Mailing List Archive: YAS

YAS

Apr 7, 1995, 6:44 PM

Post #1 of 4 (1097 views)

Yet another suggestion...

Now that we have content negotiation, this should be feasible...

Some webmasters will not want to let Joe Average run cgi scripts
or set up aliases etc. So how does poor Joe redirect his popular page ?
he has to make a HTML document which does it for him :-(

Now what if Joe could write a file to contain,

Status: 302 Over there
Location: http://somewhere.over.the/rainbow/

<HTML><TITLE>gone</TITLE><H1>Boo hoo, my page have temporarily
move to <A HREF="http://somewhere.over.the/rainbow/">another site</A></H1>

He'd save this file in index.asis and rename index.html to something else.
Then with a flick of the wrist he'd setup a map file to get / to pick
up index.asis.
.asis would, in a previous episode, have been defined as a special (and new)
MIME type for Apache, and this new type would have the effect of having the
file read as if it were cgi-output (with the safety checks that adds).

So Joe now redirects all requests from ~Joe.Average/ to
http://somewhere.over.the/rainbow/

Joe and the webmaster live happily ever after.

robh.

Re: YAS [ In reply to ]

hartill at ooo

Apr 9, 1995, 11:21 AM

Post #2 of 4 (1076 views)

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>
> >Some webmasters will not want to let Joe Average run cgi scripts
> >or set up aliases etc. So how does poor Joe redirect his popular page ?
>
> A simple solution; allow Redirect in .htaccess, but only for URLs below
> that directory.

True, it could be done that way, however the new idea I introduced

- a mime type that the server sees as "send file as is"
i.e. the file should have it's own HTTP headers

is a really simple and (I think) inexpensive thing to add, which
can be used for other things too.

I'm going to look into writing a patch for this, 'cos I think
it'll be useful, even if we fix redirection on a directory basis
in some other form.

robh

Re: YAS [ In reply to ]

drtr at ast

Apr 9, 1995, 5:39 PM

Post #3 of 4 (1076 views)

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>Some webmasters will not want to let Joe Average run cgi scripts
>or set up aliases etc. So how does poor Joe redirect his popular page ?

A simple solution; allow Redirect in .htaccess, but only for URLs below
that directory.

David.

Re: YAS [ In reply to ]

drtr at ast

Apr 9, 1995, 9:39 PM

Post #4 of 4 (1074 views)

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> - a mime type that the server sees as "send file as is"
> i.e. the file should have it's own HTTP headers
Ahh, a file version of an nph- script. (Aside: why isn't there a magic mime
type for nph scripts?) Yes, not a bad idea. Though we really should get
round to (optionally) parsing META tags in the html HEAD.

David.