[webteam] servers.xml

[Peter Saint-Andre]

On 05/19/2008 10:09 AM, Tobias Markmann wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 05/19/2008 6:38 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>> On 05/18/2008 11:00 PM, Tobias Markmann wrote:
>>>> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 09:19:11PM +0100, Kevin Smith wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>   It seems that Qt's HTTP support doesn't support redirects
>>>>>> gracefully, meaning that the server list in Psi doesn't work now that
>>>>>> the list has moved. We can change the URL for future versions, but
>>>>>> there are a lot of old versions that won't be upgraded soon. Can we
>>>>>> reinstate the old URL directly, instead of a redirect, please?
>>>>> I think the problem is that these two conflict:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.jabber.org/servers (Drupal page)
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.jabber.org/servers.xml (flat file)
>>>>>
>>>>> That's why we had to rename the file. I'm open to other solutions if we
>>>>> can find them.
>>>>>
>>>>> /psa
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> You could add a speacial rewrite rule exactly for the servers.xml URL.
>>> Good point -- I'll do that.
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>> In fact we already have this in the Apache config:
>>
>> RewriteRule   ^/servers.xml$ http://www.jabber.org/basicservers.xml
>> [R=permanent]
>>
>> But I think Kev is saying that the library he uses doesn't support
>> redirects.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> --
>> Peter Saint-Andre
>> https://stpeter.im/
>>
> 
> Here[1] under Dynamic Mirror they use the [P] flag at the end. So the server
> acts as proxy to that file and if servers.xml is requested it just returns
> the content of basicservers.xml instead of sending an external redirect
> request.
> 
> Tobias
> 
> 
> [1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html#ToC1
> 

Yes, and that results in a 403 Forbidden error. :)

P

-- 
Peter Saint-Andre
https://stpeter.im/

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