[Moin-user] Using a redirect script for external links

[Yusuf Abdulghani]

Interesting. This could be an optional security feature in the next 
version of MoinMoin.

BTW, where did you put the redirect.pl script? In your wiki's top-level 
directory?

Yusuf


On Mar 9, 2005, at 10:25 PM, Ry4an Brase wrote:

> It's not earth shattering, but I found I could very easily get MoinMoin
> to route all external http links through a redirect script using these
> lines in my moin_config.py file:
>
> url_mappings = {
>     'http://': 'http://myhost/redirect/?http://',
>     'https://': 'http://myhost/redirect/?https://'
> }
>
> Routing links through a redirect script allows one to get stats on 
> which
> URLs people use to exit and also hides the referrer information from 
> the
> link destination's logs.  That's especially nice in my case as we use 
> an
> internal corporate wiki, and we don't necessarily want people outside
> the company seeing our page names -- as wiki URLs can be quite
> descriptive.
>
> For the redirect script I used this one:
>
>     http://www.webreference.com/perl/tutorial/7/
>
> Though, there are million out there, and they're trivial to write.
>
> -- 
> Ry4an Brase - http://ry4an.org/unblog/
>
>
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