Re: Using Regex in apache dav right access file

Someone could just link PCRE or something into the code to allow for regular expressions. You'd need to extend the syntax to allow for selection of globbing-style matching, case-sensitive regex matching, case-insensitive regex matching, and possibly the ability to restrict it to a range/list of revision numbers. :-)

That would cover just about everything.

You could do something like:

        {repository:revisionlist:matchtype:pattern}
        * =

and just process them in order.

                # Blacklist revisions 1-5 and 24. Some fool committed
some pr0n. It'll need to be removed later.
                {myproject:1-5,24:g:/}
                * =

                # Blacklist anything containing "confidential" in the
directory path except to admins
                {myproject:*:ri:/.*confidential.*/}
                admin = rw

There are probably other proposals that could be made.

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

>
> On Sep 24, 2004, at 4:16 AM, Miguel COSTA wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to now if it was possible to use regex in the dav configuration
>> file in the path selection.
>>
>
> Nope, no regexes or wildcards are allowed in the [sections]. It would
> be a nice feature, though. I think others have asked for it.
>
>
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