urouter

Static (list of routes read once) http router for routing small domains.

Installation

cargo install urouter

Edit alias.json (or any other JSON file, check --alias-file option) and cargo run

alias.json specification

JSON file with array of sets (or set with one field of arrays of sets with --alias-file-is-set-not-a-list, may be useful i.e. Nix packaging).

Each set contains 2 necessary elements and 1 optional.

• Necessary
  • uri (string) - of url after host (e.g., /, some/cool/path, should not start with / (only for root))
  • alias (set) - set of one field
    • url (string) - redirect to url with HTTP 303 See Other
    • file (string) - read file from path --dir/file where --dir is option (default: ., see --help) and respond with HTTP 200 OK with content-type: text/plain
    • text (string) - plain text HTTP 200 OK with content-type: text/plain
• Optional
  • agent (set) - set of one necessary field and one optional
    • regex (string) - regular expression to match user-agent HTTP header
    • only_matching (bool, optional, false by default) - if false whole alias will be visible for any user agent, if true only for regex matched

Set of array of sets

{
  "alias": [
    {
      "uri": "/",
      "alias": {
        "url":  "https://somecoolwebsite"
      }
    }
  ]
}

alias.json example

[
  {
    "uri": "/",
    "alias": {
      "url":  "https://somecoolwebsite"
    }
  },
  {
    "uri": "/",
    "alias": {
      "file": "somecoolscript"
    },
    "agent": {
      "regex": "^curl/[0-9].[0-9].[0-9]$",
      "only_matching": false
    }
  },
  {
    "uri": "text",
    "alias": {
      "text": "sometext"
    }
  }
]

Agent matching made for curl https://url | sh like scripts.

License

The project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.