[CTX] [ALL] Configuration of DeleGate by Users

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Configuration of DeleGate by Users

To make configuration of DeleGate be flexible, allowing it not only to the administrator of the DeleGate but also to the users (providers of WWW resources on an origin HTTP-DeleGate), DeleGate supports reading user defined configuration parameters at each request processing time. Such parameters should be given in a files with file name extension ".dgp", in the format of "+=parameters" file, on MOUNTed local file systems. It works like -Fcgi but more efficiently without creating a new process.

Example: MOUNTing news serverN at http://delegate/news/servN/

(1) by a parameter at the start-up time
MOUNT="/news/servN/* nntp://nntpserverN/*"

(2) by a CGI-DeleGate
MOUNT="/news/* cgi:/dirPath/*"

[the contents of file:/dirPath/servN/welcome.cgi]
delegated -Fcgi MOUNT="/* nntp://nntpserverN/*"

(3) by a ".dgp" file
MOUNT="/news/* file:/dirPath/*"

[the contents of file:/dirPath/servN/welcome.dgp]
MOUNT="/* nntp://nntpserverN/*"

(This mechanism should be applied to other protocols like FTP...)

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