Re: Newbie's question

At 15:46 12/5/98 -0500, jwd wrote:

>Here is what I am trying to do: My local telco implemented ADSL. The
>login to then and subsequent logins use cgi "GET" forms.  I have looked
>at the libwww code to handle this. The thing I need to do is capture a
>redirected port to use in subsequent GETs.  So my initial URI is
>http://a.b.c/, the server redirects to http://a.b.c:9999/ and goes on. 
>I don't want the automatic redirect to occur and I want to read the
>Location: header I get back to pickup this new URI. Once I have the new
>URI, all the rest are http://a.b.c:999/fubar&username=x&password=y type
>requests.

Have a look at the (new) small sample program which figures out whether a
request results in a redirection and if so tells where it was redirected to:

	http://www.w3.org/Library/Examples/isredirected.c

which is linked from

	http://www.w3.org/Library/Examples/

Try and check it out from CVS

	http://www.w3.org/Library/cvs.html#update

compile it and run it, you will see something like this:

   ./isredirected http://www.w3c.org
   Sending request to http://www.w3c.org
   The address `http://www.w3c.org' was redirected to `http://www.w3.org/'

Henrik
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Henrik Frystyk Nielsen,
World Wide Web Consortium
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Received on Saturday, 5 December 1998 17:33:29 UTC