WebKit doesn't really have a good solution for this -- yet. There is a setting "ExtraPathInfo" which is supposed to do what you're asking for here. But last time I checked, the setting wasn't working :-( and it hasn't been fixed in the meantime. I suppose that means nobody is using it. Also, ExtraPathInfo is a global setting, but it really ought to be configurable on a servlet by servlet basis.
It also isn't easy to add new "servlet factories". That is the way PSP works -- it registers its own servlet factory for all files with a .psp extension. If this were easy to do, you could use this approach. Your best bet at the moment is probably to use Apache's mod_rewrite to transform the URL. There are some examples in the Webware Wiki that might help, but the basic idea is to transform URL's like /foo/bar/qux.xml into /XMLHandler?url=/foo/bar/qux.xml or something like that, so that you can write a servlet called XMLHandler that simply looks in the url query field for the "real" url. - Geoff > I just recently starting experimenting with WebKit, and I'm quite > impressed. I'm hoping to port an app that currently runs on mod_python, > but I'm running into a stumbling block. I need to be able to write a > servlet (or some other type of object that can be executed by WebKit and > persist in memory) that can be invoked indirectly by the webserver when > files ending with a specific extension are requested. > Specifically I'd like to be able to hit .xml files at any url on the > server and have the request handled by this hypothetical servlet. > > The way I do this with mod_python is by using AddHandler to associate .xml > files with the URL to my mod_python handler. My mod_python handler can > then look at the PATH_TRANSLATED variable to figure out the real path to > the requested .xml file and then handle the request from there (applying > XSL stylesheets and such). > > I created a subclass of HTTPServlet that I can hit directly at > /WK/Sam/Test. However, if I pass additional path information (by hitting > something like /WK/Sam/Test/foo.xml, which is I think essentially what > AddHandler does if /foo.xml is requested) I get a 404 from WebKit. I'm > guessing it's not possible to pass extra path info to a WebKit servlet. > I get 404s whether I try to hit /WK/Sam/Test/foo.xml or /foo.xml, although > in the first case the error message says that /WK/Sam/Test/foo.xml was not > found and the second case says that /foo.xml was not found... but both > messages are coming from WebKit instead of Apache, leading me to believe > that Apache is actually routing the request the way I expect. > > Although I haven't tried to use PSP, it must do some request handling > similar to what I want. I could look into that further to see if I could > do something similar, but it looks like that would involve customizing > Webware which I don't want to do; I'd much rather be able to write > something that runs on top of a standard Webware installation. > > Any advice or pointers would be much appreciated. > > Thanks, > Sam > > -- > Sam Brauer > Systems Programmer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply > the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Webware-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
