Remove Control Servlet in customized application

[euronymous]

Hi list

we were looking around possibilities to remove the Control Servlet from a customized application, in a way that the frontend will not contain in the URL /control/.

Is there a way to do that directly in the application web.xml descriptor? That's just a strange request of one of our customers...for us it is definitely ok to leave it ;) But you all know that customer request must be satisfied (as much as we can)...

We tried urlrewrite, without totally success. Using a rule like the following one, we were able to filter the content generated from response.encodeURL:

 <outbound-rule>
        <note>
            When response.encodeURL is called (RequestHandler.encodeURL)
            the url /control/something will be rewritten to /something.

            The above rule and this outbound-rule means that end users should never see the
            url /control/something /something both in thier location bar and in hyperlinks
            in your pages.
        </note>
        <from>^/control/(.*)$</from>
        <to>/$1</to>
    </outbound-rule>

Anyway we need also another rule to filter input...something like this (not working):

 <rule>
        <note>
            Requests without /control/ will be silently rewritten.
        </note>
       
        <from>^/(.+)$</from>
        <to>/control/$1</to>
    </rule>

I've read that months ago Jaques was speaking on urlrewrite...
Is there someone that had our same necessity before?

Thanks list, thanks Ofbiz developers

Michele Orrù

[Jacques Le Roux]

Please use rather user ML for such questions, see why here :
http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBADMIN/Mailing+Lists#MailingLists-DeveloperList:dev@...

Thanks

Jacques
PS: Did you consider to use Apache HTTPD mod_rewrite module rather ?

From: "euronymous" <[hidden email]>

>
> Hi list
>
> we were looking around possibilities to remove the Control Servlet from a
> customized application, in a way that the frontend will not contain in the
> URL /control/.
>
> Is there a way to do that directly in the application web.xml descriptor?
> That's just a strange request of one of our customers...for us it is
> definitely ok to leave it ;) But you all know that customer request must be
> satisfied (as much as we can)...
>
> We tried urlrewrite, without totally success. Using a rule like the
> following one, we were able to filter the content generated from
> response.encodeURL:
>
> <outbound-rule>
>        <note>
>            When response.encodeURL is called (RequestHandler.encodeURL)
>            the url /control/something will be rewritten to /something.
>
>            The above rule and this outbound-rule means that end users
> should never see the
>            url /control/something /something both in thier location bar and
> in hyperlinks
>            in your pages.
>        </note>
>        <from>^/control/(.*)$</from>
>        <to>/$1</to>
>    </outbound-rule>
>
> Anyway we need also another rule to filter input...something like this (not
> working):
>
> <rule>
>        <note>
>            Requests without /control/ will be silently rewritten.
>        </note>
>
>        <from>^/(.+)$</from>
>        <to>/control/$1</to>
>    </rule>
>
> I've read that months ago Jaques was speaking on urlrewrite...
> Is there someone that had our same necessity before?
>
> Thanks list, thanks Ofbiz developers
>
> Michele Orrù
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