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Is there any extension to Chrome that will let me force a URL from a particular domain to be redirected to another domain?

(E.g. Redirect http://www.google.com to https://encrypted.google.com.)

Note: I'm looking for an arbitrary redirector, not KB SSL Enforcer, which only works for the specific task of redirecting to HTTPS.

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Not that I know of - I built a Chrome extension which does this - will be happy to post the code as an answer – Sathya♦ May 16 '11 at 8:35
@Sathya: Cool, I'm definitely interested! :D – Mehrdad May 16 '11 at 8:37
You could also consider using the HOSTS file as another method. – Synetech May 23 '11 at 20:33
@Synetech: Would that redirect just the root page, or anything with a particular domain? – Mehrdad May 23 '11 at 20:39
It would redirect the whole domain (or subdomain as the case may be). – Synetech May 24 '11 at 2:53
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I had built a Chrome extension which does this.

Note: I built this for just 2 sites - just for the heck of it - by no means it's professional quality™. Please don't flame me for crappy code :)

manifest.json

{
  "name": "URL Redirect",
  "version": "0.1",
  "description": "Checks URL and redirects as required.",
  "background_page": "bg.html",
   "content_scripts": [
   {
     "matches": ["http://*/*"],
     "js": ["content.js"]
   }
   ],
  "permissions": ["tabs"]
}

bg.html

<html>
  <script>

chrome.extension.onRequest.addListener(function(request, sender) {
        chrome.tabs.update(sender.tab.id, {url: request.redirect});
    });

  </script>
</html>

content.js

var pattern=/\bIWSS/
var hnold = /news.ycombinator.com/
var imgur = /imgur.com/
var new_image = "http://sbhat.me/u/fetch_images.php?ImgUrl="
var newurl

if (pattern.test(window.document.title)) // if it matches pattern defined above
{

    if (window.location.href.match(hnold))  // redirect from news.ycombinator to hackerne.ws
    {
      newurl = window.location.href.replace(hnold,"hackerne.ws");
    }
    else if (window.location.href.match(imgur))
     {
      newurl = new_image + window.location.href;
     }


    chrome.extension.sendRequest({redirect: newurl}); // send message to redirect

}

To install this, create files with filenames as mentioned above the codeblock.

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Once all 3 files are created, Click on Wrench -> Tools -> Extensions. Click the "+" on Developer Mode. Click on Load Unpacked extension and point to the directory where the files are stored.

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Edit the files are required, and uninstall and reinstall the extension as mentioned above

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Omg cool! How do I install it? (Sorry I have no experience with developing Chrome extensions, haha.) – Mehrdad May 16 '11 at 9:05
@Mehrdad expanded the answer – Sathya♦ May 16 '11 at 9:19
ofcourse, if you aren't looking at editing the files, I could've packed the files in to a Chrome Extension.... – Sathya♦ May 16 '11 at 9:21
Beautiful, thank you so much! It teaches me some JavaScript too! :D – Mehrdad May 16 '11 at 9:25
welcome! I had developed this to learn Chrome extension development. (and to get around cough*websense*cough). – Sathya♦ May 16 '11 at 11:26
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