Rewriting https to http

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Jonathan Dance wrote:

>> One note:
>> 
>>       These strings are sorted internally from longest to shortest,
>>       allowing the most specific string to be matched first.
>> 
>> It's not correct. Please, correct my spell:
>> 
>>       nginx finds the longest match to conventional string.
>>       These strings are sorted internally in lexical order,
>>       so the search is terminstaed just when URI became
>>       lexically more than a string.
>
> I don't understand what you mean by "lexical order" - can you explain
> it in simpler terms or provide an example?

"abcdefgh" < "b"


Igor Sysoev
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