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Feature Requests: gzip and redirection

From:

Mathijs Kwik

Date:

2011-08-12 @ 11:10

Hi all,

At the moment nginx is my front end webserver, and I would like to
replace it with mongrel2.
Since mongrel2 can proxy to old http applications, I can transition to
handlers bit by bit, which is great.

However, nginx currently does 2 things that mongrel2 doesn't do yet.
- on-the-fly gzipping (is this gonna become a filter?)
- redirecting

For quite a few customers, they have alternate domain names that need
to redirect to the main one.
Listening on the alternate domain names is not what they want, they
want only 1 domain name to be "known" as their url, and shown in the
url bar. Also, in some cases they want "buy-cars.com" to redirect to
"superstore.com/cars".
It would be great if mongrel2 would have a Redirect target, next to
Dir,Proxy and Handler.

Are these 2 features that belong to mongrel2 eventually? Or is there a
strong reason to have them be handled by something else?

Thanks,
Mathijs

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 01:10:40PM +0200, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> At the moment nginx is my front end webserver, and I would like to
> replace it with mongrel2.

Yep, this is coming soon.

-- 
Zed A. Shaw
http://zedshaw.com/

nice, thanks

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Zed A. Shaw <zedshaw@zedshaw.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 01:10:40PM +0200, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> At the moment nginx is my front end webserver, and I would like to
>> replace it with mongrel2.
>
> Yep, this is coming soon.
>
> --
> Zed A. Shaw
> http://zedshaw.com/
>