If I suppress the trailing slash, then apache does a redirect, and redirects are handled before aliases, so the client gets a 301, and the particular client software I am dealing with won't follow redirects, he simply errs out.
-----Original Message----- From: Eric Covener [mailto:cove...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 4:26 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [users@httpd] HTTP POST to a directory On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:04 PM, <anthony.br...@gdc4s.com> wrote: > I have an intranet website that provides web services. Currently, clients > access this service by POSTing their XML SOAP request envelope to a > particular php script as follows (urls have been sanitized to protect the > guilty): > > http://somesite:port/SERVICES/service.php > > I receive the xml, process it, and return the result back to them, all fine > and dandy. > > However, I would rather not have them specify a particular script file, I > simply want them to POST to: > > http://somesite:port/SERVICES > > Then, I want to be able to configure apache so that when it sees a POST to > this directory URL, it will run the script I specify and pass it the POST > data. > > Currently, if I attempt this, the client receives a 301 Moved Permanently, > and the redirected URL is the same as the one they posted to (i.e., the > directory URL above). > Could be DirectorySlash in mod_dir. If you suppress that, you can just set an Alias from /dir to /dir/whatever.xxx -- Eric Covener cove...@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
