"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.
