You should be able to listen, at the application level, for a beforeNavigate 
event and then effectively modify the URL by canceling the navigation with 
preventDefault() and triggering a new load using your rewritten URL.

See also 
https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/Extensions/Reference/SafariBeforeNavigateEventClassRef/#//apple_ref/javascript/instp/SafariBeforeNavigateEvent/url

-Conrad


> On Jan 2, 2016, at 3:07 PM, Rick Mann <rm...@latencyzero.com> wrote:
> 
> That was my first attempt, and it provides no way to modify the main url. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Jan 2, 2016, at 15:04, Conrad Shultz <conrad_shu...@apple.com 
> <mailto:conrad_shu...@apple.com>> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> On Dec 22, 2015, at 3:51 PM, Rick Mann <rm...@latencyzero.com 
>>> <mailto:rm...@latencyzero.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> You know how you can click links in email, and heck, to open them in Safari 
>>> (or whatever browser)? Is there any way to write an extension of some sort 
>>> that can intercept this and re-write the URL? I tried to write a filter in 
>>> Safari proper for the URL that the user pastes into the address bar, but 
>>> Safari plug-ins don't have access to that.
>>> 
>>> I want to write a thing to strip all the utm_* parameters off the URLs.
>> 
>> Rather than a plug-in, would a Safari extension do what you need? You might 
>> take look at 
>> https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/Tools/Conceptual/SafariExtensionGuide/WorkingwithWindowsandTabs/WorkingwithWindowsandTabs.html
>>  
>> <https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/Tools/Conceptual/SafariExtensionGuide/WorkingwithWindowsandTabs/WorkingwithWindowsandTabs.html>
>> 
>> -Conrad

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