It looks like you should be able to use htaccess' RedirectMatch directive (/syshelp/htaccess.htm) to handle 301 (Moved Permanently), 302 (Moved Temorarily), and 410 (Gone).
RedirectMatch [permanent | temp | gone] <regex-match> <url> Redirect all requests that match the regular-expression (<regex-match>) to the URL specified. For example: RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\.gif$ /moved.html RedirectMatch permanent (.*)\.exe$ http://www.microsoft.com/ The following line in a .htaccess file in /movies would redirect the request to another URL RedirectMatch gone /movies/test.mpg$ http://www.google.com/ However, I tested this and regardless of setting the RedirectMatch to permanent, temp, or gone, the HTTP responses all produced the same results - a 302. ---------- HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 21:16:44 GMT Server: SAMBAR Connection: close Content-length: 19 Content-type: text/html Location: http://www.google.com/ Request redirected.<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Moved</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" LINK=#990033 VLINK=#990033 ALINK=#990033> <TABLE BORDER=0 WIDTH=500 CELLPADDING=10 CELLSPACING=10> <TR><TD BGCOLOR=#990033 ALIGN=LEFT> <FONT SIZE=5 COLOR=#FFFFFF><B>Page Moved</B></FONT> </TR></TD> <TR><TD> <BR> The page requested has been moved. You might wish to connect to the <A HREF="/">home page</A> of this server. </TD></TR> <TR><TD> <BR> <A HREF="http://www.sambar.com";><FONT SIZE=2>Powered by Sambar</FONT></A> </TD></TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML> ---------- -Jeff -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Klein Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 12:45 PM To: sambar List Member Subject: [sambar] How to return 410 error? My server gets a lot of requests for a movie that I deleted well over a year ago. I just noticed that the HTTP spec includes a "Gone" status code: 410. I used the mappings to redirect requests for the movie to an error page. Here's a link for the movie: http://rich.richardklein.org/movies/test.mpg and here's the mapping I used for it: [aliases] /movies/test.mpg = ../messages/gone.htm My main problem is that the surfer's browser gets the error page, but gets a 200 status code instead of a 410: "GET /movies/test.mpg HTTP/1.1" 200 375 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7" So how do I get Sambar to send a 410 status code? Also, is it okay to use the parent directory characters (../) in the mapping above? It seems to work, but I'm concerned that bumping the surfer up out of the docs directory could introduce a security weakness. Thanks! -Rich ------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe please go to http://www.sambar.ch/list/
