Mailing List Archive: [Fwd: New Apache imagemap module available]

c.i.w.s.u

Nathan J. Kurz wrote:
>
> I have a new imagemap module for Apache available at
> ftp://trickle.tripod.com/pub/mod_imap_new.c .
>
> This is a partial rewrite of the mod_imap.c distributed with Apache. This
> version adds a little more functionality and fixes a couple bugs.
>
> Namely: No server error for Lynx users -- the 'default' is used.
> Deals with absent or badly formed coordinates.
> Ignores bad lines in map file instead of failing.
> 'point' mixes better with other directives (especially 'default')
> Bug in uri_base used with relative URL's fixed. (!(!strstr))
> safer '..' usage in relative URL's (won't eat into servername)
> uri_base works a little better with non-httpd schemes.
> Generally more forgiving of errors.
>
> I thought long and hard about doing internal redirects, but then realized it
> was hopeless: relative URL's on the page referred to wouldn't work.
>
> There may be bugs, as I ended up rewriting both the imap_handler function and
> the set_redirect function. I'm using it on our real site though, and it seems
> to be working fine. I've tested it on Linux and SunOS, but not yet
> extensively.
>
> If you think it could be included with the Apache distribution once it's
> better tested, I'll write up full documentation for it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> nate@tripod.com
> http://www.tripod.com

Nate - thanks for the module, I've pulled it down and installed it in
http://www.apache.org/dist/modules/contrib/ for now until we've had a
chance to give it a test run. We made some similar bug fixes to the one
which will be distributed with 1.0 (namely no more core dumps, returns
"default" on lack of coordinates, etc) so we'll see... let us know how it
compares when 1.0 comes out next week. Also, we eventually would like to
have a lack of coordinates (i.e. a lynx request) return a *menu* of all
available options, rather than just the default. Eventually... :)

Brian

> Nathan J. Kurz wrote:
> >
> > I have a new imagemap module for Apache available at
> > ftp://trickle.tripod.com/pub/mod_imap_new.c .
> >
> > This is a partial rewrite of the mod_imap.c distributed with Apache. This
> > version adds a little more functionality and fixes a couple bugs.
> >
> > Namely: No server error for Lynx users -- the 'default' is used.
> > Deals with absent or badly formed coordinates.
> > Ignores bad lines in map file instead of failing.
> > 'point' mixes better with other directives (especially 'default')
> > Bug in uri_base used with relative URL's fixed. (!(!strstr))
> > safer '..' usage in relative URL's (won't eat into servername)
> > uri_base works a little better with non-httpd schemes.
> > Generally more forgiving of errors.
> >
> > I thought long and hard about doing internal redirects, but then realized it
> > was hopeless: relative URL's on the page referred to wouldn't work.
> >
> > There may be bugs, as I ended up rewriting both the imap_handler function and
> > the set_redirect function. I'm using it on our real site though, and it seems
> > to be working fine. I've tested it on Linux and SunOS, but not yet
> > extensively.
> >
> > If you think it could be included with the Apache distribution once it's
> > better tested, I'll write up full documentation for it.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > nate@tripod.com
> > http://www.tripod.com
>
>

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