[Springframework-developer] Re: Threads that reference other threads

[Colin S. <col...@ex...>]

Andy Depue wrote:

>In regard to the recent forum upgrade, I've run across several messages that 
>refer to other threads via URL.  Here is an example message body:
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>>please refer to the proposed solution for more info
>>http://forum.springframework.org/viewtopic.php?t=7554
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>This link does not work.  Would it be possible to create a redirecting 
>"viewtopic.php" that could translate from the old URL format to the new 
>format, or is some of this information lost?
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It owuld be trivial to redirect the old format to the new one, with an 
apache rule, but the problem is that the thread IDs are completely 
different. So there is no way to set up a generic rule that will cover 
all cases. It would be possible to set up individual regexes to map some 
old messages to new ones, but this is probably unrealistic, as there 
would be a decent number...