Alfio Puglisi wrote:
it seems that after the blackout an Apache rewrite rule that allowed "short URLs" like this:
instead of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA
is now missing. Or maybe it depends on which particular Apache server you hit. The first URL gives a 404.
There was never an Apache rewrite rule for this. Erik had hacked it into the 404 error response page.
I've taken it out for the moment as a) like adding random domain names, it's a really bad idea to encourage a dependency on inherently unstable URLs, and b) there was an infinite looping problem.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)