Add note that Apache pre-1.2 ignores last line when final newline

is missing. Apparently NCSA does not ignore the final line in this situation.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@77897 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

diff --git a/docs/manual/misc/compat_notes.html b/docs/manual/misc/compat_notes.html
index d57ee33c9f44176cf6e7588dccfea19f2f06234f..ba57b0f5e2e9baaa854a6297149b8573a66e78f8 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manual/misc/compat_notes.html
+++ b/docs/manual/misc/compat_notes.html
@@ -98,6 +98,12 @@ To map <code>.foo</code> and <code>.bar</code> to <code>application/foo</code>
 it added one automatically if the .asis file contained a Location header.
 0.8.14 requires a Status header. <p>
 
+  <P>
+  <LI>Apache versions before 1.2b1 will ignore the last line of configuration
+  files if the last line does not have a trailing newline. This affects
+  configuration files (httpd.conf, access.conf and srm.conf), and
+  htpasswd and htgroup files.
+ 
 </OL>
 
 More to come when we notice them....