Hi all,
On my system I have a global PerlHandler module that processes all incoming
requests. Within itself, the module filters out requests that are not of
particular MIME types or requests containing '/resources/' in their uris
and lets them to be processed by their intended handlers (by returning
DECLINED).
What I want to add next is the logic to proxy all POST requests for .xml
files to a different invocation of the server running under a different
user/group so that the files can be updated with POSTed data.
For this job I decided to use the rewerite module with the following rule:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^POST$
RewriteRule ^(.*\.xml.*)$ http://localhost:8088$1 [P]
The problem is that my main PerlHandler gets called right after the rewrite
module is done and I end up with the following error message in the error log:
File does not exist: proxy:http://localhost:8088/data.xml
I've tried returning DECLINED from the handler to let the proxy module to
kick in (with return DECLINED if $r->filename =~ m/^proxy:/;), but I still
get the same error message.
In the configuration file, the rewrite rule come before the mod_perl
handler is set.
Am I trying to do the impossible? Or am I simply missing something obvious?
Thanks in advance for comments
Dmitry
