Yes, that would work, but that means we have to go test-and-grab the URL
from a site we think we know the address of. Plus redirects are there for
a reason, and may change.
Tony
At 10:27 AM 9/23/2002 +0200, Kevin O'Shaughnessy wrote:
>since redirects are usually on the root of the website (the index.html's
>of this world), it's easy to manage, since you just specify the
>redirected URL in the channel setup rather than the original. i've
>never managed a site with redirects either. my rule is just copy the
>address bar in my web browser when the page loads. if it works there,
>chances are plucker will be fine.
>
>kevin
>
>
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>Objet : Bug? Redirects Not Followed
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>
>I haven't entered this as a bug because I don't know if it actually IS
>one. I was doing some testing of Plucker this evening, and decided to do
>it against one of my own web sites so I wouldn't annoy anyone else. I
>think of my chosen site as utterly generic - no Java, no JavaScript, no
>ASP or CGI. (I might try the posting against another site of mine with a
>C++ CGI back-end later, when I'm feeling ambitious.) My usual grabber is
>HT Track, which has absolutely no problem on my web site. Plucker
>failed. Grabbed a single file. Since I knew that was wrong, I didn't
>waste time synching and examining the file - big mistake. Instead I
>wasted time trying to discern the difference between my settings for
>this and for Slashdot (which does grab.) To make a way-too-long story
>just a wee bit longer, I eventually got past the brain-block and
>realized the problem is my starting page... my index.html is just a
>placeholder containing (sanitized)... Loading... Most spiders follow it.
>Plucker doesn't. Is this a bug, or a feature request, or a pipe dream?
>Thanks Tony McNamara
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