Content managed 301 redirects

I am trying to work out the best way to allow content authors to create and manage 301 redirects within the CMS. We are using GSF for friendly URLs, but they also want to be able to (for example) create a catchy URL to be distributed on print media that will redirect to an existing page within the site (or potentially to a page on an external site).
I know that I cannot change the response headers in the JSP, and so am looking at the best way to do so within the existing software stack. The GSTAlias class appears to be almost what I need, but only supports 302 redirects, not 301.
My current though is that I will implement a custom filter (which will compare the incoming URL against the list of redirects that it retrieves from WCS and send a 301 if needed) and insert it into the filter chain, but I was hoping to get some feedback on this and see if anyone had done this before or knew of a better way to do it.
Cheers,
Stephen

Previously I've done redirects exactly like you, using a custom filter which was installed on the Satellite servers.
My implementation ended being a bit more complicated since all code using friendly URLs had to be executed within a cached code block due to an earlier design decision. What I ended up with was a setup where the templates could generate some output that could be interpretted by the filter. Like #R#301#http://somepage.com# which the filter picked up. Unfortantely that approach required me to read through the output of the pages and add some caching to often requested URLs in order avoid parsing through the content again.
If you have GSF on your site as well, you might have a look at com.fatwire.gst.foundation.httpstatus.HttpResponseStatusFilter which enables you to communicate status codes from the ContentServer. Note that proper redirects are not supported, or at least not implemented.
Also this requires your code to make the decision in a XML based wrapper, since you cannot communicate response codes from JSP.
If the requirements are quite simple, you can create a basic asset type containing the URL to match and where to redirect to and in your XML wrapper do a very simple sql lookup which should give you enough performance in order to have this executed in an un cached element. The SQL cache will save you for the common requested URLs.
Please note, that if you are running remote satellite servers I am not quite sure how this will work, if they support handling other response codes and if they can handle additional information found in a 301 redirect.

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