From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2004-08-10T14:10:41+09:00
Subject: Re: mod_ruby used to mimic rewrite

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:03:54 +0900, jm wrote
> This has got me as far as having one possible solution. It's not 
> exactly what I was after as I would have been able to indicate any 
> arbitrary directory instead of just tweaking the uri.  This limits 
> it to being under document root unless anyone can think of a simple 
> way for this arbitrary method would working this uri rewrite will 
> do. Time to run out the door again. Thanks.

Move to an earlier phase for your handler.  If your handler is a 
RubyInitHandler, I believe you should be able to alter the request pretty 
freely as your Ruby code will gain access to it very early in the process of 
handling it.


Good luck,

Kirk Haines