The everything apache module

Someone who is in the know should write an Apache module that parses .html files with text between square brackets just as everything does, replacing the text with a hyperlink that, if clicked, would direct them to the appropriate everything node. I would do such a thing, but dammit, Jim, I'm a systems administrator not a programmer!

See also: British Telecom, txt2e, the goat, Bell Engineering

ok.

package Everything::Parser;
use Apache;
use Apache::Constants;
use CGI qw(escape);

sub handler {
     my $r = shift;
     open(FILE, $r->filename) or return NOT_FOUND;
     $_ = join("", <FILE>);
     s/\[([^\]]+)\]/build_link($1)/egs;
     
     print $r->send_http_header("text/html");
     print;
}

sub build_link {
     my $node = shift;
     $escaped_node = escape($node);
     return "<a href='http://everything2.com/?node=$escaped_node'>$node</a>";
}