On Wed 26 Mar 2008, Akins, Brian wrote: > > There seems to be a demand for dynamic per-request configuration, > > as evidenced by the number of users hacking it with mod_rewrite, > > and the other very limited tools available. Modern mod_rewrite > > usage commonly looks like programming, but it's not designed as > > a programming language. Result: confused and frustrated users. > > This is what I had in mind when I suggested having <Lua> blocks of code. > No need to invent a new language when a perfectly fine one exists...
As Issac pointed out something similar can be done with <Perl> blocks at the cost of having mod_perl in core. Those are not evaluated evaluated per-request. But based on mod_perl there is Apache2::Translation that does per-request configuration. It hooks uri translation, maptostorage and fixup to do the job. Again it needs a perl interpreter in core and hence doesn't work well with threaded MPMs. So I was going to reimplement it based on mod_wombat some time this year. I just wanted to add these $0.02 to the discussion. Torsten
