Re: generic message-id redirector

[Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 02:26:30PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > 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?!

/r/ is just a mapping in upstream proxy that rewrites /r/ -> /

:)

Best regards,
-K