Should short.php be removed with WBCE 1.2.0?

[cwsoft]

I would vote for removing short.php and the htaccess.txt file with WBCE 1.2.0 due to the following reasons:

• it doesn´t work in subfolders or in subdomains (e.g. VirtualHosts) out of the box
• needs to be adapted in case media/, admin/, pages/ folder is renamed
• may interfeer with other .htaccess settings (e.g. error document, rewrite rules, PHP handlers etc.)
• requires knowledge of Apache .htaccess in many cases (target WBCE audience won´t have)
• simple error in the .htaccess file may result in a Error 500 page easily
• too many possible options not included (e.g. with or without www, with or without trailing / etc.)
• it only works on Apache servers, but not on Windows IIS

So I would remove short.php and maybe the [[Shorturl]] Droplet as well. If needed, one can install it from the Dev4Me website.

Any comments, votes on that??

[ghost]

+1 for removal

[instantflorian]

+1 from me too (although it's a pity, but better no solution than this)

[NorHei]

+1 For me too

... We dont need the Droplet any more , its a filter you can turn on off.
My personal Plan was keeping it in 1.2.x And move this to an Installable Module on 1.3.x
Removing it from Core in 2.0.

As i simply don't wanted to break existing pages that only upgrade from 1.1

@cwsoft
Quite a lot of those Problems occure whith any URL rewriting CMS ;-)