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add some documentation for redirector
author Jeff Hammel <k0scist@gmail.com>
date Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:45:11 -0500
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1 redirector
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2 ==========
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4 *Control redirects through WSGI middleware.*
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6 redirector is a piece of WSGI middleware that allows redirects to be
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7 managed within the scope of a python web service. Traditionally,
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8 redirects are done via Apache or some other web server disparate from
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9 the python application. This leads to several undesirable
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10 consequences:
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12 * there is no way of controlling redirects through the web
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13 * the web server must be restarted when redirects are changed
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15 Because of this methodology of doing things, it discourages the
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16 stake-holders (the people that actually care about the redirects) from
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17 changing the redirects themselves. Because the redirects are not, in
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18 their mind, content, this leads to unmaintainable systems. The goal
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19 of redirector is to bring the power to create redirects to any
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20 authorized user.
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23 Status
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24 ------
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26 Redirector is largely in the conceptual stage. While what redirector
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27 does now (regular expression redirects) is sufficient to reproduce
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28 Apache's behavior, it is not enough to realize the vision of bringing
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29 redirects to the people for WSGI apps.
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31 Even this documentation is thoroughly imcomplete.
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34 TODO
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35 ----
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37 redirector needs several pieces to become what it should be:
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39 Types of Redirects
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40 ------------------
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42 Currently, only regular expression redirects (a la Apache) are
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43 implemented. Another possibility, probably more applicable, are
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44 something like glob redirects. The reason that these are useful is
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45 that they, with a carefully constructed rule system, can be seen to
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46 match each other. In other words, you can see if the existing set of
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47 redirects is contradictory and if there are superfluous redirects. It
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48 also better matches how non-experts think about redirects.