I have been unable to find what to use in place of "some_call" in
ns_register_filter postauth /some-site-loc/ns-special/* some_call
to obtain the desired behavior. Owing to the fact that I do not really understand how the filters work, I tried to copy other ns_register_filter calls I could find in other places and, trying to follow your suggestions, I attempted to write a proc that called things like rp_filter and then returned filter_break which I placed in the place of "some_call" above. It did prevent the calling of any later filter but, it did not render the requested page.
I continued reading through the documentation that you referenced and found the call ns_shortcut_filter that only takes when method urlPattern as arguments. If I replace the middle call in my original post with
ns_shortcut_filter postauth * /some-site-loc/ns-special/*
It works exactly how I want!
Is this the call I should use for this purpose, or is there something better and are there any negative side effects of making this call? Like I mentioned, I do not really understand how the filters work. I have read through the request processor documentation but, have not found anything specifically related to the filters and how they work. Is there documentation somewhere that would help me get a better understanding?
Thank you very much for all of your help. I am a bit slow at times with my responses but, I really appreciate and value your help.
-Tony
