Wednesday, November 19 2003

The Connection : Harvard's Working Poor

Harvard is the world's wealthiest University. But until recently, many of the people who worked there could have just as well been working at McDonalds, their pay was so low. These are the people who dust the portraits, polish the oak panels, scrub the toilets and wash the floors. These are the janitors and security guards who work day and night doing jobs that most of the students and faculty there would find abhorrent, and way below their station in life

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Gregor N. Purdy : SVG and inline bitmaps

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Movable Thoughts #20 : Your mother wears Google boots

Subject: [google] I'm not sure I understand what you're after...
From: Aaron Straup Cope
To: Derek Powazek
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:29:32 -0500

...exactly. But in an MT setup, you could just use mod_rewrite and a
10-20 line Perl script :

 # Stick this in a .htaccess file at the root 
 # of your website. Obviously, the USER_AGENT
 # condition(s) would need to be adjusted
 # accordingly 

 RewriteEngine On 
 RewriteCond    %{REQUEST_URI} ^/yer/mt-comments.cgi 
 RewriteCond    %{USER_AGENT} GoogleBot 
 RewriteRule    *       - [forbidden]

 # Or alternately, if you want to let
 # Google archive the comments 

 RewriteRule    ^/yer/mt-comments?id=(\d+) \                 
                /mt-linkstripper.cgi?id=$1 [redirect]

I can't remember whether the comments are rendered as static files. 
If they are then could also set up a 'special' template that loads 
a plugin to do the same thing that the as-yet unwritten 
"mt-linkstripper.cgi" does. At which point, the RewriteRule just 
points to the new file (which makes your web server happier.)

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