I've made a small patch to WebServer.nml to help me develop a small haXe
lib. I need better control of URIs to make a Front Controller. With
Apache, I would use ForceType or mod_rewrite but I can't get mod_neko
to work on my (OS X) dev machine, and I also find nekotools server to be
a great tool for development so my lib must work with both.
Anyway, I added a command line parameter '-raw' for "raw URIs" that will
change the way the request is handled. With this parameter, the
WebServer looks for index.n in the base directory and ignores the rest
of the request, but it's still available with get_uri() to your
application. You can then dispatch the request as you wish.
Maybe someone will use this...
Hi Alex,
Yes this is something interesting that was in my mind for some time. I
took a few minutes to add the -rewrite parameter to WebServer on CVS.
When enabled, URL will be searched recursively according to the
following rules :
/path/to/file/ => /path/to/file/index.n (not recursive)
/path/to/file
/path/to/file => /path/to/file.n (not recursive)
/path/to/ (lookup subdirectory)
This way, if you have an "index.n" file at the root of your website, all
URLs will invoke it unless there is another "index.n" in some
subdirectory the override it.
Nicolas
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