> I'm going to start with a nice simple, hopefully, questions.
>
> Some of you may have seen PCWorld.com - and its urls that are like
> http://www.pcworld.com/news/view/0,aid,3911,00.asp. This is achieved with
a
> product called XCache (for IIS, visit www.xcache.com), wich translates
this
> url into http://www.pcworld.com/news/view.asp?aid=3911.
>
> Now, you can probably do this in regex, and use the mod_rewrite, but this
is
> not available to me, so we can all forget that one right away ;-).
>
> I have created a 404-processor that does the conversion (and even checks
if
> the resultant page exsists, by using a simple file_exists();).
>
> Apache (or was it PHP? Or a combination of the above?) used to, when you
> said Header ("Location: /localpath"), just serve up the content, without
> doing a redirect. Under Apache/1.3.17 & PHP/4.0.4 this does not happen.
How about include()? Instead of redirect.
FYI.
Location: header must be absolute URI. (Content-Location: can be relative
URI)
Most browsers accept relative URI, though.
> Is there a way to do this redirect internally - ie. the browser is not
even
> aware that the URL is different from the one it requested, let alone the
> visitor.
>
> And no, frames are not really an option: because it would defeat one of
the
> reasons I want to do this internally, which is to prevent the need to do
> two requests.
If you want to prevent multiple requests to server, you should not use
Location:
header.
>
> Hopefully someone will understand this (I'm sure there will be many), and
be
> able to guide towards something that will work.
Hope I understand your mail.
Regards,
Yasuo Ohgaki
> Thanks,
> Patrick.
>
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