Index: .htaccess
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RCS file: /cvs/drupal/drupal/.htaccess,v
retrieving revision 1.73
diff -u -r1.73 .htaccess
--- .htaccess   14 Apr 2006 09:08:26 -0000      1.73
+++ .htaccess   3 Aug 2006 03:25:07 -0000
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@
   Deny from all
 </FilesMatch>

+# Handle files that should not be handled by Drupal,
+# so a) no bootstrapping happens, and b) 404 error is less bytes
+<FilesMatch "\.(gif|jpe?g|png|s?html|css|js|cgi)$">
+  ErrorDocument 404 default
+</FilesMatch>
+
 # Set some options.
 Options -Indexes
 Options +FollowSymLinks
@@ -82,6 +88,8 @@
   # Rewrite current-style URLs of the form 'index.php?q=x'.
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
+  # Handle 404s for non Drupal files. See above.
+  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.(gif|jpe?g|s?html|css|js|cgi)$
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]
 </IfModule>