Let me rephrase the question:
Are there any CouchDB 0.10 mechanisms (views, show function, etc) which
allows me to serve a binary attachment that has one or more '/'
characters in the requested file id?
I do not care about the url prefix or its length. In other words, these
prefixes are all acceptable:
http://example.com:5984/some_db/{my file path here}
http://example.com:5984/some_db/_design/file/_show/{my file path here}
etc
What I do care about is that a browser can directly request a binary
file such as "/scripts/main/common.js", without our having to go into
hundreds of HTML files to rename these file references to
"%2Fscripts%2Fmain%2Fcommon.js". Nor do I want an app server or Apache
in place simply to do a file name translation.
The specific value proposition that CouchDB offers in this case is that
it replaces:
1) Content distribution to multiple nodes in our network.
2) Replaces an app server/Apache serving static content.
3) It is highly concurrent.
Does anyone have experience doing the above or similar?
I can write a blog post if email is not conveying my question correctly.
Thanks
On 3/20/10 7:22 PM, John Merrells wrote:
On Mar 20, 2010, at 4:44 PM, 7zark7 wrote:
I do not want to have another webapp "in front" of Couch to translate a
request for "/scripts/main.js" into "%2fscripts%2fmain.js/data", or
"/a1b0e2349f53456/scripts/main.js", etc.
How about serving the static content directly from the disk with a webserver
like apache or nginx....
If you really want the content in couch, then you could do the url rewrite with
some rules in the webserver config...
Or use a reverse proxy like varnish.... or squid if you're feeling brave.... and
then the content could be in couch for versioning, but served fast from the
cache.
John
