To give you more context. I recently closed a security gap in a customer's web server that most likely resulted in a data leak. That web server stored (of course) database backups and other personal data. The directory listing was visible and accessible from the open internet, because - note that - the .htaccess file where the access was disabled had INVALID END OF LINE CHARACTERS according to Apache (and it wasn't me who prepared it in the first place). Therefore - note - the server IGNORED that file and its default setting was OPEN ACCESS and enabled directory index. It's wrong on so many fronts. The Apache's philosophy is not "I cannot parse the config file, therefore I disable access to the directory tree until administrator notices and fixes it". It was not logged in the server logs as "invalid EOL detected". Apache after over 30 years of development cannot parse all 3 end of line sequences - the process which is TRIVIAL to the point of being ridiculous. Deciding not to include CRLF or bare CR is not about performance. It's just the decision of its makers, there's no justification these days. It violates "be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send". In 2026, when the cybercriminals are everywhere, just waiting for the data, scraping it all over, the server's default should be "close everything until it's explicitly open" and "if the config is broken, disable access and/or fail".