refactor: simplify RewriteHandler validation and output logic

[jdevalk]

Summary

Eliminates code duplication in RewriteHandler by extracting shared validation and output logic into reusable private methods.

Changes

• Extract validate_post_for_markdown() to consolidate post type and status checks
• Extract serve_markdown_response() to consolidate password check, rendering, and output
• Cache ContentRenderer instance to avoid creating new objects on every request
• Simplify lowercase .md enforcement logic for better readability
• Simplify format parameter validation

Impact

• Reduces code from ~405 lines to ~350 lines
• Eliminates duplication between handle_format_parameter() and handle_markdown_request()
• Improves maintainability — validation logic now lives in one place
• No functional changes — all behavior preserved

Testing

• .md URLs serve markdown
• ?format=markdown parameter works
• Accept header negotiation redirects correctly
• Password protection returns 403
• Unsupported post types ignored
• Unpublished posts ignored
• Case-sensitive extension enforcement works

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Pull request overview

This PR refactors the RewriteHandler class to eliminate code duplication by extracting common validation and response logic into reusable private methods. It also introduces caching for the ContentRenderer instance and simplifies several conditional checks.

Changes:

• Extracted validate_post_for_markdown() to consolidate post type and status validation
• Extracted serve_markdown_response() to consolidate password checks, rendering, and output
• Added ContentRenderer instance caching via get_renderer() method

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The regex pattern /\.[Mm][Dd]$/ incorrectly matches lowercase .md extensions. The character class [Mm] matches both uppercase M and lowercase m, and [Dd] matches both uppercase D and lowercase d. This means the condition will incorrectly reject valid .md URLs.

The original logic !preg_match('/\.md$/', $request_uri) && preg_match('/\.md$/i', $request_uri) correctly identified non-lowercase extensions by checking "if NOT lowercase AND case-insensitive match".

To fix this while keeping the simplified approach, the condition should only check for non-lowercase variations. One option: preg_match('/\.[MD]/', $request_uri) (checks if either M or D is uppercase anywhere in the extension).

Suggested change

	if (str_ends_with($request_uri, '.MD') || preg_match('/\.[Mm][Dd]$/', $request_uri)) {
	if (
	!preg_match('/\.md$/', $request_uri) &&
	preg_match('/\.md$/i', $request_uri)
	) {

[jdevalk]

Consolidation note: overlaps with #10/#12 on RewriteHandler. Recommend consolidation with those PRs into one post-fix refactor PR.

[jdevalk]

Superseded by consolidated PR #15 to reduce overlap/conflicts. Closing this one in favor of the combined integration path.