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-{{{
-#!rst
-==============
-a power-magnet
-==============
-
-------------------
-Module: mod_magnet
-------------------
-
-
-
-.. contents:: Table of Contents
-
-Requirements
-============
-
-:Version: lighttpd 1.4.12 or higher
-:Packages: lua >= 5.1
-
-Overview
-========
-
-mod_magnet is a module to control the request handling in lighty.
-
-.. note::
-
- Keep in mind that the magnet is executed in the core of lighty. EVERY long-running operation is blocking
- ALL connections in the server. You are warned. For time-consuming or blocking scripts use mod_fastcgi and friends.
-
-For performance reasons mod_magnet caches the compiled script. For each script-run the script itself is checked for
-freshness and recompile if neccesary.
-
-
-Installation
-============
-
-mod_magnet needs a lighty which is compiled with the lua-support ( --with-lua). Lua 5.1 or higher are required by
-the module. Use "--with-lua=lua5.1" to install on Debian and friends. ::
-
- server.modules = ( ..., "mod_magnet", ... )
-
-Options
-=======
-
-mod_magnet can attract a request in several stages in the request-handling.
-
-* either at the same level as mod_rewrite, before any parsing of the URL is done
-* or at a later stage, when the doc-root is known and the physical-path is already setup
-
-It depends on the purpose of the script which stage you want to intercept. Usually you want to use
-the 2nd stage where the physical-path which relates to your request is known. At this level you
-can run checks against lighty.env["physical.path"].
-
-::
-
- magnet.attract-raw-url-to = ( ... )
- magnet.attract-physical-path-to = ( ... )
-
-You can define multiple scripts when separated by a semicolon. The scripts are executed in the specified
-order. If one of them a returning a status-code, the following scripts will not be executed.
-
-Tables
-======
-
-Most of the interaction between between mod_magnet and lighty is done through tables. Tables in lua are hashes (Perl), dictionaries (Java), arrays (PHP), ...
-
-Request-Environment
--------------------
-
-Lighttpd has its internal variables which are exported as read/write to the magnet.
-
-If "http://example.org/search.php?q=lighty" is requested this results in a request like ::
-
- GET /search.php?q=lighty HTTP/1.1
- Host: example.org
-
-When you are using ``attract-raw-url-to`` you can access the following variables:
-
-* parts of the request-line
-
- * lighty.env["request.uri"] = "/search.php?q=lighty"
-
-* HTTP request-headers
-
- * lighty.request["Host"] = "example.org"
-
-Later in the request-handling, the URL is splitted, cleaned up and turned into a physical path name:
-
-* parts of the URI
-
- * lighty.env["uri.path"] = "/search.php"
- * lighty.env["uri.path-raw"] = "/search.php"
- * lighty.env["uri.scheme"] = "http"
- * lighty.env["uri.authority"] = "example.org"
- * lighty.env["uri.query"] = "q=lighty"
-
-* filenames, pathnames
-
- * lighty.env["physical.path"] = "/my-docroot/search.php"
- * lighty.env["physical.rel-path"] = "/search.php"
- * lighty.env["physical.doc-root"] = "/my-docroot"
-
-All of them are readable, not all of the are writable (or don't have an effect if you write to them).
-
-As a start, you might want to use those variables for writing: ::
-
- -- 1. simple rewriting is done via the request.uri
- lighty.env["request.uri"] = ...
- return lighty.RESTART_REQUEST
-
- -- 2. changing the physical-path
- lighty.env["physical.path"] = ...
-
- -- 3. changing the query-string
- lighty.env["uri.query"] = ...
-
-Response Headers
-----------------
-
-If you want to set a response header for your request, you can add a field to the lighty.header[] table: ::
-
- lighty.header["Content-Type"] = "text/html"
-
-Sending Content
-===============
-
-You can generate your own content and send it out to the clients. ::
-
- lighty.content = { "<pre>", { filename = "/etc/passwd" }, "</pre>" }
- lighty.header["Content-Type"] = "text/html"
-
- return 200
-
-The lighty.content[] table is executed when the script is finished. The elements of the array are processed left to right and the elements can either be a string or a table. Strings are included AS IS into the output of the request.
-
-* Strings
-
- * are included as is
-
-* Tables
-
- * filename = "<absolute-path>" is required
- * offset = <number> [default: 0]
- * length = <number> [default: size of the file - offset]
-
-Internally lighty will use the sendfile() call to send out the static files at full speed.
