<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>Alternative URI rewriting mechanisms</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The ELinks Manual"><link rel="up" href="ch07.html" title="Chapter 7. URL Shortcuts in ELinks"><link rel="prev" href="ch07s02.html" title="How it works"><link rel="next" href="ch08.html" title="Chapter 8. The Terminal Setup"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Alternative URI rewriting mechanisms</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch07s02.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 7. URL Shortcuts in ELinks</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch08.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="section" title="Alternative URI rewriting mechanisms"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="idp6633168"></a>Alternative URI rewriting mechanisms</h2></div></div></div><p>In the past, before this was implemented, Lua scripting did the job. And you still have complete control over the URI in the internal scripting goto-url hook. The advantages are clear - you get complete control over the URI and you can do many more interesting things with it. For example, there are some very advanced CVSweb and Debian package database URI prefixes implemented in the sample Lua hooks file. The one disadvantage to this is that you must have Lua scripting enabled in order to make use of it, and many users don't have Lua installed.</p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch07s02.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="ch07.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch08.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">How it works </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 8. The Terminal Setup</td></tr></table></div></body></html>