I’ve been using the digg defender plugin on a wordpress blog.

Its a neat plugin in that automatically rewrites/redirects the url if the referrer is digg, slashdot, boingboing, delicious, fark, reddit, engadget, kuro5hin (you can easily modify these in their function file to add more) to coralify it, sending traffic to Coral Cache, the global cache system.

Wondered if anything like this is available for EE, and if not if anyone with the coding smarts might take it upon themselves to port the plugin?

Interesting…

Did anyone take action on this?

TTFN
Travis

I edited my .htaccess file and added the following:

It’s easy enough to add other sites you want to redirect. Not sure if that’s what you’re looking for, but it works great for me.

Chris Ruzin - 14 February 2007 11:13 PM

I edited my .htaccess file and added the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^CoralWebPrx
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !(^|&)coral-no-serve$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([^/]+\.)?digg\.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([^/]+\.)?slashdot\.org [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([^/]+\.)?slashdot\.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([^/]+\.)?fark\.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([^/]+\.)?somethingawful\.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([^/]+\.)?kuro5hin\.org [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([^/]+\.)?engadget\.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([^/]+\.)?boingboing\.net [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://([^/]+\.)?del\.icio\.us
RewriteRule ^(.*)?$ http://YOURDOMAIN.COM.nyud.net:8080/$1 [R,L]

It’s easy enough to add other sites you want to redirect. Not sure if that’s what you’re looking for, but it works great for me.

Chris, this is great work. Can you explain some of what it does (besides the obvious redirect) for those of us still learning the intracacies of mod_rewrite? For example, I don’t fully understand this part of the string:

And this one (the reference to port 8080):

Thanks.

I didn’t come up with this. I found it here.

This is an exception to the redirect letting Coral Cache servers through.

The 8080 port is always used in Coral cached links.