On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 02:22:02PM -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> 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/ -> /

Ah, I wasn't aware that public-inbox does that already. I have to
improve my Perl skills it seems :-)

(It seems from the outside I have to use /r/ though for lore.kernel.org,
https://lore.kernel.org/20201215212228.185517-2-clemens.gruber@pqgruber.com
at least doesn't work.)

Thanks
Uwe

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