Simple Cone Search - starting a revision

[Theresa Dower]

IIS is a little weirder! (Our services are split between the two, and some have other URL rewriting under the hood.) Also we'll have to re-register everything. Nothing un-doable but Markus asked, and that's where we are right now.

--Theresa
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From: dal-bounces at ivoa.net [dal-bounces at ivoa.net] on behalf of Walter Landry [wlandry at caltech.edu]
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 12:34 PM
To: dal at ivoa.net
Subject: Re: Simple Cone Search - starting a revision

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