[OT] Redirection with CGI (was: Re: KDE 3.2-beta2)
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On Sunday 29 September 2002 09:26 am, Paul Cupis wrote:
> print 'HTTP/`1.0 302 Found'
> print 'Location: ', newuri'
[I realize the original problem has now been solved (hooray!), and anyway, apt
doesn't like 30x status codes, however they are generated.]
This is totally off-topic, but I feel compelled to share this, as I spent many
years in painful ignorance of the following, until just recently when I
actually sat down and read the CGI spec.
You do not have to have your CGI program output a raw HTTP header just to
change the status code. You may instead use the "Status" header to set the
status code, and any CGI 1.1 compliant web server will translate this into
the appropriate HTTP header, (i.e. "Location: 302 Found" will cause Apache to
change the header to "HTTP/1.1 302 Found").
The relevent part of the CGI spec is:
http://CGI-Spec.Golux.Com/draft-coar-cgi-v11-03-clean.html#7.2
This means you do not have to worry about figuring out how to get your web
server to allow raw headers, like naming your CGI with some wierd prefix
(which messes up your carefully crafted URI naming scheme)...
Yay!
Ok, so now that I have totally abused this list, I will crawl off and get some
sleep...
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Nathaniel W. Turner
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Tel: +1 508 579 1948 (mobile)
"Mamma Mia! Here I go again // My, my! How can I resist you?"
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