[tor-project] Plan to retire Globe

[Karsten Loesing]

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On 25/04/16 15:05, Lunar wrote:
> isis:
>> Tim Wilson-Brown - teor transcribed 1.8K bytes:
>>> Can we redirect globe.torproject.org to atlas.torproject.org? 
>>> Are their search syntaxes similar enough that we can redirect
>>> fingerprint searches from Globe to Atlas? (Are there any other
>>> systems that automatically generate Globe links that we'll have
>>> to update?)
>> 
>> We could probably do this without so much effort, yes.  For
>> fingerprints the redirect would be from e.g.:
>> 
>> https://globe.torproject.org/#/relay/A10C4F666D27364036B562823E5830BC448E046A
>> to 
>> https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/A10C4F666D27364036B562823E5830BC448E046A
>>
>>
>> 
For searches it would be:
>> 
>> https://globe.torproject.org/#/search/query=noether to 
>> https://atlas.torproject.org/#search/noether
>> 
>> However this means we either leave the Globe machine up and
>> configure its Apache to do that, or we change the DNS for
>> globe.torproject.org to point to the Atlas machine and tell
>> Atlas' Apache instance to do that.
> 
> As far as I understand web technologies, the anchor is not sent to
> the HTTP server. So the rewriting can only be done via JavaScript
> and not through Apache.
> 
> If globe.torproject.org is kept as a separate virtual host, the 
> rewriting code can be sent only to people visiting asking for 
> globe.torproject.org. As this requires no change to Atlas' code,
> this solution feels cleaner to me.

Sounds good to me.  I started writing that redirection code here:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18893

Please improve!  Thanks!

All the best,
Karsten

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