a redirector written in rust intended for permanent human-readable redirects.
The idea was semi-inspired by the book Software Engineering at Google.
This chapter describes go/ links which
are part of knowledge sharing, canonical URLs, and are part of the inspiration for this topic.
The URL Redictor can be compiled with a static config-file backend or a database.
The database backend supports user submissions through 404 pages.
| feature | excludes | default |
|---|---|---|
| config_file | database | yes |
| database | config_file | no |
urls.toml contains a [urls] keyspace which contains key/value pairs of shortcodes and the URL.
For a real-life example, a config like:
[urls]
handbook = "https://mycompany.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOCTEAM/pages/2565079041/Handbook"would redirect go/handbook to https://mycompany.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOCTEAM/pages/2565079041/Handbook
with a 308 (permanent) redirect. Assuming of course that this program was resolvable as go.
Future improvements could be a database and an API which can push updates to the dataset.
This will slow the process down considerably, but allows for much more flexibility, as the current update mechanism is a merge-request.