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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 95 10:18:00 PDT
From: Bill Radcliffe <billr@corbis.com>
To: owner-new-httpd <owner-new-httpd@hyperreal.com>
Subject: Apache module question


Could someone help me with a module development question?

I have written an Apache module that intercepts URLS that match a pattern
(like /COMMAND/ARG/xxx/yyy/zzz.html) and converts them to other URLS. The
translated URL is NOT (I repeat NOT) an actual filename on my server. It
needs to be processed through Aliases, etc, as usual! If this were not the
case, I would simple use Aliases.

I would like to handle this operation entirely during the translate phase,
but found that I needed to write a handler to redirect the translated URL.

My first two attempts went like this ...

1) Convert and replace the original r->uri with my new r->uri and return OK
(translate phase only)
2) Convert and replace the original r->uri with my new r->uri and return
DECLINED (translate phase only)

SAMPLE CODE for 1) and 2).

int translate_commands (request_rec *r)
{
void *server_conf = server->module_config;
char *other_path = (char *)get_module_config(server_conf,
&idproxy_module);
table *e = r->subprocess_env;
char *name = r->uri;
char *w1, *w2, *s;

s = name;
/* skip leading delimiter if there */
if (*s == '/') s++;

/* get the first word out of the path (the command) and match it */
w1 = getword(r->pool, &s, '/');
if (!w1 || !s)
return DECLINED;
if (strcasecmp (w1, "COMMAND"))
return DECLINED;

/* get the second word out of the path (the operand) and save it */
w2 = getword(r->pool, &s, '/');
if (!w2 || !s)
return DECLINED;
table_set (e, "COMMAND", w2);

if (name[0] == '/')
r->uri = pstrcat (r->pool, *other_path , "/", s, NULL);
else
r->uri = pstrdup (r->pool, s);

parse_uri(r, r->uri); /* tried this - does not seem to help */
/* return OK; */
return DECLINED;
}

All the other modules seemed to think that the URL was now a real filename
and did not need to be processed anymore - even after changing from OK to
DECLINED.

3) Convert the original r->uri to a r->filename and return OK in combination

with a handler that internally redirects the request in the handler.
(translate phase and handler combination). YUUUCK! I will not send this
code along since I do not want my name attached to it. Unfortunately, it
works! The problem is that it causes other modules to break and has other
bad consequences.

HELP!

--
William Radcliffe, Principal Engineer, Corbis
billr@corbis.com