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diff --git a/chrome/help.html b/chrome/help.html index a6a589b..dc8d756 100644 --- a/chrome/help.html +++ b/chrome/help.html @@ -1,17 +1,17 @@ <!-- $Id$ --> <html> <head> - <title>Redirector Help</title> + <title>URL Rewriter Help</title> <style type="text/css"> body { font-family: Verdana, Arial; color:black; background-color:white; font-size:0.9em; } a { color:blue; } </style> </head> <body> - <h1>Redirector Help</h1> + <h1>URL Rewriter Help</h1> <h3>Table of contents</h3> <ul> - <li><a href="#whatisredirector">What is Redirector?</a></li> + <li><a href="#whatisredirector">What is URL Rewriter?</a></li> <li><a href="#basicusage">Basic usage</a> <ul> <li><a href="#exampleurl">Example url</a></li> @@ -38,9 +38,9 @@ <a name="whatisredirector"></a> - <h4>What is Redirector?</h4> + <h4>What is URL Rewriter?</h4> - <p>Redirector is an extension for Firefox that allows you to automatically redirect from + <p>URL Rewriter is an extension for Pale Moon that allows you to automatically redirect from one webpage to another. For example, every time you visit http://abc.com you will automatically load http://def.com instead. This can be useful for instance to always redirect articles to printer friendly versions, redirect http:// to https:// for sites that support both, bypass advertising pages that appear before @@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ <a name="basicusage"></a> <h4>Basic usage</h4> - <p>To add a new redirect you can go to the <em>Tools</em> menuitem and select <em>Redirector</em>. That will - open the <em>Redirector settings</em> window which shows all your redirects. The window can also be opened + <p>To add a new redirect you can go to the <em>Tools</em> menuitem and select <em>URL Rewriter</em>. That will + open the <em>URL Rewriter settings</em> window which shows all your redirects. The window can also be opened by right clicking on the <strong>R</strong> icon in your statusbar. There you can press the <em>Add...</em> button and then you can enter the details for the new redirect. A redirect consists of a few things: @@ -73,13 +73,13 @@ and you open the page http://google.com/foobar, then you will be redireced to http://froogle.com/foobar, since 'foobar' was what the star replaced. $1 is for the first star in the pattern, $2 for the second and so on. For regular expression $1 is for the first parantheses, $2 for the second etc.</li> - <li><a name="patterntype"></a><strong>Pattern type:</strong> This specifies how Redirector should interpret the patterns, either as + <li><a name="patterntype"></a><strong>Pattern type:</strong> This specifies how URL Rewriter should interpret the patterns, either as <a href="#wildcards">wildcards</a> or <a href="#regularexpressions#">regular expressions</a>.</li> - <li><a name="unescapematches"></a><strong>Unescape matches:</strong> A common usage of Redirector is to catch urls like + <li><a name="unescapematches"></a><strong>Unescape matches:</strong> A common usage of URL Rewriter is to catch urls like <em>http://foo.com/redirect.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbar%2Ecom%2Fpath</em> and try to catch the url parameter and redirect to it. A pattern like <em>http://foo.com/redirect.php?url=*</em> might be used for that purpose. However, if the url parameter is <em>escaped</em> (also known - as <em>urlencoded</em>) then that won't work. In the url above we see that it starts with <em>http%3A%2F%2F</em> instead of <em>http://</em>, and Firefox + as <em>urlencoded</em>) then that won't work. In the url above we see that it starts with <em>http%3A%2F%2F</em> instead of <em>http://</em>, and Pale Moon won't accept this as a new url to redirect to. So, in cases like these you can check the <em>Unescape matches</em> option and then all matches will be unescaped (turned from e.g. <em>http%3A%2F%2Fbar%2Ecom</em> to <em>http://bar.com</em>) before being inserted into the target url. </li> @@ -179,4 +179,4 @@ </li> </ol> </body> -</html>
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