IntrFilt Global Definitions File


The Global Definitions file controls key aspects of the filter's behaviour. Many values that would otherwise be defined within the filter have been defined in this file. More are likely to be added in the future.

The file is located in the RULES sub-directory of the parent of the web space directory of the server as returned by the dir() goserv function. i.e if the web data directory is defined as C:/WEB/HOME, then the rules directory must be in C:/WEB/RULES. The filename is "globals."port where port is the port number being used by the web server.

The globals file is a plain text file containing a number of sections, each being bounded by a keyword pair. The general format is:

keyword:{data}:Endkeyword

The keywords used are:

Where hostname is the local name defined for each entry Domains section.

When the web server starts, the Global definitions file is read by the filter (on transaction 1 only), and the variables are extracted and stored in OS/2 environment variables.

Environment variables are used to improve the performance of the filter through reduction of the I./O overhead of reading the globals file for each entry to the filter.

The variable names used are "IF_keyword". If this causes any conflict with existing environment variables, then it is easily changed in the INIT_Globals and LoadGlobals procedures within the filter.


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