On Sun, 7 Jul 2024 19:10:57 +0200
Rodrigo Arias <rodar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 07, 2024 at 10:21:05AM +1000, Kevin Koster wrote:
> >In addition to HTTP header feilds, it would be handy to assign
> >rewrite rules according to HTTP status codes. I spend a lot of time
> >browsing dead/dying websites so I'm always using the Wayback
> >Machine. I'd like to use this system to process 404 (500, etc.)
> >error pages through a program/script that adds a link at the top to
> >look up the URL at the Wayback Machine. It might also check for a
> >copy I've archived locally, if I get my website archives more
> >organised, and link to that as well.
> 
> Good idea, this should be doable with the rule mechanism. An
> important consideration is to be able to quickly forward good
> requests or responses, so we reduce the overhead in overall browsing.
> 
> We could probably just hook it to >= 400 and then you handle those 
> broken responses as you want, while quickly forwarding 200 to Dillo:
> 
>    match http-status-code >= 400 action broken-page
> 
> I think we may need to define several "tables" like in iptables so we 
> can have rules that handle the traffic at different stages. This one 
> doesn't require decoding the compressed content.

That would be great. Provided it doesn't actually end up as complicated
as iptables configuration of course. :)
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