Hi everyone, I'm in the process of using Django to develop a CMS for our Web site, and one thing that I'd like to do is to find a way to maintain compatibility with the old URLs on the site. These old URLs are, however, somewhat crufty. In particular, I'd like to be able to do the following to URLs:
1. Strip certain file extensions, such as ".php" and ".asp" 2. Change them from mixed case to all lower case Doing this will allow the majority of our legacy URLs to work well in the new system. It should probably be done by returning a permanent redirect status code pointing at the new URL. It seems to me that the best way to do this would be to write a middleware class that works similarly to CommonMiddleware. However, I'm having a hard time creating one that I'm satisfied with. The problem is that anything I create will have to essentially replicate those URL rewrites performed by CommonMiddleware, such as adding the trailing slash. This is because only one middleware can return a new response for a request. My first plan of attack was to write a middleware class whose __init__ method took a list of functions as parameters which it would then use as rewriters. But it doesn't seem to look as though one can provide init arguments to middleware classes. I suppose it could be in a settings.py variable though. In any case, this middleware would also have to reimplement the rewrites found in CommonMiddleware. Is there somewhere I should be looking where I'm not? Some kind of built in rewriter? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
