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

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

Wouldn't be a solution based on a default rule as suggested by Stephen, where the name with out extension is mapped to the adp processor, which checks for a default extension before retuning 404, an option for your scenario? 
Yes, absolutely, Stephen’s suggestion will work for me.  

Another approach to solving this my problem would be to register a 404 handler, which then checks to see if an.adp version of the request exists and returns that instead.  For efficiency, I could modify ns_register_adp that page after the first 404 happens.  Basically, it’s stephen’s approach combined with a 404 handler.

The advantage of this approach is that I don’t have to pre-register all my ADPs and also if I create new ADPs the 404 handler automatically notices them.

On my bookmooch.com site (running aolserver) I use a 404 handler to return book cover images and file-system-cache the results. The first time a URL such as http://bookmooch.com/img/23423423.jpg is called, the file doesn’t exist, so the 404 handler makes the jpg (by proxying from amazon.com) and returns it, and then saves the contents as a file, for fast future delivery.  This sort of hack is why I love navisever/aolserver, as doing this sort of thing on any other web platform I can think of would be really hard.

So, now I have at least two good solutions to my problem, thank you, and so if you don’t want to mess up the source with new options I’d be ok with that. :D

-john