Getting the time or client ip address

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 08:45:39AM -0500, Fred Palmer wrote:

> Thanks for the idea, however going into the embedded Perl module is
> not really an option for our installation of Nginx.  Can you recommend
> another method to retrieve a pseudo-random number upon each request to
> serve as a numbered variable?  A number between 1-100 would be
> perfect.  We want to just serve up different versions of our home page
> without going through the proxy to apache.  The idea is to have
> version of the homepage named something like home_001.html,
> home_002.html, home_003.html or something similar.

Currently - no. I have plan to add functions (like variables) to nginx.

Also simple variable C module could be written that creates $rand varibale
returning random value 1-100.

> Thanks,
> Fred
> 
> On 8/11/07, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 05:00:04PM +0000, Fred Palmer wrote:
> >
> > > I want to write a rewrite rule that will serve a file based on a pseudo-random
> > > variable such as time or client ip address.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to set that to a variable?
> >
> > http {
> >
> >     perl_set  $name  '
> >
> >         sub {
> >             my $r = shift;
> >             my $a = $r->remote_addr;
> >
> >             # any perl code changing $a
> >
> >             return $a;
> >         }
> >
> >     ';
> >
> >
> >     server {
> >         ...
> >
> >         location = /some_file {
> >             alias    /path/to/file/$name;
> >         }
> >
> >         # or
> >
> >         location / {
> >             rewrite   ...   ...$name... break;
> >         }
> >
> >
> > --
> > Igor Sysoev
> > http://sysoev.ru/en/
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Fred Palmer | Senior Software Engineer
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> 

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Igor Sysoev
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