Url rewriting

That would mean supporting that forever including the overhead in contrast
to the "SED modify the archive" approach is a one shot or so deal.



On Mon, May 9, 2022, 12:15 PM Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
wrote:

> On 5/7/22 10:13 AM, Patrick Audley via TUHS wrote:
> > When I saw this, I started to think, "I bet we can make a regexp for
> that".
>
> :-D
>
> > Apparently, I do too much text processing.
>
> Na.  I don't think so.  Text processing seems to be one (of the many)
> thing(s) that Unix, et al., excel at.  So I think it's probably natural
> for anyone well versed in Unix ... to think "RegEx"!
>
> > I'm up for helping process the archive if needed with sed, perl or
> > some such.
>
> I think we're thinking about two different layers of actions.  Both
> using their own form of RegEx like behavior.
>
> It sounds like you're talking about processing / munging an mbox mail
> archive.
>
> I'm thinking about URL re-writing in the web server, be it on the fly or
> static configuration (for fixed list of old URLs).
>
>
>
> --
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die
>
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