Re: [openresty-en] most efficient way to write Nginx location with regex

agentzh · 2013-10-26T13:25:42+00:00

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Re: [openresty-en] most efficient way to write Nginx location with regex

agentzh

Hello!

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:00 AM, jerome lafon wrote:
> What is the most efficient way to define a location directive which match
> something like
>
> location = /[0-9a-zA-Z_-]{1,6} { content_by_lua_file ....}
>
> In other words an uri which matches a string from 1 to 6 characters with
> "-", "_", digits and letters.
>
> Or is it faster to check the string length within my LUA code which will
> generate the output by using a location directive like
> location / {content_by_lua_file...}
>

Both of these approaches are very efficient. Just use whatever you
like. And I don't think you can measure any difference here.

Best regards,
-agentzh

gg.lafon

OK thank you for your feedback

I think I will use the regex in the location directive in order to avoid calling the LUA script everytime.

Jerome

http://stackoverflow.com/users/1606908/user1606908
Le samedi 26 octobre 2013 07:25:42 UTC+2, agentzh a écrit :

Hello!

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:00 AM, jerome lafon wrote:
> What is the most efficient way to define a location directive which match
> something like
>
> location = /[0-9a-zA-Z_-]{1,6} { content_by_lua_file ....}
>
> In other words an uri which matches a string from 1 to 6 characters with
> "-", "_", digits and letters.
>
> Or is it faster to check the string length within my LUA code which will
> generate the output by using a location directive like
> location / {content_by_lua_file...}
>

Both of these approaches are very efficient. Just use whatever you
like. And I don't think you can measure any difference here.

Best regards,
-agentzh