On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) <racke@linuxia.de> wrote:

On 09/12/2014 02:35 PM, Sawyer X wrote:
> Unfortunately that is a terrible example. The concept of blocking all requests in a before() hook is... let's say, naive. In reality you would like to simply block specific requests according to session, a la David Golden's Auth::Tiny.
>
> The before hooks are basically run on every request. Static files are now served through the File handler. That means it will trigger the before hooks because it's a normal request.
> I would love to do it using the Static middleware, but then it will happen before a route check on it, so we can't have that.

I still disagree with this change of behaviour from Dancer 1 to Dancer 2. What is the benefit of calling before hook for public files?
Also in a production environment you might deliver static files with some other software (Nginx, ...) and you loose control on
these public files anyway.

The point is that this is not a selection of behavior. It isn't "we want a before hook on public files", but "because public files are serves as a handler, they will have before hooks called too". It's implicit behavior because of the restructuring of public files as file handlers.