You can override the 404 html error, sending that to a servlet or JSP. Once
there, you can detect what 'name' is and use some logic (possibly backed by
a Database or XML) to decide where to redirect to.
Just off the top of my head...
I am assuming that myserver/name doesn't actually exist as a page,
otherwise, you can just do the redirection there.
Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: Huibert Aalbers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 9:08 AM
To: Orion-Interest
Subject: Redirection
Hi everyone,
Since it seems that the list is alive and well, although
with very
little traffic, I would like to ask a question which has
been bothering
me for a while.
I am trying to do what I would define as dynamic
redirection. What that
means is that if someone writes an URL like
http://myserver/name, I
would like to look for "name" in a database and redirect the
user to
some other URL. This would allow me to avoid modifying
manually the
configuration file every time a mapping is added,removed or
modified.
Is this possible? Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance and Happy New Year!
Huibert Aalbers
