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>> The CGI spec (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3875) says that a CGI can cause a redirect by returning a Location: header.
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>> So it's possible; desirable (due to your point about conflicting with git-annex support) is a different matter.
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>>> One of the major things that separates ikiwiki from other wiki software
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>>> is that ikiwiki is a wiki compiler: ordinary page-views are purely
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>>> static HTML, and the CGI only gets involved when you do something
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>>> that really has to be dynamic (like an edit).
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>>>
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>>> However, there is no server-independent static content that ikiwiki
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>>> could write out to the destdir that would result in that redirect.
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>>>
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>>> If you're OK with requiring the [[plugins/404]] plugin (and a
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>>> web server where it works, which I think still means Apache) then
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>>> it would be possible to write a plugin that detected symlinks,
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>>> stored them in the `%wikistate`, and used them to make the
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>>> [[plugins/404]] plugin (or its own hook similar to the one
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>>> in that plugin) do a 302 redirect instead of a 404.
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>>> Similarly, a plugin that assumed a suitable Apache
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>>> configuration with fairly broad `AllowOverrides`,
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>>> and wrote out `.htaccess` files, would be a feasible thing
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>>> for someone to write.
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>>>
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>>> I don't think this is a bug; I think it's a request for a
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>>> feature that not everyone will want. The solution to those
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>>> is for someone who wants the feature to
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>>> [[write a plugin|plugins/write]]. --[[smcv]]
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