Advanced plugins

These plugins are usually not neccessary for a normal website, but we found them useful for our own projects.

PyXWF.Nodes.MirrorSwitch — Redirect to random mirror

Namespace: http://pyxwf.zombofant.net/xmlns/nodes/mirror-switch, prefix: mirror

• tree node: <mirror:switch />

  Attributes: None

  Compatible child nodes: one or more <mirror:host />

• mirror host node: <mirror:host />

  Attributes:

  @host:host name — Host name of the mirror server @path:url path — Path on the mirror servers host @port:port number — (optional; defaults to 80) Port to use for HTTP @ssl-port:port number — (optional; defaults to 443) Port to use for HTTPS @no-ssl:boolean — (optional; defaults to False) Disable SSL for the host

  Allowed child nodes: None

If path resolving hits the <mirror:switch /> tree node, an HTTP redirect (302 Found) to a semi-random mirror is issued. The mirror is picked based on the following algorithm:

• Take the list of all mirrors and shuffle it
• For each mirror:
  • Send a HEAD request to scheme://host:port/path/relpath, where scheme is https if @no-ssl is False, http otherwise, host is the value of @host, port the respective port number, path the @path value and relpath the path of the initial request, relative to the switch node.
  • If that request returns a 200 OK, exit with a redirect to the above location.
  • Otherwise, check next mirror
• If no mirror can serve the file, issue a 404 Not Found response.

Note that this algorithm does by no means make sure that the file served by the mirror has the expected content. This should only be used with trusted mirrors and/or the appropriate security means.

PyXWF.Nodes.Transform — Generate content and trees from XSL transformations

TBD