[Catalyst] RFC for plugin to strip script name from URI; plugin name + code review

[Ashley]

On Apr 6, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Matt S Trout wrote:
>> .htaccess # This one implies a / deployment.
>> -----------------------
>>  DirectoryIndex myapp.fcgi index.html
>>
>>  RewriteEngine on
>>
>>  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !myapp.fcgi$
>>  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
>>  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*[^/])$
>>  RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [QSA,L,R=301]
>>
>>  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}   !-d
>>  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}   !-f
>>  RewriteRule ^(.*) /myapp.fcgi/$1 [QSA,L]
>
> Isn't it possible in mod_rewrite to use the P flag to pass the  
> original
> URI through so it things it was at / in the first place?

An excellent question to which I don't know the answer. I'll play  
around with it later.

-Ashley