-
-Status Codes
-============
-
-You might have seen it already in other examples: In case you are handling the request completly in the magnet you
-can return your own status-codes. Examples are: Redirected, Input Validation, ... ::
-
- if (lighty.env["uri.scheme"] == "http") then
- lighty.header["Location"] = "https://" .. lighty.env["uri.authority"] .. lighty.env["request.uri"]
- return 302
- end
-
-You every number above and equal to 100 is taken as final status code and finishes the request. No other modules are
-executed after this return.
-
-A special return-code is lighty.RESTART_REQUEST (currently equal to 99) which is usually used in combination with
-changing the request.uri in a rewrite. It restarts the splitting of the request-uri again.
-
-If you return nothing (or nil) the request-handling just continues.
-
-Debugging
-=========
-
-To easy debugging we overloaded the print()-function in lua and redirect the output of print() to the error-log. ::
-
- print("Host: " .. lighty.request["Host"])
- print("Request-URI: " .. lighty.env["request.uri"])
-
-
-Examples
-========
-
-Sending text-files as HTML
---------------------------
-
-This is a bit simplistic, but it illustrates the idea: Take a text-file and cover it in a <pre> tag.
-
-Config-file ::
-
- magnet.attract-physical-path-to = server.docroot + "/readme.lua"
-
-readme.lua ::
-
- lighty.content = { "<pre>", { filename = "/README" }, "</pre>" }
- lighty.header["Content-Type"] = "text/html"
-
- return 200
-
-Maintainance pages
-------------------
-
-Your side might be on maintainance from time to time. Instead of shutting down the server confusing all
-users, you can just send a maintainance page.
-
-Config-file ::
-
- magnet.attract-physical-path-to = server.docroot + "/maintainance.lua"
-
-maintainance.lua ::
-
- require "lfs"
-
- if (nil == lfs.attributes(lighty.env["physical.doc-root"] .. "/maintainance.html")) then
- lighty.content = ( lighty.env["physical.doc-root"] .. "/maintainance.html" )
-
- lighty.header["Content-Type"] = "text/html"
-
- return 200
- end
-
-mod_flv_streaming
------------------
-
-Config-file ::
-
- magnet.attract-physical-path-to = server.docroot + "/flv-streaming.lua"
-
-flv-streaming.lua::
-
- if (lighty.env["uri.query"]) then
- -- split the query-string
- get = {}
- for k, v in string.gmatch(lighty.env["uri.query"], "(%w+)=(%w+)") do
- get[k] = v
- end
-
- if (get["start"]) then
- -- missing: check if start is numeric and positive
-
- -- send te FLV header + a seek into the file
- lighty.content = { "FLV\x1\x1\0\0\0\x9\0\0\0\x9",
- { filename = lighty.env["physical.path"], offset = get["start"] } }
- lighty.header["Content-Type"] = "video/x-flv"
-
- return 200
- end
- end
-
-
-selecting a random file from a directory
-----------------------------------------
-
-Say, you want to send a random file (ad-content) from a directory.
-
-To simplify the code and to improve the performance we define:
-
-* all images have the same format (e.g. image/png)
-* all images use increasing numbers starting from 1
-* a special index-file names the highest number
-
-Config ::
-
- server.modules += ( "mod_magnet" )
- magnet.attract-physical-path-to = "random.lua"
-
-random.lua ::
-
- dir = lighty.env["physical.path"]
-
- f = assert(io.open(dir .. "/index", "r"))
- maxndx = f:read("*all")
- f:close()
-
- ndx = math.random(maxndx)
-
- lighty.content = { { filename = dir .. "/" .. ndx }}
- lighty.header["Content-Type"] = "image/png"
-
- return 200
-
-denying illegal character sequences in the URL
-----------------------------------------------
-
-Instead of implementing mod_security, you might just want to apply filters on the content
-and deny special sequences that look like SQL injection.
-
-A common injection is using UNION to extend a query with another SELECT query.
-
-::
-
- if (string.find(lighty.env["request.uri"], "UNION%s")) then
- return 400
- end
-
-Traffic Quotas
---------------
-
-If you only allow your virtual hosts a certain amount for traffic each month and want to
-disable them if the traffic is reached, perhaps this helps: ::
-
- host_blacklist = { ["www.example.org"] = 0 }
-
- if (host_blacklist[lighty.request["Host"]]) then
- return 404
- end
-
-Just add the hosts you want to blacklist into the blacklist table in the shown way.
