announcing mdoc.su, short manual page URLs

[Paul Schenkeveld]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 12:27:01AM -0800, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
> Dear freebsd-{chat,current,doc}@,
> 
> I would like to announce and introduce <URL:http://mdoc.su/>, 
> a deterministic URL shortener for BSD manual pages, 
> written entirely in nginx.conf.
> 
> It supports several address schemes, for example:
> 
> http://mdoc.su/f/zfs
> http://mdoc.su/f/zfs.8
> http://mdoc.su/f/8/zfs
> http://mdoc.su/freebsd/zfs
> http://mdoc.su/FreeBSD/zfs
> 
> http://mdoc.su/d/hammer.5
> http://mdoc.su/d/hammer.8
> 
> etc.

Very coooool!

One question: is the os version accessible comewhere, i.e. can I ask for
a manpage from a specific version of FreeBSD?

I have to disagree with Darren Pilgrim however, this is not "slight abuse"
of rewrite rules but putting rewrite rules to "better use" :-)

Kind regards,

Paul Schenkeveld