Redirection for conditional user agent matching
greggles - December 17, 2007 - 11:38
| Project: | Path Redirect |
| Version: | 6.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | postponed |
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Description
The FeedBurner module has its own implementation of redirect code. I suggested it just rely on path_redirect module instead, but one feature it really needs is to *not redirect* for certain user agents.
I think if it were implemented on a sitewide basis then it could still be fast. The implementation is based on a textbox where you enter in useragent strings that should be allowed to pass through.
What do you think?
#1
I'm not particularly against such a feature aside from wanting to avoid feature creep. This seems like a fairly unusual behavior to want, in the sense that most people wanting to do path-based redirection will (I presume) never use such a feature. But on the other hand, it wouldn't be too hard to implement and wouldn't impose much burden per request.
My thinking is: Wouldn't this be better as a separate module that served different content to users depending on the user agent?
#2
There is now a settings page in the 5.x and 6.x heads, so a patch for this would be substantially easier to create...
#3
This is an unusual feature (it hasn't been requested by any users yet), and the FeedBurner module's redirection is just one small part of the module's purpose. As such, I'm going to mark as postponed for now, but in all likeliness, it will be "won't fix" eventually unless there is more motivation against it.
#4