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[ron.peterson at yellowbank.com (ron.peterson at yellowbank.com)]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 09:10:03AM -0400, ron.peterson at yellowbank.com wrote:

> I'm giving this a rest for the weekend.  If I make any progress with
> this, I'll post back to the thread.

Got it.  The problem was with the redirect script.  I had to eat the
request sent by the browser (the little while() loop..).  I also removed
the html, since it wasn't really contributing anything.  Works like a
charm.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Name:     http-redirect
# Author:   Joe.Smith at MCI.com
# Modified: rpeterso at mtholyoke.edu
# Purpose:  Dummy http daemon redirects browers to specified www host.
# Usage:    Add "http 80/tcp" to /etc/services and add this to /etc/inetd.conf:
# http stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/local/etc/http-redirect host.domain.suf

# Set default host to use if not specified in inetd.conf
my $otherhost = @ARGV ? $ARGV[0] : "mill.mtholyoke.edu";

while(<STDIN>) {
    chomp;
    last if( /^\s*$/ );
}

my $message = <<EOM;
HTTP/1.1 302
Location: http://$otherhost/test/
Status: 302
Server: DUMMY/0.0
Content-type: text/html

EOM

$message =~ s/\n/\r\n/gm;       # Convert to netascii form, CR+LF
print $message;                 # Tell the browser to go away
exit;

-- 
Ron Peterson                   -o)
87 Taylor Street               /\\
Granby, MA  01033             _\_v
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