Hi Markus, Thanks for quick reply. I dare to differ that anything with 'embedded Perl scripting' is an easy suggestion for a random new/intermediate Solr developer to handle. http://xkcd.com/1171/ and all that ;-)
Still, I appreciate you sharing your approach, as at least it shows one possible path. Regards, Alex. Personal website: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD book) On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Markus Jelsma <markus.jel...@openindex.io> wrote: > Hi - We use Nginx to expose the index to the internet. It comes down to > putting some limitations on input parameters and on-the-fly rewrite of > queries using embedded Perl scripting. Limitations and rewrites are usually > just a bunch of regular expressions, so it is not that hard. > > Cheers > Markus > > > -----Original message----- >> From:Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com> >> Sent: Tuesday 21st January 2014 14:01 >> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >> Subject: Solr middle-ware? >> >> Hello, >> >> All the Solr documents talk about not running Solr directly to the >> cloud. But I see people keep asking for a thin secure layer in front >> of Solr they can talk from JavaScript to, perhaps with some basic >> extension options. >> >> Has anybody actually written one? Open source or in a community part >> of larger project? I would love to be able to point people at >> something. >> >> Is there something particularly difficult about writing one? Does >> anybody has a story of aborted attempt or mid-point reversal? I would >> like to know. >> >> Regards, >> Alex. >> P.s. Personal context: I am thinking of doing a series of lightweight >> examples of how to use Solr. Like I did for a book, but with a bit >> more depth and something that can actually be exposed to the live web >> with live data. I don't want to reinvent the wheel of the thin Solr >> middleware. >> P.p.s. Though I keep thinking that Dart could make an interesting >> option for the middleware as it could have the same codebase on the >> server and in the client. Like NodeJS, but with saner syntax..... >> >> Personal website: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ >> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch >> - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all >> at once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD >> book) >>
