A site I manage is getting constant requests for a javascript file that no longer exists, from an older version of the site. These requests take up a lot of resources because they get routed through Rails every time to return a 404. I am thinking it would be much better to have Rack handle that specific URL and return 404 itself. Is that correct? If so, how would I set that up?
I have been checking out this blog post which I think is kinda the way to move forward (ie, inheritance from some existing Rack module):
So I ended up writing my own little bit of middleware:
module Rack
class NotFoundUrls
def initialize(app, exclude)
@app = app
@exclude = exclude
end
def call(env)
status, headers, response = @app.call(env)
req = Rack::Request.new(env)
return [status, headers, response] if [email protected]?(URI.unescape(req.fullpath))
content = 'Not Found'
[404, {'Content-Type' => 'text/html', 'Content-Length' => content.size.to_s}, [content]]
end
end
end
and then adding this to the config.ru file:
use Rack::NotFoundUrls, ['/javascripts/some.old.file.js']
It's the first time I've done this so let me know if there's any glaring mistakes...