Just a spur of the moment idea, so feel free to shout it down if I'm still dreaming, but...

search.cpan.org is playing up again.. While people in the CB can just regive their links as kobe:// links, stuff already posted in nodes stick to whichever link was used. Would it be possible to have the actual cpan:// handling code work a little more dynamically? This would involve keeping track of whether the URL is actually reachable (I'm not sure if "every time a link is clicked" is sensible here), and redirecting the user to kobes, if it isn't.

The doc:// link could also benefit from this sort of dynamicness, I believe.

Currently I'm envisioning some sort of cron-type job that keeps tabs in the background, so that the link parsing code just has to link to a currently known-working URL.

C.

In reply to Making cpan:// link dynamic? by castaway

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