According to Johan Maes:
> When indexen a number of servers, most of the time I see that the redirect is
> a relative path. (especially for websites that need extra logins).
>
> htdig (3.1.5) does not continue and says there is a http violation (following
> the rfc's)
> Perhaps this is technically correct. But I see that most browser do not have
> a problem with this kind of redirection.
>
> Is there a workaround?
I haven't tested it, but it's a backport from 3.2.0b3, so it should work...
--- htdig/Retriever.cc.orig Tue Feb 15 17:07:47 2000
+++ htdig/Retriever.cc Tue May 15 14:16:17 2001
@@ -1287,7 +1287,9 @@ Retriever::got_href(URL &url, char *desc
void
Retriever::got_redirect(char *new_url, DocumentRef *old_ref)
{
- URL url(new_url);
+ // First we must piece together the new URL, which may be relative
+ URL parent(old_ref->DocURL());
+ URL url(new_url, parent);
if (debug > 2)
cout << "redirect: " << url.get() << endl;
--
Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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