Is there a specific reason you want to replace the slashes then? the users should still be able to access them, right?
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:38 PM, 7zark7 <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/7/10 9:15 PM, Randall Leeds wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 20:53, 7zark7<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, is there *any* way within CouchDB to modify a GET URL to replace >>> certain >>> characters in the document id? >> >> Probably easiest if you can have the client encode the URL for you. I >> don't know if that's acceptable for your use case. > > Yeah not in my case. This is basically a CMS for static content, and the > end users aren't under my immediate control. > > >>> More specifically what I'd like to do is take a request URL that >>> contains forward slashes, such as: >>> >>> a/b/c/d.jpg >>> >>> and transform this to return a document which has the id: >>> >>> a%2Fb%2Fc%2Fd.jpg >>> >>> etc. >>> >>> I've tried the rewrite functionality, but doesn't look like it >>> supports modifying characters. I've also tried hacky approaches >>> like this: >>> >>> { >>> "from": "/file/:a/:b/:c/:d", >>> "to": "../../:a%2:b%2:c%2:d" >>> } >>> >>> but the URL doesn't replace this correctly (shows "undefined" in the >>> URL) >>> >>> show functions can't seem to handle rendering attachments as far as >>> I can tell. >>> >>> Any ideas? I know about reverse proxys, etc, just would like to >>> avoid additional layers here. >>> >>> >>> Thanks > -- -- Andrew Melo
