[Radiant] binary attachment behaviour? URL redirect behaviour?

[Guido Sohne]

I would be interested in moving some content out of the file system
and into Radiant. I don't mean storing it in the database, but getting
Radiant to know about the content, and serving it with the correct
content type.

It could be done with just a hyperlink, I know, but I have some old
content that I am serving up by doing URL rewrites, or redirects, and
I'd like to be able to switch to using mongrel without having 404s
suddenly start appearing ...

The problem could be solved by having radiant content that does the
redirect, or rewriting. Or am I missing something and should I just go
ahead and create the stub pages, and inside them write

  <r:find url="/destination/of/rewrite/redirect">
    <r:content/>
  </r:find>

Which will solve the issue for the redirect/rewrite. And inside that
page, if I want to serve a PDF, I can create a link, leading straight
to the binary file (e.g a PDF). How can I eliminate the intermediate
page and have the content served straight after the legacy URL has
been rewritten?

Thanks in advance!

-- G.