Wouldn't be a solution based on a default rule as suggested by Stephen, where
the name with out extension is mapped to the adp processor, which checks for a
default extension before retuning 404, an option for your scenario?
Yes, absolutely, Stephen’s suggestion will work for me.
Another approach to solving this my problem would be to register a 404 handler,
which then checks to see if an.adp version of the request exists and returns
that instead. For efficiency, I could modify ns_register_adp that page after
the first 404 happens. Basically, it’s stephen’s approach combined with a 404
handler.
The advantage of this approach is that I don’t have to pre-register all my ADPs
and also if I create new ADPs the 404 handler automatically notices them.
On my bookmooch.com site (running aolserver) I use a 404 handler to return book
cover images and file-system-cache the results. The first time a URL such as
http://bookmooch.com/img/23423423.jpg is called, the file doesn’t exist, so the
404 handler makes the jpg (by proxying from amazon.com) and returns it, and
then saves the contents as a file, for fast future delivery. This sort of hack
is why I love navisever/aolserver, as doing this sort of thing on any other web
platform I can think of would be really hard.
So, now I have at least two good solutions to my problem, thank you, and so if
you don’t want to mess up the source with new options I’d be ok with that. :D
-john
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