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Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 09:48:12 +0100
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Subject: Re: _rewrite handler
From: Benoit Chesneau <bchesneau@gmail.com>
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On Saturday, December 5, 2009, Roger Binns <rogerb@rogerbinns.com> wrote:
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> Benoit Chesneau wrote:
>> The design is very simple. Everything is managed via a simple
>> javascript function that return a path or throw 'forbidden',
>> 'unauthorized' and "not found" errors. The request object is passed to
>> the function and then depending on the path, verb or userCtx you could
>> decide how to rewrite the path.
>
> Is there any chance it could a document too? =A0For example it would be r=
eally
> nice if there was a document with an _id of "_rewrite_config" (or somethi=
ng
> similar) that was also passed to the function. =A0That document can then =
help
> parameterize what the rewriter does.
>
> Roger
what would do this doc?