integrate mod_rewrite into http_script_module

[Ezra Zygmuntowicz]

On May 1, 2007, at 1:43 PM, Igor Sysoev wrote:

> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 04:30:16PM +0000, Evan Miller wrote:
>
>> Aleksandar Lazic <al-nginx at ...> writes:
>>
>>> I have yust read into the russian list that Igor plans to  
>>> integrate the
>>> mod_rewrite functions into the http_script_module.
>>
>> Sorry for my confusion, but can you explain a bit more what Igor  
>> plans? Will we
>> be able to embed script directly into nginx.conf? Is mod_rewrite  
>> going away in
>> favor of http_script_module?
>
> Currently I want to replace ngx_http_rewrite_module with
> ngx_http_script_module only. I want to remove the "rewrite" directive,
> disable all static directives inside the "if" blocks, and leave only
> assignments, flow control, and some special directives as  
> proxy_pass and
> fastcgi_pass inside "if" blocks.
>
>> And when would the script block? Would it be accessing disk or the  
>> network to
>> get configuration? It might be nice especially for large sites to  
>> store
>> configuration information in an external file or database, and  
>> then access it
>> with an embedded script.
>
> Non-blocking behaviour means that evaluating $forbidden variable for
>
>    if ($forbidden) {
>        return  403;
>    }
>
> may include long query to remote site, and script VM should understand
> EAGAIN result when asks for variable, then it should return control
> to nginx, and then re-ask variable when it will be available and
> continue to execute the script code.
>
>
> -- 
> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/
>

	This sounds very interesting, can you tell us what VM's and embeded  
languages you are considering? ANd you are saying that rewrite will  
be gone and replaced with scripts in this embeded lang?

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