-
-Complex rewrites
-----------------
-
-If you want to implement caching on your document-root and only want to regenerate
-content if the requested file doesn't exist, you can attract the physical.path: ::
-
- magnet.attract-physical-path-to = ( server.document-root + "/rewrite.lua" )
-
-rewrite.lua ::
-
- require "lfs"
-
- attr = lfs.attributes(lighty.env["physical.path"])
-
- if (not attr) then
- -- we couldn't stat() the file for some reason
- -- let the backend generate it
-
- lighty.env["uri.path"] = "/dispatch.fcgi"
- lighty.env["physical.rel-path"] = lighty.env["uri.path"]
- lighty.env["physical.path"] = lighty.env["physical.doc-root"] .. lighty.env["physical.rel-path"]
- fi
-
-luafilesystem
-+++++++++++++
-
-We are requiring the lua-module 'lfs' (http://www.keplerproject.org/luafilesystem/).
-
-I had to compile lfs myself for lua-5.1 which required a minor patch as compat-5.1 is not needed::
-
- $ wget http://luaforge.net/frs/download.php/1487/luafilesystem-1.2.tar.gz
- $ wget http://www.lighttpd.net/download/luafilesystem-1.2-lua51.diff
- $ gzip -cd luafilesystem-1.2.tar.gz | tar xf -
- $ cd luafilesystem-1.2
- $ patch -ls -p1 < ../luafilesystem-1.2-lua51.diff
- $ make install
-
-It will install lfs.so into /usr/lib/lua/5.1/ which is where lua expects the extensions on my system.
-
-SuSE and Gentoo are known to have their own lfs packages and don't require a compile.
-
-Usertracking
-------------
-
-... or how to store data globally in the script-context:
-
-Each script has its own script-context. When the script is started it only contains the lua-functions
-and the special lighty.* name-space. If you want to save data between script runs, you can use the global-script
-context:
-
-::
-
- if (nil == _G["usertrack"]) then
- _G["usertrack"] = {}
- end
- if (nil == _G["usertrack"][lighty.request["Cookie"]]) then
- _G["usertrack"][lighty.request["Cookie"]]
- else
- _G["usertrack"][lighty.request["Cookie"]] = _G["usertrack"][lighty.request["Cookie"]] + 1
- end
-
- print _G["usertrack"][lighty.request["Cookie"]]
-
-The global-context is per script. If you update the script without restarting the server, the context will still be maintained.
-
-Counters
---------
-
-mod_status support a global statistics page and mod_magnet allows to add and update values in the status page:
-
-Config ::
-
- status.statistics-url = "/server-counters"
- magnet.attract-raw-url-to = server.docroot + "/counter.lua"
-
-counter.lua ::
-
- lighty.status["core.connections"] = lighty.status["core.connections"] + 1
-
-Result::
-
- core.connections: 7
- fastcgi.backend.php-foo.0.connected: 0
- fastcgi.backend.php-foo.0.died: 0
- fastcgi.backend.php-foo.0.disabled: 0
- fastcgi.backend.php-foo.0.load: 0
- fastcgi.backend.php-foo.0.overloaded: 0
- fastcgi.backend.php-foo.1.connected: 0
- fastcgi.backend.php-foo.1.died: 0
- fastcgi.backend.php-foo.1.disabled: 0
- fastcgi.backend.php-foo.1.load: 0
- fastcgi.backend.php-foo.1.overloaded: 0
- fastcgi.backend.php-foo.load: 0
-
-Porting mod_cml scripts
------------------------
-
-mod_cml got replaced by mod_magnet.
-
-A CACHE_HIT in mod_cml::
-
- output_include = { "file1", "file2" }
-
- return CACHE_HIT
-
-becomes::
-
- content = { { filename = "/path/to/file1" }, { filename = "/path/to/file2"} }
-
- return 200
-
-while a CACHE_MISS like (CML) ::
-
- trigger_handler = "/index.php"
-
- return CACHE_MISS
-
-becomes (magnet) ::
-
- lighty.env["request.uri"] = "/index.php"
-
- return lighty.RESTART_REQUEST
-
-}}} \ No newline at end of file
+{{{
+#!rst
+==============
+a power-magnet
+==============
+
+------------------
+Module: mod_magnet
+------------------
+
+
+
+.. contents:: Table of Contents
+
+Requirements
+============
+
+:Version: lighttpd 1.4.12 or higher
+:Packages: lua >= 5.1
+
+Overview
+========
+
+mod_magnet is a module to control the request handling in lighty.
