Re: 18 months later: Tux and HTTP request forwarding

[human bn <spagmoid@yahoo.com>]

It's starting to look like the Tux project is dead in
the water...

--- victor <victor@outblaze.com> 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:
> 
> > 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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> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> <!---------------------------------------------
>                            Victor
>                            Development Engineer
>                            Outblaze Ltd
> ---------------------------------------------->
> 
> 
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