On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: > Well looks like even IIS is doing the redirect. The funny thing is it > redirects to a directory without a trailing slash causing another > redirect to another URL with a slash.
They are doing a 302 - Moved temporarily, not a 301 - moved permanently. This is so because microsoft has multiple servers that they are probably using for load sharing or something like that. > telnet> open www.microsoft.com 80 > Trying 207.46.197.113... > Connected to www.microsoft.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > GET /download HTTP/1.0 > > HTTP/1.1 302 Object Moved > Location: http://CPMSFTWBW35/download/ > Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 > Content-Type: text/html > Content-Length: 151 > after this, you should pretend to be a browser, and do this: telnet www.microsoft.com 80 GET http://CPMSFTWBW35/download/ HTTP/1.0 of course, you'll just go on and on. One major bug here, is that they respond to a HTTP/1.0 request with a HTTP/1.1 response. This is one of the methods used to detect whether a server is IIS or not - assuming its server string has been changed. Anyway, this is drifting way off topic Philip -- Staff meeting in the conference room in 3 minutes. _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
