[Naviserver-users] invisibly adding .adp by default

[Decent E. <dec...@gm...>]

For many years, I’ve patched nsd/request.c so that http requests that do
not have an extension specified, auto-add .adp.  If an extension is
specified (ie, jpg) the add nothing.  And the .adp appended to the url is
never shown to the site visitor.

This gives me very clean URLs like:
http://mydomain.com/user/edit

which actually resolve to:
http://mydomain.com/user/edit.adp

Those are nicely human readable.  Most every server-side parsing http
servers show the filename extension, and I find it a nice advantage of
using nsd that I don’t have to.

I’m wondering what cleaner way there is to do this, in a high performance
way?

I could use ns_register_proc for every page, but then I don’t get the use
of ADP pages:
ns_register_proc GET /battery/* direct_battery 0

I could register a 404 handler, redirect to the .adp page, and then use
javascript to rewrite the URL to remove .adp, but that’s pretty ugly
engineering.

-john


Here’s my original C code for nsd/request.c:

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/* john buckman added 4/14/06 */

/* check if should add default filename extension of .adp */

/* only if no / on end of url which indicates a directory */

char * dotpos;

if (ds2.string[ds2.length - 1] != '/') {

    /* if not . in the entire url, or if there is a dot before the final /
(indicating a . in a

       directory name, which is ok, then add the default filename extension
*/

    dotpos = strrchr(ds2.string, '.');

    if ((dotpos == NULL) || (strchr(dotpos, '/') != NULL)) {

        Ns_DStringAppend(&ds2, ".adp");

        /* Ns_Log(Notice, "added default extension to get '%s'",
ds2.string); */

    }

}

/* end john buckman added */


request->url = ns_strdup(ds2.string);

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