Configure static file handler/path via app.yaml or dynamically?

[Gary Mort]

With the local SDK, static files have a special handler which can serve their data without requiring the instance to be executing.

It strikes me that it would be useful to allow for a redirect handler as well.  This would help for static files where you want to store the files in a Google Storage Bucket so they can be updated without requiring a deployment of a new version of the app code, as such I've submitted a feature request for this in 10459.

https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10459

By extension, it would also be useful to allow for a redirect handler to google storage either dynamically or only if a GS object exists in order to support caching.  IE a PHP application could dynamically generate HTML for a page, then save the html to Google Storage under a pre-determined object name and in the future the redirect handler can access that instead:

https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10460

Don't know if others would also like this, so I figured I'd post about the requests here in case there is broader support.

[WooDzu]

Voted up on both as I see many benefits from having it