[Nitro] New Nitro dispatcher proposal

[George Moschovitis]

Dear devs,

as promised I will describe my thoughts on the revised way of handling the
request uris that I would like to include in Nitro.

At the moment the request uri handling in Nitro is quite simple (but
surprisingly effective):


If the uri containts a '.' (in other words if there is a file extension)
  -> the request is handled by the front web server.
If the uri has no extension,
  -> append the .html extension and check if the file exists
     - yes? -> the request is handled by the front web server.
     - no? -> the request is handled by Nitro


I propose the following change:

If the uri contains no extension automatically add the .html extension
Does the file pointed to by the uri exist?
  - yes ? -> the request is handled by the front web server
  - no? -> the request is handled by Nitro (append x at the end of the
extension)

For example:

if request.uri == index, Nitro searches for

  index -> index.html
  index.html (front)
  index.htmlx / index action (nitro)
  content_type = text/html

if request.uri == screen.css, Nitro searches for

  screen.css (front)
  screen.cssx / screen__css action (nitro)
  content_type = text/css


I would love to hear your thoughts on this new scheme.


best regards,
George.





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