Hello,

[adding Konstantin to Cc:]

On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 11:10:49AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > I'm currently trying to get up a public-inbox instance and I fail to
> > setup a generic message-id redirector as lore.kernel.org implements it.
> > That is a request to https://lore.kernel.org/r/message@id is redirected
> > to https://lore.kernel.org/somelist/message@id for a list "somelist"
> > that has a message with the given Message-Id.
> > 
> > I fail to find this feature in the code and wonder if it is a feature
> > that was added only to the public-inbox clone used to operate
> > lore.kernel.org.
> 
> PublicInbox::NewsWWW fallback lets //$host/$message_id work (no /r/).
> It can be run as a standalone PSGI, too, see examples/newswww.psgi

Huh, it seems I have to dig deeper into the internals of Plack. Thanks.

> At least it works on my Tor .onion mirror of lore:
> http://lore.czquwvybam4bgbro.onion/ and
> http://rskvuqcfnfizkjg6h5jvovwb3wkikzcwskf54lfpymus6mxrzw67b5ad.onion/
> 
> To get /r/, you can use the "mount" directive in the
> Plack::Builder DSL as shown in example/newswww.psgi
> 
> > Is there some additional code or configuration necessary to make this
> > work? Am I missing something?
> 
> That said, I seem to recall lore.kernel.org/r/ existing before NewsWWW,
> so maybe it was something else, too.  (It may have even existed
> somewhere on kernel.org before lore)

@Konstantin: It would be great if you shared how this is implemented on
lore.kernel.org. For me this redirection is so convenient I definitely
want to have it. I wonder if it is considered good by others, too. Then
maybe implement it in the core?!

Best regards
Uwe

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