Re: 18 months later: Tux and HTTP request forwarding

looks like I have a busy week ahead installing Tux. (^_^)

This is wonderful Mr Molnar, thank you very much. 

I'm wondering, would there any chance this change will be added to the 
standard release?

Tor.



Ingo Molnar wrote:

>On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, 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. [...]
>>    
>>
>
>could you apply the attached patch and do:
>
>	echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/tux/ignore_query
>
>does this do the trick?
>
>	Ingo
>
>--- linux/include/linux/sysctl.h.orig	
>+++ linux/include/linux/sysctl.h	
>@@ -562,6 +562,7 @@ enum {
> 	NET_TUX_MAX_HEADER_LEN		= 42,
> 	NET_TUX_404_PAGE		= 43,
> 	NET_TUX_MAX_KEEPALIVES		= 44,
>+	NET_TUX_IGNORE_QUERY		= 45,
> };
> 
> /* /proc/sys/net/khttpd/ */
>--- linux/include/net/tux.h.orig	
>+++ linux/include/net/tux.h	
>@@ -715,6 +715,7 @@ extern unsigned int tux_cgi_cpu_mask;
> extern tux_proto_t tux_proto_http;
> extern tux_proto_t tux_proto_ftp;
> extern unsigned int tux_all_userspace;
>+extern unsigned int tux_ignore_query;
> extern unsigned int tux_redirect_logging;
> extern unsigned int tux_referer_logging;
> extern unsigned int tux_log_incomplete;
>--- linux/net/tux/proc.c.orig	
>+++ linux/net/tux/proc.c	
>@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ unsigned int tux_cgi_inherit_cpu = 0;
> unsigned int tux_cgi_cpu_mask = ~0;
> unsigned int tux_zerocopy_header = 1;
> unsigned int tux_max_free_requests = 1000;
>+unsigned int tux_ignore_query = 0;
> unsigned int tux_all_userspace = 0;
> unsigned int tux_redirect_logging = 1;
> unsigned int tux_max_header_len = 3000;
>@@ -693,6 +694,18 @@ static ctl_table tux_table[] = {
> 		NULL,
> 		NULL
> 	},
>+	{	NET_TUX_IGNORE_QUERY,
>+		"ignore_query",
>+		&tux_ignore_query,
>+		sizeof(int),
>+		0644,
>+		NULL,
>+		proc_dointvec,
>+		&sysctl_intvec,
>+		NULL,
>+		NULL,
>+		NULL
>+	},
> 	{	NET_TUX_REFERER_LOGGING,
> 		"referer_logging",
> 		&tux_referer_logging,
>--- linux/net/tux/proto_http.c.orig	
>+++ linux/net/tux/proto_http.c	
>@@ -319,8 +319,13 @@ continue_parsing:
> 			if (c == '#')
> 				GOTO_REDIR;
> 		}
>-		query_len = curr-query-1;
>-		req->query_len = query_len;
>+
>+		if (unlikely(tux_ignore_query))
>+			req->query_str = NULL;
>+		else {
>+			query_len = curr-query-1;
>+			req->query_len = query_len;
>+		}
> 	}
> 	if (req->query_len)
> 		Dprintk("got query string %s (%d)\n", req->query_str, req->query_len);
>
>
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