Re: [naviserver-devel] ADP without file name extensions

[John f. D. E. <jo...@de...>]

You have asked this question before:
Sorry Gustaf, I thought I had asked aolserver before, not naviserver. At any rate, still no good solution to this, other than adding a tcl filter that captures and potentially rewrites all requests.

However, one does not want to run the filter on every requests, 
Agreed.

and the approach should be compatible with the way how NaviServer configuration works for choosing on which files the ADP parser should be used. This is happening now via ns_register_adp (see [1]) using a config section like:
   ns_section     "ns/server/default/adp"
   ns_param        map              /*.adp
   ns_param        disabled         false    
Another approach would be for that map to be defined for no-extension files, perhaps something like this:

   ns_param        map              /*?^[\.]
but such pattern matching isn't (to my knowledge) supported.


One approach would be to allow mapping rules for the URLspace machinery for empty extensions (something, which does not exist yet). Such a mapping rule could be used for a filter for only urls without extensions, or it could be used to map adp pages with empty extensions with "ns_register_adp" like above and let the ADP "PageRequest" check, if a file with ".adp" exists. Such a syntactic rule for for the URLspace could be used as well in other operations on the URLspace (for registering procs,  connection pool mapping, ns_urlspace, etc.). This would be backward compatible and avoid overall overhead....
I quite like your suggestion, which I assume would be something like this:

   ns_section     "ns/server/default/adp"
   ns_param        enable_when_no_extension              true
   ns_param        disabled         false    
that’s more or less what I’ve implemented with my hack.
PS: As we are using on our main sites OpenACS, we do not have this problem, since OpenACS defines its own "request processor" which handles every URL.
I see.

-john