Simple Cone Search - starting a revision

[Walter Landry]

Theresa Dower <dower at stsci.edu> wrote:
> Hello DAL!
> 
> Just a quick note to point 2 regarding changing:  
> 
>  http://data.center/conesearches?CAT=mycat& to  http://data.center/conesearches/mycat?
> 
> Yes, this would be a significant change for two separate MAST
> ConeSearch architectures, currently registered as ~25 different
> services handling as many catalogs. We are recently looking into
> overhauling this anyway, but I am unsure of the timeline.

That surprises me.  In Apache, this is a pretty simple rewrite rule.
Something like

  RewriteRule ^/conesearches/mycat "https://data.center/conesearches?CAT=mycat" [P,QSA]

Cheers,
Walter Landry