OK, I am using K-Meleon 1.8.24 and I need a redirect extension for it. It should be able to use regex to do redirections. For example, it should redirect addresses of the form:

http://imgur.com/XXXXXX

to addresses of the form:

http://i.imgur.com/XXXXXX.jpg

and other redirections that I can define.

Please help me.

Need this too!

Siigh.. Would love to, and already have an old personal macro for much the same purpose (except regex, but not absolutely necessary) - but too busy still with other stuff and other unfinished macros
Knowing JamesD, he's perhaps almost finished again with a new one... :cool:
Anyway, in case it takes same time - would recommand to login and follow this thread to get email notices.

And I read this like you guys are willing and able to code your own special replacements, by editing the kmm directly, just based on some syntax examples :cool: And of course can ask for help in the forum anytime, just not get a comfortable GUI.

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example:
http://imgur.com/XXXXXX => http://i.imgur.com/XXXXXX.jpg

myredirects_method1{
$_site=hostname($URL);
#
if ($_site=="imgur.com") {
$_url=sub("http://imgur","http://i.imgur",$URL)."jpg";
}
if ($_site=="blabla.com") {
$_url=sub...whatever...;
}
if ($_site=="zzzzz.com") {
$_url=sub...whatever...;
}
if (index($URL,".bbb.org/pics/")<20) {
$_url=sub.....whatever...;
$_url=substr($_url,index...)...whatever...;
}
open($_url);
# opentab($_url);
}

myredirects_method2{
if (index($URL,"http://imgur.com/")==0) {
# replace with your own strings here:
injectJS("var x; x=document.href; x=x.replace(/string1/g,'string2'); document.href=x ;");
}
...
}

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and the next prob is on how to implement it.
It could either work "OnLoad", that means first the original page is loaded and when finished the redirected is loaded....
Or alternatively it could only be redirected when clicking a menu or button...
Or links could have the redirect option on the right-click menu...
Or could be called via mousegesture...

But what I can not do is a redirect of a link on left-click.
If need be, it could be put at middle-click for links...



Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 01/08/2016 08:35AM by siria.

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siria
Knowing JamesD, he's perhaps almost finished again with a new one.

I am still scratching my head and trying to figure out if there is a method or is every redirect unique. What is "regex"?

I, also, cannot find a way to do anything on a left click.

RegExp ("regular expressions") is some sort of highly sophisticated, often unavoidable and really handy matchcode-syntax, but just like javascript awfully complicated - will never get beyond most simple basics ;-)

http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/cpp/string/regex/article.php/c2791/Using-Regular-Expressions-for-SearchReplace.htm

Better editors like Notepad++ offer it as an option in Search/Replace functions. It can match, compare, delete or replace entire keys of any length and content, e.g. in the middle of a string, like www.example.com/read.php?id=...&page=...
Additionally it can be used to match only e.g. numbers, or replace only certain characters or certain words from a given range.

Very handy for e.g. CSS files because those cannot do any calculations by themselves:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@document
https://forum.userstyles.org/discussion/29682/help-with-moz-document-and-regexp

But the syntax... oh horror...
So far have only realized to match e.g. aaa*bbbb the syntax must be written aaaa.*?bbbb
And real dots must be escaped, because otherwise they mean "1 single character of any sort":
www\.example\.com/id=.*?&page=etc

If you master it, it sure is great, like javascript... :cool:
Anyway, awhile ago have tried to find if there's some prepared way for macrolanguage, but no luck
That means injectJS with a javascript must be used, something like (??)
var x; x=document.href; x=x.replace(/string1/g,'string2'); return x;

The other prob is for KM-versions where injectJS cannot return anything, like KM74, and considering KM1.8 is based on KM74, am not sure if it's fixed there already or not.

Frankly: as long as it's also possible to use macrolanguage for replacements with sub, substr, index, that code is easier to read for people macrowired like me, even if the code itself is longer and more complicated. Just... some basics would still be really handy sometimes!

Then again... if it's just about loading a new url, injectJS could handle that itself...
Will add that example in the macro snippet above, but not tested.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/08/2016 08:28AM by siria.

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siria
RegExp ("regular expressions") is some sort of highly sophisticated, often unavoidable and really handy matchcode-syntax, but just like javascript awfully complicated
.
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But the syntax... oh horror...

Now, I remember. After my last use of Regular Expressions, I told my mind to never, ever consider them again. I agree with you about using the Macro Language.

OnLoad event will be of no help. If the URL is not right then often you reach a site 404 landing page and you no longer have the original URL.

We used to have the ability to 'read' the URL in a left click, but Mozilla dropped that ability for speed.

Hovering over a link with the mouse, lets the URL show in the statusbar. We could have a right-click, or some other user initiated action, run some code to 'adjust' the URL according to rules that are coded. That would require constant checking of the statusbar by the user. I do not have the patience or memory to do that, but perhaps Jennifer would.

If requested, I would be glad to to try to write such a macro.

I could not resist playing with this.

The attached code is a demo. Some lines need to be commented out and other lines need the comment removed for actual use.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/08/2016 03:10PM by JamesD.

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JamesD
I could not resist playing with this.

LOL! Yes, I know that prob too well myself

@Jennifer
For playing with macros, an editor with syntax-highlighting helps enourmously to detect little syntax errors. Recommend this one, ancient but with special macro-modifications:
http://kmeleonbrowser.org/forum/read.php?9,109335,129077#msg-129077
And of course in general, Tools>Error Console helps enourmously too!
Had overlooked it for an eternity in the beginning, because in the toolbar that thing carries the name "javascript" console (!), that misunderstanding has cost me lots of unnecessary gray hairs