[thelist] Content Negotiation...

Marty Landman marty at face2interface.com
Thu Feb 8 08:24:31 CST 2001


At 05:34 AM 2/8/01, you wrote:

>I've got an idea that maybe the 404 page could become a content negotiation
>app

>It works just as well with any type of file
>http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_main
>http://www.w3.org/Icons/w3c_main.gif
>
>It should be reasonably simple to replicate, it's just a lot of file.exist
>statements. But is that all there is to it?

I've thought of the same thing. You can use .htaccess on Apache to redirect 
404 errors to a program. That program can then just do

for(qw(html htm shtml gif etc...))      {$redirect = $ENV{'REQUEST_URI'}.$_
         if -e "$ENV{'REQUEST_URI'}.$_"}


Hope this helps,

Marty





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