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I suppose this isn't technically a bug, but whetever.
I want symbolic links to be rendered as HTTP redirects. For example,
if we do this,
touch foo.mkdwn
ln -s foo.mkdwn bar.mkdwn
git push baz.branchable.com
then the following command should print 302
curl -o /dev/null -s -w "%{http_code}" http://baz.thomaslevine.com/bar/
> An interesting idea, but it conflicts somewhat with wanting symlinks to be
> treated as the referenced file when it's safe to do so, which would be
> great for [[todo/git-annex support]], and also good to avoid duplication
> for files in system-wide underlays.
>
> Also, I don't think this is possible without help from the web server
> configuration: for instance, under Apache, I believe the only way to get
> an HTTP 302 redirect is via Apache-specific `.htaccess` files or
> system-level Apache configuration.
>
> In current ikiwiki, you can get a broadly similar effect by either
> using \[[!meta redir=foo]] (which does a HTML `<meta>` redirect)
> or reconfiguring the web server. --[[smcv]]