ACLs (or ACL-like behaviour) for req.url regex expressions

[Dridi Boukelmoune]

Hi Matt,

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Matt Hanley
<matt.hanley at eloquent-technologies.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to use an ACL for this?
>
> acl static_assets {
>   …
> }

Short answer, no.

> If this isn’t possible, is there an alternative that’s more elegant than
> lots of `if` statements?

There's none AFAICT but you could try to get in touch with developers
from UPLEX, they have an regex VMOD [1] that could be a nice fit for
what you are trying to do.

One could imagine something like:

new static_assets = re.multi_regex(
   ...
);

if (static_assets.match(req.url)) {
  set req.backend_hint = static;
  return(lookup);
}

Cheers,
Dridi

[1] https://code.uplex.de/uplex-varnish/libvmod-re