On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 02:30:30PM -0700, Bert Huijben wrote: > Fnmatch support is in apr(-util?) and has known access/performance patterns, > so we might be able to move the search handling to the server in the future > for performance reasons. > > Complete regular expression support would at least require using a new third > party library and moving it to the server is not really possible because > complete regular expression processing can be way to expensive.
What he said. I was about to write the same response :) I *did* search for regex stuff in APR and other existing dependencies and then settled on fnmatch. httpd has a regex engine but it's not part of APR for some reason. I wouldn't have a problem using that in the client if it were available, but it isn't.
