Ticket #323 (new enhancement)

Opened 13 months ago

Add ability to include custom "resurrection" URLs

Reported by: mozkeith2@… Owned by: t-bone
Priority: minor Component: Resurrect
Version: 2.0.4 Severity: Feature
Keywords: Cc:

Description

Hi there,

I love this extension, and find that not only do I rely on it regularly, but I've also been customizing it every time an update comes out. I'd like to request a formal way of doing this, without having to expand, edit, and repackage the extension.

Currently, the list of archives to resurrect pages is fixed. I'd like to request an option to add one or more "custom" archives from which to resurrect a page.

My primary use case for this actually has nothing to do with resurrecting lost pages, but rather accessing pages on my company's internal network. We have an SSL-based VPN, which maps an internal URL into one that is processed by a proxy server gateway upon authentication. This concept is no different from looking up a URL on Google or the Internet Archive -- it's just clicking a button on an error page and having it map the URL on the location bar to another format. So by adding a button to the list of archives labeled "My Company", I can click a link in email, get the customized error page, then click on my newly button, and be redirected to the right location. It saves me a ton of clicks!

As I mentioned, I've been applying this customization manually with each new release, but it'd be great if you could make this something that could be added through the options dialog, or by importing an external file.

(I realize the biggest challenge here is probably security, since the customization might require the user to provide some custom JavaScript code. For example, my use case requires replacing the "://" in the original URL with "/", before concatenating it to a URL for the gateway.)

I'd be happy to share the specific customizations I've been making, to give an idea of what I'm requesting, but prefer to do so privately, since it does reveal something about access to my company's internal network. Please feel free to contact me if you'd like to see it.

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