Blosxom

UPDATE 2023-03-27: This page is obsolete, as it refers to a prior version of this blog. However, it may be of historical interest. Here I document the way in which I use URI rewriting (along with redirection and a couple of Blosxom plugins) to help implement my personal design philosophy for my web site. My goal is to create a unified URI space within which static and dynamic content can transparently co-exist, with publicly-visible URIs for human-readable content (i.e., HTML pages) having a canonical form that omits file extensions or other content type specifiers. ...

UPDATE 2023-03-27: This page is obsolete, as it refers to a prior version of this blog. However, it may be of historical interest. As noted in my discussion of URI rewriting, we can use Apache to enforce canonical URI forms for HTML files and directories, but need to use a plugin to enforce canonical forms for URIs handled by Blosxom. I’ve thus written a new canonicaluri plugin that checks to see whether the requested URI is in the canonical form for the type of page being requested, and if necessary does a browser redirect to the canonical form of the URI. ...