+
+.. note::
+
+ Keep in mind that the magnet is executed in the core of lighty. EVERY long-running operation is blocking
+ ALL connections in the server. You are warned. For time-consuming or blocking scripts use mod_fastcgi and friends.
+
+For performance reasons mod_magnet caches the compiled script. For each script-run the script itself is checked for
+freshness and recompile if neccesary.
+
+
+Installation
+============
+
+mod_magnet needs a lighty which is compiled with the lua-support ( --with-lua). Lua 5.1 or higher are required by
+the module. Use "--with-lua=lua5.1" to install on Debian and friends. ::
+
+ server.modules = ( ..., "mod_magnet", ... )
+
+Options
+=======
+
+mod_magnet can attract a request in several stages in the request-handling.
+
+* either at the same level as mod_rewrite, before any parsing of the URL is done
+* or at a later stage, when the doc-root is known and the physical-path is already setup
+
+It depends on the purpose of the script which stage you want to intercept. Usually you want to use
+the 2nd stage where the physical-path which relates to your request is known. At this level you
+can run checks against lighty.env["physical.path"].
+
+::
+
+ magnet.attract-raw-url-to = ( ... )
+ magnet.attract-physical-path-to = ( ... )
+
+You can define multiple scripts when separated by a semicolon. The scripts are executed in the specified
+order. If one of them a returning a status-code, the following scripts will not be executed.
+
+Tables
+======
+
+Most of the interaction between between mod_magnet and lighty is done through tables. Tables in lua are hashes (Perl), dictionaries (Java), arrays (PHP), ...
+
+Request-Environment
+-------------------
+
+Lighttpd has its internal variables which are exported as read/write to the magnet.
+
+If "http://example.org/search.php?q=lighty" is requested this results in a request like ::
+
+ GET /search.php?q=lighty HTTP/1.1
+ Host: example.org
+
+When you are using ``attract-raw-url-to`` you can access the following variables:
+
+* parts of the request-line
+
+ * lighty.env["request.uri"] = "/search.php?q=lighty"
+
+* HTTP request-headers
+
+ * lighty.request["Host"] = "example.org"
+
+Later in the request-handling, the URL is splitted, cleaned up and turned into a physical path name:
+
+* parts of the URI
+
+ * lighty.env["uri.path"] = "/search.php"
+ * lighty.env["uri.path-raw"] = "/search.php"
+ * lighty.env["uri.scheme"] = "http"
+ * lighty.env["uri.authority"] = "example.org"
+ * lighty.env["uri.query"] = "q=lighty"
+
+* filenames, pathnames
+
+ * lighty.env["physical.path"] = "/my-docroot/search.php"
+ * lighty.env["physical.rel-path"] = "/search.php"
+ * lighty.env["physical.doc-root"] = "/my-docroot"
+
+All of them are readable, not all of the are writable (or don't have an effect if you write to them).
+
+As a start, you might want to use those variables for writing: ::
+
+ -- 1. simple rewriting is done via the request.uri
+ lighty.env["request.uri"] = ...
+ return lighty.RESTART_REQUEST
+
+ -- 2. changing the physical-path
+ lighty.env["physical.path"] = ...
+
+ -- 3. changing the query-string
+ lighty.env["uri.query"] = ...
+
+Response Headers
+----------------
+
+If you want to set a response header for your request, you can add a field to the lighty.header[] table: ::
+
+ lighty.header["Content-Type"] = "text/html"
+
+Sending Content
+===============
+
+You can generate your own content and send it out to the clients. ::
+
+ lighty.content = { "<pre>", { filename = "/etc/passwd" }, "</pre>" }
+ lighty.header["Content-Type"] = "text/html"
+
+ return 200
+
+The lighty.content[] table is executed when the script is finished. The elements of the array are processed left to right and the elements can either be a string or a table. Strings are included AS IS into the output of the request.
+
+* Strings
+
+ * are included as is
+
+* Tables
+
+ * filename = "<absolute-path>" is required
+ * offset = <number> [default: 0]
+ * length = <number> [default: size of the file - offset]
+
+Internally lighty will use the sendfile() call to send out the static files at full speed.
