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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net> on 2007/03/26 19:17:33 UTC

s/mod_sed_filter/mod_rewrite_body/ ?

Rational

1. sed is a Turing complete language, this module does not attempt to be.
   http://sed.sourceforge.net/grabbag/scripts/turing.txt

2. filter has become implicit; any module handling the request body
   contents in cooperation with other modules is a filter.

3. 's'tream'ed'itor filter is redundant.  both edit_filter, or stream_edit
   would be completely descriptive (since a filter is a manipulation of
   a stream :)

If I had to speculate, I would expect the new module to grow additional
rewrite-like handling long before it grew language completeness.

The funny thing, as most sed implementations are GPL, we aren't likely
to clash with any implementation at the ASF, but more likely an outside
party who wants to implement the sed language filter for http.

Votes?