Hi, I ported a valve providing mod_rewrite functionality (most of it) for Tomcat "8", and committed it in the sandbox. This could be easily placed in the main repository, where it would provide an additional item in the "new features" department for this major release.
I have a documentation page for it that could be included. The basics is that it uses a rewrite.properties that has the same contents as the configuration for mod_rewrite. The rewrite.properties is placed in the host config folder if the valve is declared in a Host, or in WEB-INF in the webapp if declared in a Context. The main differences with mod_rewrite are: - (the big one) no proxy flag - no SSL attributes - less file related flags available - allows virtual host rewriting using a host flag (it replaces the host header instead of the URL and maps again) Point 2 and 3 are probably relatively easy to fix, while obviously a proxy is a more involving endeavor. There are rewrite solutions out there already, but this one does not use complex tricks (because it can simply start over request processing instead of doing more complex request dispatching, which also impacts the Servlet state), and is mod_rewrite compatible. Comments ? Is it nice or useless ? Rémy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
