Re: [Ijbswa-users] Redirects

[Andreas S. O. <oe...@oe...>]

Ken Arromdee writes:

> Although the comments in the actionsfile mention fast-redirects and Yahoo,
> fast-redirects no longer works with Yahoo because Yahoo doesn't use ? in
> its redirect URLs any more, it uses *.  For instance,
> 
>     http://srd.yahoo.com/drst/18190685/*http://www0.mercurycenter.com/

Those bastards! 

> Suggestion: Change fast-redirects to an option that uses a file like
> re_filterfile to filter each URL as it is accessed.  The default file
> would just do the same thing that fast-redirects does now.

I was already thinking about throwing out support for the fast redirects
again, because there are too many cases where they don't work properly.
Most prominently, when you have referrer-tracking via URL extension like
in http://target.site/doc?referrer=http://source.site fast redirects will
elegegantly beam you back where you came from...

I wouldn't introduce a new config file, but allowing a pcrs job as a
parameter to the +fast-redirects action might indeed make it useful again.

> Incidentally, my re_filterfile includes the following lines to directly
> filter redirects on the page too:
>     s|(<a[^>]*href=")[^"]*?(http://[^"]*"[^>]*>)|$1$2|sig
>     s|(<a[^>]*href=")[^"]*\*(http://[^"]*"[^>]*>)|$1$2|sig

That relies on the link target being enclosed in "". But I'll add a
refinement of these to the re_filterfile. Thanks!

Regards,
--Andreas