From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@...>
Date: 2001-11-28T20:44:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26767] Re: CGI

James Britt (rubydev) wrote:

 > FWIW, I don't have access to the Apache conf files on rubyxml.com, so
 > directory-specific .htaccess files help out.

Thanks for the tips; my online server (.htaccess disabled) is all set 
up, thanks to Guy. My questions were just about my local one; there I 
can edit httpd.conf

 > You can also serve up Ruby-generated SVG files this way.  Set up a
 > directory where anything ending in .svg gets processed as a ruby
 > script; just make sure they *are* ruby scripts.   The files may need
 >to emit the correct content-type info.

.rb in URLs promotes Ruby ;)

So on rubynewbies.com, I have .svg for static SVGs, and .rb for Ruby 
programs. The latter serve XHTML, text, or SVG, and generate the 
appropriate MIMEtype. This is more flexible than associating MIMEtypes 
with extensions: one file for example can serve SVG with content-type 
image/svg+xml; if there's an error, it gets served with text/plain.

Then there's
http://www.rubynewbies.com/~tobi/show_source.rb?file=show_source.rb&format=.xhtml
which serves XHTML or text, depending on the params.
If the extension of the program were .xhtml, it would be wrong if 
text/plain is requested. If it were .txt, it would wrong if XHTML is 
requested.

So static files have static extensions and MIMEtypes, and dynamic files 
have one extension, and flexible MIMEtypes.

There are many different ways that work; this one works for me :)

Tobi


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