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Redirecting a url containing a hollow square character

A link from a website beyond my control links to an erroneous url. The erroneous url contains a hollow square character. How do I write a redirect 301 to deal with this occurance? When attempting to paste the character in the .htaccess file I get a question mark. If I need more than a redirect 301, then what? ...

Would a browser ever ignore case sensitivity of the location header when responding to a redirect?

If a browser requests http://site.com/?q=abc and gets a 301 redirect response to location http://site.com/?q=ABC (note case of querystring) Is it possible for the browser to ignore the difference in case and re-request http://site.com/?q=abc, thus causing an infinite redirect loop? That's the scenario that appears to be happening acco...

Is this a 'hack', and if so is there a better way to determine which ActionResult to return?

I have an A - Z directory 'widget' that I have on every page. If the user is on the home page and they click something in the directory, I want to load up the directory page with the corresponding result loaded. But if the user is on the directory page and they click something, I want to asynchronously load the result without doing a pag...

Handling various types of URL redirects

Generally, when writing HTTP client software, the HTTP protocol provides sufficient information for how to handle redirected URLs. Specifically, if an HTTP request returns a redirect code of 302 or 307, the redirect should be considered temporary and the client should continue to use the original URL. However, a redirect code of 301 in...

PHP : Post > Diaplay > Wait > Redirect

i post something from a form and the form's action is a page perform.php when i go to perform.php <?php $g = $_POST['my']; sleep(3); echo ("sdfsdfdsfdsfdsfdsf"); // a lot of other PHP & DB related code //after a lot of code last line is header("Location: source.php"); ?> what it does is that it does everything that needs to be done ...

Pretty URL - mod_rewrite question

I'm trying to setup a simple mod_rewrite for formatting "pretty URLs". All I need is for something like: http://www.example.com/dir1/dir2/logs?page=12 to tranlate to http://www.example.com/logs/12 How would my .htaccess rule look like? ...

Redirect streams for prompting passwords

Hi, I have a script that prompt for a password to achieve a specific task. I wanna skip entering password each time. for this, i thought about sth like that: ./myscript < my_file_containing_pass but unfortunatly, this doesn't work. any idea? ...

Ruby on Rails, How to make a controller render different page without redirect?

Hello, Let's say we have the following pages clip/show/111 image/show/222 sound/show/333 where 111,222 and 333 are the IDs for different contributions I developed a new controller called "show" that will detect ID and redirect to the right controller show/show/111 will redirect to clip/show/111 and so on what I want is to render the p...

Redirecting static to dynamic URL's

Hi Everyone, I know this has been asked a few times but I can't seem to figure out the correct syntax for our situation. I am trying to permanently redirect links such as example.com/work.aspx to example.com/work in the .htaccess file. Basically converting an ASP.NET site to Wordpress. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks Giles ...

Redirect to external website with post parameters in JBoss Seam?

Hi, I have to integrate the Moneybooker Payment Service to an existing Seam Application. Regarding to the documentation, I have to pass parameters to moneybookers via POST. My question is, how to pass parameters via POST to an external website? I know I am able to redirect to an external website via "FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().g...

fileNotFoundException when pointing to ebay.com from mobile

If I pass http://www.ebay.com to this. Somewhere along the way ebay changes my url, perhaps a redirect. What's weird is Android java can't open the page. u = new URL(txturl.getText().toString()); I get the error below as it apparently opening the new mobile site. I'm just wonder at what point my url changes and If I somehow stop this...

Overlapped ReadFileEx on Child Process' Redirected STDOUT Never Fires

I have a long-running console-based application Sender that sends simple text to STDOUT using non-buffered output such as cout << "Message" << flush(). I want to create an MFC dialog-based application (named Receiver) that starts Sender and can read it's output. Receiver should also be able to detect when Sender has died, or be able to k...

How to capture HTML of redirect page before it redirects?

I am trying to read the HTML of a page that contains a non-delayed redirect. The following snippet (C#) will give me the destination/redirected page, not the initial one I need to see: using System.Net; using System.Text; public class SomeClass { public static void Main() { byte[] data = new WebClient().DownloadData("http:/...

PHP Redirector Counter for a link

I need a way to count how many times a link is being clicked and I was thinking of creating a php script to redirect to and do the counting. Is there a better way to do this and how would i count each time the user visits the link and would it be best to save in the database somewhere...any suggestions ...

ASP.NET Redirect to other page internal

Is there a way to redirect a asp.net page to another and restart the server workflow without the user seeing it in their browser? Call to .NET Page (handled by routing) Perform some actions based on this call Call other webpage internal (handled by a httpmodule) The internal page don't "exist" (passes though a module that performs...

How to handle request on the page that was previously forwarded by servlet?

Hi, I have a JSP page that has 2 forms running on Tomcat 6. One is register form, Second is login form. (please pay attention to context path, it's going to kill me later) (regis_and_login.jsp) <% String path = request.getContextPath(); %> //regis form <form id="regis_form" name="register_form" action="<%= path %>/servle...

Zend Redirecting [solved]

For some reason my zend application is redirecting when it's not supposed to. The index view just shows the form. The next view shows some information from a database based on the information supplied by the form. The user then clicks on a confirm button which sends them to anotherAction which constructs and sends an email. I've got a t...

Redirecting www to non www on server with wildcard subdomains

Hi, I have a Rails+Apache+Passenger setup and my app serves wildcard subdomains. I need all www URLs to redirect to their non www equivalents. www.example.net should redirect to example.net www.subdomain.example.net should redirect to subdomain.example.net My current vhost config is as below <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName exampl...

asp.net avoid navigation on enter key

How can i avoid navigation when a user presses the enter key on an asp.net page ? Seems that they get redirected to the first page in the directory structure "Account\AccountRcovery" I don't actually have any code to redirect to that page. Also can this be disabled for the entire site ? as i have quite a few pages that would require mo...

PHP 301 Redirect - collect referrer

Hi all, I'm doing a 301 redirect on site A to site B - when the user arrives at site B it needs to find the page the user came from. This doesn't seem to be working though: $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] whereas if I do a link to the page <a href="http://site-b.com"&gt;go&lt;/a&gt; I get the referrer through. Is there a reason it doesn...