Re: 18 months later: Tux and HTTP request forwarding

I too suffer from the problem, and have so far found no solution.  So 
what I did was, for some of the machine, I dropped the ? part, for the 
other I dropped tux and switched to thttp. (^_^!)

Tor.

Charles Bennington wrote:

> 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
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