what is simplest way to convert Request-URI to lowercase?

[Francis Daly]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 04:03:31PM +0700, Anh K. Huynh wrote:

Hi there,

> We are using nginx heavily. We need to rewrite all request URIs
> into lowercase, e.g,
> 
>   http://foo.bar/ThiS_will_be_Rewritten/?q=Foobar
> 
> will be translated into
> 
>   http://foo.bar/this_will_be_rewritten/?q=foobar

Why?

Depending on the answer, it may be more appropriate for your back-end
processor to do the conversion instead of nginx.

(Note: this isn't "please justify your needs"; this is "have you
considered the possible alternatives".)

If it turns out that nginx is the correct place to do this conversion,
then...

> I know some modules (Perl, Lua) can do this. My question is
> what the simplest way (module) to do that, because Perl/Lua
> seems to be overkill here ;)

The simplest module is the one that you (arrange to) write that does
exactly what you want and no more.

There doesn't appear to be a default-distributed module that does that.

You may be able to use or adapt the module named "Lower Upper Case"
listed at http://wiki.nginx.org/3rdPartyModules to do what you want.

There are the general-purpose embedded language modules that you could
use -- you have to decide whether the run-time "overkill" overhead
is more important that your build-time overhead to get the dedicated
module written.

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