On 30/12/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
This user refuses to do the cleanup. Hope this helps.
Superb attitude.
The problem we'd face if, for instance, 200 or even 2000 redirects needed to be corrected in an autonomous, atomic fashion, is that the software has to do the same as the user - open the page for editing, make the changes without disrupting other content on the page (e.g. categories, or cute little templates), save the page, handle edit conflicts, rinse and repeat.
It might be much faster on the server side, but it's still a time-consuming operation, which could well time out for large sets - leaving us with a worse mess to clean up. Then there's the problem that it might be desirable to have some of the redirects left intact, etc.
I'm not against some kind of automated assistance for such operations, but it will have to work in a robust fashion, taking into consideration that we don't want to make the situation worse.
Rob Church