Redirector is an experimental folder product for redirecting object requests. Any request to a subobject (whether it exists or not) in the folder is redirected to a designated target URL. A flexible mechanism for mapping specific URLs is also provided. For example, you might have an URL such as http://oldserver/foo (running Zope, of course) which you've moved to your brand new server http://newserver/bar (Zope not required). Once you have deleted or moved the foo folder or object out of the way, create a Redirector object called foo on the new server, set its Target property to http://newserver/bar, following which requests for http://oldserver/foo will then be redirected to http://newserver/bar. Given this, if a user then requests http://oldserver/foo/fnargh, the request will simply be redirected to http://newserver/bar/fnargh. The Redirector object also supports mapping rules: For example, if the old server had a subobject called "milk", which now exists on the new server under the name of "honey", then you can create a mapping which simply maps the old object to the new object. Mappings support (or rather, require) regular expressions to be used, so you could also map any object starting with the letter M to a specific object, for example. (Support for regular expression groups are planned.) Added bonus feature: If you set the Redirector to "hard mapping" mode, it will fall back to the default target URL if none of the mappings match the requested URL. That means -- if you're like me, converting a dull old Netscape server to a new Zope site with lots of magic fairy dust added -- that you can create mappings for all the old documents that should be redirected to their Zopefied counterpart URLs, but for all the documents that are deprecated on the new server, the redirection will be set to the server's root folder. Thie product is experimental only in the sense that it has not been extensively tested. Please report bugs, problems, or inconsistencies to me. http://www.mop.no/~alex/download/redirector-1.0.tgz -- Alexander Staubo http://www.mop.no/~alex/ "QED?" said Russell. "It's Latin," said Morgan. "It means, 'So there you bastard'." --Robert Rankin, _Nostramadus Ate My Hamster_