+1 for community modules, but I do think we are going to need to provide
alternatives to regular expressions for anything with a security risk (that
is a thing controlling communication between system).
Regular expressions are just too complicated to be reliably used. You see a
nice simple oyster and get the messy pearl in the centre.
On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 2:13 PM Joseph Miller <millerjos...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> GeoServer-devel,
> I would like to propose a community module that would allow administrators
> to use incoming service requests as the basis for backlink generation.
> Configurable transformations would be along the lines
> of .../geoserver/ogc/stac/v1 --> stac.host.org/v1
> .../geoserver/ogc/features/v1 --> features.host.org/v1 and
> .../geoserver/wms --> wms.host.org
>
> The module would be for backlink generation only (not proxying) using
> URLMangler. Unlike the existing Proxy Base URL configuration in the Global
> Settings, this module would work against both the path and base URL at the
> same time. Also, unlike Proxy Base URL, variables would not need to be
> enumerated. Instead the admin would use regular expressions to match
> headers to ${...}" tokens.
>
> Admins will have the option to configure using a table based GUI or with
> the REST API.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe Miller
>
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