travis actually check redirect targets from .htaccess?

[joernhees]

would there be any interest in having travis actually check the redirect targets from the .htaccess files?

It's not too hard to get the target URIs from the RewriteRules:

find . -name .htaccess -print0 | xargs -0 gsed -r -n 's_^[[:space:]]*RewriteRule[[:space:]]+.*?[[:space:]]+((.*?:)?//.*?)[[:space:]]+.*$_\1_p'

(actually shows quite some non-https URIs btw.)

• Very many of them don't contain a $[0-9], so they're just static and could just be checked
• many of the rules contain a "static" $1, which just makes the rule shorter, so possible to re-construct the target
• for those which don't, we could at least check if the domain resolves and something answers...

Might also be beneficial to have travis submit the URIs and full sites to something like https://web.archive.org ...