[webteam] servers.xml

[Matthew Wild]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im> wrote:
> 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. :)
>

The problem with the RewriteRule is that it starts
http://www.jabber.org/ which tells the server to use a redirect.
Change it to the filesystem path of basicservers.xml and it should
work fine I think.

Matthew.