[REBOL] Re: redirecting from http to ftp
From: ryanc:iesco-dms at: 28-Jun-2001 10:05
View handles the response a bit better...
>> system/version
== 1.2.1.3.1
>> read http://www.bebits.com/bob/232/MailToI.zip
** User Error: Error. Target url: http://www.bebits.com//bob/232/ftp://ftp.v
ortex.is/pub/be/jonr/MailToI.zip could not be retrieved. Circular forwarding
detected
** Near: read http://www.bebits.com/bob/232/MailToI.zip
>> ; Hmmm.
>> x-ray: func [f c][f: open f insert f c c: copy f close f c]
>> print x-ray tcp://www.bebits.com:80 "GET /bob/232/MailToI.zip http/1.0^/^/"
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:16:51 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) TARP/0.42-alpha PHP/4.0.4pl1 secured_by_Raven/1.4
.2
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.4pl1
Location: ftp://ftp.vortex.is/pub/be/jonr/MailToI.zip
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
>> save %http.txt system/schemes/http ; Enlightening in situations like these
A dirty fix might be to read the header for situations as this, but RT should
probably implement a special error for FTP redirect, so you can just do your
own redirection when it is encountered.
I heard their is another way to get that header info, anyone?
--Ryan
[ryan--christiansen--intellisol--com] wrote:
> In Internet Explorer, when I go to this URL
>
> http://www.bebits.com/bob/232/MailToI.zip
>
> Internet Explorer redirects to this URL
>
> ftp://ftp.vortex.is/pub/be/jonr/MailToI.zip
>
> I am trying to make REBOL perform the same redirection. When I use the
> following...
>
> port: open http://www.bebits.com/bob/232/MailToI.zip
> redirect-url: make url! probe port/url
>
> REBOL gets "stuck" and simply reconnects over and over again to the http
> URL and never receives the ftp URL as input.
>
> What am I missing?
>
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