Apache Handler to access POST data and then check for cached file

Question

Hey folks,

I an trying to do the following -

1) Access POST submission data in Apache 2) Create a file name by using some of the parameters in POST data from 1)

I will like to then read the file from disk vs using back-end application to regenerate the page.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Your methodology is fundamentally flawed.

A POST should only be used where you want to change the state of the server. If you're serving up a cached file instead then you're not changing the state.

If generating the content after the POST can be cached, then the way to implement this would be to return a 302/303/307 header in the POST target pointing to the page which should be rendered (and can be cached).

C.