[HJG] 2013-02-22  A WebMaze is a maze of webpages, with links pointing to other pages of the maze.
The user-interface looks like an old-fashioned text-adventure, 
with commands like "Go north", "Go west" etc.

Each such page is quite simple, but creating/maintaining all the links by hand would be hard/errorprone/boring.

So I wrote a program that creates such a set of webpages.
(Does that make me a html-programmer ? :)

This one is quite simple, as it uses a hardcoded 3x3 maze:

      7 - 6 - 5
      !   !   !
 X <- 8 - 9 - 4
      -   !   !
      3 - 2 - 1 <- 0

  0: Entry=index.html  1=first room  2,3: dead end
  4,5,6,7: correct path  8: last room  X: Exit=start.html
  9: Trap (can be reached from rooms 2,4,6,8)

The entry- and exit-pages (here 0 and X) are 'outside', i.e. not part of the maze.

The trap is a set of rooms with links that only point to other traps.

One way to use this, is to 'hide' some part of a website (or all of it :)

E.g. the standard startpage index.html redirects to the first maze-page, 
and the maze-exit-page points to the 'real' homepage, e.g. start.html.

To prevent cheating/guessing, we also need a custom ErrorDocument to catch 404-errors 
(i.e. redirect them to our trap-page :)

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Todo: Generate a maze, like [maze generator] or [maze generator2], or import such a maze-description.


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