[LINK] quantum physics makes the world weirder

Rick Welykochy rick at praxis.com.au
Thu Jul 3 17:13:08 AEST 2008


Ivan Trundle wrote:

> I agree that it's a very clever redirect (I caught it as well)
> 
> Question is, I wonder how simple it is to implement? And to begin  
> with, who decided (in the grand scheme of things) to allow such as URL  
> to exist in the first place.

Trivial. Do an initial substring match on the file path in the URL
if the path cannot be found.

The search is done against a list of known file paths.

If a unqiue match is found, issue the redirect. Voila!


cheers
rickw



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