[Catalyst] Static MultiViews?

I'm very confused by this question..

MultiViews is an apache feature for language customisation, and has
nothing to do with not having extensions on files.

It's entirely possible to serve static files without extensions if you
want to...

What are you _actaully_ trying to do?

Cheers
t0m

Language, mime type, charset and content encoding, actually. I was
looking for similar behaviour but implemented in Catalyst (i.e.
presumably using HTTP::Negotiate).

Content negotiation like I said above. Sorry for the confusion. It's
OK anyway, I wrote my own.

Thanks,

Yes, but to serve static files (ala the apache feature you're pointing
to), or to use in actually dynamic requests, or?

I guess that whatever the answer, this is (or could be easily made
into) a generic reusable feature that would be handy for multiple
people.

Care to share?

Cheers
t0m

No it isn?t (just), and yes it does. MultiViews allows you to put

directory.png
directory.gif
directory.ico

in `/icon/`, then use the URI `/icon/directory` (notice the lack
of extension) to let Apache decide which of these files to serve
to the browser, based on the `Accept` header sent by the browser
and the MIME type ? filename extension mapping from the Apache
configuration.

I don?t think such a thing exists for Catalyst.

Regards,

<snip explanation of how MultiViews is a non-trivial feature>
I guess the question I was asking is 'do you want this feature to
serve static files with', followed by 'why are you not using your web
server'.. Otherwise, what the specific use-case was (rather than a
vague and sweeping feature description), as this sounds hella like
something which could (and should) be a generic CPAN extension.

Cheers
t0m