Improvement: change behavior for symlinks to serve up redirects #7

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bss · 2021-03-25T10:27:13-05:00

bss commented

2021-03-25 10:27:13 -05:00

Current behavior: symlinks work how they would at a naive filesystem level, the link is followed and the file rendered, appearing at the requested URL path.

Desired behavior: symlinks yield HTTP redirects.

I always think this is what symlinks do in the engine, and then am surprised when it isn't, but either way I can't think of anything in particular that ties me to the current behavior. I believe with the recent rewrite of the URL path/file path converter, it should be relatively easy to figure out what path to redirect to, but I'm not sure.

This isn't a huge problem but I think it would be possible to eventually deprecate some symlinks, once they've been (permanent) redirecting for e.g. years?

**Current behavior**: symlinks work how they would at a naive filesystem level, the link is followed and the file rendered, appearing at the requested URL path. **Desired behavior**: symlinks yield HTTP redirects. I always think this is what symlinks do in the engine, and then am surprised when it isn't, but either way I can't think of anything in particular that ties me to the current behavior. I believe with the recent rewrite of the URL path/file path converter, it should be relatively easy to figure out what path to redirect to, but I'm not sure. This isn't a huge problem but I think it would be possible to eventually deprecate some symlinks, once they've been (permanent) redirecting for e.g. years?

bss referenced this issue from a commit

2021-04-15 21:44:20 -05:00

treat symlinks as redirects closes #7

bss closed this issue

2021-04-15 21:44:20 -05:00

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