Comments on: Redirector

By: einar

einar — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:34:43 +0000

@Fred: Sorry, I doubt all these changes will make it into Redirector. For more complex patterns that should be able to match one or more patterns you’ll have to use regular expressions and use their capabilities to match one or more things (the | operator). You’re right though that the test pattern should also do the recursive test, I’ll look at that in a future version.

@Amiga: I don’t have any idea about the state of Chrome extensions or what they are capable of so it’s highly unlikely that this will be ported anytime soon. But what I will do is look at Chrome and try to evaluate how much time and effort it would be to port.

By: Amiga

Amiga — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:44:15 +0000

Any chance of porting this to Chrome / Chromium please?

This extension is a blessing for craigslist, but I rarely use Firefox anymore.

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:59:43 +0000

Hello and thank you for the addition of manual sorting and thank you for adding functions to test endless loop !

Redirector :: Add-ons for Firefox Version 2.0.2 — January 18, 2010 — 84 KB

The 2 tests endless loop could they be displayed with the button “Test Pattern” (result of 2 tests always displayed) and when i try to validate the changes with “OK” (result of 2 tests displayed in case Error detected) and not separately (1 test with the button “Test Pattern” and the other test with the “OK”) ?

Can you please add a “+” and “-” ( “-” gray with 1 line, respectively) in front or behind the lines “Include Pattern” and “Exclude pattern” to add or remove a line respectively ? Especially handy and easy to use with “Wilcard” = “*” (rather simple to understand and use).

Can you please add a sign like “╫▓╫” on the line almost completely right between 2 rules to tie them together with an option to apply all rules tied together ? Leave an empty frame on all lines = style mortise and tenon with locking, operated by clicking or dragging the fasteners with the mouse.

Thank you very much ! I’m french, sorry for my english (translate with the help of G00GL£).

By: einar

einar — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:02:44 +0000

@Peter: This only redirects documents, that is the url in the browser window, or in frames/iframes.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:11:10 +0000

Does this addon only redirect the URL in the browser window, or will it redirect any requested URL? eg JS includes, XHR etc etc?

I am only asking because I want to redirect a JS include from one server to my localhost to debug something… and its not redirecting.

By: Oscar

Oscar — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:57:55 +0000

Yes, now it works! Thanks a lot! I’ve been scratching my head for a long time about this one.. I guess it’s not too easy if you don’t know what you’re doing..

By: einar

einar — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:33:20 +0000

@Oscar: Are you sure these are the patterns you’re using? The redirect to should at least not be

http://www3.interscience.wiley.mylibrary.com/*

but should be

http://www3.interscience.wiley.mylibrary.com/$1

instead. (You use $n in the redirect-to url to indicate which * in the include pattern to fill in from, first star => $1, second star => $2.

By: Oscar

Oscar — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:08:23 +0000

Hi Einar,

Thanks for a very nice add on!

I have some small problems though and I am not sure if it’s a bug or just a missconfiguration from my side.. Maybe you can help me sort it out?

I would like to redirect everything from a website to another e.g.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/*

http://www3.interscience.wiley.mylibrary.com/*

to use my library’s proxy to access articles.

(include: first line above, redirect to: second row above, everything else blank (use wildcards))

If I browse the website from within it works great, but when I try to access anything (e.g. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123218273/abstract) from outside the browser e.g. google, I just end up on: http://www3.interscience.wiley.mylibrary.com/*

Am I missing something?

By: Rigel

Rigel — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:33:22 +0000

Hi Einar,
I need redirector works for my problem so I open the js file and I add some function and all works with Unescape Matches checked. Then I wanted add a second Unescape Matches option but I can’t manage the .xpt file and my works stop. If you mail me I send you my mod so you can add to official softwar if you want.
I add the option to UI changing unascapeMatches in unascapeMatchesA and unascapeMatches and I modified all the js file with this var. I hope you want help me.
Bye

By: einar

einar — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:54:24 +0000

@Ryan: Unfortunately I can’t wait for a header before redirecting. Redirector is implemented as a content policy in Firefox, which means that the request to the original url is blocked before it ever leaves the browser. This is a feature, a feature that a lot of people care about.

As far as I can tell (and I haven’t spent much time on this yet) the new window remains activated because I reject the url being loaded and start loading a new one. If I accept the url being loaded then the window is never shown. I could probably come up with some heuristic, e.g. this is a new window with only one tab, I should probably check if there exists another window where the same url is being loaded etc. But another problem here is that I really want to do as little as possible during the checking of an url, since this is code that runs for every single loaded url in your browser and so could have some performance implications if I start looking for windows or waiting for some stuff.

I’ll ask around about it on some Firefox forums, this behaviour clearly wasn’t there in 3.5, so maybe someone can tell me what happened.