- URL Locations
With an application in mind, it is tempting to make all URL locations
short and directly connected to the root (/
).
This is
not a good idea. It is advised to have all locations in a
server below a directory with an informative name. Consider to make the
root location something that can be changed using a global setting.
- Page generating code can easily be reused. Using locations directly
below the root however increases the likelihood of conflicts.
- Multiple servers can be placed behind the same public server as
explained in section 3.14.7. Using
a common and fairly unique root, redirection is much easier and less
likely to lead to conflicts.
- Debugging
Debugging multi-threaded applications is possible using the graphical
debugger. This implies requires that the xpce extension package must be
installed. Spy-points may be placed using tspy/1.
- URL/URI manipulation
Sometimes an http_handler/3
needs to inspect or normalize the URL. There are various utility
predicates in library(uri)
, such as uri_components/2,
uri_data/4, uri_edit/3, uri_nomalized/2,
etc.