Hi Tim, On Aug 24, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Tim Funk wrote:
> While useful ... I would conjecture that things like this eventually undergo > feature creep and over time would turn into > http://www.tuckey.org/urlrewrite/ Thanks. That's entirely possible, but on the other end of the spectrum, if you scare away people who are simply trying to do what I'm trying to do with all of the flexibility (and complexity) from a full-featured URL rewriter, it's also probably not a great thing. Anyhoo, I'll wait to see what others think and if I get the time to make such a filter. Are there plans to include the URL filter at http://www.tuckey.org/urlrewrite/ in Tomcat proper at the ASF? As a consumer of ASF software (and Tomcat), I think it would make a ton of sense to have this type of functionality inside of the core. Looking at the documentation on the Tomcat site, which I did for a half hour, as well as some Google searches, didn't yield much that would have pointed me in this direction. And so, that's what led me here. Thanks very much. Cheers, Chris > > > -Tim > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) < > chris.a.mattm...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote: > >> Thanks for your reply Chuck. >> >> It looks like you can do what I'm suggesting, but it's pretty complex. I'm >> also >> wondering why this isn't part of Tomcat proper. It would seem to be a very >> useful tool to include. >> >> An ALv2 licensed type of filter that does things like the URLRewrite >> Filter. >> Another thing too is that this filter seems to do a huge superset of what >> I'm actually looking for. I'm really just looking for something simple, >> with a >> limited config, something like: >> >> <url path="/fictionbooks" >> origPath="/books"> >> <param name="category" value="fiction"/> >> <param name="something else" value="${env.SOMEPROPERTY}"/> >> </url> >> .... >> >> I might just write a plugin that does that and contribute it back to the >> Apache Tomcat community. Would folks here find that useful? >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: chris.a.mattm...@nasa.gov WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
