I was afraid of that. I will look into building a script that grabs a
page, reformats the links, and then displays it so that the domain does
not change. Nothing is ever easy is it. :)
Thanks for your help.
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> According to Michael Johnson:
> > I need a little information about how htdig handle header redirection.
> > Here is my situation. htdig is running on a domain and is limited to
> > searching only that domain. We want it to also index the first external
> > page from any level. Example:
> >
> > 1. www.mysite.com is the site with htdig running
> >
> > 2. www.mysite.com/index.html links to www.someothersite.com/page.html
> >
> > 3. In an attempt to make htdig index www.someothersite.com/page.html I
> > have done created a perl script that accepts 1 parameter, a url, and then
> > prints 'Location: [url]. This causes a redirection to [url].
> >
> > So my ultimate question is will htdig index this page or not? Does it see
> > that is a redirection and not follow the link?
>
> htdig will follow redirects, but only if they fall within the scope of
> limit_urls_to, which is set to the same as your start_url by default.
> You'd need to change this to allow digging files from other sites, but
> then it won't be limited to the first external page only.
>
> --
> Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil
> Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766
> Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930
>
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