From 7157757d4377caa872b5e2d5e5d5646d70c12af1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Malacoda <malacoda@monarch-pass.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 04:12:54 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] redirector: handle case where thread id can have an .html
 extension, because of course it can...

---
 epilogue/redirector.py | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/epilogue/redirector.py b/epilogue/redirector.py
index 108a808..ee6b708 100644
--- a/epilogue/redirector.py
+++ b/epilogue/redirector.py
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ def make_forum_url (request):
     post_id = None
 
     if thread_id:
+        thread_id = strip_extension(thread_id)
+        
         if "." in thread_id:
             (thread_id, post_id) = thread_id.split(".")
             post_id = post_id[len("msg"):] 
@@ -67,6 +69,12 @@ def make_forum_url (request):
 
     return url
 
+def strip_extension (item):
+    for extension in [".html"]:
+        if item.endswith(extension):
+            item = item[:-len(extension)]
+    return item
+
 def read_thread_index (forums_archive):
     with urllib.request.urlopen("{}{}".format(forums_archive, FORUM_THREAD_INDEX)) as gzipped_in:
         data = gzipped_in.read()