John Buckman wrote: > I wanted to have a a default filename extension feature in aolserver, > where http://localhost/foo fetches foo.adp, so that URLs in a web site > don't need to show the .adp on every url. > > I read in the archives that openacs has this feature via a filter > written in tcl, but I wanted the implementation to be fast, minimal and > relatively transparent, so I wrote my own patch. > > What my code does is change a page fetch internally from: > > http://localhost/foo > to > http://localhost/foo.adp > > This .adp appending only occurs on URLs that have don't have an existing > filename extension on them. Note that this patch also works correctly > with directories that have a period in them.
Disregarding all the other objections, note that the ability to have a robots.txt.adp, or similar "doubly extended" files, can come in quite handy. I use it to tell the bots that only the main hostname of my server should be indexed. -- Nis Jorgensen Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPI ICT Application Developer Yahoo: nizzjorgensen +31 20 718 2087 ICQ:9005019 -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
