?

    The former of course.  The particular example isn't the best, but
I had hoped you'd see what I was driving at.  The pattern of a
boundary that you don't control imposing constraints on you that force
you to do "unreasonable" things in configuration is a general one.

    HTTP 1.1 has the client give the server enough information for
generating proper redirects without the adminsitrator configuring the
server with it, but it's hardly the first time a protocol, piece of
software, etc has demonstrated issues of this sort.