Re: 18 months later: Tux and HTTP request forwarding

victor <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.tux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
(^_^) I personally still see tux a very attractive option, for its speed 
and ease in setup.  Indeed for a time I was really thinking of making it 
the standard httpd we use here in my place for statistic content.  But 
due to the logging problem (which is solved in the newer version I 
realize), and this little question mark feature, I had to delay the plan.

Tor.

human bn wrote:

>It's starting to look like the Tux project is dead in
>the water...
>
>--- victor <[email protected]> wrote:
>  
>
>>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:
>>
>>    
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>>>I have been looking for a way to have tux always
>>>      
>>>
>>handle requests for 
>>    
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>>>URLs with a question mark in them, but also
>>>      
>>>
>>discard the text including 
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>>>and following the question mark.  For example:
>>>
>>>http://site/path/file?args ==>
>>>      
>>>
>>http://site/path/file
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>>
>>>This is in an attempt to serve files that are
>>>      
>>>
>>static by design by have 
>>    
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>>>a random argument appended to the end to defeat
>>>      
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>>browser caching.  
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>>>Looking through the archives, I found the message
>>>      
>>>
>>found at the bottom 
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>>>of this email and implemented it.  As far as I can
>>>      
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>>tell, it is only 
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>>>solving half of my problem.  Now the URLs with
>>>      
>>>
>>question marks are 
>>    
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>>>being processed by tux, but tux is returning a 404
>>>      
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>>because the file 
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>>>does not exist.  It is looking for "file?args"
>>>      
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>>rather than "file".
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>>>Does anyone have any insight in to this and/or
>>>      
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>>suggestions?  They 
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>>>would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>>Charles Bennington
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  
>
>>>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
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>>>   * /Date/: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 18:23:37 +0200
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>>(CEST)
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>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  
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>>>On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Serge Sozonoff wrote:
>>>
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>>>>It seems that TUX will systematically try and
>>>>        
>>>>
>>forward an http request
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>>>>the secondary server if the URL contains a query
>>>>        
>>>>
>>string. Is there a way
>>    
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>>>>to disable this behaviour?
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>right now the easiest way is to change
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>>>
>>net/tux/proto_http.c, and replace
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>>>the two occurances of:
>>>
>>>    c == '?'
>>>
>>>with:
>>>    0
>>>
>>>from this point on TUX should treat the query
>>>      
>>>
>>string as part of the URL.
>>    
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>>>btw., why do you want to do this?
>>>
>>>    Ingo
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>                           Development Engineer
>>                           Outblaze Ltd
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