Re: 404 error redirect
Tanton Gibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm setting up a site for my company to allow people to get certain files out of our company repository. Basically, I want people to be able to write the following: wget http://servername/~tgibbs/FileWanted.rpm However, the files are stored someplace else and I don't want to mirror them. Therefore, I have set up an ErrorDocument in apache that on 404 errors redirects to another page. The second page, then determines the referring URI and serves up the correct rpm. This works fine if I'm using internet explorer, but wget gives me a 404 error :-( For some reason, it is not following the internal redirect. Unlike IE, Wget doesn't show error responses to the user, so it can't follow the redirect embedded in HTML. (And Wget doesn't follow them anyway, unless you use -r.) Does anyone know a way around this? I think a more correct way would be to use a rewrite rule to handle misspelled URLs. The rewrite should generate a real redirection, which would work with all browsers.
Re: 404 error redirect
This worked perfectly, THANKS! - Original Message - From: Hrvoje Niksic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tanton Gibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: wget@sunsite.dk Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 8:50 AM Subject: Re: 404 error redirect Tanton Gibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm setting up a site for my company to allow people to get certain files out of our company repository. Basically, I want people to be able to write the following: wget http://servername/~tgibbs/FileWanted.rpm However, the files are stored someplace else and I don't want to mirror them. Therefore, I have set up an ErrorDocument in apache that on 404 errors redirects to another page. The second page, then determines the referring URI and serves up the correct rpm. This works fine if I'm using internet explorer, but wget gives me a 404 error :-( For some reason, it is not following the internal redirect. Unlike IE, Wget doesn't show error responses to the user, so it can't follow the redirect embedded in HTML. (And Wget doesn't follow them anyway, unless you use -r.) Does anyone know a way around this? I think a more correct way would be to use a rewrite rule to handle misspelled URLs. The rewrite should generate a real redirection, which would work with all browsers.
404 error redirect
I'm setting up a site for my company to allow people to get certain files out of our company repository. Basically, I want people to be able to write the following: wget http://servername/~tgibbs/FileWanted.rpm However, the files are stored someplace else and I don't want to mirror them. Therefore, I have set up an ErrorDocument in apache that on 404 errors redirects to another page. The second page, then determines the referring URI and serves up the correct rpm. This works fine if I'm using internet explorer, but wget gives me a 404 error :-( For some reason, it is not following the internal redirect. Does anyone know a way around this? If not, perhaps you know of a way to tell wget how to name the file based on HTTP headers. I've tried attachement; filename="filename" but it just ignores those. Also, I'm not subscribed to the list, so please cc me. Thanks! Tanton
