Proposed Features

Features for 3.1

• Full mod_rewrite configuration support (including RewriteMap)

Later Releases

• Allowing UrlRewrite to be initialized and configured in a Spring application context

• Allowing UrlRewrite to be controlled at runtime using JMX (which could be done with almost no effort in a Spring-based env if UrlRewrite were more amenable)

• apache httpd configuration parser for tomcat. This would allow administrators to try tomcat without having to learn how to configure it. mod_rewrite style configuration is a critical component for this.

• user in role throw 403 if no match?

• ability to test new conf without having to reload, via status page

• allow condition matching on get-param or post-param as well as just parameter

• store list of robots and hide jsessionid when a robot also have condition

• allow mounting of packages from /xxxyyy/aaa.gif to org.tuckey.xxx.static."aaa.gif" http://wiki.opensymphony.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4476

• random condition type
• 2. A randomized condition, i.e. a condition which is true with a certain probability.
• 3. A round robin condition, i.e. a condition which is true every n-th time.

• backrefs in sets

• better debugging of server name matcher

• debugging tool (especially a googlebot client debugger, possibly add googlebot tag)

• ability to set request parameters

• ability to specify a $1 as $encode($1) (or something like that)

• <to-servlet>struts</to-servlet> will call context.getNamedDispatcher() to similar

• grouping of rule for default settings

• capture original (pre match) url into request attr so that people can use it

• a way to compare ALL parameters with a pattern?

• In Apache: RewriteEngine on
• RewriteMap upper2lower int:tolower
• RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /${upper2lower:$1}

• An analogue to this mod_rewrite feature:
• RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
• RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

• debug screen, ie, this request matches the following rules

• capture original full url (incl query string) into request attr so it can be used later