Re: [naviserver-devel] Simple http proxy handler

[Vlad S. <vl...@cr...>]

> 
> I don't know, I'm asking...
> 
> I was wondering why registering a proxy handler is different than a
> regular registered proc.  Do they have to be different?
> 
> The main difference seems to be that you can register a proxy for a
> protocol, i.e. http or https, but you don't have that option with
> regular registered procs.

correct

> Is this an important distinction to make though?  Registered procs can
> still check the protocol, manually, if they care.

right

> Re having to register for each method, that also is sometimes a
> problem for registered procs. Maybe allowing something like:
> 
>   ns_register_proc * /* callback
> 
> Where the only supported symbol is '*', meaning 'default, if no more
> specific method is registered'.  Perhaps that's too confusing --
> people will expect full glob support.  I don't think glob support is
> possible, or even desirable here.  Url handlers are supposed to be
> deterministic, only one will match some URL (unlike filters).

Agree, i will take a look. but glob does not work with url-specific 
hashes and we want to keep them, they are very fast


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