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Manlio,<br><br>Thanks for the suggestion, but when I propose this feature, it's exactly because I want to *avoid* something on top of Nginx (whether Perl, Python, PHP or anything else) !<br><br>My need is very simple. All I want is to be able to disallow Nginx to serve certain files based on filetime. This could be done in two ways:<br><br>1.<br>A directive which is off by default but which can be switched on in any of the standard places - most likely place would be in 'location'. Let me tentatively name this directive 'filetime_check'. If the directive is on, nginx would not serve any files with a filetime later than current server/request time. Instead it would return a 403 error so that we can distinguish between 'file not found' and 'access not allowed'.<br>You could then define something like:<br><br>location /ftc/ {filetime_check on;}<br><br>Any request for a file in location /ftc/ with a filetime later than request time (i.e. in the future) would then return 403.<br><br>2.<br>Independent from the above, it might be useful to be able to access the filetime of requested file for defining rewriting rules or for ssi. This could either be through a variable or through a function:<br><br>if ($date_gmt < fct($request_filename)) {do something, e.g. return 403;}<br><br>Nginx already has to check the last modification time of requested files, so adding a directive as proposed in 1 shouldn't put a lot of extra burden on it. Shouldn't be too hard to implement this myself privately, but I thought that others might find this useful as well and in that case an official feature is probably better.<br><br><br>Hendrik Hardeman<br><br><br><br><br>> Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:05:29 +0100<br>> From: manlio_perillo@libero.it<br>> To: nginx@sysoev.ru<br>> Subject: Re: Nginx feature request<br>> <br>> Hendrik Hardeman ha scritto:<br>> > Hi all,<br>> > <br>> > Discovered Nginx a few weeks back. After some experimenting I have come <br>> > to the conclusion that Nginx really is very very good.<br>> > <br>> > I have a small feature request:<br>> > <br>> > I have a set of static files (html and others) which I want to make <br>> > available only from a certain date/time. Inspired by the rewrite module, <br>> > this morning I thought of a simple method to control access to such files.<br>> > <br>> > My idea was to set the file creation/modification time of the static <br>> > files in the future, i.e. the date/time from which they can be made <br>> > available (e.g. I could use the touch tool to set the appropriate <br>> > date/time). I could then do something like<br>> > <br>> > if (!-f $request_filename) {return 404;}<br>> > if ($date_gmt < fct($request_filename)) {return 403;}<br>> > <br>> > Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to get at the file <br>> > creation/modification time (please do let me know if I overlooked <br>> > something). <br>> <br>> You can use the embedded Perl module.<br>> <br>> > [...]<br>> <br>> <br>> Manlio Perillo<br>> <br><br /><hr />Live the life in style with MSN Lifestyle. Check out! <a href='http://content.msn.co.in/Lifestyle/Default' target='_new'>Try it now!</a></body>
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