18 months later: Tux and HTTP request forwarding

I have been looking for a way to have tux always handle requests for 
URLs with a question mark in them, but also discard the text including 
and following the question mark.  For example:

http://site/path/file?args ==> http://site/path/file

This is in an attempt to serve files that are static by design by have a 
random argument appended to the end to defeat browser caching.  Looking 
through the archives, I found the message found at the bottom of this 
email and implemented it.  As far as I can tell, it is only solving half 
of my problem.  Now the URLs with question marks are being processed by 
tux, but tux is returning a 404 because the file does not exist.  It is 
looking for "file?args" rather than "file".

Does anyone have any insight in to this and/or suggestions?  They would 
be greatly appreciated.

Charles Bennington

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Re: Tux and HTTP request forwarding
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    * /From/: Ingo Molnar <mingo elte hu>
    * /To/: tux-list redhat com
    * /Subject/: Re: Tux and HTTP request forwarding
    * /Date/: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 18:23:37 +0200 (CEST)

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On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Serge Sozonoff wrote:

> It seems that TUX will systematically try and forward an http request
> the secondary server if the URL contains a query string. Is there a way
> to disable this behaviour?

right now the easiest way is to change net/tux/proto_http.c, and replace
the two occurances of:

	c == '?'

with:
	0

from this point on TUX should treat the query string as part of the URL.

btw., why do you want to do this?

	Ingo