+
+Status Codes
+============
+
+You might have seen it already in other examples: In case you are handling the request completly in the magnet you
+can return your own status-codes. Examples are: Redirected, Input Validation, ... ::
+
+ if (lighty.env["uri.scheme"] == "http") then
+ lighty.header["Location"] = "https://" .. lighty.env["uri.authority"] .. lighty.env["request.uri"]
+ return 302
+ end
+
+You every number above and equal to 100 is taken as final status code and finishes the request. No other modules are
+executed after this return.
+
+A special return-code is lighty.RESTART_REQUEST (currently equal to 99) which is usually used in combination with
+changing the request.uri in a rewrite. It restarts the splitting of the request-uri again.
+
+If you return nothing (or nil) the request-handling just continues.
+
+Debugging
+=========
+
+To easy debugging we overloaded the print()-function in lua and redirect the output of print() to the error-log. ::
+
+ print("Host: " .. lighty.request["Host"])
+ print("Request-URI: " .. lighty.env["request.uri"])
+
+
+Examples
+========
+
+Sending text-files as HTML
+--------------------------
+
+This is a bit simplistic, but it illustrates the idea: Take a text-file and cover it in a <pre> tag.
+
+Config-file ::
+
+ magnet.attract-physical-path-to = server.docroot + "/readme.lua"
+
+readme.lua ::
+
+ lighty.content = { "<pre>", { filename = "/README" }, "</pre>" }
+ lighty.header["Content-Type"] = "text/html"
+
+ return 200
+
+Maintainance pages
+------------------
+
+Your side might be on maintainance from time to time. Instead of shutting down the server confusing all
+users, you can just send a maintainance page.
+
+Config-file ::
+
+ magnet.attract-physical-path-to = server.docroot + "/maintainance.lua"
+
+maintainance.lua ::
+
+ require "lfs"
+
+ if (nil == lfs.attributes(lighty.env["physical.doc-root"] .. "/maintainance.html")) then
+ lighty.content = ( lighty.env["physical.doc-root"] .. "/maintainance.html" )
+
+ lighty.header["Content-Type"] = "text/html"
+
+ return 200
+ end
+
+mod_flv_streaming
+-----------------
+
+Config-file ::
+
+ magnet.attract-physical-path-to = server.docroot + "/flv-streaming.lua"
+
+flv-streaming.lua::
+
+ if (lighty.env["uri.query"]) then
+ -- split the query-string
+ get = {}
+ for k, v in string.gmatch(lighty.env["uri.query"], "(%w+)=(%w+)") do
+ get[k] = v
+ end
+
+ if (get["start"]) then
+ -- missing: check if start is numeric and positive
+
+ -- send te FLV header + a seek into the file
+ lighty.content = { "FLV\x1\x1\0\0\0\x9\0\0\0\x9",
+ { filename = lighty.env["physical.path"], offset = get["start"] } }
+ lighty.header["Content-Type"] = "video/x-flv"
+
+ return 200
+ end
+ end
+
+
+selecting a random file from a directory
+----------------------------------------
+
+Say, you want to send a random file (ad-content) from a directory.
+
+To simplify the code and to improve the performance we define:
+
+* all images have the same format (e.g. image/png)
+* all images use increasing numbers starting from 1
+* a special index-file names the highest number
+
+Config ::
+
+ server.modules += ( "mod_magnet" )
+ magnet.attract-physical-path-to = "random.lua"
+
+random.lua ::
+
+ dir = lighty.env["physical.path"]
+
+ f = assert(io.open(dir .. "/index", "r"))
+ maxndx = f:read("*all")
+ f:close()
+
+ ndx = math.random(maxndx)
+
+ lighty.content = { { filename = dir .. "/" .. ndx }}
+ lighty.header["Content-Type"] = "image/png"
+
+ return 200
+
+denying illegal character sequences in the URL
+----------------------------------------------
+
+Instead of implementing mod_security, you might just want to apply filters on the content
+and deny special sequences that look like SQL injection.
+
+A common injection is using UNION to extend a query with another SELECT query.
+
+::
+
+ if (string.find(lighty.env["request.uri"], "UNION%s")) then
+ return 400
+ end
+
+Traffic Quotas
+--------------
+
+If you only allow your virtual hosts a certain amount for traffic each month and want to
+disable them if the traffic is reached, perhaps this helps: ::
+
+ host_blacklist = { ["www.example.org"] = 0 }
+
+ if (host_blacklist[lighty.request["Host"]]) then
+ return 404
+ end
+
+Just add the hosts you want to blacklist into the blacklist table in the shown way.
