On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Benoit Chesneau<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just commited to my couchdb repo a proxy reverse handler. It allow > people to proxy what they need in couchdb by setting destination > patch. I will mostly use it to proxy my local BOSH connection manager > but it also could be used to reverse a complete couchapp or whatever > you want. For example to reverse http://apache.couchdb.org to > /_couchdb add this settings to your local.ini : > > [httpd_global_handlers] > _couchdb = {couch_httpd_misc_handlers, handle_proxy_req, > <<"http://couchdb.apache.org";>>} >
This looks really cool. Can you give more examples of it at work? I'm not sure I total understand. Looks powerful. > > This proxy handle redirection inside destination path root. Ex if you > have /_nymphormation -> http://nymphormation.org and > > http://www.nymphormation.org -> > http://www.nymphormation.org/n/_design/nymphormation/_list/links/news?descending=true&limit=11 > > user will be redirected to > /_nymphormation/n/_design/nymphormation/_list/links/news?descending=true&limit=11 > so relative paths would work. > > Current limitation : > - local path aren't handle for now in destination path but I'm working on it. > - need more tests > > Source is on github : > http://github.com/benoitc/couchdb/tree/proxy_handler > > > Hope it could be usefull for someone. > > - benoît > -- Chris Anderson http://jchrisa.net http://couch.io
