"Filter" middleware cannot change URL

[bentomas]

I'm trying to write a middleware that looks at the extension of the requested page, strips it from the requested URL, and adds a 'format' property matching the mime-type of the extension. But no matter what, the URL gets set back to what it was before.

Even if I pass a new request object (with next) the URL still cannot be changed.

This seems like important functionality to give to middlewares.

This seems to happen because of line 223 in index.js. I'm not sure what the best solution is, but I think it is probably not to have any routing happening at all in Connect but relegate it to middlewares. That would certainly be more rack like. Either that or before line 223 do a check to see if you are dealing with the same URL and if not don't set it.

[bentomas]

Sure enough, commenting out that line fixes the problem immediately.

[tj]

Fixed url rewriting. Closed by 2818baf

• Added examples/url-rewrite

The example shows super basic url rewriting with
format support. This could potentially be used for
several things including i18n

[bentomas]

Awesome! Thanks!