[Catalyst] Help with static and RegEx

[Will Hawes]

I think ideally Catalyst should test for that and throw an error.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Mike McKay <mike at vdomck.org>
To: The elegant MVC web framework <catalyst at lists.rawmode.org>
Sent: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:48:19 +0100
Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Help with static and RegEx


> Answering my own question:
> 
> Mike McKay wrote:
> > So I am trying to serve all static pages out of the root directory. 
> > Should be simple, but I am having trouble. It seems that the regex 
> > matches, but then the handler doesn't execute:
> > 
> > # match anything after the slash that is not a slash
> > sub files : Regex('/*([^/]*\.(css|js|html))$') {
> 
> <snip/>
> 
> > code in the files method it never shows it. What is happening?
> 
>  From the documentation:
> ---
> If you want to pass variable arguments at the end of a URL, you must
> use regex actions keys with '^' and '$' anchors, and the arguments must
> be separated with forward slashes (/) in the URL
> ---
> 
> So boys and girls, today Mike learned that all RegEx URL handlers need 
> to start with a caret.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mike
> 
> 
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