/Mojoliocious-Plugin-CanonicalHost

Mojolicious::Plugin::CanonicalHost

Mojoliocious::Plugin::CanonicalHost

Intro:

This plugin was designed only to handle redirects from all wired host names bound to the IP address where your Mojolicious app runs to one name only. Typical example - www.domain.tld or domain.tld? It may be hard to choose, but will be easy to enforce.

Usage:

		$self->plugin('CanonicalHost' => (
			host => 'main_hostname.tld',
			scheme => 'http', 
			port=>80,
 			# redirect_type => 302,
 			# debug => 1,
 			));

REQUIRED parameters: host, scheme, port
OPTIONAL parameters: redirect_type, debug

Why bother?

  • Google doesn't like 'duplicate content' and that's exactly what you will get if you server the same content on different hostnames
  • I've seen apps that had Access Control Lists or other logic defined per host name and failed open - all that was needed to bypas was entry in hosts file to define additional host name that had no ACL associated with it (ouch!)

To Do:

  • Proper (pod) documentation
  • Tests
  • CPAN compatible packaging/installer, even if it never goes to CPAN :-P