[users@httpd] Q: How to config for multi-MIME type of a given resource

[Paul Kuykendall <Pa...@argodata.com>]

Hi,

I need some help finding the relevant documentation and/or a solution for the following.

Problem:

I have an Apache httpd server that I want to use to serve a variety of different formats for the same resource URL.  Some of the resources are simple static files (OWL2 ontologies in this case serialized as both RDF/XML and Turtle).

Additionally I have a Tomcat service that I want to use to silently intercept  requests text/html and application/xhmtl versions of the resource.

I want the url rewrite/redirect/proxy to be invisible to the caller  (http://example.com/ontology.owl with an Accept: text/html should go to  http://example.com/parrot/parrot?documentUri=http://example.com/ontology.owl to generate the proper HTML documentation output but not change the URL as a  RewriteRule does, so that the user still thinks the URL is  http://example.com/ontology.owl

Use cases:

GET http://example.com/v1/ontology.owl (Accept: application/rdf+xml)
Returns the /v1/ontology.owl file found in the htdocs

GET http://example.com/v1/ontology.owl (Accept: text/turtle)
Returns the /v1/ontology.owl.ttl file found in the htdocs

GET http://example.com/v1/ontology.owl (Accept: text/html)
Returns the response from forwarding the request to a Tomcat webapp running at
http://example.com/parrot/parrot?documentUri=http://example.com/ontology.owl

Additionally, I would like the URL to remain http://example.com/v1/ontology.owl and  not get rewritten or redirected where the client sees the webapp service's URL.

I currently have the following rewrite rules in place that do most of what I want.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} !application/rdf\+xml.*(text/html|application/xhtml\+xml)
RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} text/html [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} application/xhtml\+xml
RewriteRule ^/v1/ontology.owl$ http://example.com/parrot/parrot?documentUri=http://example.com/v1/ontology.owl [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} application/rdf\+xml
RewriteRule ^/v1/ontology.owl$ /v1/ontology.owl [L]

# Rewrite rule to serve RDF/XML content from the vocabulary URI if requested
RewriteCond %{HTTP_ACCEPT} text/turtle
RewriteRule ^/v1/ontology.owl$ /v1/ontology.owl.ttl [L,R=303]

# Choose the default response
# ---------------------------
# Rewrite rule to serve the RDF/XML content from the vocabulary URI by default
RewriteRule ^/v1/ontology.owl$ /v1/ontology.owl [L]


How do I set up the config to handle the browser-friendly formats as described above?

Any help would be appreciated.  I've looked through the docs and searched the  net, but am at a loss on figuring this one out.

Thank you very much for reading through this massive wall of text.  I appreciate any help given.

/Paul
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