2.2 Mapping URLs to Paths

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2.1 | General
2.2 | Mapping URLs to Paths
2.3 | Sequencing
2.4 | Timeouts
2.5 | Lifting Procedures
2.6 | Filtering Requests
2.7 | Procedure Invocation upon Request
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2.9 | Password Protection
2.10 | Virtual Hosts
2.11 | Serving Files
2.12 | Serving Servlets
2.13 | Statistics
2.14 | Limiting Requests

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url->path/ c
make-url->path
make-url->valid-path
filter-url->path

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#### 2.2`` Mapping URLs to Paths

( require web-server/dispatchers/filesystem-map)

This module provides a means of mapping URLs to paths on the filesystem.

url->path/c : contract?

This contract is equivalent to (->* ( url?) ( path? ( listof path-element?))). The returned path? is the path on disk. The list is the list of path elements that correspond to the path of the URL.

( make-url->path base) → url->path/c
base : path-string?

The url-path/c returned by this procedure considers the root URL to be base. It ensures that ".."s in the URL do not escape the base and removes them silently otherwise.

( make-url->valid-path url->path) → url->path/c
url->path : url->path/c

Runs the underlying url->path, but only returns if the path refers to a file that actually exists. If it is does not, then the suffix elements of the URL are removed until a file is found. If this never occurs, then an error is thrown.
This is primarily useful for dispatchers that allow path information after the name of a service to be used for data, but where the service is represented by a file. The most prominent example is obviously servlets.

( filter-url->path regex url->path) → url->path/c
regex : regexp?
url->path : url->path/c

Runs the underlying url->path but will only return if the path, when considered as a string, matches the regex. This is useful to disallow strange files, like GIFs, from being considered servlets when using the servlet dispatchers. It will return a exn:fail:filesystem:exists? exception if the path does not match.
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