[ale] Intercepting content from http server and inserting content back in

[Chris Kleeschulte]

I was just thinking of the css idea while I was getting lunch, thanks.

I did not know about the mod_filter....thanks!



Chris

On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:44 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> On 01/06/2009 01:23 PM, Chris Kleeschulte wrote:
>> I have a test system that runs a LAMP app. This test system is
>> identical to the production system, so frequently I worry that I will
>> mistake one firefox window containing the test system for the
>> production one.
>
> a reasonable fear!  if you really want to munge the html and you have
> control over the whole lamp stack, you might look into apache's  
> filtering:
>
>  http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_filter.html
>
> But i have an alternate proposal that might work better (and easier)
> than filtering all the content.  Most webapps these days use CSS  
> with a
> roughly static stylesheet for page styling.  I'd simply include a  
> local
> stylesheet for each version of the app, and style something
> significantly different on each one.  For example, on the main site:
>
> body { background: blue; }
>
> and on the test site:
>
> body { background: red; }
>
> Another alternative would be to adjust the site's shortcut icon
> (/favicon.ico by default for IE, but adjustable in the header for  
> better
> browsers with <link href="/whatever.png" rel="shortcut icon" />).   
> This
> would show up in the URL bar and the tab itself for each page.
>
> Choosing this route would mean that you only need to change one static
> file on each site, and every page will automatically be visually
> distinct.  no filtering, no need to look for the string "TEST" in the
> page, etc.
>
> hth,
>
> 	--dkg
>
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