On 3/27/08 9:00 AM, "Nick Kew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /Lua> > > Fine for users who want to hack their own server. Like <Perl>.
Every play with lighttpd? It's almost the same way... Of course typical lighthttpd user is a "hacker." > But r.filename is the kind of innards we really don't want > to expose to the typical mod_rewrite user! We already expose a lot. You can, indirectly set r->filename with mod_rewrite currently. >> And if the more "complicated" modules had a little lua "glue": >> >> if string.match(r.uri, '/something') then >> mod_cache:cacheable( r ) >> end > > A fine recipe for users shooting themselves in the foot, PHP-style. > How would you propose to make that work without hackage to > existing modules? I don't. Hence the "glue." >> If one were so inclined, the entire configuration could be lua. Just >> define and register these functions that need to run per request. > > That'll go alongside DrBacchus's "You can do everything with > mod_rewrite" :-) If you had lua (or whatever) in configs, you don't need mod_rewrite, alias, etc... Anyway, back to your suggestion of If's and per request configs, I'm +1, especially if it's easily extensible and doesn't parse the tree on every single request. -- Brian Akins Chief Operations Engineer Turner Digital Media Technologies
