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As I was writing the link to RFC-2045 [1] in the previous post [2], an idea suddenly struck me—why should I have to type out the entire URL (Uniform Resource Locator)? I already have a shortcut to link to Amazon [3] (all I have to do is write a link like <a href="asin:B00BWQW73E"> and mod_blog converts it to <a class="book" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00BWQW73E/conmanlaborat-20">) so it shouldn't be that hard to add.
I was fully expecting it to take maybe fifteen minutes or so to add the code, but to my surprise, no code change was required! The configuration file [4] has this bit:
> >
> ```
> affiliate =
> {
> {
> proto = "asin",
> link = "http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/%s/conmanlaborat-20"
> }
> }
>
> ```
>
It was originally intended for affiliate links, but it'll work for this as well. A slight modification:
> >
> ```
> affiliate =
> {
> {
> proto = "asin",
> link = "http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/%s/conmanlaborat-20"
> },
> {
> proto = "rfc",
> link = "http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc%s.txt"
> },
> }
>
> ```
>
Now all I have to do is write <a href="rfc:2045"> and mod_blog will convert it to <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt">. I love it when stuff like this happens.
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