Mike Cannon-Brookes wrote:
>
> Guys,
>
> Has anyone thought of writing a Mod_Rewrite clone using Servlet Filters?
> Using something like the Jakarta ORO regex package this should be quite
> doable?
>
> Any reason that wouldn't work? (I've never actually used Mod_Rewrite, just
> read about it).
>
> Mike
Yes, we've thought of it. We created a "SuperServlet" that is set up as
a filter and handles all requests, handing off the requests to the
appropriate code based on some parsing, etc.
We didn't clone mod_rewrite, we just did the pattern matching that we
specifically needed.
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Joel Shellman
Chief Software Architect
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