+
+Complex rewrites
+----------------
+
+If you want to implement caching on your document-root and only want to regenerate
+content if the requested file doesn't exist, you can attract the physical.path: ::
+
+ magnet.attract-physical-path-to = ( server.document-root + "/rewrite.lua" )
+
+rewrite.lua ::
+
+ require "lfs"
+
+ attr = lfs.attributes(lighty.env["physical.path"])
+
+ if (not attr) then
+ -- we couldn't stat() the file for some reason
+ -- let the backend generate it
+
+ lighty.env["uri.path"] = "/dispatch.fcgi"
+ lighty.env["physical.rel-path"] = lighty.env["uri.path"]
+ lighty.env["physical.path"] = lighty.env["physical.doc-root"] .. lighty.env["physical.rel-path"]
+ fi
+
+luafilesystem
++++++++++++++
+
+We are requiring the lua-module 'lfs' (http://www.keplerproject.org/luafilesystem/).
+
+I had to compile lfs myself for lua-5.1 which required a minor patch as compat-5.1 is not needed::
+
+ $ wget http://luaforge.net/frs/download.php/1487/luafilesystem-1.2.tar.gz
+ $ wget http://www.lighttpd.net/download/luafilesystem-1.2-lua51.diff
+ $ gzip -cd luafilesystem-1.2.tar.gz | tar xf -
+ $ cd luafilesystem-1.2
+ $ patch -ls -p1 < ../luafilesystem-1.2-lua51.diff
+ $ make install
+
+It will install lfs.so into /usr/lib/lua/5.1/ which is where lua expects the extensions on my system.
+
+SuSE and Gentoo are known to have their own lfs packages and don't require a compile.
+
+Usertracking
+------------
+
+... or how to store data globally in the script-context:
+
+Each script has its own script-context. When the script is started it only contains the lua-functions
+and the special lighty.* name-space. If you want to save data between script runs, you can use the global-script
+context:
+
+::
+
+ if (nil == _G["usertrack"]) then
+ _G["usertrack"] = {}
+ end
+ if (nil == _G["usertrack"][lighty.request["Cookie"]]) then
+ _G["usertrack"][lighty.request["Cookie"]]
+ else
+ _G["usertrack"][lighty.request["Cookie"]] = _G["usertrack"][lighty.request["Cookie"]] + 1
+ end
+
+ print _G["usertrack"][lighty.request["Cookie"]]
+
+The global-context is per script. If you update the script without restarting the server, the context will still be maintained.
+
+Counters
+--------
+
+mod_status support a global statistics page and mod_magnet allows to add and update values in the status page:
+
+Config ::
+
+ status.statistics-url = "/server-counters"
+ magnet.attract-raw-url-to = server.docroot + "/counter.lua"
+
+counter.lua ::
+
+ lighty.status["core.connections"] = lighty.status["core.connections"] + 1
+
+Result::
+
+ core.connections: 7
+ fastcgi.backend.php-foo.0.connected: 0
+ fastcgi.backend.php-foo.0.died: 0
+ fastcgi.backend.php-foo.0.disabled: 0
+ fastcgi.backend.php-foo.0.load: 0
+ fastcgi.backend.php-foo.0.overloaded: 0
+ fastcgi.backend.php-foo.1.connected: 0
+ fastcgi.backend.php-foo.1.died: 0
+ fastcgi.backend.php-foo.1.disabled: 0
+ fastcgi.backend.php-foo.1.load: 0
+ fastcgi.backend.php-foo.1.overloaded: 0
+ fastcgi.backend.php-foo.load: 0
+
+Porting mod_cml scripts
+-----------------------
+
+mod_cml got replaced by mod_magnet.
+
+A CACHE_HIT in mod_cml::
+
+ output_include = { "file1", "file2" }
+
+ return CACHE_HIT
+
+becomes::
+
+ content = { { filename = "/path/to/file1" }, { filename = "/path/to/file2"} }
+
+ return 200
+
+while a CACHE_MISS like (CML) ::
+
+ trigger_handler = "/index.php"
+
+ return CACHE_MISS
+
+becomes (magnet) ::
+
+ lighty.env["request.uri"] = "/index.php"
+
+ return lighty.RESTART_REQUEST
+
+}}}