sjmulder / urlrewrite-safari

An extension that lets you redirect Safari for specific URLs

URL Rewrite for Safari

An extension that lets you redirect Safari for specific URLs.

Usage

To install, download here.

To configure:

1. Go to the Safari menu, Preferences, Extensions, then select URL Rewrite.
2. In Source URL, enter the URL that should be rewritten, e.g. http://jira.example.com/
3. In Destination URL, enter the URL that should replace the Source URL, e.g. http://example.myvpn.com/jira/
4. Now, any link that begins with Source URL will have that replaced with Destination URL. In the example above, http://jira.example.com/PROJ-123 would be rewritten to http://example.myvpn.com/jira/PROJ-123

Notes:

• There is room for up to 5 replacements in the settings.
• Make sure to include the protocol, like http://.
• There is no wildcard support, just a prefix match.

Licence

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.

In case this is not legally possible: I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

Author

By Sijmen Mulder ([email protected]).

urlrewrite-safari's Issues

Not working

Is this built for Safari 7.0.6? I'm looking to redirect www.amazon.com to smile.amazon.com (as I often forget to go to the later). I was excited to find this extension but disappointed to discover it isn't working for me. I am seeing no redirection occur. It simply loads amazon.com.

URL rewrite happens before you commit to URL

I expected the rewrite to happen when I hit Enter, but instead when I start typing the first few characters of the URL, and Safari auto-completes to the base URL I have configured, the extension redirects me right away to the rewrite URL.

This is unexpected behavior, as I may choose not to go to the URL that's being auto-completed. I think the behavior should only work when you hit Enter in the address bar.

Safari Version 10.1.1 (12603.2.4)

More replacements?

5 replacements is absolutely not enough.

Not specifying rewrite URL makes you unable to visit base URL

If I clear the rewrite URL part, and only have the base URL specified, I cannot visit the base URL. Hitting Enter leaves me with a blank page.

Real world use was that I had the rewrite URL badly configured, so I wanted to revisit the base URL to determine the correct URL to rewrite. So I cleared the 2nd part of the URL pair only, which was wrong. But it turns out I must clear the whole pair, or else I can't even visit the page at all.

Suggested improvement is to not do the URL rewrite if the rewrite URL is still blank. Thanks.

Breaks links that open in a new tab

They open in the current tab instead for some reason. If you right click on the link and select Open in New Tab it works correctly. But if you click a link that is supposed to target _blank, or if you just hold command and click a link, it opens in the current tab.

.safariextension is a Folder

Sijmen,

I'd love to use this extension, but when I download the zip (or clone in git, for that matter), the URL Rewrite.safariextension shows up as a folder instead of a package, and I can't find any way to convert it to a package. Could you upload the extension file to a place other than GitHub and link to it from the README file?

Cheers!