The functionality I'm looking for is for nginx to call an external
process passing it the entire URI on its stdin, the external process
returns a complete URI on its stdout which nginx then uses to proxy
to.
e,g. nginx could send http://one.server.name/ to the external process
which could rewrite to to http://some.other.server.name/ and then
nginx would proxy the request to that server name. With the external
process approach, rewriting might be even done via db/memcached
lookups
with the squid redirector API, squid starts up a number of external
process as specified in the config file and multiplexes URL rewrites
amongst it.
I guess to some extent this might be similar to a fastcgi model in
terms of talking to an external process but instead of getting a
complete response back, nginx only has to expect a URI
On 6/16/06, Igor Sysoev <is-G...@public.gmane.org> wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Aleksandar Lazic wrote:
On Fre 16.06.2006 14:09, Igor Sysoev wrote:
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:
Squid has a mechanism by which incoming URL's can be passed to an
external program to be rewritten and the reverse proxy subsequently
calls out to the rewritten URL
http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/SquidRedirectors
Is there a way to emulate this from within nginx
No, nginx does not support such rewriting. What exact functionality do you
need ?
But how about with the perl-module?
It's possible:
---------
http {
perl_set $new '
sub {
my $r = shift;
my $uri = $r->uri;
return "/one/" if $uri =~ /1/;
return "/two/" if $uri =~ /2/;
return "/three/";
}
';
server {
rewrite ^ $new;
However, currently nginx could change URI only, it could not change
the backend name.
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