<div dir="ltr">Hi Jay, I tried again using serve/servelet. This is my full code: #lang racket (require web-server/dispatch ; for dispatch-rules web-server/dispatchers/dispatch ; for next-dispatcher web-server/servlet-env ; for serve/servlet web-server/http ; for response/xexpr ) (define-values (url-based-dispatch url-generator) (dispatch-rules [((string-arg)) dispatch-static-html] [("home") display-home] [("some-app") run-app])) (define (dispatch-static-html request a-path-string) (display "Entered dispatch-static-html\n") ; This will eventually have code to search for static html ; files and display them. For now, just pretend we couldn't find ; the relevant html file so we throw next-dispatcher. (next-dispatcher)) (define (display-home request) (display "Entered display-home\n") (response/xexpr `(html (head (title "Home")) (body (h1 "Home") (p "Welcome to the home page"))))) (define (run-app request) (display "Entered run-app\n") (response/xexpr `(html (head (title "App")) (body (h1 "App") (p "This app is actually just a static page"))))) (define (respond-unknown request) (display "Entered respond-unknown\n") (response/xexpr `(html (head (title "Unknown Reponse")) (body (h1 "Unknown Response") (p "Sorry, I couldn't find what you're looking for"))))) (serve/servlet url-based-dispatch ; answers requests #:servlet-path "/home" ; default url #:servlet-regexp #rx"" ; capture all top-level requests #:file-not-found-responder respond-unknown) <div> What I was expecting (and wanting) was that for the URL "<a href="http://localhost:8000/home">http://localhost:8000/home</a>" the function dispatch-static-html would be called (because it matches any URL), it would throw next-dispatcher, and then display-home would be called, since it's the next matching clause. But in reality when dispatch-static-html throws next-dispatcher the program jumps straight to respond-unknown, which I specified as the file-not-found-responder keyword argument when I called serve/servlet. What am I missing? Is there a way to get the program to do what I wanted it to? Thanks for all your time with this. Tobias</div><div> ------------------------------- Thanks Jay, that makes sense. I was testing it without using serve/servlet, using the example on <a href="http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/dispatch.html" target="_blank">http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/dispatch.html</a> I will try again using serve/servlet. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On 17 December 2013 14:45, Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay.mccarthy@gmail.com" target="_blank">jay.mccarthy@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> The first one is what I would write, except that I'd put it after the ["" ...] case so it doesn't shadow it. How are you testing this code? (next-dispatcher) is supposed to throw an exception, but it will caught and used by the Web server when you are using serve/servlet, etc. Jay <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Janos Tobias Locsei <<a href="mailto:jtlocsei@cantab.net">jtlocsei@cantab.net</a>> wrote: > I thought I'd add a note about what my overall objective with this is, in > case there's a completely different way of achieving the same thing. > > Basically what I want is to be able to serve a combination of apps and > static html pages on my domain, but I don't want ".html" as the end of the > url for the static pages. So, if someone goes to the url > > <a href="http://mysite.com/lolcats" target="_blank">http://mysite.com/lolcats</a> > > ...then I'd like the web server will look in the directory > /htdocs/static-html/ and check whether there's a file called lolcats.html, > and serve that page if it's there. > > My idea was that to achieve this I'd write a dispatch function that would > check the static-html directory for a file with the correct name, and serve > that page using the "include-template" function in web-server/templates. > > But if there's an easier/better way of achieving the same thing then I'm > open to that. > > Tobias > > > </div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">-- Jay McCarthy <<a href="mailto:jay@cs.byu.edu">jay@cs.byu.edu</a>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University <a href="http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay" target="_blank">http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay</a> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>