I currently work on a web application that allows users to supply a link to their homepage. Such links have to be validated client-side with JavaScript (actually Typescript/Angular) and with Perl on the server-side. But what should be accepted as a valid homepage link? And what is the right approach to analyze the provided URLs?
Content negotiation is a key concept for multi language web sites. For Nginx it is only available as a patch. But negotiating the language is a rather trivial task for most sites. Instead of patching the web server, a couple of lines of Perl code will also do the job.
After waiting years on my TODO list I recently decided to tackle the project "web site". Since I no longer work for Imperia I was looking for a light-weight alternative. I did not want to install PHP on my server, ruling out a lot of options. A colleague finally recommended Jekyll. Its simple semi-static approach reminded me of Imperia and I decided to give it a shot.
