Re: Feature Request: Flexible Rewrite Rules

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 06:08:11PM +0200, Steffen Weber wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> as Jan said in the thread "PRE-RELEASE: lighttpd-1.3.0-20040912-1914.tar.gz" 
> that we should step up and say what prevents us from using lighttpd here is 
> my feature request. :-)
> 
> These two lines are taken from the lighttpd documentation:
> 
>     url.rewrite = ( "^/show/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)$" => "/show.php?isdn=$1&page$2",
>                     "^/get/([0-9]+)/([0-9]+)$"  => "/get.php?isdn=$1&page$2" )
> 
> It would be nice to be able to set something like "let the request go 
> through" / "stop processing following rules" instead of a specific target 
> URL. Because if you?ve got many rewrite rules it should be faster and more 
> readable to, for example, have a first rule that says "all requests ending 
> in .jpg can go through". Think of Apache?s "[L]"-target whichs prevents that 
> the following rewrite rules get applied to the request.
> 
> I hope you get what I?m trying to say, otherwise please ask. :-)

Will be added. Syntax not yet decided.
 
> Steffen
> 
    Jan
  
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